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3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a YouTube Channel · The Spirit Nomad: Spiritual Awakening + Life Purpose

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  If you're thinking of starting a YouTube channel, here are three
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  things that I wish somebody had told me when I started out.
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  This month I finally reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers and
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  and it wasn't good luck. It all came down to three things
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  that I did that really led to this.
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  So before you spend the months planning, researching and
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  overthinking, here's the three biggest aha moments that I had
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  that can completely change how you approach YouTube.
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  My first aha moment is that clarity comes from creating and
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  not through thinking. I have always been such a
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  perfectionist and this was really holding me back at the
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  start of my YouTube journey. Just like me and most aspiring
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  creators believe they need to figure everything out before
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  they start. So their niche, their brand,
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  their content strategy, their ideal audience and have this
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  crystal clear. But here's the problem, you
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  can't think your way to clarity, you have to create your way to
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  clarity. When I started my online
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  business journey, I thought I needed the perfect plan before
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  taking action. But what I discovered was that
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  every time I took action, I learned something I could never
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  have learned by sitting and thinking.
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  The same is true for YouTube. So I want you to literally think
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  of your 1st 20 videos as market research feedback data.
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  They're helping you discover what you actually enjoy talking
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  about and what your audience wants from you.
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  If you look at the oldest videos of your favorite craters, you
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  will see that they have probably changed their niche.
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  They were super awkward. They didn't have their signature
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  style. This came with time.
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  So if you're waiting until you have clarity, know that clarity
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  is not the prerequisite. It's the reward for taking
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  action. Now, of course, you need to know
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  some type of direction that you want to go with the content,
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  like your rough idea of an audience that you want to reach,
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  for example. In my case, it's spiritual
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  people who want a soft life of freedom and spirituality.
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  What is that? What is for you?
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  And if you're not sure, I've created a free guide on how to
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  find your purpose, your calling. I've linked it in the
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  description. The second aha moment that I had
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  is that your first videos don't matter as much as you think.
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  I know this sounds strange, but it's incredibly freeing.
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  Most people are terrified of posting because they're worried
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  about what people will think. But the reality is, is that when
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  you start, hardly anyone is watching anyway.
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  And that's actually a good thing.
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  You get to learn without the pressure.
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  You get to make mistakes, improve without lots of people
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  watching you. Imagine if when you were taking
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  Driving's lessons, the millions of people were watching you.
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  You wouldn't want that anyway, right?
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  So remember this, the goal of your first videos isn't to go
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  viral. It is to practice.
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  The goal is to become the kind of creator who can eventually go
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  viral. Every video teaches you
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  something. How to speak more clearly, how
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  to tell stories, write better titles, how to hold attention,
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  communicate your ideas. And the creators who win are
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  rarely the ones who start perfectly.
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  They're the ones who stay consistent long enough to
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  improve. And This is why I always talk on
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  this channel about taking messy action.
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  Whether it's towards starting a YouTube channel or whatever your
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  purpose is, take messy action and you will learn along the
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  way. Aha moment #3 is stop trying to
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  be original and start being useful.
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  And this is an easy trap to fall in because we're business
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  owners, right? Youtubers.
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  So you think, oh, I need to have this unique, original idea of a
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  channel. But the truth is that will come
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  with time. Trying to be unique too early
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  often stops people from creating altogether.
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  The fastest way to grow is to understand what people are
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  already searching for. What questions are they asking?
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  What problems are they trying to solve?
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  What transformations do they want?
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  One of my lessons from being a YouTube is that success leaves
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  clues. Look at the biggest channels in
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  your niche and then sort them. My most popular or use Vid IQ's
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  free tool. So when you're scrolling YouTube
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  videos, you can see how many subscribers they have and how
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  many views the videos have. And if their video has more
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  views than their subscriber count, it means that that video
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  is an outlier. So that is a great video title.
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  So write all this down, the titles that are resonating with
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  the audience, the topics, and then create your own version.
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  Just say your views on this topic.
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  Because people don't subscribe only for information.
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  They subscribe because they connect with the person
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  delivering it. There are thousands of people
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  teaching spirituality online, yet new creators continue
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  growing every day. Why?
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  Because someone out there will resonate with your way of
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  explaining things more than anyone else.
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  Your uniqueness isn't your topic, it's you.
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  And in my signature program now at Freedom Academy, I tell you
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  exactly how to turn your uniqueness into your personal
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  brand. So we will look at things like
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  your human design, your astrology, your experience.
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  So if you want more clarity about your personal brand on
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  YouTube and you want one-on-one coaching with me, then I would
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  love to coach you. You can book a free client to
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  call with our team. I've popped it in the
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  description. We have a few more slots this
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  week. If you remember only one thing
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  from this video, it's that YouTube rewards action, not
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  perfection and planning and overthinking action.
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  So before you spend another month researching how to start a
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  channel, challenge yourself to do one thing, record a video,
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  upload it, and learn from it. Because the people who succeed
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  on YouTube aren't the people who waited until they were ready.
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  They're the people who started before they felt ready.
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  You have so much wisdom to share with the world light worker and
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  your soul tribe is waiting. So go out there and spread your
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  light. Let me know your thoughts and if
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  you want to learn how to actually monetize your YouTube
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  channel, then check out my other video, Best Business Models for
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  Spiritual People. Love you so much and see you in
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  the next video.