Emily Lee · Building in Public

Emily Lee · Building in Public 💭just documenting what I'm learning along the way.
🎙️Stories & reflections on being human.

09/01/2026

Honestly, I thought content creation might not be for me. That I'm just not cut out for this.

I was so frustrated with the dropping views. After spending a week hosting family and not being able to keep up my consistency streak, I got so upset with myself for not being able to do both. I was obsessively checking the skip rates, the views, and the analytics, trying to find an explanation.

Then, out of the blue, I realized one thing: I am no longer treating the metrics as a reflection of whether I as a person am interesting enough, or even whether the content itself is. I now see metrics simply as a way to gauge which areas of my delivery need refinement.

So many times, we do not allow ourselves to fail or to flop. With one little mistake, we want out because we're afraid of failing. But we need to give it time, testing, and enough consistency to actually show whether it is working or not.

Realizing this is what saved me from jumping off the cliff of giving up on content creation.

08/27/2026

Week 2 of turning $980 into $10k: I thought I’d already learned my lesson in Week 1. Hadn’t. Not even close.

One trade bounced right after I opened it. Looked like it was turning around, so I held, the same way you hold on when someone gives you one good text after a week of silence. It went red again about four minutes later, and I gave back most of what I’d already made that day.

Wasn’t greed — I genuinely thought the reversal was done. It had about four more minutes of red left in it.

Week 1 I sold too early. Week 2 I held too long, on a trade I should’ve closed the first time. Next week I’m setting hard exits before I even open a position.

Not financial advice, just the truth of trying.

08/21/2026

I kept trying to figure out whose voice was in my head — the one predicting everyone’s reactions before I even do anything. Turns out it’s not anyone’s voice. It’s just my brain, running ahead of me, guessing how people will respond before they’ve had the chance to respond at all. Which left me with a harder question: what is it actually trying to protect me from?
Ep. 3 — Can I Just Finish?

08/13/2026

I’m sorry I should have been a better daughter for you.

It’s been eight years but I only started to grieve lately, and it’s hard.

08/11/2026

I caught myself doing something I didn't like — holding a double standard I never noticed before. I don't think twice when someone else shares their story. But when it's my turn, I feel like I owe an apology first. This one's about figuring out whose voice is actually behind that pressure.

08/07/2026

Week 0. I spent $4,000+ on trading courses and alerts — and never acted on a single one of them. This is “Dating Options”: me finally putting $968 into a real account and documenting what happens, good weeks and bad. Goal is $10K in one year. Not financial advice, just the truth of trying.

Starting this series after filling workbook from “One Good Series” by Alex Petrakieva . Honestly it is so helpful and I finally feel that I’m able to write a complete story by myself! I’m also learning from Jessi Jean famous YAP challenge cohort 2, honestly can’t believe how much I’m getting from these two courses that totaled less than $500.

Ngl, this reel took me four hours to put together as my first attempt on voiceover, and I’m having fun!

08/06/2026

She’s pretty…
Pretty sassy,
pretty wise,
Pretty gentle,
And so much more.

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