We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Andy Morales. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Andy below.

Alright, Andy thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

This is a very interesting question. I can’t pin point the exact day, but I can tell you it was my father passing away is what made me pursue a life where poetry and giving back to others just like myself. It wasn’t until an Instagram Poetry Platform called Your Heart Beats Loud closed it’s doors. At the time, I didn’t understand what about this that made me want to create my own but I did know that Poetry Platforms should be a thing, It wasn’t until 2020 during the pandemic, was when I began to see these other platform come around. It seemed as if everything was basically the same formula.

My main goal in creating Unraveled Influence, Known as Jam Them Down at the time was how I can be different. How can I stand out, and what would create the intruge for others to want to come check my platform out.

Podcasting, Interviews, feature poets and artist in that way instead of just their pieces and to tell people to follow them, it was more about getting to know these artist in an intamate level. we see celeberities telling their stories so why can’t we do the same I thought to myself.

To think I almost gave up on it. To think I almost decided to say no more, my wife Maria, urged me to keep going and it’s because she knows this is truly my passion. Simply to give back as much as possible.

If we can take away the competition part away, I believe everyone can be on the same page as us when we say, lets grow together, and not apart. Sometimes social media ruins this for many.

Andy, 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 am originally from Brooklyn, New York and I now reside in Bayonne, New Jersey. I got into the poetry life because of my father. He was always writing, creating, and one day I picked up a pen and began to write. I never thought poetry would take me anywhere but it did years after his passing. There was a time where I didn’t write for a long time and it was like, that part of my father was passed on to me once he died, and months later, I began to develop feelings and a desire to write again.

What made me continue was when a Platform called Poet’s Anonymous read one of my pieces live on Instagram and something about that live gave me a push to something in that realm but I just didn’t know what it was until now.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Stop being so competitive. Let’s be our authentic selves. We all want to make money, we all want to achieve and want to make it, but burying people, bashing people, and throwing people under the bus won’t get us there.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

For me I would say to stand out, and not blend in. Let people see for themselves who I am. Listen to what I do, not what I say.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://unraveledinfluence.godaddysites.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unraveled_influence/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UnraveledInfluence
• Other: https://www.instagram.com/theeandymorales/