Today we’d like to introduce you to Victoria Alice
Hi Victoria, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
If I had to summarize my professional life up, I would say my life has been a revolving door of experiments, experimenting with my mental and physical limitations and plunging myself into new territory to see if I enjoy where I’m going.
When I was young, having been modeled the importance of self-improvement by my folks and what doors that could open for me in different areas of life, I took it upon myself to try many things to see what worked for me. I enjoyed so many things, whether art, writing, history, science, or moving my body. I didn’t like the limits people would put on women, why would being conventionally attractive have to be mutually exclusive of being intelligent and educated? Why do we have to meander and waste our lives to satisfy people who wouldn’t even care if you died tomorrow or the next day?
I would go to different sports and fitness classes by myself to challenge myself, I would join different clubs at school to expand my mind and it was all in good fun.
I was not so focused solely on achievement, though I found satisfaction in doing so only to know in concrete terms I could do hard things.
I was interested in being able to access experiences other people could not reach if they just stuck to one or two things in their whole life. Trying new things is not hard for me. I welcome new experiences, like a conduit of creative energy personified. Whether it is making things, learning things, or creating art – that’s pretty much what I did. A more practical way to channel this was through studying marketing/advertising which I did while trying to start and fail many little businesses. I worked in small, large, and mid sized corporations and found new information about myself from all the experiences just like I did pushing myself in random sports or traveling to random places by myself.
Through physical excellence, I found out I could be soft and pliable with yoga and in the mind and in the body but gritty and determined like a fighter could be doing muay thai or boxing. This bolstered my faith in myself and my ability to try and succeed at new things and also failure taught me that many things in life are temporary, that if I want something, loss is inevitable but so is gaining (experience).
Through mental excellence, I challenged myself to learn different subjects, read on various topics and none of this ever had to do with other people, I just liked gathering data on what I could do with my mind and body my whole life. I moved alot as a child, this made me completely detached from trying to gain the sympathy or approval of people in my surroundings and took me from introverted to extroverted out of necessity to navigate new places.
People were too focused on their immediate community and I was focused on my expansion of the self, my experiences, colorful things I could add to the lore of my life.
Through doing these things, I worked at many agencies, took up leadership roles, started various random small businesses that didn’t land, posted about random things about my life online without the care that the general public are ever going to crush my spirit, they have not lived through my lens of life, and were not me. Their lives were monotonous, repetitive, and somewhat predictable.
I was not trying to do anything with social media. It just kind of happened. I talked about my various esoteric interests (Astrology/Spirituality), was just having fun, and playboy happened. I found fun to be really important for me to continue doing things, because joy is something we should be able to access everyday, exclusive to the sympathies or approval of the outside world.
My line of questioning usually goes before I make a decision: If X Y and Z can do this, then why not me? How do I know this to be true? Just because someone tells me something does not mean its true or valid. What proof is there? They are not me. They are not equipped with all the stats in the world to make it happen and they did it anyways? So it keeps me open to trying new things.
I realized that with social media, there is another way to access new experiences or make a little business if I wanted to because random companies would email me, I still don’t really care if my page is big or small, I was having fun and fun is the energy of creation, which is the energy of me personified.
I think that’s the key thing here, is people are too focused on small picture things to realize if you just did the odd thing or didn’t think so much about the decision, and just live life as its happening, you’d be privy to certain experiences that normal, non-risk taking people can’t access.
I’m always a big advocate for “doing you” and letting the world fall into the background noise. There’s always going to be someone saying something but you just need to focus on what you want your life to look like and feel like, and do that. Likely their opinions will not help you create an interesting life, because I don’t want their lives, and so it becomes irrelevant to listen or care at that point.
Even this year, as I notice people fall away or just flat out die, all you have is now. So fill your life with interesting experiences and savor the the joy while its happening.
I’m still not sure what is next but I know that I am the operant power and whatever I want my life to look like professionally, socially, emotionally, relationally, I am capable of making it happen. People always believe this is so permanent but that’s not really true, things happen all the time, circumstances can change, people you love can randomly die, your job can randomly disappear, your friends can die, your place can change, anything can happen. So its important to live your life as its happening and not chained to the approval of others, professionally, socially, relationally.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I think the struggles are when you are integrated into a community say for instance if I join a new club, sport, job, platform, anywhere really and someone sees your individuality or unwillingness to obey the status quo as a threat to your existence. People often mock, ridicule, or disparage things they don’t understand. It’s very easy to take people at face value or put them in a box to color your worldview as a perfect protagonist. This has been true of humans since ancient times, dating back to wars over religion, politics, classism, etc.
On a more personal level, the struggles are mostly with close-minded people; I think anyone can relate to that, not just me. Other struggles may include my optimism exceeding physical limitations. However, every lesson is not a setback for me rather an opportunity to revisit and review my method of going about achieving my personal goals.
As long as I can think and have control of my mind and free will, I don’t see any reason for me not to survive any struggle that comes my way.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I do UGC and content creation, I specialize in digital marketing, short form video content creation and lifestyle content. I enjoy so many things it’s hard to say I “specialize” in something, I’m more of a jack of all trades type of person. However, I do enjoy photoshoots as well and pairing cinematic or interesting music to it and making digital marketing content for various businesses to help them get more leads. I’m proud of how interesting my whole life is. I have never met anyone else with my specific life nor experiences. My life is so fun and it’s only going to get better. What sets me apart from others is definitely my openness to new experiences and willingness to challenge the status quo. I don’t even know how my life will go for the next ten years, all I know is it’s going to be interesting and unique.
What makes you happy?
What makes me happy is the safety of being able to count on my own mind through any circumstance, my family and friends and exercise. I think its important to cherish your mind body connection for happiness (health and mentality). These are all integral to living a happy life or being happy, perspective, good company (a couple loved ones) and willingness to try new things.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.tiktok.com/@victoriaismadvibing
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kingvictoriaalice/
Image Credits
Photo in black dress (Marcos Alexander @marcosalexander on Instagram)
Photo with multicolor blue portrait shot (Yoshi Neex @36neex on Instagram)
Rest of photos (myself)
