On this episode of the Freshman Podcast, we have Donovan Sharp back on the show for the 10th straight time! We talk about a variety of different topics, including Hassan Whiteside being a loser and more.
00:07:32.000My 11-year anniversary is going to be coming up on March the 14th.
00:07:35.000That's when I wrote my very first article on Return of Kings.
00:07:38.000And I've been on YouTube since Labor Day of 2017. So, 25, yeah, so I've been on YouTube for almost 8 years now, and yeah, so, you know, I'm still doing it, still going.
00:07:52.000I'm very fortunate that, you know, I've reaped the financial benefits, you know, to the point to where I don't really have to worry about money anymore, so even though my channel is, you know, pretty much dead, you know, I keep going.
00:08:49.000And it's interesting, like, the fact that you guys have stood the test of time, because interviewing girls on a nightly basis, it's not easy.
00:08:56.000And, you know, you learn about female nature, how flaky they are, etc.
00:09:40.000And I remember Rolo actually called it.
00:09:41.000He said that Pearl's gonna be out by August, and he damn near called it.
00:09:48.000Interviewing girls on a nightly basis, it takes its toll.
00:09:51.000And the fact that you guys are still able to do this at a high level, again, speaks to your consistency, your professionalism, because there have been a lot of imitators.
00:09:59.000There have been a lot of other fresh and fits, but can't nobody do it like you guys do it.
00:10:18.000I would suggest because, boy, so the first mistake I think that most new content creators make is they get a little too ambitious at the start.
00:11:15.000So because I mean, I'm sure you guys have probably experienced this to some degree.
00:11:18.000You know, a lot of content creators hit the wall very, very early.
00:11:21.000And the reason why they hit the wall is because they get out and they they're going full throttle and they get burned out and then they're here today, gone tomorrow.
00:11:27.000But I think as long as you pace yourself, as long as you know what you're doing and you pace yourself, I think you're all right.
00:12:13.000It's not easy to be in this space, for sure.
00:12:17.000But if you don't know what you're talking about, you will get flushed out very, very quickly.
00:12:21.000And it's interesting, I would actually submit to you guys that the audience, maybe five years ago, collectively...
00:12:28.000Probably knows a lot less than the audience now, because there's a lot more information out there.
00:12:32.000Anytime someone tunes into your show, my show, for the first time, they're a lot more educated.
00:12:36.000They know a lot more than they used to.
00:12:38.000And so if you don't know what you're talking about, and I guess receipts would be a good way to start, but anybody can make up receipts, right?
00:12:48.000I mean, if being a dating expert just required receipts, then everybody would do it.
00:12:53.000No, you have to be able to explain things in a way that people can understand.
00:12:58.000And in content creation, you have to be educational and you have to be entertaining.
00:13:03.000If you're educational, you're not going to get anywhere.
00:13:06.000If you're entertaining, you'll certainly get somewhere.
00:13:08.000But if you're entertaining and educational, I think that's the mix.
00:13:25.000Every single one of them is kind of more on the entertainment side versus the education side.
00:13:30.000So, especially if you want a younger audience, right?
00:13:33.000You're going to have to be, you know, you look at people that watch like Kai Sinan, FaZe, or any of this other stuff.
00:13:38.000It's a lot of that moronic, self-degradation, you know, self-deprecating content, right?
00:13:45.000It's not really educational to any degree, but if you want to bring in the people, you have to do that.
00:13:49.000So it's kind of like where you have to kind of almost have a blend of like...
00:13:52.000The Jerry Springer ridiculousness, but at the same time, you have to be able to teach people stuff because what I've noticed is that people really fuck with you when you help them change their life.
00:14:00.000It's one thing if you're entertaining, but it's nothing if you keep them from making a really bad decision or you help them make some money or whatever, then they really stay low and say, damn, these guys helped me out with that.
00:14:09.000But you've got to get the eyeballs in because there's a lot of people out there that are really smart and good at what they do, but they're boring and people don't want to watch them.
00:17:39.000He says, when I got divorced from my wife, I thought it was over.
00:17:41.000And, you know, I thought I was worthless.
00:17:43.000But, you know, you put me on that path.
00:17:45.000That's why I do what I do is for comments like that.
00:17:49.000So if you want to get into the dating and relationship sphere, the manosphere, so to speak, you have to love it.
00:17:54.000Because if you don't, you'll get sussed out very quickly.
00:17:56.000Yeah, and I do think that that content, I mean, we kind of knew this was coming, that they would start shadow banning, suppressing content like that, you know, because we've definitely dealt with the shadow banning and the restriction.
00:18:06.000We used to be all over the place, and now, like, they're definitely not recommending us as much.
00:18:22.000And then they said, whoa, we've got to reel this back in.
00:18:24.000And then they started banning all of this stuff all over the place because the truth, a lot of the times, is, you know, considered hateful or misogynistic or whatever they want to call.
00:18:33.000And they're like, no, this is not what we're going to do.
00:18:35.000And, you know, they always pull it back.
00:18:36.000And that's what happens, unfortunately.
00:18:38.000But, you know, but at the same time...
00:18:41.000Lying isn't going to help you either, right?
00:18:43.000You could go ahead and take the Matthew Hussey, Derek Jackson approach and lie, and yes, you'll get a more mainstream audience, but who are you going to get?
00:18:50.000You're going to get women as your customer base, and I don't think, I mean, if you want to make a lot of money, that could be the way to go, but no one's going to take you seriously either, or a scandal will come up like Derek Jackson, right, where they find out that he was cheating, and then bam, cooked, right?
00:19:04.000Because it's like, you're over here simping for women, pedestalizing and whatever, but you're doing the same thing that you were Criticizing men for doing forever.
00:19:39.000What they're doing is they're making a business decision.
00:19:41.000They're saying to themselves, okay, this is, like, it's going to be, and I'll be honest with you, it is much more profitable to lie to women than it is to tell the truth to men.
00:19:51.000That's why I say you've got to be passionate about this, because if you're not, you're going to get sussed out very quickly.
00:19:55.000Also, the new meta now is to talk about other people, other creators, to gain monetary gain.
00:20:01.000Now listen, I'm all for marketing and getting yourself out there, but let's say I'm a beginning YouTuber.
00:20:06.000I don't want to get myself out there as a new...
00:20:49.000I thought, and I know that there's infighting in every industry, but there is literally infighting in every industry, the restaurant industry, the medical industry.
00:20:59.000In order to be, you just have to understand that with success in this business also comes failure.
00:21:07.000You have to be prepared for the slide.
00:21:09.000You got to be prepared for the adversity.
00:21:11.000Because I remember when I first started out, 5,000 subscribers, all the comments are positive, right?
00:21:16.000And then I got my first negative comment, and I was...
00:21:18.000Oh my god, I can't believe this dude said that.
00:21:20.000But then somebody else said, yeah, once you start getting haters, that means you're definitely on the rise.
00:21:27.000So I think being mentally prepared to handle success as well as the, I don't want to say inevitable failure, but at some point, you're going to reach critical mass.
00:21:36.000More people are going to know about you, so you're going to get more haters, more videos about you.
00:21:40.000But to go back to your point, I think the quickest way to grow is to do collaborations.
00:21:46.000That's the way we used to do it in the old days.
00:23:00.000We used to be on the Redman group, and MLD would call in.
00:23:02.000Before we knew it, MLD was on the Redman group.
00:23:05.000Again, you started out the same way, and of course then we started waits and dates and the rest is history, but I would advise content creators to start small.
00:23:13.000You should not reach out to Fresh and Fit to do a collaboration.
00:23:16.000You need to reach out to Red Pill adjacent content creators with about your same or more subscriber base, more videos, and then just kind of work your way from there.
00:23:26.000I'm not saying don't swing for the fences, but by the same token, you have to be realistic.
00:23:31.000Yeah, you also gotta understand kind of where you stand, right?
00:23:34.000So, like, if you're, like, a small-ass channel with, like, a thousand subscribers, reaching out to someone that got a million and saying, yo, just put me on, like, it's not gonna happen.
00:23:41.000They're not gonna put you on, like, unless they know you or something like that.
00:23:44.000Like, or unless you have, like, some extraordinary, like...
00:23:46.000That skill set that that channel is actively looking for where you can give commentary on the topic as a subject matter expert, 9 out of 10 times they're not going to put you on.
00:23:54.000So you've got to be able to add value in a way where it makes sense for them to do it.
00:23:58.000And this is why I stress that you have to know what you're talking about because when you reached out to me, you didn't even have a channel.
00:25:08.000So it's like, if you want to sit here and compete for market share where you're able to get attention from people, you need to be having stuff at the highest quality.
00:25:14.000And unfortunately, having a random faceless commentary channel, that would have worked maybe 10 years ago.
00:25:44.000So, like, these niggas, like, they had to come out and, like, reveal themselves because they realized, like, damn, like, I can't just sit here and hide behind an avatar in the shadows to talk shit anymore.
00:30:38.000We're going to absolutely be giving you guys an after hours after this.
00:30:41.000You know, the other thing, too, I think people need to also understand is if you're going to make content that's divisive in nature, whether it's politics...
00:30:49.000Anything to do with race, anything to do with cultural stuff, like, you're gonna get a lot of hate by that, too.
00:30:54.000Casey touched on this last time we had him, actually, but I want to go into this.
00:30:58.000There's an entire infrastructure on YouTube, and you guys are gonna see where I'm going here in a second, where it's anti-masculine, anti-right-wing content, right?
00:31:39.000You just know that they're centrist to make the content that they make so that they can go ahead and give their unbiased take on shit.
00:31:45.000But the reality is, is that they do that So that they can go ahead and make money off of shock jock content of whether it's right or leftist, right?
00:31:53.000And what ends up happening is they're able to kind of pull people from both sides.
00:31:58.000To agree with them, because if they make fun of a feminist, they'll go ahead and get some right-wing support.
00:32:02.000If they go ahead and make fun of someone that's super pro-masculinity, right, like me or Andrew Tate, whatever, they'll go ahead and get some people in from the left.
00:32:26.000Like, he embarrassed the fuck out of him.
00:32:28.000And the reason why is because when you don't stand for nothing, right, you'll fall for anything.
00:32:33.000Because you don't really know any of the real nuanced realities with the take that you're trying to give, because you've got to be center to make as much money as possible.
00:32:41.000So a lot of these reaction channels, a lot of these, like, you know, center-right, center-left commentary channels, they don't know shit.
00:32:48.000They just go ahead and sit there and criticize.
00:32:50.000And then there's an entire industry of guys that'll sit there and attack anyone.
00:32:54.000They call it like, oh, we gotta attack the alpha males, whatever.
00:32:56.000When in reality, none of us are running around calling ourselves alpha males.
00:32:58.000I've never once called myself an alpha male.
00:33:52.000Listen, I'm sure that they believe some very similar things, but they don't want to say it on camera because they don't want to come off as offensive or, you know, one-sided, which I understand.
00:34:33.000And this is why this is not for the week.
00:34:36.000Because if you make a point and somebody challenges your point, if you can't effectively rebuttal that, again, you don't belong in the business.
00:34:42.000And a lot of people are great at debating in the shower, pretending to debate.
00:35:12.000We're going to be talking to Luke Beasley and Josiah from Pondering Politics.
00:35:16.000So you guys have been asking for me and Andrew to team up, so we're going to go ahead and team up and debate these guys on Friday on Culture War over on Temple.
00:35:25.000Then you guys will see me on IRL after that.
00:40:02.000If you have a smartphone and opinion, the only nigga I know that had nothing but a smartphone and opinion who grew up was Alpha Meal Strategies.
00:41:30.000And I remember when Myron used to come on my show, he used to talk about fitness, and the one thing that always stuck in my mind, your plan has to be consistent, which causes adherence.
00:41:41.000You have to have a schedule that you can consistently keep.
00:41:45.000YouTube, Rumble, it prioritizes consistency.
00:41:50.000They need to know where to find you and when to find you.
00:41:54.000What you really have to do as a content creator is you have to create a schedule in your fan's mind, right?
00:42:01.000Because all around the world there are different time zones, but if you're on at the exact same time every day, I think that's the quickest way to grow.
00:42:08.000Because, dude, I did TSR Live at 4.30 Eastern for like three years.
00:42:20.000I've never done a late night show because I lived on the East Coast, but now I live in Reno.
00:42:26.000I live on the West Coast, so now I can start live streaming at 6, which is 9 o'clock on the East Coast.
00:42:30.000And again, I'm hoping that will sort of reinvigorate my channel, but the quick answer to your question, the biggest way to blow up is consistency.
00:42:37.000You can't stream on Monday and then Thursday and then Tuesday.
00:42:46.000It's got to be the same day, same time, all the time.
00:42:50.000If you're clean, you make good content, and you're consistent, the algorithm will reward you for that.
00:42:56.000The algorithm will reward consistency.
00:43:01.000Not that it doesn't reward engagement and quality, but if you want a superpower in the YouTube game, consistency should be your superpower.
00:45:48.000You need to look forward to the haters.
00:46:02.000Because when people put out hit pieces about you, what do they do?
00:46:05.000They come to your channel and they comment.
00:46:08.000It doesn't matter what they are commenting.
00:46:11.000The point is that you're getting engagement.
00:46:13.000I would advise, guys, it's almost I don't want to say look for the haters or look for those hit pieces, but I'm telling you, when you get hit pieces done on you, you have made it.
00:46:26.000You are worthy of someone taking the time to shoot, cut, and edit a video about you.
00:46:32.000We just had this FS1 fallout with Joy Taylor and Skip Bayless and all that good stuff, right?
00:46:38.000And Joy Taylor's show, Speak, is now one of the highest rated on FS1. Now, it's not going to be that for long, but...
00:46:44.000But, I mean, and Joy Taylor should not be on TV, but it is what it is, right?
00:46:48.000So I would tell guys, like, you really need to embrace the hate, because I'll tell you this, when a lot of people blow up when people start hating on you, right?
00:46:59.000They'll talk shit about you and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you'll notice that you're steadily gaining subscribers.
00:47:10.000I was actually thinking about this the other day.
00:47:12.000I was thinking to myself, you know, if I were advising someone, you know, to do like a YouTube channel, I don't know, maybe hire someone off of Fiverr and have them do hit pieces on you.
00:48:52.000You could be content, but nobody really cares.
00:48:54.000You could be the world's greatest content creator.
00:48:57.000If other creators are not talking about you, for better or worse, you will never make it.
00:49:03.000Again, and the hate, sometimes in the beginning it used to suck, but you really have to understand that once you start getting haters, and people say it all the time, haters are your biggest fans, but they don't really believe it because when it happens to them, oh, what do I do?
00:49:49.000You know, books, courses, and womanies, and things like that.
00:49:52.000If you have a specialty in dating and relationships, if you do relationship management, I would highly, highly suggest doing books and courses.
00:50:01.000Because if you're doing content, you can also do books.
00:50:03.000And it's easy for me to write books because I type quickly.
00:50:06.000But if I were advising someone, I would say that the best way to monetize off the platform is to go do multi-platforms, write a book, do a course, and create content that's not on any platform.
00:53:46.000The only reason why Mr. Beast was still doing YouTube, but nobody knew who the fuck he was after seven years is because he loved what he was doing.
00:53:53.000And when you get into this, you will quickly find out whether or not this is for you or not.
00:54:02.000If you've been at this for six months and things aren't going as quickly as you want them to, but you still wake up thinking of ways to improve your content, then this Business is definitely for you.
00:58:25.000Oh yeah, so the calendar is posted in the WAP for the rest of the month for the Zoom call schedule, so everyone who is in premium, go check that out.
00:58:34.000And then, secondly, anyone who bought the annual for $8.99, you guys should have an email in your email from freshandfitmanager at gmail.com, and that will go and give you access to locals.
00:58:48.000And then, lastly, we'll have instructions, a new set of instructions for the Discord posted after this show, because a lot of you guys were having trouble with it.
00:59:38.000I was wondering from, like, your perspective, like, what is, like, the biggest, like, benefits and difference going from, like, not having that and doing it and running it?
01:01:20.000Do you think I should try and have these things pre-thought out, or should I just do it on a fly, like doing it live, or should I try and do some...
01:01:29.000So Donovan, he has a passion for helping people get out of debt and finance.
01:01:32.000He wants to put it on YouTube to kind of express that and gain more customers and more following.
01:02:16.000You should have notes before you go live, have your talking points, and here's another tip I'll give you.
01:02:23.000Your audience will give you your talking points.
01:02:25.000You have to start off, you have to have a fire starter.
01:02:28.000Have 9 or 10 bullet points of things you want to talk about, script it out.
01:02:31.000But as you're actually doing something live, your audience will give you talking points to do.
01:02:39.000So definitely script things out and freestyle at the same time because, again, if you know what you're talking about, you can do it pretty easily.
01:02:47.000But pay attention to your chat because your chat will ask you questions.
01:03:09.000So it should be in you anyway to talk about it.
01:03:11.000Some people bring up certain topics on stream or, for example, in comments, oh, I could talk about that too as well because I know about that.
01:07:41.000So how would I... Basically, my parents want to be able to provide me and my siblings with help for a down payment for a piece of property, but I obviously want to buy a duplex or more.
01:08:45.000You're going to get a 30-year fixed loan, right?
01:08:47.000If that's the suggestion, I was going to try to go for 15. A 15-year, you know your mortgage is going to be significantly more expensive if you do that, right?
01:09:44.000Okay, so do a couple properties at the same time?
01:09:48.000That's actually the way I did it in Vegas.
01:09:49.000Yeah, you're better off taking that capital and putting it into other houses if you're going to live in it.
01:09:55.000If you're going to buy as an investor, then yeah, you've got to put your 20-25% down.
01:09:58.000But if you're going to go ahead and live in it for a year, and you're going to get a triplex on top of that, which means you'll have two tenants to offset the cost of the mortgage, then yeah, dude, absolutely go with FHA. Put as little down as possible.
01:10:09.000And that'll be better for you because then we'll scrutinize the funds as bad.
01:10:15.000Because I would want to do that and then immediately get a rental property after that, are you saying that I'd put the 20% down on the second piece of property?
01:10:52.000This one is residential, so you can get it for 3.5% to 5%.
01:10:55.000Then, while you're in that house, let's say a year hasn't elapsed, then you can go ahead and get the second house, but that second house you're going to have to buy as an investor, which means you've got to put 20% to 25% down.
01:12:03.000So it looks like your family has some coins, so don't fuck it up.
01:12:07.000Just pick up that first house, live in it, and then as far as the second house goes, depending on whether it's a year in or not, that will dictate whether you buy the second house as an investor.
01:16:45.000And I'm just wondering, is there anything you guys can do about it?
01:16:49.000Because I'm actually giving heavy value in the chat and Trucker can vouch for me.
01:16:53.000And a tooth can vouch for me, too, that I'm actually a real trader giving a lot of value.
01:16:57.000And I'm just wondering if there's anything to either get you guys' approval.
01:17:01.000I have receipts that I actually do withdraw from the market, five years, lots of hours in the market that I know what I'm talking about, and lots of client reviews.
01:17:10.000A lot of people can vouch for me in the chat, and Noble kicked me tonight.
01:17:13.000All right, this is going to be a public execution, bro.
01:17:16.000Noble told you not to repeat soliciting people, right?
01:18:28.000And I'm like, bro, why are you doing this?
01:18:30.000Well, I wasn't, so listen, I was telling people if they need help, DM me because I can really help and if they want further instructions, let me get on a Zoom with you and then I can show you because a lot of people teach the wrong way.
01:18:43.000Let me read this very clear, bro, right?
01:20:47.000Look, if you are consistent, if people know when to find you and where to find you, you will be more successful than the greatest content creator who is inconsistent.
01:22:58.000So, I guess this is kind of like a part two question, because, like, I mean, there's a lot of people, like, there's a lot of blue pill people in the space right now, and, like, they make some really whack dating content, so if I started reacting to that and kind of, like, being an enemy, sort of say?
01:23:14.000No, you don't have to be an enemy, just be an antagonist.
01:23:16.000If there's a blue pill guy giving blue pill dating advice, yeah, react to that and debunk their talking points one by one.
01:23:58.000One of the coolest things that people tell me is like, man, I've watched you since the Redman group, or I've watched you since 2020. Like, that's pretty cool, man.
01:25:27.000If you, like, let's say just have a million, 500,000 or something like that, you know, and people, like, live off 4% of that, put it in a bank and just kind of live off the interest of that.
01:25:36.000Is that even viable anymore and do you just put it all in one bank or is, like, kind of spread it out over multiple banks?
01:25:47.000I do stuff here and there, but I'm like, okay, I might as well just get a bunch of money and just try to live off of that rather than trying to find a passion in something that doesn't pay as much because as I get older, these passion jobs don't really pay as much.
01:30:11.000I have a career with a company that I have a job that I love.
01:30:15.000I work for a good company, but it's a company that is...
01:30:19.000Very woke, very conservative, and even though the content that I want to start creating has nothing to do with what I do for a living, we always know that when you start talking about male-female interpersonal dynamics, especially with me, I'm someone who has been traveling internationally for years, and so I want to start doing content around that.
01:30:48.000And it's also kind of controversial, especially when I sit back and I see all the mistakes that a lot of gentlemen make when they're dating and traveling internationally.
01:31:04.000I'm in Texas now, and I am struggling out here, not being able to order Chinese at 1, 2 o'clock in the morning or missing my cheesesteaks and hoagies.
01:31:19.000So I've been traveling for, you know, being in the military and traveling for decades.
01:31:26.000And around 2018, I literally started dating exclusively internationally.
01:31:33.000And so whether it's Canada, France, Colombia, DR, I've lived in over, what, almost a half dozen different countries, over a half dozen different cities, and dated.
01:32:09.000If you just want this to be a hobby, if you want to just inform people, cool.
01:32:13.000But if you really want to blow up, if you really want to do this for a living, anonymity is not a luxury.
01:32:18.000Yeah, because I'm thinking along the lines, I probably will end up retiring in the next, what, two to five years.
01:32:24.000And so I figured, you know, just getting started and just putting things out there just so that when I do officially say, you know, hey, guys, you know, turning my paperwork, I'm retiring.
01:32:38.000And then, you know, using that as a transition.
01:35:02.000If you're going to be in a self-help space, people want to know who the fuck they're listening to and who the hell they're getting advice from.
01:35:08.000So, you know, it's already bad enough you sound this way.
01:36:14.000So, when you're first starting out, is it good to go ahead and go on a platform to go on live that's free and you can do it with, like, zero followers and then upload that video onto?
01:36:28.000YouTube, somewhere that requires you to have a certain amount of followers before you can go live?
01:36:34.000I would recommend being on as many platforms as humanly possible.
01:37:17.000I guess my question or I guess my commentary is one of the things that I've been trying to do on the side.
01:37:21.000It's like doing resume and LinkedIn reviews, but also tying that into personal finance because I've noticed that if you're trying to better yourself with your career or your job or your professional digital footprint, you're typically trying to also improve on your finances.
01:37:35.000And so that's something that I'm trying to maybe combine with.
01:37:40.000I've had a couple of clients just on the side, and I guess if I'm trying to maybe do it more low-key as a side hustle and not necessarily blow it up, what would be you guys' Maybe advice for something like that.
01:38:05.000I mean, I'm going to talk about how to get a job, how to do a resume, naturally on YouTube, Rumble, Twitter, wherever I can.
01:38:13.000I'm not even known as a guy that people can go to and ask a question, for example, how to do a resume.
01:38:18.000And answer quickly like that, or I can do it for you personally for a fee or consult right off the bat.
01:38:24.000Once I become that guy, and people know me from spreading this throughout all social media platforms, doing this consistently, now I have trust in the community.
01:38:33.000At that point, when you make a post, or for example, you say, hey guys, I'm going to do, maybe you're going to do a free one-day resume review.
01:38:44.000Oh my god, that's Chris from YouTube videos.
01:38:48.000So you're building out authority each and every post that you do, and at the same time you're building as well your credibility into space.
01:39:16.000And what you want to do is you want to funnel people in, right?
01:39:20.000And so on all your accounts, you know, use like a thumbnail, you know, five biggest mistakes on LinkedIn, and then have a link to go to the e-book.
01:39:28.000Dude, there are so many white-label platforms.
01:39:31.000I mean, dude, as a matter of fact, you can even just make it like a Google Doc and just give people access to the Google Doc with non-editing privileges.
01:43:45.000So, my part is like, I think I can also call it self-improvement, but is fashion.
01:43:53.000What would be your advice being that, because I know, I think my greatest strength will be coming mostly on TikTok, and now they're trying to ban TikTok.
01:44:05.000Where would you suggest or what would you advise?