Grace Beverley

It definitely wasn't seen as a respectable job, I can tell you that for free.

It was really embarrassing.

It felt really embarrassing.

And the only thing that kept me going, as I said, was the fact that that inflection point

was pretty early on for me.

Like, yes, it took probably a year and a half for things to start taking off, but each gradual win felt like a win.

So it felt like something that I could commit to and I felt like it was worth sticking to it rather than giving in to being seen as cringe.

I also thought that I've done it now, so I might as well continue.

But I think the thing really is, is that I saw an end goal and I developed a thick skin to embarrassment early.

I learned that the fear of being judged doesn't actually kill you.

And in the end, people get bored.

Like I started being paid 20 quid here and there to post on Instagram.

And that was exciting enough to me, even if at the moment it might not feel like it for a lot of people, it might not feel worth it online.

I want to say as well, there are so many different types of cringe that are worth doing rather than just posting online.

I do think the fixation is a lot around that at the moment, but obviously that's an experience I had with it.

It felt very embarrassing, but it didn't

changed the trajectory.

It didn't actually affect my everyday.

It probably set a better threshold for who would actually be friends with me.

And I made sure to get actual real people that are still in my life now who could see past that like kind of semi-embarrassing thing I was doing that's now turned into something much bigger.