Kelli Maple is a YouTuber with 1.8 M subscribers, her content mainly focuses on reborn dolls, baby alives, and vlogs of her life.
Kelli's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KelliMaple
Kelli's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellimapleyt/
Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:38 Kelly’s childhood + YouTube channel
1:04 First introduction to YouTube
1:50 Take Us to Making Your First Video in March 2014
3:10 Have you always been creative?
4:20 How did you keep yourself creating content throughout the first year?
5:36 Growing from 26 subscribers to 40,000 subscribers in 9 months
7:13 Are you able to make content for yourself or are you keeping your audience in mind?
8:21 Family reaction to be a content creator at a young age
10:00 Dealing with judgment
10:55 Managing school and content creation
12:41 Managing posting different types of content
13:48 Building community advice
14:43 Balancing privacy of personal life
16:13 Finding authentic friends
17:00 Do you tell people you’re a content creator?
17:52 Burnout
19:04 Weight on you as a creator
20:05 Monetization
21:00 Week in the life of Kelli
21:43 Managing social media accounts
22:38 Eating disorder
23:50 Camera research
25:00 Advice to someone starting out
26:00 Mental health advice for creators
26:57 How long does it take you to produce a video?
27:41 Covid
29:19 Baby Alive, Reborn
30:13 Decompress from social media
31:07 Contextualizing the impact you’ve had (videos of 25 million people watching)