 Welcome to The George Show. I have a special guest for all of you Freedom Family to meet, Cephas Red, beside me. Very passionate about gaming. I've been a gamer ever since basically I was born. Welcome Freedom. This is Cephas Red and I'm speaking with George Venuse. I hope you're all having a great day today. Basically, he can talk as low as this and what he has his most favorite treat in the world, the bananas and peanut butter. It's such a joy and I've even actually considered doing some self-help videos for those who want to try and do a little voice acting on them. Freedom is an idea and the idea is you do what you love and you work with people because of a shared passion and a shared vision and a phone that keeps ringing. Stop that. Cephas recently joined Freedom as a recruiter and I'd love for you to hear his story in case some of you also want to join us as a recruiter and you'll get to know why Cephas is so passionate about working with us. Cephas, please introduce yourself. Thank you very much. Hi there. Hey everybody over in there. Freedom, my name is Cephas Red. First of all, thank you very much George for this opportunity. I really do appreciate it. Yeah, I've been wanting to be a recruiter for Freedom to help out other smaller channels. If anyone who doesn't know who I am, I've been with Freedom for five years as just a partner with the network for my channel. But yeah, I've been a YouTuber for quite a bit, maybe about a year before joining Freedom. But yeah, I've been wanting to help cut smaller channels and help them get to where they need to be. So that's one of the reasons why I wanted to join. But basically, that's the gist of who I am. So did you want me to explain a little more about my channel there George? Or what would you show your channel right now on the George show? So I'm just going to search for Cephas Red. And you guys are welcome to do this with me if you want to check out his channel. 4,260 subscribers, 840 videos. And you can see that the guy in these videos is the guy right there. So please tell us about your channel, Cephas Red. Well, my channel consists mainly of gaming as well as vlogging. I was considering doing maybe some singing as well. I am very passionate about the arts as well as gaming and vlogging. So my biggest love, of course, is entertainment. So that's basically why I game as well as vlog and the adding on to sing as well. So very passionate about gaming. I've been a gamer ever since basically I was born. The Nintendo has been invented. So that's amazing. I actually didn't get started into gaming until I had my first PC, which was a like a IBM PC 8088 with DOS and floppy disk and all those ancient things that probably no one has ever heard of in today's world. For the people watching, the reason I asked Cephas Red to do this episode was in case there are other channels like you who are passionate about helping smaller channels grow about working with creators, collaborating and encouraging good behavior, best practices, because as a recruiter for freedom, it's not just inviting channels to join us, it's working with them, coaching them, be their mentor, their motivator, create that community together. So are you like Cephas? If so, let's hear more about Cephas's story on how he went from being a partner with freedom to now being staff with freedom. What got you from that A to B? From A to B. Well basically I watched your video in regards to wanting to be a recruiter for freedom and how it just goes. Click that I to watch that video, correct? Yes, and I'm just pulling up the video right now so the people know and you can click that I to watch that video behind me right now in case you're curious. Yes, it's a very informative video that tells you what you can do in order to help other channels become partnered with freedom, what are the incentives as well, and basically all the information is there to help you out. And I think it's a really good practice to try and become a mentor, become a trainer, become a recruiter so that other channels won't be stuck with either one wondering what they're going to do with their channel, wanting to be paid, but they're stuck under a paywall I guess is what you call it, or two stuck with an MCN that is kind of like in malpractice and or is very very, what's the right word? I don't want to say schemey, but kind of like that. So let me ask you a skill testing question. Sorry go ahead. And why did we call it? Of course, we call it freedom because we want to make the the YouTuber free to be able to grow and be paid with however they whatever they make. And of course our goal is to help each other grow together as a family. So I would give you 65% on that answer. A C minus, dang it. The reason we called it freedom in the first place is because we started from day one with a no lock in contract and you were free to leave at any time for any reason or no reason with 30 days notice. Now some of you... I didn't remember that. I didn't remember that because I have no intention of leaving so. Wow, wow there you go. So you're free to leave the door is always open, but you'll never walk through it. That's awesome. But that is why we call it freedom in the first place. And of course, all the other things you mentioned, Cephas are bang on. You're free to grow. We have a community. We have a lot of free music tools and graphics and people to rely on to get you feedback and collaboration. And we're doing new things like game development, sonic branding, tax reduction for those big YouTubers who have a lot of taxes to pay. We offer a lot of strategies to maximize the take home pay. And you just need to avail yourself of our services by emailing support.freedom.tm anytime you need anything. We have an awesome happiness team as we call them. And what's their job? To make you happy, obviously. Yes. So we don't want to force people to be happy. We want to help them be happy. So tell us a little bit about your experience. You've been now what two days working with us as a as a recruiter. How long? Yeah, it's been. Yeah, this is the second day. How is your experience so far? Do we bite? Are we like what is it called? Like do we I don't know the term, but are we slave drivers? That's it. It hasn't been a go or a rush. No, it's been really good. I've been I've been directed in the right direction so far. I've been led to go to, you know, other other people as well, met up with one of my team leaders. And we're going to go into a bit of a meeting, figure out what we're going to do, like what we're going to do in the next step forward, basically. And as soon as we figure that out, we will figure out where we're going to go next for the recruiting and then go out and try and find people to come on in and have a home with the freedom. And a lot of what Cephas Regis mentioned is the onboarding process. So there's a bit of training that every new recruiter goes through. And we have some great training material that you're going to have a test on afterwards in case you don't know that, Cephas. Oh, I'm done. Bye. It's all very friendly. There is no pressure. We want people to do this because they love it, not because there's a quota that has to be met, otherwise you're fired. You know, that's for a month or two. But one is all about feeling good. And no, it's always that way. There is no month two with quotas and pressure. Didn't we have a job like that in our lives? Yes. Yes. Look, the whole purpose of freedom is not just to have a no lock in contract. Freedom is an idea. And the idea is you do what you love and you work with people because of a shared passion and a shared vision and a phone that keeps ringing. Stop that. And a shared vision that we all work together to grow towards. So another question, skill testing question. What's our long term vision, Cephas Regis? Freedom's long term vision is to basically become part of the stock group. You talked about being part of an IPO, correct? Three letters. There you go. I got that question wrong last time. So I want to make sure I got it this time. What's an IPO? Do you know? Being part of the stock group, like for example, NASDAQ, that was the goal for going into. And once the network becomes an independent stock group, we can stay with the same management. We don't have to worry about big fish coming to buy the network and then changing everything on us, which is what we don't want. And then once that's taken care of, then we have the opportunity to be able to take care of everybody who's involved with the network so that YouTube can be the people to pay our bills rather than YouTubers themselves. Well said. And for those of you who don't know, an IPO means you have grown enough that an investment bank is willing to sponsor you for a publicly traded listing on the stock exchange, much like Google and Facebook and Apple are stocks that can be bought by anyone who wants to invest in those companies. We want to be just like that. The freedom stock on the NASDAQ stock exchange. And as Cephas Red said, there are two normal goals for an MCN or any company. One, actually three. So one is you treat it like a lifestyle business, which means you just build it big enough to pay your bills so you don't have to work for another company in the future. That's a lifestyle business. Two is you want to grow the company to sell to another company, a bigger fish, who will hopefully pay you lots of money and give you lots of cash that you can use to go live on an island or whatever you like to do, retire. And the third option is IPO. The difference between an acquisition and IPO is very simple. The management team doesn't change. When a big fish buys you, they usually replace the management team with their own managers because the acquirer will have a different idea on how to make you the company worth the price they paid. They're going to change things around. Look at what happened to Machinima. Machinima was an MCN. It was bought by Warner Brothers. Machinima now has announced we're no longer an MCN. We are stopping all partnership. They've turned off all their YouTube channels. All the partners are being moved to full screen because the owners decided Machinima should have a different business model. And that's what usually happens when you get bought by a bigger fish. The bigger fish tells you how to run your business and changes it to fit their goals, which are usually different from your own. As an IPO, we can maintain our vision and goals and leadership without problem because you are now giving shares of your company to the public so you have thousands or tens of thousands of shareholders that own a very small percentage of your company. And these guys are not going to be telling you the leadership team what to do. Of course, they're investing in you because they believe in you and they hope that your vision will cause the price of the shares they paid to go up so they can sell them in the future for a profit. That's the whole point of a publicly traded company is you want to always be growing to give the shareholders who believed in you at the beginning a return on their investment in the future. But all those fancy words aside, none of that matters until we reach IPO. And to reach IPO, we need to have a great team, a great vision that works together to grow towards those numbers that you need to reach. So what are those numbers? Right now we're at about 30% of the way towards our goal to IPO. That means our goal is when freedom reaches 100 million US dollars a year in top line revenue. That means what we get before paying out any partners, expenses, anything. Right now we're at 30 million a year top line revenue. So we need to grow to 100 to reach our trigger of starting the IPO process. And so that's why so important for people like Cephas Red to join us who believe in this shared vision of achieving IPO so that we can all work towards moving that needle closer and closer to the goal of 100 million annual revenue. Now, that's probably more information than most people care to know because most people say, look, I'm a channel. I want to grow faster. How do you help me grow? That's why I want to join freedom not because of freedom's vision of grandeur and IPO land. That's for too far in the future. And I agree. So the reason we're making this message is we're actually trying to speak to people like Cephas who want to join us as staff, not just people who want to partner with us as a channel. We also want to talk to you in a separate video about those reasons to join freedom. But this video is all about why staff should join us or partners like Cephas Red who are partners convert to staff to help us move the needle towards that IPO vision. So Cephas, tell us a little bit more about yourself and your personal story if you could about anything you're willing to share to help others get to know you and understand your reasoning for working with us towards that IPO goal. Sure. Basically, you want me to explain about where I came from and how I decided I wanted to be pretty much staff of freedom? Sure. Or anything you feel that you would like to share or comfortable sharing about your history. Because I think it's always more powerful message when people see the personal side of you, not just the advertisement headlines of, yeah, I love freedom for X, I love growing channels for Y, which is good to know, but also the personal stuff, like you showed me your bunny rabbit. I think that was awesome. Yeah. If you want to talk about your pet bunny. Well, yeah, he's very small. I will let you guys know those who are listening in. Like for me, I'm a 32 year old dude who basically is trying to find the best in life when it comes to entertainment. And at first, I always thought that music was going to be part of my life. But I actually wanted to involve more in regards to all aspects, not just music. So growing up, I've really had the passion to entertain people. And basically, like when it came to doing schooling and things like that, growing up as a child, I had so much fun when it came to acting, when it came to music, even just playing games with people. Like even when I was a kid, I always enjoyed playing games with friends, sharing the experience with them, because it's not just playing the game that makes it fun, it's the reaction as well, because something could happen out of random, and suddenly we'd just be like laughing our rear ends off, which is awesome. It's all fun playing with your friends, you enjoy the successes, and even the defeats are just more fun when you're playing with someone. I completely agree. But you should also talk about your passion for voice acting. Oh, yes, I shall. I shall. When I think about 10 years ago, when I realized that I had more of a passion for voice acting than I did for music, just in the sense of that, I loved mimicking movies. I loved mimicking cartoons that I could put on silly voices, or that I could mimic voice lines, and just get a joy out of it, too, when people would listen in. The voice acting part of it, as you can hear from my voice as well, I went through university in order to get myself a degree in acting, and part of it was voice classes. So as you can hear right now, I'm still perfecting the voice as you can hear it. But with the voice acting, all in general, I've been trying to get myself to get involved in more animation, narration, things like that, just for the sake of where people love hearing other people when they try to do voices, or they try to speak as cartoon characters, because, well, it's amusement, and people need that, especially today. Can you give a demo or an example of some of your voice acting? Sure, probably the easiest one that I can do, and I hope Disney doesn't sue me for this, but I can speak like Mickey Mouse. So, for example... Well, wow, Pluto, how's it going today? That's great. Let's see if I can make up a creative line here. Oh, yeah. Welcome, Freedom. This is Seth as Red, and I'm speaking with George Vanus. I hope you're all having a great day today, and Radio, I hope you all enjoy yourselves, and if you want to be a recruiter, just email support team. Well, see you real soon. I can't believe you go from this natural voice to that voice so easily. It's like you've flipped a switch on your vocal chords, and you go to, like, mode two. Yeah, well, I can actually go really deep as well. For those who know the character Winston from Overwatch, the large ape who's a scientist... Basically, he can talk as low as this, and what he has his most favorite treat in the world being bananas and peanut butter. That's his most go-to treat above everything else, especially when he's stressed out, so that's something we can always look forward to. That's amazing. Our mission is to help you build your career in this digital world. Let's grow together as a family. Welcome to Freedom. Our mission is to help you build your career in this digital world. Let's grow together as a family. Welcome to Freedom. Our mission is to help you build your career in this digital world. Let's grow together as a family. Welcome to Freedom. I think that really sets you apart. I don't think, I know I can't do that. I don't think many people on YouTube can do that. We all have our specialties and it's awesome to see yours. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, it's such a joy. And I've even actually considered doing some self-help videos for those who want to try and do a little voice acting on the side as well. In regards to posture, breath, how to present your voice. So that's another thing I've been considering on doing too. So I have a suggestion. Yes. The suggestion is how about creating a series exactly as you described to give people instruction on their voice, their breathing, their delivery as a series on the Freedom Central Channel. I would love to do that. Because I think that's perfect content for helping people grow, which is the theme of Freedom Central. Anything that gives advice or recognizes growth from our partners to motivate others to grow is perfect content for our channel. Yes, exactly. And any kind of content that helps promote and helps others in any kind of certain field really does help. Whether it be voice acting, painting, hair, makeup, anything at all. Anything that's safe and also helps people promote their channel, help them grow and actually give them an incentive to find out what their passion is. So yeah, any content at all is really good. But that's actually an important point right there, helping people discover what their passion is. Many people don't know it yet. I know it took me a long time to discover that YouTube is my passion. I mean, I never imagined myself making videos as a career seven years ago. It's just something I stumbled into one day when I was playing World of Warcraft Cataclysm in beta six months before launch. And I started making a few videos, uploading them to YouTube and realized, man, there's a lot of views on this stuff. I guess I better start thinking more about making videos instead of websites, which is what I used to do as a business. And that's how we actually built TGN originally. We started with TGN World of Warcraft channel as our very first channel that I created with like four other guys. One is Big C, if you remember him. And we started the whole TGN company that grew and eventually sold to broadband TV by World of Warcraft playing games. And this is back on the day when there was no monetization. You didn't get any money from YouTube for games. You had to just hope that the views would eventually let you get brand deals or other ways to monetize your content. But we didn't care at the time. It was just fun to see the audience reaction, the comments and work together not for money, but for community, which I think some people have kind of forgotten and have just focused on the money. But that's okay too. We all need to pay our bills, but it should be a balance of both community and profit. Because both are necessary to have a healthy ecosystem. Yes, I completely agree. As I totally agree with your statement, we all have to pay our bills. But it's having to have that long-term goal of what it is that... Well, short-term and long-term I guess. Where the most important thing is to make sure that you're available for either entertaining others, for being there for others. Find out a goal that not only helps you out, but also helps out the community. What is it that makes you unique? Like how I mentioned in the video of the hot seat that I did with Noel. It's the fact that you want to be able to just not only be respectful of others, but have an appreciation. And that you're able to just enjoy yourself and have fun and not worry about the money side of it. Think of it as a perk, rather than a need, if that makes sense. Yeah, because if you focus on the community and the money comes as a side effect, that's a lot more meaningful than if you just focus on the money. I agree. Yes, exactly. No, I completely agree with your statement there, George. Alright, so guys, this video is getting a little bit long. I don't know how many of you are still tuned in, but if you'd like us to make more videos like this or feature Cephas Red and future videos, tell us down there in the comments below. We read every single comment, and we'd love to engage more of you if you think this is a good format, a good show. And maybe Cephas Red can also interview people or some of you can become interviewers, not just be interviewed so that we see more faces on the Freedom Channel because you're probably getting a little bit tired of just the me, Nold, and maybe a few other guys that pop in here and there. I'd love to have like an episode every single day, like scheduled programming where you have different faces of freedom every day would be cool, would be cool. And live streams, we'd love to do regular live streams. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, who could be tired of a face? The one who actually is probably the most transparent out of all the other networks. Like, let's be real here. And also too, Nold, probably the most kindest and generous man in the entire network too. Well, big freedom family hugs to you, Cephas Red. Thank you for those warm words. And we do try to be transparent and honest and always helping each other grow together as a family. So that will never stop. That's my promise to all of you that that is the spirit of freedom. It'll always be the spirit of freedom. Even if we do a successful IPO and have $100 million in the bank account to do amazing things with, which is the goal. Even after that, I can't imagine our spirit changing. We'll just have more money to do more things to help each other grow together as a family. More opportunity. More opportunity, exactly. All right. Any final words for the freedom family, Cephas Red? Final words, enjoy yourselves, be determined, never give up. Have fun and reach out because we are here to help you out and help you achieve your dreams. Wow, those are amazing final words. And the whole point of never giving up means never give up. If you feel down, reach out for help and motivation. That's the only way you can ever actually fail is if you give up. That's right. That is absolutely true. All right, everybody, I am George and you are... Oh, and this is Cephas Red. Hello, everybody. 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