 If I were to die today, my message to you would be, do what's true to you, follow what lights you up the most, what excites you and let go of where it's going. I have visions of being a rapper, an actor and all these different things and I just feel the excitement from that and move towards it. So if an opportunity makes me feel the same, take steps towards it and that's how I see the universe and that's how I operate. Being that energy, trusting in that unknown, not trying to find the exact path by my mind. Dancing in this unknown of taking steps that feel right and also open to the infinite possibilities that can happen in every moment. Hi, my name is Steven Selly, I'm 30 years old and I'm here to enjoy. I love life and I want to share it with you. When I was 18, I thought to myself, what if I can dunk? And I thought that my whole life as a child and for some reason I said I'm going to go for it. Life changing decision, I got my first dunk in about a year, could watch all those videos on my YouTube channel and it sent me on a journey of transformation. Through that journey, it taught me what limiting beliefs are and it completely changed my perspective of what's possible in this reality. I achieved something that was just a dream. It wasn't 1% possible, it was zero and the spark of that journey was just for the fun of it, just for that possibility of that what if feeling. So that one step turned into a mountain that I never even saw coming. I was the shortest out of all my friends, so jumping was my way of overcoming this way I felt inferior and expressing who I was. My college degree was in information technology, I got a corporate job and the mindset I developed and the person I became through the dunk journey allowed me to see that I was holding myself back in that job as well. So the second I secured that job I was safe and I thought to myself okay this is definitely not the job I want but it allowed me the safety to say what do I want and I thought to myself well I'm already making videos, I like doing that, I see vloggers blowing up heavily inspired by Casey Neistat so I thought to myself okay I'm going to turn the camera on me, I love talking, I love sharing, I'm already doing it, maybe I'll blow up on YouTube as a vlogger and live my dream. So I did grow my channels but it didn't pan out because I wasn't that great at monetizing that channel but I learned how much I love expressing myself on the camera, sharing my story and connecting with others. Three years of doing that I honed my skills freelancing photo, video, editing, podcast and realized others may need this skill and this courageous leap came for me to do it full-time and I quit my corporate job. I never looked back, life has been a roller coaster since then, I had no entrepreneurial experience back then, I didn't have any background in learning photo, video, professionally, everything I've ever done is self-taught. I'm very proud of that but in the past it was feeding into my imposter syndrome of who am I to charge this much as a photographer, everyone else is better than me and now after working through that I realize I can be proud of that and I want to inspire other creatives who don't see themselves as artists to say you know what what I love to do is my art I don't have to do it this way I can do it my way and as long as I'm doing it out of the love out of the passion it's going to make it the most valuable it can be so three to four years of doing it myself is when I met some business that I started collaborating with in business now I see entrepreneurship as a spiritual awakening it's a way for me to become a leader to step into a role that is about something bigger than me so it's not just creating content all about me or for myself it's about creating content that helps others and helping others create content and together our business organization and collaborating with other clients we have a collective energy that's bigger than just one of us the whole is greater than the sum of just its parts so now the things I know for sure right now is following the excitement I moved to California in 2022 originally from Florida grew up in Florida born and raised in Boca Raton now living in California I found my community it was another leap of following that fun and my life's been expanding ever since I'm the founder of a creative agency called courageous growth I do all the creative content we help brands grow we focus on people that we align with they're taking courageous steps in this world to build a product to build a brand that's changing the way we do things in the healthiest most aligned that's great for the people that consume it and great for the planet so why do I love sharing I feel so excited by life that I want to share it I like to equate it to a good food you taste something like oh you have to try this you want someone to share it and that's why I make art because I have these feelings and art to me is about trying to express something about how you feel so others can feel it too so the ways I do that right now is photography videography music and rapping I love dancing I love physically moving my body and I love helping others do the same so I love helping people tap into what's unique to them their unique energy because to me finding that flow within of when I feel like I'm completely pulled by a force greater than myself and I'm in this flow and this magic unfolds and these experiences that just blow my mind I want others to experience that as well so if you're new here welcome I love sharing my journey as I go through it and I love creating art so I hope you laugh I hope you feel something I hope you feel inspired to find your own energy and express it thank you for watching thank you for all your support thank you for being you the best thing we can do the best way we can express is being the most authentic to ourselves we have this unique life and if we can tap into everything that's blocking our unique light we can be the best vibration we can tap into that highest vibration just have the most fun be ourselves and feel that freedom of expression