We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Elizabeth Lambert a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Elizabeth, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.
Recently, I took the leap and moved to California after living in Arizona for my whole life ( Shout out to New Jersey for keeping me real until I was 2 years old lol).
I’m still signed in Arizona, and I’m currently in the process of getting an agent out here so I can be dually signed. Moving away from everyone and everything you love for following what you were put on this planet to do, after dreaming and yearning for it for years is quite shell-shocking.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve become very protective of my space and the energy I allow in my circle.
My best friend told me over the phone a couple of days ago that I’m the “least social, social media creator” and I couldn’t help but laugh. She’s right.
There’s a TON of easy ways to reach the success I know I’m capable and worthy of. However, my morals and my spirit just don’t operate like that. I love being authentic. I love making genuine connections and not having to brown-nose my way to the top. Which is hard when you come from being the big fish in a small pond to the small fish in the ocean now. But I’m ready. God knows I’m ready too.
Elizabeth, 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’ve always been creating content/videos since I was little. Like 8 years old little. Wanting to be the next SMOSH (even though I’m definitely not two white dudes) I sat and recorded hours of dumb skits on my dad’s webcam that shot in like 144p.
Throughout high school, I did this thing where I would make short videos expressing how I thought a certain song should be portrayed. Later on, I found out this is called making visuals. And since then, any time I have a dream or I’m blessed with a visual for a song, I bring it to fruition.
On top of that, most of the feedback that I get from my community is that “I’m a real person”. I show my wins and my losses. I explain my ins to the industry, I don’t withhold anything I’ve learned simply because I don’t believe I have competition. What’s meant for me is mine, and will come to me when I’m ready. I love being the reason why someone decided to try something for themselves for once. And I hear stories like that all the time. It’s a responsibility that I don’t take lightly and pushes me forward every day.
How can you quit on what’s made for you?
Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?
A ton of people think that your online concept or persona is how you are in real life. Which is half true. I don’t know if it’s because my frontal lobe is maturing, but I’m a very secluded person in real life. Everyone around me knows that I’m not the best texter, and don’t take offense to seeing me post, as they’ve realized that this is a part of my job. To keep engagements up, to people coming to my page. A lot of the connections that I’ve made have come from people whom I met on set, and who shared my profile with someone else.
As someone who’s not a creative, it can be very daunting to understand why staying “relevant” is so crucial in today’s acting. We are now asked and looked at because of our follower count in audition rooms.
Hollywood wants someone with relevancy and their brand to bring in business. it’s all business.
As much as a lot of us would prefer to go private or not post, unfortunately, until you’re an A-lister, this is something that you need to keep up with. Its like having experience on a resume.
How did you build your audience on social media?
I honestly just went for it one day!
I’m very stubborn when it comes to something I want, however, I’m also stubborn enough to not want to do it the way everyone else is.
When you follow the rules of the platform you’re on. You can build like crazy. Following trends seems and is so cringy sometimes, but it’s so crucial.
Once you have the algorithm in your hands, the world is your oyster.
Creating something new and being an originator is supppper hard in today’s market now. But it’s possible.
Follow that gut feeling. Post that video. Who cares if people are gonna think it’s cringe? They can cringe at the fact that they didn’t believe in you before you blew up.
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