We had the good fortune of connecting with Terrance Utley and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Terrance, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
The thought process behind starting my business was looking forward to my future. I found out my liver and kidney was failing due to my sickle cell disease and insurance does not want to cover the transplant cost, so I figured with starting my own business that I would just pay out of pocket and do it myself.

So far I have not met my goal but with patience, dedication I already see myself accomplishing that goal!

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I just want to spread Sickle Cell awareness to the world, we can not keep quiet about this anymore. It is a predominately black disease that affects our race. We need more voices speaking up about this and I am very grateful to be able to use my platform to spread the word. Some days its hard to make it out of bed but my son is the reason I am able to and also wanting to watch him grow up and seeing my generational line continue to thrive is the reason I keep shooting these videos and movies


The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
This shoutout is dedicated to my son Terrance ii. It is because of you I keep going through all the pain and closed doors I keep pressing on to secure a future for you and our generational line. I also want to give a little credit to my mom and dad for continuosly encouraging me even when I wanted to give up and allow depression to consume me. Thank you mom and pops! Lastly, I want to shoutout my lady Nae for always encouraging me and never giving up on me and also getting m, my first camera which kicked this whole thing off!

Website: https://tjutley.wixsite.com/tjutley

Instagram: @DrTee_vizual

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrance-utley-46b688126/

Twitter: @GlobalPaparazzi

Facebook: Tj Utley

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFarsO28un9ZkbQV7CQL9PA

Image Credits
Yatta Vision Family

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