2-Minute Creator Survey – Help Me Help You Crush It

A great conversation I had just went life on my friend Diana's feed. We'd planned to release it together on both of our shows. A version of that is finally happening, months late, and nothing went wrong. Nobody fought. That's the part worth talking about. It's a story about the six or seven weekly calls where I could have said what I was thinking ("this keeps dragging on. We should probably sto...

The show that was finally growing needed to end. Well, transform is probably a better word. Two questions helped me reach this decision. The Creators that Crush podcast wasn't a bad podcast. In fact, it was the first platform I was able to gain consistent growth with each month. The idea of that show was both too narrow and broad. It was so narrow that I felt like I kept circling the same few t...

The first 10 years on YouTube ended with less than 20 subscribers. I found this frustrating, because I was doing all “the right” things: creating every week, improving how I showed up on camera, working on thumbnails, bringing upbeat and good energy, and talking about something I cared about. Seven hundred videos in ten years. The volume of what I was creating was there. But I wasn’t. I was rep...