They say ‘I would give my right arm for this’.
I’ve given my right arm, left arm, right shoulder, left back (carpal tunnel everywhere) and my whole sanity to creating this social media world.
A world I love and cherish so deeply that no crisis has gone un-mined in the last 7 years. Our community has been built with love, patience, lots and lots and lots of positive reinforcement despite what anyone has had to say about me or my kids or my team or my family.
We stay flying high with our insane engagement, our real back and forth, our deeply thought out captions, comments, responses, reactions, broadcast channels, DMs and more.
Today while accepting a
@thewebbyawards for best short form video of 2026, peoples voice, I was reminded of the first day I posted a video years ago when I hit publish and wondered if anyone would relate to my observations.
7 years of posting. EVERY.SINGLE. DAY. 7 years of filming, editing, tagging, collaborating, engaging, resisting …. 7 years of laughing, crying, heaving, sobbing so much that I became the recipient of the first ever instagram Rings award given for the most authentic instagram account in the world.
7 years of frantically texting the team overnight at the end of exhausting, draining events - hurrying up to get images organized, get short videos organized, of gathering all the moments that we can share so our audience can get an inside look at a word that they may not otherwise have access to.
7 years of believing brought us to the pinnacle of the internet, BEST SHORTFORM VIDEO of 2026!
I can only believe it because I know the depths of my love for what I do here.
In a first for our company, we bought one of the most expensive tables in the room to celebrate how far we’ve come. Seated alongside the biggest names in the business, I wanted my team to take in the magnitude of our achievement.
A full page ad to showcase our growth.
A moment to declare that a broke, broken, middle aged, immigrant woman with weird clothes, an accent and a bindi can walk alongside the best of them 🏆
