We recently connected with Molly Loch Gilkey and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Molly thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?
When I was 7 yrs old. When my parents bought my first Polaroid camera. What I saw behind the len of the camera was amazing. It tells a different stories than our normal eyes can see. It show what anyone of us can’t see. Behind the camera tells it all. Like the phrase said, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” I was so enchanted and astonish of how the picture comes out after I took it. To me it’s like a painting. The painting without using a paint / paint brush. I would spend days just taking pictures. I would save all my money just to buy the Polaroid film. Just to see what else comes out. And how this one can become art and what stories it’s going to tell me.
Then Wonder woman (Lynda Carter) came on the television channel. I watched how strong she is. How beautiful she is. How her smile shine so bright. How she save the world and help the innocent.
That day, I knew that’s going to be me. I want people to see me of what I can do. I am the Polaroid camera that tells a billion different stories. I am Wonder woman where I can be a role model for all ethnicities people out there that they can do anything. I want to be an actress to show the world they can do whatever they want.
What I mean about that… I have a hearing loss on my left side and my access with different dialects. I have an access with southern, British and Cambodia all in one. I have people telling me that I can’t become an actress unless I fix how I talk and because I can’t hear well if someone talks to me on my left side. I told everyone that behind the lens of the camera tells a different stories. People don’t see hearing loss and having an access is mark as unique and that I can make a different in the world just like Wonder Woman.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
Hearing loss…. I have so many obstacles of good and bad. The good part… if I don’t want to hear someone, I just turn to my left side and never hear them talk. LOL :-) The bad part is when I’m in a group situation, I can’t hear whoever on my left side. I have to listen extremely carefully the entire time to make sure that I catch all the important information. Having an hearing impairment isn’t a lost cause. It just shows you that you can be better than the one that can hear both ears. It makes me stronger and see life a little differently.
Different dialects…
Having a different dialects shows me that I can show the world that because they are different and speak differently doesn’t mean they can’t conquer their dream. They can do anything. People are going to try to put you down for speaking differently. They will tell you that you can’t become an actress. You have to take lessons after lessons of how to speak correctly. They want the southern, British and Cambodia out. A commercial agent told me that I have to pick which one I should be. I can’t have southern, British and Cambodia coming out of my mouth at one time together. I have so many people kept telling me there isn’t any way that I can become an actress because of my dialects. I have two black men telling me how I should talk.
I want to show the world those people are just noise. That’s what they are just noise. Noise that trying to stop you to becoming someone greater than life itself. They don’t want someone like me because I was unique, different and that they don’t want the world to know that I can do it all with all.
Don’t get me wrong… there were time that I, myself get frustrated with my hearing loss and my dialects. People who doesn’t know me think I’m speaking a different language and they have a hard time understanding me. With my hearing loss on set is horrible. I can’t hear half the time when so many people talking at once that I can’t hear the director and anyone else that talking to me on set.
How do I overcome all these two obstacles….
I learned to tune out the noise. I also learned to read lips. I don’t always catch all the conversations but enough to understand what’s happening on set.
With my dialects, I don’t listen to people. Someone wise told me this, “Everyone have an opinion, just an opinion. That’s all. It’s not a facts. Everyone can overcome whatever problems that they have. All they need to do is to stop listening to those noise. They are just noise. Noise that’s all.”
My hair stylist, Diondria Scott told me this. She said that I am an inspiration to her. I ask her why. She said that I just go and do it and keep going. I told her that I want to show the world that because you are different and see the world differently that you shouldn’t stop chasing your dream. I ask her what’s her dream? She said to own her own salon. I ask her what’s stopping her. She said money. Of course, money but don’t let that stopping anyone. The world rotate on money. So take money out of the equation. She did left the salon and looking for ways to make her dream come true. I even bought her a mini tripod to show her that she can do this. That mini tripod is to hold her cell for her to show the world how great she is as a hair stylist by posting all her work on all her social medias.
To become great is to stop listening to the noise and step forth and just do it. Will we all fail. Of course. I did. Having a hearing loss and with this dialects isn’t easy.
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
My mission is to let people know because you have a hearing loss and 3 dialects in one that you can do anything. Just keep you focused and stop listening to noise. It might takes me longer to reach my goal but I’m not going to give up. I know that I have to work harder than the one that have both hearing and doesn’t have a dialects.
Have you ever had to pivot?
I want to become an actress and photographer ever since I was 7 years old. What stop me from becoming an actress and photographer because we were so poor that my parents doesn’t have the money to send me to any acting school and getting lessons on how to become a photographer.
Then another life happens, got pregnant and having a family. Life kept happening. I still can see myself becoming an actress and a photographer. My dad is so wise, he told me that’s just a chapters. Each chapter wrote a true stories of a true up becoming actress and for the photographer to see a better picture about life. He told me that he know that I can become a good actress is to experience life lessons so I can bring it in front of the camera.
He was right. After having family life, I went to college and major in Radio and Television Broadcasting. I still can see myself as an actress and becoming a photographer. I even see myself owning my own entertainment business and becoming a director and producer.
Contact Info:
- Website: mollyloch.net
- Instagram: @mollyloch_dawnangels
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/molly.loch
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-loch-61623377
- Twitter: https://t.co/AJdyhce0Nj” / Twitter https://twitter.com/simplydecorate/status/878824249598910464
- Youtube: Molly Loch
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