I Opened My Laptop After a Coma… and My YouTube Videos Were Still Working
Adding a little companion strategy to Paul’s Quantum system (from someone who had to build evergreen the hard way 🤍) A few years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with an oxygen machine beside me, laptop balanced on my knees, lungs still healing after a coma. I remember opening my computer for the first time in months, honestly expecting everything to be dead in the water. My businesses. My income. My momentum. And then I looked at my dashboards. To my absolute shock… a handful of my YouTube videos had quietly kept everything alive. Not huge money — a couple hundred dollars a month — but it was coming in from: – YouTube ad revenue – affiliate sales – sales of my own products and courses – even royalties from my books on Amazon All from focused traffic those videos were pulling in on autopilot. I just sat there thinking: Wait… what?! Especially because my channel was never “strategic” back then. I started posting on YouTube over 15 years ago simply to communicate with members across different businesses. My channel was a literal patchwork quilt: Cake decorating. Teaching kids about money. My kids uploading Barbie videos and D&D clips. Completely all over the place. Most of my videos did nothing. But there were a handful that consistently brought me leads. And I hadn’t even realized that what I’d accidentally done right on YouTube also allowed those same videos to rank on Google. Those videos didn’t just attract people — they warmed them up. It was wild. That tiny monthly income gave me hope at a time when doctors had told me I’d be lucky to regain 60% lung function… and that I might never work again. That’s when I leaned hard into evergreen. I’d already learned from mentors like Jeff Walker, Mike Filsaime, and Frank Kern that staying in touch with your audience matters — but I physically couldn’t email every week. My body just wouldn’t allow it. So I created something simple: 👉 My Throwback Thursday (TBT) Email Series Every Thursday, I send one value-based email that sends people back to one of my older YouTube videos.