JustPearlyThings - My Producer's Life Story： How He Made It In The Production Industry

On this episode of Behind the Scenes, we have a special guest on the show. She is a producer who has been with me for over a decade and has been a part of my team for the past 10 years. She has been in the industry for a long time and is one of the most experienced producers in Zimbabwe. In this episode, we talk about her journey and what she has learned from being behind the scenes and how she has managed to survive through some of the worst work conditions.

00:00:00.000 all right guys so be a blessing here say hi to the people what's up so blessing you've worked

00:00:07.820 for me now for how long a year and something a year yeah because you were you were he was part

00:00:14.540 time at first yep and then he just he moved into full time real quick because he was just very

00:00:21.260 talented just happened sometimes it happens i'll actually i'll tell you what happened i'll tell

00:00:25.840 you what happened no no we're not i wasn't even gonna tell that part but but um no i'll tell you

00:00:31.640 what happened so basically blessing was um training someone and he he like subbed for my other producer

00:00:41.020 at the time and um the day he subbed he fixed all of my problems like in one day it was like amazing

00:00:48.320 it was like it was like he he could do a call-in show it was every problem he he just figured out

00:00:54.600 and i was like he could he could he can stay yeah and from that they've been here since yeah yeah

00:01:02.300 so i i there's a lot of talk on the internet about a very terrible work conditions how have you survived

00:01:08.940 through them no life heat in miami is my problem flies to vegas is my problem

00:01:17.740 no they've said that they've said um you have a slave contract is that

00:01:23.940 nah i'm okay guys don't worry about me no that that's what they're saying i don't need to be freed

00:01:28.640 like some of you i actually need to free some of you it is so crazy how did it work out for

00:01:36.340 for the people that you know to be honest i don't know because they have not showed up on my feet

00:01:42.480 okay okay okay but anyway so tell me what what is the past what's it like being like behind the scenes

00:01:53.300 um for all this for these crazy moments like people get it we've had the police called

00:01:58.560 um we've even kicked people off the show it gets crazy yeah like what have what have you learned

00:02:04.760 from watching hundreds of shows and meeting like hundreds of women a lot of women are the same 1.00

00:02:11.040 it's not all it's actually crazy because i didn't have this mindset before but

00:02:17.400 now when you see it it's like you can't run away from it it's the truth

00:02:23.600 and what about they all say that we recruit like specific types of women to get on the show 1.00

00:02:28.820 nah it's actually random like hell has no input on who is coming

00:02:33.560 there are people that come that we don't even want to be there but no

00:02:38.540 no yeah there was one chick that came and i came in and i was this chick that made like five videos 0.98

00:02:44.340 about how much he hated me and i turned to them i'm like why is this bitch here 1.00

00:02:47.100 that's what i'm saying like we're recruiters that just get people 0.91

00:02:51.760 yeah to come on the show so it's not pre-selected for failure if they fail it's because that's

00:02:59.100 what they are okay so so what's your advice to someone that wants to be like a producer

00:03:08.120 or wants to like do youtube and like because you were kind of interesting you're people

00:03:14.680 don't know this but but your family like didn't want you to do production right they wanted you

00:03:21.540 to go into like healthcare i come from zimbabwe and we have a bit more of a traditional mindset

00:03:27.400 so you're expected to go to uni university college do like the more traditional jobs

00:03:34.440 doctor lawyer all that me i've always been a creative from the start so going into production

00:03:42.980 is like well my mom actually said you know hey if you can make your work make your work but

00:03:50.800 i don't think that's the path that she would say if you want it for me but anyways you have to work

00:03:56.860 hard like i remember when when i started a pulse i was building the studio while the shows were going

00:04:03.660 on the six nights every day we're doing a show monday to saturday it was it was crazy it was hectic

00:04:11.820 that i literally had to like sleep in the studio uh which worked out well

00:04:21.680 but you had to put in the extra hours to make sure that everything gets done so you can't be lazy

00:04:28.940 you have to be able to work even when no one is working and you have to be to see the bigger picture

00:04:37.340 as well and just put in the work like a lot of people just don't want to put in the work

00:04:41.540 and network as well because that's how you're gonna get great jobs and also you have to be able

00:04:47.260 to help people like me i end up with hell really because i was helping someone so if you are passionate

00:04:53.540 about what you do be passionate about it don't put too much you know expectations things will fall

00:05:00.280 in place but you have to be passionate and work hard for it and what what um what's it like like

00:05:11.820 you know being behind the scenes like with like do you do you get backlash from your community at all

00:05:21.460 like you know working where you work nah not the same community

00:05:26.160 i'm from zimbabwe there's no backlash from my country no i've had backlash from other communities

00:05:33.680 but not to mention which ones they know who they are you know but there's no backlash

00:05:39.520 like your family your sisters about nothing nah they were happy for me you know i mean

00:05:45.380 i don't need to go watch the content though but i don't think there's any problems for my community

00:05:53.160 anyways uh it's great work that we do at just birdie there's a lot of hard workers there

00:05:58.300 and that was a great boss i'm not gonna say that

00:06:02.160 yeah i paid them too

00:06:04.700 i get paid well i've never been playing

00:06:08.020 wait so um so how is the switch been so like six months ago roughly we switched you from doing

00:06:17.580 like production and now you help manage how is that i mean it's it's like it's been terrible for

00:06:24.760 me i hate it it's a different beast i'll tell you that but i'm always out for a challenge

00:06:29.000 that's how i ended up here because i'm always out for a challenge some people give up and say this

00:06:33.280 not for me me i say okay how can i make become better at this at this job that i've been given

00:06:39.300 elevated to so we we are we are not the best yet but we are working hard on it you know what's

00:06:46.900 interesting too i feel like the best people like because i don't know about you i just always had

00:06:52.480 the mindset of like developing skills yeah and i never really cared about like even the way i

00:06:58.340 question people i really think is from my two years in sales like i i really do because back

00:07:05.880 then it was like a terrible job but i just told myself i was going to learn this skill and that's

00:07:11.120 it you gotta have as many skills as possible me i came from a church background i told myself how to

00:07:17.540 play all instruments move from there i told myself how to do this camera stuff production stuff but i put

00:07:23.920 myself in positions to learn and you might fail but don't be scared of failure because if you fail

00:07:30.280 you're gonna learn something from it and it's actually better for you to fail because that means

00:07:35.420 you know how to solve that problem for next time so that's why i can tell people it's gonna happen

00:07:42.600 you're gonna fail some things it's gonna be hard you're gonna want to give up but the minute you do

00:07:47.280 that that's the end yeah well guys that's blessing you know thanks for this interview he was camera

00:07:54.920 shy for a while but he's he's done man i work with people out here so many times i'm like there's no

00:08:01.180 point you know someone has seen me somewhere so might as well but anyways shout out to zimbabwe

00:08:08.640 we are out here we are out here you know miami for working

JustPearlyThings - October 13, 2023

My Producer's Life Story： How He Made It In The Production Industry

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