When you figure that out, it actually is simple to achieve it but it means you have to let go of a lot of things. And people are not usually willing to let go. If the answer to that is I want to be more creative everyday. Maybe you can make a pledge that every night you’re going to come home and make dinner. You’re going to commit yourself to doing that.
You take the money you’d spend on takeout and cook every night and that’s more creative. That’s one example but ultimately, if the answer is I want to be more creative and I hate my job… then you need to quit your job. Then the rebuttal is: how am I going to pay rent? Maybe you move back in with your parents. But I don’t want to do that. Well you can’t have both so, what do you want more? “To be creative.” “But I can’t.” That’s what I hear over and over. But I can’t, I need the security. I need medical insurance that I have to pay for.
I don’t have medical insurance. People always ask, well aren’t you scared? And I say, not really. It’s always a trade off. I know the cost that is associated with that security. I don’t want that. I don’t want to be miserable on a daily basis so I can have medical insurance. To me, it’s like what’s the point? What’s the point in having the security of a job, an apartment, and insurance and then everyday you come home and hate your life. So you can have three weeks off a year so you can do something fun?
I was trying to learn how to book bind last year when a friend recommended your HGTV YouTube videos to me. How did that partnership happen?
They approached me about doing a home tour. Their channel is called Handmade so I felt it was so appropriate because so much of my place is homemade. It was the longest video they’ve ever made for a home tour and it went viral. When that happened, I asked if they were interested in making how-to videos. Over the past year, we’ve made over 20 videos that have accumulated over 8 million views. Every single video was something that I’m interested in. I think the reason why they’ve been successful is because it comes across in the videos. They are things I’m genuinely passionate about. That’s what gave me the push to start my own channel. I needed to do that with them to figure out how I wanted to do my own.
So now you have your own channel that just launched. What’s your goal with these new videos?
With HGTV, I decided that all I’m doing with these videos is opening the door to my life to the public. This is genuinely what I’m doing on a day to day basis. Whether it’s alone or with friends, these are things I do and sometimes I think, wow this is really rewarding and I wish I could share this with people. Because I think it’d rub off in a good way.
When we started putting the videos out and the response was so good, I felt really rewarded knowing that my assumption was correct. That these simple everyday tasks could be turned into things that give people a sense of comfort. They don’t have to do it themselves but just watch someone else do it. It’s meaningful to them. What I hope to achieve isn’t breaking new ground. I’m not creating anything new. I feel like I’m waking something up. I feel like I’m taking a big treasure box that has sat in an attic for many many years, and I’m dusting it off and opening it up and sharing it with my generation. I think they need it.
Lindsay Lohan is acting again with a new movie out on Netflix. Is Mean Girls 2 something you’d ever be interested in?
I really enjoyed her new film, but no. Why ruin a good thing?
Melissa Yang
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