 So this video is for you and if you're watching you're likely one of my subscribers who's been part of this journey for if not one day then all three years. It's really a culmination of saying thank you as well as telling you what's next. As many of you guys know I started residency about three months ago and I really wasn't sure if I'd be able to keep up with this channel. In fact I wanted to make it better and bigger but I wasn't sure about half the time. But I really sensed from the pressure that the empty journey has done so much more than my expectation in such a short amount of time. I started a youtube channel last year and it took me almost a year to get to a thousand and within three to four months of 2019 we're able to just surpass that we're about to get to five thousand. So I can already see the growth I see the support I see the community growing and first of all I want to say thank you thank you thank you I don't take my subscriber account and my support in the community lightly honestly I imagine each and every one of you listening to this channel on the other side of this camera and basically filling up a stating auditorium and boy would I be nervous talking to five thousand people right now so I'm gonna act like I'm just talking to you so thank you for being a part of this community for hitting that like button commenting sharing and all I really ask in this video is after I share some of the new things that are coming out and then the journey for you is if anything I have done in these videos the blog posts and emails have helped you then consider one person to share this video or this channel with or subscribe if you haven't and you're somehow still watching this video but thank you again I'm super grateful I quickly want to highlight some of the successes that these journeys have because I feel like I don't talk about it enough so people just see the numbers but one of the things after starting the youtube channel is I've been posting videos on almost every topic I could think of and I have so many more left in the tank but we posted over 125 videos which is insane I'm just happy about being consistent that's one of the things I'm really persistent about doing in life we posted 120 blog posts we're reaching 5000 subscribers we're getting to a point where almost a half a million people have visited the website and that's that's just like mind-blowing so thank you guys so much for just being a part of that community on the instagram page is growing we just started to focus on that recently so I don't want to babble too much let me quickly get in to some of the new things that I have coming for you guys in 2019 as well as 2020 so the first thing I want to talk about that I've already mentioned in a lot of my step one videos is the step one academy this is going to be a premium resource from the MD journey that's going to involve video training study schedules as well as interviews with the top students that have scored really well on the exam so this is a resource that's going to take me some time to develop with a busy residency schedule but I'm already gathering your questions coming up with ideas teaching you very unique as well as advanced strategies to help you succeed so the link will be down below as well as anything I mentioned in this video for you guys to contribute right now and maybe at the survey point depending on when you're watching this video or maybe step one academy's gone live when you're watching this video I'm not too sure about the time frame so definitely check out the link to see where we're at with the project now the next big update and hopefully you guys can see it it's probably the most obvious is that the quality of the channel is about to change dramatically we have a new camera my wife is really into photography so we thought we'd upgrade and just kind of do a two for one and so right now you guys are seeing me on the sony 873 camera she really wanted and I was like you know what the heck I can upgrade from the camera I was using before but hopefully I look a little bit more crispy around the edges there's a little bit more blur a little bit more character to the videos but let me know if you guys like this if you don't I'm still working to kind of adapt into the learn as we go and then the other thing that you guys have been praying in my comment section for me to fix is my audio quality I apologize and if you somehow still made it through those bumps of loud and annoying distracting audio thank you and hopefully this sounds better we have a different audio setup our apartment is a little bit set up too much for echoes and that's kind of where all those previous issues came from but hopefully we sound a little bit better if we do then make sure you give this video like and just let me know in the comment section by audio sounds totally better or you still have some issues here and there and I can still work on fixing them that's update number two update number three I'm so excited for this hopefully you guys are too I get emails all the time about different specific questions step one studying maybe an international student you want tips and advice and sometimes I'm just not able to get to your emails quick enough and you may email me with a quiz coming up on Friday but I'm on icu or something so I found that the good way for me to interact with you without like restarting my coaching program which honestly just took too much of my time as I was getting busier is to start the MD journey podcast so this is a podcast this is going to be a culmination of my videos turned into podcasts as well as interviews that I'd like to do with you guys if you would want me to help you one-on-one coach you on a phone a Skype call and or just your audio and you'd be interested in me recording it to help other people we can change your names your institution whatever maybe to give you some privacy but if you want me to give you advice that's kind of what this podcast is going to be it's a culmination of me quickly talking to a mic with a nice smooth voice but also helping you guys out on your issues and hopefully that conversation with you can also help other students with similar problems so if you guys are excited for the MD journey podcast it's going to take me some time to figure out the logistics and get it together as well set up some interviews with you guys but if you are interested in being interviewed and you have a question pressing question maybe coming up relating step one school balancing interviews residency you name it I'm here to help you I've helped countless students already through coaching program and I used to have it and they've all been wonderful experiences and I'm hoping to use kind of a coaching pseudo coaching program with you guys for free to be able to create content for the podcast so hopefully you guys are excited if you have other ideas that you want me to discuss on the podcast like current events journal articles I'd love to do it so make sure you comment down below also check out the link which is just be a waitlist as well as information and I'm gonna need y'all's help when the podcast go live to make sure that it's just not like a podcast sitting there but the podcast rocks it dominates and that's what we're here about we want to succeed but we're gonna thrive when we do something here at the MD journey and the last thing I want to touch on is something I've never talked about prior to this video so if you're watching this you're gonna be the first one hearing about it and that is a new kind of thing that I will be releasing soon called the med vault I'm super excited about it it's gonna take a little bit of tinkering with and I'm gonna have a beta group but if you guys are interested in just learning more about the med vault when it comes out link on that will also be in the description it's going to be a lot of feedback that you're gonna have to provide but you will be the first to kind of be part of a new program but if you think you have the time to give me one or two sentence feedbacks ever so often and you want to be the first on something we can make really really big then check out that link in the description but guys I don't want to take up too much of your time those are the biggest updates in addition we're also going to be increasing the frequency of our youtube videos so I'm not going to just be publishing once every week it's going to go to twice a week because I have more content for you guys and I don't want to wait to make it in December I want you to see it in like a week so I'm definitely working hard to make sure blog posts as well as videos are coming at you really fast so make sure you show your love for the channel for your love for me hopefully I've helped you guys out hit that like button like I say dominate destroy disintegrate that like button until it's off your browser help the channel out make sure you subscribe if you haven't I don't know how you somehow made it to the end of this video without being a subscriber but like come on at this point you might as well do it but thank you guys so much for joining the journey hopefully I've been a little help to you on yours make sure you check out the link down below I'll see you guys later peace