We recently connected with Shauyan Noorfeshan and have shared our conversation below.

Shauyan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

One of the biggest risks I had ever taken was starting to make content. For the longest time, when I knew I fell in love with soccer, I would talk about it nonstop to my friends or family. Sadly, there weren’t many people in my circle who shared my passion for the game, as it wasn’t as popular in the United States at the time. So I would watch countless hours of YouTube videos of other content creators who played FIFA or just spoke about the sport. I knew I always wanted to do what they did. Create my platform to talk about soccer. It’s a scary thing to start something like that, where do I get the equipment, how do I edit the videos, how do I make thumbnails, will I look stupid in front of the camera, and will people judge me for what I say or the way I look? All these thoughts cross your mind, telling you it’s not worth it to start, it’s too much. When in reality, one of the biggest risks I took was just starting. It wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t the final product, but I finally took the step of starting. I feel millions of people are scared of the risk of just doing whatever it may be, to try something new, start a project, or pursue their dreams. We all overthink a million ways on how difficult it will be, maybe I shouldn’t do it. To this day, I still run through these issues in a multitude of ways. The thing is, though, once you do that one thing, it’s like a domino effect where the next thing becomes a little easier to start. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some rocky days where I get frustrated, but those small moments of success and opportunities you get make it all feel worth it. Everything can be a risk, but in my opinion, some of the joyous moments in my life were just doing and not listening to what other people had to say about it.

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

My name is Shauyan Noorfeshan, and I’m a soccer content creator who creates content surrounding asian football, but more specifically about the Iranian national team, and I’m the owner/host of Rave Green TV, which is one of the biggest multi-media sports platforms surrounding the Seattle Sounders FC in MLS. My family is from Iran, and I was born as a first-generation American growing up in Washington, but I always felt more connected to my Iranian heritage. When I fell in love with the sport of soccer, I was very passionate about the Seattle Sounders and the Iranian national team. I’ve always wanted to make soccer content ever since I was a kid watching countless hours of YouTube videos on FIFA or other people talking about the sport. As I got older and I learned more about the world of content creation, there was never a platform that provided that type of content I loved watching from across Europe or around the world, where the sport is much bigger. Thus, I decided to make platforms to make content surrounding my two favorite teams because I felt there was an opportunity to be the first to do it in those markets. In the last 3 years, I never expected to grow, meet the people I’ve met, and have the opportunities that I’ve had. Getting to interview and make content with players playing on the teams I grew up watching is something special that I never take for granted.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

It isn’t necessarily a resource, but I wish I knew this when I initially started making content. You need to be consistent. We get discouraged very easily when we don’t see instant results or see poor results. In content, you have to be consistent and perseverant to have the growth you wanna see. I would say this is just something people struggle with in life. To this day, I still struggle with this, but once you start being consistent with the little things, it starts compounding into the bigger things. Once you become consistent on a bigger pillar, it gets easier. Over time, when you are consistently plugging away at something like making content, you create the opportunity to have that moment where something you posted pops off or a big opportunity comes. It’s a matter of putting yourself in the position of having that “luck.” This is something I wish I had known from the start.

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?

When watching content creators whose work I thoroughly enjoyed. I didn’t think they received anything but positive admiration for their work. As time has gone on, and doing work in the field, you realize you garner a lot of love and hate. If you are your authentic self in whatever you do, people are gonna love and hate you. It’s a difficult thing for people to deal with because you inherently wanna be loved by everyone. It can be a tough pill to deal with cause it is something, regardless of what you do, you deal with. Especially for people whose work is on social media, posting, and having to read comments. There aren’t always gonna be comments you like to read. Over time, you learn not everyone is gonna like you, and people may want to derail you from your goals. In life, you have to learn to ignore the outside noise and just focus on your goals.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shauyan_n17/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ShauyanNoorfeshan
• Other: Rave Green TV – linktr.ee/ravegreentv