We recently connected with Samantha McDaniel and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Samantha thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Before we talk about all of your success, let’s start with a story of failure. Can you open up about a time when you’ve failed?
In 2021 after being completely defected by being an essential worker in healthcare I decided to take a leap of faith and start my catering business I had ran a few businesses before and was ready to commit to this one.
I invested so much into that business, perfect branding, professional commercial, photoshoot, even spent money learning how to make the best content so I could attract the right clients!
It well sooooo well I made my yearly salary 2x in just 8 months
I was booked and busy even had a little team but reality kicked in and I was completely burnt out.
I couldn’t believe I hated cooking let alone for other people anymore so I shut the catering service completely down.
What I did enjoy was still creating food content.
At the end of 2022 I got my first paid Ugc creation that was 3 figures, the brand told me that they have been following me for awhile and loved my content.
January I got my first content coaching client and the rest has been a fast growing thing.
What felt like a complete failure with my catering business was actually a major win because now I can live in my true purpose which is creating content and helping business build brand awareness & attract the clients they deserve.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Hi I’m Sammi
Founder of Chicago Content House we are all thing content creation for business owners.
I started my content creation journey running my catering business. I realized creating the content for the business was my favorite part of the business so I regroup and started creating food content for brands.
I now own a short term rental that I allow creators & business owners to create content for there business and influencing journey
I also offer video content strategy session & VIP days which is 30 days of video content done for you.
Basically I teach high level professionals how to create consistent and authentic video content with just your phone
What makes working with me unique is my style is teaching you how to be confident and authentic when filming content.
I’m so proud of my clients once we work together and they start to seeing results and finding the ease in creation.
I want my potential clients to know when working with me I’m genuinely invested in seeing your growth. with that being said I am going to push you to be consistent and authentic so they can attract the right clients.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
The lesson I had to unlearn is the working for corporate America where we exchange time for money!
I worked in healthcare at a housekeeper for 13 years, I didn’t learn how to respect my money until about 5 years ago!
Once I learned that money is a tool and time is the true currency I started investing my coins into money generating.
Now I live in my purpose, own real estate and a profitable business helping people show up
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
Starting my catering company was simply amazing because I literally set myself up for success and when we launched it was sooooo successful but I got burned out very quickly!
Creating content was my happy place and when brands started reaching out I shifted my focus to content creation.
Now I’m not only a full time content creator I teach business owner how to create consistent quality content with just a phone
Contact Info:
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