Behind The Scenes With YouTube Hit Series Gracie’s Corner

The [first] NAACP Awards was a big moment. I saw our name amongst top production studios like Disney for The Proud Family and [other] major networks. And we were like this little family that was doing most of our production at home. To be amongst such amazing talent and people who have multi-million-dollar budgets and see us included—it was a true eye-opening moment.

This year, we ended up actually winning The Outstanding Children’s Program award. They sent the awards to our house—all three of us have one with our name on it. The crazy thing is, I don’t think it’s set in yet.

This whole journey has been a roller coaster. The main thing is identifying people that you work well with and people who are in alignment with you. That’s probably been one of the biggest lessons from this [experience]. Because if those different pieces aren’t quite right, then it really kind of impacts all other aspects of the working relationship.

In general, people will see something successful, and their mindset will be to copy that [idea] to the T and try to do it exactly the same way they do it, and then they don’t have the same results. And they’re questioning, ‘Why am I not doing as well as them? Why isn’t it rising?’ And I think it’s because we saw a need. We’ve tried to fill that need. There’s this genuineness to it. The most important thing is to be authentic. Be yourself and bring something different to the table.