Name: Personal Q&A: Making money, imposter syndrome, feeling stuck, love life, future plans, & some advice
Uploaded: 2024-07-16T15:22:28.000Z
Duration: 11 min 54 s
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And what do you do to overcome that feeling?

Do you ever compare yourself to others on social media?

Do you suffer from imposter syndrome and how do you deal with it?

If you're new here, I'm a management consultant and a YouTuber, blah, blah, blah.

I'm from Los Angeles, California, but now I live in New York City.

Where did you go to college and do you miss it?

I miss being geographically close to so many of my friends and having a built in context to see them every day, aka in the classroom, around campus, at parties, etc.

But it's not like I want to be back there.

Making my own life where I am now is awesome.

So, of course, while I miss aspects of college, it is a different phase of my life that I look back on very fondly.

To be completely honest, a lot more as of late on account of YouTube growth and some really great sponsorships, which has been a dream come true.

Not necessarily the money being the dream come true, but just seeing growth after literally thousands of hours of editing and learning how to create an engaging video in general over the last two years has been way more rewarding than I could have ever imagined.

And the income that I make from this is just a bonus on top of my full time consulting income.

I've been tinkering with the thought of making a how much I make video where I actually go through the different income streams and amounts for each one.

I know they can rub some people the wrong way, but also who cares?

I don't know. Let me know in the comments if you'd want to see that.

Since you've got Antarctica kicked off, amazing.

And no, actually, I have not been to Africa.

Cape Town is a pretty high on my bucket list.

So once I go there, that will be my seventh continent.

I woke up in cold sweats and jumped up in bed only to realize that my nightmare was actually a reality.

And that reality is that 72.2% of you guys are not subscribed.

But in my defense, most YouTubers who make that joke are like 10% of you guys are not subscribed.

And for me, it's 72.2%. OK, I'm begging you for your pity.

No, I'm not. But I am begging you to subscribe.

Hit the like button while you're at it, too. I'd appreciate it.

What's the first country that comes to mind when you think of working abroad?

Tips for actually doing content creation.

I can talk a lot about YouTube tips in general.

That's the problem with these Q and A's is they give me so many different spinoff video ideas.

And I'm just like, I'll save that for another video.

But then I never actually do the other video.

Ideally, you find the overlap between the videos that people want to see and the videos that you like to make.

You might want to make a My California Road Trip video.

But if you're first starting out, very few people will be compelled to actually click on that video because they have not established a connection with your personality or your filming style yet.

Versus if you make that video, but frame it in a slightly different way where you can title it the 10 best things to do on a California road trip.

Then it's actually a searchable video and clearly promises to deliver some value to the viewer.

That advice is more so for people who are just starting out.

If you have a following and a lot of people who just watch you for your personality or for your editing style or what have you, then you can make that My California Road Trip video and people will still watch it, which is very liberating as a creator.

Nonetheless, whether you're a beginner or you have a following,

I still think it's important to try to deliver some value a decent amount of the time.

I try to find a balance of entertainment and delivering some value in most of my videos, like my New York City apartment tour, for example, that is pure, mindless entertainment that caters to a wide audience.

So I tried to make it lighthearted and funny.

But I also took a minute to discuss the legality of flex walls in New York City and talk about how much it would cost to actually install one depending on what type of flex wall it is.

I'm not saying I'm a Wharton professor out here teaching some serious concepts, but I know that I at least appreciate when I walk away from a video feeling like I learned something new.

So I do try to incorporate that in most of my videos.

Also, these tips are based on the assumption that you want to grow on YouTube.

If you just like making videos and you want to make that My California Road Trip just for fun and you don't care about a lot of people seeing it, then obviously there's nothing wrong with that.

The tips I'm giving are more so for channel growth.

I'm also about 25% ethnically Croatian from my dad's side.

Are you happy in general with where you are personally and or professionally?

I actually have some very exciting life updates I'll be sharing soon related to my personal and professional satisfaction.

Moving to New York City, for example, which is the biggest life change I've ever made besides going to college on the East Coast, I guess.

It's made me a lot more independent because even though I have a lot of friends here, my four closest loved ones, six if you count these rascals, do not live here.

And this is the first time I've been away from all four of them at the same time.

I don't know why that sounds so mysterious.

But anyway, even though I generally am very happy with where I am personally and professionally,

I still always feel like there is something that I can improve on.

And this seamless transition brings me to today's sponsor, BetterHelp.

Let's talk about mental health and therapy for a sec.

One of the ways that I really came around to thinking about therapy is through analogies.

We get our cars serviced to prevent bigger problems down the road.

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