Welcoming Werds | Blog Post
What's the Werd ya'll?!
If you're new here, I am Werds Illah. The sole owner, operator & creator of Werds Werkshop LLC. I want to thank you for joining me & welcome you to the Werkshop. If you've been here since opening day & are just getting around to reading this I thank you for your continued belief in my vision. Starting in 2018, I started on a course towards changing my thinking about my life. I was in a bad place emotionally, physically & mentally. I had been sitting around for roughly 6 years just mulling over bad decisions & the resulting affects of those decisions. To attempt to make a long story short, I had been convicted of 2 DUI's within a 2 year period around 2010-2012. I was so naive & yet so sure at the same time as to what my life was & how it would change. I was so convinced that I needed money to "make it." I was so convinced that my success was out of my hands & focused on so many ways that things could go wrong. I internalized those fears & tried to hide them behind binge drinking & cigarette smoking excessively. After getting out of a toxic relationship, quitting cigarettes & deciding to quit drinking alcohol, I was able to clear my mind long enough to finally take back the wheel of my ship & begin steering again. I got my license reinstated, a family member helped me to get a vehicle that was old, but was in good working condition & I was able to get a small loan large enough to afford getting the ignition interlock system put into my vehicle for the required time in accordance with Virginia law. I was coming around the bend on finishing up the time I had to have the system in my car. In February of 2019, I had a thought, that at the time seemed like just a wish. I was ready to begin creating my own opportunities for myself. I was just short on capitol to get some of the equipment I would need to start creating. I remember sitting in the living room of my house & thinking to myself, "If I just had $6,000 that would really help me to get things started." I gave it no thought afterwards & kept pushing on doing what I could. I had started doing a podcast & posting it to my Youtube Channel & had a decent camera to do Vlogs with. Then, on March 11th, 2019 I was involved in a car accident. I was heading back to my day time job driving my 1991 Oldsmobile 88 Royale, from just having came home for my lunch break. As I'm getting ready to pull out of the street I live on, I notice the traffic is heavy, so I pull into the middle of the median between the two lanes of traffic to get a better position. As I'm waiting to pull off, I check my blind spot one last time & just as I turn my head back forward to drive away, all I see is the grill of a Chrysler 300 in the air about to collide with my car. Luckily for me I had my seatbelt on & was able to brace for the impact. After having spun around 360 degrees, I fortunately was still conscious with no head injury & able to look out my passenger door window to see the driver of the vehicle, stumble out of his car with a bottle of Jack Daniels. Mind you, at this time I have an ignition interlock system installed in my vehicle. In that moment, I knew something bigger was at werk. After the smoke had settled & all was said & done with the headache that is making an insurance claim, I received a check for what came out to be roughly $6,000 for the vehicle. Then, within that same time period, my mother's coworker was getting rid of a vehicle & asked if my mother would need it. My mother then offered me the vehicle & I was back in business. I say all that to say this... The universe doesn't work if you don't. When you choose your werds more intently & believe in them at the very core of your being, then all you must do is let it go & continue to do the werk. The universe will figure out the rest for you. Since then I have, put out my first official EP funded 100% by me, recorded & edited numerous music videos & now I've opened my own business to sell clothing, accessories & music.
💫 Werds become things... be intentional with your werds... Welcome to the Werkshop... 🤲❤🖖✊