how much money do you make my love life have you felt stuck in life and what do you do to overcome that feeling do you ever compare yourself to others on social media how many kids would you like to have when will you get married do you suffer from imposter syndrome and how do you deal with it hello this is taylor if you're new here i'm a management consultant and a youtuber blah blah i'm from los angeles california but now i live in new york city okay first question this is a warm-up question where did you go to college and do you miss it i went here for college and yes i miss aspects of college 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 et cetera but it's not like i want to be back there making my own life where i am now is awesome financial independence 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 but i am now happily in a new phase okay no more warm-up questions how much money do you make 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 so i am very very grateful i've been tinkering with the thought of making how much i make video where i actually go through the different income streams and amounts for each one i like those videos 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 another random filming location since you've got antarctica kicked off amazing have you been to all seven continents thank you and no actually i have not been to africa cape town is pretty high on my bucket list so once i go there that will be my seventh continent do you get nightmares funny you should ask i had a grueling nightmare lesson 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 percent of you guys are not subscribed okay we're stroke ever i know 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 okay 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 i'll give you a hint this is the fear the most venomous snake in the world tips for actually doing content creation but keeping it professional still no tick-tock dancing 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 spin-off video ideas and i'm just like i'll save that for another video but then i never actually do the other video anyway back to your question ideally you find the overlap between the videos that people want to see in the videos that you like to make that's my venn diagram here's an example 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 light-hearted 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 quality 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 ever been to croatia yes i have and it is gorgeous i'm also about 25 ethnically croatian from my dad's side fun fact i need some water are you happy in general with where you are personally and or professionally in general absolutely i actually have some very exciting life updates i'll be sharing soon related to my personal and professional satisfaction but high level yes 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 better help let's talk about mental health and therapy for a second 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 we work out and see doctors to prevent illness and injury in our bodies we go to the dentist to prevent cavities and therapy is the same thing it is routine maintenance for your mental and emotional health it does not mean that anything is wrong with you it means that you are investing in yourself to keep your mind healthy better help is customized online therapy that offers video phone and even live chat sessions with your 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suffer from imposter syndrome and if so how i deal with it sometimes yes but a lot less than i used to i think i felt imposter syndrome the most in school not in high school but in college going to an ivy league university i was surrounded by very smart high functioning people 24 7.
and while i have strengths of my own and i was there for a reason it would be very easy for instance to notice in class if the person sitting next to me understood a concept faster than i did or if a friend of mine seemingly had to study less than i did to do well so stuff like that it was never debilitating but when you're surrounded by just brilliant people all the time it can be easy to feel kind of stupid yet i wouldn't have it any other way i really like to be surrounded by people who bring me up and so the trade-off is worth it in my opinion but i mentioned that i don't feel that as often anymore realistically a lot of that is probably because i'm no longer in a context where that comparison to the person next to me is so visible like in a college classroom and then with consulting i'm not usually working alongside someone at my level that i can easily compare myself to you know i'm usually working directly with a manager and finally something else i would say one good thing that comes with age is that you generally become more confident in who you are at least i certainly have so that makes a big difference as well in terms of not feeling imposter syndrome as much ideal place to settle down california i am not married to la but somewhere on the california coastline between san diego and san francisco would be lovely and for retirement way down the line i hope to have property in a number of spots and just kind of hop around between them but for home base carmel california i could retire there have you felt stuck in life and if so how do you overcome that 100 and i go through this pretty frequently where even though i am generally very happy with where i am in my career and personally like i said i still go through these moments where i ask myself like what am i even doing like right now even what am i doing it's an uncomfortable feeling that i think everyone in their 20s faces where you just feel kind of directionless i haven't found one surefire thing that just fixes this problem for me but one thing i like to do is set aside a day usually a sunday and usually by myself where i pack up my backpack with whatever book i'm reading my headphones and my laptop i go to a coffee shop that i know i like i get a coffee and a baked good i sit down i open my laptop to try to get some creative juices flowing whether that's starting a script to a new video or at least writing down some ideas if the creative juices just aren't flowing i don't get mad at myself because there's no use in trying to force it and so then i'll just read my book and if the weather is nice i will do this 100 of the time outside either along the hudson river or somewhere like right here on the grass my point here is i like to take a reset day for myself doing things that i know make me feel happy and make me feel relaxed and that usually puts my mind at peace if you feel stuck to the point where you think you need a serious career shift that's a little bit different and a different discussion i'm more so talking about that sort of uncomfortable anxious directionless feeling that can pop up fairly often especially for people in their 20s how much money do you think is enough to be financially independent question mark top 0. 1 for context i think that the top 0.
