 It's totally gonna be the thumbnail, by the way. Completely. You got a lot of drinking thumbnail. I know, recently. I'm like, hmm, anywhere. Come back to my channel. I have Miss Jodi here. From Life's Organized Chaos. You need to go follow her. Links are below and I'm gonna put one up in a card wherever the heck that goes. You're gonna see Doyle. Whoop, there he is. He is joining the party. He's very obsessed with Jodi today because she smells like another dog. So, yeah, he is getting all the scratches right now. We are gonna do a YouTube Q&A and we're actually gonna ask each other questions that we're curious about, both being YouTube people. And I figured I'd wear my YouTube shirt for the occasion because... Why not? And I probably was just wearing this anyway, so whatever. So I think we're just gonna like, maybe you ask a question, I ask a question and go from there maybe. Why not? I don't know. Okay. So we have some curious questions that we have for each other and these might be questions that subscribers have asked us in the past or something too but you might learn something new. So let's go along with the YouTube Q&A. Well, you're the guest, I'll let you go first or do you wanna answer first or do you wanna ask first? I'll ask first. Okay, I think our first question is probably very similar because... Yeah, I think it's a good starting question to ask. Right, mine's a pretty baseline question first too. So really what inspired you to start YouTube? I don't even answered it before. Like a long time ago. Yeah, most of my Q&A questions now are like really, weirdly specific. What inspired me? You know, I was in Fargo and I was hella bored. Honest here. Yeah, I was really bored and I have watched YouTube for years and years and years and the people that I watched, I really don't have, I mean, I have stuff in common with them as to like content a little bit but like one of my favorite YouTubers is Makeup by Tiffany D. I still watch her all the time but she does like more makeup and fashion things and that's like clearly not my channel. I mean, I do a little bit of stuff in that but it's just like, hey, this is like, I'm a real person. This is what I'm using. I'm not a professional beauty person or anything like that, like clearly. But I just liked her style. She was really relaxed and like all of that. It took me a long time to get relaxed on cameras. I'm sure you've had that challenge too. Yeah, so I just got inspired by them and I think she had done, Makeup by Tiffany D had done a video kind of just chatting about not like YouTube kind of in general of like how she does it for a job and I never really realized that you could do it for a job and this was like back in like, I don't know, 2014, 2015. And I just never put two and two together to be like, oh, you get like paid. That's kind of cool. And not that I came into it like wanting to get paid but I thought it would just be something different and more like a part-time job that I might get paid for someday and you don't get paid for a long time. I'll just let you guys know that right now. But it's so true. People think that, oh, you get paid day one. Took years for me to get my first paycheck. Let me put it that way. But yeah, but I was inspired by her. I also watched Jen Ross from, oh gosh, you'd have so many different channel names. What is her channel name now? I can't remember her channel name off the top of my head. She's changed it like four different times. So I can't remember now. But anyway, I watch her stuff too. She does more like, like favorite videos all the time. I did that for quite a while and it just, I don't know, never stuck for me. But I don't know. I just got inspired by boredom and watching other YouTubers. So yeah, that's kind of my question for you too. I'm pulling up my question. Yeah, what inspired you to first start YouTube? So this was a really good question because this one right here, she started to, she was one of the one that inspirations for me. Did you know that? Oh, I have no idea. Well, I chose to that we're drinking wine today. Hold on. So choose to that. She is. Woo! Inspiration. Tasty, yeah. So tasty. Yes. So I went back on when I started my YouTube channel and my first video was April 3rd, 2015. So a little over three years ago, which if you were to see that video to today, it's definitely progressed well. Maybe, I don't know about that. But that summer, we had just purchased a house. My husband and I had just purchased a house and I was on sabbatical at summer. So after purchasing a home, we didn't have a lot of money left over to take a trip or anything. And so I needed something to do to fill the time. So I'm like, hey. Boredom, hey. Say hi to me, boredom. Another thing, a little try at the YouTube. And like Emily said, you don't make any money starting off. And even now, it's pretty, well for me at least, it's pretty slim. But I didn't go into it thinking, oh, I can make money off of this. I just went into it thinking, oh, it's a great way for me to share my perspective on things and just to share the things I like to look at and enjoy. And as my channel has evolved, I think my style has evolved as well with what I bring to my channel. But there are YouTubers that I watch that aren't like me. So like Emily mentioned YouTubers that she watches that she doesn't do anything like that. Her content channel, same with me because I like to vary it up and watch different things that inspire me. But I also like to do things that inspire myself that I hopefully can inspire others as well. So she was really the inspiration to getting it started, which was really cool. And no idea. Yeah. But and you've probably, if you've seen both of our channels, very similar in crossover content, but we both bring a unique perspective, I think. Like we can both literally have the same title of video and it would be so different because you have a different life than I do. You have a different perspective than I do. And to anyone out there that's really interested in having a YouTube channel and doing similar content like budgeting and household stuff and cleaning and planning and things, everyone has a unique voice and perspective. And I feel like everyone, there's enough space for everybody. There really is enough space for everybody. Even though you might think it's really saturated right now and yes it is. But I feel like we all have a unique voice and really to like find your tribe of people that come back week after week or month after month or whatever it is. I just feel like, yes there's a lot of crossover with our stuff, but we both have a unique circumstance situation where even if someone watching is very similar to us and has similar lifestyle and they wanna share the same content, go ahead. I mean, you're gonna have something different to say. And that being said, I mean, I don't really watch a lot of people that do our similar thing because I feel like my content gets really watered down if I do that. I don't know if you feel the same way about that. There's a few that I watch, but I don't watch. I watch like a handful. I subscribed to about a handful of planner people. Yeah, same here. And that's it. I just can't and probably because I just do it that I don't find it as interesting as maybe if I didn't have a YouTube channel. You know, I might subscribe to like 20 different YouTubers that do budgeting or planning or whatever and like watch them while I plan. I know a lot of people will comment that they watch us while they plan too. But yeah, I watch a lot of different like people that are like career vloggers and people that do like tech reviews which I'm clearly not a technology person. Like I don't know. I mean, I just watch other random weird people and you know, like people that do like time lapses and I have so many different subscriptions. I watch a lot of like beauty stuff. I'm like really into that. I don't know why. Like I rarely wear makeup. So like, I don't know why I'm into it. That's why you like to watch it though. I know, but it's like very interesting to me and I'm like, oh, it's just like very relaxing. Yeah, so we both like have a unique perspective but your perspective is unique as well. So you guys could definitely start something if you haven't already and you know. Absolutely. Just do it, right? Oh. Need to find my questions again. All right. She's got really good questions and I've got like really like some of them. No, they're all really, she's got some good questions for me too. All right, so here's my next question for Emily. All right. So if you follow her like financial videos, this is a good one. Hold on, I need some wine for this. She might. So she's debt free. So I said, you know, now that you're debt free and being single, she follows Dave Ramsey. Cheers to that. Being debt free. And being single, all right, cheers. Dave Ramsey, there are some steps that really just don't apply to you. Yes. So what's your next financial goal? So right now, if you guys follow Dave Ramsey plan, I am on baby step four, five and six, which four is contributing 15% of your income into retirement and then baby step five is say for kids college, which I don't have any kids, if you count Doyle, I guess, but he's not gonna learn anything new anymore. And then baby step six is to pay off your mortgage early. So right now I'm really focusing on only step four, which is the retirement right now. So since I just started a new job and I will link up in a card somewhere my life update. So I'll just like not, I'll spare you the dates in this video, but I am now able to contribute through work, which is awesome because they do have a match. So I've already filled up my paperwork and all that good stuff. But that's kind of what I'm focusing on right now because now I'm trying to get into my new normal of like having a normal paycheck, doing stuff like that. I mean, when I was like unemployed, I was still like creating revenue through YouTube and Etsy shop and things like that. So that was a different type of revenue that's only run through my business. I actually don't even take a paycheck from my business, which is weird, but it's something that I do. So I might get into some sort of investing with those type of money or those type of monies at some point, but I haven't really figured out what I wanna do. And I'm gonna like, that's kind of like more into the future in like 2019, kind of talking to my text professional and seeing what her advice is on that kind of stuff and how I can set it up legally and like make sure that everything's like good to go. So I think that's a really cool way to like use the YouTube income. I mean, clearly I do like giveaways and I do like shipping and I do lots of other things on my channel that I wouldn't be able to do and I'm sure you wouldn't be able to do if you didn't have that like little bit of income coming in. So like showing you new products or planner stickers or hauls and things like that, I wouldn't be able to do without the income and like going on trips and stuff like all my go wild budget money is gonna be through YouTube this year. In the future, I'd like to invest some of that money into my future because, you know, you gotta treat it like a business when it gets to a certain point. So that's kind of my like more goals. And then once I get established with my kind of new normal then I'll start with the house stuff and like paying that stuff off too. I do have some house projects I wanna do first. Oh, there goes Doyle, Mr. Hobbly Wobbly up there. I have a few house projects I wanna complete first and then probably towards the end of the year I'll start with the pay down of the mortgage probably. So that's like into 2019, so. Yeah, exciting. Yeah, I gotta find you again because somebody else does text me. So, oh my goodness. But maybe we text like way too much. We do. I was like, bottle of wine. I'm like, great to do. Five minutes later. Right? This is something I've been curious about for years, you guys. Years. But you probably have as well. Right, okay. Will your husband ever make an appearance on your channel and, side note, what does he think of your channel and does he watch your channel? I have a lot of questions about her husband. I've never met him ever. Really? No. You haven't. We're gonna go to Dave and Brandon together though. Yes. Yeah, we met him once and passing. Like, did I? At the date when I went to the marriage. Oh yeah, yeah. I was so busy. Yeah. So it was like a quick, this is my life. That was a really good question because I know a lot of you have asked that before. Because you mention him all the time. And I'm like. Are you really married? That's cubisticonia. Yes, I am married. We just celebrated our one year this past July. But for right now, he probably won't make an appearance on my channel. Boo, Chris is comfortable being from the camera. True. And you know, I neither respect that. Yeah. Now there is, I thought I maybe put him in once during a vlog last year. I thought I did. Maybe. I don't remember. But I mean like a bus. I'm like sit down on a Q&A or like, you know what I mean. You know, maybe if there's enough interest out there, maybe we will if I can twist his arm. So go to your channel and make all the comments and be like, we need Chris, we need you. If you follow me on Instagram, I've posted pictures of him and I before. So you can see what he looks like. Yeah, he wears pictures once in a while but he's never been on my channel. Content, content, yeah. But you know, he really does support my channel. He, I don't think he watches my videos. I know. Right? It's okay though. Him and I talk every day. So it's. He's watching it every day. You're just talking smack about him. He doesn't need to know. No. Could you imagine? I know. I support my channel and even though I make a little bit of income with it, we do talk about it from a financial standpoint. But yeah, maybe he'll make an appearance one these days. In fact, him and I are going on vacation really soon, which I hope to vlog. Yeah. So maybe. It'd be a good opportunity to like, maybe get him a little comfortable in front of the camera. Yes, kind of slowly work him into the camera. Yeah. And be like, I'll edit it in a way that will make me look very appealing, sir. Just not that side. No. Right. I've been been curious about that for years and I'm like, is he ever gonna like show up and, you know, even just like walking in the background or I don't know, like just little things like that. Well, so the thing is though when I film my videos because with my working out of the house and long work hours. By yourself usually. Yeah. So I try to film when he's not home so that when he is home, him and I can just enjoy some time together. Right. So there's that to it too. But. I don't have that problem. So I don't have to film. Right. He has a Doyle dog. I know. He is, he is like a life partner. Let me tell you. He just is very demanding. Oh, truth. More questions. Let's sit here and we'll have my questions for you. Yeah, we do text a lot. Trying to get back. I know, we're like scrolling. I'm like, I'm holding it right where it's supposed to be because, yep. Looking back, what's one thing you learned about yourself since starting a YouTube channel? Okay. And then the follow up is what's one thing you're hoping to accomplish with your channel in the future? Okay. One thing I learned about myself is, I don't care. It sounds really bad, but it's the truth. I kind of don't care about other people's opinions anymore. And like when they're in a negative way. I mean, clearly constructive criticism, love it. I'm all about constructive criticism and getting better. But when you just don't like me, I always had this feeling that I thought I needed to be like well liked as I think a lot of people go through and like, you know, a lot of their years even up until forever, you know? But I found out that like for me, if I feel like I'm satisfying myself and my channel and I really create content and I think you make do the same thing, I want to create content that I want to watch. So if I get a video suggested to me or I have an idea and it's like, it feels too forced. I don't really want to do that. I just don't do it. Like we're our own bosses on YouTube. Like we don't have to do anything. We don't have to take any criticism. We could disable comments. Like we could do all these things that we don't choose to do. But I've just over the years kind of gotten away from caring about what people that don't support me think, I guess is a better way to describe it. Like I know that comes across as kind of like rude and weird, but there are so many people that watch both of our channels that don't support us, which is weird. But I'm like, why do you even click on it? Like you clearly don't want to watch a budgeting video or a planning video. Like why are you making comments or sending like DMs about how you don't like me? It's like stop spending your time doing that. I mean, I find it kind of funny now, but in the beginning I took it very seriously. Like, oh my gosh, this person doesn't like me. I need to do whatever they say. And you kind of just find your own groove with YouTube and you just really figure out what you want to produce and what you want to show on the internet and what you're comfortable with. And then if that changes, you've got to be okay with that changing. So yeah, so I guess the first question is, you just learn not to care as much. I don't know if you have felt that, that you just kind of have to like roll with it. You definitely have to have a strong backbone, I feel. Yeah, and we're both like in our thirties. So it's not like, you know, we're in our teens and we don't really know how to deal with things. And people in their thirties don't know how to deal with it too, guys. Like it's not about really age. It's about just maturity and like figuring out what you are okay with and what you're comfortable with. Cause there's been things I've been comfortable with and then I've pulled back on and things I haven't been comfortable with and then I've let it go. And I'm like, oh, I'm comfortable with that now. You know, so. Just kind of pick and choose. Yeah, you just have to, for me, I just had to learn to kind of how you start. It took a while for me to get comfortable with those comments and those personal DMs, but now it's like, you know, it's my channel. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. Yeah, for sure. There is something for you out there. Like let's be clear, there is something for you out there for sure. And if it's not me, that's okay. And if it's not her, that's okay too. So like, you know, and we'll find people that'll find us and want to watch us, we'll subscribe or watch a video and maybe they'll watch one video and maybe they'll never watch a video. And that's all right too. Yeah, absolutely. For sure. So what are your plans? Like what are your future goals for your channel? Future goals for the channel. I don't know. I used to do goal setting for the channel like every year. And then I kind of stopped doing that cause I felt like it was weird. Where it was like, I want this many subscribers and I want this many like whatever. And it was like, the only reason I did it is because I watched other people do it. And I thought that it was like a nice tangible thing to like write it down. But then in a way it was like, I kind of just want to organically like let that happen. Like I don't pay for followers. I know people do pay for followers and subscribers and things like that. And I've never done that. It's just not like up my alley or anything. So I don't know if I have any future goals for the channel. I just want to like stay consistently inconsistent maybe. I stopped my posting schedule last winter. Like last October, I think it was. It's been almost a year. And I really have been enjoying more flexibility with not giving people expectations that I can't produce, if that makes sense. But right now currently, as you guys are probably seeing this, I am posting every single day. But that is going to change at some point. I don't know when that's going to change. It may never change. I don't know. But for me to say, I was always doing Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 a.m. central standard time for like the long, like years and years. And it just for me wasn't sustainable. I was working full time and it just wasn't working out for me anymore. And I had to just like cut all ties and take a huge break. And there was like a whole month. I think it was in January. I don't think I even posted. I might have posted one video. And I just had to like tap out. I was just over. And I just didn't have any creativity. I wasn't inspired by anything. And I'm sure you feel that too, where you're just like cranking out videos sometimes and you're just like, after you get done editing it, you're like, oh, I don't even want to like, I don't even want to upload. Like I don't even want to publish it. Cause it's like, I don't even like it anymore, you know? And then you have to make the decision of like, what do you do with that video? Like, are you actually going to keep it? Are you not going to keep it? Like there's so many different like layers of creativity. I don't know. You kind of get annoyed with yourself after that. I mean, I've got videos sitting up at my laptop that I've edited and they're just sitting there. Cause I just either didn't love them anymore or just wasn't relevant. Yep. I have like raw files and folders sitting on my laptop too that I'm like, am I actually going to film that someday? Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. But I'm just going to keep it just in case. Like, I don't know. Staying consistently inconsistent for me is a goal of 2019 as we're kind of coming into the fall now. Yeah, I don't know. I don't really have any goals though. I don't really have any like specific, I like this or I want this or I need this or whatever. So I don't know. I don't know. Go to go wild this next year. That's a goal. That's a goal, I guess. Yeah, Las Vegas, come find me. And I'm trying to convince this one over here. In this crossed, yes. We could be roomies. I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Cut down on the cost. And it's to Vegas. So it's like a cheap, it's a cheap place. So stay tuned. We'll see. Never know. All right, so here is your last question. Do you have any more home improvement projects planned for the future? That is a good question. So I just recently finished, not I didn't do this, but we just recently got out. You did? I know, right? Oh my gosh, I have a skill right there. We just recently finished. You should quit your job and be a general film character. That would be scary. But we just re-finished our master bathroom remodel and we love it. Now, once you do one project, Emily has done a lot of projects in our house that she's moved in. I don't know about you, but we get the itch to do more projects now to keep current with our nice project. And so, you're like, but our bathroom looks like this. We need to do this. I totally get it. I totally get it. But we want to redo our kitchen. No, the kitchens are very expensive. And so we are looking at actually just painting our cabinets for the time being. Painting party. Yes, exactly. But I think we're going to paint our bedroom first, which while we're on vacation, I think we'll paint our bedroom because it's a like a tannish brown color. And then we have more neutrals with grays and whites and blues in our house. Well, and since your bathroom is like the bathroom that she just remodeled is her master bathroom. So like going from one to another, that would actually make less. Plus paint is pretty inexpensive. It just takes time. Exactly. It gives you a nice clean look. Now when we paint our walls, our carpet right now is like a tannish color. And so we do want to get new carpet, although that's higher on my priority list than it is on Chris's. So we have to negotiate there a little bit. Maybe after a while. Right, exactly. So we definitely want to do our kitchen, like carpeting, flooring on our main level, and then just updating some things in our house. So we've got a few things on the horizon, but yeah. Yeah. Nice. I'm excited. I'm always excited. For those of you that are homeowners, you probably know what it feels like to do that one project and then you want to keep going. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And for us, we plan on living in our house for another 10 years or so. So we're trying to be really strategic with the projects that we do want to complete. Yeah. Because we don't look at the ROI. Totally. And what we should be wanting when we're putting into our house, we'll get out of it versus just doing it for us for the time being. Yeah. And you want to be able to enjoy some of those things that might not give you a huge return on investment. Absolutely. That you're like, this is for us. This is what we like. Yes. But resale, it doesn't really matter if you paint or not or whatever it is, but it's like something you would enjoy. Yes. For, you know, a long time to come. Yeah. So, yeah. Totally makes sense. I need a drink now. For all of our YouTube questions, I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Thumbs up. You could thumbs it down. I don't recommend doing that. I don't know what happens when you do that, but you should thumbs it up for sure. Jodi's information is going to be linked down below. You should all go follow her. She's got great content. She does more financial stuff than I do. So you guys should really go check her out for sure. And we also did a video on your channel today at the same time, which I'm sure was a beast to actually edit because I took forever. But yeah, go check her video out as well. I'll link it up in a card as well as down below. So yeah, that's it. Anything else you would like to add, ma'am? I think we're good. It's been fun though. Yeah, we're finally like really collabing. It's been, we've been friends for so long. I really like getting on the internet together because we've never really done this. So yeah. All right, well that's it for us. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will see y'all in the next video. Bye guys. Well folks, it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel.