I've heard so many times that all it takes is one and I'm here to tell you that it's true but maybe not in the way that you think I started posting genuine content that I was actually passionate about consistently about 7 months ago and I really didn't expect to get anything out of it other than personal fulfillment but I think it's actually changing my life [Music] [Music] you see 3 months into post Inc consistently I made a short film about my life and within a few days it started blowing [Music] up it started showing up
on the homepage and being recommended to thousands of [Music] people within a couple of weeks I went from around 800 subscribers to 5,000 and the growth has been pretty steady ever [Music] since but I'd be lying if I said all it took was a few months and one video to change my life because the journey is about so much more than the numbers and the analytics see the truth is my journey started almost two decades ago when YouTube was a brand new platform platform as a little girl violating the terms of service I created my
first YouTube channel at just 10 years old and using a little blue camcorder that came with its own editing software I started making videos for the first time and I fell in love although my channel was eventually shut down due to my age that didn't stop me from continuing to create and post to new channels throughout my adolescence and into my adulthood as I grew up and changed so did the platform and before long some of the creators that I grew up alongside had gone on to be full-time content creators doing what they love throughout
all these years I had this little dream that maybe that could happen for me too but life always seemed to get in the way YouTube was always this little hobby that was in the background and was there when I needed it but consistency was my weakness and I finally figured out why I continually had these Seasons where I would just stop creating for me you see back in 2015 I started my small business creating wedding films which would eventually become my full-time job and simultaneously I was working a full-time job as a director of videography
up until 2021 and while I was doing what I loved film making and telling stories I was no longer making time to create anything just because I wanted to I was only creating things that were on a task list and had a deadline so everything that I was creating had stress pressure money and validation attached to it and the thing is the love for a medium changes when you stop doing it simply for the sake of having fun things shift when you no longer create them from a place of passion and inspiration from your own
heart and your own experience it's not that you can't make art for your job that's what I do it's when you only do that that it's an issue I think as artists and creative humans we need the freedom to be able to create things that bring our souls alive regardless of how many people see them how they perform or how much money they make us we were created to be free of all the worries that seemingly always attach themselves to our art we were not created to carry that weight all of the time so what
changed how did I suddenly have the time and the motivation to create things for fun again consistently one day I just broke I realized that I had fallen out of love with my craft because the weight of the grind was sucking the life out of me I had to face that truth head on and I had to realize that I have deeper needs than external validation and money I had to do something about it or nothing would ever change so I deleted the apps I scrapped my process and I changed my priorities I sat down
and I started writing what would be my first personal project in more than a year and suddenly I felt this part of myself that had died come to life [Music] again I created and posted that video in a matter of days and that started at all 7 months later I'm still going and that video didn't blow up but it created something brand new in me it reignited that little girl that loved storytelling simply because it was fun and inspiring tell me what I'm going to do with my life I have a dream and I want
to know if it's going to come true look it's a daily battle not to stare at YouTube studio all day long and obsessed over strategy and the numbers side of things especially if you want to grow an audience but I can honestly say that I am so much happier creating things for me again remembering that I have the freedom to create things with no strings attached is well lifechanging if you're struggling to start sit down and think about why you want to create in the first place tap into that and begin because all it takes
is one to change your life
