We recently connected with Yami Mammi and have shared our conversation below.

Yami, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

Whoa. This is a magical question. The first time I knew I was going to pursue a creative/artistic professional path I was a teenager in 20o6. In the 90s and early 2000s tv raised me, like many millennials. Parents worked or did other things and children busied themselves in front of tv. I remember watching tv but not “suspending judgement” like you’re supposed to do in order to really be swept away by the drama and escape from reality for a moment. For me all I saw was the reality of production of a television show. I noticed the character and imagined who they really were, if they were nice or kind based on facial structure and body language. I wondered how far they could bend and morph into someone else or if they were very similar to the character they played, Within the character they play I analyzed the characters lifestyle and career occupation and boy did I judge and try to fix them in my mind. I also noticed promotion of television shows and commercial ads. I dont know why I was so fixated on the making of television. To this day I love a good origin story. Then around ’06 The Hills, a simple reality show that was mostly city scapes and voice overs came out and I thought, they’re just walking and talking elegantly…I can do that. Then America’s Next Top Model came out and I saw Tyra Banks and her team put women together like a puzzle and MAKING THEM walk and talk better than they could. These to shows had a profound impact on me that I do not understand to this day. I also would get Seventeen magazine every month and I had a clippings collage on my room wall as a kid (so 2000s). From then I knew for a fact I wanted to created wonderful beautiful scenarios of life’s simple moments that were so grand to me, like sitting on the Ralph Lauren patio downtown Chicago having lunch. Before “aeschethics” and “b roll” were major trendy terms I was all about them. And I left my childhood home, moved to Chicago and double majored in broadcast journalism and photography. It was my path.

Yami, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I got into the social media industry at the birth of it with myspace. I remember learning how to copy links and embed them into the editing page in order to have my music play or stars raining down as people scrolled my page. It was such a wonderful feeling to create a mood and such a big display of who I am at the time. It was like being silent for so long and them being able to scream I’m beautiful inside and I can do this Im valuable, I want to be alive. It was such a magical phenomenon. I’m still so in awe that I can express MY being instead of just selecting. I have no idea why its so important to express myself but I know for a fact that at least with me it is a pure loving expression that supports my connectivity in this world. Its my contribution to society and its how I spread pure love and kindness. My genre is primarily entertainment. I make people happy and delighted. Im like a cup of coffee in the morning to a lot of people. My mission is that I give people rest and then inspiration to go on, if for an hour, 2 months, or even a few more years. I want people to feel like living so greatly that they could burst with joy because quality of life is essential. So I livestream every day on TikTok and Bigo @hellakitty777. You’re just vibing with an average 30 something single sexy millenial female with all my emotions up and downs and childhood triggers and its improv at the simplest form. Having a glass of wine, doing hair and makeup, story times about my life, listening to good music and just having that break from the hustle and healing of life lol. Im a YouTuber, @YamiMammi, I do style content, lessons in practicality and life hacks, I have a day in the life vlog called Single In St. Louis, and everything has a comedic element because laughter is good. What’s unique about me is that I’m ecclectic. I have lived the artist lifestyle you see in Sex and The City and How To Lose A Guy In 10 days. Im a foodie, I love art galleries, live music, I foster kittens, I am well traveled internationally. Humbly, Im a success story and conundrum. I also have 33 years so everything is reflective and culminatingly slapping me in the face lol. So it is a treat to watch an in depth look at the evolution of a present day human’s life while theyre alive living it lol. I am the author of my life, the butt of my jokes, and I enjoy high brow occupational humor. My content is a worldy experience. It really is hilarious. I do music. There’s music inside everyone. I released my 1st single ‘Walking Like I Get It’ by Yami Mammi available everywhere music is streamed. Im on all platforms and of course Instagram is headquarters @St.Louis_Socialite__

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Pain and disappointment are great pressures. We all know pressure creates diamond. Without them creativity is limited to fluff or silliness, in my opinion. But art, to choose it is a great feat to choose something way out of reach that no one in the darkness with you can even imagine. Choosing happiness, love, joy and peace is strength. And eventually you find your power. I grew up in isolation. It is my comfort zone. I’ve transformed isolation to solitude. It’s peace and abundance in all that I can imagine. My being left alone is the greatest thing that could have ever happened to me because I have never had an opposing viewpoint to any of my goals, dreams or desires. So as much as I teach positive internal dialogue, I know it’s a gift of mine that I can NOT not believe that anything I think in my mind is expressed in the material world tomorrow. Life is about loving yourself one day, especially if you were taught to deny yourself long ago.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My mind is strong, brilliant, and resilliant. With studying neuroscience I know my central nervous system has protected, shielded and catapulted me to my achievements. What drives me is that if their are other little girls or boys going through turmoil is their first years of life on this planet, when they should be enjoying a dream like state, I desire they find my content and have rest. Unfortunately, sometimes rest only comes after surfing dead ends in your 20s until you find your path. Moreover anyone who finds me at any time in their life finds a place to rest. I have been blessed to find many people that gave me rest and taught me things I never knew.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://yamimammi.com
• Instagram: @St.Louis_Socialite__
• Facebook: Yami Mammi
• Twitter: yamimammi
• Youtube: @YamiMammi
• Other: Apple Music Yami Mammi

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