Congratulations @Lucy Caldicott for making this important video that’s resonating big time with viewers. And your channel growth multiplied 5 or 6 times in the last few weeks too since then? Please tell us how you came up with the idea and what this experience has been like. Did you get any inspo for your thumbnail or just come up with it yourself? Well done you! 👏

I am still stuck on week 3... but that's ok. I have been making the required videos I think, I've lost the program now, and cannot deal with the Notion template thing, I tried, but it was all over the place and just made everything twice as much work for me, I'll have to find the journal I wrote it all in. I have been distracted by mowing the grass on repeat and have pulled my pec muscles through being stupid and a bit too gung ho with the weeds pulling and bramble! I have the little ones all day today, just hope they don't need lifting! Like these poor British Heritage staff having to out the clocks back...

Hi there everyone!! I hope you are all doing fantastic! I wanted to ask you if someone more than me and @Jase Nomade is interested creating a WhatsApp group for this challenge? I think it would be a great way to share our experiences and insights and just to support each other while doing this. If you're interested please let us know here and we will create the group and invite you! I'm struggling with time management so for me this is a great opportunity to have accountability friends. I have a deep passion for helping others and it's really important for me to grow my channel so that I can reach more people and hopefully inspire and motivate them to get on the journey of transformation 😍 That's why I'm doing this!

I think I am tired, I've had little sleep for days in a row, and I know this can bring you down, but after feeling all excited and full of the joys, today I feel very flat about the whole YouTube thing. I put this down to a couple of things, apart from the fatigue: 1. I have never looked at the algorithm before, or taken much notice of views or subs. Well I downloaded the free Vidiq earlier and looked a little bit (didn't really know where I was going with it...!) and saw that I lost a subscriber in the last day lol! And it made me feel crap... how dumb is that? I shut it down and immediately started asking myself what had I done wrong, had I offended someone? Simply put, my emotional reaction far outweighed losing one sub! 2. I haven't really watched the how do do it videos in any real way before, like the ones about titles, thumbnails, what works, niches etc, but last night I watched three. And they all said different things... But it seems that my idea of branching out isn't going to work. Only one of the three videos suggested it might but I haven't see much to back it up and the video is over a year old. I'll link the video. From the above experiences I am asking myself: Am I too sensitive for YouTube (especially when I am low). Should I just bumble along as I am or really go for it, looking at what works, algortihms etc, and not worry about where it is going? The caveat to this is, that I know, at some point, I will start asking myself why? Whats the point? This self doubt has pretty much destroyed a lot of my creative persuits. Should I start a new channel which is outside of my current one as it does seem to very locked into Tarot ? I have done other stuff but all the suggestions Vidiq gave were for basic Tarot stuff. I want to share other things, especially mental health for the 50 plus sector, but something like Tarot can be very divisive. I do not use Tarot for divination or telling the future because I believe in free will, I use it for guidance, for the imagery and stories, for the symbols and how they allow me to access my subconscious.

What do you do, if anything, to create an integral feel to your channel? I have noticed that you Kaz @Karen Taylor have a whole thing going on. Your clean well lit background, with the map and the plants... your great on camera persona, your bun!!!, clear vibrant thumbnails, great voice for video...there is no mistaking where you are, and that you are gonna learn something! Then when you switch to the car, or the cable car, it feels more like the coffee shop convo vibe! But there is a lot of energy and get up and go... Lucy, @Lucy Caldicott I think that you have a cosy, safe, by the fire feel, makes me want tea and cake! We need a cake party one day, we'll all bring cake! @Pernilla Andersson I get both hygge and spa feels from your channel, a sense of calm and wellbeing, clean white sheets, a subtle scent of eucalyptus and lavender... There ya go... how did I do?!! All my observations are well intended and just my feelings... I am really into aesthetics, I am eclectic ... by nature, and I have been told variously, that my house reminds people of a 70's student bedsit, a Romani vardo, and a fairytale dwelling!! (By the way that was not my room this morning but my messy daughters lol!) So I have been thinking about way I can give my channel a cohesive feel...