'I got fired into my dream job'
Updated | By JacPod
Jet-setting,
game shows, vlogs, and beauty products… what does it take to be an online
creator these days?
![Naledi Mallela](https://turntable.kagiso.io/images/DHB_Naledi_YouTuber.width-800.png)
Everyone wants to become an influencer, but how do you stand out with your content and still make money?
YouTube star, vlogger, and all-round content creator Naledi Mallela shares her experience with #DontHoldBack podcast host Nozibele Qamngana-Mayaba - plus all the tips that took her to a career as a digital entrepreneur.
Listen up (below) as this young Internet starlet takes us on a tour of the good, the bad, the ugly… of a YouTube channel set!
Meanwhile, dating is tricky at the best of times - but can love conquer all, even the complications around a positive HIV status? In the last episode, HIV-AIDS activist and digital creator Saidy Brown shared her story of living with HIV, including navigating love, dating, and how to reveal your status to a lover. Saidy was born with HIV. She found out about her status when she was 14.
“It was a long journey of denialism and just feeling like, ‘I want to die’ - until I was 18 years old. That was when I wrote the letter [on Facebook titled, ‘An Open Letter to HIV’] I remember writing it crying. I literally was crying the entire time. There's a line where I said, 'Because of you I feel less pretty' - and I stopped, and I read that line and I just broke down in tears," she recalls in a frank discussion with ‘Don’t Hold Back’ host Nozibele Qamngana-Mayaba.
![Don't Hold Back with Saidy Brown](https://turntable.kagiso.io/images/Dont_Hold_Back_Saidy_Brown.original.png)
Saidy sets the record straight on living with HIV, the myths and truths around HIV, and its impact on life and love. Listen below...
ABOUT NOZIBELE QAMNGANA-MAYABA:
South African presenter Nozibele Qamngana-Mayaba is well known for her HIV-AIDS activism and YouTube channel. After her own HIV diagnosis in 2013, Nozibele made it her mission to hold open conversations about her journey. Now a published author and respected authority on the subject, the 31-year-old’s work was named as one of the web’s Top 15 HIV YouTube channels. With her direct, engaging, and empathetic hosting style, she's the perfect fit to address taboo topics - and to say: Don't hold back!
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Don’t hold back – say it loud’ is both an audio and video production.
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