Check Out Brandee Lockett’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Brandee Lockett.

Hi Brandee, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I was raised in poverty my entire life, homeless living out of a car with my single mom (to no fault of her own) and my 4 siblings at the time as a child for about 5 years before we were able to start coach surfing between families homes. All of our outside family members were deep into meth/crack/alcohol addiction. My mom quickly realizing she needed to get her family away from this so we could have a chance, she worked night and day, sacrificing her meals to make sure everyone of us had full bellies and seconds if we wanted, while she got all of us kids into a charter school that was away from all the drugs and dangers of our city, we had to wake up at 3am every morning to make it to the city bus since our school did not have transport. till she was able to buy a house from her parents that charged her 50,000$ more than they were going to charge my uncle, none the less my mom did what she needed too and got us a house by the time I was in third grade. She landed a career in the school district as a teamster for union and started fostering children since I can remember. I was heavily bullied in school to the point police had to be involved and I tried to take my life at 11 to no avail obviously, I could make no friends since I was the “weird kid” so all of my sisters became my closest dearest friends to this day, and many children we adopted who I seriously could not live without. Till I switched to my first public school in 7th grade where I was able to make friends for a change which was short lived but I still enjoy the friendships I did make. I was on honor roll my whole life and participated in many extracurricular activities like honor society, honor choir, and orphansomble which is basically a bunch of kid playing instruments. 7th grade is when I started wrestling which did not start out well being 1 of 3 girls on the team that the boys were not very fond of which almost made me quit until I went to highschool and was 1 of 2 girls on the team, and slowly helped grow our girls team after winning regions championship 3x and state 3rd placed 2x, while also being a cheerleader, JROTC platoon commander, and on the riflery team, although I met a boy who crossed to many boundaries and didn’t know what no meant, I was still able to put everything aside and work under the table and take a years worth of schooling so I could graduate at 16, move to Puyallup WA and start going to school for what now has been my 4th year at Tacoma community college, too soon finish my 6 year degree and UW. I started my social media journey in May of 2024 after coming to terms with my eating disorder and diagnosis with chronic depression that stemmed from a lot of trauma I went through when I was young and in the recent years, the goal was to make an account for people to find community and really an outlet for me to hold myself accountable, so I didn’t “slip away” again. I didn’t know this would change my life. Finding so many people like me and people who loved and appreciated me was something I felt was way out of my grasp, in a bittersweet way my community made me realize that I have value, just cause my coming up could have been better had I been dealt a different hand; didn’t mean I was doomed to follow in the footsteps of my now dead family members. Growing my social media to now have 230k across my Instagram and TikTok (200k) I am able to help my family and my mom in return whenever they need now. I thank my mom for everything, for exchanging her life for mine and I thank God for guiding her to do whatever she needed always keeping her safe and guiding her.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It has not been a smooth road, drug addicted family members, a lot of mental illness, food insecurity, homelessness, sexual assault, being robbed twice by family members, I got into a major accident in 2017 which gave me 3rd degree road rash burns up my arm, breaking my collar bone 3 times and my growth plate. My own brain being sick with depression, an eating disorder and suicidal ideation, i grew up in a neighborhood next to a major drug user who brought a lot of SWAT out at least 1 every two weeks, drive by on my birthday, dangerous people coming to our house looking for our neighbor, finding beaten people in our backyard that had crawled from our neighbors house… etc

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am currently a caregiver for my main source of income, a job I am blessed to have, having no experience prior to employment. I am on my 4th year of being a history major 2 more to go. I want to be a highschool teacher mainly so I can be the teacher that is excited to teach others and communicate to our youth in a way that lets them know they can do anything they put their minds too. I like to credit myself as a creative since as a hobby I love to make music and sing as self expression, I love to study music from people I am inspired by, one of those being THE Billie Eilish, but I also run a TikTok/instagram account that I am really working hard for it to take off, I specialize in food and cooking videos, I’m mostly known for smoked salmon/octopus mukbangs but I also do vlogs and talking TikTok’s, currently working on finding time to film YouTube videos, so hopefully I can open a soup kitchen or a food bank, something where I can go to help others and build for our community, I want change and I want to be the person to do it. I’m most proud of my consistency, I believed in myself and I’m showing myself to the world, emailing brands, and really putting myself out there regardless of how I have been treated by others in the past by doing the same thing. The people that hated me back then probably just felt my magnificent aura and couldn’t handle it LOL I think what sets me apart from others is that, I wasn’t supposed to be here, I was never supposed to make it out of my city or my home, and I was supposed to fall to drugs and become another statistic of Alaska’s population where it is arguably encouraged to abandon school, your children and your jobs and to chase drugs, the wealth gap is so severe, especially up there, I shouldn’t have had a chance, yet here I am. THANK YOU LORD.

What quality or characteristic do you feel is most important to your success?
Consistency and communication. I need to wake up everyday and choose to exhaust myself so I can have the chance at a life with stability and what a privilege it is to wake up at all, why not do everything I can. Communication is another huge factor because if you can’t communicate to myself, my audience, and with my collaborator deals there’s really no point.

Pricing:

• Small business first gifted videos are free
• Companies and big business videos, 1000-1500$ due to my views usually reaching above 3 million
• Small business first request for reviews are free!

Contact Info:

• Website: [email protected]
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandee__star?igsh=MjFpeDU5MmVqbjNh&utm_source=qr
• Twitter: https://x.com/opiumpussee?s=21
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@branstar3?si=mpH6Ht-oEM_JQfgy
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@brandee_star?_r=1&_t=ZP-91EzxSxqdFG