005 | Manifesting Your Goals and Growing a YouTube Channel w/ Shan Rizwan
How do you find the motivation and creativity to start and grow a YouTube channel from scratch? Shan Rizwan is a YouTuber whose videos about his life as a student at Boston college have racked up over 5 million views. On this episode we talked about: when & why he started his YouTube channel (0:29) his early creative interests (1:35) keeping your YouTube channel a secret in the beginning (4:01) how he used the law of attraction to manifest 1,000 subscribers (6:15) the best piece of advice Shan has received from other YouTubers (16:31) how do you balance the analytic side of YouTube with the creative? 17:58) the negative effects of paying attention to fluctuating view and subscriber counts (21:00) Beatrice’s 2 pieces of advice to stop caring about the numbers so much (22:38) how Shan’s “guessing college majors” video went viral (26:12) balancing running a YouTube channel with school (29:46) the importance of self discipline in starting creative projects (31:45) how do you stay inspired and continuously come up with video ideas? (34:36) the best way to improve when you are just starting out on YouTube (37:56) lightning round: most important habit, book recommendation, and favorite holiday song (41:22) To find links to everything we mentioned, and to sign up for weekly podcast shownotes in your inbox, click here. If you’d like to contribute a comment, question, or suggestion, send me an email or audio file/voice note over at [email protected]. ⭑ SUPPORT THE SHOW ⭑ If you’ve found value in the podcast, please consider leaving a tip! It helps me to continue producing episodes and sharing conversations with cool people, and I really appreciate it. You can also help out by leaving a review on iTunes! It means the world to me :) ⭑ CONNECT WITH ME ⭑ Website | www.theblissbean.com YouTube | The Bliss Bean Instagram | @theblissbean ⭑ OTHER ⭑ Music from Epidemic Sound. Try a 30-day free trial of music for your content: http://share.epidemicsound.com/theblissbean