Why be a follower when you can be a leader? Live your passion, follow your dreams.” We must have heard this somewhere but this doesn’t make sense to a lot of us. But this quote has made an amazing impact on the life of a lot of people. Just like the life of Val Cortez who made her career out of her passion to travel around the world but not in Eighty days.
For those of you who don’t know who Val is, Val is A social media star. She is famous for travelling to different places around the world and creating high-quality content on her social media accounts for her followers.
Val Cortez is often known as Val around the World by her Fans. She is a very popular social media influencer. She was born in Lima Peru but spent most of her growing years in Buenos Aires Argentina. Before becoming a social media star Val had plans of joining the Health industry. So, she did her studies in occupational health and safety. But life had different plans for her. She has always been the person who loves to travel a lot, and see different countries and their culture. She took her first international trip at the age of 21 and after that trip, her desire to roam around grew so much stronger, so she decided to pursue her childhood dream of travelling around the world.
She started by making a solid fan base which is true to her. She always wanted to pursue her dream in the long run. So she took the first step by Livestreaming on a social media app known as Worldwide. It was very hard for her in the beginning as there were a lot of established people in the same industry but just because she was in love with the idea of interacting with new people from across the globe and getting to know about themselves it became much easier for her as the time passed by. After some time on the app, she became very popular on the app just for the fact she was very nice to the people who interacted with her. Due to which she became a top streamer on the App in terms of Popularity and Earning. That was the time it struck her that she can take this as a carrier and start living her actual dream of travelling.
After a few months of this, she decided to take a risk and started travelling the world and grew up her social media presence. She left home with 12k followers in 2019; now she has over 980k followers on Instagram and 225k on Tik-Tok. She is very close to reaching the 1 million followers club. She still keeps working on growing her audience size as she is still as passionate about her work as she was in the initial days of her career.
