my biggest struggle...

dear kza I miss the smell of your black coffee in the morning I can't believe it's almost been a year since we went on our first date here in New York City please find and clothes dear Colt thank you for the photos this time a year always reminds me of then do you remember when dear kza if you're lonely know that I'm only just a call away I'm sure that things will dear Colt sorry to hear that you haven't been getting much sleep have you tried dear kza I got an invitation in the mail by any chance said you dear Colt perhaps trying new things is good plus I've never been dear kza a change of scenery does sound welcome dear Colt I do agree dear kza here's my plan dear cold my answer is yes dear kza when dear cold where dear kza fly 3,931 Mi due east from the airport to the snow path in front of the B husa Theater I will meet you in the courtyard [Music] good morning from Stockholm God Morgan almost 10:00 a.m. we're on the way to the epidemic sound headquarters here in Stockholm we got invited to come here thanks to them and I think they have some fun stuff planned for us [Music] today it's join us at 10 a.m. eastern see there so I'm at the epidemic headquarters I'm just hiding in a corner over here me and Colt are both here for Creator talks which is happening later this week 5 years ago I was freelancing living gig to Gig and struggling to make it work so I guess it's a bit surreal that I can finally say that I am a creator for my full-time job which is literally crazy I've been using epidemic sound since the very very early days of making videos and their creator Community program is one of the ways they've helped me along my journey if you are a Creator I'm about to put you on right now when you create an account with epidemic you get a referral link you get a free month subscription every time someone signs up however once you pass a 12 sign up threshold then it opens up way more opportunities like going to Stockholm a fully covered subscription and a 50/50 Revenue share and Trust me it is nice that is nice that is very nice but things like this that make becoming a Creator a much more sustainable career so if you're looking for copyright fore music or a little extra income then you can check out the link in the description below [Music] below it wasn't until the first day in Stockholm where it actually hit me that I was on my first ever Creator trip I grew up watching YouTubers living their cool lives rooting for them so it's really crazy to be on the other side experiencing it the past few months have been so much trial and error and learning as I go and I can definitely now say that there's a couple of lessons that have truly stood out through [Music] it the winter wonderland at least she's happy happy wife happy life right you dare we're walking the streets of Stockholm we're going to the old town and it's a blizzard it's actually a [Music] blizzard one of the biggest struggles I had was how to find my voice as a Creator when it felt like there was so many rules on how to make it what format do you use what Niche are you in and how you go about it all when I first started creating videos I had a vague sense of what I wanted to make but it was never really crystal clear it wasn't until I actually went out to shoot and edit back and forth a couple of times where I really started to see a semblance of the idea that I had in my head but the first step was to get out there and actually start creating my and then I met Colt and my life changed forever that's right that's right how would you compare yourself from a year ago to now a year ago I was shy I didn't know really what I wanted to do and I wasn't really happy with what I was making and now look still shy still shy still do but you're happy doing but I'm happy now yeah happy year as we're close to the end of the year I can't help but think of what a hell of a ride it's been so far from not having a clue on what I wanted to make to trying something new to maybe finally finding that thing I wish I could tell RZA from a year ago that things were only about to begin I'm ready to get schooled by you last year we went skating for like our first official date and colle really impressed me honestly he was doing spins and everything so let's see you know you know you know and I would also tell her that there are a lot of Adventures waiting just keep saying yes they say the life you choose to live only really has to make sense to you what a magical trip what a magical trip indeed and trust me when I say the right people will always be right there with you Colt always tells tells me you become more of what you do oh yeah oh yeah so I guess when you keep showing up for Life eventually life will show up for you what was supposed to be the big day turned out to have a rough start when Colt started losing his voice and breaking out into hives but eventually we made it to our destination at epidemics HQ ready for the event this whole week has built up to [Music] how you feel I feel good besides the little episode earlier I doing better sort of Voice still gone but it's okay I kicked Colt out cuz he needs to save his voice but he's literally vlogging in the background 1 hour until the career talks live stream goes on and we're just hanging out of here until it happens we did sound check and probably going to get miked up soon hello hi got kza vlogging over here too who look at this Vlog setion Vlog setion going into the new year I've been thinking a lot about things that I want to create going forward guys I'm mik up I guess as an artist that's the forever question and I'm starting to maybe think it's better not to think too much of it at all the past year I've had more fun making videos than I did in the last 6 years and doing things like this have been incredible but the best thing I tell myself nowadays is keep things simple be with good people and most importantly just keep going right that's our WAP we did it we did our live stream thanks to everybody who tuned in that was pretty cool pretty cool and I from Stockholm and thanks for [Music] watching

Channel: Life Of Riza

Views: 239,515

Keywords: My biggest struggle as a creator, Stockholm vlog, Life of riza vlog, Colt Kirwan

Id: ZSnuvY-pnzY

Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 20 2023