Seven months ago, I started my podcast.
I started the YouTube channel.
And I originally started that because Russell Brunson, an author of a book that I read called
Expert Secrets, he said that if you post every day for an entire year, you will never have
to worry about money again.
And so me, as an early entrepreneur, like a fresh newborn entrepreneur, I'm just like,
oh wow.
It's that easy?
I'll do it.
So I just started, I started a podcast, started posting every single day.
No results, even today, seven months later, there's no money results, but there's one
thing that kept me going.
And it's the self-improvement concept.
I was talking about this a lot while I was making those podcast episodes.
In the beginning, I was terrible.
I literally couldn't go back.
I couldn't speak for more than five seconds straight without pausing because I just couldn't
think of what else to say.
Like I couldn't keep the flow going.
Like I was absolutely awful.
But now, while I'm on the journey, so episode one, terrible.
Episode 20, terrible, but far better.
And once I got to episode 20, I looked back on episode one.
I'm like, wow, I got so much better.
And that was just 20 days.
And then on episode 40, I looked back and I was like, wow, I got so much better from
episode 20, much less episode one.
So literally the self-improvement aspect to creating content is what drove me because
I knew that I probably wasn't going to get results for a very long time.
I understood that I sucked, so no one's going to want to watch myself.
Yet I still wanted people to watch myself and I still had high hopes.
But deep down, I knew that it's like, it's a long grind.
And if I'm going to want to actually make it, then I've got to figure out a different
reason other than money to do it.
So early on, I realized, oh, wow, I'm actually growing so much as a person from this because
in the beginning, I didn't even, I barely even know how to talk.
And now I can talk way more effectively and fluently.
And it actually helped in real life too.
It's actually very crazy because I just remember going to school and I'm way more effective
with my speech, way more effective with my communication.
And I used to be really bad at presentations.
Like didn't really know how to do it.
I got really nervous.
And it helped that I did comfort zone challenges over summer.
But another thing that helped with my presentations was I can literally go into a presentation
with no preparation.
And if I just know vaguely the concept of the topic, I can literally just spew out a bunch
of words and sound really smart and get through the presentation very well.
Now that was during a school presentation, so it didn't really matter.
If I was in a real life presentation, I would definitely not prepare.
I would definitely prepare.
But just the simple act of creating content and just practicing my skills, practicing
being a YouTuber, being a podcaster, that really grew myself.
It's actually crazy.
In the beginning, my main focus was simply just being more fluent, being more like actually
speaking words that people could hear and understand and not get like, oh, what is this
kid doing?
He doesn't even know how to talk.
Like that was all I really wanted.
That was my main focus.
And then eventually I was like, okay, now I'm just going to fill all of the space.
I'm not going to have any pauses.
I'm just going to spew out everything that is in my mind.
I'm going to learn how to just get information out and speak from my heart.
And then eventually I started to realize like, oh, I got to get better at storytelling.
And so I got to make better stories.
And I was focusing on storytelling pretty much the whole time, but I became way more
conscious and intentional through reading books about reading storytelling recently.
And then I realized, oh, I can actually start to change my speech.
I got to start to make pauses in my, like I got to add pauses to end of my phrases to
add more like power.
Oh, I got to like have a smile behind, like have a smile on my face so I can back my words
with emotion.
And then I got to also add like gestures and like early on in my YouTube, when I actually
started posting intentionally on YouTube, not just making podcast episodes, I would literally
just sit like this the whole time.
And that was fine.
I was able to just say things and it was cool with IBE.
But I just feel like it's way more like you can show yourself and express yourself way
better if you're like walking around doing like, like using your hands like doing this
stuff, you know, like the things that like talking with your hands.
So it's just like me simply just creating content and becoming a podcaster has grown
me and it's helped me to grow real life skills, storytelling, communication, effective communication,
influence, like presentation skills.
I had no idea I would be able to develop that.
Like all kinds of things and one of the greatest things of all is finding your voice.
I was like, oh, like, I didn't really understand what that was.
But I knew that was kind of powerful and I was like, Oh, I kind of want to find my voice.
So I started to find my voice like episode 30.
I was way more like passionate about what I was talking about episode 50.
I was way more passionate and I was like more of an expert and I started to realize, oh,
like this is what I want to talk about.
And I started to think like, I started, okay, so this whole journey I was basically just
throwing out a bunch of nets into the water, seeing what works, basically me just sending
out a bunch of like messages.
So I remember I would talk about Transurfing a lot and then I would talk about like the
gateway experience and I would talk about just self improvement, like all kinds of other
things.
And so I kind of started to learn like what I was more passionate about than the others.
And so I started to move on from other things and started focusing on other things.
Like right now I'm focusing on like finding your like today's episode is like finding
your voice.
And then I'm talking about like social media in the next episode.
So that's sneak peek.
But all kinds of different things is what you like you can talk about so many different
things and you really start to find out what you're passionate about.
And I'm definitely confident that in another hundred days, I'm going to be talking about
completely different things, or at least I'm going to be going way more deeper into certain
things or way more broad.
I don't know.
But finding my voice has brought so much confidence and courage for me because I remember literally
like a year ago or yeah a year ago, I was still like I still told people I was going
to college or I still told my parents I was going to college.
Like I didn't even tell anyone I didn't want to go to college.
And then eventually I started reading books and I started to realize oh I kind of want
to not go to college.
Like I've always not wanted to go to college but I was like now I'm not going to college.
So that was like gave me the confidence because I started to find my voice.
Even though I wasn't really podcasting at the time.
That's an instance of me finding my voice.
I started to get more confident about my like what I'm doing.
Like locking into what I'm doing.
And I just think it's a true form of like expression.
Because when we first like started habitat like started to roam the earth like millennia
ago like thousands of years ago, millions of years ago.
When we started to roam around, we had to hunt.
We had to grow our own crops.
We had to like do all these things.
And then over time like recently we had like the industrial revolution.
So then we started to be able to like create things.
And then another recent thing in human history was the internet which is huge.
Because now we've got like this potential to kind of tap into our own purpose.
Over a long time we had to like cook or we had to like hunt for food just to survive.
Like that was what that was a necessity.
But now we've got like people we have millions of servants like the average citizen.
Even the poorest person in the world.
Maybe not the world but the poorest person like a homeless person in modern civilization
is richer than the richest king 2000 years ago.
Why?
Because the simplest things we don't realize but the simplest things thousands of people
served us just to get us this.
This microphone that I'm speaking into right now it's got like I don't even know the parts
of it but let's just say the cord.
The cord has like a bunch of different like wires and metal things inside of it.
Those had to get mined.
They had to like they literally had to extract those from the earth.
That was human labor.
There were people that actually went to do that or machines people operated machines
to do that.
And then they had to transport that.
And this is not just talking about the simple thing like they're okay you can go so deep
into this because at the root of this wire it started in the earth and then somebody
had to extract it and let's say they used a machine to extract it.
Well then somebody had to create that machine.
So they had to first learn how to make the machine and then they had to actually go and
extract more materials to make the machine and then they had to actually package it and
send it.
And you can go so deep into this and like you'll realize that we live in a society where everybody
is serving everybody.
Literally I have billions of people serving me.
Every single person has billions of people serving them and they don't even notice.
Like I go my day and I'm not really conscious of it.
Like this pen something is simple this pen there's three parts to it like the metal the
ink and the plastic tube.
You can take each individual material and trace the origin and then you pinpoint every
single person involved from like material gathering like actually coming up with the
blueprint for the pen like transportation transporting the material transporting the final product
actually assembling the pen like this is thousands of workers just to make a pen so I can use
it for like five bucks.
No this pen a package of like three of them is like six bucks.
That's insane.
I have an army of servants serving me for practically for free.
Like that's crazy.
So but that's a whole side tangent.
I didn't really necessarily mean to get into that side tangent.
The purpose of that side tangent was to say that we have evolved and we've developed their
society to such an extent to where it would be a shame if you don't pursue your purpose.
If you don't pursue your true art or your true gift or your true potential or whatever
that is if you're stuck working a job you hate that's a shame because we have billions
of servants helping us and now that the Internet is a thing we can truly express our art form
especially with social media like content creation.
It's actually crazy.
Now some people may say like oh I got school oh I got work like no you can always find
time.
You all get 24 hours in the day.
You know what I did.
I graduated early.
I cut out all my schedule.
I wasn't doing that.
Like I needed to find time for self improvement before I even had the ability to graduate
early or cut out my schedule.
So you know what I did.
I woke up early and I cut my evening short and now the first like two hours or three
hours of the day before school was dedicated to self improvement and improving myself and
then that over time compounds until eventually you can start to free up more time.
Now if you're in like the corporate world you're probably not going to be able to just
like graduate early like that's not a thing.
So in order to do that you should probably pursue a venture in the morning and then over
time you just keep working at it and then you'll get more and more money until eventually
you can move like move on.
I don't know.
I I've never experienced that so take it as you will.