Today we’d like to introduce you to Aaliyah Sherree.
Hi Aaliyah , 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?
So it all started with a play. When I was younger I seen the play the toad and the frog live at my school and it inspired me to want to be on stage. And u knew at a young age that I would want to immerse myself fully into whatever hobby or interest that I had and at the time that was being around stages. I went onto making my own small plays with my sisters and cousins and rehearsing them such as directors did and then putting them on for my family. I’ve been realized, directing with something that I was passionate for because I wanted to make visions become real reality and that has ever since been one and only passion. So I took that passion and applied it into theater when I was in middle school, but in order to be in the acting class, you needed to take tech classes where I was taught how to refuse, shoot film, edit videos, and photoshop which down the line led me to want to shoot and edit videos of my own. So I saved up to get a camera towards the end of middle school and I started filming on my very own camcorder. By the age of 14, I had started up my own YouTube channel and spent a lot of time planning, filming, and editing my own videos, and a very fast paced and visually graphic and comedic style. And starting high school I was gifted a Canon G7X for my birthday and a MacBook so I was able to take my skills to another level with this upgraded quality equipment. I then started getting more creative with my editing style instead of just in my bedroom. I was going out to different places in collaborating with my friends and family and doing whatever was turning on YouTube at the time. Without knowing it, I was playing to the algorithm and I was good at it. I made get ready with me videos, 20 facts about me, jam to my playlist, bake with no hands, and many more challenges! Fast forward to the end of high school I had decided to take a break from content and start a clothing business my senior year. It was a loungewear business called Clxud Oufitters, I promoted, designed, balanced, and marketed the business all over social media. After ending my business I acknowledged that I enjoyed the marketing part of it all and realized it fed into my passion with making visions come into reality. So I wanted to take content creation and marketing seriously and took a risk and delete all the videos from my YouTube my account and start fresh with a new style. The best part about social media is that you can reinvent yourself and there is a niche for everything. It’s always advices to start with what you know and go from there and with the freedom of having moved out my moms house at 18 right after graduation I knew I could do so much more. I knew the content I wanted to make would be surrounded by beauty, lifestyle, wellness, fashion, and travel so I focused my content around those niches and aligned them with my life. Which led me to make a vision board that was aligned with how I wanted my life to go and executed it by showing up for myself. And so far I’ve been too BMW, Audi, and McLaren Pilates Events, tried different business around the city, attending brand events, trying beauty products and reviewing them, be traveling to different places creating content of my experience. I want to make content that not only encourages, but strengthens other girls like me who not only look like me, but feel the way I feel about life and to me life is meant to be experienced even if you have to experience it yourself always show up for yourself because at the end of the day you can count on yourself. I’m 23 now and if I can give my younger self, any advice as a teenager, it would be to show up and commit to yourself so you can look back on life and know that you took everything out of it and experienced it in every way you felt fit. That to me is the true meaning of self love and that’s my story.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
So the road definitely wasn’t smooth. I had to navigate and figure out how to get where I am now the hard way you know I was counting on other people to help bring me happiness instead of finding it within you know I was afraid to be alone because of the dangers of what the world had and it scared me into hiding it scared me into experiencing it scared me into neglecting myself. In a way if I felt like I was looking for a reason to not show up for myself and then give myself the hardest time for doing that. I also didn’t fully feel comfortable in my own skin. I didn’t see a lot of people that looked like me online who I can look up to in the Waze that I needed on top of that I had social anxiety, and I’ve always wanted to be a part of something that made me comfortable enough to be my full whole heart itself, but I was afraid of judgment I was afraid of being laughed at I was afraid of the way that I was being perceived to other people so I would just people watch until I felt I was ready to jump in there into myself. I am the main character, but to other people I feel like I would be an NPC or just someone who would be taking up space I found the confidence to reinvent myself in different ways. I tried giving myself different nicknames so whenever I met new people, they would know me by a cool nickname and would automatically think I was cool. I would switch up my lingo and switch up my style based on who I was around I would change my name because it felt like the person associated with it was fragile and shy, and antisocial and weird, and I felt like less of me until over the past couple of years I found myself bringing the power back into my name because I was bringing the confidence and power back into myself and that to me was my resolve because now I do go by my name proudly, I can walk into a room and be not the main character but still get noticed. I may be a little shy but not so much to wear. I’m overlooked. I can be in a conversation and make friends and talk openly and honestly because I don’t have that self reserve anymore. I feel like a better version of myself through the struggles that I’ve had to go through to get to where I am today I can confidently film out in the open though sometimes I may feel like I’m being silly I tell myself this may feel silly, but whenever you rewatch this while you’re editing it, you’re gonna be so happy you did it. I wanna look back on my life and be proud of what I did and who I am and that to me is the power of how I overcame my struggles as an individual.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
So I am a content creator and an aspiring creative director. I feel like I have the skills to get me there, but I’m not yet there yet. I had a very high standard for myself so what others may think is good I think is OK what others think is OK I may think it’s not good enough what others de are great. I may think I could do better. I’m my biggest critic so right now I create content based on my life experiences, whether it’s going to a Pilates class going shopping for something traveling somewhere if it’s either local or had to take a plane on there, I like to document my experiences and share them with others, it holds myself accountable for showing up for myself while still being that entertaining and bubbly person that I know that I am .
I would say that I specialize in creating a vision I make content based off my experiences, but I also take other people‘s briefs and recommendations and notes, and I make those into reality too digitally. I’m learning as I go, but I would consider myself and intermediate constant creator, because I set myself up for success by finding the next event finding the next opportunity and executing the ideas and committing to what is planned and that to me is a specialty that not everybody can do but to me it doesn’t feel like work. It feels like the next exciting thing I get to do it’s what I look forward to most is new experiences.
I would just say right now I’m known for the kind of content that I make but mostly on like a local sense I get a lot of great feedback on my editing style, which is something that I feel like I could teach, but you couldn’t copy. I like to show my personality through my creations no matter what it is so I feel like I’m known for being that person who’s always got something planned, that person who’s always doing something, that person who’s always making videos and to me that’s not a bad thing to be known for because that’s exactly what I’m doing and you see that other people are noticing that too makes me feel good inside because others may not know that I have to plan these events. Then I have to go to these events. I have to film the event from start to finish then I have to go and edit them which takes an additional maybe three day to seven day retainers I have so many videos in the queue right now that all I can do is edit them edit them edit them until it’s time for them to get posted but while I’m editing them, I have events also lined up every week so I’m pretty busy and that’s not a problem for me because to me it doesn’t feel like work and it’s work that I don’t get paid for it sometimes but I always enjoy doing .
I’m most proud of how I’ve been showing up for myself since the year started. I started my journey come January 2026 and it’s May 2026 and I’ve been to countless events and experience countless of of experiences that I never thought I would do, but I always had to ask myself why not and I couldn’t answer it so if you can’t answer, why not then why wouldn’t you do it? I’m proud that I’ve stayed committed and true to what I said I wanted to do and what I wanted to see for myself and it’s given me opportunity after opportunity to not only network and make new friends, but experience the things in life that I’ve always dreamed of and saved on my phone, but never actually did.
I think what sets me apart from others is my passion, ambition and drive I see myself in such a great place in life that I won’t settle for anything less than that I may not know how I’m fully gonna get there but I know that when it feels right, that intuition in my gut is telling me to move forward in a certain way I trust it. I think very highly of myself now because before I didn’t, and I’m not gonna sell myself short anymore because I know that I’m capable of whatever I put my mind too so if I put 100% of my energy into what I love, I’m gonna get 100% of results back whether it’s good results or bad results. I’m gonna see the outcome of it and I’m gonna bounce back from whatever it is or improve from whatever it is and I think that’s what sets me apart from others is that I’m willing to always try and because I believe in myself, I believe that I can get where I want to be in life
What was your favorite childhood memory?
My favorite childhood memory is actually writing, casting directing costuming and putting on plays with my cousins. I was probably around the age of 12 and I was doing all of it and I loved every minute of it. Sure, I was probably a harsh director. Someone would probably say I was difficult to work with but you gotta give me some slack passion that young that’s gotta mean something I will be recreating some of Disney’s best songs I will be choreographing to musicals and singing my heart out without a care in the world and that’s to me was whenever I was the most freeing with Lil responsibility. I was ambitious, even from a young age and some of my best memories are when I’m creating stress-free and an environment that’s meant for me to flourish
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaliyah_sherree?igsh=cnNrNWV1bGZ2aTlh&utm_source=qr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aaliyah_sherree?si=JDkFs69sOhEvolF8
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@aaliyahsherree?_r=1&_t=ZT-96L4h59TphF
