Hello! Mary Schiller here. I'm thrilled to be part of this group because I have seen what YouTube has done for my business, even though I've been haphazard about it, and now I want to use it intentionally. I have 30 years of experience as a writer, editor and online educator. In 2016, I started a life-coaching business and have done some business coaching along the way, too. My specialty is helping solopreneurs create and share "authority assets," starting with a mini-book. Short books on Amazon + my YouTube channel have been the two biggest sources of clients for me. On the personal side, I'm originally from California but moved to Paris, France, in 2017, with my husband. I'm an unabashed cat lady, although I don't have any right now! We're hoping the "cat distribution system" will find us soon.

Alexa. I am following through on my Youtube comment that I am here to show up and grow up. In Jan - I launched a Mighty Network community called Walking Sober - Walking was a big part of my journey to Sobriety- hence the name. My domain is walking sober. My community Walking Sober Club. So when I turned to Youtube - I made a Walking Sober Channel- 10 subs My personal channel - with my name Terry Grier - has about 350 subs. I had the idea of doing both and wound up doing neither. I consulted my AI (Claude) and it thinks my name Terry Grier - is better channel than a branded channel. and I tend to agree. It would be 95% sobriety / recovery and about 5% other but that other is still going to be around my journey and story etc. Any thoughts?

Hey creators🌱 Have you ever noticed how the moment the camera turns on, you suddenly stop feeling like yourself? I have been in that place for a long long time. I knew what I wanted to say, most of the times I'd script that too, I cared about my message, and still, the second I hit record, something in me would tighten. I would start watching myself, trying to control how I looked, how I sounded, how I came off. Instead of speaking like I would to a close friend, I would start trying to “do it right.” And the hardest part was knowing there was a more relaxed, real version of me there, but not being able to fully let her come through😮‍💨 I thought this is all about not having enough skill, so I took more courses, watched more YouTube videos, went first to present always just to freeze in front of those people and I couldn't find out the reason why I was this way. What I have realized after doing inner work and studying neuroscience in my freetime is that this was not random at all. A lot of times, our brains are simply trying to protect us. If our current self-image still carries beliefs like “I am not really worth being seen,” “I should stay small,” or “it is safer not to be fully expressed,” then of course being on camera will not feel natural. Because one part of us desires visibility, but another part still does not feel safe in it. And when those two parts are not aligned, we can feel the tension. We simply gotta get comfortable with our desires first. We have to feel safe being the person who wants to be seen, heard, and fully expressed🤍 Because authenticity on camera is not something you force. It is what starts happening when your self-image is finally aligned with what you truly want. I am curious🌱what do you think your brain is trying to protect you from when the camera turns on?

The topic I can talk about non stop for the next ten years is faith! I want to share with Marge, who has disconnected herself from church, has a chip on her shoulder because church people hurt church people. I want to help her find her authentic self, her voice , to become who God designed her to be. So here is the problem I am having, I am not a girly girly, not warm and fuzzy - pretty direct! Not many women resonate with my directness. Is there Marge out there? Time will tell. @Jenny Sharratt @Dr. Saundra Stancil @Dajana K. @Eddi Pinegar

Hi all you powerful creators and humanity uplifters! I have a question if anyone knows. Why do I keep growing in subs but not getting any engagement? Are there tricks to getting more engagement other than the obvious, just posting better content and showing up better? Thank you!