Connect Who or what is your inspiration in business?

My inspiration was fueled by my own personal lifelong goal of being a full-time screenwriter. However, the bigger dream was to create my own media cooperative. During the pandemic in 2020, I wrote and self-published my debut novel, I Forgot to Love Her. In 2021, I wrote my very first urban romantic drama titled, Targeted. Through my marketing and social media skills, I obtained a very well-known producer who has worked on The Best Man, The Inside Man and Precious.

How do you stay motivated?

I genuinely love what I do. I need to write like I need air to breath. It's literally the fabric of what makes me. Also, I'm a trained writer who knows how to use the power of the English language. I would love to create a media space for creatives who don't know how to get their work in the right hands. Also, I'd like to shift the uneven dynamic of creatives of color in film and television.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would combine my writing and technology background to develop an AI script-to-video software, first. This will help the creatives who would like to join my media initiative. Being a creative involves way more than just writing. The advances of AI are going to continue to explode. Developing short films is expensive and time consuming. A script-to-video takes roughly 5 minutes. I've used several platforms already, but they haven't captured what I'm trying to do.