 You know, I wasn't even gonna make a video today, but Amy Landino just dropped such an amazing video that I was inspired by. So here's my response because yes, we need to talk about money. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, what I try to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community to try to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And for those of you who don't know, my brand new book, canceled, is out now. It's in both e-book and audio book format. You can grab it in the description down in the pinned comment below. But yeah, like I talk a lot about in this book, many things that we're gonna be discussing in this video, some things that Amy Landino went through and what I can relate to as well. All right? Because we need to sit down and have a conversation. So let me tell you who Amy Landino is. All right? Cause I don't feel like some people in my audience might know who she is, but anyways, Amy Landino is an amazing, phenomenal, inspirational woman. She is an entrepreneur and she is passionate, like many others, into taking what she's learned and trying to use it to help other people. I think I was introduced to Amy Landino from Roberto Blake. He's an amazing entrepreneur as well. And I think she might've been in Gary V's book, crushing it too. Correct me if I'm wrong. But anyways, Amy Landino, just super inspirational, right? And like, I think we need people like that and I love how people share their knowledge and their wisdom, what they've learned that can help others. But like, we live in this world like, man, there are so many people, those of you who have been around my channel, you know I talk about mental health all the time. So many people, a primary factor in their depression is their job. They hate their job. So I love these people like Amy, like Roberto, like Gary V, who are trying to inspire people like go out there and do something you love and make a living doing something that you're passionate about, right? Well anyways, Amy's video, her first video in like three months, coming back like, like having to have a real talk with the audience and girl, I love that, right? Like sometimes you just gotta, you gotta put your people back into place. Like it's almost like being a teacher, right? And your classrooms getting all rowdy. Like when I was working at the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, I had to do this all the time. But anyways, what happened was to my understanding, Amy Landino, like many YouTubers, she gets sponsorships for her videos. And also Amy Landino being a entrepreneur, YouTube is not her primary source of income, right? But she has a staff, she has people that she like pays, she has her own family and everything like that. So she takes sponsorships. Well anyways, she does say, thanks for the criticism and I appreciate that. I hope people hone in on that. I'm gonna link her video down below too. But she appreciates the criticism that maybe this sponsorship spot was a little too long, but I could definitely feel for it too. Like as creators, the most we can do is find companies to work with that we think will benefit our audience, right? Like I've worked with meditation apps, right? That have helped me with my mental health. Or I always talk about different books that I've read and things like that, right? So I get that like Amy was like really excited and passionate about the sponsorship deal that she got. But she took that criticism in. So like don't get it twisted. Us creators don't just neglect all criticism, it's just that there's valid than invalid criticism. But the bulk of Amy's video is something that many YouTubers get is when people say, oh, oh, the sponsorship deal, you're just doing this for the money and everything like that. And like she has to like rein people in, right? Because here's the thing, here's the thing. Like I'm so grateful that she's talking about this because the point of her channel is to empower you. I think her primary demographic is women, but you know, I love her content anyways, right? But it's to empower people to take control of their lives and achieve what they want to achieve, right? And like that is what her goal is. So when you see people coming in who are part of that audience and trying to shame somebody and the aspect of making money, it doesn't compute. You see what I mean? So like, where can I relate to this? So one of the biggest aspects of mental health. So originally before I jumped into more commentary, but I still talk about mental health, but originally my channel was primarily mental health, right? Trying to teach people about mental health, improving their own mental health, different aspects of the psyche and everything like that. All right? Something that I just, I cannot express enough is this. When it comes to mental health, only this much has to do with your biology, okay? Only this much has to do with the chemical imbalances in your head, okay? The majority of it is the way you think and perceive the world. So something that will vastly, vastly improve your mental health is knowing the difference between an internal locus of control and external locus of control. People with an internal locus of control are much happier, have less anxiety and less symptoms of depression. So what the hell does this mean? All right? An external locus of control is when you think that you have no control over the outcomes in your life and everybody else is in control, right? These are typically the people who are whining and complaining about everything, right? Oh, society's keeping me down. My boss is keeping me down. Oh, I just can't find a good woman or I can't find a good man, right? It's almost no personal responsibility, right? Those people are miserable because they feel like they don't have any control over where their life goes, right? So what I had to learn and what I try to teach others is having an internal locus of control, okay? When you have an internal locus of control, you believe that your actions get results, all right? Now these results might be positive or negative but you're in control of those, okay? You making decisions creates certain outcomes whether they're good or bad but even people who are having bad outcomes who have an internal locus of control, they're still happier because they believe that they were part of what happened, right? So something that I try to teach people is this and this is part of taking control of your life and improving your mental health. Like if you're working at a crappy job that makes you miserable, you have two options. You can sit around whining and complaining about your boss or the company or that's an external locus of control or you can take an internal locus of control and start looking for a new job, all right? There's a good old saying that a lot of people learn in therapy which is accept it, change it or eliminating, all right? So can you accept the job that you're miserable at? No, all right, can you change it? Have you tried talking to the boss or they're changing things around the office? No, eliminate it, all right? Same thing with relationships. So again, when you go back and you see people talking about Amy Landino or any person out there just trying to do their thing and make their money and support their family and themselves and live the life that they want, right? Like when you see people like shaming that, I'm like sitting there, I'm like, who are you people? Like my assumption is a lot of people saying this are people who don't take much responsibility for their lives. So here's the thing, like I had to develop an internal locus of control when I overcame my addiction seven years ago. Those of you who don't know me I'm a recovering opioid addict, alcoholic and I've been clean for seven years, okay? But I had to start taking control of my life. I had to quit blaming the world for my problems that kept me down here for years. So I tried to show that wisdom with you guys to try to give you that control as well. And I had to work hard at my recovery just so I could stay sober one day at a time. My first two years I was broke as hell. I was riding the bus. I didn't have a driver's license. I wasn't allowed to see my son for like the first year and a half of my sobriety. Now my son's in there playing video games, laughing. I'm actually in a decent apartment. Nothing too fancy, all right? I work, I provide for myself, right? Because I took control of my life and I want to inspire others to do the same. But listen, man, it's so damn hard with the narrative going around that anybody trying to make money is this bad person. Like Amy Landino is trying to uplift people, right? She's trying to inspire people and motivate people. And here's the thing, like no matter what sponsorship she gets or what product she makes, like she's working on a book right now, like she has so much free content, all right? So much free content out there. And I can definitely relate to that too. Like on this channel, the channel that you're watching, I have over 1,100, over 1,100 free videos that you can consume for free. But remember how I said I wrote my book canceled? Well, I've actually self-published five books. If you've ever written a book, you know that takes time. Like my last book canceled, I probably clocked in close to 100 hours, maybe more, right? I edited the book myself and I'm not even calculating that into the time. But also I have done, out of the five books, I've recorded myself, didn't hire somebody to record it. I recorded three of those as audio books and I paid an editor to edit those books, all right? Because I'm taking control of my life, I'm trying to make money, I'm trying to provide for my son, right? All these things and people have the audacity out there to like talk crap about me trying to make a living. Like it just breaks my heart because there's a couple of things with this. Like one of them is, it's like you guys, I used to be such a drain on this society. I used to take and take and take from this society in my drug addiction, in my alcoholism. I would just take from all of you. All of you had to pay for me having no responsibility, all right? Now I've taken control of my life and I'm trying to give back to society as much as possible through paying my taxes, right? Through trying to help out my community, to trying to write books and make videos that I think will help you. I'm trying to reverse what I did and over the last seven years, my passion has been to help others because I was draining this world for so long but you get people talking crap about it. And like I feel like this is why people believe that millennials are so entitled. Like think about the narrative that they're spreading, right? Like when you're shaming anybody who is making money, like you seem like you're entitled because the opposite of that is doing nothing and getting everything you want, right? Like I would love to live in this imaginary world where you didn't need money to exchange them for goods and services but that's not how the world works. But whenever I see people saying, oh my God, you're trying to make money, oh, who are you, right? I'm like, okay, so are you just who I used to be and just draining society? You know what I mean? And this also plays into politics. I was just talking with a friend about this. Some of you know I've been doing some more videos on politics and everything like that. Like I dig people like Bernie Sanders, right? I dig people like Andrew Yang. They have these kind of socialist ideas but there's different aspects of socialism, right? So the socialism ideas that I like is my tax dollars going to making this country a better place by helping people in need, right? That's why I'm all for programs like universal healthcare and free college and things that will help people that do not have the same opportunities. I'm all for that but socialism gets a bad rat and it makes me wanna like distance myself away from it when you see these people who act like making money is the worst thing ever, right? If people like Amy Landino didn't make money, if people like me didn't make money, we couldn't contribute back to the society. Like it is just such a ridiculous thing to shame people over. Like listen, not everybody making money is those Wall Street billionaires, that 1%. You know what I mean? Some of us are just everyday people like you trying to provide for our family, trying to make this world a better place. And the last thing I'll say is I've talked about this a lot of times in my recent videos. If you want to improve your mental state, quit assuming the worst in people, all right? Quit assuming anybody making money is just out there buying Bentley's and Rolexes and everything like that. Like some of us are putting back into our communities and donating to charities or trying to figure out ways to help other people. You know what I mean? Stop assuming the worst in everybody, all right? I just talked about this in the last video I did about James Charles and the drama channels, all right? Just please stop doing that. Quit shaming people or trying to make money because listen, I want you to go out there and do your thing, baby girl. Go do your thing. Like if there's anything I could teach anybody, it's take control of your life, do things that you love and make a living off of it. Like isn't that the dream? Isn't it the dream to go to work every day with a smile on your face, doing something that you love? And I'm fortunate enough that what I love is helping other people. But I still got bills to pay, baby. All right, so anyways, woohoo. Thanks for sitting with me through that rant. Amy Landino, you are amazing. I am glad you're back and I'm looking forward to your book. Go check out her channel. It's gonna be, her video is gonna be linked down below. So make sure you hit that little subscribe button and everything like that, all right? And also, quick reminder, my brand new book, Canceled Inside YouTube, Canceled Culture, is out now and I talk about a lot of this stuff in there as well. All right, but it's available in both ebook and audio book format down in the description below. All right, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You are all amazing. And a huge thank you to everybody else who supports the channel in other ways like buying my books and merch and all that kind of stuff. All right, thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.