Today we’d like to introduce you to Dominique.
Hi Dominique, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I’m originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and today I’m building the next chapter of my creative life in Los Angeles, California. Getting here wasn’t a straight line. My family and I traveled across the country from St. Louis to California, and in many ways, that physical journey reflects the evolution of my work as well.
Creativity has always been part of the way I process and communicate life. Over the years, I’ve worked across beauty, music, writing, entrepreneurship and visual storytelling, but for a long time I viewed those things as separate parts of who I was. Eventually, I began to understand that they were all expressions of the same thing: I am a storyteller.
At the end of 2019, my family and I began intentionally building Welcome to the Nash House. What started as a way to document our family became something much deeper. We began capturing marriage, parenthood, creativity, entrepreneurship and the ordinary moments that make up a life. I learned that our strength wasn’t in presenting a perfect family or a perfectly packaged journey. It was in allowing people to experience the story with us as it unfolded.
That philosophy became even more important as our family moved through major transitions. Eventually, we made the decision to leave St. Louis and travel west to California. We didn’t wait until everything was perfectly settled to continue creating. We documented the journey. The transition became part of the work, and Los Angeles has now become the setting for the next chapter of what we’re building.
Somewhere along the way, I realized we weren’t simply creating content. We were building an archive of our family’s life while developing a body of work around authentic storytelling. That realization helped Nash House Media take shape as the production backbone behind Welcome to the Nash House and the larger creative work we’re developing.
Today, I work in Los Angeles as a storyteller, recording artist, producer and founder of Nash House Media. I no longer see those roles as separate identities. Whether I’m producing a family documentary, creating commercial content, writing and releasing music, developing a short film or documenting everyday life, the foundation is the same: taking lived experience and turning it into something people can see, hear and feel.
In many ways, going from St. Louis to Los Angeles has been more than a change in location. It represents expansion. I’m still carrying everything that shaped me in St. Louis, but I’m allowing the work—and myself—to grow into what comes next.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It definitely has not been a smooth road, but I’ve learned that a smooth road isn’t necessarily the goal. Some of the obstacles that felt the hardest while I was experiencing them ultimately shaped who I became.
There have been seasons when plans didn’t work, opportunities ended, finances changed, stability looked different than I expected, and my family and I had to make decisions without knowing exactly what was waiting for us on the other side. At the time, those moments can feel like something has gone wrong. Looking back, I can see that sometimes the obstacle was actually the redirection.
My faith has taught me that preparation doesn’t always look like progress while you’re inside of it. Sometimes God is preparing you for something He has placed ahead of you that you cannot see yet. A closed door can force you to discover another ability. A season of uncertainty can teach you how resourceful you really are. Losing the version of life you thought you were supposed to have can create room for a life you never would have imagined for yourself.
One of the biggest lessons for me has been learning not to measure my life solely by what a particular season looks like from the outside. My family and I have experienced tremendous transition, including leaving the city we had always known and traveling across the country to begin again in California. There were many unknowns attached to that decision, but there was also an incredible amount of faith involved.
And through those transitions, I kept creating. I kept writing. We kept documenting our family. We kept building. Some of the very things I once thought were interruptions to the plan became material for the work I’m creating today.
So now, when I encounter an obstacle, I try not to immediately ask, “Why is this happening to me?” I’m learning to ask, “What is this preparing me for?” That shift has changed the way I understand adversity. Obstacles are hard—and I don’t believe we have to pretend they aren’t—but they can also shape us, redirect us and prepare us for what comes next.
I’m still living that lesson. I don’t know everything that is ahead of me, but I have enough evidence from what I’ve already survived to trust that not being able to see the entire road doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
At the heart of my work is authentic storytelling. I’m interested in documenting life as it is actually being lived—not waiting until everything is perfect, polished or resolved before deciding that the story is worth telling.
Through Welcome to the Nash House and Nash House Media, my family and I are continuing to build several original series that document different parts of our lives, including marriage, parenting, creativity, education, entrepreneurship and the experience of building something together as a family. Our family journey remains at the center of what we create, but the way we tell those stories continues to evolve.
We’re also intentionally expanding our partnerships with brands that understand the value of authentic storytelling. I’m most interested in partnerships where a product or service can naturally exist within a story we would already be telling. I don’t want our audience to suddenly feel like they’re watching an advertisement. I want them to recognize our voice, our family and our way of experiencing the world—and for the partnership to make sense within that.
I think that is one of the things that sets our work apart. We don’t build the story around the advertisement; we look for the authentic story that already exists and determine where a brand can naturally belong within it. That allows us to create commercial work without losing the humanity that made people connect with Welcome to the Nash House in the first place.
My storytelling also extends beyond the camera. I’m a recording artist and songwriter, and I’m currently preparing my second studio album, The Book of Love. The album explores love as something much larger than romance. It moves through self-love, healing, energy, partnership, reflection and the different ways our understanding of love changes as we grow. For me, songwriting is another form of storytelling. Sometimes a story needs to be filmed, sometimes it needs to be written, and sometimes it needs to become a song.
What I’m most proud of is that I’ve stopped feeling as though I have to choose only one way to be creative. For a long time, it was easy to look at filmmaking, music, family content, writing and entrepreneurship as separate things. Now I understand that they are all part of the same creative ecosystem.
Nash House Media gives us the infrastructure to continue building that ecosystem—our original series, family documentaries, short films, music, commercial partnerships and whatever the work grows into next. And as we establish this next chapter in Los Angeles, I’m excited about expanding those collaborations while continuing to protect the authenticity at the center of everything we create.
Do you have any advice for those just starting out?
Nothing has to be perfect for you to start.
I think one of the biggest things I wish I understood earlier is that you don’t have to have everything figured out before you begin. You don’t need the perfect equipment, the perfect circumstances, the perfect plan or even a complete understanding of where the journey is going to take you.
If God placed something on your heart, there is a reason it is there. Sometimes your responsibility isn’t to understand the entire vision. Sometimes your responsibility is simply to take the first step.
So much of what I know today, I learned because I started. I created, experimented, made mistakes, changed direction, learned new skills and allowed the vision to evolve as I evolved. There were things I couldn’t possibly have known at the beginning because I hadn’t lived the experiences that would teach them to me yet.
I would also tell someone starting out not to measure the beginning of their journey against someone else’s middle. What looks polished today usually has years of learning, uncertainty, mistakes and growth behind it.
Start with what you have. Learn while you’re moving. Give yourself permission to change your mind. Give the vision room to become bigger than the version you originally imagined.
You don’t need to see the entire road to know it’s time to start walking.
Pricing:
- Short-Form Branded Video / UGC — Starting at $500
- Brand & Lifestyle Photography — Starting at $250
- Creative Production — Starting at $150/hour
- Research & Creative Consultation — Starting at $400
- Custom Brand Partnerships & Campaigns — Pricing available based on scope
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/Welcome2thenashhouse
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nashhousemedia?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Welcometothenashhousebydomi?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominique-nash-ab26b2190
- Twitter: https://x.com/Domi_Nash
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@welcometothenashhousebydomi?si=K3JqY8RoT1C8Fw_z
- Other: Music: Welcome To The Nash House by Domi — available on all major streaming platforms
Image Credits
Photography by Grailian Nash / GN Photography LLC. Additional family photography courtesy of Dominique M. Nash / Welcome To The Nash House. “The Nash Bunch” family collage created by Dakotah Nash.
