Years in the making, this series is finally happening. After completing season 1 of Kara’s Kitchen with Levi, I’ve been deliberating on what I wanted to produce next.
My next project, Balanced-ish, is the culmination of passion projects.
In college I took the class called The Capstone Project twice. Yes, I dropped it the first time. I thought working and taking 6 senior level college courses would be fine… spoiler alert: it wasn’t. What was supposed to be my last semester, I dropped 3 courses to retake the following semester. One of those, bingo, the Capstone Project.
First time around I tried to make a web series called “Adulting” (yikes, I know), the goal being a series to increase the awareness of the emerging adulthood stage. The second round was a web series called “Parkour: The Ultimate Life Hack” (PKTULH). Done is better than perfect. Why am I bringing up these projects? Because each represent two major halves of what I’m passionate about. A balanced lifestyle.
“Adulting” missed an important mark that I wouldn’t be able to achieve until after college. It was an attempt at comedy and communications, but wasn’t the right timing for myself. The idea was there, but time for execution was not among 5 other senior level classes.
“PKTULH” was an attempt to debunk movement myths. “Adulting” never finished and makes me cringe to this day. “PKTULH” on the other hand was a success in terms of it being finished and getting approval from the parkour people I showed it to. I even got it to play for Jump Fest Video Festival in 2017. I was thrilled at the positive response from both projects, but that’s where Balanced-ish comes in.
I’ve hedged away from the “Lifestyle” niche for a long time, but now its time to do the opposite and run right at it. While there are many exceptions, the vast majority of “lifestyle” channels and web series I see are well… I find these common trends: generally make up heavy, same old boring fitness routines, a display of only the best highlights, hyper feminine, politically correct, suggests avoiding technology as a way to deal with it, and status quo lifestyles (or lifestyles of old norms and unrealistic standards).
I plan for this series to be different in following.
- I will rarely if ever talk about make up (I’ve never been and don’t plan to ever be a make up or beauty guru)
- Will challenge the status quo of what a “normal balanced lifestyle” is
- Showcase fitness alternatives with parkour and other movement disciplines
- How to make the internet suck less and make it work for you
- Discuss entrepreneurship, mindfulness, philosophy, emerging adulthood, and productivity via edutainment
- How to realistically improve life
- Some mad relevant memes and cringe-worthy puns
Right now, I’ve got 2 full seasons of 12 episodes for a whopping 24 videos over the next 6 months (if I can stay on track).
Creativity and movement.
Technology and people.
Fitness and comedy.
Edutainment and vlogs.
Those are the alternating themes I have planned along with some politics and controversy thrown in.
Not the most niched down, yes. All over the place, yes. However, this is YouTube. And if you can’t be you on YouTube, where else can you be?
Here’s episode 1: What is a balanced-ish lifestyle?
Watch, like, and comment your thoughts. I want to hear them.
Don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already. 😉
