We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Varonica Mitchell a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Varonica, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Are you able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen?

Yes, I have been able to make great money from doing what I love to do and so far it has been amazing. I started off just posting video with my parents to entertain them, because I have always enjoyed making people smile and laugh and with my passion for dance, acting, comedy and entertainment, I fell in love with using my gifts to being joy to others. near and far. My parents would post my creative and inspirational videos on their social media and then one day I created a mini skit called “The Hold My Hand, and I Will Walk With you Doll” my mom recorded it and posted it. The Next day, that video had reached 10k views. I got noticed by an amazing content creator by the name of Brandon Medlock aka B-Naked (2throedmuzik). I did one of his amazing “Parents be like Videos and he saw it, shared it with his over 100k followers and shouted me out, saying that I was an awesome talented young actress and that he would love to work with me and encouraged me to continue and that I would make it big one day. From that point, I started really focusing on creating content and being consistent and the rest is history. I began to received props from celebrities like Mr. Hot Spot, rapper T.I. and American gospel singer Kelontae Gavin and more. At that time, I started receiving invited to be in stage plays, music videos, major events to perform and even tv and movie opportunities. It all happened so fast, and I started traveling receiving nominations and winning awards for all of my hard work on social media. Being recognized in public places and people supporting me and encouraging me from day one, I knew that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I have reached some milestones and I still have some goals that I want to me. I’m going to keep pushing for greater. Looking forward to even more major opportunities and projects with amazing producers, directors and more.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Varoinca “The VV Show” Mitchell, was born on March 26, 2011 to Thomas and Vanessa Mitchell (Danielle, sister) in Henderson, NC. She made her first steps into the dancing and entertainment world in 2014 at age 3. Since the start of her dance career, she has appeared as a lead dancer and Jr. Captain in a dance academy group called “iDance Praise Academy”. She and the team have danced with National recording artist Kalontae Gavin and American Gospel Singer and song writer Pastor Shirley Ceaser and before National Recording Artist JeKalyn Carr. Also appearing on National television on CW22 Armunda Hancock Television show (dancers) for the 103.9 The Light Radio Station Love Tour (Raleigh, NC). Along with being featured in 2 video shoots with MG Music Group NC (Roxboro, NC), and Minister Copeland’s “Hit that Jesus Walk” Gospel Music video, all with her iDance Praise Academy Team. She is a talented self-taught drum player as well. She began to venture out into the acting and modeling field in 2019. She saw that her current fans and supporters of her dancing, quickly took notice of her natural acting ability. With that the social media show she calls “The VV Show” was born. Her social media followers would soon recognize VV for her amazing voiceovers and her humorous commentary and monologue ability to interpret movie scenes and skits, hilariously and effortlessly with her own spin. Since that time Varonica has gain over 36,000 social media followers, with her top viewed videos reaching over 120 million views. She is proud to be a video creator.
Varonica is an honor roll student at Henderson Collegiate Middel school and is best known for her caring and loving heart, her determination spirit, her dancing and her star like presents, even off stage.
Varonica is now a paid Social Media Influencer. Promoter for a clothing company called, Fresh Kid Nation out of Atlanta, LA, NYC, DC and Miami, as well as for a tee shirt company called 305 Customized Designs out of GA. She has been a featured model in many fashion shows, such as “The Best of Both Worlds” by KMC Entertainment, Charlotte Seen, EMM Fashion shows and more. Varonica has been featured in The Katana Kids Fashion and Entertainment magazine in August 2021, Swanky Kids Magaine for the Press Release shoot for Clothing line VaVichi Clothiers International Clothing Brand, VENTS Magazine with a write up about her acting, entertaining and modeling career and many more magazine features. Varonica was also featured as The Artist Spot Light on “Next Door Radio” where she did her 1st live radio interview in July 2021 in Creedmoor and Durham NC. She was also invited to be interviewed on The Born Rich Radio in Chicago.
As for Varonica’s acting career, she is a main recurring character in a traveling hit stage play called “Too Young to be Saved?” (The Next Generation) A Connie Ragland Production. She plays the youngest child of the main character. Since being in that role, she has been booked for a role in another stage play production called “Emunah” by Royal Priesthood Performing
Varonica is excited to have recently been offered a principal role in the upcoming series entitled “Urk My Nerves” by The Spian Entertainment (Raleigh, NC) Varonica is a nominated, award winning social media influencer. Recently won the Social Media award at the K-Sound Praise Fest Music Awards in Atlanta, GA and the local newspaper, The Daily Dispatch in Vance County placed her on the front-page paper on her birthday March 26, 2022 to recognize her as an accomplished actress, dancer and entertainer. Varonica was just recently nominated for the Atlanta Kidz Choice Awards for “Favorite Kid Female Influencer” and “Future Actress Award” set for June 2022 in Atlanta GA.

How did you build your audience on social media?

The way that I built my social media up was 1st to understand who my target audience was. I had to understand that, because I needed to make sure that I remain likeable to them and that my content remained enjoyable to the viewers who decided to watch. I also had to work on myself discipline and be consistent in creating, posting and staying visible for my supporters and fans. The advice I would give to other young rising content creators and those aspiring to become social media influencers, I would say, be determined, be confident and be loyal to what you start. Don’t get discourage if it’s not looking exactly how you want it to, as far as views and followers on social media. It’s not always about how many people see you, it can be a matter of the right people or person seeing you that could change your entire life.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me, the most rewarding aspect about what I do as a Content creator, social media influencer, and an entertainer is that I get to do what I love and fulfill my passion. I truly enjoy bringing joy, laughs, smiles and entertainment to others and it so amazing to be blessed to do so at an early age and become successful at doing so. I also enjoy knowing that I have inspire other kids, and people in general. When I receive fan mail, or messages online from kids and parents of children saying that they love me and enjoy seeing me be positive online and that I inspire them and or their children, it makes my heart smile.

Contact Info:

• Website: linktr.ee/ThevvshowYT
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/_thevvshow_
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/thevvshow
• Linkedin: The VV Show
• Twitter: The VV Show
• Youtube: The VV show
• Other: Google: The VV Show

Image Credits
Thomas Mitchell: King Mitchell Service Photographer, Vic, Owner of Vavichi Clothiers and Photography Photographer: Dno (Durham, NC Photographer