Hi all. I'm having an interesting issue with creating content, maybe some of you have too. My videos are all on the fly and they relatively suck because of that (ok cringe fest, lol). I know this and have been ok with it because I'm just parking on YT for now until I'm "ready" to get more serious about it. And somehow got 190 subs up to this point, no engagement though. So I realize I've been procrastinating because the process of writing scripts, editing, doing all the things to optimize views/reach, and setting up my filming environment takes COMMITMENT. With commitment comes responsibility. And in my personal life I've been overloaded with stressful demands-sick parents, mother with dementia who lives and hour away in memory care and I have to drive there a lot, my own business plus a part time job, all while trying to deal with some fibromyalgia/CFS symptoms. But the irony is that I know a prosperous YT platform would alleviate a lot of my stress, which is financial. So catch 22. I'm just coming to terms with this. I know that I have the ability to produce content that's effective, I just also know for me there's a learning curve that will take time, and well, commitment. I'd love to hear from anyone who has crossed this impasse in their own content creation journey. Any words of wisdom or inspiration would be so lovely right about now! Blessings all! Theresa 😊🙏

I am a believer in divine timing! Step 4 of this lesson asked, "Who are you becoming as a creator because of the last 14 days?" To be gut level honest, the last two weeks have been more challenging personally. Making me look face to face with the behaviors of the old me and the me I am becoming. 14 days ago I was in full "grama mode". Loving life, setting aside time to enjoy family, yet still showing up for an hour or two everyday to move forward in my YT journey. 7 days ago, I was hit hard with an upper respiratory issue, if I talked, I coughed! I showed up very little, dwindling to a complete no show for a couple of days, turning into an old familiar couch potato scrolling through shows! Today, I feel much better, still foggy in the head. I was offered a job opportunity with my old employer yesterday. I had to really stop and think about my here and now and how every decision I make today, will have a lasting impact on my future. The timing the job offer (I declined it), the challenge of personal distractions and Day 14 in the challenge ( I did it), is showing me how capacity and trust is built in what will be released to me in the future. Everyday we have choices to make, some are great opportunities that will change the trajectory of your future. Sometimes life makes the choice for you and causes delay. Even delayed, staying the course is proof to myself and to God "I finish what I start." And this for me is a big deal. I have 67 years of great starts and few finishes. I could have been easily persuaded to jump ship the last 2 weeks, fun with family and illness are the two biggest things that tend to derail me. Back to Day 14 - Step One - I watched the video I posted 12-4-2025, the day I decided to go all in (again) on this YT thing! It has been 110 days of upward growth, consistently posting videos, learning as I go. Steps 2 - 4 reminds me that I have invested a lot of time in to learning, and application over the last 3 months. Step 5 energized me back into the game because there is some more things I want to learn on this journey. I want to move from being a talking teaching head to a, friend who engages in conversations. I want to do a better job with thumbnails, titles and creating a tight message to a small group.

Chat is creating in 1.5 seconds my entire youtube-online coaching biz offer that I had only just started to be able to get clarity on in 5 years. I will say though, the quality of the prompts, which is what takes time to create, brings the quality of the output, but still. One thing that's good is it can't replace the actual human-human heart connection that is vital for the container for great coaching results to arise, which is a good thing, because man, it whips our butts at mostly everything else! 😆

Wow. God has really been leading me faithfully in this content creation process. People come up in my feed that are so right on target, like breadcrumbs on the path to success with this process. I'm a trauma recovery and transformation coach with 30 years experience in advanced manual therapy, mind-body healing, gut-brain rebalancing with nutrition, etc. The knowledge and experience is there but how to clarify the vision and message took a lot longer to get. Now it's here! I'm sharing this because this morning a woman's channel came up, she's in my niche generally, a Bible based approach to trauma recovery and transformation, but different in a number of ways. HOWEVER, what I really saw clearly is that I can literally COPY her video creation style and how she's structured her online biz, it's simple 1-2-3 stuff we are all learning from Alexa and the innumerable other coaches online, but to see it applied practically, I get it, it's literally plug and play. Over and over and over. Just wanted to say, this is a great strategy to get started-find someone in our niche and literally walk in their footsteps. It's like walking through deep snow-it's easier to walk in someone else's foot prints at first than trying to trudge through without a guide. Blessings today! 🙏❣️

HUGE THANK YOU!!! 🔥🙌 https://fathom.video/share/YDV17n8db8rn9y9W6iZxFxeTztUrHVxH https://www.youtube.com/@davejeltema3 @Dave Jeltema