My Steem Journey

Steem has changed my life.

I joined Steemit in June 2017 with nothing more than the 15 SP delegated from Steemit Inc.

Prior to joining, I was feeling a bit lost and discouraged as I had tried several other social media platforms for years to promote my music without much success at all.

Shortly after starting on Steemit I received a substantial upvote on one of my music posts.
I came home from work to find that my post was around $200!
I was absolutely shocked as I never thought anything like this was possible.
At the time I had no idea what @curie was, but I was so grateful that they found my post!
That experience gave me the confidence and encouragement to continue posting my music and other creative ideas.

Along the way, I found how important and supportive communities can be.
I started weekly participation in @luzcypher's Open Mic contest which helped me grow as an artist. I received such great support and feedback from that community that it inspired me to create a radio show to highlight and celebrate the amazing musicians we have here on the Steem Blockchain.

The support I received early on from @curie also inspired me to build a curation project of my own.
For over a year now, @swelker101 and I have been hosting the Steem Creative Curation Show which promotes and curates creative posts.
Our new @steemcreative witness account will be used to further our curation efforts and continue to give back to the community which has given so much to us.

One of the most important communities to my own growth on Steemit has been @aggroed's Minnow Support Project and the Palnet Discord.
About a year ago, I was fortunate enough to receive a one month 10,000 SP delegation, thanks to @eturnerx, from what has now become MSP's Make a Minnow Initiative.

During that month of being able to help other minnows with a dolphin sized upvote, I was inspired to build up my own account and invest in Steem so that I could continue helping others after I no longer had the MAM delegation.

I have achieved more success on the Steem Blockchain than I have anywhere else before.
These experiences have changed my life and have inspired me to join the @steemcreative Witness to help others succeed.

@steemcreative Witness

@swelker101 (Shane) has been a Witness for over a year. We have decided to now combine our efforts in order to pay it forward by helping people grow and doing what we can to retain quality Steemians.

Shane is in charge of the technical side of the witness, while I take care of the curation end.

Shane is also currently learning Javascript and Python in order to bring more value to the Steem Blockchain.

@steemcreative Initiatives

@steemcreative Super Happy Fun Contest of Joy and Mayhem

• A 25 Steem Per Week Prize, but instead of submitting your own work, you will be submitting someone else's work!
  We just officially launched this contest and you can check it out Here!

@steemcreative Curation Account

• We are starting with 5,000 SP for our curation efforts which will increase over time. We have been working with some groups to keep us updated on posts that are deserving of a little love as well as searching on our own.

• We will also be starting a frontrunning trail later this week. Stay tuned for details on that.

@msp-music Curation Account

• This is the account I started under the Minnow Support umbrella that I use to curate creative posts.

Msp Music & Art Curation Contest Brought to you by Snibby the Cat

• This is the contest I've been running for 35 weeks hosted by my cat, Snibby! We give out as many upvotes as we can with the @msp-music account and award a 25 Steem Prize!

Steem Creative Curation Show

• We've been helping creative Steemians for over a year now with our weekly radio show. We promote as many posts as we can during the show and choose 10 submissions to curate using the @msp-curation, @msp-music, and @steemcreative accounts!

Steemit Musicians

• This is the show we do with @krystle where we play as many of the top-5 picks from the most recent open-mic contest. We also give away a total of 30 Steem to the listener's top 3 picks.

Minnow University Curation Show

• Shane and Isaria are joined by @aggroed on Saturday nights for this weekly show. We discuss how minnows can improve their blog, what is happening on Steem, and we once again, curate posts.

Sounds of Steem

• Once a month @swelker101 and I co-host this live music concert along with @aggroed and @krystle.
  Shane and I send 25 Steem each month to our performers.

Financial Support

We would love to add more to this list either in more groups or increased donations.

• Open Mic - 25 Steem weekly: Each week we donate 25 Steem to the Open Mic contest.
• Msp Music & Art Curation Contest - 25 Steem weekly: Snibby the Cat gives out upvotes and Steem to the winners!
• @steemcreative contest - 25 Steem weekly: This is mentioned above and will launch on October 21st.
• Steemit Musicians - 15 Steem weekly: During Our Radio Show we donate 15 Steem to the audience favorites which is matched by @krystle.
• Ark Project - 10 Steem weekly: We donate 10 Steem to @elarca to help fund their creative contests.
• A Dollar a day - 7 Steem weekly: A VERY worthy initiative.
• Steem Creative Show - 5-10 Steem: We have ridiculous trivia contests where we give 5 to 10 Steem.
• Sounds of Steem - 25 Steem Monthly: We send Steem out to our monthly live concert performers.

Projects We Support

• Minnow Support Project - @swelker101 and I are both Sr. Moderators in the MSP Palnet Discord.
• Msp-waves - We have 4 Shows weekly shows.
• Helpie - @meno is dreamy....
• The Alliance - a great community run by witness @enginewitty.
• Steemit Ramble - @shadowspub is awesome and we attend PYPT as often as we can, we also use this for curation ideas.
• Steem Monsters - I am the Director of Content and Music for this awesome blockchain game!

One More Thing

We're bullish on Steem! We are here for the long haul as I am currently working to make Steem my full-time income. That's what's amazing about this block-chain, with working hard and being here every day, you can make your goals happen! We want to spread the word of Steem and bring in new users and content creators. We want to help usher in business and dapp developers. We want this to succeed!

Thank You For Your Vote!

We appreciate each and every vote that we receive, we wish we could list all of you, but that would get a bit messy.

The link below will allow you to vote for our witness. We would be proud to have your vote, and look forward to a successful Steem future!

@steemcreative is a joint witness venture and first Husband and Wife witness team of @swelker101 and @isaria, focusing on user engagement, creative content curation, contests, and supporting worthy projects.

Vote @steemcreative for Witness!

Thank You!

Isaria and Shane... And Snibby The Cat.