 Hey guys, first and foremost, I'd like you to Excuse the noise in the background. It is incredibly hot and my dog Wilson is Overheating so he's chilling. I should probably turn the air conditioning on during the recording of this YouTube video I had forgotten to mention the person who asked the question so shoutouts to underscore zoom in underscore 0-2 on Instagram for asking me this question Thank you so much. If you want your questions answered if you have a specific question, then please message me on Instagram DM me and I will answer your question in the next live stream And I will record it and I'll put on YouTube and mention you just like I have with zoom in. Thank you so much What happens? What has happened to you from? What is your transition from year 12 or out of adolescence into adulthood? And and what was the journey like? So what happened in that time? What did I do? So long story short life story short. I graduated in 2008 Year 12 in a country town and my mom said to me you either get a job or go to uni now Year 11 and 12 for me. I didn't do a tar back then. It wasn't even called a tar. Okay, boomer. It was called TEE and Year 11 at the start of year 11. I tried I chose the subjects that I needed to to do the tee and Going for a high High tee score equivalent to a tar Wilson stop dying and What happened was halfway through the first semester of year 11. I was Yeah, I bombed out. I was like nut stuff that I'm going to do general and It wasn't a disappointment. It was more a relief because I wasn't really true to myself I was also distracted, but anyway long story short I tend to over explain things a lot and for some people that's valuable But for some other people, it's like get to the point man. Anyway, what happened was I finished school I got my waste certificate, which means I graduated year 12 and I Decided to get a job because I didn't I couldn't get into uni I didn't know how to because I didn't do TEE a tar so I became a lifeguard at my local pool and That's when I kind of spent a whole year doing that I was also playing footy in my local competition and Really just enjoying my first year of adulthood or as an 18 year old, you know going out having drinks You know meeting girls Or chasing girls, but it was a really chasing girls because it was a country town and let's just say when you're in a country town you kind of know everybody and Unless you're like been with someone or you meet someone that you've never met before it's super difficult, but plus I wasn't really Into that I was heavily heavily into Call of Duty and that was probably the reason that I didn't Succeed as much at school Because I was too focused on video games or video games. I had football. I had my best mates Mucking around and I also had my job. That's really it Then after that I got better at footy and I got picked up by Subi Aco in Perth and they asked me to come down to try out as as a more senior player because I was too old for Colts and Yeah, they said you're you're on the team and That was really it was kind of like a cloudy time back then but Yeah, I just transitioned so you know what I'm moving to Perth I'm moving to Perth out of the country town. It was Cal Gully by the way and Yeah, I moved there without much hesitation The biggest problem or the biggest regret I had at that time was that I bought a really flashy Holden Commodore V8 Like VESS if you know what that means and that was I was in debt Straight out of moving out of home, which was my one mistake that I did so everybody that's wanting to Move out of home Make sure you're not in debt if you're in debt and you move out of home That's silly Very very silly. Don't get in debt the end So anyway went to Perth Played my footy and then started to kind of find myself in that way like I wasn't good with girls I wasn't really good with anything else. I was trying to find a job that I liked Or that that actually paid me money Like ongoing and it was more a secure job a safe job And I ended up being a laborer at a factory creating window frames for a while and Yeah, that was my transition into like my mids or my early 20s So I had that and then my footy from there. I got my personal training Certificate that's when I started to learn how to become a personal trainer because I didn't want to work in a factor anymore So that was the first leap of faith. I did I sacrificed a secure job which was soul crushing soul destroying for something that I Found more enjoyable, which was personal training Got my personal training job got a gym job in a gym where I met my Where I met a lot of people that I know now today who are my best friends And then that's when I started to think about university and yeah, that was my transition out of high school Into young adult life and into my early 20s. So yeah Thanks for the question. It was awesome and I hope you had some value out of it, but Honestly, if you guys are about to finish year 11 or year 12 and you're thinking about getting a job or you've just finished school Or you have finished school. Maybe it's been a year You have about 10 Bloody even 20 years I'm gonna say 10 because I've only been alive 10 years or 11 years now post high school So I can only give you the advice that I've lived But you have so much time to figure out what you want to do Like what I'm doing now next year Like I'm 29 next year and I'm still unsure of exactly what I want to do I have a secure job at a school. I have a permanent job that pays really well That has rewarding things and good holidays And it's fulfilling for me. I love teaching. I love the kids. I love the I'm passionate for it However, I feel like I am more passionate with Photography and creating stuff and giving value at scale Sort of like this streaming to you guys Making a youtube video To give you my experience to put it out into the world and maybe two or three people will get something out of it And if more that's a bonus I want to see if I would rather do that than be a teacher because I feel like as a teacher And I'm not saying I'm confined to one school. I can still do this on the side But it's so distracting It's I want to do this and this only and I want to see if it's going to work out for me next year. So for you Being 17 18 19 years old even if you're 20 20 even if you're my age even if you're 35 And you're not happy with where you're at You still have time you still have so much time to just go. Hey, I'm going to give this a go But there's more to that than just I'm just going to give it a go. You need to make sure that you really really want it. And that's it A lot of you have been asking me about how I got famous on tiktok. A lot of people ask me how I Gained a lot of followers How to get famous on tiktok now just a disclaimer. I don't consider myself famous on tiktok at all 40 000 followers is amazing. But to me famous is Getting booked to go places to talk or to do something there based Based off of who I am That's what fame is so until I hit that I don't consider myself famous yet but hey shout out to every single person that's following me and watching my stuff and giving me feedback If you want to know how I did it, this is how I did it and I'm going to start right back in April of this year when I downloaded tiktok for the first time And I uploaded one Specific video that I really liked that every one of my friends thought was funny and I uploaded it and Without telling any of the kids someone founded on tiktok And they spread it around the school and everybody was watching it And I was just like Oh wow that was that was quick And you know it had about 100 views 200 views on it Then I started putting some random random like just real random me playing with the app and testing it out and figuring out how to use it and Not really much happened out of that. I didn't use hashtags I didn't try or anything like that. I just like was mucking around Then I started to upload a few more with a little bit more story behind them again Just for fun purely just to muck around Then some of my kids at school started noticing it a little bit more now And yeah, so then after that I started to yeah start to play around with it a little bit more and I pulled up a video of me I did a compilation of things that kids say at school and this video Was the first viral video and I don't consider anything viral unless it unless it goes over a hundred thousand views Or 50 000 views now for me when this video hit 30 000 views in a matter of Like a couple of days. I was like wow Wow, that was cool Yeah, so what had happened was I had uploaded maybe 40 Maybe 50 videos prior to that video of me just mucking around testing it out Um started putting hashtags in and um and just kind of just Feeling giving a feel of the app and seeing what what was out there I also consumed a lot of stuff. I also started watching a lot of tiktok videos And then an idea came to me when um, I saw a video when someone was like These are the things that these people do and I'm like, hmm What if I make a funny one about the kids at school? So it was something about my life that I thought was funny and that's when I did it And then it worked. So then I doubled down and I was like, okay, cool Let's do this Um, let's see what else we can do and I started doing teacher jokes And it was a bit of a hit and miss. I did another teacher The thing students say part two That didn't get an as much attention as the first ones. I was like, okay, no problem But then I just thought stuff it. I'm just going to keep making Cool videos. I started following trends as well and not just dance videos not lip syncing stuff Just like trends that I thought were out there that were cool Um, I started going on reddit as well and finding ideas on there Like I'd look at memes on reddit and I would look at a meme and I'm like, okay How do I make that meme into a video? So then what I did was I grabbed the meme a random meme that I thought was really funny And I would make a video version of that meme some some older memes and like stuff like that And it was probably not until about a hundred videos. I uploaded a hundred videos Before things started to pick up a little bit and then one day at the shops I was like, you know what I haven't made one particularly making fun of my height. I'm really tall So I was walking through Woolworth's and I said, I'm really tall. I can really see all of the Isles in there So I made a tiktok video about me walking through the Isles Some of you maybe not know about that one and that got a hundred thousand my first hundred thousand view video was that one And it happened in a day That morning when I was at school. I saw the numbers go up climb So and I was on a bit of a higher from it So I decided to make another video in relation to me being tall and me being a teacher So I'm channeling specifically who I am And what I know And that's my advice to you if you want to get a lot of followers Double down quadruple down on everything that you know And what you're about and what you're passionate about and just make videos on just that Use the relevant hashtags based off of that if you like anime make funny anime jokes if you like Thank you nitro react for the stickers if you like Football make football memes make funny jokes about that if you want to talk about something Make it like that currently tiktok is really popular with comedians. So comedy is the higher one So if you can make fun of yourself and accept that people laugh at you and also with you And if you can laugh at yourself as well, you're going to win Okay, eventually it took me a hundred videos So my advice to you guys if you want to get a lot of followers is post stuff every day to do with you And only you don't pretend to be somebody else Don't pretend to copy someone else All the time because people can pick pick up on that So that's what I did. That's exactly what I did. Yes. I'm tall Yes, I'm a teacher, but you have something unique about yourself So if you want to have More attention on your tiktok or whatever social media thing you use and you want more followers Start posting videos about what you do what you're interested in what you're good at Something unique about you and put it at scale Maybe you can marry the two together. So I married my height and my teaching together and that was a super successful thing right I did that more I did that more and more and more and each video got more and more views Then I did one at home here that was following a trend of when you type into google something When you make the google thing type something up and you press the record button and it speaks it I was like, you're not too tall. You're not too tall I didn't think it was super funny because it was super obvious But then when I walked into the lamp, I was like, oh, yeah, that was a funny one that went super viral That was 600,000 views and then from there. I was like, okay tall jokes Okay, my height everything I've done thought about towards my height. I'm gonna do that So whatever it is about you You just have to keep posting now a lot of you Has asked me how do I get famous? How do I get more followers? I want more followers. Can you shout me out if you have Five to 50 videos on your tiktok. That's not enough You need to be posting two or three times a day at least at least and more if you can And don't care about what any anyone else thinks don't care if it doesn't get enough Views enough likes enough comments enough shares just keep posting it just keep posting it use relevant hashtags Look at the trends that are happening and make your own version catered to yourself. That's all I did That's all I did And I did that every day and I replied to every single comment BLSD underscore culture. Yes, I am a Gary v fan. Yes, you're absolutely correct The reason why I started tiktok was Gary v said so and I was like, you know what he's right I missed out on instagram Because I thought it was for kids when it first started. I was like nut facebook's elite This time i'm not going to miss the opportunity because I can see the massive benefits in tiktok and here I am Here I am. I've capitalized on it. So there you have it. That's how you do it So if you want to If you want to get more followers on tiktok instagram anything Post every day and don't care and don't care what the results are Because the next thing that you need to learn is to have patience. You need to have patience Because it won't happen straight away if you post 10 videos in the next two three days And all you've gotten is 20 likes. That's what happened to me That's what happened to me I've got 10 20 views some videos and I was like, okay Cool. Yeah, whatever and now I'm getting consistently 2000 to 3000 views per video Worst case And then the good ones that have got some more attention They get the 10k mark and then the better ones get 50k and occasionally I get the 10 000 k Okay So hopefully you've taken something out of that post every single day Something about yourself something that you're interested in and something that you know a lot about Because there were people that will come. Okay. What got what videos do you guys watch? You probably watch minecraft videos. You probably watch fortnite videos You probably watch other famous youtubers talk about things that you're interested in Why don't you talk about it? Why don't you tell the world your perception? Your perspective your thoughts about the specific topic Because people out there will be like, oh, I agree with that person. I'm going to give him a follow Some someone else will be like, I like this video My friend will like this video too and they will share it and they will both follow you All of a sudden you have three followers. Now a lot of you may think Three followers, that's not many. It's better than zero Everybody starts at zero followers. Remember that Then you start to grow very slowly Some people get super lucky. Some people have that personality. It's in their DNA Some people grind and grind and grind and out until they get noticed and that's what happens But you got to stay true to yourself. Otherwise it becomes unsustainable Because if you're somebody else in front of the camera, it may get become exhausting. Okay Hope that helps guys, but yeah in summary post all the time. I'm seeing a lot of you guys and girls Wanting to be tiktok famous, but your your accounts are on private and hey No disrespect to your parents if that's what your parents want if you want they want your private account then unfortunately That's where you're um, that's where you're stuck But if your account's not on private and you're allowed to do it post every single day At least three to four videos Make up a crazy idea Even if you make your own version of someone else is at least you're creating Okay That's what it is. Enjoy the journey. Have patience and keep creating What do you take for granted? So As this is being recorded for youtube, um, I'm also streaming it with the tiktokers Currently live right now and some of them have responded with they take their animals for granted their parents their teachers Some have also said that um, they take for granted that they live in a first world country Some interesting responses for me. I take for granted probably um The fact that I have been given so much opportunity um And what I say by that is i'm not originally from a first world country And the fact that I am here in australia and there's a lot of opportunity here in australia for me I think i've definitely taken for granted that exact thing um But i'm turning it around and i've turned it around big time in the last couple of years I'm no longer taking it for granted and i'm actually making the most of it. So, um, yeah, that's my answer um Taking it for granted. I mean i'm i'm super blessed with the opportunities that i've been given um my heights first and foremost a lot of people ask me um Is it is it cool? Is it good? Is it? Is it awesome being tall for me? Absolutely. I love being super tall and Like my fiance she struggles with a little bit of social anxiety about her height She's six foot one and you know when people look at her And at me they make comments and we can hear them but for me it doesn't bother me Um, but at the same time it's like How how can I use that to my advantage? So and i'm starting to figure that out, which is really fun So height is definitely a good one and uh, and yeah, that's it um, another thing I take for granted is I just dropped my laptop um Some of the some of the opportunities some of the other opportunities that i've been given like football um, I took for granted um, and there's been a lot of um Oh, what else what else there's so many there's so many opportunities. Um The networks that i'm a part of that i don't really utilize as much because i'm like oh, they're there I can use them anytime, but i really need to use them now And what i mean by that is the people that can propel me forward further I think I want to first and foremost do it on my own But at the same time it's not a bad thing asking for help because if you have people in the right places Um, or meet people in the right places or or even hustle to get to know people in the right places You can get ahead with whatever you want to do. Um And i'm not saying suck up to them It's just be a good person to everyone and anyone because you never know who you may meet And that's what i've taken for granted a lot of the time because there's so many people that i've met in my life so far That i've been like wow that guys or girl is really up there and I can really Use them or how to get their help to propel my career forward so There's a lot more to that but uh, I think that summarizes it from this book the 2000 Questions about me. Uh, the question is what is the most memorable? time at school like memorable class For me, it would have been year 11 2007 i'm old um English class and Me and the boys me and the lads We sat at the back. I was one of those kids plus I was tall back then too. So if I sat at the front I was exposed and People couldn't see behind me and I was a big target to get stuff thrown at me Uh, yeah, I was at one of those schools. Anyway, English. I forgot my teacher's name She obviously wasn't as memorable, but um, I remember we all had like a little tiny crush on her Uh, schoolboy kind of crush and we would kind of like be a little bit cheeky and Yeah, we would we would um try and like Express our love to her but very subtly And without it being super obvious And it was like like we got very little work done At the start but towards the end of the year we all passed because it's year 11 and we needed to pass english um, but yeah, this teacher she was about four foot ten tiny as all probably the tiniest person in the class and um She was she was cute and like year 11, you know, we were like starting to get into girls and stuff and um Yeah, she was cute and She was young too. She would have been like 21 22 um, but she was so cranky like Anytime we would muck around we would talk we would start laughing. She would have that straight up strict voice and um, yeah, we we would laugh about it because she's so small and it was so funny like She didn't she clearly didn't want to be there because it was a country school. It was like a placement Teachers go out to the country to do their time so they can have a permanency at a school Back where they live. So I think it was that anyway, um Yeah, that class like every time we came in it was like we did our work. We did our assignments like We all did well But any chance we got to you know mess around a little bit We took it in a heartbeat and that was so fun Final question for this one will be how have your priorities changed over time? so me almost um 29 years of age um about 10 days away from my birthday actually and um Yeah, I mean I'm kind of in sync with the decade as well. My age is kind of in sync because I was born in 1991 um, but yeah at the start of this decade I my priorities were footy To get into afl. I got into the waffle. So I tick that box pretty quickly And then I wanted to just get better at footy play league Be noticed and make afl now Three years into it. So 2013 at the end of 2013. I was not happy with where I was um, I just started up my own business being a personal trainer and I got convinced to giving university a try So my priority started shifting then um at the start of 2014 I changed clubs. I was in a much happier place I started uni and I started my own business and that was amazing I have footage from back then of that transition. I cannot wait to share it because it's such good content Then from there what happened was I graduated uni. Um, I lost my passion for football There's a lot of different things about that that I'm not going to explain in this answer But um, yeah, so I moved on from that graduated uni And then I met the love of my life Sabine And I got a permanent job as a school teacher. I got really serious into my photography and um my creating artistic side of creating content And uh now at the end of the decade at the end of those 10 years of time I have actually changed my priorities to Work as First and foremost helping Sabine however I possibly can because she's starting uni properly big time full time next year So I want to support her as much as I can and at the same time developing my photography videography Um business so that's my two priorities. So from from an aspiring footy player to a An entrepreneur if you will I don't really label myself as that just yet because I don't really know but um, yeah Looking after me myself And my family that's my priority right now But also Staying happy with what i'm doing to achieve all of the above. So that's how my priorities have changed Guys, thanks for listening and watching and contributing joining my live streams. You mean the world to me I get messages all the time now. It's ridiculous Uh, it's been three months almost three months since I've started to do TikTok a little bit more seriously and It's barely been two months since I started streaming as well. So things have been um, things have been going super well And uh, I'd like to thank all of you again as always Um, almost the end of the year now massive day for me today Uh, you can see it in my other video, but um, yeah, thanks for tuning in and I'll see you on the next Live Good. Thanks