 What's up everyone? All right, so I guess I'm supposed to do one of these YouTube intros I mean YouTube says I should and it helps so I'm gonna listen to YouTube. Let's go ahead and do this really quick I'll try to make this quick and I talked too much Background for myself. All right quick background. I I'm a web designer. I run my own design firm. I'm also a front-end developer Well before all that like rewind before that I was in construction like my whole life construction Machine shops, I eventually started working at Home Depot and I became an assistant store manager there, but It wasn't being fulfilled. I wanted to change and I wanted something where I didn't have to work for another boss again I wanted something where I could choose my own hours I had freedom and I could travel around and I could do basically whatever I want. That's what I really wanted I wanted freedom and so I started learning web development. I started learning Front-end development and I got pretty good at it. I started freelancing and you know within a year of freelance So my my freelance in business went pretty well. So I was building a good freelance in business. I'm traveling around the world I'm living out in Thailand. I'm originally from LA and I never left LA my whole life But now I'm living halfway around the world and I wanted to do something more and I started getting really intrigued by design So I made a transition from web development to web design and then to UI design where I study this Extensively and I'm just like overly obsessed arm getting good at design So my freelance business went great a few years ago. I started my own company Lightbox studio. We're a design studio. We do bespoke designs for for you know, like brands I really want that personal customized touch and we're doing pretty well with that We're still growing. Here's the thing though the whole business side of building a freelancing business and also building an agency or a studio was the last thing I learned You know, I've always worked for somebody my whole life and I was good at learning how to write code I was good at learning how to do design and design principles, but then trying to grow a business. I mean trying to do proposals or build a system or do onboarding or You know trying to learn how to price correctly and to gauge a project and to manage a project There's a whole lot more to learn and you know, that was the last thing I learned and as a result It was a lot of tough lessons a lot of cost costly lessons I don't regret them at all We all have to learn and it wasn't until maybe about a couple years ago when I realized that There's a whole other side that I need to learn on this like I obsessed about learning development I obsessed about learning design, but the whole business side of Being a creative and being able to build a creative business I needed to learn that so that's the point of this channel. This channel is I want to share What has been working for me? What what I've learned whether I've learned it the hard way by making mistakes Or I've learned it in other ways because I do work with like a business coach I do read a lot now. I'm part of other communities that is focused more on business growth for creators and this Channel right here. I want to share that with you. I want to share that with new web designers developers I'm also a super element or enthusiast. So you're gonna see element or all through this channel We're also going to do tutorials on it. I mean, we do other development as well We do like Shopify. I am a Shopify developer. I started that in the beginning We use other tools as well like oxygen and custom build projects But I would say about 90% of our projects is element or I love element or I feel it's a game changer And I think that element or could do a lot to help new web designers and developers Get started with their businesses faster and right now in 2020 while so many people are losing their jobs So many people are having to make changes. I mean, it's it's it's a time where We have to make changes. We have to do what we got to do to survive And if I could do something to help others that are making those changes Then that that that's what this is for. That's what this channel is for. I know what web design has done for me I mean before becoming a web designer. I worked in construction I was breaking my back and then I worked in Home Depot and I actually Did pretty well. I moved up the ladder at Home Depot pretty fast become an assistant store manager But all it was doing was taking crap from customers. I mean, I was getting yelled at and having to say sorry Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry. You broke your thing. You know, it's like it sucks. You know, I wasn't happy Having people treat me badly and having to apologize to them for treating me badly You know, nobody should have to live like that and well Making the change and becoming a web designer has changed my life so much. It's a lot of hard work It is a lot of hard work. He can't just start and You know, like in in a month be ready to like have this big business and charge a lot of money You got to pay your dues first. He got to learn first. There's there's There's a slow, you know, you got it. You got to climb up it You got to climb up that curve But it's up to you up to the individual how fast you climb up that curve Because of the more hard work you put into it the more dedication and if you're looking at the right things as well Because there's you could learn a whole lot, but you might be learning wrong You might be learning something that really isn't going to help you get there So I hope we could help out with that in this channel. I know I said I was going to keep this short I probably end up redoing this later. Anyways, I don't know. We'll see. I'm doing this for YouTube doing this for you guys, too Welcome to the channel. Please subscribe. We can use the support. It really helps out And I'm really looking forward to bringing more content and to helping more creative web designers and elementary lovers With this channel. Thank you