There’s something I need to share.

So in a few months I'll be coming up on the three-year anniversary of Rainbow Plant Life being my full-time business, creating delicious vegan recipes and sharing them here on YouTube, on my blog, on my Instagram, and honestly it's been the most rewarding and fulfilling three years of my life. When I first started making YouTube videos I really just did it as a fun little hobby because I had gone vegan recently and I was just like so excited to share everything I knew with everyone and I love to cook so I thought let's make some videos but I had no idea what I was doing. Welcome back to Rainbow Plant Life. Welcome back to Rainbow Plant Life. Welcome back to Rainbow Plant Life. And I certainly didn't think that we'd be here today with three quarters of a million subscribers and millions of people watching our videos every month. And as cool as it is to see these crazy numbers, what really excites me and gets me out of bed in the morning is seeing how many of you make my recipes month after month and how you've changed your eating habits and have convinced your family and friends to eat fewer animal products and how you're just genuinely excited to get into the kitchen and cook some amazing plant-based food. So first and foremost what I want to say in this video is thank you to everyone who watches our videos, likes, subscribes, shares, comments, all of those things, leaves reviews on the blog, DMs me and emails me with all these wonderful things. It is truly an honor and a privilege to be able to do something I love so much and that I'm so passionate about as my actual career, like an actual job, and then to also be able to build this really amazing community alongside with it. I don't think I was gonna cry. And one of the amazing opportunities this community has given me is the ability to write a second cookbook and I am so freaking excited to be able to share it with you in the future at some point whenever it's out. It is basically my approach to vegan cooking distilled into one cookbook with so many recipes, way too many recipes according to my contract, that's a different story, and I have poured every ounce of energy and love into this book. However, it has been really hard, especially lately, to juggle everything from developing literally hundreds of recipes and testing them over and over and over to make sure they're perfect for you all to photographing all the recipes on my own to writing the actual cookbook. It's been a lot to manage, especially on top of also running my YouTube channel and my blog and my Instagram account and my email list. There's just so many hours in the day even when you love what you do and even you have people helping you behind the scenes. So the second thing I wanted to share in this video is that I'll be taking a break from YouTube, just a short break, I promise I'm not going anywhere, but I want to give myself time during this break to finish this cookbook on my terms that feel good and not stressed and not rushed. And I also would like to take a vacation, a real vacation for the first time since December 2019. Along this little break, I also plan to spend a little time thinking more concretely and critically about how I can improve this channel and my blog and create more useful content for you all while also doing this work in a little more of a sustainable way that has a little more me time built in and less infrequent vacations. During this time you might still see me post here on YouTube on the community tab or maybe a short from time to time, but if you want to stay up to date with what I'm doing, find out when I'll be back on YouTube, maybe get some cookbook sneak peeks, be sure to follow me over on Instagram at Rainbow Plant Life because I share daily stuff on my stories there. You can also sign up for my newsletter which is free and once a week I do a life update there so you can follow along. I also share obviously delicious recipes in the newsletter every week and hopefully that will keep you well fed while I am away. All right, that was it. Thank you for watching. I love you all. I'll see you very soon. Bye!