Hi all! I'm Kevin from Sydney, Australia. I've just joined the group so thought I'd say hi and introduce myself. I recently turned 60 and joined Skool at the end of Jan this year. Trying to find full-time work has been extremely frustrating and demoralizing - it's just incredible how ageist companies are, so Skool is now the route I'm going down. Since the beginning of March I have launched my community (Pattern Skool) and recently just created my YouTube channel. It's my first time creating videos and I'm learning the (many) ropes as I go. I am a self taught pattern designer (I can create designs you see on wallpaper, giftwrap, fabric, upholstery, etc.), and this is what my Skool community is based around - teaching beginners and creative hobbyists how to create patterns. The aim of my YouTube channel is to try and drive traffic to my Skool community, with a view to eventually making money with my community (being completely honest here!). I film tutorials for my channel on how to create patterns on an iPad using various applications. Anyway, that's a brief intro of myself. I look forward to exploring this community in the next few weeks.

Hey peeps reminder if you are around and want to pop in, feel free to do so I’d love to see you🥰 Just hit LIVE and I’ll see you in there🎶

Challenges come in different forms and sometimes we might prevent ourselves from moving forward. I’m pleased that YouTube has given me an opportunity to grow my visibility and extend my reach. This is especially true in my retirement years during these hard economic times. I also thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my updates and this additional tidbit of information. Since I can’t always make it to the Coffee Chats, I wanted to touch on this topic with a personal video. I had to change my YouTube frame of mind in order to gain confidence. This video style will be edited and adapted to be more suitable for a specific audience. It’s still a learning process for me. I hope that this example will be somewhat helpful to anyone on this group who does not know where to start. 💓

Just starting to watch this now and it’s shaping up to be full of gems. Not everyone wants to massively scale their channels but if hearing Alexa Saaranoja’s coach interviewing this guy sounds promising - why give it a go? I’ll pop back in and give a couple of standout learnings after I finish watching 🍿📺👀 I’ve clipped the best 50 seconds from this that I liked and will add below🔥

Hello friends, you are welcome to pop in so we can talk YouTube and what's going on with your channel right now. Congrats to @L T for her new channel @broccoliandtoast which looks fabulous, by the way! Come on for the hour, or pop on during the hour, I would love to see you. I have been a bit out of the loop with extra work on and home reno but the home reno is coming to an end for now. Thank you to everyone who came on last week @John Charette @Maureen Greer @Fil Ladden @Krista Krista @Peter Urbanowski @Miriam Davenport @Lucy Caldicott