I help Eritrean Artist NebbyG relaunch her online store! | Coaching

hey y'all it's jimmy first off this bro is glorious you know what i also know it go ahead leave me a comment if you want to confirm it though because it's everything so in this video i talked to my friend nebbie g she is an artist that i recently met and coached into relaunching her online store where she sells her art she works nike currently but she's always been an artist and she actually had launched shows and had this great e-store but you know she let it go by the wayside and so when i met her i was just so moved to motivate her to relaunch it because i believe if we were given these beautiful gifts of art and creativity it is our responsibility it's our obligation to live into the art that we were created to make and so i just coached her over the course of a couple of months and we recently relaunched her store and it was super exciting and so this is just our conversation leading up to the relaunch if you're someone who you know you've got this passion that maybe you already started investing in but you kind of let it fall off the side go ahead and send me an email at this.chimdjima.com if you would like to be coached into getting it off the ground again you can get on the phone and figure out if we are a good fit for each other super excited about this because that's just been my own personal experience knowing i always wanted to like create art make videos you know tell stories all these different things and it took me a while to actually do it and make a separate video about that now that i'm on the journey and i've seen all the amazing benefits that come with leaning into your art and creating things you care about and letting your soul sing i am just so motivated to help as many people as possible all right i'm gonna stop talking let's go ahead against the interview give me a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already and i will see y'all at the end so we are here it is a sunday in february and we have been brought together on this video because you are about to do something amazing introduce yourself tell us what you're about to do well my name is nebbie g something that i'm going to do amazing is hold accountability to my art so that's what we're here for hey cause it's valentine's time pew pew pew lost it to the world the back story is that we met truly like couple months ago i want to say and you were helping me with my tech issues at my job and we just ended up talking for a while and then you revealed to me and this is this is it y'all don't ever in your life unless you want me to be in your business ever revealed to me that you used to be an artist of any kind because i'm going to be like where is your art let me see it right now and if you say you can't i'm gonna get real upset what happened was i did reveal about my little past life of art as i am in tech now but the true calling is to be a creative and so i kind of told that to you and then i mean here we are today we can zoom from different parts of the united states and i think the main thing that i really want to impress upon people is like you had all the evidence that you could do this and that there was an audience of people for your art tell us about your art journey like where did it start and where is it now honestly it started by trying to motivate others happened to their creativity and in trying to motivate someone else it kind of motivated me and from there i kind of started doing small art shows honestly it started as a hobby like you know what let me escape from this city life and use it as a way to kind of transcend and through that it started from like small canvases to medium-sized canvases to large canvases just showing all my creativity to the world and making merch making just all different things what was in my mind real for real it landed me all the way to art basel which never thought i was gonna get there but i kind of manifested it so why not and then through that it was just kind of like whoa i got ahead of myself and i didn't think i was gonna get this far this quick now what being also first generation american being east african it's just like school school doctor lawyer lawyer doctor so it's like creativity like what no that's where it kind of but it never went away that's the key and so when we met i was like well can i see a website can i buy some merch like i want to support you i love supporting other like amazing beautiful creatives and then you were like nah actually i can't and i was like how dare you say that i can't do something you're like i don't exist girl and so then i took my call myself to then encourage you to launch this because i assume then you tell me if i'm right then yeah this is this beautiful amazing gift and talent you had and that you were doing yourself and all of us and injustice by blocking your light from us and i wasn't gonna stand for it i just started cajoling you via text message and phone call the sole purpose of having you relaunch this art thing for the world and relaunch this story i'm a gemini i move with the clouds so sometimes it's hard to bring me and ground me down so it's kind of like you grounded me to kind of hold accountability so i have it you know i had the website but i just hid it from the world i had it already set up i had it paid for it's just it was like just for me now you're paying them money you are paying people money to host that website that nobody can visit nobody and the sad part is just everybody wanted it they loved it you know and here i am holding it back for my own fear of like oh my gosh it's just am i ready for the world i got the east coast but it's like how would the world receive me so i think that's where it's kind of like oh my i don't know am i ready for that ah this is so much and this is so out of my element now i'm scared and now i'm gonna run that's what happened how has been this experience for you over these last couple of months with fighting that fear to get to the point where now today we're gonna we're gonna relaunch this door honestly well you kept me accountable i'm the type of person where like i'll have a thousand ideas and honestly kind of reignited that because it was so dormant after art battle you kind of relit it like the gas was still there the the lick was there the lighter was there but it's like somebody needed to take that lighter and kind of like light it back up again yeah and so then you got me like you know what let me go back into my website let me look at this let me clean it up yes the last bit is kind of like unlock it unlock it yes i'm so proud of you i'm so proud of you and i think the amount of work the amount of emotional work that it takes to go from a place of light i know i should be doing this thing but it's so comfortable and just so familiar and easy to just run away from what i'm called to do like i'm so happy that i could be there to support you in this because it really means like it means a lot to me that like we live the lives we're still split that we live that we create the art we're supposed to create because i know what it what it's like to consume art come across something that like shakes me to my core like it shakes me to my very core and i only got to witness it because every single person involved all agreed that day yes we're going to come together and we're going to make this piece of art because it's like it's a lot of it is like a little bit ego too i'm like because of me people gonna buy your stuff and i'm gonna be like that was me actually i was sorry you know so part of that is ego but i'm just like i get to play a part in like your joy and then everyone else's joy who buys your stuff and it just makes me really happy like i feel like that's me living in my purpose is like helping more people have more beautiful things in their life you know what i mean yeah honestly it's like you can have the egg the flour the vanilla the chocolate all the pieces but you're not gonna enjoy the cake unless the baker bakes the cake so it's kind of like you were the baker to kind of like bake the cake so that the people can enjoy it my dessert i love that but i don't know i'm like am i like the oven that you put the meal in and i like the whisk that brings it because i'm like you like you did all the work like you created the art you updated the website you like you know i truly was just sitting here texting you like where's my art at girl that's really what i was doing hopefully i'm just like the ding in the front of the restaurant like hey you got customers like i'm interested i want it yeah let me know when y'all open up because i'm ready to buy what you're selling you just gotta get up in there and like that piece of cake the krispy kreme you know krispy kremes when you know it's like hot and ready and it has like the side i guess here's the sign you're just going to be like it's here guys it's not ready hey listen i love to shine a light for that light to stay hot correct ready correct okay so are you ready i don't know process of opening your site do you need to like is any part that's secret or would you be okay sharing your screen so that we can capture it so honestly this will be first time for all of us because i have never opened it so i guess we'll just go on the experience together i love it okay so here we are currently your online store is password protected if someone tried to go on it this is what happens if you go on her website now all right it says coming soon that's her block and her blessings that's the wall of block and we're about to bring that wall down okay this is the moment whenever you are ready okay let's see anybody okay please show us the website talk to us about your art like give us a little spiel you know look at you look at you tell us about this tell us what's going on okay you know this moment is when i made it at the howard theater when i knew like oh my gosh here i am showing my art in a historically black area i'm one of the artists who were like oh my god i'm a living legend you sure are you better claim that you sure are yes not everybody has been in our theater up here let me mark my territory i've created all these pieces the story behind it like i've created them all separately each one of them i made them on a different day a different week different time i brought them all together and i'm like oh my god i've made like so many pieces embodiment of powerful black woman let's get a better view collection people who like wish they were at this level who like have art on their spirit have like all these ideas and know that like if they could realize it people would be hungry to give them money for it and you're at the point where you got to like here it is you can type nevi g.com and you can at any point give me your money and i will give you some art like there's some people who just wish they were at this level that feels good because it's definitely taking me a long way obviously it got a little x-rated right here we got some people when i was in art basel and people you know i would just chop it up with people and they're like oh how would i know which piece is your piece [Laughter] [Music] i just love old school hip-hop and just the culture of hip-hop and what it embodies and why it was created to shed a light of the injustice that was going on the woman in the picture kind of shows the shift of where it is today but also to be empowered in your own body and like loving yourself and being confident no matter what this is me i love me unapologetically myself this one is my ethnicity african gravitating to the most yes and so you see it's called 33 my family's from east africa eritrea we used to be linked with ethiopia and then we went to war for our independence 33 of the freedom fighters that liberated the country were women and there's also 33 vertebrae in your spine so we kind of were like the backbone of the revolution we love alignment yes that's that's poetry yes i love that yes you gotta hold down your ancestors and like your lineage so i'm big on that can't forget where you come from it's just so cool to like see it realize now because we spent a lot of time talking about this but it's just really warm it's my heart right that it's open and i like i said i'm just so glad i've been able to like be someone to just encourage you and support you and you know this is me i'm trying to explore having a business where i like help people out who similarly really want to do something that they have in their spirit maybe they've already done the work to get started but they just need that extra just get motivated again to make it happen so you know basically sell me on these people like these people who out here who are like i might be the right fit for chimney but i'm not sure what would you say to them well if you have any doubt or let's say you're right at the edge but you're afraid to jump that's what's going to give you the push when you're on the cliff i will push you off a cliff all right you got to jump into your dreams i love that that's more positive it's kind of like when you're on a plane right and you go skydiving and it's like you see it and you're afraid to jump and it's like that person on your back like i got you let's jump together yes yes i'm your tandem skydiver i love that i love it and you're going to make sure you don't crash and burn because like i'm going to pull the shoes together i'm going to let you you was out here like yeah we gonna do this last week but you know something happened with the snow and i'm like we're not gonna let no natural elements get in the way of your art girl okay we might first of all you might be like issues there's always natural elements in the way we never let them stop us we knock a little southwest thank you so much for taking the time to just like be interviewed by me and talk more about your story and hopefully really motivate people to like you know like do your art man it's amazing it's beautiful like the world needs it the world needs you and i just appreciate you girl listen thank you for coming across my path because i appreciate you you cannot like reignite my fire because i'm like ah this is something that's been dormant for so long and it's like why why for what for what truly truly and that and to be clear i'm not even asked for commission i'm not even saying maybe every five percent of sales i should get a pizza i'm not even saying that all out i'm only paid in this instance in gratitude only in this instance y'all if you come to me i'm gonna ask for your money but in this instance all i wanted was to see you happy and for us to have these amazing pieces of art in our home so that is my interview i'm so excited for her and i'm so excited i got to play a role in supporting her in her art nebby is actually donating a portion of all her proceeds this month black history month to elevate to educate it's an organization focused on eradicating global poverty through education so go ahead and check out her website buy some cool stuff and some of that money will also go towards helping out folks across the world i've got a couple other folks couple other clients that i'm working with currently and i'm super excited in the weeks and months to come to share their stories and also just to share more stories on my channel of amazing creatives and artists doing cool stuff that maybe you want to do and you haven't seen anyone who looks like you doing it i just want to showcase that all these different adventures are totally totally possible for you too sometimes all you need is just someone in your corner rooting for you and i am more than happy to be that person whether it's one-on-one as a client and a coach or just hearing these youtube comments and these youtube videos actually interview coming up with a friend of mine who's podcast i was just on and she's gonna talk a bit about her experience podcasting there was someone in my comments recently he was like oh like i've been meaning to start a podcast this year and i was like i will be on your podcast girl and i have not heard from her you know who you are girl i want to be on your podcast stop blocking your blessings and my blessings all right okay y'all thanks for watching go ahead and leave me a note in the comments if you are a creative type if you're working on something cool like what is the passion in your heart that you are currently denying give this video a thumbs up subscribe to see more and i will see you on the next one bye you

Channel: Chimdi Ihezie

Views: 179

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: launch online store, eritrea art, black women artists online stores, coaching, motivation, how to launch an online store, coaching testimonial, testimonial video coaching example

Id: yuxbfSB4YK8

Length: 15min 28sec (928 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 09 2021