Hey what's up guys? Grant here with Self Made. I wanted to sit down with you
for a few minutes, to tell you the story of why I got started on YouTube. So to
give you the story, I'm just going to time travel back in time about eight years.
Yeah I was married, I had two kids. I was working as an airline pilot. Had a really
awesome job where I could fly at night and then spend the rest of the day
basically doing whatever I wanted. And at the time, there was a housing crash, a
real-estate market crash and rumors of another Great Depression or a Great
Recession that was going to happen. So as a husband, as a father, as a protector of
the home, I think my biggest interest was trying to figure out ways that I could
protect my family if anything were to happen. You know the whole idea of
being prepared and self-reliant was really appealing to me. The only problem
was, I didn't really understand how the world worked. Even as an airline pilot
and with the experience working with airline systems, just looking at basic
technologies like electricity and pure water. I was at a loss to try to explain
how they would work. You know I try to do this thought experiment. I remember being
at home, we had sold all of our real estate properties. We'd taken all
the money and just put it in a bank account because we weren't sure what was
going to happen with the economy. And to be safe, we had moved into a small basement
apartment with a friend. We were just saving money, living cheaply and just
seeing where the economy went from there. And while we're living in this basement
apartment, I had a pretty good airline schedule. I had time to start thinking
and I turned my thoughts to this mental experiment. If anything did happen,
if there was a Great Recession or a Great Depression, would it be possible
that I could help recreate society from scratch? Could I learn about how the
world works? To the point, where I could actually be an invaluable asset to
restarting it or getting it going again. And thinking about this, you know some of
the main technologies that I think we take for granted started popping up in
my mind, like a light bulb. And I started thinking, how does a light bulb actually
work because we see them all around us. Everybody's got light bulbs. You flip a
switch, you have light but who actually knows how a light ball works? That wasn't
something that I learned in school. That wasn't even something that I have even
thought of before. But then it hit me if I were to go back in time about 200
years and if I were to introduce this concept to people, that you could create
a light bulb and have light. You know it would be a
revolutionary concept and undoubtedly make me rich and bring I don't know,
just opportunity to everyone. So this whole idea stuck with me. How could you
take a crisis and position yourself so that you know you could be in a prime
position to benefit from it. So this started my journey to understand how the
world worked. I wanted to get in to understand how to generate electricity?
How to purify water, how to make everything work, how to weld metal, how to
to cut metal. And so to get started, I started going on the classified ads and
looking for anything that was junk. Junk electronics, junk VCRs and audio
amplifiers, swamp coolers and I would bring all this stuff home. I would tear
it down and strip it down and just look to see what it was made of. You know all
the electrical components, the motors and a lot of this was new to me. So I go on
the internet, Wikipedia and I'd try to understand how all these things work and
what they were now. After doing this for about a year, I started getting a pretty
good understanding of how to generate electricity, how to use electricity, how
to pull screens off the TVs and make giant magnifying glasses that could burn
holes in concrete. How to turn water into a really explosive fuel explosive gas
and these concepts to me we're just awesome. They're fascinating and
mind-blowing and everybody that I tell about whether they come over to my house
and they'd see my Tesla coil and high-voltage electricity sparking around.
And they just man. "who are you? Like why do you know these things?" And I started
hearing that on such a regular basis and then it started getting me excited like
I must have some knowledge now that the rest of the world wants to know. I think
everybody at that time was kind of in that prepper survival mentality like,
"what if it is the end of the world? What am I going to do?" And I was finding some
results of how to get things going and that appealed to people. Now there was
one specific moment when I went to visit my brother who was living with me in the
same city. Every time I'd visit him I'd bring one
of them my new experiments with me and at this time I was playing with rocket
motors and smoke bombs. And I brought one of them with me and showed him that you
could take stump remover and sugar and make a really awesome smoke flare. And I
also told him about my arc welder that I made from microwave parts and he would
just he just shook his head at me and he looked at me and he said, "Grant you know,
you're like the king of random because every time you come over you're working
on something completely random like who thinks of this kind of stuff?"
And it was at that point in time they kind of hit me I was like the king of
random.. That kind of sticks. Now I don't know about you, but if I find a
solution to a problem or come up with something that I think is cool, the first
thing I want to do is share it. And at this time YouTube was fairly new. I'd
watched a lot of you know viral videos being shared. I'd seen the funny ones.
I was only becoming aware of the fact that you could start a channel because a
friend of my wife's had a youtube channel and he would upload his own
videos just for fun. So patterning after that, I decided to start a YouTube
channel .Tried putting in the name the king of random and it didn't work. I
tried a bunch of other names it didn't work. So I ended up just using the date
and the time that I created the YouTube channel. So my channel name was actually
0 1 0 3 2 0 1 0 8 1 4 that was the date and the time that I created my YouTube
account. And funny enough that name was available so for the first couple of
years of my YouTube channel, my channel name was a number, a very random number. I
would just use it to upload these videos of you know how do I use pop cans and
drip water through it to generate electrical sparks? or how to take flower
and balloons and make juggling balls? or how to make gummy candy that looks like
legos? And I was just playing around making home videos, putting these up but
they started gaining traction and people started subscribing to my channel. Which
at the time was really frustrating for me because I get an email notification
every time someone subscribed and I didn't know what that meant and I didn't
really want all the clutter in my inbox. So I turned off the notifications but
after doing this for about two years, just casually making videos showing
people how to start fires using a water bottle and things of this nature. I came
in contact with the guy one time. When I asked him what he did for work, he said
he worked in social media and I asked what he meant by that and he got into a
little bit he said he could make money through something called adsense which
I'd never heard of before. But he's like, "if you have adsense, you can actually
monetize your YouTube videos and when people watch them you can make money. And
that was an interesting idea to me. I wasn't sure if it was true. So I came
home looked up on Google how it worked. And sure enough, I could apply for
adsense on my YouTube channel so I turned that on. And just after playing
around for about a month, I got a deposit for just over $2 in my bank account. One
month of my videos being watched, generated $2 that I had in my bank
account that didn't cost me anything and when I saw that YouTube, became real to
me. I realized that if I've made videos that people watched millions of
times, then that $2 could actually become quite a significant amount of money. So
that's when I started taking YouTube very seriously. I decided I'm going to take
this balance of all these projects. I'm interested in trying for myself. I'm
going to take YouTube as a vehicle that has a potential make a lot of money. And I'm
going to commit to one thing, I'm going to make 100 videos. The best I can in a way that
I think, people are going to watch them, share them and could potentially
generate a lot of money. And I'm not going to do anything else, until I finish
those hundred videos. If nobody subscribes, if I don't make any money
then that's fine. I'm committing to it no matter what. But I did also see the
potential that this channel could generate over a hundred thousand dollars
in revenue by the time I'd made those hundred videos. So with that incentive in
mind, I worked part-time at the airlines and I cut down my hours so I had free
time to work on the videos and I started building this in the side. And you know
long story short, a couple years later, YouTube has been generating so much
income. You know those hundred videos we made a lot more money than we expected
and actually it set us up to the point where I couldn't go back to work. I got
to the point where was actually costing me money to go to work at the airlines.
So I retired about two years ago. And I say retired in quotation marks because
I'm too young to retire from the airlines. So technically, I had to quit.
They didn't have a program for me. But that's YouTube in a nutshell. That's why
I got started. It was mainly because I had a passion and an interest that I
wanted to share. I had specific projects that I want to do and I saw YouTube as a
viable place to generate an income and it's grown into that. We're now living
our hobbies, living our dreams. And by making videos like this,
we're being supported as a result. So if you want to do something similar, you
know the reason we put this Self Made training together is because in seven
years, I've learned a lot about YouTube. and I think I know the quickest way from
point A to point B. And we've got a link down in the description where you can
take that training and use it as a road map. Use it as a treasure map to build
your own career on YouTube. We're here to give you support and success and all of
our advice, pick our brains. Leave us comments and let us know what you'd like
to know more about. We'll see you next video
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