We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kristin and Corey Knighton. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kristin and Corey below.
Kristin and Corey , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
We found our purpose in 2019. My boyfriend at the time and I lost our jobs, our car, our apartment and had to move in with his mom with a 3 year old and a 6 month old. We were all sharing one room with nothing to call our own I was lost and depressed but sucking it all up. My little sister started sending me videos to this app TikTok but I didn’t have it downloaded so I couldn’t watch the videos. I told her to stop sending me them because I couldn’t see the videos and she told me I needed to download TikTok because the videos were just so funny. After a few more days of her sending me these videos I downloaded the app creating a profile and began scrolling. After scrolling for a few days I decided to make a video post it and it went viral watching the views go from 10k to 30k to 100k over a few hours was exciting. The followers began as well 10k, 20k, etc. My husband and I have always had a very jokey playful relationship so I decided to record one of our many playful encounters and post it and THAT was the moment. I knew him and I were ment to do social media. Everyone in our family constantly tells us we need our own show but for people all over the world to be entertained by just us being us. It was heart warming it pulled me out of my depression and brought us so much closer together.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Our man focus is to show people that regular people are still out there! Not everyone has the aesthetic life. We may have 2.6million followers but we can’t afford 3 vacations a year. We can’t afford to buy a house we still have crap credit. We are NORMAL and that’s okay. In a world we’re everyone online only shows the positive and makes others feel bad that they can’t achieve that we show it all! The good the bad and the ugly, and we smile through it all because we know we are representing someone out there who’s going through it too.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
The only skills we had that was impactful was ourselves,l. Our genuine authenticity not wanting to pretend to be anything that we weren’t or aren’t. The people in the social media world don’t offer much help. So we had no knowledge of what anything ment we were lost and just kind of winging it up until very recently.
How can folks who want to work with you connect?
We would love to collaborate and meet other creators. We would love to collaborate with another family or couple that is all good vibes! They just want to have fun with each-other and or with their kids. You can’t have an awkward moment when everyone is having fun. 🙂
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.tiktok.com/@o.g_family?_t=8jdJzCIU7lz&_r=1
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/o.g_familyy?igsh=MW9objB3OWdndHQ4ag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@O.G_Family?si=r3Gz-SsAC0E_Gb8c
Image Credits
The images of us in all black were taken by Lacie photography
