🪴 Then a bit older I started making original comedy sketches on Instagram trying to be as funny as the videos I grew up watching on Vine. They were a bit better than Musically to the point that I believed so much in myself that I started posting challenges with my friends on Youtube! But once again, at some point I gave up. This time because I was being judged from the people around me and their energy was bigger than mine.
🌳 When Tiktok was getting huge, I tried for the third time to follow my dream. I was posting random things, copying trends and the results were non existent. Until I uploaded my first video of aviation and got viral with 600.000 views. I was over the moon. I posted a second video and it also got thousands of views, and a third and a forth and the growth didn’t stop. I kept going.
🔥 I was growing my followers, a community, but at the same time I started experiencing online hate. This was a first for me. I’ve dealt before with people shamming and judging me in person but online somehow felt different and worse, specially coming from strangers.
💥 On the same year, 6 months after I developed this cabin crew profile, I was fired from my job for making videos on the flight. I was on more than 20 new’s papers around the world including The Independent and the New York Times. I had to say something so I posted about it with all the honesty I had in me and alongside so many hate messages saying I deserved it and that I should quit social media too, I was with my heart filled from all the nice things I read giving me psychological support and even help with job offers, both from friends and people I didn’t even knew existed, showing how good people can be as well. Still, I did end up quitting social media.
✈️ After many interviews where the interviewers knew who I was because I “baked a cake on the flight”, I was finally accepted into an airline that I wanted to work for. A few months passed and I started posting. The fire was reignited, the dream was alive once again. I was flying, I was happy, I was working on my dreams.
🚀 Now, looking back, I can say I went through a lot, specially lack of acceptance by my peers, light bullying and a ginormous negative energy around me that made me want to quit my job and social media all together once again but somehow, with the right people by my side, I managed to stay, fight and succeed. I am now happy at work, happy where I live, happy with what I have. I have a solid base to jump and fly towards my dreams bringing me now to MAIKE.
🌟 I want this brand to stand for what I believe. If you are a dreamer like me, if you believe in yourself and work smart towards those goals, it’s impossible you will not succeed. You can do it just like me. I had many tries, many quits, many low moments, but slowly it keeps getting better and easier. If we put our energy into what we want we will definitely have it, just do not quit, that is the rule, keep trying until you have no more excuses to continue, and you just need one excuse to continue: “It’s my dream”.
💫 Follow me on this journey turning my dreams into a reality while inspiring others to do the same. That is my goal. Growing together. Are you ready to believe those dreams of yours and put the energy into work to be successful? Join me and I’ll motivate you as much as I can with my new brand MAIKE.
