In October 2022, I arrange my Youtube Channel. In December of that 12 months, I might stop my job and begin my journey into solopreneurship.

I loved writing on Medium and had some success with it, however I didn’t need to rely solely on one platform to pay my payments.

I didn’t need to turn out to be a one-dimensional creator specializing in just one talent — writing.

As a substitute, I wished to discover different artwork kinds and create content material on varied platforms to attach with like-minded folks and potential college students.

And whereas I used to be energetic on Instagram, I stayed caught attempting to determine methods to develop an viewers there. Then I noticed one other creator speaking about how she received most of her Instagram followers by way of her Youtube channel. So I made a decision to provide Youtube a go.

Effectively, kind of.

I arrange the channel however didn’t add a single video till June of this 12 months.

And I solely uploaded these first three movies as a result of Neeramitra Reddy requested me to incorporate hyperlinks to workouts I described in one of many articles I wrote for IFAIH.

Once I uploaded the movies for the article to my Youtube channel, I felt a large surge of disappointment wash over me.

Didn’t I need to decide to Youtube this 12 months and use the platform to develop my model and my enterprise? Then why did I wait to add a single video?

After all, I had my legitimate excuses and causes useful:

I didn’t have time.

I wanted clarification about my area of interest.

I wanted to learn to create movies.

The actual cause, nonetheless, was that I used to be afraid.

I used to be scared that my movies would suck, that I seemed and sounded horrible in entrance of a digital camera and that folks would snort about me and my foolish try and be the following massive Youtube sensation.

Oh, however wait.

I didn’t need to be a Youtube sensation. I wished to create movies to coach and encourage others to chase their desires.