Meet Amanda Rome West

 

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Amanda Rome West a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Amanda Rome , we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

I developed my confidence and self-esteem through dedicated work and focus on my goals + dreams. Through founding our own full-service media and production company, Watchlight Entertainment, my fiancé, and I have converted our wishes into reality by simply focusing on how we can use our strengths in marketing + advertising to cater to others’ business objectives. Also, in terms of my own music + content brand, Amanda Rome West, I have found my confidence and self-esteem through maintaining a great routine. Yes, of course everyone goes on vacation or has days off, but for my usual day-to-day, I’m always focused on getting what I can done every day, working out, and spending time with my family.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am a full-time content creator, social media manager, influencer, artist, and media personality. You can visit AmandaRomeWest.com for all my personal work + WatchlightEntertainment.com for our full-service media + production company. I am focused both on business and art. I think there is no reason to limit yourself in this life, especially when it comes to what you do with your career. I graduated in 2020 from USC with my Business of Cinematic Arts dual degree, and from there, I started to work full-time with several procedures, production companies and social media agencies, while also working on my music + influencing career. This is where my fiancé Jordan Saria Oram and I got the idea for Watchlight Entertainment.

At the end of the day, everyone wants to be able to promote their brand/services through media as well as production. So why not offer both? From in person filming to digital asset creation to social meter marking to public relations opportunities, the options are endless. Both of us have gone to school for marketing/advertising/business, and I figured that we should put our skillsets to use. Too many people in GenZ want to get a well – paying job at a large company and they expect that to carry them through the rest their life. But my fiancé and I see that you can build this type of company yourself through working smart and having a great work ethic. I’m currently finishing up my second studio album IT’S WEST’S WORLD, slated to drop this fall and receive consideration for the GRAMMYs®️, and am constantly creating content for my socials (see everywhere you can follow me at AmandaRomeWest.com, where I list all of my socials/sites for easy-access). I also just finished off season three (the FINAL SEASON!) of my critically-acclaimed podcast “ARW RAW” (available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Podcasts), which is a nice transition into full-time focusing on Amanda Rome West as a brand + our clients here at Watchlight Entertainment, as I have been running this podcast for four years now, and felt it is time to branch off.

I think the 2 biggest lessons in life are trusting the process and believing in yourself. My hope is to inspire others to follow their passions, and to realize the true potential in their skillsets.

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?

Looking back, the three skills that have been most impactful in my journey are:

1. DISCIPLINE— discipline will take you further than motivation every time because if you can be consistent and continue to produce results, that’s more important than getting one big thing done every once in a while. Like I said earlier in this article, I get what I can done every day. Everything else gets pushed to tomorrow or whenever is appropriate, and you have to be OK with that, especially if you are on my level where I am constantly fielding new opportunities and ideas.

2. SELF-LOVE— if you do not love yourself, no one else will and you need to be your biggest supporter. For example, if you’re not going to listen to your own album in the car over and over, who will? If you’re not going to look at your content, you create and say “damn that looks good!”… Who will? And if you don’t love yourself, figure out what you need to do to help you love yourself and do more of that every day.

3. KINDNESS— yes, I’m a businesswoman, but truly it’s all about kindness. If you are a kind person, and you can take care of yourself and everyone around you, people want to be around you and work with you. It’s a simple as that, if you are a good person, and you are a smart person want to surround themselves with you.

What has been your biggest area of growth or improvement in the past 12 months?

I would say that my biggest area of growth in the past 12 months is focusing on my GOALS rather than “worrying.” So much of our world is focused on worrying about others, worrying about the future, worrying about the past, or even worrying about yourself. Instead of worrying, focus on your goals and see what you can do every day to come one step closer to achieving them. They always say an overnight success takes 10 years to build, so you really need to get your goals together and figure out what it is you’re trying to achieve at the crux of your mission. Especially by moving to LA 18, I realize I have to fend for myself and make all of my own opportunities. If you have this hustle mentality, you can transform your goals into reality and then make your dreams into your full-time life.

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