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In January 2023 I decided to post a video every weekday for a year. At the end of that year I had about 900 followers on Instagram. After two years, 3,000. After three, 83,000. This year we're heading for a quarter of a million.
Christy and I look back at the whole journey: why I started (COVID, the cost of living and too many days away from our family), how I kept going through the flat part of the curve, and the video on a bench that changed how I talk to camera. Christy shares how she's passed 10,000 followers since January with three videos a week.
We also talk about what going viral really does for you, finding your North Star, protecting your mental health, and why the long way is the shortcut.
In this episode
[01:06] January 2023: posting every weekday for a year
[01:55] Why I started: COVID and the cost of living
[03:46] The real numbers: 900, 3,000, 83,000, 250,000
[05:20] Keeping going through the flat part of the curve
[08:09] Looking for green shoots
[09:23] When TikTok noticed before Instagram did
[10:56] The bench video that got 350,000 views
[12:35] Post across platforms and get 1% better each time
[13:50] Finding your North Star
[17:17] What going viral really does (and doesn't do)
[19:08] Christy's first year: 10,000 followers since January
[22:41] Three videos a week and a schedule you stick to
[25:16] The same approach for email and YouTube
[28:12] Moving goalposts and money goals
[30:08] Protecting your mental health
[33:45] The long way is the shortcut
[34:56] Would we change anything?
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I'm Chris Goor. I spent 25 years behind a TV camera before stepping in front of one at 46. Each week I share what's working right now: what to say on camera, staying consistent, and turning views into clients. Some weeks my wife and Studio co-founder Christy Lee joins me.
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Hello, and welcome to the Studio Sessions with me, Chris Gore.
Speaker 2:And Me, Christie Lee.
Speaker 1:And, together, we run the Studio, our community, where we help, experts create their personal brand using video. And I wanted to delve into, well, the journey we've both been on over the last three and a half, four years because I think it's it's important. I've seen a lot of content over that four year period of advice online that says, well, you can get viral and that's the way you need to go. And I think I was guilty of trying to do that in the first year. So I wanted to talk a bit about, you know, how it all started and the journey that I've been on.
Speaker 1:So, Christie, feel free to chip in at any point and ask me any questions.
Speaker 2:I was a bystander on that journey for a lot of
Speaker 1:people. So... Yeah. I mean, it all started for me in January 2023, And I think I just came in one day and I said, I'm going to start posting on social media every day, every weekday for a year.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. And I was like, cool. Did you did you
Speaker 1:know why I was doing it at that point?
Speaker 2:I think what I knew was that you've been watching a lot of YouTube videos. You've been watching a lot of stuff by Chris Doe, and and his stuff particularly talking about personal branding. So you've been learning the kind of theory behind it, and it felt like you were now finally at a point where you just were gonna give it a go.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Because our finances took a real hit in COVID times because we are both freelance camera operators working in TV. And during that year, when I should have started social media, all of our all of our money dried up. We had no income at all. And I...
Speaker 1:When... After that, we had to go back to work. And I I just found out that I had to work so much because of the cost of living crisis, and that took me away from my family. And I thought we we can't carry on just living hand to mouth. There must be a better way.
Speaker 2:I think there's also like a thing where you are at our age, which is, you know, late forties, fifties, and you're at the top of your game. So you, you know, you're earning basically the peak of what you expect to earn in your industry. But it starts to dawn on you. You're only, what, ten, fifteen years away from supposedly retiring, and yet, you know, we were in in this state. Like, how how would we ever retire?
Speaker 2:You know, with a big mortgage, you know, taking care of our daughter, and that kind of thing. It's like, it was quite alarming to to think something has to change.
Speaker 1:Mhmm. And I think the the the strange thing looking back was that I took that decision to just post every weekday for a year no matter what happened. And at the start, didn't have anything to sell either. So the sort of rough plan was the first year, gain an audience. The second year, maybe start to monetize that audience, and the third year sort of turn that into a real business.
Speaker 2:I'm not... How did that work out for you? Well,
Speaker 1:it kind of worked, but we were in our community the other day, and we were going through the actual numbers. And I'm just gonna talk about Instagram here because we now... I now have over half a million followers across all platforms, but let's just concentrate on Instagram. Because after the first year of posting on Instagram, like, those five
Speaker 2:days a
Speaker 1:week. Yes. I had 900 followers, I think, which is not great, I would say.
Speaker 2:Well, for the amount of effort put in, that feels pretty raw.
Speaker 1:Yes. And after the the second year of posting, I had 3,000 followers, which Okay. At the time seemed like a lot. I remember thinking, oh, over a thousand. That's good.
Speaker 1:And I tripled it in a year. And looking back, that's quite a small number. And then the... In... After the third year, I had around 83,000 followers.
Speaker 2:See what's happening here.
Speaker 1:Yes. And after the fourth year, which we're still in, it looks like we're gonna be getting to around about quarter of a million followers. So 800, 3,000, 83,000, 250,000.
Speaker 2:Okay. But let's go back to the flat part of the exponential line, because we all know exponential curves always start with a flat bit. So you're making five videos a week. You're not seeing very much for it, or are you? And how do you keep going during that time?
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't know what I was seeing. I didn't really know what I was looking out for. In a way, if I had got a 100 followers, that would have seemed like quite a lot of people. But Mhmm. It's sort of tricky because all the...
Speaker 1:I'm watching a lot of content at that point, and I'm seeing people go, well, you could... It's easy to get a million views on something. So part of it is that noisy world of people telling me that I'm not good enough and really, it's so easy to get a million views, then why aren't you? And the other side of it is me going, wow, I've got a thousand followers at this point. That's quite a lot of people.
Speaker 1:That's incredible. But I think that first year of making that commitment was the thing that kept me going. Obviously, there were times when I was down about it slightly, but also just the bloody mindedness of going, well, I just need to get to this point and just see where it is after that. And I was making very simple videos. And if I hadn't done something by, like, 11:00 at night, I might just put my camera in the fridge and open it and say something and close it.
Speaker 1:That'll be fine.
Speaker 2:We've all been there.
Speaker 1:But it was it it was transformational. I could see even if I didn't get views on the videos, I could see that I was starting to be able to speak in sound bites. And being an introvert, it was bringing me out of my shell and allowing me to put across ideas I have about branding and like creating videos, because obviously we've got twenty years of experience behind me. I think just seeing the personal development was kind of enough. I mean, it was hugely frustrating that I didn't have huge viral hits, but just seeing some growth was enough at that point.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And I think it's interesting because we talk to people a lot about looking out for the small green shoots signs that come back from people in these early stages because it can be really tough, and the way that a lot of platforms deal with metrics is very seductive, and it's like you could you could assess your video from all these different angles. But the upshot is you still don't have that many views, and you feel rubbish about it. But these kind of green shoots that come up, we ask people to look for them because people in their life will start talking to them about their videos and how much they like them. They might get a stranger, just reach out to them and leave them a comment and say, really like your stuff.
Speaker 2:And for you, one thing happened, which was that someone got in touch with you from Australia. Right?
Speaker 1:Yeah. There was a lady in Australia just saying, how can I work with you? And I was like, well, I don't really have anything, but I can do something. And that's sort of where we started on the journey to creating products and all that kind of stuff. But I thought that was a kind of magical moment.
Speaker 1:I mean, I had thought that Instagram would be my natural home online, but at the start, I was trying to search out those green shoots. So I was posting on pretty much every platform. And like, I thought YouTube would be a natural fit as well. But in the first six months, YouTube was giving me zero views. So, you know, the algorithm is supposed to just test your video out on a few people and then go out and give it to the next people.
Speaker 1:It was deciding not to test it at all. So that was quite blow. That was quite a blow. And the platform that was testing it was TikTok. So I had more followers on TikTok than I did on Instagram.
Speaker 1:And after that first year, I think it might have been on 3,000 when on... When Instagram was on 800, and then the next year when Instagram was on 3,000, that was on 17,000.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:So there there were little comments and little hints that people were finding the stuff I was sharing useful. Mhmm. It was just the wrapping of what I was putting around it, how I was dressing up this content that was the issue. And I think I was reiterating too slowly in that year. So it was only halfway through the second year when I had to make that video on the bench really quickly because it was just about to rain.
Speaker 1:And I randomly said the words, just try this, do this shot, this shot, this shot, and then you'll get this result, and off you go. And that video got 350,000 views. And looking back on it looking back on it, I just was trying to decipher why that one was better than the others. And it was because I was sat next to someone going, hey, look, this has worked for me. Maybe it'll work for you, rather than being caught in the teacher trap and just going, here's the thing about camera work, off you go.
Speaker 1:It's just, yeah, a very different mode. But just... I wish I'd reiterated a bit faster, but...
Speaker 2:Do you mean learn? When you say reiterate, you mean learn or experiment?
Speaker 1:Learn and then go again and just change what I was doing. Because I think in the first year, was making the same mistakes over and over and over potentially. But during that time, I was also learning in a safe space because not many people were seeing the videos. So none of it mattered. And I do remember people at work and my...
Speaker 1:Our sort of normal full time work just going, what what are you doing? Just messing around on this thing. And I was like, yeah, I'm just experimenting. But that is very different now, having sort of transitioned away from that world to a certain extent into this one. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:And it has changed our life.
Speaker 2:So I think what we can take away from those early days is that posting across platforms is really useful because signals will come back from other places first sometimes rather than the ones you expect, you know. So everyone loves Instagram and they want Instagram to be, you know, the best platform for them. Sometimes the first signals come back from from elsewhere like TikTok, you know, which is not a bad thing. It's showing you your content's good. It is connecting with people.
Speaker 2:So we just need to keep going with Instagram until that has its moment and wakes up. But also the idea of getting 1% better every video. You know, rather than just trying the same thing over and over again and feeling really rubbish about that. Just try and tweak one thing, one small thing each time. And if it works, okay, great.
Speaker 2:So then your content gets better because that's the the tension that creates the upward swing of an exponential pathway. Right? You know, it's that that push to get better. That's one of the the elements of that. The other is just keep going.
Speaker 2:Right?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So true. I mean, what what have you seen change about me in this time?
Speaker 2:In the beginning, you were a professional trying to share your skills. So we thought that what people would care about you would be your twenty five years experience in TV, how to film things. We thought you were gonna be that practical guy. But actually, I think when things really shifted was when you started to connect to your own purpose in this journey. And and I think that is one of the most powerful things that anyone can do because that keeps you going.
Speaker 2:You know, if you believe that you're here to share something and help people, then when you're having an off day, you can go, it's fine. I'm having an off day. Rather than thinking, this is rubbish. I'm just gonna pack this in. You know, the idea that that like thirty seconds that you put out there could help someone you've never even met, I think is truly profound.
Speaker 1:So Yeah.
Speaker 2:When you started to get into that frame of mind, which was to find your North Star, which is kind of the thing we talk about like a like a statement that you can always come back to, and it helps guide you and make it helps you make decisions like, is this content right for me? Does it fit with this North Star statement? No. Okay. I'm not gonna make that or yes, it does.
Speaker 2:This is the right path, you know. So I think that was the biggest change I saw for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I think I was... Really, if I was being honest, I was posting for me for the first two years, and everything came from my wants and my needs. I wanted to go viral. I wanted to have a big following.
Speaker 1:I wanted to build some digital products and all that kind of stuff. I wanted to have those ten k months, and it was down to me. And when I did switch it, not by accident, but just by really thinking about why I was doing it and the fact that I wanted to help my family, have more family time together, and we could do more things. And I thought, I want that for other people like me stuck in that same situation. And once I started doing that, then the scripts changed, I think.
Speaker 1:The neediness of pushing people into a funnel changed. And that's when I saw the the the two arms of Instagram, really. There are people playing an Instagram game who talk about getting leads and getting those viral hits. And then there's the personal brand people over there who sort of float above that. I mean, even this week, I've been thinking about, you know that viral trend of people pinching a bit of graphics and it gets bigger?
Speaker 1:Yep. And at the at the end of it, there's people gurning and doing crazy dances. I'm just thinking that anyone with a personal brand would never make that content because it just exists because of the the viral music track. And it doesn't fit in with the brand of people who are building something bigger than that, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think it's important here to talk about what actually happens when someone goes viral. So this is a small example, but when you were, I don't know, a couple of years in, you did a post from the top of a like a crane thing at Glastonbury looking down on the the pyramid stage there. There's some music festival in The UK, and that got about 300,000 views. And it didn't get any decent followers.
Speaker 2:Like, you you didn't... I remember at the time, we were like, oh, this is gonna be amazing. But you didn't get any decent followers who were actually interacting with you afterwards.
Speaker 1:No. I had a lot of people commenting, asking how I can go
Speaker 2:to Yeah. The Up there. But it
Speaker 1:didn't make... Didn't do anything at all. No.
Speaker 2:But the same thing has happened multiple times in the studio. Someone has a viral hit. There was one guy who had 13,000,000 views on a video he made. And after that, he didn't have the structure in place to to deal with those people coming in. So he got 46,000 followers straight away.
Speaker 2:He didn't have anywhere for them to go, so he hadn't kind of joined up all of his business side of things. There weren't links leading them anywhere. And his videos after that didn't have a lot of engagement or likes because those viewers weren't attracted to him and his work. They were attracted to something like a larger kind of message that he put out about how we all, you know, behave. So they didn't they didn't care about his business.
Speaker 2:So in that sense, the virality didn't work for him, and I don't know that it does.
Speaker 1:So the next thing I want to talk about is the fact that it took me two years to get to 3,000 followers on Instagram. And when did you start, Christie?
Speaker 2:I started in January of this year.
Speaker 1:And how many followers are you on now?
Speaker 2:I've just passed 10,000.
Speaker 1:So that is in nine or ten months, you've got 10,000 followers, which is slightly gawling, but great because it means that we can pass on the information that I learned and, yeah, all this stuff works. But what made you want to post to?
Speaker 2:Well, I was in a community leading a community of people who are posting videos without making videos myself. So it was about time that I gave it a go. But it's interesting because I didn't care that much about it. I thought, I'm just gonna do this. I'm just gonna try it.
Speaker 2:I'll have some fun. I've got a bit of a quirky sense of humor. Maybe I could do some stuff with that. One of my first videos, was wearing a blanket. You know?
Speaker 2:Like, just have some fun and try and take the load off people out there who find the process of making videos really overwhelming and very, like, confronting. You know? It's like a button pusher. Right? As soon as you start it, you just feel like, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Why am I even doing this? Who's gonna care? What have I got to say that's important? And that kind of thing. So I just wanted to put the message out there that you can do it, and it doesn't have to be like a real drag.
Speaker 2:You know, you can have some fun with it.
Speaker 1:So what are you thinking about when you write a post?
Speaker 2:I am thinking about actionable tips. I mean, that's something I learned from you, and I used the script frameworks that we used and developed, you know, over the last few years. So those work for me. I'm thinking about things that I see a lot with the people we work with, or people I see online in terms of the way they script and talk about themselves. But I also am not afraid to say really basic things to people.
Speaker 2:I made a video once which said use a tripod, which as a TV camera operator feels like just telling people to suck eggs. But that video did really well. And people were like, okay, great. I'll do that. You know?
Speaker 2:So, like, I'm not ashamed to be very basic about stuff. Like, I'm here to kind of hold space for anyone who wants to give this a try. I think what I believe in is that normal people should have access to the greatest marketing platforms in the world. They're free. They're for everyone.
Speaker 2:You know, I I believe people shouldn't have to be an extrovert, you know, or have their whole world sorted out and all their lead magnets and all that stuff to start talking to people. I think we can all help other people. So that's what's important to me, and I think that's why I do it. I want people to feel confident about it and like they've got something to say.
Speaker 1:And the similarities between us in terms of posting consistently. Mhmm. You're do... You're posting three times a week. Yes.
Speaker 1:And you... Which is a good thing. It shows the algorithm is fine with that amount. I think looking back five times a week was bananas especially when I had a other job to be doing, our other freelance work. But have you managed to keep to that three videos a week?
Speaker 1:Have you ever fallen off the wagon? No. But how important is it to have a schedule that you actually stick to?
Speaker 2:It's really important. I post three videos a week on exactly the same days. My content creation day is Wednesday. I keep ideas, like ideas will come to me throughout the week. I keep them on a little notes app.
Speaker 2:Then I script for about half an hour, maybe on a Wednesday morning, and then I shoot them that afternoon, and I edit in the evening. So that's what I do. If they don't come out great, I don't care. Like, I've done my three videos a week. It's...
Speaker 2:Consistency is more important to me than anything else. Like, I'll go, well, this one is not gonna do great, but, you know... And I think sometimes as well, I will say to you, oh, this one's, you know, this one's a bit too, like, emotional or something like that, you know. And you'll go, well, it's... That just helps people get to know you better.
Speaker 2:You know, we can't have high performing posts all the time. Right? We have to provide content that's nurturing to our audience as well, so they can get to know us on a deeper level and understand why we're doing this.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I also like making the commitment to creating the videos. So we're making a commitment to the audience that we're gonna keep going and we're gonna show up.
Speaker 2:If you're a friend to someone, if you're a friend to your audience, you're not just gonna go, actually, I don't fancy doing this for a couple of months, and just disappear. Because then that person's going, where was that person who was giving me all that great advice?
Speaker 1:And I think that's where I've posted on social media before before this journey and stopped. I've done, like, couple of months here, couple of months there. And I think that was the difference because I've done that before. I knew that I had to stay on the wagon, really. So...
Speaker 1:And it's just... And it's what we've done when we've grown other platforms. We... I remember when I said we need a... An email to go out, Christie.
Speaker 1:And you were like, this is another thing to start.
Speaker 2:Please don't do this to me.
Speaker 1:So... And we were like... Well, I said we need to put something out weekly. So that is a fifty two week a year commitment. And it just...
Speaker 1:Making that commitment does make a massive difference, and we've built a reasonable size email list of well over $10. Maybe it's 13, 14,000 followers at the moment. But it's a way of just connecting with people more. And then when I decided to do long form content on YouTube properly, That was in April this year because I'd been doing it on and off occasionally. And I was like, I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 1:The same way I grew Instagram and TikTok and all the others is just by posting consistently. So every Tuesday, a YouTube video will go out, and that has built a subscriber list of about 71,000 since then, and had millions of views and has helped our business. But it's all down to that same thing, just being... Having a practice and doing it regularly and making the commitment. I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 2:I think it's also... It's part of your job now. You know? I think we have to just go, it... Okay.
Speaker 2:This is just what I do now. I make x number of videos a week. I mean, I would say to people, really think about what your capacity is and how much you could genuinely do. Because Instagram only wants three videos a week. Unless you've got loads of time and energy, and you can do five or six videos, then, you know, just start easy on yourself.
Speaker 2:They don't have to be like incredible works of art. They just need to be thirty seconds where you give one nugget of advice to people. But I was all... I would also say that I think we can have this mindset like, oh, well, when I... Once I reach 10,000 followers, or once I reach 50,000 followers, then then it'll it'll be fine.
Speaker 2:I can just take a break. You know? Actually, it doesn't work like that. You know? This is a a long path we're on, and we have to kind of accept that and build this into our routines, our weekly routines.
Speaker 2:Because once you get to a 100,000, actually, opportunities will start flowing in, and you'll be aiming for the next step, you know, 200,000. So you don't just stop. This is part of your job now of being a key person of influence in your field and being there for your audience.
Speaker 1:Yes. I think that's one thing to look out for when you're starting out is the feeling of wanting more never really goes away. And you think that when you get to a thousand followers, then, oh, that'll be it. No. That that goal post changes 10,000 followers or 100,000 followers or whatever.
Speaker 1:And the other part of it is if you set a goal of, oh, I need to earn this much money from my content in the next six months, that's a really tricky thing Yeah. To to hit. So...
Speaker 2:I think money being a priority, even though it has to be, you know, like, obviously, it's a priority for us, but it crushes your energy around creating videos. If you say, well, I just want I just wanna make £20,000 a month. Thanks. You know? Then any of the creativity that might be flooding in gets kind of stamped on by that.
Speaker 2:You know? So we always recommend taking money out of it and finding your genuine purpose underneath that that. Like, why are you here? Who are you here to help?
Speaker 1:Yep. And anytime... We might do a whole podcast around this, but anytime I've done a push of... In my content to go, please do this thing. Please even like take this advice or just buy this thing or visit our website or do this stuff and it turns into an advert, the engagement has gone down and it hasn't really worked.
Speaker 1:And as soon as we've sort of held the hand of someone and go, look, this this thing might help you, and then we've allowed the viewer to find our other services themselves, then things have got a bit better. So taking that neediness out of it has really helped.
Speaker 2:I wonder if... How do you protect your mental health on this journey? Because that's a big one. You know? You're spending a lot of time at the start anyway, creating content, filming, and learning new skills.
Speaker 2:It's really hard to be a beginner again. How do you stop this whole thing from trashing your mental health and your personal life or family life?
Speaker 1:For me, it's it's treating it as an experiment and not worrying about the results too much. The algorithms will try and tell you that this piece of content isn't as good as the last one, and it's not going viral because of this. But if you know that the content's getting better in some way, that is enough, I think. But it's... I would say it's the the trickiest side of things because all the platforms are trying to give you the nudges to make content that they want you to make, and you're trying to be on a path of what you want to make for your audience.
Speaker 1:So I think it I think it's possibly the trickiest thing, but having support along the way. For
Speaker 2:me,
Speaker 1:I had your support at the start of it just going, just don't worry about it. Just put it out there. Say what you wanna say.
Speaker 2:But I could see it was good as well. So I could tell you, this is good. Keep going.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And that's that's part of the reason we started a community rather than just, like, advice in course form on its own. The first thing built...... Like pain. Yeah.
Speaker 1:The first thing we started was the community so people could see other people on that same journey and support them mentally too. Because it is a mental game at the end of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I I see. Sorry. Go on. Maybe there are people out there listening to this.
Speaker 2:Maybe they have someone in their life that they could go to and be their person that encourages them, and maybe they encourage them too. You know, if you could find someone in your life who wants to do this, or knows what it means, because I think normal normal people, like our families and stuff just go, what are you doing guys? Like, you know, like they they don't say that outright, know, but basically, you're gonna be abnormal in in your life. You know, the people around you will be like, they spend hours each week filming themselves. You know?
Speaker 2:So it's good to have someone who knows what that means to you and where you're headed, and so that you can get that encouragement.
Speaker 1:Yes. I think it is really important, and we all start this journey with limiting beliefs. We'll start going, well, no one wants to hear from me or I'm not good enough. I'm not a speaker. But you can learn all those things.
Speaker 1:And even the content out there that says you can get to £10,000 months, most people or a lot of people would see that and go, that is the limit of what I can earn. It is not, because you can burn past that relatively easily if you get past the first uncomfortable two or three years. But it's a very hard sell to go, after four years, this will have changed your life beyond all recognition if you just stay on the path.
Speaker 2:But... Yeah. Yeah. I think Alex Hormozi talks about this. Alex and Leila Hormozi talk about tolerating the discomfort.
Speaker 2:You know, if you can just tolerate that discomfort and keep going, then, you know, you reap the benefits. But he also said recently, which I thought was so good, that the long way is the shortcut. You know? People sign on for things that are like, get you a viral hit, and make make your videos just churn, churn, churn kind of thing. Taking the time to build like you did in that...
Speaker 2:Those first two years, even though you did it like bloody mindedly, like, I'm just gonna do this. You know, that turns you into a great creator that's really in tune with your people. And doing that sets up the the groundwork for a really sustainable strong business that comes off the back of it. You know, if you're just reaching stuff and think... Reaching for stuff and thinking about yourself, and what you want and your needs, and I want that £10,000 a month.
Speaker 2:That's a totally different energy you're putting out into the world. So this... The long way is the shortcut.
Speaker 1:And finally, knowing what you know now and where we are, where we've come from, would you have done anything differently? Or would you have wanted me to do anything differently in my content?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think I understood what you were doing because of what we talked about the ideas around personal branding, and we have a bit of a flexible lifestyle. If we weren't working, we'd have days off, so you could go off and and film then. I think the changes that it's made in our life have been quite profound for me. You know, we both worked in TV.
Speaker 2:TV is a very unstable place right now. There's not a lot of work around. When there is work, it's fourteen hour days, you know, with an hour and a half of traveling each end, and that leaves you just absolutely washed out for days afterwards, and it's very highly technical, and takes a lot of brain space and stuff. So things started to change, and we decided that I would step back from television because we... I wanted to be around more from our daughter, and that has allowed us to now get a puppy.
Speaker 2:That sounds really... It sounds really like, Oh, puppy. But honestly, we have wanted this for so long, but we didn't have the kind of lifestyle that would suit a dog, because we'd just be away for so long during the day. Like, we just couldn't do that to a little dude. So...
Speaker 2:But now, that means we've got a puppy. Like, our family has grown a little bit. You know, our daughter feels more settled because I'm at home more. Like, suddenly, I'm able to put all my energy into the community, you know, things start to grow there, you know. And I think it is changing our lives massively.
Speaker 2:It's it's hard to really put into words.
Speaker 1:Mhmm. Has changed it massively, and I'm so grateful that we started it, and I'm so grateful to you for being alongside me in that first year. And I'm kind of grateful to myself four years ago, that bloody minded, I... Let's just... I'm just gonna try this thing and just see what happens.
Speaker 2:It's quite extraordinary really, because you're an introvert, and also an introvert who didn't necessarily follow through on things. So when when you said to me, I'm gonna do this for you for a year, I was like, okay. Like, this probably isn't gonna happen, you know, but like, support you, you know. And then you kept going. I was like, okay.
Speaker 2:He's really serious about this. And it... It's interesting. It's like inspiring him. You know, you were taking thoughts and ideas from people, and turning them into something.
Speaker 2:You know, you were following a path. I could see that. So I I think I have had to have a very big learning curve to catch up to where you were, not just with videos, but all of a sudden we created a community, and I then had to work with people, and talk to them about, you know, their journey. That has been a huge thing, but I'm loving that as well. That is now my purpose for being here.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, it's a bit of a wild ride, but that's the thing. Like, when you when you put a kind of when you're thinking about yourself and you have a goal, like, I just wanna make £10,000 a month, you can't imagine what could be in store for you. You're just putting this cap on stuff, but actually there's way way more out there for you, you know. But you just have to take your time in the beginning, find that support so you can keep going, try and get 1% better every time, and just keep going.
Speaker 1:I I remember the first live session that we ran in the studio in our community when there were maybe eight or 10 people on the call. I was nervous as hell. And now, I can run a webinar of a 100 and something people and be like absolutely fine with it. Just that personal development has been incredible. But me and Christie are here to support you on your journey too.
Speaker 1:So if you have any questions about how as an expert you can create content that takes you on the path that we've been going on, then there's a link in the show notes, and you could just drop us a message. There's also the support we offer in terms of our courses and community, but we are here to help you achieve something similar to us. So please reach out at any point in time. And, if you have liked this, please subscribe and all my questions. But but we're committed to doing this, so just stay with us, and we'll help you on your journey too.
Speaker 1:And we'll see you again next week.
Speaker 2:Bye.