the secret to content creation I wish I knew sooner

i found myself when i was working with 9-5 feeling like i had to wake up every single day and pretend to be someone that i wasn't in order to pay my bills and i eventually got to a point where i realized that i wanted to wake up every single day and be able to just embody who i am and get paid for it and now a year later i am here and i'm making more money than i've ever made in my entire life again just by being me and i feel like we're now in this

era where more and more people are realizing that they themselves can do this as well so in this video i want to share with you guys how you can show up as yourself every single day whether you want to be a content creator or an entrepreneur and really just make money just by being you the first thing that i think is really important before you do anything is to first think about your own personal journey how do you want to better yourself right now and what does that specifically look like for you maybe that's a

spiritual journey maybe that's a physical health journey maybe for you that's financial right that can be so many different things and i really encourage you to not think about it in terms of a niche because i feel like usually what they kind of used to tell you back in the day is like pick a niche focus on that one topic but that's just kind of not how it works anymore like people don't want to just see one side of someone anymore when you're sharing yourself online people want to see the full the full scope of

you so when you're thinking about your own personal journey and how you want to become the best version of yourself what does that look like like your rituals your routines how are you working to be the best version of yourself that you can be i really want you to start thinking about that if you haven't already commit to putting that into practice we have a million other things going on in our lives we have work we have our social lives maybe you have kids maybe you have i don't know you have a million other things

going on but i think if you are on a journey right now of wanting to again just get paid to be yourself your personal journey your personal growth needs to be at the forefront of your mind it needs to be one of your top priorities and for me i found it kind of easy to make it one of my top priorities even while i was working 9-5 and even while i had a million other things going on because for me it was a deeply spiritual practice so i was able to kind of see what that

journey looked like in all aspects of my life in my romantic relationship in my friendships in my work i was able to see this journey towards becoming the best version of myself in all things that i was doing but then also you do want to make time as consistently as you can depending on what your situation looks like you want to make time to also again maybe put that into practice so maybe that for you means going to the gym maybe that means doing yoga and meditating maybe that just means journaling i think journaling is

one of the top things that i would suggest no matter what area is that you're focused on growing in if you can make time for anything every single day just find time to journal because it's really going to give you a chance to really be self-reflective but also really truly like get ideas for content that's like the foundation of getting to do what i do every single day is me consistently going back and becoming more self aware of what it is that i am learning about myself and how i want to continue growing once you

really start kind of embarking on this journey if you haven't already i encourage you to almost immediately start sharing what that journey looks like on whatever platforms you feel the most comfortable sharing this on maybe that's youtube for you i feel like that's tick tock for a lot of people nowadays i feel like talk is usually a little bit more short form and maybe if you want hold yourself accountable by sticking to a schedule to do it consistently but just start sharing yourself online as often as you can and again as freely as you can

and this is going to be a little bit rough at first like honestly if you've never done content at all before it's gonna be a little bit difficult kind of warming up to the camera and getting used to posting consistently and you're branding and you're messaging all that stuff it's gonna take time but i encourage you to not overthink that stuff like just really focus on sharing yourself and again showing up as authentically as you can online no matter where you are in your journey like don't feel like you have to be at a certain

point or maybe you have to have manifested x y and z and your apartment has to look a certain way we're in a day and age where people don't want to just see you as your perfect best version of yourself people want to see you on your journey to getting there so no matter where you are on your journey to becoming your best version of yourself start sharing that now start finding a medium that you feel the most comfortable doing that and start just consistently expressing the things that you're learning the rituals the routines that

you're getting into the things that you're trying out maybe the things that are not working for you share all of it again journaling is really really helpful for this because you can really go back and really look at the things that you're learning about yourself on a day-to-day basis and if you're going through maybe a hard time right now or maybe you're struggling with a certain aspect of your life share that as well it might be a little bit uncomfortable and maybe you have you know some boundaries with some things that you want to share

so just don't be afraid to share the good and the bad because really truly this world is made up of a collective consciousness so every single thing that you're going through chances are someone else is going through it as well and by you sharing your story you're also going to be helping someone else and that's really how you honestly build a community people didn't only start following me once i quit my job and i was living my dream life people were following me before that people really truly saw me kind of grow and evolve on

this channel into who i am today and it's really because i shared that full journey and what that really looked like it's really because i started showing up as my authentic self honestly around like march of last year that i really was able to grow this following because i was able to connect with people in a way that i wasn't before when i was trying to be the best version of myself and talk about finance and whatever it is that i was talking about right so just show up as yourself show up as you are

and really as you start to do that you will again really just start to build a community and as you kind of carry along this journey you may start to notice a lot of insecurities and doubts and worries and fears start to pop up for you and this is so natural honestly content creation is a spiritual journey in itself because again you are constantly not only being self-reflective but you are also going to be faced with a lot of negative core beliefs that you maybe have about yourself and you're also going to be faced with

a lot of negative core beliefs about money so in order for us to show up as our authentic selves online and in order for us to attract abundance we're really gonna have to face and deal with these negative core beliefs within ourselves maybe you're dealing with some doubts and some insecurities on whether or not you're even cut out to do this really ask yourself what about doing this scares you the most what about other people judging you and having something to say about you freaks you out or maybe ask yourself why you feel like no

one would want to watch you that's something that i kind of come back to often it's like out of all the people that you could watch right now why are you watching my channel like i'm not anything special but that's a lot of times coming from a negative core belief and you really have to kind of sit down and ask yourself like what are those things what are those fears what are those insecurities and if they are holding you back from even starting then you really have to see that as an opportunity to learn about

yourself and maybe share that as you're starting and then the same thing kind of applies when it comes to monetization as well once you start making money from this there are going to be so many things unless you come from a place where maybe your relationship with money is already really really good you're really gonna have to start asking yourself like why do you feel like you maybe can't get paid to be yourself why do you feel like you're not deserving of abundance and luxury something that i'm kind of working on right now is like

my relationship between creativity and money and also letting go of toxic productivity realizing that again you get to just be yourself and show up as you are and that you will be taken care of that is such a hard thing to really learn and understand and truly feel so i really encourage you no matter what phase of this journey that you're on really pay attention to what your negative core beliefs are and what triggers them and i promise you once you kind of start working through a lot of these things the money will start to

come now you guys maybe want to hear me talk about like steps to monetization and how to get paid the most for brand deals and all these things but i promise you once you really start focusing on your mission like the money will come that will be that that will literally be the last thing that you have to worry about your job in all of this is to just show up and be creative and as you again go along this journey you're gonna get better at your content you're gonna get more comfortable in front of

the camera and then naturally again your community is gonna get built brands are gonna start reaching out to you so i really encourage you to let go of attachment to performance and numbers and metrics and how much money you're making this month and all these things i promise you your life can literally change with all this in like a month and i really encourage you to see where you're at right now as an advantage if you're not doing this as a full-time job take advantage of that you have room to experiment you have room to

try new things you have room to fail with this as many times as you want and continue getting back up until it works out you have full creative freedom to do this out of pure passion in whatever way that you want without having to worry about the money side just yet so really really take advantage of that and also maybe think about as you are trying to make this maybe a full-time job or one of your major income streams also think about like what other things can you do what are other extensions of yourself that

you can also make money from you don't have to just do content and rely on brand deals to make money you can release an ebook you can release a course again no matter what phase of your journey that you're on right now you can provide value to people just by sharing the things that you are learning right now so for me for example i wrote an ebook on how to quit the nine to five and i started writing that like i started taking notes on the things that i was doing as i was still working

to quit my nine to five actually i'll leave a link to that down below because i haven't talked about that in a while um but yeah that book has like literally everything that i've done on this entire journey it talks a lot about the spiritual stuff it talks about everything so really just kind of think about like what products what services what things can you kind of start contributing to now to not only contribute to your income streams but to also contribute to your audience in your community what are things again that you are going

through in your own journey that will resonate with other people and you guys know i do have to talk about squarespace a little bit because not only are they an amazing sponsor to this channel but they also have helped me a lot when it comes to doing this for me when i launched my ebook i was able to do it so quickly because i use squarespace if you guys don't already know what squarespace is they are a platform that has basically everything that you might need to build an online presence they have amazing website templates

they have marketing tools and analytics they even have member areas where you can have your community go on and pay for specific like premium content from you so squarespace is really just a great starting point if you want to start thinking again about your online brand and how you can really expand that into more things than just content so i will leave a link to them down below it'll give you guys 10 off of your first purchase with them and yeah thank you again to squarespace for being an amazing sponsor to this channel so that's

really it in terms of all my tips you guys again i really think the goal more than anything before you worry about monetization and growing your platforms and all these things is just figuring out how to show up as yourself authentically and express yourself freely the same way i want to be able to show up exactly as i am in my relationships i also want to be able to show up exactly as i am online i think we're in an era now where we need more people doing that we no longer want to see the

perfectly polished imperfect version of people anymore we want to see we honestly need to see more people showing up as they are with all of their flaws with all the things that they are still working on and trying to get through we need to see more of that so that we can learn from each other so that we can support each other and so that we can grow together vulnerably and authentically so i really really encourage you to remember that you bring something to this world that no one else has you have a unique perspective

a unique unique background a unique everything that no one else in this entire world has by you showing up as you are and sharing what your personal journey looks like you are going to be helping so many other people that you don't even realize exist yet no matter where you are in your journey i really really wish you the best and i know that you are capable of doing whatever it is that you want to do and that everything is going to work out in the highest favor so yeah i love you guys so much

thank you guys so much for joining me and i will see you guys in the next one bye you