Hey everyone, welcome to the live stream today. I thought I'd give an update on the the overall sort of progress in 2022 and some plans for 2023 and how I can also help you with your goals in 2023 as well. Now I always used to do my live streams where I would always start with an update on my channel and I did this sort of when I was doing my first of all the 100 videos in 100 days challenge and then the 365 in 365 challenge. And so then I've obviously sort of dropped that out of the the regular routine with my live streams for the well since since I finished the 365 thing or kind of didn't. But I thought it'd be useful to just sort of revisit that today because I am doing a sort of recap of 2022. And it was actually at the very end of 2021 actually quarter to midnight that I hit my monetization goal in of well the monetization level I should say in in YouTube. So I thought I'd give a sort of update on how things have gone since then and what it means to be monetized on YouTube for a whole year and it's spoiler alert. It's not that great. But anyway, I'll share all of that and the other ways that I've been monetizing since then as well. So that's what I thought I'd do. Just say hello to Hello Keely. I'm surprised to see you here. I'm not really she's in the discord as well. And also Hello Bicky. Great to see you here as well. So let's start then by having a quick sort of channel update because I did hit a sort of milestone recently. I never set sort of targets or goals in terms of subscriber levels because at the end of the day, I'm not really in control of that. I'm only in control of, you know, my output and things like that. So this is really more of a sort of indicator of performance as opposed to anything that I can really set. So although I've got some sort of milestones that I'd like to hit in the following year, I'm not really in control of it. So but nevertheless, it is worth just taking a quick look at. So just past the 4,000 mark earlier on this week, 4,000 subscribers. Thank you to all of you. It really means a lot. And when I started out the channel in May of last year, it was one of these weird things where you don't really know who your audience is. You sort of my first video on YouTube was a live stream to nobody, nobody listening as I was talking, probably still quite similar now sometimes. But it was just nice to see this sort of this sort of growth and find, you know, people finding my things interesting. And then that has sort of influenced what I've been doing as I've been taking feedback from those people watching. So thank you everyone for your support, encouragement and for for watching. Hey, Rabbi David. Great to see you here. I'll just say a quick hello. So let's have a look at the analytics because here you can see sort of a picture and I don't really focus on analytics. I do check them, obviously, because I am that kind of person with a bit of an analytical mind. But it's not beneficial, I think, to be sort of too focused on them on a day to day basis. And you can see this if you kind of look at this thing for say the last week, let me just go to a week, first of all. So this is the last 28 days. But if I just change this to a week, look at this, as soon as you go to do a demo, it always slows up, doesn't it? So if I go to last seven days, something chewing up all my processor. There we go. Try it like this. So if you look at something over seven days, it's very easy to just say, oh, well, look, my my views or whatever it happens to be that you're looking at has gone down. And even if you look at it over, you know, a month, you can still see these spikes up and down. But for me, the most important thing is the overall trend that I'm seeing.  If I go to look at the sort of lifetime of the channel. And this is the sort of total views on a daily basis. One second, there we go. So you can see that there has been obviously the growth over the past year or less the year and a half, I suppose. But there is these definite sort of plateaus and areas of spiking as well. So this was when I first started my channel. And although that looks like a tiny little blip down there at the moment, the pattern has been pretty much the same all the way through, which is it will find a level, it will bounce along at that level for a little bit. Then there was an area somewhere around here in June where it went up to a slightly higher level. And then that was relatively flat sort of gentle increase. And then it had another spike here and here. And these are all actually generally these spikes I can attribute to specific videos or things that have happened. So, you know, it was like this one happened around about the time. In fact, this one was, I think, around about the time that I started posting a lot of shorts on YouTube. And so I was getting a lot of views, although they were fairly sort of low time for watch, low watch time, I should say. But these other spikes here, this was one, I think, some particular stream deck video that came out or stream deck software update that came out. And so I've had these spikes and what seems to happen for me, at least, there's no sort of overnight success is just a case of there'll be one thing that sort of drives a spike in traffic.  So I don't know if it's the same people that are coming back then to watch it or not. But there are these sort of areas where there are these these distinct spikes. This one here actually was around the time that the Rocaster came out. But it was actually the spike came because of another software update to stream deck. And it was actually stream deck that drove all of those those views in spite of the fact that I was putting out a load of Rocaster content at the same time. These dips, though, incidentally have also been something that I can clearly explain. So there was an area in the beginning or the middle of the year, I should say, where I really wasn't putting out anything. I've had a number of an ups and downs in the sort of business and personal things going on this year that have caused my my content to be not at all consistent this year. Consistent in parts, but in other parts, consistently inconsistent. And that was the case around sort of mid April. So from mid April, you can see that there's a bit of a dip and then it stayed sort of flat. And that's because May and June and into July were, I would say, pretty much a write off in terms of what I was doing in terms of the content creation, just because I had other priorities. We were talking about priorities and sort of years in review on the Creators Pod. So the Creators Pod podcast, which is one of the two podcasts that I launched this year. Are we talking about that a little bit later on? But we're talking about this and how different things come up in life that you have to give priority to. And that was certainly been the case with me. I've not been full time on my YouTube and my content creation. It started out the year at a couple of hours a day and then by the middle of the year, it was some many days in a row where I was doing nothing on it. And it's only really in the last half of the year that I've started to pick up the momentum again and start to devote more time to it. And that is reflected as well in these numbers because obviously I've been putting out more videos. And so that is why there's been a sort of spike in views, more content there to watch, newer people coming into the channel and watching as well. And you can see that here towards the end, there's been a sort of more of an uptrend as I've been putting out more content. So I don't know what the lesson is to learn from this, but I suppose it is consistency does pay in terms of you'll get those recurring views and the channel growth will come with that. But also the thing is that from May of last year all the way through to now, you could kind of draw a sort of trend line and it's just a steady gradual growth plan there. It's not sort of an overnight one thing has suddenly made a huge difference. But that can happen. It's not happened with me just yet. And even these ones that have spiked up, you know, it's not like that's been the start of some hockey stick curve. Now that might be that I'm doing something wrong. Who knows. But that's just what we're looking at at the moment in terms of the watch time. Then it is a similar sort of thing there. And this is where I was talking about that spike that I had in views was from shorts just around about here. And that obviously didn't correlate to a massive spike in watch time because they're obviously short form content. So this shows a much sort of more stable picture of sort of overall watch time. But there has been a distinct, you know, upwards trend towards the end of this year. So that's something that I'm quite happy about to see that that is something that is a slight steepening of the curve, at least if nothing and nothing else. Subscribers, this is showing the sort of daily subscribers and how many are coming each day. Apparently this one down here where there was, you know, negative numbers. Sometimes I know YouTube does sort of clear out, you know, fake accounts and things like that. So sometimes your subscriber number can go down because of that. But actually, I know that there was a huge number of people sort of unsubscribed in April when I was doing Cedar create every day in April. There's a number of things that did wrong with that.  Rather than going for the full month just because I had other priorities then. But I think one of the mistakes I made with that as well was all of my Cedar videos. Basically, I just had the same thumbnail with, you know, day one, day two, day three. And while some people like to follow along with those challenges, you know, the hardcore among you watched the content on my channel. A lot of people don't.  So I did get a number of people unsubscribed then. So I'd probably think differently about doing the way that I do those challenges in future if indeed I do do them. But generally, it's been good. And again, it just sort of recently had higher numbers of new subscribers coming in. I won't go into the final analysis. You can actually look at subscribers because this is the sort of net. So number of new subscribers minus number of people have unsubscribed. So you can actually plot all of those out. I won't bother going into all that right now. Yeah, certainly at times you can see, you know, where there's been peaks in unsubscribers as well. So that's just something to be, you know, you can go in and have a look at it on your channel. The other thing that I can tell is where my subscribers have come from. And I've got predominantly sort of e-cam live and stream deck. And I suppose now latterly as well as a roadcaster videos as well. The majority of my subscribers come from stream deck. Basically stream deck and roadcaster. I don't get as many from the e-cam stuff. So I'm still going to be doing e-cam videos. But I'll be looking to increase the stuff that, you know, people are actually subscribing for and coming for. Because obviously there's a much bigger audience for stream deck and roadcaster necessarily than the e-cam stuff. So I will still be doing e-cam stuff. I am still a massive, massive super fan for e-cam as well. But I will be doing a lot more of the other stuff that I've been focused on just recently as well. And just say a quick hello here to a couple of people in the chat. Great to see you here. Thank you very much. I much appreciated Chris for the comment there. And yeah, more to come in 2023. Rich is asking, question, have you figured out how to see if subs are coming from other platforms? Well, that's a tricky one.  And seeing whether people, you know, how many people you're actually getting from those platforms. The answer is no, I haven't done that just yet. It's going to be more of a case of, well, it's going to be really tricky to do that one. I've already mentioned to Rich before about this thing of, you know, where is the time at best spent? And I'll come back to the analytics at the moment, but this is worth just talking about for a brief moment. Where is the time at best spent if you're trying to build a content creation business as which is, you know, what this is all focused on? I'll be talking about sort of goals for next year a bit later on. But whether the other platforms, you know, if my focus is on creating content and creating courses and, you know, YouTube being, you know, the primary outlet for the video content that is obviously, you know, free content. And the idea being, you know, obviously that this is, you know, something that is leading into my other sort of business side of things, which is, you know, courses and coaching and so on. And is it actually better to spend time just devoted to creating more video content if that is my primary outlet for YouTube to, you know, hopefully promote the courses and show the sort of things that I can share here on YouTube and how people can have more structure and things like that in courses. Is it better to just spend time devoted to just purely those two things as opposed to also, you know, putting yourself on all of the other platforms because people say, oh, you need to be on all of the other platforms. And so I am going to be doing a bit of a test with this. And it's going to start out with me being on all of these other platforms and posting to all the other platforms. And indeed, I've created a sort of content distribution plan, shall we say. And so that is something I'm going to be implementing in the first quarter of this year and, you know, from the outset really to be posting consistently on all of the different platforms with micro content and all of that kind of stuff. But then I will be doing a little bit of a test later on in the year. Once I've got a good sort of six solid months of data on that, then I'll be doing a little bit of a test where I try and see what happens if you don't do that posting on some of those other platforms. So it's going to be a bit of a hard one to gauge because, you know, you've got multiple moving parts. It's always better with, you know, testing to test one thing at a time. So I'm not sure how you can realistically test all of those different things versus just being on YouTube. But I'll figure out a way and I think I'll be able to do something in a way that gives me at least some meaningful insight into the effectiveness of that. But anyway, I digress. That is for later on in the year. But to answer your question though, Rich, no, I can't actually see subscribers who have come from specific platforms. And the reason is you can see platform subscribers come from specific videos. So I suppose you could do something where you are sharing, you know, links to only videos that you're promoting on other platforms and see how many subscribers you get from that. But otherwise, it could be a little bit tricky. Hello, podcastmeister. Great to see you here. Thank you for stopping by. Whoops, there we go. And thanks, Keely, for posting the Creators Pod review that we mentioned that was this week. This is going to be something I'll talk about later, the Creators Pod as well. Another big thing for me for 2022. So that is the subscribers. Now, as I say, I hit the 1000 subscriber level just before New Year. And so basically the lifetime revenue from YouTube that you can see here, that's basically all from this year. So $2,744. That is what it means when people talk about, oh, you don't actually get that much from posting regularly to YouTube when you first get monetized. I'm sure there are people who are actually making a fortune off their AdSense. The point I'm making though is people are often so keen to get to that 1000 subscriber level and to get monetized. But it is definitely not the be all and end all. And I can actually say what you can see here, the first half of the year up until June, that is actual pure ad revenue. Whereas this over here, the second half of the year, which actually accounts for I would guess the majority of that maybe two thirds of it. That is when I turned on memberships. So that as well is not just from ad revenue. That is from membership. So that is assuming that you've got some sort of membership program. You can become a channel member by hitting the little join button just down below here somewhere below this video. And there's three different levels there. And you can check out the different tiers and things like that. So the majority of that, as I say, I guess two thirds of it is from the second half of the year when I had those channel memberships on. But what I will say is that is less than 4% of the total revenue of Take One Tech. So the point is don't necessarily put all of your focus on chasing that AdSense. I mean, everyone tells you that. So I'm only hopefully just putting it into some context here as to what it actually means. Because people often say, oh, you don't make much from AdSense, but a few people actually say, you know, what it is. So there we go. That is the revenue. I'll be looking to build my revenue off YouTube though. One of the things that I did this year was start my podcast and the live streamer backstage podcast. And the first guest that I had on there was JP Hightech. And he's a big proponent of definitely not being tied to one specific platform. He had a terrible thing happen where he had built up to over 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. They changed something about the rules. A number of his videos then were retrospectively penalized for being, you know, in breach of these rules or videos that he just had on his channel and he'd lost his channel and had to start building it all up again. So definitely don't want to be sort of too tied to a channel. And I think that this thing about the revenue on YouTube just sort of emphasizes that there are other ways to sort of monetize and sort of make money from, you know, being a content creator. So let's have a look. Let me see what you're saying. I'm just completely lost what this comment is related to, Keely. Sorry about that. I was comparing our ratios and thought, man, what? Ah, right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I see the revenue based on ads versus the membership. Yeah. Patreon and merchandise is a big part of making videos. Well, it is. I suppose it can be. The merchandise one is another thing though. I mean, I've probably, if you want to buy my live streamer or recovering perfectionist merchandise, you can find that in my store tab on my YouTube channel. I think at this stage, I am my own biggest customer in terms of that. So that's another one where you've got to have built a following, I think, to have, you know, to make a reasonable amount of merchandise. And Patreon as well. So yeah, I'm not doing the Patreon thing, but obviously there's channel memberships. There's my buying me a coffee membership. But I will be talking a little bit later about the subscription to my courses because I've got a lot of things coming up in that respect. Indeed, Rich, certainly drinking my own lemonade. Hello, Mr. Mr. Cox. Kay Cox. Great to see you here. Is that Kevin? I've just realized. Great to see you. Great to see you anyway. So let's keep going through. And what I thought I'd do then is if that is the update on the YouTube channel, as I say, I'm not going to go into more depth on analytics and all that. Although just to say that it is the stream deck stuff that is the highest viewed and has contributed most to all of that growth. Hey, Chris, great to see you here. No problem about the spelling. Siri has started correcting my name to Alex an awful lot recently. And you'd think she would know my own name, but there you go. So I thought I'd talk about my sort of wins or things that have changed in 2022 because it has been really quite a big year in 2021. Oh, sorry. Yeah, 2021. I was basically just, you know, following a plan with YouTube, putting in those two hours a day to the channel. But it's only really this year that things have sort of really picked up. And certainly by the end of the year, I've been a lot more focused on it on a day to day basis. So in terms of what has changed, the first thing was at the beginning of this year, I had literally just moved into this new studio space. I was previously my basement doing everything on green screen because you didn't want to see the state of my basement. But but then, yeah, moved into here. And actually it was at the very beginning of the year when I talked about I've got another phase planned for the studio of things that was going to upgrade. And then with everything that happened throughout the year, I just never got around to all of those upgrades. And so only did that obviously just in the last couple of weeks. You may have seen the videos on my channel about about that and the upgrades. So I finally got the studio now to the space to the place where, you know, I'd intended it to be when I first moved in in terms of upgrades to lighting cameras and so on. I still got a couple of extra things. I'm almost there, but there's a couple of extra little things that I'll be adding in and I'll probably make a video about those when I do. But yeah, it's pretty much pretty much there as I'm as I wanted to be all set up now.  I did launch three courses this year. So there's the e-cam masterclass, the zoom masterclass and obviously the the Rocaster one as well. And I've got more courses planned for next year, more of that to come in a moment. I did the switch over to Kajabi for my courses. So I've got a background in, you know, I've created courses for other things before. So it's I'm talking only purely about take one tech and, you know, creating sales funnels, advertising and things like that in one of the companies that I'm associated with. Then we do that kind of stuff. And so previously the systems that I was using for sales funnels were click funnels. Then there would be, you know, websites on everything WordPress, Squarespace, depending on the the clients and so on. But it's only really now that I'm just sort of switching everything to Kajabi. And the thing that is so great about Kajabi and I will keep banging on about Kajabi because it's everything all in one place and it's all interconnected. And it's I've got no problem as such with click funnels. I've had a lot of success with that in the past. It's just that when you when I switched over to Kajabi, even though it isn't necessarily a sort of dedicated funnel building platform like click funnels purports to be. I just found that it was so much easier to create these things in Kajabi and always liken it to the the sort of switch over from PC to Mac where I was perfectly fine on PC. But then when I switched over to Mac, I realized that it was just a much better platform. And so that's kind of how I feel about Kajabi as well. It's just been really, really great and made it really easy for me to to sort of grow the take one tech business with the courses and coaching and all of that kind of stuff. So that was a big thing for me to actually switch. I've seen switched other sites that I create over onto Kajabi as well for clients and so on. So yeah, it's really a big win for me. That was just actually finding Kajabi and switching over to it. Thanks to Carly, I should say for giving me the nudge with that one. And I should also say thanks to Keely or the case today for getting me on Discord as well. That was another big win for me was switching everything over to Discord or getting on Discord, I should say. And having that being the basis for my community. I'm still working on getting that more into my sort of workflow in terms of being a lot more active there. I have been active there, but then sometimes other things come up. So I've just focused on that for next year as well, being a lot more proactive in that space as well. Not just my community, but other ones like the e-comm community. I've not spent as much time there. I would like to have had in the last few months. So that's another thing for me there. The other thing that's been great this year is I've had a lot more coaching clients than I had in the previous year. I've always done coaching and things like that for different things that I'm working in. But for specifically Take One Tech, this is obviously a new adventure. So it's been great over the past year to have helped so many people and to have spent this time to help people.  I suppose I should put this up shouldn't really. You can book consultation calls with me if you need any help with all the sort of tech stuff that I talk about on my channel. And it's been great to, as I say, work with people. Sometimes a single call. Sometimes, you know, a course of 10 calls. I'm now also working with a number of people like on an ongoing basis. So I've got people who have booked up throughout 2023, for example, where they are on a sort of more structured plan of, you know, trying to reach their goals in a number of different areas really. Some of it is in terms of business automation and things like that. Some of it is just in terms of, you know, handling the tech for things like zoom and creating content and others for creating content like I'm doing as well. So there's a number of different angles there. I'm going to be opening up some more slots for that next year as well. So if somebody is looking for some sort of long term plan, then that will be available. I'll talk about that in a moment as well. And that's just been, that is one of my favorite things, actually. I would say about, you know, this is, it's great to create the videos. I love getting comments and, you know, the ones where I get someone saying that this video's made their day or changed their life. I think it happens in some cases. Those just really make my day, you know, to get that sort of feedback. But I can't beat really the sort of one-on-one coaching sessions where, you know, somebody comes in with an issue and then hopefully leaves with not just that answered, but a lot more to run with as well. So I really enjoy that sort of whole side of it. The other thing that's happened this year as well is joining the Amazon influencer program. And I've been sort of live streaming to Amazon fairly consistently, really. I don't necessarily cross promote it on this channel, but you can go to takeonetech.live to see my live streams to Amazon. Generally, in the last sort of couple of months, it's been mainly my live streamer backstage podcast, which I live streamed to Amazon and to LinkedIn. And then I post the videos here. So if you're just watching on this channel, you may have seen the videos posted, or they're actually recorded live to Amazon. And I've actually sort of banked up quite a lot of these podcasts now. So those are going to be going out over the next few weeks onto the channel. So it's basically 20, I think 23 guests that I've had on so far. So it's been great to sort of start that as well. This is something else that started in 2023 to start this podcast and speak to so many amazing people and learn from all of them as well. So that's part of the reason for doing this podcast was it was a case of being able to have some time with these people to sit down and have them share their experience of live streaming with the audience and everyone watching and listening. But also, it's because I've got a lot of respect for these people and want to learn something myself, which I have done. So there's always been some takeaway from every single one of them. At some point, I'm going to start a blog series where I just have a little thing of the thing that I learned and implemented. Because there's no point learning stuff and they're not implementing it. So I've been trying to actively implement things from each person that I've spoken to. So I'll be doing a review of that once things have sort of bedded in and giving credit where credit's due for the things that I've learned there. That was the live streamer backstage podcast. That was something that was a little bit outside of my comfort zone as well, really, because it's a live interview. And whilst I have done sort of slight interview type things on stages before, there's something very different between that and doing a live interview where you're on a live stream with somebody. Because then it's not just the case of speaking and having the conversation, but you've got all these sort of tech concerns. Will they come in on time? Will they have all their tech set up? I suppose I'm quite have a bit of a safety net there because obviously I'm interviewing live streamers. So all these people are sort of professionals themselves and have generally got a good tech set up. But there is always that little sort of bit of nerves, I suppose, with hoping that everything goes right. And as I say, it was a little bit out of my comfort zone. So I'm pleased to have done that. The next sort of season of it, there won't be a sort of change in terms of it being released on the YouTube. It will just continue on. But I am going to change some of the ways that I do that. One of the things that I haven't really done is had a huge amount of chat interaction during the podcast. And that's because I wanted to come on and just record it without sort of getting sidelined. I do have a habit of getting sidelined by chat comments and things like that. So that was another reason for posting it to for live streaming it to LinkedIn and Amazon was that, you know, I don't have huge followings there and where I'm going to have like an active chat like like I might have right now, for example, just say hello to Victor who's just popped in great to see you here Victor. So I don't want to be doing all of this kind of stuff during the live recording of the podcast. But what I will do is I'll take a leaf out of the the flows podcast with Katie and Doc from Ecamm. I quite like the way they do it where they do have like a sort of intro part of the live stream where they have a bit of chat. Then they do the recording and then they have more chat afterwards. So I may well sort of adopt that sort of model and a few other updates and tweaks to the general sort of flow of the podcast as well. But that has been something that's happened this year as well. That is the first podcast. The second podcast that that was launched was the Creators pod. And that is something that Keeley just posted link earlier, but I'll leave the link into the channel and also to the podcast as well. That is the Creators pod podcast with myself, Keeley, who's I've just mentioned in the chat also rich in the chat as well. And then also Dina Taylor, Rich Graham. And in the last couple of weeks as well, Rob Vols as well, who's been with us been with us in spirit all the way. That's been just a really great, a great thing to be a part of. And it's it came about because we're also in our own sort of little mastermind and accountability group that we've been in since the beginning of the year as well.  And we started the podcast again, another great idea from Keeley. I think they usually are the good ideas around the middle of the year to start the podcast. Did I not say Michelle? I thought I said Michelle. Sorry if I did not. Sorry, Keeley's just dropped in and Michelle. Yeah, definitely Michelle of LBC branding. I can't just reach for my leopard print fan here. I just realized anyone who doesn't know about Michelle in leopard print that comment would not make any sense. But anyway, yes, so Michelle Lawrence as well. Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure I've got you. And I mentioned Rich twice. Good, good thing. But yeah, the great thing about this, this group is that we are all holding each other to account, but we're all there to support each other as well. And it's great to have people who, you know, are sort of looking out for you and watching your back and always taking all of the sort of feedback and praise or negative comments. I should say constructive criticism, I suppose, is they're all coming from a place of love and you always know that. So it's great to be a part of a mastermind. I've been a part of masterminds for years in various different places. It is one of the best ways to actually, you know, go a lot further in whatever it is you're doing because you've got, as I say, this group of people who you end up building these really strong bond with bonds with, you know, that they're looking out for you. And that they can help you to succeed. And as I say, I've been a number of in a number of masterminds ones that we've organized on our own. Like, you know, like this one, although this one started as well as, you know, a little subgroup in docs coaching. But there's there's two sides to it. There is the coaching side, and then there's also the sort of mastermind side. But I've also run masterminds in previous previous roles where I've just sort of been running them. We've run retreats before as well.  The thing that's great about masterminds as well is you get to you get to learn from the experiences and the lessons learned from other people as well. So, you know, if I if I'm there and I've got something that I've done wrong, which is, you know, happens all the time, then me going in sharing that experience is then, you know, a lesson for everyone else as well. And the same with everything that other people are having, you know, challenges that they're having, you get to sort of learn from what they're going through. But you also then get to support each other and help each other out with those things. So masterminds are just, you know, I can't recommend them highly enough. And there'll be more to come about those a little bit later when I talk about plans for next year as well. So so yeah, that was another sort of big a big win for me this year. I would say it was just been simply a part of that group. It's been great to see everyone else's development and growth as well. But it certainly helped me and kept me accountable and allowed me to allow me to go further than I would have gone on my own. I can certainly say that. So the the studio, as I say, is is just sort of is finished now as well. So that's been the sort of last thing that I'd like to mention. But going forward, then the the courses that have rolled out so far, I've got a number of other courses to come. And I'm looking at changing to a subscription model or will be changing to a subscription model, but I'll still be giving people the option to buy them as individual courses. But one thing that I found is, you know, as I start introducing more of these courses and I know that people want to take multiple of these courses, then it's going to sort of quickly sort of add up in terms of if you've got, you know, all of these courses coming out together and how do you go about, you know, prioritizing which ones are important. So I think it's good where everything is all a sort of cohesive. What's the word cohesive environment where you can learn all of these things that are all going to feed into your ultimate goals for 2023. And as I say, this is being informed by my coaching clients, I would say. So I've been looking at what specifically the people that I'm doing the one to one coaching with have been asking for and the things that they are looking to to achieve. And then also looking at what I've been doing and what people have been commenting on most. So that's what sort of informed what I'm going to be talking about now. Hello, Rebel without a reason. Great to see you here. And hello, James as well. Thank you so much. It's been great to be a part of that with with you as well and have you a part of that and be chatting with you a little bit later as well. I can just say that after this is finished in what is it about two hours from now. I'll also be on a group session there with with James Hicks as the host and along with four or five other creators. Roy Richardson, June, Junaid Ahmed, Walter Strong and Chris Williams as well. So we'll all be talking more about goals and what we've learned in 2022 and preparing for 2023. So that's coming up in just a couple of hours as well. You'll be streamed on this channel as well. So don't go anywhere. You can find it here too. But thanks so much James for inviting me on that. I'm really looking forward to having a hang out with you all as well and having a bit more of an in depth discussion. Maybe being a bit more multi-way rather than me just talking to the camera. So in terms of 2023 then still going to be putting out the regular content on YouTube. In fact, more so because the last, as I say, I've not been too consistent this year with with YouTube in terms of a regular schedule. But I've got my content plan all sorted out this last couple of weeks. I've been really focused in. I love the festive period because it gives me time to work uninterrupted. So I've been doing a lot of that over the past couple of weeks and plans for next year and so on. So I thought I'd just share with you then some of the new courses that I've got planned and also the subscription model that I was talking about. So this is, first of all, a number of new courses that are going to be introduced and these are all beginner's guides. So I obviously have my rocaster masterclass over 100 videos in depth going into absolutely everything you need to know. I've got my my Ecamm masterclass as well over 100 videos in depth going over everything you need to know before Ecamm and associated and all of that kind of stuff. And that's what I see masterclasses as being. They should be this sort of complete take you in from beginner all the way through to expert. But what I found is through my coaching, sometimes people don't necessarily want to go and watch an entire, you know, however long course where they get to learn absolutely everything about these things. They just want to get up and running quickly. They just want to know the basics so they can get up and running with whatever it is that they are trying to trying to learn. And so I've been creating some other courses and namely these ones right here. So a YouTube beginner's guide, you know, where do you start with YouTube? How do you get your channel set up? What are the things that you need to know? What are the things that you can start to do at the beginning that are going to save you time later? Basically, how do you get this set up for success? So there's the YouTube beginner's guide going to be going to be released. Same with live streaming. A lot of people may be not interested in YouTube specifically, but just want to know how to go about, you know, getting into live streaming. What are the different platforms? How to do it? What they need to get set up? Just what are some of the technicalities? I mean, I would think back to when I first went live on YouTube, which as I said earlier was my first video on YouTube.  Am I streaming? Is there anything I need to know about? What's happening? In fact, the very first time I did it, I was using restream at the time. And so my very first live stream was multi stream to four places and it lasted around about two seconds because I hit the live button. And suddenly I don't know what I'd done, but there was all these different things popped up with all the different platforms coming up. I just thought, whoa, this is way too confusing. Let me end this right now. And I ended up just going instead streamed live to just YouTube on its own. And so there's things like that, that, you know, when you're first starting out, you may be not quite sure what to expect. Some of the technicalities of, you know, how to do things and things to be aware of. So again, a beginner's guide just with everything you need to know to get started with live streaming. I mentioned earlier, Kajabi being one of the biggest things that the biggest changes I've made this year was the switch over to Kajabi. It is an awesome platform and it's actually, you know, really easy to get up and running with it. There are loads of tutorials from Kajabi themselves. They've got a really great sort of library of information there. There is also Kajabi University that you can sign up to to learn everything as well. So they've got a lot of resources. They've also got a really great onboarding process. So if you sign up to one of their plans, then you can have like a one-to-one call with them. I would recommend, by the way, just incidentally for that, rather than get the one-to-one call immediately after you've signed up, I would always say try out a few things, get to know a few things and figure out what these sort of gaps are in your knowledge, I suppose, are. And then book the call. That's certainly what I did. I think I was sort of two weeks in before I booked the call and that was much better with time well spent than if I just thought, I'll just get on a call with them immediately for them to tell me all of the basics. So the beginner's guide really is something to help people where they're just starting out to tell them, you know, how to find a way around Kajabi. There's a few little quirks of it in terms of how you do things. You have a limit on the number of products you can have on Kajabi based on the particular pricing plan that you're on. And so for me, I've got, you know, multiple digital downloads. Well, if I was to create those, by the way, I always laugh now every time I say that, aren't all downloads digital? When Dina pointed that out to me, I just thought, yeah, they surely are, aren't they? Oh, speaking of the devil. Hello, Dina. So yeah, the downloads that I've got are all, you know, technically products. Whereas if I was to use those as products in Kajabi, then it would use up a lot of those. So there's ways that you can create what they call ghost offers where basically it's not using up your allotment of products, but you've still got multiple products on there. If that makes sense, maybe it doesn't. But anyway, it's all explained in the beginner's guide. Same with sales funnels. Sales funnels get such a bad rap. And I think it is so unjustified because a sales funnel is just literally a way to ease the customer's journey into finding your products, services, and it handles the whole sort of client process. I've actually, let me just bring up this because this sort of explains it a little bit better. And people also get confused between a sales funnel and their products. So they think that, oh, well, I've got some low tier products and some high tier products. Therefore, that is the funnel. You know, a lot of people doing the free things and going up. That is the product stack. That is not your sales funnel. Let me just find this book. So this is a book that I wrote. I should probably release this on my channel as well. But where's it gone? There's a great little diagram in there. And it just sort of shows the point of a sales funnel and what it is intended to do. Now, I should have probably queued this up in advance. Never mind. I'll find it in a minute. Oh, there it is. Right. So this is just to sort of explain sales funnels. And this is what the beginners guide is all for. So this is a book that I wrote about digital marketing. But I'll just come down to the bit about sales funnels. Because it sort of explains the process here and what they're supposed to do. So if you think about a sales cycle, often this is represented in terms of the seller. So they'll talk about, you know, step one is lead generation initial contact. Number two is qualifying the lead and discovering the needs of the lead. Picture product and demo proposal and handling objections, closing the sale, repeat business and referrals. So that is a sort of traditional sales cycle. But if you notice the language there is all from the perspective of the sales person. You know, they are the one that is qualifying the needs of the person. They are pitching and demoing the product. They are proposing and handling objections and things like that. Well, the difference with that and a sales funnel is basically that the sales funnel is intended to basically put that in terms of the client. So rather than, you know, pitching, this is about, you know, raising awareness, building their interest in the product or service, taking them through that evaluation process of, and that's the equivalent of, you know, the pitch and product demo, but you're taking them through and guiding them through that evaluation onto the point of them having intent to buy. And then through to the purchase and then onto advocacy.  So really the sort of bits that are not part of your or handle externally, I suppose, are the, you know, maybe digital advertising or whatever way you're marketing. I mean, it could be this. It could be this YouTube video, for example, or a YouTube video. But whatever it is, the raising awareness is how you get people to be aware of you in the first place. But then this whole rest of this part, the interest, evaluation, intent and purchase, that is the bit that is handled by the, you know, an automated sales funnel where you're taking people through to maybe a landing page, you're, you know, continuing their interest, explaining the product, allowing them to evaluate the product on the sales funnel web page where you've got maybe a video on there, you've maybe got testimonials, whatever it happens to be, you know, handling any objections that they may have all on the site. So helping them with that evaluation process, then the intent. And the crucial part really about sales funnel, landing pages, for example, or an email funnel or whatever it is, is this part here, this bridge between the intent and the purchase. Because often people think that they've got an intent to buy something, but then they don't go on to make the purchase. And that might be that you've got a complicated website. So for example, if you look at a traditional website and a typical website, then that might look something like this, where you've got a landing page, you've got lots of menus at the top, you've got all of this sort of structure. And so whilst you may have a really nice sleek looking web page or website, it's actually a really complex beast in terms of all the different routes people can go through. And it actually makes that evaluation process really tricky in terms of them figuring out, you know, whether it's something that they want to buy and then the intent, whether it's actually easy for them to buy. Now that's not to say you shouldn't have a website. Obviously, you can still have a website with all of this information in it. It's just that specifically when you talk about sales funnels, your sales funnel should take people on a very clear path where it presents the video, gives them the information, gives them the option to buy it. Maybe if that offer isn't right for them, maybe you can offer them a different one. And so basically at every step, they're given a choice of do you want this or not. And that's all a sales funnel is really. The reason why they get a bad name is because people abuse them. I think in terms of, you know, once you're getting people's email lists, they just hammer you way too much with emails. I think there's a way to do this ethically. But the reason why they're called sales funnels is because simply, there are more people in at the top than come out at the bottom. Therefore, it is a natural sort of funnel shape. Whoops, where's it gone? And then also it is sort of guiding people through just as you pour liquid into a funnel and it guides it smoothly down into wherever you want in them to go. Now, as I say, you can still have your website. You've still got all of your different product offerings, but you may have 50 different types of sales funnel leading into one particular product. So again, I think there's a lot of negativity that people have around connotations about sales funnels. And so I want to sort of demystify that and just explain why, really, this is the proven way to have the maximum impact and return on whatever you're doing up here to raise awareness. This is the best way to actually get sort of results out of the other end of it. Again, assuming that as I've put here, understand in this beginner's guide, understand how to use sales funnels powerfully and ethically because that is the crucial bit is don't just be spamming people. So that was a bit of a long digression to talk about sales funnels. But anyway, the next one is a Discord beginner's guide. And that is basically I've got a lot of people in Discord and are coming into my Discord server. A lot of the stuff that I'm going to be talking about here with this, all these learning resources and wanting to make Discord as really sort of one of the primary hubs for that. I am going to be doing more stuff with Kajabi though as well. They do have community things. And so there's certain things that I'll be doing directly in Kajabi. But yeah, just sort of demystifying it. I think there's a lot of people have these reservations about Discord still, even though I've been banging on about it ever since Keely got me onto it. And she's obviously been a huge proponent of this. But there's still people that have feel friction in terms of Discord. So just making sure that as part of my beginner's guides, there is something there for people to help get up to speed with Discord. Obviously, the next step after you've done the beginner's guide is speak to Keely. So that'll be very clear in there as well. Ecamm beginner's guide as well. As I say, my masterclass has got over 130 videos, whatever it is. There's going to be a huge update to that coming out imminently because there is a huge update to Ecamm coming out. So that's going to have a big refresh in terms of the content in the Ecamm masterclass. But when I'm speaking to my coaching clients and one in particular that I'm working on for the next 12 months, there's stuff that is all technically in the masterclass. But it's a case of they just want to get up and running with it so that they can start learning as they're going along and don't want to go through necessarily a whole masterclass. So having a beginner's guide which just explains how to get up and running with it. Same with the home studio. Trying to demystify some of that. I want to basically remove some of the apprehension that people have about setting up a studio but also demystifying some of the... We always talk about gas, gear acquisition syndrome and breaking it down into the bare bones of what you actually need to get started. But also being focused on having an upgrade plan. So I was very clear when I started that I was using my 12-year-old Canon camera or whatever it was, 11-year-old. And I was using a couple of soft boxes that just had regular light bulbs in it. But I always did have an upgrade plan and I think that's important. So start with what you've got but have a plan in place. And so the beginner's guide is really a case of how to actually get set up and started but how to think about what you might want to have in the future. And what are reasonable things. Because I think people go through a lot of trial and error with studio bills as well which is really costly, buying things that they don't need. And so just starting with what you've got and having an upgrade plan. That's basically what the home studio beginner's guide is going to be about. Amazon influencers, I talked about that. I've been on the Amazon influencer program now for six months. And so the beginner's guide is really just like all the questions that I had really when I started out which was how do you do this? How do you do that? How do you start posting videos? When you post your first three videos to Amazon, your shoppable videos, those are the videos that appear on the product pages. So down at the bottom, if you scroll down to the bottom on Amazon, US, this is, then you'll see videos down at the very bottom which are what they call shoppable videos. These are videos that creators have made specifically about those products. Well, there's one thing explaining what those are, first of all. But then to actually get approved for the aspects of Amazon, you need to post those three videos. Sorry, you need to post your first three videos. But then what happens is that you have to go through an approval process. Now, when you post the first three videos, post the first three videos, it says at the top, you will hear back within 48 hours. You don't. You actually don't hear back for about a month. Give or take a few days or a week or two.  But they need to update their language on that. So just explaining those kind of things, the things that catch you out or may cause you concern and stuff. So that's what the Amazon Influencers Beginners Guide is going to be about. It's going to be about how to get started, things you may want to consider in terms of building your show and the sorts of show that you might want to do as a live stream on Amazon because you can live stream to Amazon. Then again, that comes with its whole range of issues. How do you bring comments up on the screen? There's no sort of native way to do it as such. Unless you're using BeLive, that is one platform that you can actually bring Amazon comments in. Otherwise, there's a workaround. So anyway, all of that kind of stuff is what's going to be covered in the Amazon Influencers Beginners Guide. So then aside from that, then there are going to be the master classes. As I say, I've got some updates to do. I'm currently updating the Zoom one. That'll be updated within the next week or so. And then there's also ECAM4. That's going to be updated pending the release of ECAM4 for the ECAM master class. Same with the roadcaster when the new firmware hits the mainstream. We've got some beta firmware as well. As soon as that's sort of publicly released or whatever the word is, a major release, that will be updated. But I've also got some more master classes in the pipeline as well. So the first one being Stream Deck. I mentioned before that the primary viewers of content on my channel are watching my Stream Deck content. So it makes sense that I have a Stream Deck master class. It's what I would say all of the coaching clients that I have, they're asking me about various different things from content creation, business automation, business processes, Kajabi and all of those kind of things. Every single one of them though has had questions about Stream Deck. So definitely the Stream Deck master class is a long time coming, but it will be coming in the next month. The Studio Master Class. This is kind of a follow on really from the beginner's guide. So where I go into a lot more depth about things like, you know, whatever, even three point lighting, acoustic treatment of rooms, different microphones, different sound equipment and things like that that you might want to consider. And again, it is specifically for, you know, a home studio for either content creation like this or for, as a lot of my coaching clients, use it specifically for their business for Zoom calls or for creating video content for their businesses. So that one's coming as well. Another one that's being much requested is the Keynote Master Class. So I talk about Keynote in some of the other courses. So in the ECAM course, for example, there's a whole section on Keynote. I've often had people asking specifically about Keynote. In fact, just the other day in the Discord, somebody was asking about a course on Keynote or some extra resources. So that one's coming. The Kajabi Master Class as well. This is one that, as I say, I'm a big proponent of Kajabi. So having something that goes through the process. Now there's a thing here because Zoom themselves have a lot of resources and educational content on their website. Just as Kajabi also have a lot of educational resources on their website, but I'm the same that sometimes I prefer to go to an external source for the education. And the reason is that sometimes the people you go to who are external, who are not working for the company necessarily, they've got their own views on the best ways to do things and the ways that they've found that have worked. And so even though I will definitely always recommend all of Kajabi's resources, there's definitely a place for a video series Master Class where I go through and talk about specifically doing all of the things that I'm doing with Kajabi and how I've found to do them best with the tools that they provide. So that one will be there. With my Kajabi stuff, by the way, all of these resources in particular, the Kajabi stuff will be free to anyone who signed up to Kajabi using my affiliate link. So takeonetech.io slash Kajabi. But if you're using Kajabi and you've signed up to my affiliate link, they've got a great affiliate program and basically I'm getting a percentage of every month that you remember of Kajabi. That's how their affiliate program works. And so I'm perfectly happy to open up all of those resources to people who are using Kajabi from my affiliate link. But I'll talk more about that a little bit later. The Kajabi Master Class, the pre-recorded Master Class will be coming in around May. And finally, and since Chris is in the building, hey, Chris, great to see you. So what's the home studio? So yeah, these were all just incidentally, the beginner's guides were all on home studios, was about how to set up home studios. These I'm talking about now are the Master Classes. They're not just available right at the moment. I'll come on to that in a little moment though in terms of the availability. But the one that I think you'll be most interested in because you're the person who asks about this the most is the Automation Master Class. And that is going to include basically, it's going to be the obviously how to use stream deck with things like Moom, but keyboard maestro, text expander, Hazel and shortcut. So all of the kind of ways that I use automation on my Mac. I've been toying with, or not toying, I've been promising, shall we say, a keyboard maestro video series and Master Class for a long time. And I'll tell you the reason why it's been so difficult for me to actually come up with that is because every time I start to outline it, when you've got keyboard maestro, it is such a massive, massive program. It can do all kinds of, you know, if I was to cover every single thing that keyboard maestro could do, I'd have like 10,000 videos on it. And so I've always struggled with knowing what is the best way to sort of present this to be, you know, call it a true Master Class where it's covering everything and the keyboard maestro can do and teaching it all in a way that's not going to end up being basically a four-year university degree, which you could probably make out of keyboard maestro. And so I'm looking then to combine this all into this automation Master Class, which is not going to be absolutely everything keyboard maestro can do, because it would be impossible to make that video. But give you a sort of overall look at, you know, automation on the Mac and how to go about that and give you the sort of tools to then go and be able to dig into keyboard maestro more. So there'll be a huge amount of keyboard maestro specific content in there, just as there'll be for, you know, Moom, TextExpander and Hazel and ways that you can use those. But it's going to be more about giving you a sort of framework that you can then go and build something specific to you because everybody's got so many different things. I mean, keyboard maestro is something I talk about in coaching calls as well, in consultations with people and everyone's got their own unique sort of take on it and way that they want to use it. So there's no end to what people can do with it. So that is coming at the moment. That is coming in June. And Kevin, you're saying... I've seen Chris's comment. Yes, I want it right now. Give it to me. And Kevin's saying the automation one is of interest. So that's great. I've left a little poll, by the way, in the discords or in the announcements section of my Take One Tech Discord server. I've left a little thing in there. You can vote with emojis. I may well move around some of these. So I've put in sort of tentative dates for them. But if I get an overwhelming response to, you know, to people wanting something sooner rather than later, then I will look at sort of moving these around. But I know that the automation masterclass, that is going to take a lot, a lot of thought and planning to make sure I get that one right. I'm obviously a recovering perfectionist, so there will be gaps. But yeah, that one's going to... I know that that one's going to be the most sort of labour intensive of all of these to make. But you can find the Discord. I'll drop a link into the chat. Now, why is my little thing not popping out there? I thought I got a little pop out from that. Anyway, takeonetech.io slash family. If you want to go and join the Discord and in there, you'll find that in the announcement. So there's a little place where I talk about these courses. So, and this is, by the way, all on the website. The page is not live at the moment. So I've got more information to add on. I've got more testimonials to add into here as well. And the next section then is what I'm calling the accelerators. And that's because what I found in my analytics from the masterclasses is that there's a lot of people who sign up for them and don't actually complete them, or they don't even start them in a lot of cases. Maybe people, you know, get them at the time. There's, I've done a number of special offers, like a Black Friday deal or things like that. So I get it that some people are starting, you know, they're getting them at that time. But then they think, oh, well, I'll get round to it. But often people don't get round to it or don't finish it. And so when I look through my analytics, as I say, I can see that there are quite a lot of people who start these courses and don't finish. I also know that there's people who have a lot of questions when they're going through the ECAM masterclass or the ROCASTA one or whatever. And sometimes those people come and book calls with me. There's an easy way to book a consultation from the course itself. Other times they'll post questions because they want those answers. But I know that having a cohort-style course where you can actually go through this process of learning with other people, that's often a sort of a quicker way to learn because you have that sort of guidance of, you know, in-person sessions as well or, you know, online, but in-person, you know, live, live training. And having those live workshops as well associated with it where you get to go through the videos, put things into practice, and then come back and ask questions. I know that there is value in that. So I'm going to be running a number of these accelerators, these cohort courses. One of them is going to be Kajabi. That's the first one that I'm going to do, and that one is in February. Again, this is going to be, I was talking with Rich Graham about this earlier. Although it's sort of focused on Kajabi, I may also introduce one that is specifically about building courses because obviously I've got experience prior to Take One Tech of creating courses, and then now I've been obviously busy creating courses this year and next year we'll be doing more as well. So there will be a course all about creating courses. Now at the moment, that is basically the Kajabi Accelerator because I do believe that Kajabi is by far, you know, the best platform that I've found to do this on, and I have used other platforms as well, but just the fact that it is all in one, it makes sense. In fact, with the Kajabi, it's possible to be on a free trial, get your course all done and launched before you even start to pay for Kajabi, and that's what I did with my ECAM course. When I made the switch, I launched the course. I had a month trial. I launched the course within two weeks and was already making more than enough to pay for the whole year of Kajabi just from the course that I launched. So that's the point of the Kajabi Accelerators to get you sort of up and running and launch your course. And that will be, as I say, free if you've signed up using my Kajabi link or it will be paid if you've been using Kajabi or whatever otherwise. But then I'm going to do the same with ECAM as well, so I find that people want to get up and running with ECAM, so there'll be an ECAM Accelerator where we have that sort of interaction as a group and also the one-on-one, or rather, once at many times, but the time where you can get your questions answered in these workshops as well, so that's also just getting set up and going through a process and answering any questions.  So that one is going to be in April. And then finally we've got the Creator Accelerator and this is the idea of this one is that the whole process of creating content and posting it in the right places, having a system in place to actually do all of this, this is something that I've sort of been working on really, I suppose, over the last 12 months really in terms of having some sort of cohesive system and a process to actually understand what's going to be posted where. And I've been building this sort of framework out and the next sort of three months, basically, I'm going to be sort of implementing that so you'll see how that goes. There will be a sort of blueprint that I'll have available for people to download as well. But then just the Accelerator is again just to sort of work through that step by step with other people who are on the same path. So those are the Accelerator courses. I've then obviously got my coaching which I've been doing for the whole of this year. I can't fit into that suit, by the way. I've commented on that just yesterday. Can you still fit into that suit? No, I still need to lose my Covid pounds. But anyway, that's besides the point. That is my sort of coaching that I'm offering as well. I've got some more testimonials to leave in there. And then finally, I'm offering some sort of group coaching and mastermind sessions. I talked before about the power of masterminds and, you know, I've been a part of masterminds where we're just all together as peers. I've also led group mastermind sessions just as, you know, one off events, monthly events and also at retreats as well where they're sort of two week retreats. The power of masterminds is, as I say, just sort of learning from one another. The schedule that was laid out for this two week retreats, which was three, four years ago now. The way that that worked was, you know, a number of days sort of getting to know one another, settling in and then basically half a day focus specifically on each person's business. So that then you have a group of mentors who are coaching these individuals. And by sitting around the table with the group coaching, you then get to learn, you know, from all of the questions that other people are asking about their business and then all of the advice that's been given to them.  There will be a creative retreat coming up at some point that I've got in the pipeline as well. So that is the group coaching. So the way that I'm looking to do this, I mentioned before that, you know, I'm looking to do a Introduce a subscription model because there's quite a lot of content in here in terms of the four accelerators, the master classes, there may well be a separate one for just specifically course building, I have to figure out where that goes in. There are other master classes, by the way, on the list. I've just only put out for the rest for the first six months publicly on the site and then the beginner's guide. So the way that that's going to work then in terms of a subscription model is that there is going to be four different levels. First level is basically access to all of those on demand online courses. So that would be the beginner's guides and the master classes. So you get access to all of those plus priority access to monthly workshops because one of the things that I haven't mentioned there as well is that there will be kind of like a monthly workshop that I'm going to host which will be focused on one topic each month. So over the course of the year there will be 12 specific workshops. One might be a workshop on Ecamm for example. One might be a workshop on Zoom or communication tools. One might be on, you know, automation or productivity or something like that. So 12 monthly one monthly for 12 months workshop. So there will be access to all of those as well on this professional level and then also any digital products that I make. So the icon packs and all of that kind of stuff that will all be included in there as well. Plus there will be discounts on my coaching calls. So maybe you don't want a sort of full-on coaching program but the ability to get access to one-to-one coaching with me at a discounted rate. There will be that 20% discount there. So the next level up from that then is premium and that is basically includes all of those live classes as well. Obviously with cohorts then where you're doing things like the the accelerators here those are all, you know, there's people in those and so I have to be conscious about how many people to allow into those. They are going to be made available as standalone things as well. So at this at this premium level you'll also get access to all of those in-person accelerated events. And those are going to be basically the idea of that is there's one a month basically. So it's like an accelerated course every month as part of the premium access. And then I'm also going to do a weekly live Q&A so already as part of my channel memberships I've got the tip jar, backstage pass and front row. So those are my YouTube channel memberships. By the way all of these will include all of the perks from those as well. I already do the live stream backstage pass level which basically means that you come into the discord before I start my live stream we have a little chat and then after I finish the live stream we continue the conversation in there as well. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to also introduce then a sort of follow on a weekly live Q&A session. Now what I may do is actually introduce a second one of those. So there's two different options for date and time because or day of the weekend time because I know that there's people who stay up and it's getting a little bit late now. I know certainly for Chris in the UK and Peter in Hungary Jeff's often here in the UK as well so I want to be conscious of time zones and I know that people have issues with when these things are going to run. By the way that's the same with the cohort courses the accelerators. There will be sessions to suit multiple time zones as well so you don't have to worry that I can't do that because that's my working day or my bedtime. So I'll be factoring that in as well because I don't mind for the in person sessions having two sessions on a given day one for one time zone and one for another so there'll be something to cover everyone basically and then an increased discount on my coaching calls as well at that premium level. Now the next level then is the inner circle. Now this is basically everything in these plus also a one-to-one coaching session where you can set a plan for the year and then we have these one-to-one sessions for an hour every month where we sort of go over progress in any goals and things like that you've got but also having a monthly mastermind as well because I think that as I said the masterminds are such a powerful thing and so having a group session like that where you're all on this sort of same path and creating a sort of space for you to all grow together that will all be included in this inner circle level but there will strictly be limited spots because I've only got so much time that I can open up to these private coaching sessions and things like that so that will be at that level plus again an increased discount on those coaching calls and the final level is the elite coaching and that's basically a six-month commitment to a bespoke coaching program which will be I mean we can talk about time and things like that but eight hours of monthly coaching and support split in a number of different ways so I have people do this with me at the moment but they they've got different sort of plans and different arrangements sometimes you know a couple of hours every two weeks and then time allocated for ad hoc stuff in between sometimes more structured and regimented you know number of calls a week so and then also fast priority response because whilst I'd love to say that I can respond to all comments and emails and things like that I do have ways to prioritize stuff and so I don't always get back to people immediately but having a faster response and priority access is included in that as well so to make sure that I'm there if you have any issues or anything like that and then a further discount on coaching calls now that one is application only because I need to make sure that you know I can serve the needs that people have there so I'm going to be putting out the the full sort of pricing of these different levels and things like that within the next week I'll be sort of sending out an email and everything like that I'm just naving down a few things in terms of technicalities on that and also different ways for people who have already bought my courses there'll be a obviously a discount for people who have already bought the lifetime access to courses I want to make sure that they are taking care of so I'm just still ironing out the wrinkles with that to make sure that everyone's going to be happy there and also bearing in mind that some people are channel members already and so as part of any of these plans you also get access to all of the regular channel membership so the ones that you can find by hitting the join button down below this video as part of these things you would get all of those perks as well except a little check mark on on on youtube I can't actually give that to anybody so but if you are a member on on youtube then obviously anything that you're paying with channel membership would be deducted off the price of these ones so that's what I'm working on I'm also looking at you know if people want to book up front for a year in advance for example then what the discounts would be on there so final pricing will be coming out this this week but that is what I have that's what I've been spending my time over the last past week doing is just sort of finalizing some of these details and getting these courses together I've got some of the content done already for some of these beginners guides but I'm basically just going to release them all at about the same time as I say they will be available as standalone courses as well and again pricing for those I'll be just releasing sort of at the time when I sort of notify everyone about them but that is essentially my that is essentially my 2023 or at least as you can see the first six months of 2023 and so I'm hoping that in providing all of this content I'm going to be able to help a lot of other people achieve their goals in 2023 and give them the tools that they need now you can you can't just look down at the thing classic tossing Mason shade yeah well that's alright she's definitely my better half I'm sure we can handle that so if you're interested in any of that and specifically if you're interested in the sort of one to one coaching and would like to have a conversation about that before I actually open it up then do feel free to reach out just head over to takeonetech.io slash contact email and we can talk about that if you want something that is more structured on an ongoing basis to help you achieve your goals in the next in the next year so that's where I'm at and I think I've got enough on my plate these are my goals and I've been making them making them public so that you can all see them so feel free to come and take a snapshot of certainly these dates here and hold me to account I know that my catch 22 CreativesPod team will all be doing that as well we talked actually in the CreativesPod as well I think Keeley's already linked to it but about our goals for next year so I kind of alluded to some of this but now I've actually just put it into onto paper or onto a website at least so yeah that's what I've got planned for this year if you've got anything that you'd like me to make content on by the way do feel free to reach out best place would be in the discord if there's any of these that particularly excite you then do go over into the discord what you'll find is that I have a post in there in the I'll just show you where it is in the announcements section let me find it for you so this is my server I'll just bring this up where has it gone in announcements there it is so this is the this is the take one tech server this is the announcements channel and so there is a thread over in announcements there is a thread in here and you should be able to see if I click on that where has it gone you should be able to see that I've listed the different courses in there and then I've also listed them all down here and said vote with emojis which ones you would specifically like to like to see so feel free to go in there and just hit the relevant it's just cut off the end sorry about that hit the relevant emoji for the course in particular or courses in particular that you would like to see if I do get an overwhelming response to this it's not overwhelming at the moment but if you do get an overwhelming response to people wanting some more than others then I do reserve the right to sort of move the release schedule of these out as I say the beginners guides are going to come out fairly the ecamm one I'm going to release after ecamm 4 comes out just because there will be new stuff in there so I want to make sure that I've got all the latest stuff but apart from that the others will be coming out fairly fairly imminently and as I say will all be available as standalone courses as well so I hope that you find some of this stuff interesting and helpful if I just come back to my other scene why is my stream deck deciding to not work come back to my main scene here we go I'll do it manually I'll do it the old school way there we go I hope you found that interesting if you've got any questions or comments or anything like that feel free to reach out to me leave them in the email leave them in the discord and what I'll do is I'll just remind you once again that I'm going to be over well actually I'll be back on this channel in about an hour and 15 minutes but also with James Hicks we're talking about more about sort of plans for this year yeah all of my stream deck things aren't working there we go so we'll be there talking with Roy Richardson, Junaid, Ahmed Walter Strong and Chris Williams as well talking about our 2022 and 2023 goals so basically more of this to come but just with some great folks for this conversation you can find that back here on my channel or over on James's channel or the other guys channel as well for that matter but that's all for me for now and thank you very much for tuning in wishing you all the best for 2023 and if I can be of any help in any way feel free to reach out and I will my stream deck work now let's find out for those watching on the replay no it's not working is it as well for those watching on the replay though I will leave a link to some other videos related to this over on the right hand side where is it it's over there I'll switch to my camera as well thanks also to all of my channel members I really appreciate your support and encouragement along the way you're all awesome have a great day everyone see you next time


What's poppin', boys and girls, ladies and gents? Welcome back to another video of Kicking the Bass TV. Today, we're gonna be pond fishing. We haven't just gone around and pond hopped in a long time, so today we're making it happen. It's very hot outside, but I think we're gonna be able to catch these fish. Got my new Kicking the Bass TV combo brought to you by Luz, and I have the same trap that we've been fishing the last few videos. This is actually by Striking. If you guys wanna get a discount on the rods or the baits, I have my links and codes down below that can help you guys out a little bit on price. We just pulled up to this pond, we're gonna walk down to it, see what we got. If you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell, also hit the like button. If you guys have been enjoying the content, let's go ahead and hop into this one and see if we can catch a big bass today. We just made it out to the first pond, beautiful little place, and I've been here a few times before. First time I ever came here was with my boy, Delton. He hooked one that was like seven pounds, monster, and then we ended up coming out another time, and I was filming a video over the $1 of the Lipless Crankbait from Walmart. The hooks were horrible on the bait, just horrible. And I hooked one around five to seven pounds, just monster, I don't know exactly how big he was, but he's well over five, and he came right off at the bank. So there's big ones in here, we just gotta cover a lot of water so we can get them to bite, but I think we might get lucky today, I'm feeling it. This feels good just coming out here throwing a Lipless Crankbait. This is like one of my favorite ways to come to ponds and just kind of pond hop, and try to catch a lot of big fish, just walking around with a Lipless, so we're gonna get over here in this corner and see if we can catch one. The water is a little bit low. Oh my God, I got one right away, first cast. Not big. How are you? All right, I can walk down here if that's cool. All right, yeah, I won't, for sure, I understand completely. I'll walk down here and get out of your way. Yep, there we go. First little fish today, literally on the first cast, I don't know if that's good luck or bad luck.  Right down here? Yeah, I'm gonna go down there. You're walking that way. All this is. That's fine, we're walking right now, brother. Thank you, have a good day. Not a big one, but we will go ahead and get them back in the water. It's a little guy, something to start off with. You gotta start somewhere when you're fishing, so. It's our first fish today, let's see if we can catch another one. Standing right here. All right, guys, that is a nice little start. Not a big one, but we gotta start somewhere whether it be in a hot summer day and we catch one right off the rip. That's just a good sign. Love throwing this trap, we just cover a lot of water with it. That's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna hop to a lot of ponds, just cast, cast, cast, cast and see what we catch today. And more importantly, just see if we can run into a big one. I think if we throw enough cast today, it can happen. Oh dude, he's following me in right there. Oh gosh, that's a decent one, dude. I was about the same size as the first one. I thought he felt big the way I haven't hooked. Oh man, he's smaller than the first one. We got, oh my God. All right, these are the ones that you gotta be careful with. So I wanna show you guys this. I think this is a great talking point. When you grab these bass, see how I have his gill plates shut down that actually paralyzes the bass. He can't flop right now. So I keep pressure on his gill plates.  It's very important. Pretty, oh. All right, all right, all right, guy. He's just gonna release himself. Well guys, we have caught two fish right away. This is like the quickest I've caught some fish in a while. I haven't been in this pond in like a year. So it feels good to be out here, but two little bass so far. I feel a big one coming. Oh, dude, you see that blow up in the corner? That was crazy. Got some on my bait. Real listen real quick. This fish just like schooling in the corner back here. That should be him. Come on, baby. Oh, there he is. Little tiny guy. We found the small ones today. But we gotta start somewhere. That's the thing with this pond is like, there's some really, there's some really big fish in here, but there's also a lot of small ones. So you kind of got to weave through them. But at least we're catching some right now. How many miles are we gonna walk today, bro? We're gonna walk a lot, brother. You know what's crazy is back in like my pond fishing stage of YouTube. You know, I only fish tournaments and only filmed boat videos for like six years.  I understand a lot of people don't have a boat.  So I start pond fishing a lot. I was walking like five miles a day, Cody. Like, you know that little app on your phone that tracks it or it's the health app? Dude, every day at least five miles of walking. Oh, yeah. All right, so we're gonna be going to the next pond. We caught three fish in that one, which is a plus. You know, we got to start somewhere. It was super quick. We were probably only out there for like 15 minutes, but we did meet a homeowner and he was a little frustrated that we were out there. I told him, I was like, yeah, we can move. Like, it's no problem. I fished out there for two years. I haven't had a problem with anybody. You know, when I go out to these ponds, guys, one, I make sure I go to places that one, I either have permission at or two, I know I'm okay fishing with. And like I said, I've never had a problem out there in a few years, but he got a little frustrated, didn't he, Cody? He sure did. I don't know.  And I was like, yeah, of course. And we just like continued walking down the bank and tried to follow us and just keep going. We weren't disrespectful at all. We were just trying to move on from there and he kept talking to us. So we felt like it was just kind of a place we needed to move along and get to the next pond. Yeah, so we're going to the next pond now and see what we can do. We did catch three fish there, so that's a positive note. You only made about 10 casts.  It's usually not like that out there. So that was, it's a good sign to know that fish are biting today. I'm just hoping we can catch a big one. So we're gonna get out of that guy's hair. I don't want to upset him by any means. He might be having a bad day. You never know what somebody's going through. But we're having a good day, aren't we, Cody? We're having a happy day. So we're gonna go catch us a big one right now. Oh yeah. We just came out to the second pond of the day. This pond is actually very special to me.  But I don't know if you guys remember, I filmed a video of fishing in a pond that they were draining. It's actually this pond, and this is over a year later. There's still water in this pond, which is crazy. I thought they were draining it completely. But yeah, I don't know if these fish are still alive, but it used to be a good little juicy area. So we're gonna spend a little bit of time in here. Let's see if we can catch some big ones. I used to always catch a ton of like three, four pounders every time I came out here. So let's see what we can do. This pond was so hard to fish before. It had like a lot of trees in it.  And now you can kind of cast around the whole pond. It's like they cleared out the whole thing. But I have a feeling a lot of these fish died off, which really upsets me because I have a lot of good memories at this pond. We filmed some freaking bangers out here. But maybe today's the day that we're gonna figure out if there's still fish that are alive in here. See if there's some good ones. Where's some fancast a lot out here in the middle? Yeah, it used to be so hard to cast here. There's trees everywhere. Kind of how those trees are all around this pond. Yeah. About a year and a half. I know there's still some fish in here because I was gonna film a fish rescue where I transported the fish out of there.  Or was it like, did it get empty? It didn't get empty, empty.  Over here was like really shallow. But on the other end, I caught a few fish. I still know with them draining it back, like with these fish die, you know what I mean? I'm not sure. I assume there's some in here, but I used to film, catch a good bit of fish. Down there is like my favorite spot in that corner. But right here, there used to be some big ones out here in the middle, but I just don't.  We'll walk around there to that bridge. So I talk about it all the time. It's very important to retie.  Last thing you want is to break it off. So when you guys got some frays, it takes two seconds to retie.  It's happened to me so many times, where I'm just stubborn, I don't retie and then end up losing a giant. So always retie your line guys, even if it's the slightest fray. It'd be worth it in the end. Place looks so different. If I just catch one decent one in here, I'll be happy. Used to always be fish on that. I saw some bait flicker right where I just cast. Armadillos are so fly, dude. Hey, what are you doing? Dude, there's multiple cuttings. You're what in the world? Oh, there's one right there, it's like a little cat. I'm about to spank it.  I don't want to spank it. Is it recording? Yeah. I'm about to spank it. Wait, hold on. Oh, there's another one. I spanked it. Did it do anything? It didn't do anything. Oh, I spanked it. I've always wanted to spank an armadillo, dude. So why? All right, so I saw this video a while back. This guy sneaks up on one and he spanks it and it jumped up like this high. Like it jumped up super high. If I can find the clip, I'll roll it if it's not copyrighted. But man, that was cool. I've always wanted to spank one. There was three, man. Did you see that? Yeah. Armadillos are fly. Those things are cool. What did it feel like? Like a hard chill? Yeah. Well, not as hard as you would think. Like not like a turtle shell. Yeah.  Dude, that was funny. When you were like, hey, and you're just like. He didn't even like really flinch. This is some sneaky stuff. If we don't have a bite in this corner, I don't know what to say. This is like a good little spot. Did you notice that? My bait was tangled up when the hook is on your line. If you could do this, it'd come off. Yeah. I knew there was a trick for it. I can't remember how to do it. That's weird. Somebody had to. Oh my God, I got him. Let's go. Guess there is fish in here.  Oh man, that just feels good to know that there's a fish in here. That's my first bite in this pond ever since they drained it. So I guess there are a little bit. There's a few fish here and there. I was expecting to hook a big one. I don't really hook small ones in here, but heck, there's some fish in here. We just gotta keep on casting. I think there would be some more. This corner is like fire, guys. I used to always get a good bite. So we're gonna make a good bit of cast to see if we can fire up a big one. A big one.  Did you see how big he was? That was like a five pounder, dude. As we were talking about it. Dude, I watched him just go like this. Just eat it. I actually saw him eat it. I saw his whole body. Dude, they're in here, bro. Oh my God, why did he have to come off? I think it's the angle that I'm on. See, I'm on a hill. I know that sounds weird, but this happened to me before where I'll be like fishing kind of on a hill and I just can't get a good hook set on. Dude, that was a big end, bro. Did you see it on the camera? All right, let's keep on casting, man. That was the next cast after that other fish. I feel like they don't get fish a lot, so maybe you'll eat it again. They usually don't bite that good in here though, but I don't know if that was just a fluke or I hope there's more, dude. But in this corner, I used to always have like one opportunity to get a three to four pounder. And that fish was over four. Yeah, that was a five pounder. God, dude, I watched him eat it. I got a small one. Dude, there's fish in here. That feels so good.  Like what, like how do you go from hooking? We had one that was like a pound and a half. Next cast, we hook one that's like five pounds. Then we catch one that's like a quarter of a pound. A double cheeseburger weighs more than that thing. And that is a- A napkin? Yeah, bro. Hey, you never know what you got to use. You got to use what you got to use. Dude, I'm like getting excited about this pond because we've had three fish bite. There's a decent amount of fish still in here, but you feel so good. I really thought these fish were going to die. Like when I came out here, I was actually coming back to film a fish rescue. I was talking about it in the video and then I kind of got a word from somebody that they said they're not draining this thing completely, but the water was like all the way out of it. But there's still some giants in here, bro. That was a freaking toad. That was a big fish. Like with us not fishing in a couple of weeks and losing one that big, that kind of hurts. Cause that would have been our biggest fish back on the water. But I'm sure there's another one lurking. Let's just keep on casting. We're going to catch a big one this week. We're going to do it. Sometime this week, we're going to have a meager. It's going to happen. We're going to catch one over eight this week. So you guys better stay tuned to the content. Hit the notification bell next to the subscribe button because 500 likes on this video and we'll take a scale everywhere we go. 500? I should we do more. 5000. 5000 likes. 5000 likes. I know the kick and fam can do it. All right, so if we get 5000 likes on this video, Cody, this is Cody's responsibility. You're listening Cody, right? Okay. Cody's got to bring a scale everywhere we go. 5000 likes. I know you guys want me to bring a scale because if we were to call that big one right there we wouldn't have a scale. Nope. I'll make sure to have a scale. But you guys got 5000 likes on this video. All right, that's a bet. I never asked for likes. We never asked for that. Not since we've been filming together. We've never asked them like, hey, go and like this video or anything like that. 5000 likes. We'll have a scale on this every single time. I promise you. All right, so we just got out to this new pond. We're going to give it a go. There's some massive fish in here. Freaking huge ones. I've caught so many eight to nine pounders I could not even tell you. So we're going to go down this bank fish a little bit. There are golfers out today and usually today they're not golfing but since yesterday was the fourth of July there's golfers out. So if people do pull up we're going to get out of their way and go to a different pond but we have about five minutes to try to fish right here. I got one. He ate it on the fall. Dude, we're just finding the tiny guys today. I don't know what it is. This tiny guys are just munching this thing.  We are trying our best. Catching fish, those are pretty colors on that bass. Really pretty colors. This pond used to not have a lot of grass and they have a ton of grass and that's why that bass is that dark. I've been living that grass. Thank you, buddy. Thank you. It's getting me all wet. All right, we got a little merch. Shout out. Somebody just got him some merch. Shout out to Robbie. Thank you so much for purchasing the premium fishing American flag t-shirt. If you guys want to check out any of the merch, kickinthebass.com I'll drop the link down below. Thank you guys so much for everybody that supports kickinthebass.tv and supports the brand. I really appreciate it and that helps out a lot with my traveling expenses. So anybody who buys clothing online, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. We are going to our next pond. But first we gotta stop at Parker's and get us something to drink because me and Cody are freaking dehydrated as they come and we need us a water in our lives. So we're gonna stop at the gas station and then I will catch you guys at the last pond. Here it is. Not big. I don't know what's up with today, guys, but we have been pond hopping. We've been to so many ponds, probably like our sixth pond of the day, and these are just the guys that we're catching. You know, we had that really big one that came off which I'm so upset about, but you know, at least we're catching fish today. Trying out some new places that we haven't fished in a while and it's just fun. It feels good being outside and enjoying nature, enjoying life and catching bass. Please bite it, baby. I feel it. Well guys, we had a struggle today, but it was a lot of fun. You know, we got to spank some armadillos. We got to run into a few angry homeowners. We got to lose a five pounder. But it was a good day.  We hit a lot of ponds. We did some pond hopping today. It's been a while since we filmed one of these videos. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you guys did, please hit that like button. If you guys are new to the channel, hit the subscribe button. We're gonna have some big fish content coming this week.  I can't wait to bring you guys along with me, but thank you so much for the support. I love you guys so much. Peace.


the trick in life is to keep going. And that's it, after 36 years of living in this world, all I've got is life can be tough and there are gonna be storms and there are gonna be clouds and there's gonna be sunshine as well. And in fact, the only thing that we can do is to try to keep going when life gets tough. So by the time life gets less tough, we are the wheels of our life are still in motion. And if you want tips for how to keep going and also where to keep going, the sort of behaviors that you might wanna think about doing, then my book will give you some ideas for that. It's not a panacea.  And so yeah, that's it. That's all I've got is just try and keep going, try and keep those feet moving, even when life's hard.