Start a YouTube Channel & Change Your Life in 6 Months — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, when you start a YouTube channel,
2. 0:02you probably have a pretty good idea of
3. 0:04where you want to end up. Maybe you want
4. 0:06a big audience, or a channel you're
5. 0:08proud of, or maybe eventually a
6. 0:10completely new life. But, the problem is
7. 0:12you have no idea how to get there. And
8. 0:15if I've learned one thing over the past
9. 0:17few years of doing this whole [music]
10. 0:18YouTube thing, is that sometimes the
11. 0:20only way to figure out the right path is
12. 0:22to just start [music]
13. 0:24walking.
14. 0:28>> [music]
15. 0:31>> So, I want to start this video by
16. 0:32telling you a story I never actually
17. 0:33thought I'd share with anyone. So, back
18. 0:36in 2022, way before I started this
19. 0:38channel, I actually made a little
20. 0:40self-improvement channel. And the videos
21. 0:42I was making back then were genuinely
22. 0:44[music]
23. 0:45horrendous. And I think I posted maybe
24. 0:47five or six videos before I just got way
25. 0:49too embarrassed and just deleted the
26. 0:51entire channel. But then, something kind
27. 0:54of interesting happened. Because even
28. 0:56though that channel failed miserably, I
29. 0:58didn't stop making videos. I started
30. 1:00experimenting with completely different
31. 1:02styles and different niches. And some of
32. 1:04those videos actually ended up getting
33. 1:06millions of views. And eventually all of
34. 1:08those weird little experiments led me to
35. 1:11the channel you're watching now. And
36. 1:12that's why I think the best thing you
37. 1:13can do at the beginning of your journey
38. 1:15as a creator [music] is literally just
39. 1:18start. You don't need the perfect niche,
40. 1:20the perfect idea, or some perfectly
41. 1:22mapped out plan. You just need to start
42. 1:25moving. Because once you actually get
43. 1:27going, you can change [music] direction,
44. 1:29you can try something else. You can
45. 1:30figure things out as you go, but none of
46. 1:33that happens if you never [music] take
47. 1:35that first step. Now, once you actually
48. 1:38start making videos, this is where
49. 1:39things start to get interesting. Because
50. 1:41I think one of the hardest things at the
51. 1:43beginning is figuring out what kind of
52. 1:45creator do you want to become? And
53. 1:47funnily enough, the answer to that
54. 1:48question becomes so obvious once you
55. 1:50stop overthinking it and instead just
56. 1:53figure it out as you create more videos.
57. 1:55So, for example, you might make one
58. 1:57video and realize, "Oh, I actually
59. 1:58really love storytelling." So, you go a
60. 2:01little bit more in that direction. And
61. 2:03then you might make another video and
62. 2:04realize, "Oh, this filming style feels
63. 2:06really authentic to me." So, I'm going
64. 2:08to lean into that a little bit more as
65. 2:10well. And the more you do this, the more
66. 2:12you create, the easier it becomes to
67. 2:13discover [music] what kind of creator
68. 2:15you eventually want to become. And a
69. 2:17really good example of this is actually
70. 2:19this channel you're watching right now.
71. 2:21So, if you go back and watch my very
72. 2:22first videos, they are wildly different
73. 2:25from the video you're watching right
74. 2:27now. And I can tell you there is
75. 2:28absolutely no way that I could have
76. 2:31planned this version of the channel from
77. 2:33the beginning. And looking back, I am so
78. 2:35glad that instead of trying to plan
79. 2:37everything and overthink everything, I
80. 2:39just started experimenting [music]
81. 2:41and just trusted the process. But
82. 2:43eventually, there's a part of this
83. 2:45journey where things can start to get
84. 2:46difficult. This is the part where you've
85. 2:48been putting in the work for months, and
86. 2:50you still feel like you're miles away
87. 2:52from where you want to be. Because
88. 2:54here's the thing, starting your journey
89. 2:56is exciting. Reaching your goals is
90. 2:58obviously exciting as well. But nobody
91. 3:00really prepares you for this huge
92. 3:02stretch in the middle where you're
93. 3:04pouring your heart and soul into your
94. 3:05videos
95. 3:06>> [music]
96. 3:06>> and nothing is happening. And honestly,
97. 3:09this is the part where I just need to be
98. 3:10completely real with you. YouTube is
99. 3:13hard, like really, really hard. Making
100. 3:16videos consistently that thousands of
101. 3:18people want to watch is a very difficult
102. 3:20skill to master, and that's just the
103. 3:23truth. But I think the important thing
104. 3:25to remember is just because the journey
105. 3:26is difficult [music] doesn't mean that
106. 3:28you're on the wrong path. Okay, so I've
107. 3:31been walking for quite a while now and
108. 3:32there's a lake that I'm trying to get
109. 3:34to, which I think is somewhere just over
110. 3:37here.
111. 3:41It's funny, right? Whenever we start
112. 3:43something new in life, it's very easy to
113. 3:45become obsessed with
114. 3:46>> [music]
115. 3:46>> a destination, you know, wherever you're
116. 3:48trying to get to. Like Like have some
117. 3:50huge goal in your head and you spend
118. 3:52[music] so much time focusing on that
119. 3:54goal that you barely notice what's
120. 3:56happening around you. And I do think
121. 3:58this is especially true [music] when
122. 4:00you're trying to become a creator
123. 4:01because you can spend years chasing the
124. 4:04views and the money and these big
125. 4:06milestones. [music] But almost every
126. 4:08single day of your journey is just going
127. 4:10to be you sitting down and making
128. 4:12videos. And I know [music] how cliche
129. 4:14this is, but if you don't appreciate
130. 4:16that part of the journey, then you're
131. 4:17missing the whole point. Because then
132. 4:20you could spend years building [music] a
133. 4:21life that you want in the future and
134. 4:23forget to enjoy the life that you
135. 4:25already have.
136. 4:28Okay, so if you've been watching this
137. 4:29channel for a while, you've probably
138. 4:31noticed that the videos I'm making now
139. 4:33>> [music]
140. 4:33>> are becoming very different to the
141. 4:35videos I was making even a couple of
142. 4:37months ago. And I want to explain why.
143. 4:40So in the last few months, I've just
144. 4:41reached a point where I'm kind of done
145. 4:43with the whole YouTube guru, YouTube
146. 4:45education stuff. You know, just sitting
147. 4:47down in front of a camera every week and
148. 4:49talking about how to get more views or
149. 4:51how to blow up on YouTube and all this
150. 4:53stuff, right? And obviously there's
151. 4:54nothing wrong with those types of
152. 4:55videos. It's just for me creatively, I'm
153. 4:58just completely bored of it. And you
154. 5:00know, recently I've been asking myself
155. 5:01this question of like, what is more
156. 5:03important to me? Do I care more about
157. 5:05what interests me creatively and the
158. 5:07things I'm passionate about or am I
159. 5:09going to keep doing the same thing
160. 5:10because I'm scared of failure or because
161. 5:13I'm scared of what people will think.
162. 5:15And I think I've made my decision on
163. 5:17that now. I think I'd rather take the
164. 5:19risk. I want to make more stuff like the
165. 5:21video you just watched. I want to get
166. 5:23better at things like storytelling
167. 5:24[music]
168. 5:24and filmmaking. I want to try weird
169. 5:27experimental ideas that might completely
170. 5:29fail. Because I've realized that the
171. 5:31most important thing to me is creating
172. 5:33things that feel meaningful and creating
173. 5:36things that I'm genuinely proud of. So
174. 5:38yeah, I guess I just want to say thank
175. 5:39you to you guys who are sticking around
176. 5:41[music] while I figure all of this out
177. 5:42and hopefully you'll stick around for
178. 5:44wherever this next version ends up going
179. 5:47as well.
180. 5:49>> I know sometimes life [singing] can be
181. 5:52tough.
182. 5:53>> [music]
183. 5:57>> And you [singing] feel like