27: Twitch Ambassador Rosannatxt Talks On Balancing Creativity and Productivity

In this episode of "Hello Spring," host Stephen Jody Works welcomes Rosannatxt, a Dutch content creator and Twitch Ambassador, and webshop owner who creates gaming, lifestyle, and productivity content with a strong focus on mental health and inclusivity. Dive into Rosanna's journey from facility management to full-time streaming, as she shares insights on balancing creativity with productivity, the importance of community in storytelling, and her passion for The Sims.

Discover how Rosanna navigates the challenges of content creation while staying true to her authentic self. Tune in for an inspiring conversation filled with laughter, wisdom, and a shared love for gaming.

Be sure to follow Rosannatxt on her journey as she continues to grow as a content creator!

If you need to be productive with Notion, here's Rosanna's storefront for all things Notion templates!

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Episode Transcript

(00:09):
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Hello
Spring podcast. I am your host, Steven Jody
Works or you may know me as Spring Sims Online.
But today we are sitting down with a talented content creator
who have gotten to know in the past couple of years, who is not
only so talented in gaming productivity, but is a genuine
good human who utilizes their platform to raise awareness for

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social good. Rosanna TXT is a Dutch content
creator, Twitch ambassador and web shop owner whose work
bridges through gaming, productivity and lifestyle, all
with a strong focus on mental health, inclusivity and
community. She has created multi types of
content including live streamingon Twitch, long form YouTube
videos, short form social content and her own Notion

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template business. It's where she helps people
bring structure and balance to their daily lives.
She's also very well known for her thoughtful approach and
creating spaces where conversations around neuro
divergent, chronic illness and LGBTQIA plus identity feel both
empowering and approachable. Not only does Rosanna have a big
heart for gaming and productivity, but she has a big

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heart in giving back. Rosanna and her community have
raised over $46,000 for various of charities including Hope for
Haiti, Movember, Able Gamers, Games for Love, Hope for the
Day, Hope for Haiti, Palestine'sChildren's Relief Fund, and so
many more. She's also a part of Twitch's
official Ambassador team, as well as their Women's Guild and
Pride Guild, reflecting on her commitment in fostering

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representation and uplifting others in the industry.
Her very warm, relatable, and endlessly engaging personality.
Rosanna's content is more than entertainment.
It's all about connection, advocacy and building a
healthier and more inclusive online world.
So my friends, I will leave you all with this lovely episode
with me and Rosanna talking moreabout her journey, productivity

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and gaming and so much more because you all will be left
inspired. Hello Row, welcome to the Hello
Spring podcast. It's so nice to have you on here
for Season 2. I've been very excited to talk
to you because you have so much knowledge when it comes to
content creation, organization, all things Notion, and you're
just a very good friend of mine that I want to chat with you.

(02:24):
Thank you. I'm super excited to be here.
Thanks for inviting me and having me on.
Yeah, no problem. For the people that are
listening and do not know who you are, can you give a brief
introduction of who you are and what you do?
Yeah, of course. So my name is Rosanna Oreo IU.
She her pronouns and I'm a content creator on YouTube,
twitch, Instagram, basically allthe social medias.

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I started out as primarily Sims 4, but over the years I've been
doing other things like Co working IRL, streams, variety,
gaming, basically just anything because I just really love being
creative and sharing that passion with people on the
Internet. I love that I'm very inspired by
what you do everyday. You basically have given me the

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confidence to do Co working likemyself on my own streams but
also just be more productive I feel like.
Stop. That's so sweet.
Yeah, because I feel like when you have something in the
background to either like, listen to or watch, it like
motivates you even more to like,keep working.
It really does. Yeah.
I feel like for Co working streamers there is almost like

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two sides to it. This one is like hosting the
space for other people but on the other hand is like if you
are doing a Co working stream yourself, it is so useful for
your focus. It definitely is.
You'd be very surprised. Like when you have like an hour
of like Co working, it's so shocking on how much work you
can get done in that hour when you're really locked in.
Yeah. It actually.

(03:54):
Is, yeah. Well, honestly, to start off the
podcast, let's kind of go into alittle bit of like your
background before streaming. Yeah, of course.
What do you want to know? So before you were a streamer,
what were you doing 'cause you were like more on the product

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management side? Yeah, so I studied facility
management, which for anyone whohas no idea what it is, the best
way that I always explain it is imagine that you have a
household to run, but then for acompany.
So it's the person who's responsible that there is an
office building, that there is heating and running water and

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food, and that things are clean.And it basically meant that you
have to like maintain all the contracts and help with event
management when people want to book rooms and stuff.
And that was the thing I studiedfor, ironically enough.
I thought when I was like 1213 years old, I was like, this is
my dream. I want to become a facility
manager. I don't even know where I found
that and why I thought that was a good idea.

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But that was genuinely my live stream.
And then specifically the dream was to do like moves for big
companies. So like when they move building
that you organize everything, that you plan out the whole move
that you prepare like the new building and make sure that
everything in the old building is wrapped up.
And that was like the dream. So I did the studies and then I
started working at an IT companyand my first big project was

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moving them to a new building. So I was living the dream.
And then I did that and I was 21and I was done with my studies.
I had done my dream project and I sort of fell into a hole.
I was like, I don't know what todo with my life anymore.
This is everything that I work towards.
And then within that same company, I tried to figure out
what I wanted to do with my life.

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So I moved into a different role, which was project
management, which kind of had elements of, hey, you enjoyed
organizing such a big project ofmoving a company from one place
to the other. You probably will enjoy managing
other projects as well. And I did that for a couple of
years, but I always missed beingcreative.

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Like that part was always sort of itching.
And I never really knew how to fulfill that part of like, I
don't know my talents, I guess. I mean, that's really, really
cool. I didn't even know about
facility, like facility management like that sounds so
big and out there and like that's really interesting.

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I like that and how you kind of navigated from that job to the
next job and now into streaming full time.
Would you say like when you had those those careers and that
mindset, it helped you like easily transition to streaming,
especially like making a full time career of making money on
the Internet, working with brands and like making sure

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you're kind of keeping that worklife balanced?
I think it helps in a lot of things.
Like I think if you go into content creation or streaming or
like any creative business, I think a lot of people, what I
see is they struggle with the organization side of things like
keeping on top of their schedule, making sure that they
meet deadlines, working with like variable factors of other

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people, requesting things from you last minute, and then sort
of having to change everything that you scheduled.
I think that's something that I learned kind of the hard way
working in a corporate, because a big corporate is just kind of
like that every single day. And especially as a project
manager, you're not just managing your own work, but
you're literally responsible forother people's timelines and to

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do lists and deadlines and stufflike that.
So I have a feeling like I couldtake a lot of those skills and
implement it into my content creation, which definitely sort
of gave me a kick start in how professionally I could do it
compared to maybe people that were very much still trying to
figure out how to self organize,so to say.
Hmm. See honestly if I had notion way

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back when I started, my life would have been completely
different for sure. Feel like I would have been a
lot more organized with my videoschedule and streaming.
Funnily enough I actually found Notion through content creation.
I didn't even know about it because as a project manager I
just worked in like you're boring office tools like excel
and stuff. I way back in the day was kind

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of an Excel wizard but not anymore.
I completely forgot that skill because I thought it was so
boring. But I actually found Notion
through content creation becauseI was looking for a way to
schedule my videos. I think this was like in my
first year, like towards the endof the first year in in like
into YouTube, I realized I need a place where I can store my

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scripts and make my planning like in one single spot rather
than having like a million different notes and files.
Because even as a project manager, even though I was doing
it as my daytime job to organizeother people's work, in the
beginning I was still quite messy.
But I very quickly realized I was like, OK, I need a system.
I need to fix this. And then I went looking for the

(08:55):
system and I found Notion and I've never looked back.
Hey, that's good. I am nowhere near an expert at
Excel whatsoever, but I know thebasics and that's all that
matters. But Notion has literally.
That's literally all you need, the basics.
Add in the cell here, copy and paste and share and that's it.

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That sounds perfect. So when you when I first
discovered you on online, it waskind of just randomly because
YouTube, you know, of course, like shows, like recommendations
of like videos and content creators and even like on
Twitch, I find so many differentpeople.
And your content was like very like simple, like in a word,

(09:39):
like simple. Like it was comforting and it
was easy to like watch and understand and I was
entertained. Yeah.
And I like how you, like, playedyour Sims and how you like,
navigated all throughout your SIM creation, like kind of going
back to the beginning. Like, how did you first discover

(10:00):
The Sims? And like, what keeps you coming
back to it after like so many years?
Because this game franchise is 25 years old.
It's crazy. It's crazy, Yeah.
I think actually from my childhood memories, I have not
even that many when it comes to The Sims because ironically
enough, my parents were relatively restrictive on screen

(10:21):
time. So I was literally texting with
my dad right before I joined this call about how it they
didn't really successfully raiseme as a non digital person
because now I literally spend myentire days behind my PC.
But they really tried. They really tried to make me
like a kid that plays outside and you know, is not super

(10:42):
interested in playing games, butit didn't succeed.
I was always sort of gravitatingtowards games.
And I vividly remember desperately wanting The Sims
like begging my parents for The Sims 1 and they were not really
sure if that was a game that wassuited for at the time, I was
like 5-6 years old and they couldn't really tell if I should

(11:02):
be playing that game. So I think it took like 2 years
of begging and me buying a very broken version on like a second
hand market at some point where my parents were like, OK, she's
committed to getting this game. We're we're not going to get
like keep her away from it. So we might as well buy it for
her. And I remember getting The Sims
1 Deluxe, but I could, I didn't really understand it.

(11:24):
I think it was even in English. And I obviously at the time did
not speak one word of English. So I was kind of lost that.
I remember being super excited to have the game, but I don't
have a lot of memories of actually playing it, funnily
enough. And my most vivid memories of
The Sims as a kid were watching my best friend play like kind of

(11:45):
like, I don't know, early game streaming vibes when she would
be sitting in her room and I would just be sitting on the
desk next to her just watching her play The Sims 2 in The Sims
3 all day. And then sometimes I was allowed
to help her make a character or like decide what we were going
to do, but I was just mostly there to watch.
And I loved it. I was so entertaining.
So those are like my early memories from The Sims.

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And then I completely dropped off, didn't play The Sims for
years until in 2019, I got a burnout and I was at home for
nine months. So I had nothing to do.
I was so bored. And actually that same best
friend was like, do you want to play The Sims?
Maybe because she never stopped.She was like, hey, I still play
The Sims. We now have The Sims 4.

(12:30):
Would you be interested? And I was like, I don't know, I
liked it as a kid. So I guess so I got my like very
old crappy MacBook Air and I waslike, OK, I'll come to your
house and then you have to teachme how to play The Sims.
I think in the end we ended up meeting at my house because I
have a memory where she's like explaining how to use all the
cheats and stuff and we're sitting at my kitchen table both

(12:53):
with like our Macbooks next to each other.
And I vividly remember her beingso annoyed that my first house
was in a box. She was like why are you making
such a creative build right away?
This is unfair. My goodness, no.
She's like you literally just learned how to do BB move
objects, why are you already decorating like a pro?

(13:14):
You're a natural. Apparently, yeah.
I don't know where that came from because as a kid I had zero
skills. I literally made big boxes with
10 million windows and then I was frustrated that it didn't
look good. No, literally same.
I feel like when I first played The Sims, I'm like thinking, how
do you build? I build boxes and then I add
more windows and add more doors because you get to have that

(13:35):
sunlight in there. Like just literal glass walls
because you kept adding windows.Yeah.
And now that we're like, in a way professionals, I'm like,
okay, boxes, we can make the boxinteresting, adding plants and
adding all these different bump outs here and there.
It's. Easy.

(13:56):
Now it's more fun. It is I, I, I think if I had
told like baby row back in the day, even me like sitting at
that table in 2019, but even earlier, like if there was ever
a day you had told me, hey, did you know that one day this is
going to be your job and you'll actually be like good at
building in The Sims and that's going to make you money?
I'd be like that can't be right.No, same.

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I feel like we never know. Like with content creation, we
never really know what to expect.
We just like love what we do. And then somehow people
resonated with it and like, oh OK.
And then of course, we make intoa a career.
It's like 100%. It's like I went into it with 0
expectations. I just did it because I was
enjoying it. Yeah, I made like machinima

(14:44):
videos, like little short films in The Sims 2 and then I.
Remember. It was my favorite pastime and
now I'm like, I just do other things now and it's kind of
nice. But hey, we love The Sims, we
love content creation and that'skind of like our day-to-day job.
We never stop working really. No, that is true.

(15:06):
That's I. I guess that's like 1 of the
upsides is that we enjoy our work so much and that we love
our work so much that it's easy to keep going.
But at the same time, I also feel like sometimes it's so easy
to keep going that you forget you also need to stop and you
need to take breaks. Yeah, very, very important.
And on the topic of Sims like, you have been making content for

(15:27):
quite some time now. And how would you describe your
like overall aesthetic or like storytelling style in The Sims?
Like you do a lot of building, but you do a lot of storytelling
in gameplay. Like how would you describe?
That's such a good question. I don't think I've ever thought
about it. The first thing that I guess

(15:47):
comes to mind is in a way collaborative or interactive,
because one of the things is I didn't actually enjoy
storytelling until I started creating content.
I went into content creation purely for building.
I was like, I don't want to playthe game.
I don't, I get bored really fast.
And then I started playing the Nalto Berry challenge on Twitch

(16:12):
and my chat like started giving me input.
And that's the moment where I was like, oh, hold on, I'm not
alone in building this story. Like we can come up with ideas
together and people here can sort of build this with me.
And together they give me like little story hooks that I can
use to then build out the story.And I think from there, I

(16:34):
wouldn't say it escalated, but it definitely became one of the
things that I love to do is coming up with like really
elaborate reasoning or backstories as to why my
characters in my game do certainthings.
Because for me, that gives a certain depths to my
storytelling, which keeps it alive, which prevents me from
getting bored. It feels like I'm doing more
than just taking care of my Simsneeds or doing like chores in

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game or having them go to work. It's like there has to be a
reasoning as to if if their needs are perfect all the time,
there has to be a reason as to why they are so good at taking
care of themselves. Or if their needs are crap all
the time I need to know like whyare they so bad at taking care
of themselves? And I've realized that the
community really enjoys the why behind it, and they enjoy, like,

(17:16):
collaboratively building that story and figuring out why a
character is acting the way thatthey do.
And that, for me, was sort of the little magic puzzle piece
that made me fall in love with storytelling in The Sims.
I really like that. Like you said, it's a very
collaborative effort and I feel like we all play The Sims so

(17:37):
differently, but when we all come collectively together for
something that we really enjoy, it's it becomes something
bigger. Yeah, 100%.
It's like the characters sort oflike people in my community
become attached to certain characters as well because they
resonate with what is happening in their lives or like they see
a part of themselves in that character.
So I think it's also, especiallyin terms of representation, like

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I have a lot of diversity in my community, both on YouTube and
on Twitch. And I think it is super cool to
see so many people like feel represented by the stories that
I'm telling and also by telling imperfect stories.
So like my Sims also mess up andthey learn in life and they're
not perfect people. And I think it's nice to see
that in game when there is like so much, I don't know, like I

(18:22):
think a lot of people play The Sims where their Sims are always
happy. And I think it's sort of nice to
see Sims struggle a bit because that resonates with people.
Yeah, I think it's also very important to like what The Sims.
It's so open-ended, at least like The Sims 4, it's so open
that I kind of describe it as a sandbox game.
You 100% what you want, how you want.

(18:44):
If you play on console or PC, it's like you get to build the
sort of how you want and not this like already set up stuff
that's already there. Even though it does help, I
think you can like incorporate it like incorporate your own
like mindset and story into it if you would like to. 100% I
think the game gives you like some story hooks or or little

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steps, but in the end it's all up to you to actively play the
game and tell the story because the game is not going to do it
for you. I think there's a lot of games
that do have a very built in story or multiple storylines
that you can follow, but with The Sims, it's really like if
you are not doing it, nothing's happening.
Right, exactly. They don't have a mind of their
own, but sometimes they do. Sometimes they do.

(19:29):
Sometimes, sometimes it's not the way you want it, but you
know, it kind of can help sometimes, yeah.
I take what they. Do.
Something that I think I've grown to appreciate more is the
chaos of the game sometimes, like, obviously not talking
about like bugs or anything is actually broken, but just, you
know, the fact that your Sims have autonomy and sometimes do

(19:50):
something just really stupid. And then I just have to work
that into my story. Like if my SIM autonomously
decides to kiss someone and I'm like, oh OK, I guess I'm going
to have to work with this now and I'm going to have to figure
out how this fits into whatever story I'm telling.
And that also keeps it like refreshing.
It does. It does.
I like when the game just goes sideways because it's like I can

(20:13):
add this little spin to it and see what it can go and it's it
becomes a whole thing. And then I find out just
randomly my brain likes to decide, Oh, this SIM was like
actually my second cousin once removed from like many, many
like family generations ago. And I'm like thinking, oh, wait,
they're actually like brother and sister crazy.

(20:35):
No, it's wild. Yeah, and then it becomes like
the best lore in all of your legacy challenges is like the
lore that sort of just happened where the game just caused
Chaos. That's why I want more stuff in
The Sims personally. Yeah, I think like, I think if
they can keep it in a way that is like not breaking the game

(20:56):
and running smooth, but there's like more things, just just more
options for chaos and more things that can sort of happen
and then take your story a certain way.
I think that would be super fun.I can definitely see that there
are certain things and I'm like,I wish there was also like, not
more negativity. That sounds like the wrong word.
But I think a lot of features inThe Sims are aimed towards your

(21:18):
Sims being happier or living like more fulfilling lives.
But sometimes I'm also like, yeah, but my SIM also could fall
off. And like, I don't know, I think
things like the burnout feature are getting fired and stuff like
if it's, if it's tweaked or balanced, I think it could be so
fun because your Sims obviously need to have some hardship in
life to also, I don't know, build their storyline around.

(21:40):
Yeah, definitely. And I feel like what what's so
good about like The Sims and like being very creative with
The Sims. Like how do you keep your
creativity like following with The Sims, especially like with
how long the French has been around.
Like you use your community as away to be creative and you also
have like your own creative likeways.
But how do you like still keep going?

(22:01):
Because eventually we'll run outof ideas.
But then I also think at the same time, we can always think
of something new that's not being created out in the world.
I think for me, usually when I notice a creative block, when
I'm feeling a bit drained creatively and I don't know what
I want to do or or not like, naturally new ideas are forming
in my head. My best way to approach it is to

(22:24):
do something that is completely unrelated to the thing that I'm
trying to be creative in. So if I have no inspiration for
building in The Sims, if I have no inspiration for storytelling,
I know that's the time for me togo outside and touch grass and
usually experience other form ofcreativity.
So go to a concert or like, I don't know, go to a museum or

(22:44):
hang out with my friends and have some like really deep
conversations. Because 9 out of 10 times those
things will give my brain a lot of new inputs that without
consciously thinking about it, will then get used to sort of
translate it into, oh, I could do something like this in The
Sims, or this would be fun for storytelling.
Or sometimes it even subconsciously helps me connect

(23:05):
things that were already in my brain.
But simply because I took a stepaway from the screen, all of a
sudden the the things are like actually clicking.
I really like that. That's very important to always
take a step back. But when you're at work or
something you really enjoy is becoming like overwhelming and
stressful. Definitely like get outside,
touch some grass, as we say, andreally and just enjoy what's

(23:27):
around you. Like recently I've been
following you on Instagram and I've what I love about your,
your content. It's so feels like real life,
like it's your real life, of course, but it feels like real
life, you know? Thanks.
And I'm happy that it's that's what the vibe it's like giving
because that's what I'm going for.
Yeah, and you recently went to Budapest?
I did, yeah. And yeah, and I loved following

(23:50):
that story and like, I personally have never been and I
would love to go, but watching your story is like very
inspiring to like saying, yeah, we, we work online and we, but
we have to like, like disconnectfrom it sometimes and really
enjoy what's out there. Like going to concerts, you
said, and like being able to seedifferent places and new
experiences and trying new foodsthat we probably have never

(24:10):
tried before that we can use as inspiration in our everyday
content. Yeah, that for me that makes a
lot of difference. Like it, it 100% recharges my
creative batteries. And it also in a way obviously
like taking breaks in general isgood for your mental health.
So if you're not in a great place, it's like always good to
practice self-care is one of thethings that I say is self-care

(24:32):
is sexy. And I really genuinely stand by
that. And I should also live by that
myself, of course. So I actually was in dire need
of a break when I took it. And I noticed it actually only
when I came back, I was like, wow.
Now all of a sudden I feel so refreshed and energized to pick
up new projects that before feltlike a like a huge task and I

(24:54):
didn't know how to start. And now all of the sudden I just
feel the motivation and energy to start.
And I think a big part of that is also seeing other people's
art and seeing like other peopleperform.
And I don't know, like seeing beautiful things in the world.
They always motivate me to create other beautiful things
because then I'm like, oh, that's like I, I hope other

(25:15):
people enjoy what I make in a way that I also enjoy what other
people make. So it's a really motivating
thing to experience. It is, it is definitely very,
very important. Like you always say, self-care
is very sexy and it's very important to like take care of
yourself or your body will tell using the hey, something's not
right. If you don't slow down, we're

(25:36):
going to shut down. And it's very true.
Yep. So like I think having like
that, that work life balance is very important.
And like that's kind of where like Notion, at least for me and
for you kind of fall into play. Like it's that productivity tool
that we have to use to balance our lives, whether it's work
related meetings, podcasting, interviewing or just like our

(25:58):
daily schedule. And how like, how do you use
Notion as like your content workflow like your day-to-day?
Yeah, So for me, I sometimes jokingly say my entire life is
in Notion, but that might not even be as much of a joke as I
say it because I think it is almost entirely true.

(26:21):
I manage my day-to-day To Do List in Notion.
So every single week on Sunday, I sit down and I plan out my
week. And with that, I basically first
plan all the tasks that I want to pick up in a week and I
schedule them on different days.And then I go into Notion
calendar and I basically drag them into my time locks to see
if I haven't over planned myself.

(26:42):
Because sometimes I can think, oh, I can do these 10 tasks.
But then if I realistically think, hey, but this recording
is going to take two hours and this recording is also going to
take two hours, oh wait, that's actually all my recording time
for that day. It helps me sort of prevent
making unrealistic to do lists for myself.
And I couldn't do that without specifically the combination of

(27:03):
Notion databases and Notion calendar because I really like
scheduling things just on my Notion dashboard and then going
into my Notion calendar and sortof making that specific task
that's just simply on my To Do List.
That could also be on a piece ofpaper on my desk.
But then being able to drag thatinto my calendar and assign
bring time to it helps me a lot in visualizing how much work I

(27:26):
can do on a day. So I guess that is one very
important part in my content sort of workflow is that I
schedule my work in a way that Ihopefully I'm still learning.
Sometimes some days I do better than others, but that I don't
over schedule myself. And then other than that I have
a separate database where I basically plan out all my

(27:48):
videos. So every single video has a
separate card. And on that card, I can write
the script, I can write all the important information.
I can link it to my sponsorship database.
I can give it a deadline if there is a sponsor attached to
it. I can basically have it on a
little Kanban board that allows me to see the status of that
video. And when I'm planning my week

(28:09):
and I'm like making my To Do List, I can also link my videos
to my to do's so that I can basically from my To Do List,
immediately open that page that includes all the information
about the video that I'm making.And it just make sure that
information doesn't get lost because everything is in a
single place, which helps me a lot in trying to keep track of

(28:30):
all the moving parts. Yeah, definitely when I when I
learned about Notion, I was like, this is so confusing.
But I also felt like it's an open-ended thing, like The Sims
you created how you want your own aesthetic.
And I think what was so interesting about it is like I
come from a background of like UIUX design.
So I really love like branding things.

(28:53):
And so Notion like gave me like that push that I needed to
utilize that. And when they announced Notion
calendar, I'm like, think goodness, because the amount of
emails that I have is ridiculous.
So when I'm able to basically integrate everything into one
calendar and sync it to different calendars, it makes it

(29:13):
so much more easier and like more simple to like, like you
said, like time block our schedule so that we don't like
to get too overwhelmed or we over planned, especially for
like traveling or trying to do something very like specific.
We have this one calendar that we can use and it's available in
like any platform, or at least your phone and your iPad and
your desktop and different places.

(29:35):
And I don't know, Notion is likeone of the best programs that
has ever existed and it's great before I used Trello and Slack.
Oh yeah, I came from Trello as well.
That was like I Trello was like a good start.
I liked it. It was a good introduction.
I think if I'd never used Trello, probably I would have,

(29:55):
wouldn't have seen the potentialin Notion.
I think for a lot of people, if you see Notion for the first
time, because you start with an empty page, it's there's like no
context. It's like, what can this do?
I don't understand how it works.It's an empty page.
And exactly kind of like what you said, the, the comparison
with The Sims, it's it's like it's a sandbox.
You can make whatever you want, But that is also that also means

(30:16):
that you basically have to understand your own brain really
well to build out your digital brain.
Because if you don't understand how your own brain works, it's
really difficult to build a system for yourself.
Yeah, it is. You really like you say, you
have to understand your own brain and that can be quite
scary sometimes, but it would bevery helpful over time for sure.

(30:41):
So with your content workflow and everything since now you are
a full time content creator because you were once part time,
now you're full time. Like what would you?
Say is like your typical work week because I know that you do
a lot of Co working, but you also like balance it out with
like other content like gameplaylike in The Sims or like
Minecraft or sturdy Valley. But, well, it's like your work

(31:02):
week, essentially. Yeah.
So I'm going to tell you my desired work week, which I can
already tell you is not always reality because unfortunately
more than once I end up having to do like a couple of little
tasks in a weekend or something.But ideally my work week would
be that I during Monday, during the day, I do a Co working

(31:25):
stream. So that's basically just office
hours. I start at 9:45 and I go until
5:00 and that is time where I can script things where I can
work on like answering emails, preparing sponsorships, like all
the admin work. Basically things that I don't
have to record for or time that I can use to edit videos.
So that can be either like roughcuts, thumbnails, final edits,

(31:48):
making little animations, just anything that doesn't require me
being on camera. Talking into a microphone can be
done on a Co working stream. Then on the Monday evening I do
a gameplay stream. So kind of depending on the mood
it can be the same. Sometimes it's Minecraft,
sometimes it's indie games, stuff like that.
On the Tuesday I have another Coworking day, so again, office

(32:10):
hours. I basically take the whole day
to just work on things that don't require me to be on
camera, apart from obviously streaming.
But I can't stream and record atthe same time.
So that's why that's sometimes alittle bit of a logistical
challenge. But then my Tuesday evenings are
normally free sometimes depending on like work hours and

(32:30):
stuff like this, like exactly like right now, you know, time
zones sometimes pose a challengeso that it does go into my
evenings, but that is OK. But other than that, usually my
Tuesday evening is free. So I hang out with my partner
and I just chill and vibe. Then my Wednesdays are sort of
like my, I call them my potato days.

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So I prefer to not record on Wednesdays.
I can if I have to, like if I have a lot of videos coming up
or a bigger project or something, I can use that time
because I'm not coworking streaming.
But I also enjoy having a day where I don't have to think too
much about like being on and sort of I can just sit here in
my pyjamas. I will still do work, but it's

(33:13):
mostly going to be also things like in my house, folding my
laundry or maybe like posting a package.
I usually use the Wednesday morning for my workouts.
I update my business finance every week.
It's like all of those tasks that don't require an immense
amount of brain power and you can just do on a bit more like
of a chill pace. And then I do stream on

(33:34):
Wednesday evenings, but that's gaming.
So I feel like gaming streams they are officially they are
work, but they always feel like just a lot of fun.
So I don't necessarily experience it as work as much.
Then Thursday I have another coworking stream during office
hours. So more editing, more admin
work, stuff like that. And then on Friday is my batch

(33:54):
recording day. So I usually wake up on time and
then around 9 AMI start recording and I record until
5:00. And it really depends what's on
my schedule. Sometimes I record like one big
building video and a packed legacy episode because I always
record one packed legacy every Friday so that I can send it off
to my editor. And then sometimes like I said,

(34:16):
I do multiple videos like smaller videos that I've pre
scripted, stuff like that. It kind of depends on what I
have, but I try to record 1 to 2weeks in advance at least,
preferably 3, so that in the week after I can like edit all
of that if I have work, if I'm working with sponsors, I can
already send them like the concept version, stuff like

(34:37):
that. And if I'm really busy, like I
said, if I need more recording time, I'll do that on the
Wednesday so that my potato day becomes a recording day as well.
That's a really good work like work week.
I should take that into consideration for myself.
I feel like I do so much work and I'm like, I need that one
day where I can like just batch record anything.

(34:58):
Wow, that's a that's a good workweek.
Is the the biggest downside is that sometimes because it's the
Friday that's my batch recordingday and sometimes on Friday I'm
just tired because I had a really long week.
You know, like with a lot of bigthings happening or sometimes
even social events on the Tuesday and the Thursday.
And then sometimes on Friday I wake up and I'm like, I'm so

(35:19):
drained. But today I have to perform in
front of a camera the entire day.
I'm recording the whole day. And then in the evening on
Fridays, I also do a third gaming stream.
So Fridays are intense days to sort of close the week with, but
they're also fun because I get to literally play games and
record it. So it's like always a little bit

(35:40):
double. And it depends on my energy
whether I'm very happy to do it or I'm more like pushing myself
with an extra cup of coffee. Yeah, and that's why I feel like
with this, my podcast, I didn't want any of my guests or anybody
to have their camera on because when you're online all the time,
it can be a lot and can be tiring.
So especially having lights on and everything, we got to make

(36:02):
it chill and very low key so it's easier that way.
Yeah, I feel like sometimes I wish some of my content was
different. Like I've also thought about
would I want to stream with likea fee tuber or without a camera?
But I feel like that doesn't really fit me as a person
because I like yapping and I like that sort of personal
connection. So I, I feel like I had to fit

(36:25):
my potato time in like somewhereelse, which ended up for me
being like, OK, how, what, what sort of admin work or household
chores and stuff can I do? And I tried to all combine that
on a day. So that day is the day that I
don't have to be on camera as much.
That's good. And kind of going into that,
like with being a content creator, especially full time,

(36:47):
the sustainability of it all, like it, it can be a lot for
sure because you make a living online and like, how do you do
it all? Because there's sponsorships,
there's Twitch Subs, ads, templates, and you make Notion
templates too, which is really great and very helpful for a lot
of people, especially in The Sims or just productivity in
general. Like, how do you kind of like

(37:10):
make your con like you're makinga living online?
Yeah, so I think one of the things that when I started doing
content, I did it as a hobby. I was like, I'm just doing this
for funsies. And then I think maybe 2 years
into it, I started making a little bit of money.
And initially I used all of thatto just invest in better

(37:31):
equipment, like a camera and a better computer and stuff like
that. And then at one point I was
like, OK, well, this is nice. And I started adding more
passion projects like the Notiontemplates and they started to
make me some money as well. And I think it was in January
2024 where I said to myself, like, I was nowhere near a point

(37:51):
where I could sustain myself as like a business to live off.
But I was like, there's potential here.
I, I could, I think if I focus on the right things, maybe make
a living out of this, but I haveto start saying it out loud
because as long as I'm kind of doubtful whether that's
something that I actually want, I'm not going to put my actions
towards actually making it happen.

(38:15):
So I started saying it to myself, but also to friends.
I was like, yeah, I would love to do this as a job sometime.
And something that I noticed is that with that, almost
automatically my actions and like my choices and my content
started aligning with that. So it wasn't like I was all of a
sudden dropping anything that didn't make me money, but it was
more like I was starting to notice patterns in, Oh, if I

(38:37):
make specific types of videos that is good for like growth and
I enjoy them, Or if I do like the Notion templates and I make
sure to market them well, that is like a nice passive income
stream, which over the course ofa year led to me saying yes to
basically every opportunity thatI got, which allowed.

(38:58):
I, I wouldn't call it explosive growth because it's not like I
went completely viral. But I went from may not making
nearly enough money to potentially being able to go
full time by just having as manyincome streams as possible and
not relying on just twitch or just YouTube or just notion
templates. But all of the little bits
together made for an amount thatwas like, maybe I can do this as

(39:21):
a job. And then I kind of from there
got forced because of my health to quit my corporate job because
that was asking certain things of me that I could no longer
deliver. And that kind of made me take a
leap of faith and just go full time.
And so far, it's been going really well.

(39:42):
But I recently also switched management and I had a good chat
with them and they were like, yeah, you might have to like
pick a bit more focus because atthis point you're doing so many
things that it's almost like your energy is too scattered.
So all of your places make a little bit and like they all
grow steadily, but not super fast.

(40:03):
But if you now sort of bring back that focus and you pick
maybe 2-3 four things that you really focus on instead of 20
things, you might actually be able to.
Sort of accelerate what you're doing right now.
So I'm sort of in that weird limbo right now where I feel
like I shouldn't be giving advice on how to do all of it

(40:24):
because I actually need to adjust my way of working because
it's not really sustainable to try and keep up 20 different
income streams because it's justtoo much work for a single
person. And I could do it for a little
bit, but now I'm realizing that if I want to do this sustainably
for like a long time, I actuallyjust need to choose what I want

(40:44):
to do and commit to that. Yes, indeed, because you don't
want to like overexert yourself with too many things, like you
don't want to be on every platform when people say you
should go on every platform. But realistically, how much are
you going to put your time on those those platforms You got to
pick like at least, like you said, like at least 234

(41:05):
platforms that you think you would put the most energy into,
like Instagram and Twitch and Tiktok and and YouTube are like
the four that I feel like I would put more energy in.
And like, I feel like the same was with you 2.
And with all these new platformscoming out and not really sure
if they're going to know be sustainable for the long haul.
We don't know if they're still going to be here in the next

(41:26):
like couple of years. Having like that core four.
Yeah, is very important. Yeah.
And it also allows you to sort of align those maybe like 3
platforms and make sure that youhave content that matches across
the platform, so you can reuse content and post them in
multiple places. Whereas in my case, obviously, I
sort of have two streams in my content right now. 1 is very

(41:48):
much productivity focused and like lifestyle and kind of like
that sort of direction. And then I have the gaming sort
of cozy direction. And I personally resonate more
creatively with the cozy in the gaming direction, which still
can involve productivity. Like I can still talk about what
it's like to be a cozy creator and how I do my work.

(42:09):
But I noticed myself sort of splitting up into corporate row
and cozy row. And I was like, OK, corporate
row is I can do it. Like it's not something that is
not within my skill set, but I just don't enjoy it as much.
It drains me way faster than thecozy gaming side and like the
aesthetic setup side and stuff like that.
So I was like, OK, maybe I need to sort of reiterate my focus

(42:33):
and figure out what I want to doso that I can also be more smart
about my content creation and reuse things and, you know, not
try to post everywhere all the time.
But it's, it's definitely a difficult thing as a creator
because when you start out, you kind of have to put your eggs in
like a lot of different baskets and kind of see which one sticks

(42:54):
for you. Because for some people, TikTok
works great. I personally do not enjoy the
platform that much. It's just not my vibe.
But I know for some people it's like their main platform.
It's the one thing that like really popped off for them.
And the only way you'll ever know is if you try.
Exactly, you never know until you actually try with making

(43:16):
content online. And it can be very scary for
sure, like just going into it for the very first time.
But if you have like the will and the the passion for it and
you love what you do, saying might as well try, especially if
you don't see the stuff that you're creating out there
already in the world. Exactly.
And honestly, there's a lot of, you know, common misconceptions

(43:39):
about people like on the Internet of not knowing, like,
are you truly making it as a content creator?
Like what do you think is the like common misconception about
people saying you've made it as a full time content creator?
Like you're making all this money.
You have all these followers andlike.
I think that you, as soon as you've made it that you're rich

(44:03):
and that you get to be lazy, that you get to like lean back
and enjoy sort of the quote UN quote, like big air quotes, like
the fame that you've established, like they're like,
once you have it, it won't go away.
And I think that is something that externally is really easy
to assume. But once you're on the other

(44:23):
side of the table, I think everysingle creator knows that
pressure like sort of sometimes like crumbling under the
pressure of, but I have to continue posting.
I have to be present. Like as soon as I'm not there,
I'm going to fall off because the algorithm is not built to
keep your fame up when you're not there.
Like it's just, it's just going to forget about you.

(44:45):
And I think a lot of people assume like, oh, once you've hit
one case, like followers and subscribers, you've you have
that forever. Like no though that can go away
and you have to work really hardto maintain it.
Yes, yes, indeed, because the algorithm can be crazy.
And so as soon as you don't postfor a couple of days, it's like,
well, where have you been? Yeah, people forgot about you

(45:09):
and it's so scary. So you have to like really put
in that extra work to like take that break that you want.
So that way you don't be like you are not forgotten through
the algorithm of course, especially on YouTube and
Instagram and even. Very much, yeah.
So with everything, with all that being said, like running a
business as a creator can be oneor two different things.

(45:32):
You can work by yourself and just do everything yourself.
But you can also have a team, whether it's having an editor, a
manager, an agent, finding new deals, editing your videos for
you, or like managing your e-mail.
And with all of that, because they make money, you make money.
And lo and behold, sometimes people do make LLC's and like

(45:54):
actually running business like to it.
But how do you handle like the business side like taxes,
contracts, brand deals like while staying like creatively
fulfilled? Yeah.
So when I started Switch, I was lucky, I guess, that I already
had a registered business way back in the day.
Actually, right at the start of the pandemic, I registered my

(46:15):
business because I wanted to do photography as like sort of a
side hustle and I really enjoyedlike doing photo shoots for
people. I think that was one of the
first parts of me trying to explore what I could do
creatively. I think in the end, photography
wasn't the best match, but it was like a good start.
I think I can still use that skill in content creation this

(46:36):
day and age. But that like allowed me to
already have a business right from the get go and to
officially register things like any income that I made from
Twitch or YouTube and stuff likethat.
To at least have it come in through a business and make sure
that in the Netherlands it was like legally acceptable that I
was getting money from differentplaces in the world.

(46:57):
I do remember in the beginning being extremely lost on the
taxes situation also because thelaws here at the Netherlands are
extremely outdated. So I even had a consult with
someone from the tax agency and I asked like, OK, so this is my
situation and I'm getting paid out from like the US from Twitch

(47:19):
and I'm getting paid from like Ireland for, for YouTube.
How do I register this? Like, how does this work and how
this does work with VAT and taxes and stuff?
And this person looked at me andhe was like, I have no idea.
Like our laws and regulations onthe website, that's the
information we have. And like, yeah, but that's about
a web shop. I don't run a web shop.

(47:40):
I make content. And this guy was looking at me
like he had no clue I was what Iwas talking about.
So in the beginning I was definitely nervous about the
business side of things because I just simply didn't really know
what to do. I think for me, as soon as that
that moment that I started saying to myself, I want to do
this as a full time job, I also started aligning my sort of

(48:02):
admin actions to it. So I looked for a bookkeeper,
which helped massively in answering questions about how
should I do my bookkeeping and my administration to be, you
know, compliant with the tax rules and stuff like that.
And that took a lot of stress off my plate because I was
really worried that I would be making money.
And then, you know, maybe 2 years, three years into the

(48:25):
future, the tax agency here would just knock on my door and
be like, hi, girl, you owe us a lot of money.
And then maybe I would have spent that money or something.
So it's nice to know that I'm now just doing everything the
way that I'm supposed to. And I'm very happy that I have
helped with that because I have,I could not have done this by
myself. So I think that would also be an

(48:46):
advice that I would have for everyone is like, if you're
struggling, if you experience a lot of stress from things like
this, is always ask for help because it's, it will drain you
from your enjoyment of the thingyou're doing, whether that be
content creation or anything else.
If you're literally only worrying about if you're doing
it right or your money or stuff like that, it's just it, it

(49:06):
takes every little bit of enjoyment out of it and it makes
it a struggle. And I was so happy that I
outsourced it. Yeah.
So that's like that part of the business side.
And then in terms of working by myself versus working with other
people, I think two years ago I realized that with editing,
specifically editing videos for gameplay, that was just not my

(49:29):
strong suit, but also I didn't enjoy it as much.
So I looked within my own network to see if I knew people
that could help me. I'm very lucky that the people
that I've edited for me at this point are three people and they
were all part of my moderator team on Twitch.
So I already knew them and I already felt like really
comfortable with them in terms of communication and working

(49:50):
together. And it just makes it easier
rather than having to kick off with a complete stranger.
So that was very nice. And I still work with two of
them. One of them actually realized
that they were more into like orthey didn't realize that.
They knew that already, but theyrealized that gameplay editing
wasn't really what they enjoyed in editing.

(50:11):
They wanted to do more like movies and creative things.
So they ended up saying, hey, this is not really my cup of
tea, but I'm still working with two of my moderators for
editing. One does my weekly packed legacy
episodes and one helps me with editing Twitch streams.
Like speed builds into or like actually Twitch builds into
speed builds. So I'm very happy that they are

(50:33):
helping me because I would not be able to do all of that by
myself and I also wouldn't enjoyit.
And then I started working with a management about a year ago
and I recently switched management because I was looking
for a little bit more like specific one-on-one help.
And my previous management was very young.
They were very like starting up.So they, in terms of agency

(50:56):
management, they were more doinglike bigger deals for the whole
agency rather than doing like very targeted one-on-one, like
what do you want to build as a creator?
And I just needed an agency thatcould help me a bit more with
building my brand specifically rather than just taking on
sponsors because I needed money.That makes a lot of sense and I

(51:16):
I like your the the brand of your managements.
It's not management that's really cool.
I like the art style of everything It's.
I know it's made by someone in the agency.
They hand draw everything like they make everything themselves.
It's really cool. They must have been a graphic
designer back in their day. I have to ask, I actually don't
know. I'm just impressed because they

(51:38):
make custom artwork for like every single talent that signs
with them. And when I saw mine, they were
like, oh, do you like this? And I could also like ask like,
oh, could you maybe add this into the background?
Because I feel like that matchesmy style or like my vibe.
So it was a really cool process.Yes, I like that.
Everything's yellow, so that's that.
Does fit you? Yes, it does.

(52:02):
So with all that like now havinglike new management and new
exciting things happening. This happened to you like
recently you became a Twitch ambassador, which a lot of
people always look at this like that is really cool.
Like you are like the highs at the high.
You're representing Twitch in a different way, helping the

(52:22):
creator community and talking toTwitch.
And like that's a really incredible like recognition,
like accomplishment. Like, what was your initial
reaction when you got like the e-mail saying or like I guess in
I guess a video form saying thatyou're now a Twitch ambassador?
Yeah. So there's actually a whole
process that goes in front of, you know, the announcement.

(52:45):
So the announcement went out from the top of my head end of
March this year. I had known since October 2024
and I would be an ambassador. So it was really difficult to
keep my mouth shut for six months.
It was like really, really hard because I was not allowed to
tell anyone. And I like, I told like my

(53:06):
partner for instance, but they're not really involved in
Twitch. So that was OK.
But like any of my content friends, I had to keep my mouth
shut and it was so difficult because obviously it was a
really exciting thing. Like I felt really honored when
I got the initial e-mail. You basically get invited for
sort of like a job interview. They asked you like, hey, we
would be interested in working with you, but we want to get to

(53:28):
know you first. And then after that interview,
they can technically still tell you like, oh, well, after our
initial conversation, we realized maybe it's not a match
after all. So they told me like, OK, we do
the interview and we'll send youan e-mail in two weeks and I
would be going on holiday. So I was in Aruba on the beach

(53:48):
when I found out that I became aTwitch ambassador.
And it was very surreal. I, I remember really thinking to
myself, like, is this like really happening?
Because I vividly remember filling in the form for Twitch
Ambassador, like the interest form and basically answering all
the questions and kind of just sending it in with the thought

(54:11):
of would be really cool. But I don't think it's ever
going to happen. Not because I don't think I
could do it, but genuinely because I know there's so many
amazing creators out there that I can just see them picking like
so many other people. That would also be perfect for
the role that I just kind of assumed it wouldn't happen.
And then I got that e-mail and Iwas mostly just shocked and

(54:32):
surprised. Hey and look at you now you're
doing great at it and you want. To actually hear a fun fact
about this. Yes, I do.
At the end of the form which I submitted like 2 1/2 years ago
at this point, they ask if thereis anyone that you recommend to
become a twitch ambassador and Ifilled in your name.

(54:53):
Really awful. Thank you.
Because like from the get go from I think very early days on
Twitch, I feel like for me, you are definitely one of the people
that represents like what Twitchand Twitch culture should be
about. So I was like, oh, you should
definitely be to which ambassador?
So I filled in your name. Well, thank you.

(55:13):
I really appreciate that. I filled that form out eons ago.
I don't like think like 3-4 years ago probably at this
point, but you know, you never know.
Whenever I hear something back, that'd be really.
Cool, it could honestly be yearsafter.
I had the same. I filled it in in like 2 1/2
years later I got an invite. Yeah.
So you never know. They're always looking.
They're. Always looking, yeah.

(55:35):
I think my, my personal theory is that they check the form
after they hear about you or they like notice you in another
capacity. So if you're like doing a big
event or something that makes animpact, then they will be like,
oh, this is a person of interest.
Let's see if they filled in the form.
This is purely guesstimation. I have no idea if this is

(55:57):
actually how it works, but I could see that being like a
process that's also relatively sustainable.
If there's so many creators out there that they kind of handpick
based on like maybe word of mouth, and then they check like
is someone actually interested in the part by filling in the
form? Yeah, yeah, that's totally true.
Like honestly, by the time this episode like even comes out like

(56:20):
in December, I mean, I, I can tell you now because I filled
out the Forbes 30 under 30 application and everything.
And so when I was like, I had mymanager help me and I had a few
other people help me like figureout some stuff and like make a
good, you know, my own application and then have people
like nominate me and stuff. So.

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So cool. I know I'm like, this is like,
it's been a dream of mine since 2011, so.
That's a long time. I know I'm like I I planned out
my entire life like I'm a planner and in 8th grade I
planned out my entire life untiluntil I was 30.
I'm only 29. I'll be 30 in February of next
year and I was like the top of the line was like beyond Forbes

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30 under 30. I'm always manifesting good
things for myself and other people.
And I always say put out your dreams and goals out there into
the universe because the Internet is forever.
And now I'm like, they have considered me as a nominee.
Doesn't mean I actually got it, but like.
Being. Considered.
I know it's crazy so. That's so cool.

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I'm so excited for you. When Emma got got one, I'm like,
OK one. Simmer I know.
Another simmer on the list. It's it's opening doors.
I feel like it's, I genuinely think that when I saw her on the
list, I was like, this is reallysort of opening up opportunities
for everyone on this side of content to be recognized on a

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list like that. Yeah, it definitely isn't like
that. That's why I feel like with big
corporations like Twitch, havingthis Twitch ambassador program
is so huge because they want to grow.
They want to make Twitch the best place on on earth really of
what it's like streaming or making video gaming content.

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Because Twitch was built on gaming, but it has expanded so
much more than that. So much more.
Coworking, coding, you know, puzzle making, game development,
like there's so many intricate things on Twitch that makes it a
very special place. And I think with being a Twitch
ambassador from like your standpoint, like how do you

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approach like community buildingon that platform?
Like how do you work with Twitchin in that role?
Yeah, so something that I think my community lately joked about
it because I got very passionateon stream because people were
like talking about how it you don't count it as a viewer if
you mute the stream. And literally as they said that,

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there was a little chat going onin the ambassador Discord group
about how that's actually not true.
And Twitch has been trying to kill this myth for like many
years. And they sort of it keeps
resurfacing every year. There's people that are like
trying to figure out what the reason is that their view kind
of view account is like fluctuating, whereas instead of

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sort of thinking, oh, that's just normal, That's life.
You know, people come and go andthat is just part of content
creation. People like spin up the weirdest
reasons as to why things are changing.
And I got really passionate about being like, no, but I
actually want people to be well informed when it comes to
content creation on Twitch because there's already enough

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struggles. There's already enough
challenges, especially in like overcoming maybe your own fears
of actually going on camera and stuff like that, that I don't
want people to experience additional sort of thresholds of
like, oh, I can't stream at thistime because then this or this
or this happens, even though that's not true at all.
So I think something that I've been.

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That has been, for me at least, very helpful is having a Direct
Line to Twitch to be able to check things.
So when I'm hearing things in the content space, whether that
be on Twitch itself or maybe like on TikTok or people like
outside of Twitch talking about things on Twitter.
It has helped me a lot to sort of be able to check like, hey,
I've heard this, is this true? And then they can either like

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confirm it or they can say like,no, this is absolutely not true.
Which helped me a lot in being able to communicate truthfully
towards people in my chat ball. So around it, like on other
platforms to hopefully advocate for, you know, a platform where
creators are well informed abouthow they should be building up
their content strategy and how they should be approaching their

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content to also be successful. Because I love my job and I
would love it if more people were able to not even just do it
as a job, but just do it as muchas they wanted to, whether that
be part time, full time as a hobby, but at least feel
comfortable on the platform. So I think that's something that
as an ambassador I really enjoy doing is sort of doing that

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educational side also from like outside of Twitch itself, like
at a Twitch con event, for instance, I love doing panels
and helping people learn more orunderstand more about the
thought process into content creation and what works and
doesn't work on Twitch. And I did a panel in Europe
about discoverability on the platform, which was definitely

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interesting because it sort of opened my eyes to specific
questions I didn't even realize people were wondering about.
So it helped me sort of also reflect on like, oh, so this is
what sometimes people feel like is a reason to not stream, even
though it's not even true. Like it's it it like helping

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people sort of break that barrier and actually go live and
actually start creating content because they feel more educated
and more like knowledgeable about the topic and how the
platform works is something thatI loved already before becoming
an ambassador. But now I feel like I have more
tools and insights to actually provide the people as well.
I like that and that's why I feel like you are such a really

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like passionate and knowledgeable creator for the
Twitch community, YouTube community, productivity
community and like you are one of the people who founded the
the Co working and coding club for Twitch recently.
Yeah. And I'm like, that's just like
very, because like a lot of people really want to understand
like, how does Twitch work as a platform?

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How do we do these different things?
And how can we really take in that mindset of can we make this
a career for ourselves or make this into a a wonderful hobby
for ourselves? And you are doing the great work
honestly. Thank you We.
Truly are. I love it and so I I love it
too. I hope we can continue to do

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this for the rest of our lives as much as possible.
Yeah, that would be awesome. But to wrap up this lovely
little podcast here, I would love to do some rapid fire
questions with you. OK, let's go.
OK, what's 1 Notion page you cannot live without?
My home dashboard because it hasall of my to do's and projects

(01:03:13):
in one place. Very good favorite Sims pack of
all time. That is such a horrible
question. Why would you do that to me?
Oh, I'm you can't make me pick between seasons and cats and
dogs like I need. Both.
OK, good. I'll take it.
I'll take it Morning or night person when it comes to content

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creation. Want to be a morning person but
I think I'm a night person. Same.
I'm going to be a night person more, but I'm a morning person
sometimes, yeah. What's 1 cozy game you recommend
besides The Sims? I think if you are OK with, you

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know, a little bit of thrill, Minecraft 100%, but I know that
that's not for everyone because of the monsters, and I know that
for some people that really takes the enjoyment out of the
game, but I love Minecraft. If you're just looking for a
really cozy game, I love Palea I.
Need to get back into that. Yeah, me too.
I haven't played it for such a long time and they've had so
many updates, but that game is one of those that I always come

(01:04:23):
back to. Like even if I don't play it for
3-4 months, there's always that little voice in the back of my
head that goes, you should be playing some Pele again.
It's fun. Yes, I would also recommend Too
Tiny Bookshop. That is a very, very fun game.
I bought it this weekend. I haven't had the time to play
it yet, but I'm very excited. You're going to be hooked.
I love that game more than anything.

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I've heard literally only good things about it.
Oh, it you're. Going to be hooked.
I'll I will definitely have to ask you your like your thoughts
once you start playing it. I hope like I, I think next week
somewhere I'll have some time toactually like sit down for a
couple of hours and just chill and play it.
Oh fun. Yay.

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And last and final question, what is next for Rosanna TXT?
Anything exciting coming soon? Well, considering that this is
recorded now but it's only airing later, do you want me to
answer for anything that will betechnically in the past when
this goes live? Yeah, feel free.

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Because then I think the most exciting thing coming up is
Twitchcon US. There's going to be a lot of
really cool panels that I eitherI'm joining or I submitted and
get to host as well. And actually you will be on one
of them. I will.
Yeah, I'm. Excited.
I'm very excited about it. We're going to chat about

(01:05:51):
charity fundraising, which is a topic that's super near and dear
to my heart. And I think for everyone on the
panel, it's super near and dear to our hearts.
So I'm very stoked about that. And I think next to that related
to charity fundraising is in November, I'm going to do
another big month long fundraiser for Movember.
I do that every single year specifically to help break the

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stigma around mental health and like mental health conversations
for men because I think we live in a world where there is not
enough kindness for that topic and we should have a lot more.
So yeah, I'm very excited about that.
I'm already like planning everything.
I have a lot of fun goals and incentives that I'll probably
regret afterwards, but right nowit sounds like fun.

(01:06:34):
I am very, very excited. I always looking forward to your
charity streams and all the things that you do.
I'm looking forward to that lemon costume.
Gods. Eating lemon bars.
Yeah, it always comes back and this year it's it's on the goal
list again. There is more shenanigans in the
lemon costume. Very good, very good.

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Well, Rosanna, thank you again for being on my podcast, Four
Seasons, of course, Spring. Yeah, thank you for having me
again. I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, anytime. And also, where can the people
find you on the Internet? Yeah, so my username anywhere
and everywhere is Rosanna TXT. So no matter which platform, you
should be able to find me on thedot name, but my primary focus

(01:07:16):
would be Twitch, YouTube and Instagram.
So my friends that that was the end of today's episode with
Rosanna and I want to thank Rosanna for giving me the time
to talk with you and being on mypodcast.
You could have said no, but I thank you for being on the
podcast today and hanging out with me and chatting about
getting productivity, your journey about being a content

(01:07:36):
creator, of where you started towhere you are now, and what
you're going to do for the future.
And I just want to thank you so much for utilizing your platform
for good. You've done so many fundraisers
for November, Hope for Haiti, Hope for the Day, Games for
Love, Able Gamers, Palestine's Children's Relief Fund, and so
many more. And the way you.

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You take this. Idea and cultivate your
community and they come togetherto lift you up but also lift
other people up each and every day.
Makes me so happy to know that you are building a true genuine,
healthier and more inclusive space for the online world like
you said, and I cannot wait to see what you continue to do for

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the future for 2026 and knowing that today is December 23rd for
this episode. We are the last episode of the
year for Hello Spring and it's kind of a great way to end off a
Goodyear with some good holiday cheer and raising awareness for
social good. So this episode left you all
inspired. I will leave all of Rosanna's

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links down below in the description to our main website,
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, blue Sky, all the fun
places where you can check out her social content, long form or
short form and including her storefront for all things Notion
related. I love Notion, I love being
productive and Rosanna is literally the notion queen for
all the things gaming, real life, whatever it might be, she

(01:09:03):
has it for you. Especially when she does her Co
working streams live on Twitch throughout the week for several
hours a day. Or you feel accomplished when
you add a task and complete thattask.
Whether it's reading, writing, cooking, cleaning, folding,
laundry, whatever it might be. Rosanna's Co working body
doubling streams are a sense of comfort, accountability and

(01:09:24):
honestly calmness at the the endof the day or the end of the
week. But of course check out our
streams, check out our content online, whether it's long form
or short form. All the links will be down below
with her website for some Notiontemplates to be productive.
And as Rosina always says, self-care is very sexy.
But as always my friends, I hopeyou all enjoyed today's episode.

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I will see and hear from you allnext time.
Bye.