We were lucky to catch up with Ulises Perez recently and have shared our conversation below.

Ulises, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Before we get into specifics, let’s talk about success more generally. What do you think it takes to be successful?

To become successful you’ll first have to identify what “success” means to you. Nowadays we are brainwashed to think you have to become a millionaire at age 24 and have a huge house with fame. Everyone wants to become successful overnight. However success is what you make it to be. Success is not just one dimension. There’s different levels to becoming successful and depending on what you value most is how you’ll identify yourself being successful or not. Once you understand your own values, then you can start building your success. You’ll need to become self discipline. You’ll also have to step out of your comfort zone. Surrounding yourself with like minded people will definitely help you stay the course. Also knowing your “why” is going to keep you on your toes when you feel like quitting. But what you really need is to become clear with yourself and set boundaries to keep true to yourself. Lastly keeping an open mind will give you the ability to see things from a different perspective. Always remain a humble student to life cause you’ll never know who you’ll be learning the most from.

Ulises, 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?

Hey I’m Ulises and if you haven’t heard about me that’s cause you’re not subscribe to my youtube channel! Ha all jokes aside, but really do subscribe to my channel. You can find me on Youtube, TikTok and instagram as Ulises Perez. The type of content I post is to inspire others to become their best version of themselves. I strongly believe that if you can’t become the highest version of you, you’ll never truly fulfill your life. Sometimes hitting rock bottom is what it’ll take for you to realize that there’s more out there for you to do. That’s what happen to me. There was a period of time when I lost myself. I didn’t know who I really was nor wanted. I knew I wanted more but I wasn’t getting more. So instead of focusing on my values, I was led on by some negative influences. I ended in the hospital with a third degree burn on my back. When I was at the hospital I remember the doctors telling that I’ll need surgery or else I was going to die. It was a very shocking moment to me but also very awaking. I wondered why and how did I let myself fall so far. I tried to make excuses to justify why I was where I was. But then I realized that who was truly at fault here was myself. That didn’t help either. Until I figured that nothing mattered anymore up to that point. What matter was what I was going to do now going forward. I began with physical therapy and cutting people out of my life. I started to focus on the things I value the most. I made a promise to myself that no matter what happened I would always stay true to myself. I also said that I wasn’t going to focus on the things that I couldn’t control but rather to focus on the things I could control. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing for close to two years now. I try to document my story on Youtube and my other social platforms so I can always to look back and see how far I’ve come. But also to inspire others to the same. I know its a very hard road but its definitely has being worth it.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

It has to be my hospital story. During the time I was in the hospital recovering from the third degree burn. I had to make a decision. Was I going to let this define the rest of my life or was I going to have a great comeback. I chose to have a great comeback. Let me just say that recovering from a third degree burn is not the easiest. It’s really painful, physically and mentally. It broke me down and there was I point I said to myself “will I even make it out of this?”. The whole recovery progress took over 6 months I would say. When I left the hospital I was still bleeding a lot from my injuries. There were days and nights that I would just cry. I didn’t really know where I was going. I felt very was lost. However I kept my promise that no matter what, I was going to have a great comeback story. And that’s what I’ve been doing since. There’s still times I find myself feeling lost and mentally hurt. But I know I’ve come along way to quit. There’s no other way but going forward.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

Building an audience on any social media isn’t as hard as you might think. Yes it’ll take time, lots of it. However it can still be done. The reason why I say this is because I’ve been able to do it myself. I’ve slowly kept growing my Youtube channel as well as TikTok and my instagram. What I’ve learn is that you have to give as much knowledge as possible. The more people learn from you, the more likely they’ll become to come back to watch your next video. Keeping your videos short and to the point will really help grow your audience. People will start liking your stuff because they know they’ll get what they’re looking for. As for me right now I’m really focusing on giving as much value as I can to my viewers. Either in the form of entertainment or by sharing life experiences that I think others can learn from.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/Ulisesperez2021
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ulises.perez.7737/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1gmPb5C2YBx-uyCUCwoVQ
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@ulisesperez19