when you're doing everything right but still feel lost
Lexie
Lexie Lombard
4.8 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The videos I love aren’t performing, the brand deals are slowing down, and for the first time in a while, I’m wondering… is it time for a career change?
In this episode, I open up about creative burnout, resistance to becoming a “performer,” the state of the internet, and my conflicted feelings about money, selling, and meaning. I talk about new jobs, parasocial crushes, coloring books, Love Island, and trying to stay soft in a hard world.
If you’ve ever felt proud of your work but still disappointed in how things are going, this one’s for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello everybody. I'm Lexi Lombard, your host of the at Lexi podcast, now known as the Lexi |
| 0:11.5 | podcast. We've dropped the N-Sign. And I'm here to give a little heart to heart, be a bit more |
| 0:18.9 | honest on the disappointment I'm feeling with myself and admit that so hopefully |
| 0:25.2 | I can work through it in real time and maybe this could help you. I have no idea. I just feel |
| 0:32.0 | really proud of myself but I'm not seeing the fruits of my labor, and it's getting me down. |
| 0:38.0 | It's not getting me down too much, but a little bit. |
| 0:40.8 | For instance, I have been making videos, editing videos, creating podcasts, posting photos, |
| 0:48.8 | and I don't know, sharing my life on the internet for almost 15 years, |
| 0:52.9 | which is maybe more than 15 years, honestly, |
| 0:56.2 | because I think I began when I was 13 and I'm 29 now. |
| 1:00.5 | No, I think I was 12, so yeah, 15 years. |
| 1:02.9 | I digress. |
| 1:03.9 | And lately, I've really gotten back into YouTube and I have been creating vlogs as well as |
| 1:10.3 | some commentary videos and they're some of |
| 1:12.9 | my favorite videos that I've ever made. For example, the video that I posted yesterday, it was such a |
| 1:19.2 | fun video to edit. It was something that I'm proud of and it just isn't being received. I'm looking |
| 1:25.9 | on my YouTube channel right now and in the last four months |
| 1:29.5 | I've been pretty regular on YouTube and I love my videos. They're exactly the type of video that |
| 1:35.8 | I want to watch and I'm making what I want to see. That being said, maybe I don't want to see |
| 1:43.7 | the same things that everyone else does. And that's one |
| 1:47.1 | aspect for why they're not quote unquote performing well. But then maybe there's tweaks I could make. |
| 1:52.8 | I started about four months ago with some fairly simple thumbnails. And that is because I wanted a |
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