Meet Skeddy

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Skeddy. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Skeddy below.

Skeddy, 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.
I started my journey in really finding myself, dealing with internal struggles and battles; facing depression and constant anxiety. In my early career, I found my calling as a chef, striving for perfection in each morsel of food I conjured. Food was a creative release for me but I realized that it was like an addiction, an addict searching for its next itch, craving attention in what many could or would not understand through the mastery and art of a palatable experience. It was a career that would chew me up and spit me out, and in 2018, it did absolutely that. I was laid off from a job and I also faced family struggles that would shape and develop the person I am today. I questioned everything in life that revolved around my culinary career, drinking myself to death in self loathing. As mythical as this sounds, I had a dream one night after excessive depression and contraband consumption. This dream was like no other, and I began to dream I was walking on a tarmac to a private Jet with Tim Bergling (Avicii); everything about this dream felt real. I felt the grit of the pavement under my feet, the mist of rain, to the smell of jet fuel enveloping my senses. In the next few days, I processed this dream over and over. It became eery like. Have you ever thought of something to soon find your phone populating it via an add or short video, without a single vocabulary spoken? It was exactly that, each time I recalled this dream throughout the day in my day to day living, Avicii’s “Levels” would soon manifest itself, either in my day to day routine at the grocery store or randomly in passing. I knew I had to do something regarding this urge to produce music.

I’ve always had a connection with music, I sold off my most prized possessions to purchase a Macbook and Dj Controller. I would soon transform my life into nothing but music for 12-15 hours a day, figuring out what each button, knob, filter, noise, any acoustic that I could learn was mastered, to produce the most terrible noises I called music at the time. I was convivial. I figured if my culinary career would kill me, then it was my time to kill it and move on.

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?
My name is SKEDDY, I am an F1 content creator, producing electronic music for Formula 1. I began my brand around music, producing electronic music to soon find that my music would pair well with racing. My music career was not taking off and with a close connection to racing and building race cars, I began to Sim Race as a way to cope with depression. As I would live stream sim racing (F1), I would play my music in the background to soon find out the content I was producing with F1, viewers really enjoyed watching and listening to my music as I sim raced. I am always producing F1 content to my music, developing a community where viewers can participate in live league races with me during my live streams.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Looking back and as eager as I am, the most important thing I have learned is to be patient. Trust the process, Don’t rush the process but rush how quickly and fast you can learn your craft in your journey. Enjoy the moment, the journey and understand that when you are down on yourself, lack motivation, or criticize yourself, look back and realize that last week, a month or even a year ago, your younger self would do anything to be where you are now, and appreciate that.

I’ve learned to humble myself, value and appreciate everyone that supports my content and live streams. In doing so, it has helped build my content and following as a community to people who like F1, music and newcomers to the sport and electronic productions that are genuine fans to my passion for F1.

Enjoy the butterflies:)

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?
When I am overwhelmed, I tend to find one thing that always motivates me. Stay consistent. When I am lost, depressed or overwhelmed…whatever the case might be, I keep going; even when things get tough and I search for the off button of an easy escape. I acknowledge my emotions and reality check myself that wherever I want to end up, wherever I am going, is much better than where I used to be. I want to be an F1 content creator for a Formula 1 team and for some reason, that humbles my silly emotions that overwhelm my “tick” that drives me and my passions.

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