“I went from 10k to 100k subs in a week” 🤩

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Hello, hello, everyone. You are listening to The Success Palette,

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a place to discuss everything that you were not taught in school about how to

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be successful in the arts.

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I'm your host Soda and today we are going to talk about YouTube growth.

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YouTube is so, so important for creatives nowadays.

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And we're going to go into a little bit more detail later on why that is.

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But first of all, I want to welcome our amazing guest, Sharente Carr,

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who just hit 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.

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Oh my goodness. Sharente, how are you feeling about this? What is going through your mind?

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My body still has the chills of gratitude. attitude.

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The tears still want to pour out.

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And I can say I just feel really appreciated and really loved in this moment.

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100,000. That's like the huge milestone that we would all love to see.

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But you you accomplished that.

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And I know it took you years, right? I mean, can you take us back to the beginning

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of when you started how you were feeling when you started? What even got you started? did.

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Yeah. So I started YouTube back in 2011 when I was 14 to build community with

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the audience that I was writing to because I was writing fiction books at the time.

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And I just wanted to go live just so I can know more about them,

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know more about the things that I wanted to put in my books.

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And after that, I honestly paused because I was personally going through a lot

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from my health to homelessness to all of the in-betweens, I'll just say that.

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So I stopped YouTube altogether and I picked it back up about,

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I would say, three years ago after my sister passed during the pandemic.

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Because something that she and me both loved was the arts.

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And we always wanted to be artists. We wanted to express our art and to be known for it.

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And something that she never got to do was to be known for what she did,

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from all the writing, the playwriting, the singing, the dancing. She truly was an artist.

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But all of that went with her, with seeing Wynn.

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And I told myself in my spirit, I was like, to honor her memory,

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I'm going to allow myself to be the artist that I know that I am.

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And I'm ready to show up in the world publicly and not just privately.

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And I started by actually working on TikTok first.

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And then TikTok turned into TikTok and Instagram, which turned into TikTok,

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Instagram, and YouTube.

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And then it went to a whole bunch of other things for me to realize that YouTube

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is where I really wanted to concentrate my growth.

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And this year, I took it more seriously. I hired a mentor slash coach from Creator

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Life. Her name is Brittany.

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And she was already mentoring for three years for free.

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And I was like, you know, I'm going to pay for her mentorship.

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I'm going to get dedicated support.

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And through that and signing up for her membership, she has helped coach me

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on the things that work for my channel, what don't work for my channel.

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And within, I will say, one week,

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actually two weeks, let me actually be honest, but looking at the analytics, it was two weeks.

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I got 87,000 subscribers from one short, one.

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And it's acting at 1.4 million views. And I am still flabbergasted right now

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in this moment as we're recording this, because the 100,000 subscribers happened six hours ago.

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And I'm still in shock because I I think I'm at 102,000 subscribers.

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And I'm just like. You worked years and years doing so many. You have a lot of videos.

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I've watched quite a few of them from your, you know, motivational affirmation

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station videos and your beauty videos, your travel.

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You have so many different types of videos and you've been working so hard.

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And especially, you know, lately for your sister. And then, you know,

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taking that risk and working with Dr.

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Fashion, who is amazing, by the way, I've been following her and how it finally paid off.

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Do you feel that everything that you've worked for, how much worth it has it

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been to you to really have that?

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And what have you learned from doing all of those videos? videos.

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So what makes me know that it's worth it is the comments that I get.

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I'm gonna be honest and real with you. The comments of saying I needed that.

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Thank you. I didn't know that. Thank you.

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Then making jokes in the comment section. I'm cracking up often,

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but I can't put that I like it because it was very inappropriate, but it was super funny.

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Then I would have liked it. I just can't hurt it and make it publicly known

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that I really rocked with that because it was really That right there is what

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like it just it frightens my day because especially when you're doing a lot of videos,

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a lot of people don't realize that I've done over 2000 videos,

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long form and short form and live videos.

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And that's only been within the past three years. And mind you,

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I'm sitting on so much raw content that has not been published.

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So that number is a lot higher than what I've already published in that that's

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currently available out there.

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And something that I can say is that when my sister passed away,

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I also had to figure out who was Jarente.

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Like, who was she? Who is she without her sister, who is also my best friend?

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She was the person I talked to all the time. Who was she?

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And I even had a child ask me, what do you like to do for fun?

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And I cried because I don't remember the last time I had fun because I was so

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absorbed in the corporate world and trying to figure that out and wearing the

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persona of I have to be this perfect person that has it all together and is super high achiever.

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Because if I'm not a high achiever, then I'm quote unquote lazy to then go into

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YouTube and TikTok and people not really understand my drive because they're

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like, I just don't get it. I'm like, y'all, it's because I've had to hyperachieve

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on everything that I've ever had to do.

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And I've had to work so hard for everything that I had to do that.

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It's just naturally that comes to me when I am making content.

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And I can say is that that's how I got to travel.

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That's how I got to beauty. and to the reactions, because that's what I actually

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was consuming on YouTube before I did it.

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I was consuming reactions. I was consuming music.

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I was consuming beauty content that was positive, not the body shaming,

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none of those other things. I wasn't consuming that.

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And I realized that I have been the motivation for a lot of people in my life.

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Why not share that with the public, because maybe they're looking for this too.

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And if they can get the help that they're looking for through me,

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that's going to be awesome because I would love to be a solution and not another problem.

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A lot of us feel that what we have to share isn't worth it, like that we don't have value,

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especially with AI and everything going on right now that, you know,

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someone else could do it better than us. So there's no point in us sharing.

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Did you ever have those kinds of thoughts? And if so, how did you get over that? I'm going to be honest.

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I have it where I taught someone something and then they decided to teach it,

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but they didn't teach it the way that I teached it. And it was blowing over people's heads.

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And after seeing that, and they never gave me credit for it,

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by the way, I was like, you know what?

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F you, the thing that you sit on, the thing that you stand on,

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I'm going to speak for my own self.

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And when I started speaking, people understood me.

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And I was like, you were never meant to teach the thing that I was meant to teach.

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So I do matter in this. I am unique and people do listen to me because I am

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a solution to multiple people.

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I can't say I'm a solution to everybody because I'm not.

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I've learned that. I really have learned that. And I am very humbled in that regard.

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But I know that my voice matters just as much as the next person because we

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all have the gems in our toolbox to help somebody else.

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And I can say is that when

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I started to view myself as like that treasure box that

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like pirates go and hunt for and all

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the things that i learn are just the beautiful coins and gems that

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are just in my box i was like i have more

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than enough within my box to share and i will always stay rich

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within myself not just thinking

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about it from a material possession thing but thinking about it from the wisdom

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that i've that i've acquired and you get to this point where you learn so much

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because i'm a fellow math i love learning that you just if you don't share like

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Like you can't absorb anything new because it's just sitting in you.

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So I was like, how can I continue learning the way that I do,

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which is passionately, okay?

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And be able to understand this information.

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Well, I need to share, I need to teach it and I need to get it out so that I

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have more space within myself to be able to learn more things, to teach more things.

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And something that I know about me is that.

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When it comes to technology, I have a lot of people around me that have issues

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with technology and I love being able to teach it to them.

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And then when they finally get it, I'm like, yeah, you got it.

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And I'm just I'm just so proud of you, because at the end of the day,

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I really believe in that saying you lead the horse to water so it can drink

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for a lifetime and not forcing the horse to drink. Right.

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When you were saying about how everyone has a way that they say things that

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can affect people in different ways, what you just said, like,

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I've heard it a bunch of times.

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That's something about the way that you said it. Like I, I needed to hear it.

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So, and I know others did too.

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And you were talking about technology.

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What are some ways that some of the new tools and features that have been coming

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out lately, AI tools or anything like that?

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How has that helped you expand your reach?

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Because I know that you could make great content, but if people don't see it, then, you know.

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Oh, yeah. So as someone that loves for some technology, I got technology for

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days, something that you guys can't see, because this is the audio podcast is

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I have Off to the left of me, I have a list of all my softwares.

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I have a list of what they do. I have a list of how much money they are.

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And the reason I did that is because since I use so many softwares,

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when I do these type of audits, I realized that I bought the exact same software twice.

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And as something when it comes to my taxes, I'm not trying to buy things twice.

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So I always am looking at my tech stack to make sure it's really in alignment

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for what what I want to do with the ease of use, the customization,

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as well as the detailed reporting.

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Something that's about me that a lot of people don't realize is I am a businesswoman

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too. So my corporate side, I am a workday systems administrator.

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So I do system configurations, integrations, and all the things that you don't

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want to think about, I do that for work, including analytics.

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So when I was thinking about my content creation, I'm like, how can I work at

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my W2 job, that's what I call it, and be like almost a full-time content creator and be a wife,

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and a dog and then still see my family and hang out with people like how can

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I do all that and the word that came to me.

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That I learned when I was working at MGM, which was automate efficiencies, workflows.

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So something that I first did was get a note-taking app.

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I did not need to get it because KeepNotes, as well as your plain old notes

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in your Apple device, those work efficiently too.

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You don't need to get Evernote. I did.

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I used it for a little while and I realized I didn't need that software when

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I have Google Documents too.

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So it's that. That was one. Two is that the second thing is what is my workflow?

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I realized because I do system configuration work, I'm going to take you guys

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through what a workflow is and what I'm talking about.

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A workflow is a process in which you do work in.

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So how it starts for me is I have an idea and I write the idea down.

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After I write the idea down, I gather requirements for that idea,

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which means I do my research on the idea.

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So in this case for YouTube, I will go to studio.youtube.com,

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go to analytics and go to inspiration or also known as the research tab and

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look up the keywords to see what is currently the highest search result.

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After I do my research, I move into creating the content that fits those keywords and my style.

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After I get that done, I have to now think about how am I going to edit it to fit my brand.

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My brand is sunshine, rainbows, uplifting, educational, and affirmational.

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So that is my brand. So when I'm thinking about my editing, I'm thinking about that.

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After I take it from the video editing, which I use CapCut for,

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I use Canva for, I have tried DaVinci and I have tried Adobe Pro.

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That is a lot. The learning curve is high. So I stopped that.

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I'm I'm going to stay with CapCut until I have to use another editor.

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After I finished with that, I then, because I do it on CapCut desktop,

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I can convert the long form into a bunch of shorts using AI and saying I need

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it to be less than 60 seconds.

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And it'll make me like 12 shorts to then upload to YouTube.

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After I do that, then it's the fun part where I have to title my creation,

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descript my creation, hashtag my creation, and then get promotional materials for that creation.

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And I use Canva to do that. And I make a template and I use that template constantly

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so I don't have to rework the wheel.

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I know it's already working on my channel, so I'm going to use the exact same thing.

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I'm just going to tweak it, change the color a little bit, depending on what and who I'm talking to.

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And then from there I go

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into launching everything which means I'm

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scheduling it out and things are going live and

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then I go into hyper care which is I'm going to my comment section I'm commenting

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back to people I'm engaging with them I am talking to them but that's literally

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my entire workflow per video okay yeah I gave you guys a lot but I told you

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I'm going to explain to see what my workflow is.

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So I use a few softwares to get a lot done. And something that helps me with

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the title and description is gemini.google.com and chatGBP.

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And the prompts that I use, you might want to write this down or might want

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to pause and write this down.

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Okay. The prompts that I use is, I, hey, I am currently working on a YouTube

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video and it's about this.

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Using these key terms, and I put the key terms in quotations,

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please create me SEO optimized title.

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And description with relevant hashtags to get more engagement on this video.

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And then it will spit out an entire result. And it gives me three different

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options to choose from if I use Gemini, which is Google's AI.

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And I pick from that and then I just upload it. And that's how I do that.

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That I also use Opus Clips.

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There's like, there's a lot of softwares I use, including like my regular calendar,

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because I have to time block myself too, to be able to do everything that I

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do and still have time for me.

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I definitely need to check all of those out because I feel like I am doing so much work.

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And then we get overwhelmed because as artists, we just want to create,

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we want to create and we don't want to do all these extra things that we need to do.

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But there are tools that can help us. And I know that it can be a little overwhelming

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to, you know, do the maybe not as artsy side of the things.

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But do you like those other aspects of creating YouTube?

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Or does that overwhelm you when you have to do so much extra work?

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The only thing that I can say that has been overwhelming me is video editing.

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And that's only because of how long it takes, depending on how long the video is.

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So when I'm making my long form, that takes me sometimes two to five hours per video.

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And that's a lot of time out of my day when I, like I said, I do the most already.

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I already know about y'all. I already know about y'all. I already know. So I just can't.

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So right now, I'm going to be honest and real with you, live as we speak right

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now, Now, my husband's best friend's girlfriend wants to learn content creation,

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so I'm teaching it to her, and she wants to learn video editing.

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So, right now, I am building a video editor as we speak to help me do all of

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this because I realized early on I needed the team. I've had multiple virtual assistants.

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I've had multiple social media managers. I've hired these individuals.

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I've even had a branding person come in and help me out, and they did not finish

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my media kit, So I had to sit down one day for six hours and work on my own media kit.

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And that was a doozy because I've never worked on a media kit before.

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Now I could do it pretty much in my sleep. But something that I can say is that

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I have fun creating, period.

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It doesn't matter if it's with colors or it's with technology.

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I like creating. So I do it in multiple forms and fashion.

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And I love that you could really think of some of these extra tasks as a way

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to create. It's not like you could have fun doing the more tedious stuff,

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you know, and I love that you, you really embrace that.

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And you mentioned a team. And I know that you have your team that kind of helps

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you build your YouTube channel that you've hired out.

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But I also know that you have a really good community.

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Can you talk a little bit about how you built that community and how that community

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has helped you grow on YouTube? too. Yeah.

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So I'm a community builder no matter where I go.

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That's just what I do. So something that happened last year around the November

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time period, I was on this app.

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I think I'm a fan base and I was at a point where I was done with it because

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they kept talking about the exact same toxic stuff every day.

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I know I can't be around negativity and toxicity for

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a long time without me then becoming that and I

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was and that made me do a

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serious process I was like that's happening my

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goals are not getting completed I am sick again like this is just this is not

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it for me so what I decided to do is there's I I've always been quote-unquote

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the plug every time I go to a new community they call me the plug they call

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me the secretary or they call me the CEO to one of these three titles can't

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make this up so since anyone know, may I have a plug?

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I decided to do what I do and make a telegram group. It was called Renaissance Visionaries first.

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talks, as well as like business funding and all the in-betweens.

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So I then created a group called the Creative Squad,

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which is my own pretty much talent agency that I've built where I help content

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creators with their content, their mental health, as well as helping them with

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getting monetization on multiple platforms.

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and they chose to gracefully bow out because something about me is when it comes to my my community,

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it has to be in a place and space that's going to nourish me to get my goals done.

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And if it's not a place and space that's going to nourish me to get my goals

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done, I have chosen to not allow myself in those spaces where I'm not even appreciated.

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And I can say is that it was through that and also going to Brittany's First

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Vegas Creative Collective for YouTube out here in December that got me connected

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with the Creator Life community and getting to meet her in person from just

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listening to her on the Wisdom app.

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It was a totally different experience. And I was like, I can actually see myself working with them.

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Then she gave me this audit and the

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way that she delivered the feedback to me was it

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a way that I could understand it without it being a

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very nasty criticism and pretty much judgment I can't do judgment in my performance

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evaluations no matter what it is corporate artistry I just can't because I wish

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a mother effa would okay that's just where I'm at in my artistry I'm not gonna lie to you so So,

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but the way she gave it to me was such a loving way that I was like, I want more of that.

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And then I was telling her some of my goals. Like, I wanted to go to CES.

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So, I want to go to VidCon. I want to do these things.

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She's like, oh, I can get you to CES. And I was like, what? She's like,

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yeah. I was like, and then she did.

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And we went. And it was fun. And then I joined.

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Her for an Adobe event. That was fun. And then I went to her content house one

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day where I got to meet Percy or Diabeast Kitchen.

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I bought my laptop from him, the one that I'm now currently editing all my videos

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on from him, because I knew I needed a laptop because my current position at

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the company I'm working for is dissolving.

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So I was like, there's no way I can do my content creation on my work computer.

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Or one that's if that shouldn't be happening in the first place and two i need

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another lap because the last laptop i had i gave it

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away to another artist because his laptop went to

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footsies and i was like you have a six figure contractor clothes

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so i'm only just i'm just gonna give you this laptop so i

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was really happy to be able to get another one and

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from there it just sprouted off and the

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community that i'm surrounded by and the country groups

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i'm surrounded by they don't have the number they didn't

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have the numbers i had they had like millions per

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platform and i was like i'm just in the

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group like hi i'm just gonna be quiet i'm still absorbing

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the information i'm just here i'm just here okay

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i'm gonna ask you a question about this okay i'm gonna ask you a

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question about this and the reason i can say i apply a

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reply to almost all of my comments at least i do my best to

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is because keep up radio keep

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up radio also known as wet me who is

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a really popular tiktoker and a really popular youtube gamer streamer who told

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me sure and say even the ones that decide you're going to be not so kind you

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can still reply back to those in a kind way because some of the times you don't

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realize that that kindness like will get to them and then they'll say, I'm sorry.

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I didn't mean to say it like that. That wasn't my intention.

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And then you gain a new subscriber. And I was like, okay. So that's what I can

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say about building community.

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And I can also say when my community that I built turned toxic, I have pulled away.

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When it got to where it feels like I was being used, I pulled away.

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I pulled back because I realized I was helping everybody else create their dreams,

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but I stopped creating mine. and I was able to reach 100,000 subscribers when

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I pulled back from my group.

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And I don't like to say that, but it's the honest truth because sometimes some

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people, the analysis paralysis, they get that and it sets in.

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And if you're around that long enough and you're around people that are bashing

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their own selves, you start picking up those tendencies without you realizing

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and you're you're wondering why you're calling yourself that and you're shaming

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yourself in the mirror. And that's what I was experiencing.

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And now I'm at this place and space where I'm clear. I'm back to my positive self.

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And it feels good to be the introvert that I really am. I know you'll be like,

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no, Sharenti, you can't be an introvert that many videos.

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Y'all don't realize I truly am an introvert. I really am.

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I really like just to keep by myself, to myself, by myself. I'm happy in my own presence.

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It's just, I'm not. I am the exact same way. So I get that. Yeah.

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So that's what I will say about the building of community. It was building,

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but also build to the point where you sometimes will have to pull back.

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Because if you're not being appreciated, and you're not being nourished,

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and you need to get that from somewhere, unless you're just going to be an empty

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cup, and you're going to have a hole in you.

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And what's the point of that when we, when we, our creativity comes from us

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having a full cup to be able to create.

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That was such a beautiful message because so many of us, we don't realize our

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worth, like what we were talking about earlier.

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And we'll either let people who are toxic kind of diminish us or we're scared

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to be in a room with people like what you were saying, people with millions of subscribers.

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We feel that we aren't worthy to be around them, even though they're like,

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no, I would love to help you.

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So you are able to go on these lives and be super bubbly and super confident.

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And how did you get that confidence? Because going live for me is terrifying.

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Like, of course, when I went with you, you just made me feel very welcome.

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So I felt okay. OK, but in general, like going live is pretty scary for a lot of us.

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How did you get over that and exude that confidence that you have?

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Two things. So one, I practice on the TikTok, you know, the platform that I

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really don't care as much as that.

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Okay, where the trolls can live and I'm fine if they stay. So that's the first thing.

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Going live, even for like 10 minutes on TikTok, scared the bejesus out of me

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when I was first doing it.

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Bejesus. Please know that. Bejesus. That's not even a word, but it scared the bejesus out of me.

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And I started doing it more and more, longer and longer.

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Then I started getting affirmations from people saying, I needed you to show

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up. Thank you so much for showing up.

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That kept me getting motivated to stay on. Two is Affirmation Station Show.

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That actually was a live show on the Wisdom platform that I was doing.

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And it was pretty much completely scripted except for when the guests came up.

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And I had to learn how to navigate just on audio only to then go to TikTok for

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video, to then transfer that to Instagram for a brief moment,

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to then transfer that into YouTube. too.

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And I realized that majority of the time I'm having a conversation with myself.

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I'm going to be honest. And I'm cracking jokes with myself. And then sometimes

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the people will catch up on everything and then they'll have their own little

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two cents and then I'll shout them out in the comment section.

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And then that sparks more conversation because I'm still trying to figure out

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how I did like a three hour live. And I still don't know what I talked about.

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Can I be real? I don't even know what I talked about in that live,

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but it did like 4,000 views. And I'm like, I don't remember.

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I just know that when I'm there, I am your friend. I am that listening ear.

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I am that person that's just going to show up. And anytime that I'm showing

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up in a relationship, my passion and my confidence naturally come out.

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And I know it's also because I have an inner knowing. So when I'm talking to

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that person, I understand them from a way in place that they don't even realize

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I understand them because I can feel them.

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And so I say the questions or the answers that they thought in their head out

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loud like they actually spoke it out loud. So that's two.

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And the last thing I will say when it comes to lives is that my confidence is

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there's a thing called NLP, which is like a hypnosis that you can do on yourself. self.

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And for me, I have an anchor.

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And how I anchor myself to get ready to do a performance,

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a talk, a conversation is I put my index finger and my thumb together,

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like a circle, like a kind of circle. And then I take a deep breath.

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And then I say on, I literally turn myself on.

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And then I the confidence is there automatically, the funniness is there automatically.

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And it's It's just, I go into that version of myself that is very outgoing.

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And then after I'm done, I go back into my introverted self and say,

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you know, it's time to go to sleep.

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Good night. And I go to sleep.

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I actually did episode about using hypnotherapy to be more creative and confident.

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And I kind of want to do another one about it because it's like my most downloaded episode.

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So people are definitely interested in that.

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But yeah, I love all of that advice. That is awesome.

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I appreciate all those tips. And what are some final kind of for the artists,

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the creatives who are feeling stuck, who maybe aren't getting that confirmation of others like,

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oh, I needed to hear this or anything like that, that really keeps you going

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when you aren't hearing that, when you don't have that kind of feedback, that support,

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how do you keep going when

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you aren't getting those fuse okay so y'all

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Durante has ADHD tendencies I've

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never been diagnosed but I have ADHD tendencies I'm gonna be honest I'm gonna

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be real with you so something that helps me besides binaural beats and frequency

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music is high vibrational music that have a nice beat to it so some artists

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I listen to is Mellow Will,

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Kristen Peave, Hika, Sharara Wise, Herbie.

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Who else do I listen to?

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Connor Price, Forest Frank. Forest Frank, the song Good Day,

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that's a really good song because it's just, it brightens my day up and it keeps

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me like positive and moving and flowing because Because music is honestly one

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of the many ways that I use to transform myself.

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But also to be mindful of what music I'm listening to.

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Because if it affirms me, it pours into my cup. But if it's more of that...

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Mind you, y'all, I love The Weakest Link, and please know I love the song Not

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Like Us by Kendrick Lamar. Okay, I just have to say that.

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But I can't listen to this trap all the time because it pours in stuff that

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I don't want poured into me that can take away from my goal that I set for myself.

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So I'm mindful to pour myself in by, one, Soda can see this,

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but I have affirmations behind me, including a painting with the affirmation above me.

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I have literally affirmations all around my house. So everywhere that I walk,

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I am getting affirmed. I listen to music.

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And in addition to that, on my phones, I actually don't have traditional backgrounds.

447
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I normally have backgrounds where it's motivational.

448
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And there's this app called, oh my God, I think it's called like I Am.

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I have it on my Android and I have it on my iPhone.

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And it's just an affirmation app. So every time I'm swiping through,

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there's a new affirmation that's giving me motivation just with all my phone.

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And this is where strength gets a little bit extra. all of my folders are actually affirmation names.

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So I am literally getting affirmed everywhere that I go because I forget sometimes

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to pour into my cup naturally.

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So I've had to put some precautions in place to

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help me stay motivated because I realized that I deserve to show up in the world

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as my full authentic self just as much as you because your voice is so unique

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and it is part of this masterpiece and this symphony that we call this world.

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And we need your chords to be able to sing.

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And if you don't show up, then we can't strike beautiful melodies or harmonies

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because it's going to be destroying it because you're not there.

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Like that's how important your presence and your voice and all of who you are,

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your story, your fails, your triumphs, all of of those things make up of who we are.

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And I can say is that you're enough, you matter, and I'm proud of you for all that you've been doing,

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all that you will do, because at the end of the day, you have always been the

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solution and you've never been the problem.

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Oh, that like, got me a little teary eyed right there. That was beautiful.

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What are some final takeaways, final tips? Where can people find you too?

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Because I'm sure that everyone is curious and wants to see what kind of content

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you make, and they'll want to follow along in your journey as you grow even more. Mars.

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So I'll do the where to find me in my last tip. So where to find me?

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I am Charente Carr everywhere.

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So that's C-H-A-R-E-N-T-E-C-A-R-R. Or you can head to CharenteCarr.com where

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you'll see all of my things that are me.

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I can say is that if you're looking to like, you don't even know where your

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00:34:29,271 --> 00:34:32,451
visioning is. And you're like, I don't even know what I want in my life.

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I have a workbook. if I'm not

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00:34:35,291 --> 00:34:38,291
mistaken it's free and it's all available

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on storeandtakeheart.com within my beacon store I

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want you to download it I want you to evaluate all areas

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of your life and make the vision write it

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down not in your phone but write it down with a pen and paper and watch how

483
00:34:53,071 --> 00:34:58,111
it comes to reality because when I finally wrote down I'm going to get a hundred

484
00:34:58,111 --> 00:35:01,571
thousand subscribers I have it right here girl I'm gonna show it to you so you

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00:35:01,571 --> 00:35:06,111
can see it you see this right here Yep, it's a note. It's a note.

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It says 100,000 subscribers.

487
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So I wrote this note last week. Within a week of writing this note, it happened.

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There's something about writing things down. You gotta write it down,

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okay? Make it plain to yourself.

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And even if you forget where that sticky note is, you forget where that notebook

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00:35:27,411 --> 00:35:31,551
is, you wrote it down, which means that it's going to now happen.

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And you write it in present tense.

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You don't write it in past tense. You don't write it in, I wish for,

494
00:35:36,951 --> 00:35:39,571
I hope for. No, you already have it.

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In this moment, in this now, you already have it.

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So write it like you already have claimed it because it was already yours and

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nothing that is truly meant for you will pass you by.

498
00:35:52,271 --> 00:35:56,671
And if they don't wanna pay, then they gotta go, okay?

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00:35:56,791 --> 00:36:00,771
And I say this because I'm also doing brand deals now and there's a lot of people

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that don't wanna play ball.

501
00:36:01,631 --> 00:36:06,491
They don't wanna pay you. No, you have to pay me. I have to wear 17 hats.

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00:36:06,951 --> 00:36:12,431
You will pay me for my 17 hats. I'm not done taking gifted collaborations because

503
00:36:12,431 --> 00:36:15,731
I think that's actually a good compensation when I know people are out here

504
00:36:15,731 --> 00:36:20,231
making six figures from one brown deal and they don't have the following at all.

505
00:36:20,351 --> 00:36:22,631
They have a thousand people, but they're making six figures.

506
00:36:23,664 --> 00:36:28,084
What? No. So if they don't pay, they got to go, baby.

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00:36:28,264 --> 00:36:32,564
But if you need to get like your portfolio up and ready, go ahead and take a

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00:36:32,564 --> 00:36:36,304
couple of gifted collaborations and do it if it makes sense for you and your

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00:36:36,304 --> 00:36:39,784
house. But like, hey, they're going to give me an unlimited supply of toilet tissues.

510
00:36:40,184 --> 00:36:42,804
Do it because during the pandemic, they ran out of those so fast.

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So whatever it is, if it works for you and your family, do it.

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But if it doesn't, don't do it don't say yes to

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everything use your no liberally just

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00:36:53,564 --> 00:36:56,264
as much as you use your yes there should be a

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00:36:56,264 --> 00:36:59,484
healthy balance for you between your yeses and

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your no's and you deserve i'm gonna say this for the people in the back i'm

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gonna say this one more time you deserve to get paid for the work that you do

518
00:37:10,104 --> 00:37:16,084
you deserve it you deserve it you deserve it if you need to replay play this

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00:37:16,084 --> 00:37:18,584
section of this entire podcast, I'm going to say it one more time.

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You deserve it.

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00:37:21,524 --> 00:37:26,984
You are worth it. Your feelings may change, your finances may change,

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00:37:27,344 --> 00:37:31,184
but your worth has never changed because you've always been worth it.

523
00:37:31,584 --> 00:37:35,204
I felt the tingles. You're just giving me all sorts of tingles today.

524
00:37:35,544 --> 00:37:39,744
Well, thank you so, so much again for coming on.

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I know that you are are busy with your your 17 hats or you do a lot of work.

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So I am grateful that you were able to share all this wisdom because a lot of

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00:37:50,924 --> 00:37:56,384
us really need to know it because it can be so discouraging when you're starting

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00:37:56,384 --> 00:38:04,064
out on your YouTube journey and just seeing someone like you and seeing you accomplish your goals,

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00:38:04,204 --> 00:38:08,944
especially for your sister and yourself and your whole community.

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It is an and inspiration for others.

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00:38:11,344 --> 00:38:18,204
So thank you again. And yeah, I will put all the links down below for everyone to check out.

532
00:38:18,344 --> 00:38:23,764
And thank you for listening to this week's episode of the Success Palette.

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You may have noticed that this podcast has been on pause for the last two months.

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I did start a new full-time job that's been very, very time consuming and pretty

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draining physically and emotionally,

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but I'm starting to get back into the rhythm of things and do plan on posting episodes weekly.

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We have some fantastic topics coming up, so you will definitely want to stay tuned for that.

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And if you want to get in touch or follow along on social media,

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feel free to go to thesuccesspalette.com.

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Thanks for your support and let's work together to make this week a successful one.