Nathan Ivey Creative

28/11/2025

Holiday weekend energy feels different this year. A lot of us are choosing to be more intentional about where we place our support and who we uplift. I have been building something that lives outside the media world. It is rooted in helping people and strengthening our community in a real way. If you believe in the work I have done and the work that is taking shape, you can support the builder today.

I need a little push.

🚀 Support My Next MoveIf you’ve ever tuned in to my radio shows or podcast—thank you. I’m working on something brand new now, outside of media, but I’m keeping the details under wraps while I build it

28/11/2025

Original quote: "It's just me against the world"- Tupac Shakur

Barbarian Code V: "The world ain't the enemy, the mirror is. It was never me against the world. The world was loud, sure, but the fight was always me versus the part of me that wanted to fold."⚔️

25/11/2025

Some conversations don’t wait for the cameras.
Hot Mic Cincy is where Cincinnati steps in, speaks up, and sorts out the noise.

If you missed the last few sparks, catch the clips on our page.

Season Two is coming. Stay close.

We are stepping back from the mic this week. Even heat needs a moment to cool.
Enjoy your people. Enjoy your plate. Let the world spin without you for a day or two.

We will be back next Tuesday at 1:15 with the same fire and the same city on our minds.

In the meantime we will drop clips from the moments that made this past year worth arguing and worth remembering.

Follow us on every platform so you catch them all.

Hot Mic Cincy is still here. Still watching the city. Still listening.

24/11/2025

A Black woman moving through this city’s late nights and early mornings, collecting miles and moments that most folks never see. You hear her talk, and you realize gig work isn’t just hustle. It is survival with headlights on. It is dignity in motion. It is the soft places a hard world forgets to look.

This is Why I Drive. A docu-series about the people who keep Cincinnati moving one ride at a time. This clip is just the spark. The full interview is coming soon, and when you hear the whole story, you will understand why we had to tell it.

Join the conversation: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/171Po5cd6M/

23/11/2025

I think back to those early mornings before the world shut down and everybody suddenly became a broadcaster. Before COVID turned living rooms into studios and timelines into classrooms, I was already out here live streaming every day. I started my podcast in 2017 and I started CDM in 2018. There was no blueprint. No creator to model. No influencer handbook to borrow from. I left corporate media and stepped into a local digital space that had not yet learned how to define itself.

I had to Neil Armstrong it. I had to carve my lane by instinct. I had to build the plane while I was flying it. And every misstep, every quiet room, every long edit made me stronger. People see the gloss now. They forget the grind then. But the foundation was poured long before the pandemic gave everyone permission to go live. This is just the continuation of a story I started writing on my own.

22/11/2025

Cincinnati talks everywhere. Barbershops, back porches, radio dials, comment sections, podcasts. The city has never been short on words. But there is only one place where those words sharpen into something real. One place where the soft takes melt away and the hard questions stand up straight. Hot Mic Cincy is where this city comes to debate and discuss.

I see the crew. I see the audience. I see the people leaning in from the edges, watching us carve a lane nobody handed us. Every voice at that table adds another thread to the tapestry. Every person that interacts and watches reminds me that we are on the right track. We are just getting started.

Season Two begins January 2026. New energy. New arguments. New perspectives. Same truth. If Cincinnati wants to talk, it can talk anywhere. But when Cincinnati wants to debate, it comes to Hot Mic Cincy.

Thank you for being part of it.

NI

12/11/2025

🎉 Facebook recognized me for starting engaging conversations and producing inspiring content among my audience and peers!

08/11/2025

I talked about this on Cincinnati Issues with Lincoln Ware, how the idea came from watching a city move through the hands of people most folks never notice.

Why I Drive is a local docu-series about the lives behind the wheel.
The reasons. The grind. The grace. The truth we rarely say out loud.

If you drive, and you’ve got a why, I’d like to hear it.

Sign up:
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08/11/2025

I mentioned this on Lincoln Ware’s show -- Cincinnati Issues.
The apps don’t tell the story. The miles don’t tell the story.
The people do.

Why I Drive is a docu-series about the lives under the hood -- the real cost, the real purpose, the real grind.
Cincinnati is full of stories like these.
We’re just giving them a place to be heard.

Drivers.... if you've got a why, let's talk.
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