Meet Skydxddy

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

SkyDxddy, so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.

I feel like all of us always have some story to tell, whether it’s from our past or what we wish for our future. And being creative is all about grabbing inspiration from things around us, people we admire or stuff we’ve seen.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I grew up in a small town, my mom and dad were great, but I was outed early in life, and that caused some strain. So, I rebelled a lot and when I turned 17, I left for good, this led to me kind of getting the taste of what life and trauma were. I was groomed by an older woman who put me in bad situations, I was young and I think I wanted so badly to be liked that I did whatever they wanted.

I eventually went to college and dealt with the same thing. Trauma, boundaries crossed, etc. Already fairly traumatized, I decided to leave college, my girlfriend came and got me and convinced me to start making music about my experiences. She’s been my rock throughout everything, honestly. I stay resilient because of her and my family who I’m close with now. Music has been my therapy, and it’s really worked honestly. I’ve never loved myself more. Although, I’m still working on unlearning harmful habits and setting boundaries.

I’m a singer, and songwriter and my genre is Traumacore. I started making music after everything I went through, so many people go through trauma, of all kinds. And we’re bred not to talk about it. That’s so harmful. My music allows the listener to feel it, process it, and feel power from the fact that they made it out. My musical inspirations are definitely NF, Evanescence, Billie Eillish, and early rock bands like Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace.

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?

If you don’t set boundaries most people will walk all over you. I learned that the hard way at one of my shows where a “fan” kissed me without my consent and sent my healing process back by a lot. For now, I don’t do meet and greets because of that reason.

Love yourself! You’re going to make mistakes, everyone does, it’s part of living and learning. Stop being so hard on yourself.

Be honest and don’t be afraid to speak out. People ask me why I don’t write more about “happy stuff”? The truth is, there’s so much trauma that I’m uncovering in therapy that I feel like it’s always a new topic that people haven’t even uncovered yet and I feel ready and eager to bring awareness to these topics that I know affect so many more people, not just me.

My advise to anyone starting their journey would be, be consist if you want to make it. And this works for mental health as well, You’ve got to be consistent. Care about yourself. Exercise, eat right (this really matters, your brain is literally connected to your gut) so eat good stuff, and stop doom scrolling, one of my favorite quotes is, “if you have time to consume, you have time to create” and that’s so true.

The music industry… it’s a lot. It’s hard. If you’re not born a nepo baby or have some crazy connections, you have to work a million times harder, and that’s okay, that’s actually really cool. You have to wake up everyday and be like “I GET to do this” because not a lot of people get that option. Also, if you want success in the music industry, STOP LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE. Seriously, it’s going to kill you creatively and self esteem-wise, just focus on you and gain inspiration from others in passing but don’t go looking and scrolling through other peoples lives, if you’re not mentally capable of not comparing yourself to them. It’ll eat you alive. Make real connections, network and put yourself out there.

And just be a good person. People want to see good people win.

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?

Take a break. Put down the phone and strategize. I write down what I want and what small steps I can take to achieve that goal. And I don’t make the goal too crazy (you work up to that).

Just being nice and practicing gratitude is so important, I have a panic disorder and major health anxiety so if you’re healthy, and can get up in the morning, if you have a roof over your head and running water. Like, that’s something to be grateful for.

Gratitude! It will get you far. And help you take care of what you already have that’s so precious to you. Also, go outside, if you’re depressed, take a walk! Go to a park or get in nature. It helps so much and people actively avoid it. Being cooped in your house is not going to help you mentally, change your environment, sometimes it helps change your perspective.

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