 What's up Freedom? Today we're talking about how to continue to motivate yourself and stick to your goals. This is part of my How to Create a Successful Network series on Freedom. If you missed the first episode, it's going to be right behind me. Just click on the square and get situated and kind of learn what I talked about in the first episode, but it's the second episode, so let's get right into today's topic. So today's episode is a little bit personal to me and maybe George Manus as well because he's kind of involved but he might not remember this at all. Basically, back in September, October of 2011, I wanted to start my own YouTube network and I was looking for some advice and I'd been following TGN ever since it was founded and I loved George and what he was doing and I thought he was so cool and taking us around the office tour and it was just awesome and I wanted to be a part of something like that and I was like, hey, I reached out to him through email and I was like, hey, I want to start my own network. I want to be able to do what you're doing. I just need some tips. I need a point in the right direction. How do I do this? And he got back to me like a day later saying, yeah, I don't want another competitor in the network space on YouTube, so I can't help you. And that at the end of the day was kind of a bummer because it's like it takes all of your drive and motivation away saying, hey, we don't want you in this space because you just be another person that we'd have to compete with and that's tough. But at the end of the day, you are your own motivator and that's all that you really need to rely on because when you start doing like a startup or something just like new and obscure, especially in tech, a lot of people aren't going to understand what you're trying to do. That happened to me when I started necessary gaming back in 2012, even after George said, hey, we don't want you to join this space because you're going to be a competitor to us. And even though he couldn't give me the tips or the guidance that I wanted, I still pushed through that. And that's so important for a network owner to do because a lot of people aren't going to be motivating you and pushing you to go where you need to go. And at the end of the day, you've got to really rely on yourself to meet your own goals and you can get there. As long as you believe in yourself, if you can find people to work with that maybe they'll believe in you at some point, that's really important as well. Just building a great team, believing in yourself, believing in your brand, your network, whatever it is that you're actually trying to build, that's the most important thing. So guys, believe in yourself, be free. I'm Alex Adams, senior manager at Freedom, and you've been watching. Click the first video for a fireside chat with George, where he shares our future and how he grew from $20,000 to $120,000 in just one month. And click the second video to see how to monetize all of your videos with just a few clicks to enable all ad formats and monetize in all countries. And we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family. You are part of it. We are all part of it. And we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.