We were lucky to catch up with Lindsey Williams recently and have shared our conversation below.

Lindsey, 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.

this is such a great question, honestly, I have known that I wanted to be a creative and someone who’s in the spotlight since I was a kid, I remember spending so much time in my childhood, probably starting around nine or 10 years old. I would go into my room and use my iPod touch that I was so obsessed with, And search for acting schools, modeling schools, dance schools, I remember being so in love the Disney Channel show shake it up at the time, I would search for Disney Channel auditions, nickelodeon auditions, and casting calls in my area- and I was so young that I absolutely didn’t realize that most of them were scams, and that my mom definitely was not going to take me to any of these auditions or calls, but I have always known that I wanted to be and was meant to be in the spotlight since a very young age. In my teenage years, probably around 17 or 18 I actually made my first TikTok account, that was back when TikTok was very different and it was considered somewhat “Cringe” or “embarrassing” to be making TikTok’s, but I did it anyway, and I actually gained a following pretty quickly, but I unfortunately lost that account and didn’t start over until October of last year when I started seriously pursuing content creation.

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

sure! my name is Lindsey Williams, I go by Lindsey Noel on my platforms, and I am a 25 year old content creator based in San Diego. As I mentioned, I’ve always known that I wanted to be in the spotlight since I was young, but it wasn’t until the later half of last year (2024) that I really sat down and figured out what I wanted, who I wanted to be, and what I wanted to create. I started posting a little bit of everything when I first began consistently posting, and have since refined my videos to mainly lifestyle, beauty, and Vlogs all showing authentic and realistic insights of life. One of the most important things for me about creating content is maintaining authenticity and realness, I don’t ever want to come on my platform and make it seem like my life is perfect, I don’t want to seem like I lack authenticity, and I want everything that I speak about or post about to be very realistic because I feel like within content creation it is very easy to get stuck in that cycle of always trying to keep up appearances and aesthetics, and that is not realistic for majority of the population, nothing is perfect at any given moment and I love highlighting that.

throughout starting my journey, creating content, I have absolutely fallen head over heels in love with every aspect of it, I love filming bits of my life, I love editing my videos, and trying out new creative styles, I love having a community of people who are so supportive and so loving. Throughout posting, especially on TikTok, I have met and become friends with so many lovely people, and it really is the little things like that that make me so excited to wake up every day and create my content and put it out there for the world to see .

I really try not to compare myself to other creators on social media because there’s such a wide spectrum, and nobody’s journey or destination is the same, however, if I had to say one thing that sets me apart from maybe some of the larger widely known creators, is that I am very very grounded within myself and my life, I mentioned that I like to keep my content relatable, and I feel like that is something that will forever be important to me, regardless of how big of a creator I become, because I don’t want my content to feel like it’s only for one specific group of people. My goal is to consistently create content that anybody could watch and anybody could find something within it that they can relate to or have related to in the past. I’m very open on my platform about figuring life out in your 20s, dealing with imposter syndrome, getting more into health and wellness as a form of self-love and Everything in between.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Absolutely! One thing that I knew I was going to have to deal with along this journey was negativity and hate from people, I have been consistently creating content for six months now, and I am so proud of the growth that I’ve had in such a short amount of time, however, along with that growth I have dealt with so many disturbing, racist, hateful comments. You would think that that would make me want to take a step back or shy away from putting myself online where people have the freedom to say horrible things, however, it really made me double down and become more determined to continue posting my videos and creating my content, hearing people say racist things to me, unfortunately is something that I have come to terms with throughout my life, I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be people who dislike me for no reason other than what I look like, and growing up as one of the only black women in a very Upper middle class, predominantly white area, I learned from a young age to not let those words get to me, And just keep doing what makes me happy because some people will be upset at that again simply just because of what I look like.

I am very lucky that I am able to in way detach from these hateful And racist comments that people have left on my page, and I’m lucky to have learned that their comments have nothing to do with me as a person, and everything to do with who they are as a person. I won’tallow myself to be taken down by somebody else’s words because that would just be giving them exactly what they wanted. My mother taught me that when you stop allowing peoples words to have power over you, when you are so secure and so confident in who you are, there will never be anything that anyone can ever say that will make you feel bad about yourself.

I think that experiencing all of this, has really strengthened my resilience as well, because I am determined to continue to grow, and to continue to be happy, and to continue to create content, even when things get “ugly“

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 biggest things i’ve had to unlearn on this journey is being a people pleaser, and being worried about what others think of me. For pretty much my entire life i’ve always focused on other people and neglected myself, my wants and my feelings at the expense of not making others upset, while also being so terrified of what people thought of me, or being judged by others.

i’ve worked really hard to get out of this mindset over the past few years, but by starting my journey into content creation i’ve been “forced” to let those thoughts go, I used to be SO worried about people I knew coming across my content, wondering what they would think, if they would make fun of me or judge me, and one day I realized that was something I simply had to get over. It is not my job to worry about what others are thinking of me, and if they’re judging or laughing at me I just have to let them! Happiness and joy should never depend on someone else’s opinion of you, the only opinion that counts is yours, and as long as you’re happy with yourself and proud of your work that is all that matters.

Of course I still sometimes worry about others opinions of me, especially when it comes to making my content and putting myself out there for anyone to see, but I really try to remind myself that I should not dim myself or hide away due to what someone ~might~ be thinking.

the other thing i’ve really had to unlearn is comparing myself to others on social media platforms. it is SO easy to compare your page to someone else’s and feel negatively about your growth, your content, or whatever it may be, but hearing the quote “comparison is the thief of joy” really resonated with me and got me to reevaluate the way that I think of myself and my work. No ones journey is the same, and no individual is the same, and that’s what can either make this journey the best thing you’ve ever experienced, or the worst. it really just depends on how look at it, and I choose to look at it in a positive light.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llindseynoel?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Other: Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@llindseynoel?_t=ZT-8ubWdoczP3O&_r=1