Is it Possible to Go From Insecure and Full of Self-Doubt to Full of Confidence as a YouTube Creator?: The YouTube Power Hour Podcast 274
“Be you and it will always pay off. Authenticity always will win.”
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Annie Bardonski is a LA-based certified life coach as well as youtuber with over 400,000 on her channel, OhhMyAnnie. Her personal growth journey happened in front of the eyes of her viewers as she’s documented her life on youtube over the last 10 years. Through this time, she’s overcome anxiety, financial struggle and seasons of depression, which she now shares her process of transformation as well as tips on the law of attraction and manifestation with her clients and youtube subscribers. Annie helps women overcome anxiety and limiting beliefs in order to manifest the life of their dreams!
Annie first got onto YouTube 10 years ago, and her truly transformational process as a person had been documented throughout the last decade. At the age of 18, the person she was dating passed away. Losing someone she cared about and loved at such a young age was both shocking and devastating, but she realized that she wanted to make the most of her life, use the gift of her life for good, live life to the fullest, and inspire others to do the same. At the beginning, she didn’t have a niche, uploaded random videos, and had no real direction, but when she was about 6-7 years into her channel, she began to take her channel seriously, put her energy into being consistent, and that was the month she made enough through AdSense to pay her rent. After being in a low place in life, she discovered the power of mindset and manifestation and started the slow process of inner work to shift her life, which then led her to approach her channel in a new way.
“The month I decided to get consistent with it, that’s when my Adsense money was enough to pay my rent, and I was like ‘there’s something here.’ That’s what inspired me to keep going.”
Bit by bit, she started sharing more of her new mindset shift and everything she was learning in her journey to self-love. As her confidence grew, she shared more and more nuggets of vulnerability and her viewers were super receptive. The more she shared, the more encouragement she got and it made her feel safe. All of her content now is based on personal development, but she won’t take down all her old, random videos because it helps her viewers truly see her transformation. For Annie, it’s not about how many views she can get, it’s about influencing lives.
“I care about positively influencing other people’s lives, and so that’s what my channel is all about now.”
3 Key Interview Takeaways
- Start with your own personal healing. Annie advocates for doing the inner work, because once you do the inner work, everything else will fall into place. Meditation will help clear your mind. Many problems are fake and are just thoughts in your head. If you feel good, you will feel good, more energized, and will show up. Everyone wants to force and hustle but they end up burning the candle at both ends. Take care of what is inside too.
- Be authentic. As you start the process of the inner work, Annie advocates for implementation through baby steps of sharing more of yourself through your videos. Remember, your audience can sense when you are not being authentic. The more authentic you are, the more your ideal audience will gravitate to you.
- Gratitude. The more you’re enjoying life, the easier it becomes to open up and share. Be grateful for where you are. Allow yourself to feel emotions. If you feel sad, let yourself feel sad.
Mentioned in the Episode:
My boyfriend died and it changed my life…
I TESTED A CRAZY FOOT PEEL MASK
How I Manifested my DREAM Home/Apartment in 1 Year | Law of Attraction Success Story
HOW I Changed My Life AND Overcame Depression
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Course Creation: Looking to create a course? Kajabi is the BEST platform hands down. I use this for my course after extensive research on all the other platforms.
Live Calls and Interviews: I use Ecamm for my podcast interviews, both audio and for YouTube that you see here on YouTube. It makes it super easy to share my screen and create the split-screen with my guest. I’m not super techie and this software is really easy to use!
Webinars and Live calls: I use Zoom.us for my group coaching calls in my private membership group for female YouTube creators. It’s also the software I use to record my Road to 100k YouTube Subscribers Masterclass!
THE BEST YOUTUBE/PODCASTING EQUIPMENT
After interviewing HUNDREDS of successful YouTube creators, these are the pieces of equipment that hands down get mentioned time and time again. You can’t go wrong with anything on this list!
- 4k Camera: Great for starting out and vlogging
- Lens: This lens is recommended highly by many of my podcast guests, it gives the blurry “YouTuber” background look.
- Audio: If you want to upgrade your set-up, audio should be one of the first investments (after a good camera). This microphone is unanimously the favorite amongst my podcast guests.
- Podcast/Voiceover Microphone: If you are looking for a great microphone for a podcast or video voiceover, this is it! This is the one that you see in all of my videos and the one I’ve recorded my podcast on for years.
- Webcam: For my interviews, that you see in my videos, this is the webcam that I use. Super inexpensive and easy to set up!
- Inexpensive Lighting Kit: Need to pick up some lights but don’t want to spend a ton? This is a great set that will get you started and help improve the look of your videos.
- Ring light: Looking for that beauty look? Invest in a ring light! This is an inexpensive light that does that trick!
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