The [first] NAACP Awards was an enormous second. I noticed our identify amongst prime manufacturing studios like Disney for The Proud Household and [other] main networks. And we had been like this little household that was doing most of our manufacturing at residence. To be amongst such wonderful expertise and individuals who have multi-million-dollar budgets and see us included—it was a real eye-opening second.
This yr, we ended up really profitable The Excellent Youngsters’s Program award. They despatched the awards to our home—all three of us have one with our identify on it. The loopy factor is, I don’t assume it’s set in but.
This complete journey has been a curler coaster. The primary factor is figuring out individuals that you just work properly with and people who find themselves in alignment with you. That’s most likely been one of many largest classes from this [experience]. As a result of if these totally different items aren’t fairly proper, then it actually form of impacts all different elements of the working relationship.
Normally, individuals will see one thing profitable, and their mindset will probably be to repeat that [idea] to the T and attempt to do it precisely the identical manner they do it, after which they don’t have the identical outcomes. They usually’re questioning, ‘Why am I not doing in addition to them? Why isn’t it rising?’ And I believe it’s as a result of we noticed a necessity. We’ve tried to fill that want. There’s this genuineness to it. An important factor is to be genuine. Be your self and convey one thing totally different to the desk.
