We caught up with the brilliant and insightful BRITTON SATCHER a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

BRITTON, appreciate you joining us today. Earning a full time living from one’s creative career can be incredibly difficult. Have you been able to do so and if so, can you share some of the key parts of your journey and any important advice or lessons that might help creatives who haven’t been able to yet?

I have definitely been able to make a full-time living for my creative work, but it certainly was not an easy task, and I really didn’t start to see real results until about 2024. I started making films 13 years ago in the year 2012 I was also doing really well as a recording artist/comedian at the time. Throughout my time learning my craft, I experienced many ups and downs. And at one particular point in my life, there were many more “downs” than anything because in 2017 I had no idea that my life would change in one of the worst ways possible. My house burned down, leaving me with nothing but a few clothes, my laptop, a microphone and my vehicle. I then became homeless for a span of 6 years. During that time, I bounced from city to city and state to state with no clue of where I would go or what types of challenges I would face. I totaled my car a few months after the fire so most of the time I would find cheap $45 hotels to sleep in and would make pocket change here and there from recording other music artists that I met along the way or singing on their tracks. Sometimes I would get lucky and find someone who would be willing to let me crash on their couch in exchange for recording services and other times I couldn’t find anyone to work with to make money, leaving me to sleep on sidewalks and behind buildings. Eventually I had traveled all the way from Monroe, Louisiana to Anderson, Indiana. I ended up getting enough resources to be able to get another camera in the year 2020 and that’s where the filming came back in to play. I started back practicing and filming anything I could to build a better portfolio including music videos. As my skills and knowledge increased, I moved on from music videos and started doing things like fashion film, and photography, as well as corporate styled videos. I then traveled from Indiana to Dallas, Texas to further my career and to make new connections. I stayed there for a year continuing to build and staying on the couches of various people that I met there and then I moved to Shreveport. By this time, I had built a good enough portfolio to snag bigger jobs and was able to get my first actual place to live in 6 years.
Things have been moving upward ever since. If knew what I know now I definitely feel like it would’ve sped up the process. But ironically, it has nothing to do with any particular change that I may have made with my creative process or cameras or anything like that. It was when I learned about manifestation and the relationship that we as beings hold between our inner world and outer world that really made the biggest difference. I learned that our inner world and the perceptions we hold dictate at least 80% of our actions therefore creating a particular experience be that a good or bad one. In other words, personal trauma kept me in a constant loop of bad experiences and my flawed perspective caused me to block or miss out on certain opportunities that would have for sure gotten me to success a lot faster. I also learned that our thoughts, beliefs, words, and the energy behind them hold great power and we should use them wisely. A couple of quotes that are favorites of mine are “So as a man thinks…so is he” ….“as above so below as within so without.” Our beliefs and perspective have to match the type of world that we want to experience on the outside. And mine did not. There was a lot of self-realization and self-healing that had to take place so I could stop “blocking the flow” so to speak lol. By learning these things and applying them to my life enabled me to take back control because I was spiraling down fast. Internally I grow and get better more and more each day and as I grow, so does my career and the types of opportunities that I come across as well as my quality of life.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

How I got into the creative industry, music wise stems back to childhood. I grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. My mom and dad were both strong singers as well as my sister so by default I started singing too at the age of about 8 or 9 nine and began classical / opera training at the age of 11. I stuck with it all the way through college. During college, I began to experiment with other styles like R&B and rap. I also learned to record my own vocals and got pretty good with it, which led to me providing the service for other music artist. Film / Photography came sometime after once I came to the conclusion that I wanted to try and film my own music videos and skits. This led me to come in contact with the YouTube comedy Legend Delano Edwards. I had no idea he lived in the same city as me, but he did, and we got to work immediately creating comedy sketches together. This is where I learned some of the core things about how to film and how to hold a camera. Eventually, I started to make a name for myself on social media. And came into contact with other rising stars in the YouTube comedy game at the time and we worked together as well. I combined what I learned from filming those skits and what I learned in music and engineering as a starting point to create the media production company that I own today. The types of services I provide are high-end film production for various businesses / brands all over the world and premium audio recording services for music artists and authors. The main problem that I solve for my clients is how to effectively market their brand via visual storytelling. I help them bring to life the vision that they see in their heads but have no idea how to reproduce it in physical reality.

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

What drives my creative journey is the fact that I want to be able to take care of my daughter by doing what I’m passionate about and to show her that embracing her creativity and imagination will take her far!

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The rewarding part about being a creative / artist is when the most unlikely people gravitate to my work. In other words, people who are picky with everything lol! When they express to me that they resonate with it. It gives me a strong sense of pride because I strive for perfection.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Mixedbysatch.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mixedbysatch/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britton.satcher.5/
• Other: Music IG:
  https://www.instagram.com/_satchx/

  Underrated Creatives:
  https://www.instagram.com/_underratedcreatives/

  Apple music:
  https://music.apple.com/us/artist/britton-satcher/815240479

Image Credits

All professional shots submitted were personally taken by me.