Today we’d like to introduce you to Sabriyah Nettles.
Sabriyah, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
It took me awhile to be who I am today. I went from being depressed and feeling lost in my early 20s because I wasn’t sure who I was or what I’m supposed to be doing. I believe everyone will experience some form of depression, and I believe if you are strong enough, you will bend but not break and in return, it will strip you and build you to a whole different person. I am now free from that unhealthy mindset and transformed into a more mentally stable, gullibly optimistic, happier person. Before I experienced depression, I was always happy and always looking forward to the future. I find the good and every bad situation and I am able to look at the glass half full than half empty. As I was raised to think that way. Or rather, trained myself to think that way because of how my life was as a kid. Being without a lot of material things and not being as wealthy as the next child in fact made me into the person I am today. My family on both sides are extremely funny to me. Comedy was their best coping mechanism and it helped a lot while growing up when life was a bit tough. It was something installed into me and my siblings, we learned to laugh at the unfortunate things that happened around us and in exchange we were pretty much delusional happy kids (in a good way). Having a broad sense of humor has saved my mental in so many ways and has navigated me to what I want to do with my life.
At a very young age, I knew I wanted to be in the entertainment business. I started off wanting to be a play writer to wanting to act then once I entered high school I took Video Broadcasting classes and fell in love with all things that had to do with making movies. I dabbled in directing, camera operating, scriptwriting, acting, and editing. Being in that class opened my eyes to what I knew for sure is what I want to do with my career. After a few years break from school after I graduated, I attended college and took up Design and Media Production. On the side, I have a YouTube channel (my 5th one I made, lol) and I enjoy it so very much because I am doing pretty much all the things I like to do, all while just being myself. I just started the current channel I have now a month ago (YouTube channel: Sabriyah Nettles) and a few people reach out to me and tell me that I make them laugh. To hear that makes my heart melt because secretly, that’s the biggest compliment I could ever get from somebody. I never really cared much about how I look because I am so much more than that. I have so much more to offer the world, but I still appreciate when someone compliments me.
Being told that I made someone laugh is just the hugest honor to me because I want to be able to make people laugh and forget about whatever troubles they have in their lives. As many YouTubers helped me forget when I was feeling down, such as: Berleezy, TravieBlack & Shane Dawson. These are people who have literally saved me from wallowing in my sadness and I’m so grateful for them to be doing what they do because who knows how many other people they have saved as well. Now, I feel like God knows I am ready for all the things I have been manifesting unknowingly as a child. I have been broken down and built back up to a newer version of me. I am focused and determined to become my goal, and the journey to receiving everything that I’ve been praying for will be exciting and I can’t wait for the experience.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Getting to where I am now, was in fact hard because it took mental aging. I had to grow mentally as a person first. I was hurting and so angry about the ways of life. My temper was unreasonable my unhealthy yearn to want to be loved by the wrong people and my attachment issues, caused me to be out of character to the point I honest to god didn’t recognize myself anymore. And it scared me. That is why I feel I was not able to continue to pursue whatever dream I wanted at that moment. I was in a mental block, I was consumed by the garbage and evils of this world and that prevented me from growing as a person. Once I, unfortunately, suffered from sadness and feeling lost/confusion, it started my path to becoming a stronger version of me. If the things that transpired in my personal life didn’t happen in the order that it did to cause me to change at such a crucial time in my late teens/early 20s. I’m afraid I would still be in the same mind-frame that I was in back then. Then, I wouldn’t even be the Sabriyah (Euphoria) that you are talking to today or I don’t think I would even be sharing my story at all. So, I am grateful for every tear I shed, for every toxic person I cut off, and for being alone for so long. Because it made me a better ME. The only obstacle I had to get over was the ones I was putting in front of myself.
Please tell us about Euphoria.
I wouldn’t call it a business but right now I am focusing on building my youtube channel. My channel is really just showing other people that you can look a certain way and be your complete self. I’m saying that to say that I have so many expectations because of how I look, before meeting me, most folks think I’m stuck up, self-centered, and indulged in the “social life” of this world (meaning like boy crazy, drama-filled, etc.) Which is far from what I am… I’m funny, I can draw, a huge kid, I am an anime lover, a spiritualist, and a BIG NERD! I know there is a lot of people out there afraid to be their self because they might have expectations as well. I use to be the same way, afraid to be myself because I knew I had a big personality and feared people wouldn’t understand me or think I was too weird. But I had to abandon those thoughts, and realize the right people would always get me and once I started showing people who I truly was, I got so much love and compliments on my personality. I want my channel to be a safe place where people can feel relieved that there is another manic just like them in this world and encourage them to be comfortable with who they truly are. Especially the ladies. I didn’t want to be another girl YouTuber doing makeup or hair reviews because there is already thousands of channels like that. Although I know that would grow my channel faster, it is not what I want for my channel because it feels like I’m singling out one gender and I want both genders to be able to watch my videos. So, if it takes longer for people to notice me… than by all means.
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
My favorite childhood memories are the ones where I and my sisters would spend the night over my cousin’s house. Every morning, I and my little sister would wake up early, as well as my 2 guy cousins and we would go in their room or downstairs and play video games. We played this racing sonic game, GTA, mortal kombat, and other games I can’t really remember. Then, when everyone would wake up, we all ate cereal downstairs at the table and just talk and laugh. After that, we all put on our clothes and would go outside to meet with some neighborhood friends and play until the street light would come on outside. Those were the best times for me and my sisters.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4wWwkAMZsx7RVYuUYSLpg?view_as=subscriber
- Email: sabriyahnettles@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evphoriaa__/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabriyah.nettles
- Other: https://muvaevphoria.tumblr.com
Image Credit:
Mecca Nettles, Najah Salaam, Cornesha Long, Sabriyah Nettles, Alexus Faith
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