My Producer's Life Story： How He Made It In The Production Industry
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Summary
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.
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all right guys so be a blessing here say hi to the people what's up so blessing you've worked
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for me now for how long a year and something a year yeah because you were you were he was part
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time at first yep and then he just he moved into full time real quick because he was just very
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talented just happened sometimes it happens i'll actually i'll tell you what happened i'll tell
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you what happened no no we're not i wasn't even gonna tell that part but but um no i'll tell you
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what happened so basically blessing was um training someone and he he like subbed for my other producer
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at the time and um the day he subbed he fixed all of my problems like in one day it was like amazing
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it was like it was like he he could do a call-in show it was every problem he he just figured out
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and i was like he could he could he can stay yeah and from that they've been here since yeah yeah
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so i i there's a lot of talk on the internet about a very terrible work conditions how have you survived
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through them no life heat in miami is my problem flies to vegas is my problem
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no they've said that they've said um you have a slave contract is that
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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
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like some of you i actually need to free some of you it is so crazy how did it work out for
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for the people that you know to be honest i don't know because they have not showed up on my feet
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okay okay okay but anyway so tell me what what is the past what's it like being like behind the scenes
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um for all this for these crazy moments like people get it we've had the police called
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um we've even kicked people off the show it gets crazy yeah like what have what have you learned
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from watching hundreds of shows and meeting like hundreds of women a lot of women are the same
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it's not all it's actually crazy because i didn't have this mindset before but
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now when you see it it's like you can't run away from it it's the truth
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and what about they all say that we recruit like specific types of women to get on the show
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nah it's actually random like hell has no input on who is coming
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there are people that come that we don't even want to be there but no
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no yeah there was one chick that came and i came in and i was this chick that made like five videos
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about how much he hated me and i turned to them i'm like why is this bitch here
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that's what i'm saying like we're recruiters that just get people
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yeah to come on the show so it's not pre-selected for failure if they fail it's because that's
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what they are okay so so what's your advice to someone that wants to be like a producer
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or wants to like do youtube and like because you were kind of interesting you're people
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don't know this but but your family like didn't want you to do production right they wanted you
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to go into like healthcare i come from zimbabwe and we have a bit more of a traditional mindset
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so you're expected to go to uni university college do like the more traditional jobs
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doctor lawyer all that me i've always been a creative from the start so going into production
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is like well my mom actually said you know hey if you can make your work make your work but
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i don't think that's the path that she would say if you want it for me but anyways you have to work
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hard like i remember when when i started a pulse i was building the studio while the shows were going
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on the six nights every day we're doing a show monday to saturday it was it was crazy it was hectic
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that i literally had to like sleep in the studio uh which worked out well
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but you had to put in the extra hours to make sure that everything gets done so you can't be lazy
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you have to be able to work even when no one is working and you have to be to see the bigger picture
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as well and just put in the work like a lot of people just don't want to put in the work
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and network as well because that's how you're gonna get great jobs and also you have to be able
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to help people like me i end up with hell really because i was helping someone so if you are passionate
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about what you do be passionate about it don't put too much you know expectations things will fall
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in place but you have to be passionate and work hard for it and what what um what's it like like
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you know being behind the scenes like with like do you do you get backlash from your community at all
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like you know working where you work nah not the same community
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i'm from zimbabwe there's no backlash from my country no i've had backlash from other communities
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but not to mention which ones they know who they are you know but there's no backlash
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like your family your sisters about nothing nah they were happy for me you know i mean
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i don't need to go watch the content though but i don't think there's any problems for my community
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anyways uh it's great work that we do at just birdie there's a lot of hard workers there
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and that was a great boss i'm not gonna say that
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wait so um so how is the switch been so like six months ago roughly we switched you from doing
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like production and now you help manage how is that i mean it's it's like it's been terrible for
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me i hate it it's a different beast i'll tell you that but i'm always out for a challenge
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that's how i ended up here because i'm always out for a challenge some people give up and say this
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not for me me i say okay how can i make become better at this at this job that i've been given
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elevated to so we we are we are not the best yet but we are working hard on it you know what's
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interesting too i feel like the best people like because i don't know about you i just always had
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the mindset of like developing skills yeah and i never really cared about like even the way i
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question people i really think is from my two years in sales like i i really do because back
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then it was like a terrible job but i just told myself i was going to learn this skill and that's
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it you gotta have as many skills as possible me i came from a church background i told myself how to
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play all instruments move from there i told myself how to do this camera stuff production stuff but i put
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myself in positions to learn and you might fail but don't be scared of failure because if you fail
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you're gonna learn something from it and it's actually better for you to fail because that means
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you know how to solve that problem for next time so that's why i can tell people it's gonna happen
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you're gonna fail some things it's gonna be hard you're gonna want to give up but the minute you do
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that that's the end yeah well guys that's blessing you know thanks for this interview he was camera
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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
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point you know someone has seen me somewhere so might as well but anyways shout out to zimbabwe
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we are out here we are out here you know miami for working