Mike Bayer - Wednesday 23rd September 2026 . Mike Bayer is the creator of Old Me Living Better, a YouTube channel he started at age 80 to encourage people in the fourth quarter of life to keep growing, creating, and living with purpose. He shares practical YouTube advice, honest encouragement, and hard-earned wisdom built around a simple message: “If you ain’t dead, you ain’t done.” Live Starts: Overseas Time Zones: Wednesday 23rd September 2026 3pm (Pacific time). 6pm (New York & Canada time ) 5pm (Texas time) Aussie Time Zones: Thursday 24th September 2026: 8am (Aussie EST - Sydney); 6am (Western Australia) @Dr. Saundra Stancil @Lillie Handy Dominguez @Maurits Menke @Diane Eddy @Shaps Benkau @Sb Hendricks @Jenny Sharratt t @Catherine R @Alicia Ashley @Henriette Thranow @Ricardo Solomons @Mike Bayer @Jaye Brunner @Karini J @Jean Gregory Wright @Nina Abulucion @Rachel Dorchay @Karen Sellers @Shafna Aura @Dr. Priscilla Akpaita

Definitely a WIN! Thank goodness for the editor in YT Studio! The first few seconds were UGLY, they are now trimmed out! What surprised me the most, I can talk without a script for nearly an hour without pause! I am thinking I am going to be entering a season of lives. I don't want to let my YouTube channels fall by the wayside, yet my brain is having a hard time slowing down enough to put together mindful scripts! Then to do the editing, it all seems like a full time job when you are not very good at either! Now my dilemma is: Do I schedule them or just randomly post? Do I do it on both channels or just one? I am certainly scattered to day! Just proves you do not have to have everything figured out to do YouTube! I am proof!

Hopefully this post topic is okay... if not sorry and feel free to remove. So last year I was focused on a youtube channel and I developed tools to help creators find their niche and develop their channel and it featured AI integration to tailor the tool to the individual. It went NO WHERE. I had made videos about the concept, and created a free software tool with paid add on featuers. There simply did not seem to be an audiance for the tools I was making. Now, this at first sound unrelated but it ties in... At the same time 5 seperate people asked me for help with something I had done in the past while I worked as a pilot. That is to develop a safety managment system for their company. The thing is, to do that you really need to know the individual company well. So then I descided, what if I adapted my tool I made for YouTubers, but instead made a tool that asked aviation companies questions about their operation and helped them develop and run their own safety management system. There is a new deadline that requires a whole bunch of small aviations companies to have something by May 2027. So I became super focused, I set up a formal company (FlyWise SMS), got my first client (who pays monthy for the service) and he was so pleased with what I provided that his company just asked me to help with another related task for an additional $15K. And I am getting other interest as well from other companies now. FlyWise SMS actually resulted in 2 spin off projects (1 is a 2nd company in itself, and the other might become one too). It required a lot of push, I had to teach myself some new programing skills, though I already had software developing experiance. I descided to hyperfocus on the development and stayed put on a 5 acre isolated property in the Philipeans and build the whole first pass of a multi-tenant software as a service tool in 34 days. I am a short sleeper and it is all I did (other than eat and sleep and adopt a stray kitten) for that time period and while I was developing it I made $0. But I stayed focused. There was still more to be done after that window of time but that was the big push.

Brand new to this group. Need help please. My desktop is not compatible with windows 11 that they're forcing on me now. So I need to get a laptop. Money is very tight!! Does anyone have recommendations for me? I'm basically looking to create 10 to 30 minute videos, hopefully do minimal editing with cap cut then upload to yt. Again, money is major issue at the moment so if I buy new it'll need to be on the cheaper end, if I buy used... I have no clue what I'd even look for (processor, memory and all that). Thanks in advance!!

I’m 41 and at a pretty interesting crossroads in life. I’ve lived a very unconventional life, including years overseas, and right now I’m living on a small island in Hawaiʻi while trying to figure out what the next chapter looks like. For years I’ve wanted to build something online, but I never really committed to one direction long enough. That’s changing. I’ve started taking YouTube much more seriously and documenting what it looks like to start over in your 40s — figuring out purpose, work, money, health, masculinity, and how to build a life that actually feels like your own. I’m not coming into this as an expert. I’m basically building the next version of my life in public. One thing I’m trying to understand better is how to turn a personal story into content that is genuinely useful to other people, rather than just talking about myself. For those of you who have been growing your channels for a while: What helped you finally figure out what your channel was really “about”? Was it something you decided beforehand, or did your niche become clearer after posting for a while? Looking forward to learning from everyone here