13d ago in 📚 Books, Podcasts, YouTube
10,000 Subscribers!
I made it to 10,000 subscribers on YouTube today. I started with 0, like any other humble person.
2019: 0
2020: 763
2021: 1,437
2022: 2,567
2023: 5,655
2024: 10,000
In 22 months I managed to take a small hobby and turn it into a career, making the decision at the end of December 2022 to go ALL FUCKING IN when my wife underwent brain surgery to remove whatever the doctors could of her brain tumor, which was discovered only a week before.
Her tumor was the size of a tennis ball.
I refused to fucking sit there and do nothing while surgeons open the human skull and stab at the brain while she's awake throughout the whole thing.
Days after her brain surgery, we were informed that her tumor was cancerous. And it will most likely kill her.
I stuck to my instincts to keep fucking going, knowing that I would be restricted to the confinements of my own living space. I wouldn't be able to have my own podcast studio with the collaborations I was after, as I was living in a city where the only possible collaborator would basicaly be JustPearlyThings.
We were far from our real homes, and she was unable to go back. Thus, so was I.
Nearly 18 months of cancer treatment left us stranded in what might as well be a few rooms in the sky with a hospital attached to it, surrounded by nothing else but the abyss of where we couldn't be, with nowhere to go until the treatment is over.
Thus, I produced videos from my living room using nothing but a shitty built-in webcam, a gaming laptop and a Zoom membership. I later upgraded a few things by acquiring a better webcam, a ring light and a microphone.
Until Spring 2023, I still had a full time career, which demanded more than 50 hours of my time every week. I had to move on from it. I could not spend my valuable time working for some company while my family dies. I could not possibly let myself go to work for however much money, only for my wife to die while I'm chasing money somewhere else. It would be like selling out. I took the risk and jumped off the safety of my career, into the unknown.
I went all in.
I continue to produce videos this way while stopping by in my wife's country.
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