The story
I built 5M followers
while I was competing.
Not after. During.
Training sessions, finals week, competition days, injury recovery. All of it. Gymnastics was my whole life and I never wanted that to stop.
What I figured out during that time is that social media wasn't a distraction from the sport. It was the way to keep it alive after it ended. The following I built while competing became the career that followed. Brand deals, partnerships, a platform that kept going long after the gymnastics did.
I was obsessed. I made it my second job.
I shot, edited, posted, analyzed, and did it all over again the next week. For years.
And I know most athletes aren't going to do it that way. They shouldn't have to.
Because here's what I saw when I looked around at my teammates, my competitors, the athletes I trained alongside for four years: they had everything it takes. The sport, the story, the access to moments that people genuinely want to watch. What they didn't have was time. And nobody was going to give it back to them.
So I built the team I wish I'd had.
