Hi everyone been reading this pretty dope book called Unlabel by Marc Ecko the guy who owns Ecko clothing company, a couple of these industry people have written books about their success but by far his is the best.
There is specific situation that he talks about in his book that I am a firm believer in, and if you watched my video on youtube where I spoke about the Television Industry you would see the resemblance. He says avoid the gatekeepers and focus on the goal keepers because gate keepers like to think they’re calling the shots but it’s just the perception not the reality. People used to tell me all the time you need to have the right links, be nice to the people who are in certain positions and they will take your career to the next level.
These people they were speaking about are the gatekeepers, the people who think they are the ones controlling the trends. You’ll never make it in the TV industry if you don’t have a show on this channel or that channel, when the truth is you’ll never make it on tv if the people who watch tv don’t watch you. The people who watch tv in this instance are the goalkeepers, if you are designer its the people who wear your clothes, if you are a musician its the people who listen to your music, not the producers who won’t produce.
I have always dreamed of writing for the news paper, I love writing and sharing my opinions with other like-minded people was a big deal to me. But I knew I would never work for the local paper because I had too much to say and my kind of honesty was not the kind they were looking for. So I started blogging over seven years ago, finally I could reach my audience without going through the gatekeeper I was now facing to face with the goal keeper. The same thing happened to me in television. I had been in television for over seven years and I wasn’t doing the kind of TV that I wanted I was going to parties and doing interviews of the same celebrities over and over again and I was bored I knew I wasn’t growing how was I suppose to become brand doing this shit forever. When I brought my ideas to the cable heads for the station where I was working they shot it down. So I quit and did it on my own once again heading straight to the goal keeper and telling the gate keepers to go fuck themselves with the help of Flow Tv and Youtube.
Don’t fall victim to the gatekeepers who think they run shit, they aren’t running anything there are certain things they can’t control. Dnt forget the first time Justin Bieber approached Usher, Usher shook him off it wasn’t until Justin started getting attention on youtube from the goal keepers there, did things change.
Whatever you want in life, go after it sometimes the people who you think are the key they aren’t the key, you’ve been the key all along. Avoid the gate keepers.
xoxox Lauren O Lauren
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