What's up everyone.
Welcome back to my channel.
Now, I have some exciting news to share and I honestly didn't think that I'd be sharing
this news so soon in my journey, let alone being in front of this camera just saying
it out loud.
But the news is, is that in the month of January alone, last month meaning, I made over at
10,000 dollars in my business.
So it was my first time ever achieving a milestone like this to be able to make 10K a month.
I feel like 10K a month is what you always see on the Internet.
Like this person may 10K, that person made 10K, and I've always been someone who just
looked at that and was like, how is that even possible?
And to have that become my reality has just been, I'm speechless.
Now, I really debated whether or not I wanted to share this type of information out on YouTube,
let alone just the Internet in general, just because I know that a lot of people think
that sharing income is really tacky.
And I also know that when you share your income like that, and especially when you do YouTube,
there's tons of haters that end up infiltrating through the comment section.
I wasn't sure if I was emotionally ready for hate comments if there were any.
I mean it happens, but I realized that there's a lot of people, there's a handful of you
who have followed me from the very beginning, meaning from the very first video that I posted
back in July of last year.
And throughout this whole youtube journey or just my business journey, I feel like I've
been quite candid when it comes to income.
I'm not sure if in the future I'll share more like income stuff because I feel like the
more money I eventually make, I feel like I want to keep that private.
And I also don't want to come off as like, oh my God guys, look how much money I've made.
And come across this like bragging.
But I thought that this was really important for me to share because again, a lot of you
guys have followed me from the beginning and this is just the beginning for me as well.
And so, I've thought that I would share this piece of my journey with you guys because
it's a huge milestone for me.
And also throughout this whole journey I've shared with you guys the fact that my old
corporate job that I worked at was paying me 65K and I said goodbye to that.
And then eventually I also became a Barista part-time, to support this business while
I was building it.
And let's be honest, I'm still building it, and I was getting paid minimum wage to do
that.
And there's videos here and videos here of me talking really candidly about my journey.
So that's why in this video, I'm really going to walk you through my business journey from
top to bottom to when I quit my job to where I am now, making a 10K a month.
I launched my website, announcing my business to the public in January, so I launched it
on January 6th, 2019.
Today's date is, Whoa, it's February 6, 2019.
So it's been a month, exactly 30 days since I launched my business to the public.
And because I made this 10K a month, I don't want people to think, oh my gosh.
In your first month of starting a business, you made this money?
No, I actually started this business back in August.
I incorporated this business in January though.
So I wasn't really a legitimate business up until last month in January.
But regardless, in this video, if you're interested, I'm going to walk you through from top to
bottom, just what I've been through these last six months, how I got here, what it was
like and the lessons that I've learned.
I haven't necessarily scripted this video, so I'm not sure what I'm going to end up saying,
but if you're down for it, then keep on watching.
All right.
So let's just flash back and go all the way back to May 2018.
And I have all of the receipts on my phone.
This is like my time capsule of how I timestamp when everything has happened.
But May 11 2018 on a Friday at around 10:30 AM was when I resigned from my corporate job.
I gave three weeks notice and my last day at that job would be June 1 2018.
So that was the timeline that I was working with.
And at the time, I was petrified.
It was one of the hardest decisions of my life, but also, in hindsight now, I felt like
it was one of the best decisions of my life.
It was truly the time where I felt responsible for my life.
And I felt like, by leaving that job, I was really declaring to the world that I matter
and that I don't have to choose to be in these situations that I don't like.
And I always have the option to leave.
Because of that moment, it has been so transformational for me because, it was the first time that
I've ever left something like that.
I feel like now because of that experience, I now know the value of letting go, the value
of making a decision, the value of choosing your destiny and choosing your fate.
Those really big decisions that we have to make end up being the most important decisions
that we have to make.
And when you don't like something, you can always change.
You can always move.
There's always options out there.
And that experience has taught me that lesson.
I think that people who are in shitty situations, they have a tendency to have tunnel vision
and they feel like there are no options out there.
They feel stuck, they feel trapped, and I used to feel that way too for a whole year.
I felt that way at that job.
I couldn't see a way out.
And now that I'm on the other side, I realized that we always have a choice.
We always have the power to say no, to say yes.
You can ultimately control your life just by making those hard decisions, and just by
having faith in the unknown and being okay with the unknown.
So, that's one major lesson that I've learned this far throughout my journey.
The second thing that I learned throughout my journey shortly after leaving my job, the
first month was fun.
I did some traveling, I slept in, I hang around, it was the summer time.
So I really took advantage of the month of June.
It was really fun.
And then near the months of July, near the end, that's when I decided to start this youtube
channel.
Now, I've said this a lot of times within my channel, but starting a youtube channel
with something that I've always wanted to do since I was younger, since I was in high
school.
But fear always prevented me from doing it and now that had all this time, and then because
I also realize the value of time, especially when I was working a nine to five, I realized
like, oh my goodness, if I don't do this now, then I might not ever be able to do it later.
So, that's what gave me the urgency to start this channel.
So near the end of July, I started a youtube channel and I posted my first video here,
which made a lot of people nauseous because I didn't know how to do the setup.
And I told myself, done is better than perfect and it's okay if I'm just holding the camera
like this.
People were not happy, but it's okay.
I have since improved.
And that's the thing, if you're watching this and you want to start a channel, just start.
Look at my first few videos, look at the videos I made two weeks ago, you're always going
to constantly improve.
I'm pretty sure a year from now when I look back at this video, I'm going to be like,
oh Vanessa, no, that's not good.
You shouldn't have done that.
But just start.
I think that's another lesson that I've learned.
But anyways, when I was starting youtube, it was hard.
Especially when I had no big vision yet for it.
I didn't really know where it was going to take me, but I just knew that it was something
that I wanted to do.
And what was really awkward was when people asked me, so are you making money on this?
What are you doing with your life?
So on and so forth.
The second thing too that ended up happening since starting the youtube channel, is my
parents got worried.
They got nervous.
It's like, what are you doing?
So that's why they gave me an ultimatum.
"It's you either go back to a nine to five, or you at least do something so that you don't
have to rely on us to buy coffee or something.
I don't care what you do, I need to make sure that you have your own streams of income".
And I was like, okay.
So I made the decision to work at a coffee shop.
I worked as a part-time barista.
And when I first started out, I worked graveyard shifts.
I ended up complaining and saying that I didn't want to work graveyard shifts.
Because again, I realized the power of saying no.
But as the new girl, they obviously put me through graveyard.
And what graveyard is, is when you work from 12:00 AM to 8:00 AM.
So while doing this youtube channel or just figuring out this whole youtube thing and
what I was going to do with it, and I'm also working as a barista, working minimum wage,
it was a lot of pressure and it wasn't until near August where I posted this video about
why quit my job, when things really started to change for me.
At that point, I was actually super nervous to post it.
I was nervous that, my old managers would get upset.
It would ruin the chances of me getting a job ever again.
And I was actually also worried that I would somehow get sued or something for defamation
or whatever.
Even though I feel like this whole time I've been quite respectful and it haven't really
like throw out names or anything.
But anyways, a day after that video was uploaded, I ended up getting a message on Facebook from
this stranger who I've never met before.
And she asked me if I had coaching services, and if I had a website and if I had my rates.
And at that point, I didn't know what to say.
I've never done coaching before.
It was as if like coaching found me through youtube.
And so that's why the title of this videos, I owe a lot of my success to social media,
because had I not put myself out there on the Internet, I would not have made 10K in
a month.
I guarantee you that.
And I'm going to talk about that later.
But that video landed me my first client and I worked with her for free.
At that point I didn't know what I could coach on, but she was looking to also leave her
nine to five.
And I felt like I could help her with that because I've done it myself and I felt like
the way that I left my corporate job, I did it decently gracefully so I want to tell her
with that.
And because I am a person of integrity, I didn't charge her.
I just did it for free.
And I said, hey, you know what?
In exchange for me trying to help you through this transition in your life, would you mind
giving me a feedback and potentially a testimonial if you end up happy with the results that
you want?
And she agreed.
And then the rest was history.
We ended up working together.
And funny enough, I ended up solving her problem of being afraid to quit her job within the
first two sessions.
And she ended up wanting to start a business through the questions I was asking her, and
she just reflected a lot and she just realized that she wanted to start a business.
So I had two decisions to make.
It was either I tell her, hey, you know what?
I can't help you anymore because I don't know how to start a business, or I could use my
existing skills of what I know in business and help her out.
And so that's what I did.
I said yes.
And I said, you know what?
Let's do it.
I'm doing this for free anyways.
You have nothing to lose.
I have nothing to lose.
So let's try it out.
And by saying yes to something that I wasn't sure if I had skills in, was also one of the
best decisions I've ever made.
And the reason why I say this is because, I realized that we don't notice our skills
and our talents until we talk to someone who's different from us, who doesn't have the same
skills and who doesn't have the same talents.
All of us are different.
For instance, you know, I read a lot of business books.
I went to business school, I worked corporate.
I naturally have a huge interest in marketing, specifically online marketing now.
And to talk to someone who has very little business experience was an eye opener for
me.
I was like, oh my gosh, you don't know how to create funnels, or you didn't know how
to do an opt-in, or you don't know about social media?
I thought everyone knew this.
It's like as if you were a fitness person and you think that everyone knows their macros,
and you think that everyone knows how to count calories, and you think that everyone knows
how to do certain exercises the right way, until you meet an average Joe and they don't.
Everyone has different talents and different skills.
And this is another lesson that I've learned, is that you are talented.
You have something, everyone has something in them that makes them different.
These are called strengths.
What I always say to my current clients now, is we always want to look at what your natural
strengths are.
What do you already have that's different from other people, and how can you capitalize
on this strength and actually turn it into a business position yourself as potentially
an expert?
Because there are lot of people out there that are a couple steps behind you that just
need your help.
And so that was a huge pivotal moment for me.
And since helping her with her business, we ended up launching her business.
She's at a point where she has her own clients and I realized that, wow, I'm actually good
at this.
And so then I took on more free clients.
I worked with other people for free, with a little Beta Test program just to see what
I could do for them.
And I also ended up giving people results as well.
But throughout that phase in my journey, I still wasn't sure what the results would actually
be for my business.
So for instance, while I was working with clients for free and working at a coffee shop,
making minimum wage, I wasn't making any money on the actual business.
And I didn't know what would end up happening months later.
I didn't know that I would be at this place.
This place that I'm at now, I wished for, I dreamed for.
And I'm actually going to show a clip that I recorded back in September when I was at
a really low point and when I was just wanting to document that vulnerable moment in hopes
that one day I could show it, in hopes that one day I'd be in a better place, which I
think I am at now.
So I'm going to show up this clip to show you the reality of what it was like starting
my business, especially when times were rough.
Okay.
So, I don't know if I'll ever post this video, but something I promised myself is to always
document my journey.
Because ever since leaving my job, I just truly felt like it was a shot at a new life.
I don't know, a shot at a new identity or whatever.
And I'm so grateful and happy that I was able to find the courage and the strength to leave
a situation that was totally not serving me and to get over my fears and ego and to just
take the leap.
And I'm really proud of myself for doing it and I'll always be proud of myself for doing
it.
But at the same time, it can sometimes be really challenging because when you have a
vision and when you have a dream, or you have something that you desperately want to achieve
in your life that might not be conventional, that might be untraditional, there's going
to be a lot of challenges that you're going to face.
And that's why I wanted to record this video to remind myself in the future, hopefully
when I'm successful or whatever, or when I reach those goals, that I started at this
stage.
But also if I end up posting this at some point and you're watching this, and you have
a dream and you can see it so clearly in your head, but no one else can, including your
family, including your closest friends, including just strangers who may be judging you or whatever
for pursuing something that they can't see right now, then I want to remind you that
you're not alone.
And hopefully I'll be in a lot better place when this video, if this video ever sees the
light in public.
So as you can see from that video clip, I've had some rough times.
That's only one clip of probably many that I've documented of me just bawling my eyes
out because I was so scared and so frustrated while building this business.
So what I have to say to you, if you've gotten this far watching this video and you are at
a place where you're thinking of starting something new, document your journey.
At that time when I filmed that video, I had no idea whether or not I would ever show it
to anyone and I told myself, I'll show it to people when I've reached a level of success
that I'm happy with.
And to be at this place right now, really, it's still in the beginning of my journey
to share that video.
I'm really glad that I documented it because it really makes me feel so much more grateful
and so much more proud of myself of what I've built so far.
But anyways, speaking of struggles, I also remember a pivotal moment for me.
While I was still working graveyard at the coffee shop that I was working at, again,
the shifts were 12:00 AM to 8:00 AM and one of my duties was to pick up cigarette butts
off the floor and wrap pastries.
That was the main thing that you did if you work graveyard and also cleaning the coffee
shop.
And I remember when you pick up the cigarette butts, you have to sweep it into the dust
pan.
But for some reason for me, I guess I suck at doing stuff like that so it wasn't working.
And what I ended up doing was I literally ended up using my fingers to pick up all the
cigarette butts off the floor because I just couldn't get the dust pan to get the cigarette
butts into the whatever.
And I remember, as I was picking up these cigarette butts with my bare fingers, I remember
just looking up at the sky and asking myself, what the fuck did I get myself into?
I'm someone who has graduated from a top business school.
I graduated top female of my graduating class.
I was president of my undergraduate society and now I'm working minimum wage as barista,
picking up cigarette butts with my bare hands.
I cried, I teared up and I was just like, what did I do to myself?
Did I really self sabotage my entire life?
And it was depressing, but at the same time, I remember also looking up at the sky and
I was just like, I can't fail.
This has to happen, essentially is what I told myself.
Failure is not an option.
I don't care if it takes a hundred videos that I'm to post on YouTube.
I don't care if it means working for free with people for a while, or working at a coffee
shop for a year or plus, I'm going to make this happen.
I'm going to make my coaching business happen.
I'm going to make my youtube channel happen.
I'm going to make my personal brand happen.
There's no option for failure because I know at the end of the day, the only way that you
fail is if you give up.
And I told myself, if I never give up, then I'll never fail.
And since then, I've been a stubborn Bitch in terms of managing my business, I've ruined
to some relationships, I've let go off some of the relationships and I've charged some
relationships.
But that's because I'm protecting my dream and I was very ruthless in who I let into
my circle.
If you don't believe in me, then get the fuck out.
That was basically my attitude and it still is my attitude.
And I hope this doesn't come across as cocky or whatever, but when you have an unwavering
belief in yourself, even though you don't know when the six figure mark is going to
happen, you don't know when is the 10K mark is going to happen.
You don't know when you're going to be able to make enough money to buy yourself an apartment.
You don't know when you're going to hit certain milestones.
As long as you just have that faith that one day it'll come, that's all you need.
Or at least that's all I needed.
I just had that unwavering faith that the things that I want in my life are going to
come.
I just cannot give up.
And every day I need to chip away at it.
And every day I need to take actions that are going to lead towards that time to come
to me when it's ready.
So, that's all the backstory.
Now you're probably wondering, okay Vanessa, great.
We know the backstory now.
We know that you've ate shit for a while, and we know that it's not an overnight success
and you've been at this for quite some time.
So, how exactly did you get from there to here?
How did you make that 10K a month?
Now, I'm going to wrap up some key lessons that I've learned just in bullet point format.
So this video doesn't go on too long because I'm just checking the monitor and it seems
like it's going on for a while.
But the first thing is, is social media.
Social media built my business.
I see a lot of people who are on social media and they just want a 100,000 followers or
they want all these vanity metrics.
That's great.
But I think that if you're watching this video and you want to make it big on social, really
ask yourself, what are you doing with your handle?
What are you doing with that platform?
Are you just doing it as a hobby?
Which that is totally fine.
Or are you going to monetize that audience or try to build trust with that audience in
order to get them to take action on something?
That was the approach that I took with my social media eventually.
Because as I was growing on YouTube, and again, keep in mind that I still have less than a
thousand subscribers on youtube.
I didn't hit the 1000 mark until maybe December, so like couple of months ago.
But even with a very small following, I was still able to get clients.
I was still able to get people messaging me about working with me and at that point, I
didn't even have a website yet.
So don't stress so much about the numbers that you have on social, focus more on creating
really great content, educational content, content that people are actually searching
for and find value in, and also focus on building a community.
That's when I created my Facebook group, the Fearless Boss Network.
I created that group back in October 2018.
Yeah, I think it was October and that's where I really cultivated those relationships.
And eventually, more clients started wanting to work with me because they knew who I was
through social media and not once have I ever solicited anyone to work with me.
I've never been the person to message someone and say, hey, pay me money and work for me.
I have a coaching business.
I just let people come to me.
The moral of the story of what I'm trying to say here is, social media has been my number
one lead generator and all I'm doing is sharing my personality online.
I'm sharing my knowledge.
I'm not cheeping out on knowledge.
I have this video that went viral and I'm pretty sure it went viral, not only because
I've been very consistent and posting on YouTube, by doing two videos a week now, but also because
the content was actually very unique.
It's actually quality content.
If you look at the comments section, yeah, there's some haters, but majority of people
are like, holy, this is a very unique piece of content.
Not a lot of people are sharing these tips.
And so that's how I grew so fast on social, was providing people with actual valuable
content.
And as a result, I attracted clients into my business.
That's how I was able to make over 10K last month.
And again, keep in mind before I hop onto the next bullet point of what contributed
to this success, is the fact that I still didn't have a website up until last month.
And so, I had been growing and growing and cultivating and never asking for a sale, up
until January where I posted about my website and I was like, hey guys, this is what I've
been working on.
Here's me, here's what I've been up to and here's what I can offer.
And because for the past five to six months I was just building and building and building,
the moment that I launched something, it was successful.
I didn't start off my youtube being like, hey guys, I'm a coach.
Work with me.
I never asked for a sale.
I just kept giving value, kept giving free content and I still give free content.
And so when I finally offered something or asked for something in return, that's when
the clients started really coming in because I had cultivated those relationships for so
long.
It's like what Gary Vee says, it's the Jab, Jab, Jab, right hook.
Like you, Jab, Jab, Jab, all the free content and the moment that you right hook something,
and that moment that you actually say, hey guys, my business is open, people are receptive
to it because it's not like every day that you ask for a sale.
So I definitely wanted to add that point before I move onto the second point.
The second pivotal thing that happened in my business that really accelerated my growth
was hiring a business mentor.
The moment that I hired a business mentor, I felt like I had way more structure.
I had way more accountability.
I had way more guidance in doing what I was doing.
And it was also so nice to have a second perspective of my business because oftentimes when you're
doing it alone, you feel very lonely and you don't have a boss.
You don't have a team.
No one's there to actually tell you, hey, good job.
Or hey, maybe you should tweak this.
So having that business mentor was crucial to fast tracking the success of my business.
Of course, if you hire a business mentor or a business coach, that's not a bandaid solution
for success.
All a business mentor or a business coach is, is guiding you in the right direction,
opening those doors for you, but at the end of the day, you're the one that has to walk
through them.
Then the third major thing that happened in my business that I felt really accelerated
my growth was, when I went to a coffee chat with another, I would say he's a business
mentor of mine.
I really look up to him.
His name is Wilson.
I'll link his channel right here.
But when I was talking to him, I told him what my revenue goals were for this year and
I said, hey, I want to replace my corporate income from last year.
I want to make at least a 65K in my business in 2019.
At first, was worried.
I thought that he would say something like, Vanessa, that's a little bit too aggressive
for someone who's just starting a business.
But instead what he said was, Vanessa, that's way too low.
Dream bigger.
You got to go bigger, aim for 100K next year.
And I was like, what?
What do you mean?
I was literally shocked that he even said that.
And what I learned from that conversation is that, if you have 10 x goals, then you're
going to do 10 x action to achieve those goals.
If I had just told myself, okay, I'm happy with 65K this year, then I wouldn't make the
action or I wouldn't take the massive action that I needed to take in order to hit a 10K
a month.
If I had just put my ceiling right here, I would have just stayed stuck.
But instead what Wilson challenged me on was actually putting the ceiling up here so that
I can actually reach higher.
So that's what I've learned from him.
And honestly, if he never said that, I don't think I would've made 10K last month and I
don't think I would have motivated myself to take more action and to challenge myself
to get to that 100K mark.
So those were the main three things that I've done within my business that I think has made
me successful, even though my version of success I think is like, I think I'll achieve it later.
But this is a great start.
This is more than a great start for me.
And so that's what I wanted to share with you guys.
I really hope that by the end of this video, everything makes sense because again, I didn't
script anything and it's all been done candidly.
But yeah, next time, in the next video, what I actually want to teach you guys, especially
for those who are interested in social media, what I'm going to share with you guys is exactly
the different ways that you can make money on social media.
Other than the conventional ways like brand partnerships, AdSense revenue.
I really want to give you guys more knowledge in terms of how you can actually make your
social media into something that benefits your business the same way that it's done
for mine.
So make sure you hit the notification bell and the subscribe button to stay informed
on when that drops.
Anyways, guys, from the bottom of my heart, I am so, so, so grateful for you following
my journey up until this point.
Hopefully, we have more milestones to celebrate in the future and again, I hope you guys or
and not again, as always, I hope you guys have a great day.
Hope you guys have a great week and I hope you guys have a great life and I'll see you
next time.
Bye guys.
So really quickly, these are all the goals that I have that I put up on my wall when
I was first starting my journey.
So this one's done, this one's done, this one's done.
This one was probably one of the most happiest times of my life when this happened.
This one I thought would never happen.
This one, I definitely thought would never happen so soon.
And then this one is the most recent one that just happened.
And it's ironic that I actually achieved the 10K a month before I achieved the 10K follower
mark.
So a big lesson there is that, it's not always about the vanity metrics and it's possible
to make this type of money without this, this was just a byproduct of everything that has
been going on.
But anyways, hopefully one day I'll be able to achieve these things, one day hopefully.
But I know in my heart that that day will come.
I just have to be patient.
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