Today we’d like to introduce you to Azia Mikayle.
Hi Azia, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today.
Hey! My name is Azia Mikayle. Really what I want to share is something that I know a lot of young ladies like myself can actually learn from. Back when I was 17 years old and in the 11th grade, I had to have major back surgery. I was diagnosed with scoliosis back when I was 16 and we were doing things to try to prevent it from worsening.
To therapy and long hard nights where I just stayed up and cried because I had to wear a painful back brace, nothing worked. So I decided to go forward with the surgery. Now before finding out I had scoliosis I was a varsity cheerleader for my high school, Airport High School and I also was gaining another passion for YouTube so I started a channel, and the videos are gone now lol.
I loved cheering that was my first passion, but I had to give up my passion in order to correct my spine. So I had surgery and after recovery, I was very depressed, I couldn’t work, have fun, go to school, and barely could even go to the bathroom by myself without someone behind me holding me like I am handicapped. At the time it was aggravating but now I am thankful I had family there to support me through that hard time.
I was still on YouTube but I wasn’t very knowledgeable about YouTube at the time so I felt very discouraged because I wasn’t growing so that’s why I deleted everything. Senior year comes and something major happened again in my life, we moved my senior year and left basically the whole family that I have known since 7th grade just to go be around new people.
Part of me didn’t understand why we had to move. Why couldn’t I just stay one more year then we move? Can you just drive me there? No matter how many times I pleaded we were still moving. I fell into deeper depression and my anxiety worsened because not only did I have to give up my passion for cheer but now I moved away from the people I basically grew up with and meet new people, on top of still recovering from major back surgery.
So just a couple of days into my senior year I met a great group of friends. Those were my girls, they made me feel so comfortable and always invited me to hang out with them. It’s almost like they could sense I was a lost puppy in the middle of nowhere, sad. Then I met this boy and we were together for two years, which fast forward, me and them friends stopped being friends after my 19th birthday and I and the boy broke up because she cheated on me.
So now we are in Aug 2021. I am 20, not knowing what I want in life, and don’t know what I am doing, I’m just living. Started going to car shows and hanging out more with my siblings. I am still depressed because now I have no friends, I just got cheated on and I feel like I’m going nowhere. Literally, my days are the same up until September. September comes and I meet this man.
Now our connection was mind-blowing. Haven’t had someone like him before that took me out on dates and always made me smile, etc. It was literally like I met my soulmate. We were dating everything was perfect in my eyes. He was my escape from reality literally because what I was dealing with behind closed doors was very hard. I was not only dealing with the trauma from my past relationship, and my anxiety and overthinking and self doubt but I was also dealing with family issues, which I do not want to get into.
It was just a very toxic situation I will put it at that. All of those issues I was trying to deal with all at once and be happy for myself, my siblings, and my man. Which was my issue. My red flag. So I started to go to church more and connect with God. I have met this wonderful lady that has helped me. I am so thankful for her, she has changed my life in some way. I have actually deleted all of my social media at this time and was isolating myself from everyone, even family.
I came across this YouTuber and she was just speaking motivational words about doing things that make you happy and stop trying to be a people pleaser, getting out of your comfort zone, and embracing new hobbies or old ones that you have doubted yourself on. That spoke to me and woke up my passion for YouTube. I have many stories to tell and I want to tell them to others that can relate to me. It feels good to know you are not the only one dealing with insecurities, self-doubt, family issues, or relationship issues.
I want to be able to interact with others and just meet more loving, caring, positive people in my life. So I started posting on Fridays and coming up with fire thumbnails, my channel is growing daily. I have reached 500 supporters on my YouTube channel and I am blessed that they interact with me, and I also almost have 10k on Tik Tok. Making YouTube videos is something that I love doing, like I said it is one of my passions. I love making content and editing and posting, I love it all. All that though was all through God.
It is one scripture that has always stuck by me since I got baptized a second time this year, which is my biggest achievement, the scripture is Psalm 46:5 “ God is within her, she will not fail; God will help her at break of day.” I am still living by this scripture to this day because I was tired of being depressed, and sad, having anxiety and overthinking, and having sleepless nights crying.
So I said girl this is a ME year, and like Sarah Jake Roberts once said “Girl, get up!” So I started reading more, devoting more of my time to God and giving my issues and laying them in his hands firsthand. I still am to this day because I am still at war with myself. It’s a Me year. I have surrounded myself with positive friends and also cut some friends off too.
I am learning new habits and throwing away my old, toxic negative ways. It’s not in me anymore. I want to be the best I can be in God’s eyes and for myself. So now that I am in my “soft girl era” I want to tell my stories. I want to express myself through something I love doing. I want people to relate to me and be able to vibe with me. I want to say thank you to everyone that has been supporting me throughout my content creator journey.
This goes to say, be you, do what you love to do. Stop trying to pour from an empty cup. Stop putting yourself last. You are deserving and you are worthy. God loves you more than you can imagine, more than any flesh can. Stop playing with yourself and get back what’s yours, which is your peace, sanity, happiness, and positivity. Get back to YOU.
After every storm there is sunshine, and sometimes even a rainbow. I am here to talk or to give advice to anyone. Feel free to hit me up. Check out my YouTube channel, Azia Mikayle.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
No, it has not. I have been battling depression and anxiety, as well as self-doubt, and other personal issues.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am a YouTuber, I create content, so you can say I am also a content creator. I am most proud of my YouTube growth and as well as my growth on my other platforms. I am different from others. I am unique. Really everyone is in their own way. You just have to find it within yourself.
Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
Getting closer to God, creating content, and hanging out with my friends is what makes me happy because I am finally doing things that I have always wanted to do or have. I have also gained a passion for doing hair as fats as wig installs, and protective styles,
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/aziamikayle?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCB_T7bTS57JdibDM8eubD7Q
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@aziamikayle
Image Credits
Alexus Lenell
