Today we’d like to introduce you to Isaac Juarez.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Let’s see…I started streaming on Twitch in April 2020 with the game titled ‘Doom: Eternal’ and for a couple of months was talking to myself for the majority of the time. Fast forward to 2022 and now I play acoustic guitar punk covers on stream and have completed other gaming titles such as ‘Hollow Knight’ and ‘Salt and Sanctuary’. I love the digital world, it’s a huuuge place.
A little context, I started playing guitar when I was around 5th grade so 11 y/o or so. I was lucky enough to have a mother that played herself and taught me my first basic chords, I was hooked. I had a friend at school that told me about tabs and also gave me a guitar lesson book. Till this day, I still lack proper guitar training but YouTube is a good teacher.
Every Sunday I learn anywhere from 3-5 new songs and rotate previously learned ones for a ‘fresh’ setlist every week. My goal is to have 1000 sounds under my belt.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
A smooth life wouldn’t be as interesting and the road is also always ‘under construction’. At times I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know that I love playing music and I’ve found a genre of games that really resonated with me.
When I was a kid, my parents never had enough for a new console, a new computer, or something of that sort. Luckily, I had a roof over my head, food, and love; which is more than what I needed. I’ve been blessed to be born in the digital age, where crazy things happen all the time.
Some of the ‘struggles’ were simply life circumstances, I’m just glad I wasn’t aborted, y’know. So my parents split when I was 5 and we had a chaotic upbringing that helped me adapt to very peculiar environments. I have 4 sisters and 1 brother so we weren’t a small family, we had to learn to be patient, to share, and to care over one another. I believe this helped me in a way, to become resourceful and to hope for something better.
I used to get really embarrassed due to the fact that it took me 8 years to complete a four years degree but then I realized that was a system created during an entirely different age. Things run and operate much differently now. So for anyone reading, it doesn’t matter how long it takes to achieve something; the goal is to simply get there.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
So during the day I develop web applications for a financial institution and at night and on the weekends I become WizzieTheKid; a gaming mage that enjoys Souls-like games and plays acoustic punk covers for the sake of punk music.
Twitch has a whole technical side that I’ve yet to fully understand or utilize but I’ve learned running a Twitch channel takes a lot of work than I took it for initially.
In case you’re wondering, a web application is something like google maps or even Twitch itself. You can interact with screen, save data (videos in this case), edit data (creating clips, highlights, etc.), and update your profile. So being able to stream is a bit of an escape for me, work can be quite demanding at times.
What quality or characteristic do you feel is most important to your success?
Perseverance, keeping it going, and pivoting is what has gotten me here…which to me is all the same.
Contact Info:
- Email: izziethedj@gmail.com
- Website: twitch.tv/wizziethekid
- Instagram: instagram.com/wizziethekid/
- Twitter: twitter.com/wizziethekid
- Other: tiktok.com/@wizziethekid
Image Credits
Betsy Juarez
