Hello! My name is Ruben and this is my story. I'm a professor of communication and digital media soon entering my 50s. I have considerable knowledge in, and have studied extensively, the topic of entrepreneurship and have a failed digital start-up under my belt. But after that traumatic experience that ended in 2014, I decided to give solopreneurship a shot. So, for the past 7 years or so, I've run a design website, selfmadedesigner.com, where I teach design to non-designers. Back in the day, I cracked SEO, getting my blog off the ground very quickly to 30,000 views with only a handful of articles. But AI, among other things, killed the blog overnight, and I never even created a product (build the audience first mistake). I've had the objective of creating my course, but that project has never gotten off the ground. Now, I'm giving YouTube a chance. I love being a self-learner, but I've gotten to the point where it's clear I can't do this alone. There are so many moving parts, and they all are hard. I've been following Alexa for some time now and remember when her very first videos started popping up on my radar. She's been an inspiration lately, especially because of her academic background. Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@selfmade.designer. It's my first time ever entering a community, thank you for your help!