Thanks you @Michael LeJeune for the continued push to post that video! Last night, I just decided to look at my channel studio not expecting ANY activity! To my surprise--2 Subscribers😁! WHAAT🥹! Shock and the most pleasant way!💖 I received more than one suggestion to post my so called "30-second-supposed-to-be" video, which ended up being 1min46sec after heavy editing of 6min14sec. Such an encouragement to Just Post😃👏🏾! I am doing it and I am on it!!! And, Thank you Cheering & Accountability Team: @Yvette Bowlin @Jenny Sharratt @Dajana K. @Michael LeJeune @Cam F @Travel Gran @Jaye Brunner @Eddi Pinegar r @Adam Tinkoff @Ricardo Solomons @Dawn Ponsford @Monika Astara Murphy @Andy Asher @Deb D @Laura Niebauer @Cat PInegar

About the First Gift Basket Video: I had to make this a whole environmental experience. It is a new birth for me, liberation even. I started by setting up my space, taking some setup photos, having a devotional time which included journaling about this experience and the support I have received from each of you, taking a soothing spa bath, pre-conditioning my hair (okay, TMI, but this is a new birth experience), getting dressed for my design, having a nurturing breakfast (lemon drink, blueberries, grapes, apple, banana--in that order), and returning to my "design center," which is my desk for this moment, to make this gift basket. I am excited!!! It feels so good to be doing anything related to my passion. This is fitting because it is Palm Sunday (to those who acknowledge it). How appropriate is that! I know you may be tired of hearing/reading this, but this is the breakthrough in progress. So with all of that TMI said, I designed the gift basket and recorded it. Next I am editing the video and will let it marinate in the YouTube Studio before I release it to the world. Here's a before picture of my work area with the gift items, and of the me with the finished Christian-Based Easter Gift Basket. (No bunnies, eggs, or candy found in this creation.) It can be used as a gift, get well, birthday, just because gift. I will let you know once the video is published. It will be published by tomorrow if not earlier. Now onward to the editing, finishing my hair, then to Day 12... Side Info: -Current Niche: Teaching Gift Basket Biz Startups -Pivoted from: Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Accountability Tags: @Yvette Bowlin @Jenny Sharratt @Dajana K. @Michael LeJeune @Cam F @Travel Gran @Jaye Brunner @Eddi Pinegar @Adam Tinkoff @Ricardo Solomons @Dawn Ponsford @Monika Astara Murphy y @Andy Asher @Deb D @Laura Niebauer @Cat PInegar

This right here, for me is the base line of doing YT. Building community around a common passion! Am I good at it, not YET! Is it coming, YES! Am I ready 😳, caution Jaye Brunner, do not look at the summit, look at your boots, one step at a time. Today it is about strengthening how you respond to people in the comment section. Oh, but I don't get many comments! Then starting will be that much easier! OK you are getting a glimpse of my internal thought process! Now that I know, I need to be mindful of the response to the comments I get. It is good to encourage comments in your videos! I am learning to do the ask in a more natural way, instead of pop up stickers and the hard ask at the end of my videos. I have this feeling, a knowing community is coming, this 30 day challenge is helping me prepare! Day 19 is a good day! @Jenny Sharratt @Dr. Saundra Stancil @Eddi Pinegar @Cat PInegar @Adam Tinkoff @Casey Hamlin @Ricardo Solomons @Monika Astara Murphy @Dajana K.

@Jody Pace asked something in the community a few days ago that I think a lot of people here are sitting with quietly. Can the niche evolve as you go? The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that for most successful creators, the niche didn't exist until they started posting. I had an EV channel a while back. Started it as a general electric vehicle channel, covering the topic broadly, no particular audience in mind. Then I started paying attention to the comments and the analytics. A pattern kept showing up. The people watching and engaging were overwhelmingly British. Not because I planned it that way. Just because of how I spoke, the references I made, the context I brought to the content. So I leaned into it. Narrowed the focus to EVs for a UK audience specifically. The channel sharpened, the right people found it more easily, and the content got easier to make because I finally knew exactly who I was talking to. I didn't plan that niche. The audience told me what it was. MrBeast did the same thing over six years and hundreds of videos before his current format emerged. Ali Abdaal delayed starting by watching 47 videos about YouTube strategy before realising he just needed to post something. The pattern that shows up again and again is this. Creators who plan too long either never start, pick something that doesn't actually excite them, or end up having to pivot anyway. The iteration was always going to happen. You might as well start it on day one. What tends to happen when you just post is this. A few videos flop and teach you something. One occasionally surprises you. The comments and the retention data start pointing at something. You follow that signal. The niche finds you more than you find it. If you're stuck trying to nail it all down before you film anything, that stuck feeling is probably the sign that posting is the actual next step. What made you finally decide to start, even before you had it figured out?

Today was a step back kind of day… Up to this point I’ve just been moving — filming, posting, learning, trying to apply everything as it comes. But today made me slow down and actually look at what’s been happening over the last 30 days. And the truth is… something is happening. Not huge numbers.Not viral videos.But movement. I’m starting to see what people respond to…Simple, real content.Things that aren’t overthought.Either a strong hook… or something that brings people into an experience like the meditations. I’m also seeing where I get in my own way. Overthinking.Trying to apply everything at once.Spending too much time on small details instead of just posting and learning from it. That’s probably been the biggest lesson so far… You can learn all of this, but if you don’t keep showing up, none of it matters. There’s a balance here —learning… but not getting stuck,improving… but not waiting for perfect. From a yoga perspective, it feels like practice. You don’t master anything in one session . You show up, you do the work, and over time something starts to open. That’s what this feels like right now. Not finished.Not polished.But opening. Going into the next 30 days, I’m keeping it simple: @Cat PInegar @Dr. Saundra Stancil @Jenny Sharratt @Jaye Brunner @Dajana K.