You say you're afraid mostly because, “What if I don’t reach my goal?” “What if I put in my blood, sweat, tears - miss 12 episodes of GOT, forego the latest season of Insecure, and I don’t raise enough to do my project”? p.s. Who is watching This Is Us? I cry every...

When I was setting up my Kickstarter campaign, I worried a lot about rewards. I googled it a lot and I remember having many discussions with my collaborator aka boyfriend about rewards. So I thought it’d be helpful to post about this. As conscious artists &...

Throughout our campaign, we made two videos. The second was definitely better and received better than the first. How so? Well, the first video (2K views) focused on my boyfriend and I and how the treatment of Black men has affected us, directly and indirectly. It was...

If you don't know me yet, I'm a dancer / director in the mean streets of Astoria, NYC. Here's a couple rough screenshots of my most recent project Black Man in America & a video of where we filmed.   [video width="1920" height="1080"...

Listen. It sucks to have a vision in your mind that you can't complete because you're broke. Especially if you are a magic-creating, community-minded, conscious, freedom-seeking revolutionary human. I've made two dance films that have changed my life & both were...

When people heard that we were trying to raise $16,000 (that was our goal and we exceeded it) a lot of people legit were like - why? The minute we said we were going for such a large goal (given our lack of experience and zero following) we had their ears and the...

Legit guys. Crowdfunding was somewhat traumatizing to be honest. No, I’m being dramatic. But it was hard, anxiety-producing work. Part of the reason why it was so anxiety producing is that we - my boyfriend and I - had to GUESS who would give to us and had to ask...

As y'all know, last year we set a goal of about $16,000 and raised $18,000 by the end of our Kickstarter campaign. Several people who actually missed the Kickstarter deadline and knew we already reached our goal offered to PayPal us additional donations. I was...

Firstly, it goes without saying that I am so grateful for the $600 that we made in our fundraising party. I was so happy the we raised any money because I have never thrown a live fundraiser before! $600 is enough to fund many projects and was very valuable. But of...

Some of you may know I am a psychology nerd in addition to being a dancer and director. I try not to say I’m a psychologist because people immediately tell me about their childhood trauma. Unfortunately, I’m not equipped to deal with that. I didn’t study mental health...

The world needs our vision. Seriously. For real. Make it happen. Now. Ok. Yeah. Now.Let’s face it. Everybody and their mother is now crowdfunding, asking from everything to getting people to fund their broken & decrepit laptops (ps I’ve had the same laptop since...

I love my artist and creator-entrepreneur-activist friends and acquaintances that are going hard to make their projects come to life. Y'all inspire me. If not for y'all I'd still think dancing and filmmaking were hobbies and I'd be creating some business that I...

Disclaimer. I'm bout to tell you and my future self to do a whole bunch of things I didn't do. This is literally a note to my future self that my life will be easier if I do this stuff before crowdfunding. There is a chance that I will not do any of this but it would...

I will probably repeat this 17,000 times during this crowdfunding series, but I just want to illustrate for you an important point. No, literally, let me show you an illustration of where our crowdfunding backers came from. If you don't know me, we had a campaign to...