We were lucky to catch up with Divine Thomas recently and have shared our conversation below.
Divine, so great to have you with us and we want to jump right into a really important question. In recent years, it’s become so clear that we’re living through a time where so many folks are lacking self-confidence and self-esteem. So, we’d love to hear about your journey and how you developed your self-confidence and self-esteem.
My self esteem and confidence come from my parents and my sister from young. They always instilled confidence within me. To always be myself and my self will always be enough. So that helped me command a room and allowed me to confidently be myself.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Well I am a fashion and lifestyle content creator or just and overall creative. I dabble in so many aspects of creativity and the arts. When it comes to my content I get satisfaction of bringing people into my world. My goal is for people to watch my content and understand that confidence gets you everywhere. Being yourself trumps following a trend. Or if you follow a trend make it your own. I’m also a designer and screenwriter. Some new things I’m working on a clothing line with one of my closest friends Keldrick Davis. So we are about to start dropping shirts. We started with a sample size drop of Michael Jackson shirts. So much more to come. I do plan on expanding my YouTube presence. More content more vlogs, more shows. More and more creating. As far as screenwriting got some things in the tuck. I’m working on scripts can’t wait to share with the world.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
3 biggest qualities that helped me. I would say confidence, ambition and consistency. Advice I give to creators new to the journey is have fun and keep tunnel vision. Don’t focus on what other people say. The biggest thing is to ignore what the haters say. Haters are there to motivate take it with a grain of salt. I like to call them “motihaters”. Haters motivate me. They will keep you going but don’t ever let them stop you. Because they will always be there so use them as fuel. Also, stay consistent. Find a schedule and stick to it. That’s something I still work on. My best advice for becoming more confident I would say follow me and my content to help improve yourself in general.
What is the number one obstacle or challenge you are currently facing and what are you doing to try to resolve or overcome this challenge?
The number one obstacle is staying inspired. I don’t like saying I can get lazy. I just might not be inspired to make content. If I do a video and the reactions are average or no response I might just let that video sit and I lose inspiration like why am I doing content. Even when I go on my timelines for inspiration everyone is doing the same boring stuff so I still don’t have inspiration. What I do to overcome it. I get offline go outside in the real world and find inspiration. Living in NYC is beautiful you can get inspired anywhere. Or I can go outside my niches and find inspiration. Sit down with my grandma , talk to my dad and or my mom and get inspired.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/divineandconquers
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/divinethomas?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
- Youtube: https://YouTube.com/clothesdown
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@divineandconquers?_t=8qyVlnsdvCQ&_r=1
Image Credits
Andre Tarver @axis2artphotography
Ojo @ojoptics
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