 What is your YouTube story, Freedom Family? How did you get started on YouTube? What was your first experience? In this video, I will share Anthony Smith's YouTube story, and I want you to share yours in video to us so I can feature you in future episodes of The George Show, your story, just like I'm about to feature Anthony's. Email your clips to supportupfreedom.tm and we will pick the most deserving ones. And now I will answer Anthony's question from his story and if you have a question, ask it in your video and I'll happily answer it too. Tell me of a time where you started to freak out, where you could have lost productivity, where you could have done something along these lines, but you did and you moved forward. So the best example I can give for that is when we were just starting gaming wikis and forums called the GameNet and it wasn't working. We were struggling to get views on websites and suddenly I uploaded videos about World of Warcraft three months before the Cataclysm expansion launched because a friend of mine called Donovan gave me three beta keys to that expansion. Thank you Donovan, you know who you are. And suddenly we got views on YouTube. This was when we started what became TGN. The GameNet is what it used to be, website wikis and gaming forums to TGN as a YouTube video network. And you guys all know when we founded TGN it was with Big C and others that are still with freedom and me today. And that was the best example of a time when I was freaking out because it wasn't working and we pivoted to something just to try a new strategy and it worked very well and it led to freedom and all the amazing things that we have with the freedom family. How would you answer Anthony's question? Tell us down there in the comments below. Now I will play Anthony's YouTube story and first let me preview with a clip. And I moved off to the Philippines. Just hopped on a plane with like two suitcases worth of stuff and I went and it opened up. That took us. And you know what? It was a total gamble. I could have gotten there and you know, for all I know, George would have been. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Okay, well you're here now, but you know, bye. I'm sharing this story. I wasn't like that. It's a huge time in my life. And this is why we want you to share your story because I'm sure it's a huge time in your life. Let us celebrate your initial start on YouTube, how you got to where you are, what motivated you to keep going so we can all help each other grow together as a family by hearing each other's stories. In his story, Anthony starts with a tip to help you grow. And I encourage you to do the same in your story. Start your video with a tip to help each other grow and then get into your story. All right, Anthony, the show's all yours. Roll it. Freedom, welcome to my bedroom. Today we are going to be talking about now. Not when I get around to it. We're gonna be talking about now. When's the best time to start a YouTube channel? About five years ago. Second best time, right now. When's the best time to go ahead and start planning for your next YouTube video? Right now. When's the best time for you to do anything right now? There's a book that I read, heck, at this point it was a couple of years ago. And this book was called The Now Habit. The Now Habit essentially talks about if you can do something in five minutes or less. Do it now. Don't wait, don't put it off. And if there's an immediate and long lasting benefit to doing it now, do it now. Of course, the book goes into much greater detail and I highly recommend that you read this book. I will put a link to that book on Amazon in the link down below. As somebody who's created YouTube content for years, one of the things that I struggle with, the absolute most is analysis paralysis. I will sit and I will think, okay, is my bed made? Is it made enough? Do I have everything ironed out? Does my shirt look good? And don't get me wrong. These are all great things to tackle. However, if I spend five hours thinking about and stressing about those things rather than literally going ahead, making the bed to some level, making sure that, hey, you know what? Yeah, this shirt's good enough. It's like five hours that I'm not making content. That's five hours I'm not editing content. Another thing that has stuck with me since the very first time that I heard it. It's from a movie called Van Wilder. In the movie, Van Wilder has a couple of interesting things to share, but one of them is that worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. And I'm not saying that everything equals worry. Sometimes you do want to create yourself a mental checklist of things to do before you do something else. In the end, especially with online video where kingdoms are made, not by who does it best always, sometimes by who does it first, and also who can get out there and cover a topic in the greatest detail. For all, not necessarily in a single video. There is definitely a place for highly polished, highly produced, highly edited, highly scripted content. And those niches are great. I love a lot of that content. However, when it comes down to it, a lot of us are all learning right now how to do these things. We're learning how to edit. We're learning how to connect with our audience and potential other audiences. There is an absolute crap ton of value in the concept of doing it now. In preparation for this very video, I actually had to clean off my nightstand because, I mean, let's face it, my nightstand wasn't the cleanest. A big event, no big deal. I had to put on another shirt because how honest do I want to be here? The shirt I was wearing 20 minutes ago had some blood on it. It wasn't mine. It's a long story, but that's okay. So of course, I'm not saying if you're in my situation, you should go ahead, turn on the camera and start filming with, for in my case, a messy bed table. I'm not saying you should not make your bed and I'm not saying that you should show up in a blood-soaked shirt. Oh, no, no, no, no. What I am saying is a lot of us get trapped in this idea, this concept of, oh my gosh, I have so much to do. We spend more time hurrying than doing it. Literally getting ready to film this video. I did, I spent about 30 minutes looking at everything going, I have so much to do. And then that little part of my brain said, you know what, I have three basic tasks. Each one's gonna take about five minutes. Get it done, start filming. And that's exactly what I did. YouTube can be a very, very toxic place. It can also be a place full of love. It could be a place of acceptance. And when it comes down to it, five years from now, no one in their right mind is going to be looking back and pointing out things like my pillowcases don't match. And if they are, that's okay. Those people are perfectly within their rights to point out the pillowcases don't match. But in five years, is that gonna matter? No, what will matter is the fact that I got this video out and the following video out and the next video and the next video and the next video. Using this very example, I could have very easily convinced myself that I couldn't possibly have started filming this video until I went out to the store, I purchased placement pillowcases and got them on the bed, or I could have convinced myself, I should go ahead, I should take those pillows off the bed because they don't match. And that way, people won't freak out about that. Broseph, it's not that deep. For most content, nobody cares. And honestly, as a content creator, there are certain things that you will just have to learn to take it as dry in two years, in five years. That, small potatoes. But little things like that, adding up, keeping you from actually creating content, connecting with people, changing lives, getting information out there. Those things add up in missed opportunities, in anxiety, and in so many other things. So if I can give you any more advice, stop waiting, start doing. Worry less, do more. And like is said by the great Van Wilder, worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. In the comment section down below, I want you to share with me stories about any time where you have personally conquered, even if it's a small thing. I don't care. I wanna know a time where you've conquered something by just saying, okay, let's do this. It can have to do with YouTube or content creation. It can have to do with your personal life. And that's fine, I don't care. But I do wanna hear stories. I wanna hear how you overcame a time when you could have stressed about something, worried about something, or let something get you down. But you just said, you know what? I'm moving forward, I'm doing it now, and let's go. And of course, I wouldn't ask anything of you that I wouldn't have done myself. So I will share with you a story that you may kind of already know. You've been following Freedom and myself for a while. But I wanted to give something personally of me because that's what I'm asking of you. Back in 2015, I was living in North Carolina and Freedom was my side job. And I absolutely loved it. And I had some marital issues. And unfortunately, my marriage ended. Why? My marriage ended, I needed to move out of North Carolina. I lost my day job, my main job. And I very easily, I could have shut down. I, at that time, I moved in with my mom and my stepdad and my brother. And that was, of course, that hit me. Like, starting back from square one, from scratch, it was scary, it was hard. You know, I just, it would have been really easy and understandable for me to just need to take time. I got a job offer. Well, I got an expanded job. George, from Freedom, reached out to me and he said, hey, Anthony, I want you to come out to the Philippines. And my internal reaction was one of kind of fear. I didn't know much about the Philippines. And what I did know was it was a developing nation or as some people refer to it, a third world country, which I don't like that term, I think it's another story. And that's what I knew of it. And it was a scary prospect. But I did end up moving out there and it turned out I absolutely loved it. It was an amazing experience, but I needed to go ahead and say, I'm going to move forward. I'm not gonna wallow in self pity. I am not going to worry about what happened yesterday. I'm going to worry about what I can do today. What I ended up doing was I took about, I don't know, a month or so to get my affairs, get my life in order. And I moved off to the Philippines, just hopped on a plane with two suitcases worth of stuff and I went and it opened up so many doors. And you know what? It was a total gamble. I could have gotten there. And you know, for all I know, George would have been, okay, well you're here now, but you know, bye. I'm sharing this story because it's a huge time in my life and hopefully something that many of you can understand that it's definitely a hard situation to be in. You know, essentially having kind of lost everything, starting over fresh and having the option to do it stateside where things are kind of familiar or in a whole new country where, you know, English is spoken, but it's not the main language. And it's, you know, it was definitely scary. Something that I very easily could have, you know, just freaked out over. But I'm so glad I didn't. And you know what? When you're sitting in your bedroom, when you're sitting in your office, when you're making your next video and you realize I've got to hang nail. You're when you realize like pillowcases don't match. When you realize, you know, that there are these little bitty roadblocks that could derail things entirely and you decide to step past them. When you decide that I'm not going to let this little thing ruin this video, I'll try to fix it for the next. When you realize that the aggregate of your content is more important than any one particular video, that is power, that knowledge, that ability to step into a healthy place. That is powerful. So I'll ask again, please share with me some time in your life, your YouTube career, in your school career, whatever. Tell me of a time where you started to freak out, where you could have lost productivity, where you could have done something along these lines, but you did and you moved forward and you stopped waiting, you started doing and it worked out or alternatively, maybe it didn't work out. Let us learn from your mistakes as well. I don't know. I don't know what I would do with these stories. Maybe in a future video, I'll go through the comments and we'll discuss them, but I know I will be in the comment section down below responding to everybody and that sort of thing. I hope that this video has been helpful for you. If it has, let us know in the comment section down below. Till next time, don't forget to like, subscribe and do all those things that absolutely, positively, make me love my job. Bye. I hope you enjoyed Anthony's story. I certainly did. 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So you can see I'm a little excited about that project. We've tried to have a community server several times and we, I hope this time it'll be here for many years. And of course Freedom Games, which is our game publishing division of Freedom. Click that I in case you didn't know we're publishing games now. Where the big benefit is you get early access to the games we publish before everybody else on YouTube and Twitch and Facebook. So you can make videos so that on launch day you have the first search results for games coming to you. And our first game is Dreamscaper, that I up there will show you that game. It's already been out 10 days and it's been doing very well. And I'd love to hear, I'd love to show you the next game as soon as we have it ready for public announcement that we're going to be publishing in the near future. All right, Freedom Family, stay healthy, stay safe. 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