Today we’d like to introduce you to Lindsay Barrasse. Them and their team share their story with us below:
After graduating college Lindsay traveled back and forth from her hometown of Scranton, PA to San Francisco, CA freelancing for CURRENT TV, producing programs as well as a host/personality for the station. During that time she was also a direct partner for YouTube. She then moved to Los Angeles, CA in 2009 and worked on multiple projects there in film and television. Eventually, finding her way back to the Scranton area where she and her husband, David Corigliano, started Voyager Video in 2012, now Voyager Creative LLC, producing such things as commercial advertisements (regionally and nationally). In late 2019, they moved to Asheville, North Carolina. They remain to have a client base in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania while branching out into the Appalachian area. She also works as a freelance multimedia producer for various production companies as well as a freelance photographer, graphic designer, and web developer. In 2020, she took skills she was already applying to her clients and launched a full-on Social Media Agency offering Management and Content Creation as well as Coaching – alongside and incorporating her work with Voyager Creative LLC.
Behind the camera, her passion is focused on both cinematography and directing. She has received awards in video production, created dozens of international, national, and regional commercials, and has worked on as well as produced both short and feature films. Additionally, she is a certified Yoga Instructor with over 700 hours of training and continuing credit hours in various forms from such as Vinyasa, Kundalini, Children’s Yoga, and Yoga for Mental Health. She is certified in Family to Family Mental Health training and Mental Health First Aid as well.
She is the youngest recipient of the Woman of Excellence SAGE Award from The Greater Scranton Chamber Of Commerce, a published author, an award-winning video producer, and filmmaker, and was awarded Top 20 Under 40 in 2018 from the Business Journal.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has NOT been a smooth road but it has been an amazing journey.
When I started working for YouTube no one was doing it – then everyone was doing it and it was like reinventing the wheel. I thought How can I grow and move from this, What can I do to set myself apart, etc…
Just as my career in film was really taking off my husband and I moved then covid and lockdowns happen a month or so later and network for film was pretty much out of the question or really hard.
I knew I had all these amazing skills that I can use and turn them into a business – rather than freelancing or working from job to job with Video Production.
It is a lot of work and lot of moving parts but I do ALL the things I love and I am helping people grow their own businesses.
Now I am going to be launching courses specifically for ‘small business’ ( although I don’t really care for that term as a small business have large undertakings, usually one doing the work of many). I want to help specifically women entrepreneurs succeed.
The biggest struggle was a year into running my agency I was bitten on the face by a dog, and having to have multiple procedures over the past year. About a month after the bite my husband and my car, two cars, were stolen from our driveway. I felt defeated and emotionally drained but I kept on keeping on. I shared and continue to share what I am going through with a positive light – showing I am really a person and I have battles just the same. Not everything is sunshine and rainbows – but when you battle the storm the aftermath is a breathtaking view and smoother sails ahead.
Note* The dog bite was not an attack. Mahalo. 😉
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am most proud of my journey. Over the last 20 years, I kept on. I stayed true to who I am and I learned so much. That I worked hard putting myself through school and working multiple jobs to pay for everything myself.
I am known for being a creative soul but business savvy.
I specialize in all things social. The success I have had in my career has been from the power of social media. My film “The Road Less Traveled” was accepted to so many film festivals because they want to show it – because of the teaser and what I was showing across social. I did great work not only on that film but the marketing.
With my social media work, I am so proud of what I am able to create for my clients and the success I help them to achieve. In the month of January, I made my one client over $50,000 in selling her online course. One Month – Over $50,000 through social selling. Not through ads but direct sales.
What set me apart is I go above and beyond – I focus on my client’s ultimate goals and do what is necessary to achieve them within my role (and often outside of it!). I have a great eye for design and am skilled in the video as well. I have much experience working in my field and have been actively professionally working for 20 years. I work hard but I also have fun. I love what I do and I love to help others.
Any advice for finding a mentor or networking in general?
My advice is to listen. Soak everything in. Always be learning.
When I was a kid my father taught me this great lesson while skiing that applied to life. On a school trip we were in the rental line for our skis and I wanted to check the box “Expert”. Rather than my father addressing me to the true fact that I was just a kid nowhere near an expert, he said that no one is an expert. Even Olympic athletes are not experts – because there is always something new to learn, always something different. It was really profound.
I look for mentors that I can relate to but also are going to push me and be honest.
My one mentor now has helped me grow so much as far as owning and operating my agency. I learned that others in my field are not competition and we all have our own ways of our offering.
It is so important to have a mentor that will also be straight with you.
It is important to invest in yourself both in your business and in your personal and emotional wellbeing.
If that is 2 minutes of meditation or treating yourself to a mani-pedi, It could be taking a walk in nature or investing in your success as a business.
What makes you think that others will invest their time and money into working with you if you aren’t doing it for yourself??!!??
Pricing:
- Packages start at $500 and go up.
- I offer social audits and coaching at $150 a session.
- All-inclusive social media management with daily posts and engagement, alongside of the captions, research and content (video and graphics) is $5,500
- Video Production and Editing is available
- Building out content for reels, captions, and coaching also available
Contact Info:
- Website: lindsaybarrasse.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaybarrasse/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelindsayboo
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaybarrasse
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LindsayBarrasse
- Other: voyagervideo.com
Image Credits
Lindsay Barrasse
David Corigliano
