Dan Martell - We hit 100K subscribers!

00:00:00.000 Man, I have so much respect for anybody on YouTube that's built an audience.

00:00:03.960 It is massive respect.

00:00:07.060 It's so hard.

00:00:09.420 It's got to be one of the hardest things I've ever done in business.

00:00:12.420 No joke.

00:00:13.440 There's nothing I've ever done in business that I wanted to achieve

00:00:16.780 that I didn't get there faster than building 100,000 subs on YouTube.

00:00:20.720 I built and sold three companies in 10 years,

00:00:23.360 but it took me eight years to get 100,000 subs on YouTube.

00:00:30.000 Get someone out of your door. 0.95

00:00:41.880 Dude!

00:00:44.580 Oh my gosh.

00:00:47.020 Dude, I know what this is.

00:00:48.820 Don't put my address in there, obviously.

00:00:51.360 Okay, we need a knife. 0.82

00:00:53.140 I'm gonna grab the biggest knife.

00:00:54.660 All right. 0.55

00:00:58.260 Dude.

00:01:00.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:01:02.280 Okay.

00:01:04.600 Man, I just had a moment, man.

00:01:07.040 Eight years.

00:01:08.160 Eight years.

00:01:09.720 I made a commitment.

00:01:10.800 Ten years.

00:01:11.340 I made a commitment.

00:01:11.880 I'm going to shoot every week, every Monday.

00:01:13.720 I'm going to publish no matter what.

00:01:15.860 I said ten years, nonstop.

00:01:18.060 Someone's watching this, and they're debating on starting that ten-year journey.

00:01:21.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:01:21.980 Just do it.

00:01:22.940 Here's the thing is you can do so much if you give yourself ten years.

00:01:26.600 Right?

00:01:26.720 like most people are not willing to do anything for a decade there's very few things that if you

00:01:32.240 if you want to have impact that you can't do by just showing up every day for a decade

00:01:37.200 right dedicate to a decade the reason i started shooting videos is because i had a buddy of mine

00:01:41.840 real close friend he had an accident and the byproduct of that accident is that he only had

00:01:46.720 about three years to live he had some daughters that were similar age to max and noah and i

00:01:52.080 remember asking him like how do you deal with this and his response was i already shot the videos

00:01:55.840 started to tear up and I was like holy crap. Just a feeling like if I only had three years to live

00:02:01.200 and I had three years to share what I wanted to share with my kids what videos would I want to

00:02:05.100 shoot? What videos would I want to share? What messages mattered to me and that was like a big

00:02:10.200 inspiration to start the YouTube channel because at that point I'd never shot videos. I never shot

00:02:15.180 anything around like my beliefs on life or my philosophies or like how I approach challenges

00:02:19.940 or how I overcome setbacks. I don't want to wait until I only have three years because you never

00:02:23.840 know you could be walking down the street and that's your moment people think well i'm x age

00:02:27.760 and i have so many years you don't know you don't know i think everybody should create content

00:02:32.160 because the benefit is that you become a better person when i'm consuming when i'm creating when

00:02:38.880 i'm you know thinking about what do i want to shoot next monday and how can i serve the people

00:02:43.040 that are following like i interact with the world in a different way right and then i give and i

00:02:47.840 get back and it's just like it's it's one of the most beautiful exchanges and like who the person

00:02:52.480 i've become to just even do that learning how to communicate the impact that's had as a person

00:02:59.520 you know showing up for my family showing up for my community showing up for my customers

00:03:03.440 my buddy jared was helping me video uh we got a studio we started shooting more videos with like

00:03:07.760 the um cement background he had two cameras and he'd always say like we can use two cameras and

00:03:13.200 we can cut edits and i'm like no i want to learn how to communicate without doing cuts and now

00:03:20.080 today like it's kind of cool because that was the commitment i made to myself is like how do i become

00:03:24.400 a better communicator i can go to any event at any point you give me a topic and with about 35

00:03:30.160 seconds of thinking i could get on stage and fill 15 minutes 45 minutes three hours all of that has

00:03:35.680 produced honestly an incredible lifestyle opportunities show up like speaking podcasts

00:03:41.760 business partnerships employees want to work for you man the roi of putting out content is one of

00:03:46.800 of the most underestimated things you can do to generate value in your life. Period, full stop.

00:03:52.360 When I think of the impact shooting video and publishing to YouTube for eight years,

00:03:57.540 finally getting to 100,000 subscribers. And what I'm most proud of is my audience. These are real

00:04:02.780 entrepreneurs. These are people that are there to build. Every one of these 100,000 subscribers

00:04:09.060 I fought for, I showed up, I was consistent. And even in the moments where there were several times

00:04:15.160 where I almost decided to stop because I was busy with work and, you know, building companies and

00:04:19.900 traveling the world with my family. And it's just like, why am I doing this YouTube channel?

00:04:24.200 I didn't stop.

00:04:39.180 This is crazy.

00:04:45.160 Wow what a letter. Do you remember your first subscriber? Your hundredth or your

00:04:52.960 thousandth subscriber? Chances are you do and we know that you'll definitely

00:04:58.300 remember your hundred thousandth subscriber. Anybody that's built a

00:05:02.280 YouTube channel knows that those subscribers are so hard to build. They're

00:05:07.840 earned with consistency and content and creativity and just giving your soul

00:05:14.900 to every video I'm not gonna lie there this is this is awesome dude wow oh my

00:05:29.340 Oh my gosh, wow, wow, I don't know where should we put it man, I want to put it in my office.

00:05:48.120 This is what's interesting for me is hitting 100,000 was almost a reminder of why I started

00:05:54.100 in the first place and why would I ever stop.

00:05:57.840 oh man so well earned you know why do I want it you know what for the next little while

00:06:08.380 it's going right here when I think a hundred thousand super grateful right blissfully

00:06:14.240 dissatisfied isn't this crazy when I look back over the last eight years of publishing

00:06:19.080 touches my heart at the same time I'm going for gold like we're going for a million

00:06:23.420 Max you know why I got this because I decided eight years ago to start

00:06:30.920 shooting videos for you and Noah do you know that I have a ton of videos I've

00:06:35.720 never published that I did for just you and Noah I think you just have to share

00:06:40.820 your journey I mean Gary Vee's been saying it for years just document don't

00:06:44.360 don't create start today learn something teach other people how to do it put it

00:06:49.940 out there and just try to teach the person that's two or three steps behind you like most people

00:06:55.180 don't think what they're doing is interesting it'll be interesting to way more people if you

00:06:59.900 do it from authentic place like that's the one thing i know about me is over the years i just

00:07:04.260 got way more comfortable about just being me on camera the dan who started on camera versus today

00:07:09.240 that person was trying to play a part i thought high energy whatever it is now it's like no this

00:07:15.580 is just who i am the most unique thing you could ever do is just be you but you can only get there

00:07:20.400 by doing the reps i mean if you look at all the youtubers that you follow okay from mr beast to

00:07:25.600 joe rogan to marie forleo to gary vaynerchuk to logan paul i don't care who it is some of them

00:07:32.540 have deleted these videos but many of them didn't go to their channels reverse sort ordered by the

00:07:37.060 oldest and go watch the early videos they were not mind-blowing videos i mean mr beast shot i

00:07:43.260 I think a thousand videos, a thousand days,

00:07:45.800 whatever it is, and they were just,

00:07:47.420 they were experiments, they were ideas.

00:07:49.700 But the difference between them

00:07:51.480 and anybody else that wants to achieve this that hasn't

00:07:53.880 is that they didn't stop.

00:07:55.440 They didn't give up.

00:07:56.700 They went hard in the paint and they were consistent

00:07:59.720 and they decided to work on their craft

00:08:01.620 and get feedback from their community

00:08:03.380 and iterate and just show up to serve.

00:08:06.060 And it's available to any person with a desire.

00:08:09.180 Any person has access to this.

00:08:10.640 This does not require living in a specific country

00:08:14.240 or having weird gear or a bunch of money

00:08:17.440 or access to a studio.

00:08:18.860 Like you, your phone and your ideas

00:08:21.480 can build this community

00:08:23.680 and live an incredible quality of life

00:08:26.300 and experience things that you can't even imagine

00:08:28.380 that will be unlocked on the other side

00:08:30.600 of building that community.

00:08:32.260 If you're a current subscriber,

00:08:34.240 I'm crazy grateful for you.

00:08:36.220 Like the fact that you, you know,

00:08:38.460 spent some time, you must have watched some videos.

00:08:40.380 it's very rare that somebody watches a video or a portion of this you watch multiple videos and

00:08:44.500 you decide to subscribe means the world if you haven't subscribed yet and you're wondering who's

00:08:49.240 this dang guy about all i can commit to you is i will bring you my best stuff all the cool stuff

00:08:54.860 that um i'm teaching i'm creating i teach it to the world's best ceos and then i run to my studio

00:09:02.580 and i shoot videos and that's what i'm going to deliver you every week non-stop never going to

00:09:07.400 miss, always going to publish. You can count on me for that. And hopefully someday I get the

00:09:12.780 privilege of meeting you, shaking your hand. And I would love to hear how anything I've ever done

00:09:17.380 has served you because that's what I'm here for. This is my way to give back to the world because

00:09:22.240 I've had so many incredible mentors and people show up in my life and believe in me in moments

00:09:26.880 and times where I definitely didn't see anything in myself. I didn't have that belief. So if I can

00:09:32.320 be that for you, if I can inspire you a little bit, if I can give you some strategies or tactics

00:09:36.220 to help you build your business that would that would be the ultimate gift for me is just knowing

00:09:42.220 that some of the stuff i put out helped you in any way possible

Dan Martell - July 10, 2023

We hit 100K subscribers!

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