What's the First Step to Being a Professional Artist?

An irish musical artists who are doing quite well for themselves recently. They asked me, this is a lovely question, and i' 'm really happy to address it. So first they said, blind boy, can you speak about what it was like releasing music and videos in the two thousands? Also, y i'm finding it increasingly difficult to want to create or make music because of the sheer scale of negative comments i get on line. And that there is often the first step from going from someone who's making art and creativity, to now stepping into the professional space.