interview with Jared Shuler

1. It was a pleasure to join you at the photo shoot, I must say the camera loves you? Do you like the camera? How do you feel knowing the lens is on you? LMAO @ the camera loves me, but thank you. Me and the camera have a major love-hate relationship. I guess it all depends on what I’m doing. Lol. It is a little strange for me when taking pictures; I’m taken aback because I’m no model. Now performing in front of it is all together another story!

2. Nathan is a good friend of mine so he asked me to come along on this shoot. So let's talk about hisdailyvariety. When did you do your first video blog? Why did you start it? Well my blog, my baby hisdailyvariety.blogspot.com, started a little over a year ago. I was at an open talk with a group of black men. Certain subjects kept coming up, and I saw myself taking the floor and talking a lot. That night a friend told me that I needed to start a blog. So it was born!

3. So you are essentially, venturing into television with this online show. Just how far do you think this show could take you and how committed are you to its success? The show has been such a blessing; it has truly come together on its own, like it was so meant to be! The aim is that we get our own television show. And it will happen, one way or another. If anyone knows me, I get what the hell I want, so I’m committed till things happen, and way after.

4. Where did you grow up? What was it like growing up Jared Shuler? I was born and raised in The Bronx. Lived in South America as a teen for a spell. Growing up Jared LAWD! I’m an only child, so everything I did as a child I felt odd, I guess because I had no one to share my feelings with. I always felt different, an enigma in a sense, I still can’t totally figure myself out. But I guess we are all lessons in progress.

5. I hear you are in a committed relationship can you tell me more about it and how it came about? Damn word travels FAST! Yeah I’m madly in love. Man I haven’t said that out loud in more then half a decade. I have met someone that gets me and all my craziness. It’s refreshing. He loves me for more of what I’m not than what I am. Sometimes love is staring you right in the face; the key is knowing how to recognize it.

6. Where would you like to see yourself by the end of the year? What would you like to have accomplished? I’d like to see myself waking up every morning, thanking the universe for what I do have, and staying positive in the things I need. In one year I would love to be well on my way and to have The & Show syndicated on a major level. To be publicly speaking at events, and be a part of this black gay Renaissance. I want people to look back, and see that I was right up in the mix.

7. How do you feel about people who have POWER? What power do you possess? Power over all is something earned. You have to be clever or work hard to be at a certain level of authority. Having that power is fine, if we know how to use it. Most times in life we cannot get past our own egos. Whether one knows it or not most things come back to ego, jealousy, fear, selfish behavior, power is what feeds the ego the most. Power is fine as long as it is used to enrich and develop. I have people’s ears. People know that what I say and do comes from an organic place. Power doesn’t seem like power when it comes from an inspiring place.