Hey everyone! I am so glad you are a part of this community and I want to make it even better. The goal is to create a space that you can feel safe, supported and able to learn in without crazy spammers, dropshippers or millionaires giving money away (what is that anyway??!?!) 😅 To be honest, I have been super frustrated with all the spammers in here. I was even on the fence about shutting it down altogether and starting over. But that is just RIDICULOUS - thank you @Harut Martirosyan for talking me off the proverbial ledge. 💖 INSTEAD this month/year I am going hard core OPERATION CLEAN UP!!🧹🧽🫧 We are going to remove spammers, non-youtubers. I am going to go back to application only - no more free for all. Going to protect this community like it's my baby! I don't want to throw away all the hard work, great connections and strong bonds we have made in here. I love and appreciate each and every one of you and truly enjoy interacting with you in the live calls and learning from each other. So I'm going to need your help if you are willing. Please whenever someone sends you a spam message from this community, let me know...and here's how to do that: 1) If it's a comment - place your cursor to the right of the comment you will see three dots, click on that and select "report to admins". Top right corner on mobile as well. 2) If it's in direct messages - same process three dots, please notify me of them before you block them. You can also block them so they do not bug you anymore. 3) You can also message me directly if you are unsure about them. The sooner I know the sooner we can make this community even more amazing. Thank you everyone! Let's make 2026 MIRACULOUS! 💥🎉💫🔥💖

I struggled this week, trying to get this video done. I had already had a script written. And then I had a host of new ideas vying for my attention. Then, when I was ready to record and did a practice run, I found that what I was saying was slightly unclear and a tad bit outdated. I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but ChatGPT called it EPISTEMIC DRIFT where your understanding of a topic evolves so quickly that your original work feels outdated before you can even publish it. And this wouldn't be such a problem except, one my defining goals with becoming a YT creator is impact. And I don't just mean helping people but also doing no harm. There's already a lot of vulnerability in self-improvement so I feel like the standard of care should be higher. But obviously, there is no guarantee of zero risk as I can never fully predict every possible interpretation of my words. So, I did realize that if I wait for my thinking to stop evolving, I will never post again, lol, because understanding is always in motion. My solution was moving towards a new operating principle: treating my videos as time-bound snapshots rather than final conclusions. And maybe you guys have already come to this conclusion or you don't struggle with this at all, but this and having a YT journey partner who has also committed to a weekly video for 2026, helped me get over myself, long enough to post in the last hours of the end of the week. If you are interested in my take on why people's 2026 goals will fail, you can watch the video here

Happy New Year! After a long absence I'm back to posting videos. Looking an analytics, something was perplexing to me. My audience was 90% males and 10% female. (My niche is travel vlogging). Usually it's around 50/50. I thought the analytics must be having a bad day. Next video.. same thing! and my shorts 100% male! (I'm traveling in a campervan in Norway.. what is so "male" about that?!) So I asked chat and it said, "If you want to rebalance naturally: You don’t need to change the content — just layer it. Add one of these per video: - a short reflective line - a why-this-matters moment - a “how this feels” beat - a quiet personal realization That’s enough for the algorithm to re-test women." -- My "AHA" moment is being more aware of my words in my script. I just usually say whatever I want to say without thinking about it! And, it doesn't really matter to me how many women and men are watching, I just find it interesting. But I also find it super interesting re: Chats' advice as a way to balance women and men by the way I feel or describe something in my script.. Aha!! ;-)

Let’s get excited for a brand new year! 🎉 Clean slate — let’s grow, grow, grow. How do you want to show up this year? What’s your goal or word of the year? Mine → 100% unfiltered, authentic service

Feel free to check it out and all feedback is appreciated. I know I left all the ums and filler words in but I literally couldn't figure out how to take them out except manually, and that wasn't happening. Done over perfection. SOOOOOOOOOO Excited to re-start my Youtube journey again. https://youtu.be/lAW-RVZagrU