Akilah Hughes Owned Her YouTube Past, So You Can Too

Attach Your Résumé

What do you do when you’re stuck between being on the Internet and finding jobs in LA? Akilah can help you with that.

“Art isn’t competitive. It’s just not. As long as I’m making stuff that I’m proud of, that I do think will elicit a response, or at least elicit a response from me because I respect my own taste, then I think that it’s never really gonna be over for me.”

Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and YouTuber. Videos she wrote and starred in, both on her own YouTube channel and for companies like MTV and Fusion, have racked up more than 100 million views. She hosted Crooked Media’s daily news podcast “What a Day,” was a writer on the web series “Command Z” directed by Steven Soderbergh, and authored the memoir “Obviously: Stories from my Timeline”. Her latest podcast, “Rebel Spirit,” is out now.

Credits

- Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

- Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin

- A Multitude production

About The Show

Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape. Hosted by longtime podcasters and business owners Eric Silver and Amanda McLoughlin, Attach Your Résumé proves that the best credential for deciding the future of media is actually making stuff. New episodes every Thursday until we run out of episodes and have to go make more.