: $130,000 from brand deals, TikTok creator fund, and a podcast deal. In August of 2020, I moved to New York City. I had around 120,000 TikTok followers, but I wasn't making that much money. I graduated and got a job working at Insurance Insider but felt like I was working 10 times harder than other people to achieve the same results.
Before I quit, my friend Kate Norkeliunas — who was signed with a management company, Iconic Fox — shared in a group chat with East Coast content creators that the firm was looking for more creators to represent. I never thought about finding management before she said that, but I reached out. At the time, my content on TikTok had become just about sharing my life and my struggles with my followers. I absolutely loved them and signed with them the same week I quit my job.
Today, I'm running a weekly podcast and a newsletter that shares my advice on dating and life — like a modern-day Carrie Bradshaw. I'm also signed to a literary agency and writing a book of personal essays and advice about dating, sex, and relationships. I'm focusing on my writing career now as it relates to my Instagram advice.
I started my podcast as a hobby, so the first few episodes are a total wreck. I was so inconsistent and now more than 10,000 people download it a week. I looked at it as a hobby and not a career move, but you have to look at everything as a business move, even if you don't have a business yet. I have that mindset now, but in the beginning, I really was just like throwing ideas at the wall.
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