09/10/2026
YOUR FAV TRANSPARENCY QUEEN IS BACK AND WE’RE TALKING DJ DOLLARS 💸
Please note that I’m not encouraging impulse financial decisions and also not insinuating that you must make these purchases in order to DJ and/or be a successful DJ! I’m simply sharing a few financial decisions that worked for me and have paid off on my DJ journey.
Now let’s get into it 🙃
Earlier this year, I threw a free VIBE SHIFT beach party for my LA community. Bliss Beach came through with the most epic beach club set up, Sugar Babies Bake Shop created gorgeous custom cookies & I provided free food and drinks for everyone. The icing on the cake was my friends coming through and donating their time, energy, DJ services, film equipment, and so much more!
Will I spend $4k on another free beach party, no. But was it worth it, absolutely yes! I had the time of my life, made so many new friends, and the content was incredible. I’m working on a post to dig into the details on this soon, so stay tuned!!
I bought two 12 inch speakers and stands less than a month into DJing! Why? Idk lol
But hear me out..now 2 years into DJing, I’ve been renting these suckers out when I get booked to DJ. AND I pretty quickly made my money back, so this was by far one of the best impulse purchases of my DJ career.
My DJI OSMO and Sony camera purchases were soooo impulsive! Samuel Creager used the Osmo to film some of my Sequoia Set (check it out on YouTube) and I was obsessed with the footage. So I bought one pretty immediately after. SO WORTH IT because I use this to film all my DJ sets because they make it so easy.
And I bought the Sony because I saw Nneka Julia had one and I’m obsessed with her videos lol I got a little ahead of myself on this one, but it’s been useful as a second camera angle and for my long form YouTube DJ sets.
An iPhone is totally capable of doing the job, but I’m a filmmaker after all so I couldn’t help myself!!
My first controller, the DDJ-FLX4 was impulsive AF, but the perfect controller to get my feet wet. This is what I used for my first big DJ set with The Yearn music festival! This is also what I bring when I do travel gigs because it can easily fit in a ca