Thread by @mentorshipzim

First thread is going to be the exclusive - never heard before story of the genesis of “Amanda and Banele” ❤️ YT
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So firstly it’s a family affair. The three girls to the left. Fun fact : we’re creating and running the channel from different cities 🙆🏾‍♀️ it’s tough but it’s really fun working with my sisters

So it all started with one of those looong WhatsApp calls with my older sister @skyeharrison_ . Now , she’s the MVP behind everything. The woman is a genius. Amongst other things , she offers amazing services for creatives (pr management,helping you sell stuff and be awesome )

If you’re a creative in any way , I suggest you check out what she does . This is like a creative directory aimed at promoting people of colour (POC) pocreative.com

So we’re having a chat about this and how she struggles to connect with content creators especially at home (the people she really wants to work with most) she’s basically like a behind the scenes mastermind. She does all these little things (like making you an Instagram shop)

Here’s an example. See she’s also maaad creative and makes art. Have a look at what she does - maybe buy yourself a cool tee instagram.com/skyeharrison.a…

Ok now back to the story. So essentially my sister needed a Muse. We have similar taste and interests , so creatively there was no doubt that we could gel . I was like cool cool , I got you

On my side. I’m full of ideas and I have a lot of things to talk about ! I also find myself SO funny 😂. But when it comes to the discipline of creating and doing all the background stuff - meh. I practice law so I’m kinda too busy for that. So it was perfect.

And then we have @banele_nd ❤️ the ‘last born’ , she’ll say she’s not a 2000 😂 she had actually been procrastinating starting a YouTube channel for AGES ! So it was an easy sell. She had just started studying law as well and wanted to do a true crime

And like any brilliant enterprise! We started a WhatsApp Group 😂🔥 and it was alive . Here is a short story of how we were almost called “Sistaz-in-law” and @banele_nd thought it was lame

And I guess the motivation for creating content for us is putting up the things that you’d like to see. We often complain about not seeing “people like you” being represented in the media but we don’t create. Please do . Your story matters

I grew up on a lot of cartoons and my dream is to have an outfit that I wear everyday like cartoon and to have a theme song 😂 so , this was my chance ! I fully composed a theme song for my series on the channel. It’s my favorite part . I even dance to it 😂

Now the whole YouTube channel thing. Tjerr it’s hard. But we decided to make like Nike and just do it !
I think we’re getting better and better with each video 🙏🏾 the shooting , editing , what what what. We’re self teaching tbh and it’s hard

But the most important thing is the genuine passion and enjoyment of what we’re creating. Cause honestly , I can’t imagine doing all this work for something you don’t believe in. It’s not worth it

Further than just enjoyment. Me and Banele are both growing careers in the law and naturally we want to assist people. Educate. Debate. Start conversations that you don’t usually have amongst peers in the socials.

There’s a lot of other projects we’re working on behind the scenes . And I’d like to introduce something today that I would like your input on. Yes , yes you . I’m talking to you

So , the mastermind , the tech wiz creative genius that is @skyeharrison_ has set up our website . Go look at it then come back amandaandbanele.com

So you’ll notice there’s a merchandise campaign on there and we are LOOKING FOR A PARTNERSHIP. We want a worthy cause to donate half the sales to. And we want to pick very very carefully. So if any organizations come to mind when you see this , do hit us up - let us know