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I don't think that I would be doing this job had it not been for the support of my parents.
Bri Br4t shares her journey from PhD student to full-time OnlyFans creator, emphasizing authenticity and family support.
Key Takeaways
- Authenticity sets Bri apart in a competitive content creation space.
- Parental support played a crucial role in her decision to pursue OnlyFans full-time.
- Managing her own OnlyFans allows her to maintain genuine connections with fans.
- The podcast seeks to break down stereotypes about OnlyFans creators.
- Starting imperfectly is better than waiting for perfection in creative endeavors.
Summary
- Bri Br4t introduces herself as a PhD student turned full-time OnlyFans content creator.
- She values authenticity and genuine connection in an oversaturated market.
- The podcast aims to humanize OnlyFans creators and challenge common misconceptions.
- Bri discusses the importance of her parents' support in her career choice.
- She explains her approach to managing her OnlyFans independently without agencies.
- The podcast will explore her life, views on the industry, and personal experiences.
- Bri hopes to feature other OnlyFans creators to share diverse perspectives.
- She reflects on cultural background and upbringing influencing her career path.
- Bri addresses common myths about OnlyFans creators and their relationships.
- She emphasizes starting imperfect projects and embracing vulnerability in content creation.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Parental Support
- 02:17Selling the Fantasy and Industry Insights
- 04:45Blurring the Line Between Persona and Reality
- 06:35Podcast Name and Brand Vision
- 08:40Future Guests and Podcast Goals
- 11:06Cultural Background and Family Values
- 13:35Creative Process and AI Stance
- 15:42Career Choice and Industry Challenges
- 17:59Misconceptions and Personal Reflections
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content creator. And I bet you are surprised to see me on another podcast attempt. So, if you have been following my journey for a long time, you know that I love yapping to a camera. And there have been so many different ways
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Hi guys, what's up? If you don't know me, I am Bri. I am a PhD student turned full-time OnlyFans content creator.
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I just I love talking I love talking about myself and I find it to be more fulfilling than doing the regular clickbaity thirst trappy Instagram Tik Tok content. And I have been meaning to start this podcast for a while. And I
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And I bet you are surprised to see me on another podcast attempt. So, if you have been following my journey for a long time, you know that I love yapping to a camera. And there have been so many different ways
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around to fully writing out a script that I was proud of for this first podcast. But I've really been trying to embrace the idea that starting with something imperfect is better than not having anything at all. So, welcome to
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that I have done that in the past. I have tried doing a podcast before. I used to stream just chatting on Twitch.
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a life as a social media content creator or people who are not friends with any full-time content creators, it is very easy to blur the line between who a person is as a persona online and who a person actually is. And that's not
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I just, I love talking. I love talking about myself, and I find it to be more fulfilling than doing the regular clickbaity thirst-trappy Instagram TikTok content. And I have been meaning to start this podcast for a while. And I
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It means that we're good at our jobs. It means that we are selling the fantasy that we want to sell. But at the same time, I think especially when it comes to certain niches of content creators, in my case in particular, Only Fans
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don't know, I guess I just, I really wanted the first episode to be so perfect that it stopped me from actually starting it. And I've had this on my mind for maybe like at least six, seven, eight months now. And I just never got
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bit. This has always been my brand as a content creator. If you are not new here, you'll know this, but if you're new here, my approach to running my Only Fans is that I run it completely on my
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around to fully writing out a script that I was proud of for this first podcast. But I've really been trying to embrace the idea that starting with something imperfect is better than not having anything at all. So, welcome to
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page. And I have always really valued authenticity and genuine connection. I think that's one of the things that really sets me apart in an oversaturated market. And I guess this podcast is kind of my way of extending that brand and kind of kind of
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episode one of Problem Child, you guys. Primarily, I guess this is my attempt to humanize myself as an OnlyFans creator and by extension humanize OnlyFans girls as a whole. I think for people who are not familiar with what it is to live
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my brand while also giving myself the chance to say things that I really want to say and explore topics that I really enjoy talking about and exploring. So my vision for this podcast is to kind of talk about me, my life, my views on the
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a life as a social media content creator or people who are not friends with any full-time content creators, it is very easy to blur the line between who a person is as a persona online and who a person actually is. And that's not
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eventually I would love have other only fans girls on and other content creators to kind of share their personal views and their side of the story as well. And then another thing that I hope to do with this podcast on this platform is to
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through any fault of your own. If you are blurring that line and you do believe the narrative that we have fed you, that's kind of a good thing for us.
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kind of going to be a podcast of everything that I want to talk about.
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It means that we're good at our jobs. It means that we are selling the fantasy that we want to sell. But at the same time, I think especially when it comes to certain niches of content creators, in my case in particular, OnlyFans
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I don't want to say failed, but tried and kind of stepped away from. And it made me, I guess, kind of hesitant to keep starting new ones. But I think one thing that I'm really trying to embrace is that the beauty of content creation
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girls, it can cause a lot of misconceptions about the types of people we are, the way that we form our interpersonal relationships and kind of all, all that stuff. So, I guess I just want to pull back the curtain a little
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to do it anymore. And that's I feel like that's one of the things where it's like I I used to need things to be perfect and I needed to have like a clean track record cuz I have always been a
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bit. This has always been my brand as a content creator. If you are not new here, you'll know this, but if you're new here, my approach to running my OnlyFans is that I run it completely on my
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things about this job is coming up with creative titles, creative captions, writing stuff out because I don't know.
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own. I answer all of my own DMs, and there aren't that many 0% creators that do that anymore. A lot of them are managed by agencies nowadays, but that's just not the way that I want to run my
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endeavors like that. I'm just I'm not for it. But the the thought of Problem Child, it just came to me and I just felt it in my heart that it was a good name. Like I I don't know like some
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page. And I have always really valued authenticity and genuine connection. I think that's one of the things that really sets me apart in an oversaturated market. And I guess this podcast is kind of my way of extending that brand and kind of, kind of
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Only Fans girls. I feel like it's actually pretty descriptive of me as a child if you ask my parents about what I was like and I think it's fun. It's short. It's sweet. It's catchy and it's a little bit ironic and I think it it
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it seems to me, it seems like the next logical step, especially nowadays with the proliferation of like AI slop and AI content. Like I want to kind of remain human and put that humanness and authenticity kind of at the forefront of
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now. So, I guess first things first, I want to talk about my relationship with my parents. I feel like there is this like misconception that only fans girls have terrible relationships with their parents or that they're estranged from
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my brand while also giving myself the chance to say things that I really want to say and explore topics that I really enjoy talking about and exploring. So my vision for this podcast is to kind of talk about me, my life, my views on the
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Only Fans girls, but for me, like that just could not be further from the case.
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world, talk about how being an OnlyFans creator has shaped and changed my life, misconceptions about myself, the industry, other creators, and eventually if I'm able to stick with this and it grows as big as I hope it does, um,
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weird when I say it, but I promise I will explain it a little bit later in the episode. But I'm I'm Filipino. And I'm like really Filipino in the sense that like my parents did not grow up here in the US. They immigrated from the
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eventually I would love to have other OnlyFans girls on and other content creators to kind of share their personal views and their side of the story as well. And then another thing that I hope to do with this podcast on this platform is to
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like family and community is just so important. It it's like really one of the most grounding foundational things is is just like your family is your family. You don't you don't write them off. You don't excommunicate them. You
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also kind of use my personal experiences talking to, you know, the thousands and thousands of men that I have online and also just my experiences as a woman to kind of give men advice and, uh, insight that is not redpilled. And so it's just
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parents will be there for me. Whether it's something small like I'm out of avocados and I'm really craving avocado toast or something big like I would like to buy a car and I need my dad to cosign for me like whatever it may be. I my
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kind of going to be a podcast of everything that I want to talk about.
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and supporting me has never ever been something that I've questioned. So, how did I go from loving supportive parents to only fence girl? Honestly, this is something that I have been thinking about a lot just in terms of like how
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And yeah, I, I'm excited to finally start it. I'm excited to have you guys along for the ride. I, I'm trying to be more forgiving of the fact that there are so many online projects that I have tried and stopped.
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advantageous social network cuz, you know, my parents were immigrants. They came from the Philipp They came from the Philippines and they were very poor growing up there, but then they moved to America. They worked their asses off. They did what they
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I don't want to say failed, but tried and kind of stepped away from. And it made me, I guess, kind of hesitant to keep starting new ones. But I think one thing that I'm really trying to embrace is that the beauty of content creation
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school. I got a brand new car when I was 16. I got to go on vacations. Like all the markers of a family that is well off. I had that in my childhood. But at the same time, because my parents grew
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and being my own boss and really being kind of self-led in my content creation career is that I really can do whatever the [expletive] I want. And if I decide that it's not for me, then I just don't have
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cleaning um or just old boxes that we could reuse for like putting gifts in and giving to people like whatever it may be. Like they had that scarcity mindset that they then passed on to me.
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to do it anymore. And that's, I feel like that's one of the things where it's like I, I used to need things to be perfect and I needed to have like a clean track record because I have always been a
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makes sense. One thing that was so distinct for me as a child, like when I think back on my childhood, one thing that I remember so very clearly is that my dad really made sure that I worked hard for everything that I got. So I
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perfectionist and I'm just, I'm [expletive] starting and, and we're just going to see where this goes. So yeah. Um, I guess I should start with the name of this podcast. I am not a very creative person. For me, one of the hardest
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wanted like even something as simple as like a soda, he would ask me like, "Oh, why do you want it? Why can't you just have water?" Like I would get bered with questions until I could justify what I wanted in a way that was
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things about this job is coming up with creative titles, creative captions, writing stuff out because I don't know.
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had to work for. And on top of that, like I was I don't think that I would have been getting everything that I wanted had it not been for the fact that like I delivered on everything that I
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I'm just, I'm that type of creative is not me. I'm not good with words. I've never been great at creative writing and I don't know. I, I refuse to use AI. I'm not going to use AI for creative
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of clicked in my mind that like if I give my parents what they want, which is like being a good student, excelling in school, um that they would give me what I want. And that just kind of became our
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endeavors like that. I'm just, I'm not for it. But the, the thought of Problem Child, it just came to me and I just felt it in my heart that it was a good name. Like I, I don't know, like some
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enough, if I work hard enough, I can get what I want because that is kind of the mindset that I was raised with. Like I said, my my parents were not like they weren't poor, but they had that scarcity
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sometimes you just know it. And I feel like this was one of those things where I was like, "Yep, that is a good name." I think it's catchy. I think it plays into this stereotype that people have of
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only limit that there ever was was whatever I could justify. Um and there were certainly things that I asked for that like once my parents pushed me on it like, "Oh, why do you want it? Why do you want that? I I literally couldn't
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OnlyFans girls. I feel like it's actually pretty descriptive of me as a child if you ask my parents about what I was like and I think it's fun. It's short. It's sweet. It's catchy and it's a little bit ironic and I think it, it
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there was this one thing that I saw recently. It honestly it was for a climbing Instagram cuz I'm a climber where somebody was saying like, "You setting realistic goals is what's limiting you." And I was like, "Oh, that
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really does describe me in a way. So, for this first episode, I thought it would be very fitting to talk about how I got into the OnlyFans industry in the first place and how my upbringing and childhood played a role in what I do
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statuses, all different sorts of abilities, all different sorts of connections that like it's not true that just because you're a hard worker, you can get what you want. Like life just does not work that way. We don't live in
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now. So, I guess first things first, I want to talk about my relationship with my parents. I feel like there is this like misconception that OnlyFans girls have terrible relationships with their parents or that they're estranged from
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really does affect the outcome and if you can really it's it really is like kind of like a placebo effect like you if you believe it so deeply like that is going to be your truth and for me
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their families or they're like fatherless or whatever. Like there's, there was just some sort of estrangement or disconnect between them and their parents to make them pursue such a career. And at least for me, I really, I really can't speak for other
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So I think this sort of mindset that my parents raised me with definitely came in super handy and was very beneficial to me, especially when I was younger and trying to instill good habits in myself.
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OnlyFans girls, but for me, like that just could not be further from the case.
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at because, you know, when you're a kid, like school is kind of your job and it was like being good at my job was kind of second nature to me and that I think was very very beneficial.
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Um, I'll talk about it a little later in the episode, but for me, like I don't think that I would be doing this job had it not been for the support of my parents. And I know that that sounds
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what I want and also I've had just this lifelong practice of justifying my decisions. You can see how that would make things very difficult if you were my parent. Um, and that is kind of that's hence the name of this podcast,
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weird when I say it, but I promise I will explain it a little bit later in the episode. But I'm, I'm Filipino. And I'm like really Filipino in the sense that like my parents did not grow up here in the US. They immigrated from the
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breaking through it. Like there was a no. The first no never stopped. And I'm not talking like obviously don't take this out of um out of context. Like I'm not talking about like sexual consent and things like that, but when it came
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Philippines. My entire ancestry before me lived and died in the Philippines. And so I was raised with very Filipino values. The American values that I got I got from school. I didn't really get from my family. And in Filipino culture,
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there a way for me to push through this so I can still get what I want? And obviously, when you're a teenager and when you're younger, like your view of the world and what you want, like those things, they don't always line up with
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like family and community is just so important. It, it's like really one of the most grounding foundational things is, is just like your family is your family. You don't, you don't write them off. You don't excommunicate them. You
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in that regard. I was never like I never got suspended. Like I was never in trouble for like drugs, alcohol, mouthing off to a teacher. Like that was never me. But when it came to things like how I wanted to dress or piercings
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don't like, you, you just, you are there for your family. Your family is a big part of your life. And that is how I was raised. And even to this day, I know that if I ever needed anyth...
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parents a hard time. like in my own personal self-expression I think is where my parents really kind of struggled with me and I think that this shaping of my identity this whole like being able to meet resistance and not
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feeling trapped by it like I I think that you can see how my determination and my stubbornness and my refusal to be constrained by what other people might be constrained by. I I think it's kind of starting to become clear how that can
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be linked to being comfortable choosing Only Fans as a career. So I think a combination of all of these sorts of things growing up, you know, my being used to getting what I wanted, my uh ability to meet resistance and push past
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it, my stubbornness, my determination along with just the really good work ethic I cultivated as a student. And like I hope that you don't misinterpret me as saying that this is the best way to be raised and that I think that my
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parents were perfect parents and that they didn't have any faults and that I had like the perfect childhood. I don't think that I don't think that there's one correct way to raise a child and I also think that there are many wrong
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ways to raise a child. I'm not saying that I didn't grow up without my own set of problems that I had to work through.
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I had problems growing up. I, you know, I had a strange relationship with my parents when I was younger. Like I didn't have like a picture perfect childhood. I just know now looking back on it and seeing how many different
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types of childhoods you can have in the world. Like as an adult, I look back and I'm like, no. Like I I did have a pretty good childhood, but going through it, I definitely felt like, you know, there
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were problems. There were things that I wasn't happy about. I was my parents first child and so they were doing the parenting thing for the very first time and they were also learning as they went along. So I'm not saying that my parents
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were perfect. I'm not saying that I had the most privileged, best, perfect childhood. I'm just saying that like what I went through as a kid was actually not that bad compared to how traumatic a childhood could be. And
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also, I was able to take my experiences as a kid and use them to my advantage as an adult in ways that have benefited me very, very handsomely. That's all I'm saying. Um, I'm not trying to make a
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judgment call about what is the best and worst parent or childhood that you can have. But anyways, I think all of those things combined, it's kind of easy to see how like that can lead to somebody being comfortable
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choosing something as stigmatized as Only Fans for a career and excelling in it. And yeah, like I I just feel like that doesn't like these stereotypes about Only Fans girls or these things that people believe, like I don't really
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feel like those describe me at all. Like I always felt very validated as a child.
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My my parents really expected so much of me and I knew that their expectations were high. Like I knew that they expected more of me than what the average student was expected to do. And I knew that I was meeting those
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expectations. Like I thought that I was top [ __ ] Like I I got all of the accolades you can imagine. I graduated Sumakum La. I graduated top of my department. Like I was in honor role literally every single semester or
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quarter or whatever school period there was. Like I like I was so validated. I never felt like I had a problem getting attention from uh men that I was interested in. Like it was never about me needing to feel a lack of anything. I
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think for me honestly like the way that I got into Only Fans was I kind of fell into it accidentally. So like I got into Only Fans during the pandemic and I was a PhD student at the time and back then
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my goal was I'm going to get a tenur position at a university and I'm going to be set for life. Because again, remember like my parents despite having money to raise us, they carried a scarcity mindset with them throughout
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their life because they grew up poor and they passed that scarcity mindset on to me in subliminal ways and I picked them up. So for me, like financial security was the most important thing to me. And I thought if I can get a tenure position
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somewhere and for those of you who don't know what a tenure position is, it's just like you're hired by the university forever and you you're just like there and you're set and you don't get fired and you always get paid. And that's and
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to me I was like, okay, my goal is financial security. I can do that by getting a tenure position somewhere. Um and that was that was it for me. But then the pandemic hit and news started coming out that even tenure professors
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were losing their jobs at universities and that's when it hit me like there is nothing that is certain like security is a security is an illusion and you actually will never ever have it. You can only feel like you have it. And
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that's when I was like I need a side hustle. I need to have money in the bank because I don't know if you guys know anything about grad students, but we don't make a lot of money. Like, we
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really don't. I think uh for my program, a standard grad student salary that we were expected to live on like and teach like and this was supposed to be our only source of income. Um it was like 1,500 a month, which sounds insane, but
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I lived in a small town. The cost of living was relatively low. And you could get by with 1,500 a month if you had roommates. it wasn't going to be like an extravagant lifestyle, but you could get by. But I was I was not putting any
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money away. Like I didn't have any spare money to put into savings. So for me, I was like, "Oh my god." Like I I was looking at people losing their jobs and really just getting completely shadow on during the beginning of the pandemic and
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I was like, "I this cannot be me. I need to like I need to find a side hustle." And the thing about grad school is it's so demanding on your time that you really don't have the time or the
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flexibility to really do anything else comfortably. And then Nicki Minaj and Beyonce I think released a song called Feeling Myself. And in that song there's this one line that's like on that demon time she going to start in Only Fans. And for some reason
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I was like that kind of resonated with me and I was like let me [ __ ] try it.
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Let me try it. And I started and only because I saw that and I was like like let's just see like let's just see. And I started it and it my very first month I made like $800 and I was doing it like
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just whenever I could just whenever I didn't have like grad student work to do and you know if If I'm making $1,500 doing like 80 hours of research and teaching a week and I make $800 from doing Only Fans in my spare time, like I
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something clicked in me and I was like, "Oh my god, like I I think I can make money from this." Um, and then my next month I forget how much I made, but I made more than I did as a grad student
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doing it on the side. And I was like, "Holy shit." And that is kind of how I fell into it. You know, like $1,500 whatever I made my second month, like it's not a lot, but back then when I
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basically had no money, like that was a lot for me. And it really showed me like the money-making potential of it. And so I started to put more time and energy into doing that. And my profits started to go up. And one one thing for me is
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that I have always been very good at social media and marketing and you know understanding how to make people want something or convince people to want something. Um and I think that is just a hu hugely in part to the way that my
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parents raised me like always having to justify myself. And the way that I went about doing that as a child is I was like what would be appealing to this person? like what would make them want to do this for me or give this to me?
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And I just kind of took that mindset and I applied it to Only Fans when I started out. I was like, what would make somebody want to pay for more content of mine? Like how can I make somebody
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intrigued enough with me to want to buy a subscription to my page? And I just naturally like marketing, selling, social media use because I was always on social media, like all of that stuff came naturally to me. So, it was just
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kind of this like really perfect combination of settings that made it very I wouldn't say easy, but made me more susceptible to success on Only Fans. And like I don't want to talk about it like success on Only Fans is easy, but I will
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say like I got in in 2020 when it was still relatively new and the market wasn't super duper oversaturated. Now, I feel like it would be harder even with my combination of traits to be successful in Only Fans. But back then,
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that was like kind of exactly what I needed. And even back then, you know, me with this mindset of like failure is not an option, like me believing that if I just tried hard enough, I could do it.
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Like that was really what fueled me. And like I I did it. And all the while while I was on Only Fans, like I was still a grad student because I never really considered something self-directed like as an option for me.
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Um, just because that's just not like that wasn't that wasn't something that I was raised with, you know, like for me my my job options were like something with an overhead. So like university professor.
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I had also previously considered being a lawyer, but like these things are they there's like structure and institutions around them. It's not something like a free-for-all. Like I just didn't think that I was the type of person to really
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do a free-for-all. Like like I said, I love school. I love the structure of school. I thought that I was the type of person that did best where I had a job to do and I was told what to do and I
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could just do it really well. Um so Only Fans was never kind of like this thing for me. until I kind of got more into it. And like long story short, I like ended up mastering out of my grad school
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program, meaning that I was in a PhD program. I was set to get my PhD. I had like committed to the program for the period of time it took me to get my PhD, but I left early after I got my masters
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instead of staying all the way to my PhD. So that's what mastering out is.
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And I left early because I became really disillusioned with academia. Like the more that I was in it, the more I was like, I actually don't think that I like this as much as I thought I would. And I
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really wanted to do something that I felt was making more of a positive difference than I could with academia.
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and I moved to working for a nonprofit that was doing some really hands-on work throughout the community that I felt was like, you know, just just more I grew tired of a lot of things in academia.
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One of them being how like white male dominated the field was. I felt like I really was not heard or represented well as like a brown woman. I felt like the the types of people that were drawn to
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academia as a profession were not like workingass people. Like I it's really hard for me to talk about like I feel like I would need an entire podcast episode and maybe I will do one in the future about why I left academia, but I
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me and it just were not vibing. And so I went to go work at a nonprofit instead and I thought that with this nonprofit a lot of my problems with academia would be solved. So, I was having more
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hands-on work with people that actually needed to like needed the work that I was doing and actually like benefiting them in concrete ways. I had a boss who was an amazing amazing black woman and mentor and she had also left academia for you
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know this work and like we just related on that and she really mentored me. So I really it was just the best possible combination of scenarios where like everything that I hated about academia I found the opposite in this job and I was
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like still unhappy. And that's when I realized like I I don't like being told what to do. I don't like having to wake up at 9:00 a.m. every day. I didn't like having to ask permission to take a day
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off. I didn't like having to answer to people. Honestly, I didn't really like working in a team. Like I even back in school like I hated group projects. Like I do my best work on my own at my own
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pace by my own rules. And that's when it hit me like I'm just not really suited for the type of job that involves having a boss and working in, you know, just like a regular boss. Like I I just I
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don't think that's for me. Um and that's when I really started to consider Only Fans full-time. I was making pretty decent money on it, but it was just the thought of having this job because back in whenever it was that I transitioned
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to it full-time, it was still kind of like a weird thing to like be a full-time influencer. Um, and it was scary for me to think that like again security was everything to me. Um, and I think being a full-time influencer, I
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saw it as a very insecure job. I was making good money, but I was like, this could go away at any moment. Like, we don't this I know this is not a job that I can do forever, and I don't know,
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especially if I decide to come back to the professional world, you know, how am I going to explain this gap on my resume? How is this going to, you know, tarnish my professional image? Um, so it was a very scary thing for me to jump
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full-time into. But one thing that I, and this is where we're getting back into uh what I said at the beginning about how I couldn't have done this without my parents support. One thing that I knew if I did decide to pursue it
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full-time was that if I failed, my parents would be there for me. And if I ended up not being able to find a job after this or I needed a couple years to get back on my feet and build up my
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resume and regroup and figure something out or whatever happened, like my parents would be there for me. I would have a room at their house. I would have food in my stomach. I would have a roof over my head. I wouldn't have to pay a
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dime while I was staying with them. And I knew that even if I failed, like they would be there for me. And having that safety net was what finally allowed me to take the risk of doing this cuz I was
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just it wasn't that I was unhappy at my job with the nonprofit. It was just that like I knew that it just it just wasn't for me. And so only fans could give me that freedom that I wanted where I would
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only have to answer to myself. I would only have to collaborate on things that I wanted to collaborate on. Like working as a team was not a necessary part of the job. I was making money that could sustain a lifestyle that I wanted
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because remember like I'm not I never grew up not getting what I wanted. So for me like it's very like I'm very uncomfortable when I don't get what I want. And that was like Only Fans was giving me the type of money where like I
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could get what I wanted. And it just kind of checked all of the boxes. And for me, like the the whole stigma of it, I don't know, it just it never really bothered me all that much. Like I I have
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never thought that sex work is something to be ashamed of. And again, like this is where if I can justify to myself whatever resistance is out there, like it's not going to stop me. And I don't know, I just I knew that I would be a I
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would be safe if if it failed. And that was what allowed me to really take that risk to do it full-time. And my god, did it pay off. And I'm so thankful that it did. I'm so thankful that I was raised
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with the ability and the tools and the sort of nature and type of personality to be able to succeed in this business because it is a really cutthroat, demanding, draining business that is it's going to take a lot out of you.
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It's such a stigmatized job. It it receives so much hate. you see a lot of the worst of men um who think that they can talk to you any which way because they're kind of behind a computer. You
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get a lot of judgment from a lot of people, but at the same time like I had a lifestyle that I had in my head that I wanted and certain things about my life that I wanted and certain things that I
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didn't. And Only Fans kind of checked all of those boxes for me and I'm like I'm glad that I'm doing it now. Um, and it's not about validation or anything.
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For me, it really is about the money and the financial stability. And I I got to a point where like I am successful enough to have that stability in this way. Like I don't have to worry about finding another job after this. Like I
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did it. I'm here. I'm stable. And for me, it was just a matter of like figuring out what my values are and what I'm willing to do in order to get those values. So, yeah, that's that's how I
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got into it. This is not I don't want to make this sound like this is a viable career path for other women. I don't want to make this sound like this is the best thing ever. Um, what I will say is
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that for the type of person I am, it was the right choice for me. But also, I joined at a time when it was easier to succeed than it is now. I don't want to be seen as like promoting this to other
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women. This is more so just me telling my story because I know a lot of people like one of the biggest questions I get from my subscribers on Only Fans is how did I get into doing this? And I feel
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like there are just so many misconceptions out there about Only Fans girls and you know, whatever. And yeah, I guess I just really wanted to actually share in depth like how my childhood and my upbringing played a role in my career choice. Cuz I
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think it would just be so ignorant and untrue of me to be like, "Oh, no. My childhood didn't play any role in the way that I am today." Because it absolutely did. Every single person's childhood plays a role in the way that
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they are today. But for me, I wanted to get that story out there in a way that is true to me and doesn't make my parents out to be failures or terrible parents. Um, and kind of tell that
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story, I guess, with just like a little bit more nuance. Um, so yeah, that's the story of how I got into Only Fans and how my childhood played a role in that.
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I don't know what I'm going to do for the next episode, but I am excited to keep talking. camera. I hope you subscribe and follow along. And yeah, thanks for listening to the very first episode of Problem Child.
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