the enjoyiana show - ep. 1 le pilot

bonjour,

it's your girl enjoyiana! (if you don't know how to pronounce my name, what are you even doing here?)

I'm in the midst of a pretty cool chapter in my life, and I'm taking my social media platform along for the ride with me! what I have been calling the 'recipe tasting' phase of my creative journey has been inspiring, manic, humbling, tiring, and exciting. but I'm grateful. I realize I had kind of haphazardly launched my substack, but failed to link my presence on the fun, interactive social media platform with my personal blog and website. I've also been determining which kinds of content I like to create the best and figured that journey could be worthwhile content itself.

welcome to behind the scenes! this is my blog -- the enjoyiana show

I am writing this lovely blog post on a sunday evening after what truly felt like a week as the main character in a tv sitcom. blame sex and the city, insecure, living single, girlfriends and the game for the romanticization of my life. but seriously, if this chapter of my life is any preview as to what comes next, god-willing, I guess it's the pilot episode of a dramedy-rom-sitcom following a black, female journalist in the midwest. either that or it's a ~manic~ episode. regardless..

cue the theme music!

if you're reading this, I hope you had and will have an amazing week! thank you for reading and supporting local journalists. happy lgbtqia pride month! continue glowing and being best your best self <3

this particular content is brought to you by sheer will, excitement for what comes next, and what would have been a crash out had I not taken an early work day this week and hung out at my apartment's pool with my bestie, and hiked a few miles.

my substack blog will feature reflections on life that can't fit in an instagram post, can't be edited in my diary, and deserve to be documented from my life. my website will also publish the reflections, along with other multimedia content, copyright by enjoyiana nururdin, m.a.

my goal is to create conscious content aligned with solving problems and educating people on how to evolve and be their best selves with the community in mind, regardless of the limitations in place. politics can be so draining, and I tend to have a million ideas and no energy to execute them when I'm done with the workday-- that's been my challenge. I do, however, feel my life changing to allow for more conscious journalism and multimedia content to be my reality.

I hope to publish regular blog posts about the behind-the-scenes + justified black female rage-driven crash outs (something like this) in addition to news that's more aligned with the community and mutual aid, plus the fun, girly-pop stuff. In a perfect world, I can make vlogs, write fiction and nonfiction, recipe test and work on my culinary storytelling, garden, document my beauty journey all in one week. this blog is just one piece of the puzzle that i can do to hold myself accountable and create as a profesional journey and creative.

my audience is people interested in peeking into my brain. i will not filter myself for you.

all content is free, if you send me money I promise I will spend it on coffee.

this website www.enjoyiana.com will house the majority of my creations and projects. my profession will always be updated on my social media @enjoyiana

anyway it's about 10 p.m., and I'm in my bed, chores mostly done, meals prepped to the gods for this week and in 32-oz deli containers (ground beef, bell peppers and onions, cheese, tortillas, cucumber salsa), and my trash has been taken out. my laundry does need to be swapped from machine to machine, though. and devastatingly enough, my sims 4 game is broken beyond repair, I fear. somehow the thought of starting over with the game yet again feels refreshing. it's funny how my sims game chooses to crash out right when my life starts getting interesting and I'm forced to lock-in and take the wheel.

thank you for reading!