Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:16 - The test nobody runs before starting 1:23 - Four popular AI ideas quietly engineered to fail 2:45 - The filter that kills almost everything you've been pitched 3:39 - The corporate veteran who turned his worst years into a channel 4:03 - The method behind every video idea you'll ever need 4:35 - The hidden asset you're already sitting on 4:59 - The notepad exercise that hands you your first 5 videos 5:25 - The family member I secretly ran this playbook on 6:25 - Where this AI tool quietly does the heavy lifting for you 6:35 - Why his objectively terrible first video still took off 9:01 - The rule that protects your day job ---------- SALARY DISCLAIMER: All income figures presented in this video are sourced from Glassdoor reports at the time of editing. These represent reported salary ranges for full-time positions, which may differ from freelance, contract, or part-time opportunities discussed. Actual earnings vary significantly based on experience, location, skills, hours worked, and current market conditions. The figures presented represent potential earnings according to third-party sources, not guaranteed results.
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The video outlines a strategy for building a sustainable personal brand on YouTube by teaching the \"younger version of yourself.\" By leveraging professional expertise and AI tools, individuals can create a compounding financial asset without risking capital, using their full-time employment to fund the growth of their digital presence.
This is the one Cloud AI side hustle that I would recommend to my own family.
And by the end of this video, you will know exactly what it is,
the money layers it unlocks, and how to start it around a full-time job.
Because most of the people talking about side hustles on YouTube will give you
options that are full-time businesses, and you absolutely cannot do them on the side realistically.
Now, quick credentials so that you know that I know what I'm talking about.
I personally made over $10 million from YouTube.
The people that I've worked with have stacked over $100 million combined.
And I actually picked out a random person who's on the older side in my family,
and I ran this exact playbook for them.
And that story is my favorite proof that I've ever shared, and it's coming here in a moment.
And I've been studying what actually works for normal people, like nurses,
IT guys, realtors, and what they can actually realistically do on the side of their full-time
career. And I've also seen what wastes their time as well.
And most AI side hustle advice falls into the second bucket.
People are trying stuff that either doesn't work in the first place, or it does work,
but it's basically a full-time job.
Now, fair warning here, AI slop is absolutely flooding this platform.
This is recycled garbage from people who've never made
a dollar outside of just teaching other people how to do AI.
So everything in this video is pulled straight from real results with the numbers attached.
If you appreciate me making this type of content, then let me know by
gently choosing that like button, and let's jump into it right now.
All right, let's start this off with what I like to call the Thanksgiving test.
Because here's what I keep watching happen.
A guy sinks $3,000 into a crypto trading bot because a YouTube ad promised that it
trades while you sleep, and it does the trade while he sleeps,
and it trades his account straight down to zero.
A mom launches an AI dropshipping store, pays for ads, pays for courses, pays for the software.
And the product that she's selling is the same product that 4,000 other stores spun
up that exact month. And so she has a massive amount of competition.
And of course, it's not going to work.
A college kid builds a faceless AI YouTube automation channel,
pumping out five AI slop videos a day. And the platform absolutely buries it because
YouTube is actively at war with exactly that type of content.
And even if for whatever reason the videos did work,
YouTube would probably ban you or demonetize you.
And if for whatever reason they didn't do that,
it would be very easy for other people to just copy your channel as well.
And the AI app dream, well, apps are a winner take all market.
There's one winner and a graveyard for everybody else.
So that's an incredibly rare bet, not a side hustle.
And honestly, I think it's a great business model,
but it's not good for beginners and it certainly is not a side hustle.
Now, none of those people were stupid.
They were just sold a slot machine dressed up as a business and that's
and it pisses me off.
Now, quick honesty break here, because I'm not here to torch everything.
I think an AI agency business is actually pretty decent.
Real businesses will genuinely pay for that.
But it's just not where I would start anyone that I personally love like my family.
Because day one, you're cold chasing buyers with zero trust and zero leverage,
which is exactly the backwards version of what I'm about to show you.
So when family asked me, what should I actually do with AI?
I run it through one filter.
I call it the Thanksgiving test.
Would I stake a family relationship on this thing?
So first of all, there needs to be zero capital at risk.
Nothing we're losing means losing the house.
Something that you would proudly explain at a dinner table.
Nothing where you'd have to say, well, technically, it's not a scam.
There'd also have to be no preexisting tech skill because
Claude closes that gap more on that here in a bit.
It also has to build an asset that compounds,
not a treadmill that stops paying the second that you stop running.
And it has to run next to your day job, not instead of it, right?
This has to actually be a side hustle,
something that you can do on the side while you're still
making full time income doing something else.
Now, you need to run every hustle that you've ever been pitched through those five
and watch almost all of them die.
Almost.
And for me, there is one thing and one thing only that survives this Thanksgiving test.
And luckily, it's something that you're already qualified for.
And a good example of this is my community member named Bill.
Bill spent years as a corporate financial controller.
We're talking about the guy buried in month end closes
and budget reviews that nobody teaches you how to survive.
So we build a channel called the Financial Controller.
And all he does is teach the younger version of himself the stuff that he
wished that somebody had handed him when he was coming up and he was first getting started.
And even though Bill was already making really good money as a financial controller
and working really hard, he started making even more money
with his YouTube channel and got to $70,000 in a single month.
Now, that is the side hustle, right?
You start a personal brand where you teach the younger version of yourself what you wish
that you knew the stuff that would have saved you a massive amount of time, effort and money.
So think of it like a time machine.
If you could go back and sit your younger self down, what would you tell them?
Which mistakes would you unmake?
Which shortcuts would you hand over and which dumb tax would you refuse to let them pay?
And that list, that exact list is a YouTube channel that you can make.
Every regret becomes a video.
Every shortcut becomes a video.
Every nobody told me this becomes a video.
And here's the part that people miss.
In most cases, you are already doing this.
You're the person that co-workers corner with questions.
The friend that everybody calls before a big decision.
The medical worker that patients ask questions to.
Or the business person that clients ask questions to, etc, etc.
You've been doing it for free for an audience of five.
So if you've got real experience in a career, an industry, a skill,
you are sitting on an asset you just haven't hit record on it yet.
So here's how to get started.
Open a notepad and write down 20 things that you
wish that you'd known when you started your career or your industry or your skill.
Again, pretend like you have a time machine
and you're going back to the younger version of yourself.
What would you tell yourself?
Do not filter.
Do not judge.
Just brain dump.
Then circle the five that cost you the most time or money.
And those five could be your first five videos.
So the total cost here is zero dollars and it might take you 20 minutes max.
Earlier, I told you that I picked a random person in my family.
Well, it's time to show you.
It's my brother, Zach.
Now, Zach is 50 years old.
He's been in the trades for about 30 years.
And specifically, he has an HVAC business.
And before this, his social media presence was basically zero.
And he is lovingly terrible with tech.
If the excuses work for anybody, they'd work on him.
He's too old.
He's not techie.
He's too busy.
He has no audience and no equipment.
Every single box checked for excuses, right?
Every excuse that you've ever made.
My own brother had a worse version of it.
So what did I tell my own brother to do?
Exactly what I just told you.
Teach the younger version of yourself.
Now, he knows the trades inside and out.
He's been doing the trades for about 30 years now.
And right now, people are desperate for that information.
Because you can build a six-figure life in the trades without a college degree.
And almost nobody explains how to get into it.
Because the truth is, it's really different depending on where you live
and a bunch of other factors.
So his channel helps young people and career switchers pick the right blue-collar career.
That's it.
That's his whole concept.
And he followed the playbook to the letter.
Claude was doing the heavy lifting on the research, the scripts, the packaging,
while Zach just showed up and talked about what he already knew.
And his first video was objectively bad.
Terrible delivery, basic editing, zero fancy equipment.
And that video did 818,000 views.
And by day 29, the channel had a $214 AdSense day.
Literally, 29 days after posting his first video.
He went from zero to a full-time income in less than one month.
Because $214 a day is over $70,000 a year run rate.
And just last month, he made over $18,000.
And he did all of it working four hours a week or less.
And Zach is not special.
He's just using the same playbook as everyone else that you're seeing in this video.
Alex Shep used it to go from dead standstill to over $15,000 a month with his YouTube channel.
Jennifer, a nurse with basically zero content experience who just started a few months ago,
now has a channel that's doing millions of views a month.
And she was able to quit her job as a nurse.
And she's now traveling all over the United States in a camper van,
literally living her dream life.
And she started this as a 60-year-old nurse who'd never posted a single video on YouTube.
And she was watching a video just like this one that you're watching right now a few months ago.
And now she's absolutely crushing it on YouTube.
And she was able to quit her job.
And she's making over $10,000 a month.
Clifford Stume built the same motion into a multiple six-figure-a-year business.
And he did it with multiple different channels.
Now, if you want to know exactly how he helped Zach and all of these other people start on YouTube,
and you want to ask me questions directly,
and you want help picking your niche because we actually built an AI that does this for you,
then go ahead and attend my live training this week
by clicking the link in the description and the pinned comment below.
Now, there are limited seats to this live training.
So if you run out of seats, or if you're watching this in the future,
still click that link because there's a good chance that we'll be doing
other live trainings in the future, and it'll automatically redirect you there.
YouTube and building your personal brand just got 10 times easier,
and nobody's talking about it.
And the reason it got 10 times easier is because of AI, and specifically Cloud AI.
That's what we're going to be talking about in this week's live training that we're doing.
Click the link down the description in the pinned comment below.
I will be there.
I'll be answering questions before, during, and after.
We'll also be giving you an AI that's been designed to help you pick your niche
if you don't have one in the first place,
or if you already have one, it's going to help you make it 10 times better.
So we worked very hard on this AI.
People absolutely love it.
We've literally gotten hundreds of comments from people that love it,
so you do not want to miss out on it.
And if you're watching this in the future for whatever reason,
or it's already past the time of the live training,
still click on that link because we will be having more live trainings in the future,
and you will be the first person to know because it'll put you on a wait list for that.
But with that being said, it's completely free.
No reason not to attend.
Click that link in the description in the pinned comment below,
and I'll see you on the other side.
All right.
Next, we're going to talk about the bicycle shop rule.
So you don't want to quit your job for this.
Your job funds this.
Now, there were two brothers in Dayton, Ohio that ran a boring little bicycle shop.
They were fixing flats.
They were selling parts.
Nothing glamorous.
But that boring shop paid for every wing they built.
Every crash that they walked away from.
And every winter that they spent testing on the dunes.
And it kept paying right up until December 17th, 1903,
when the Wright brothers put the first powered airplane into the sky.
They did not bet the farm on that dream.
The boring machine next to their day-to-day life
funded the dream until the dream could fly on its own.
And then they were able to make history.
And that's this hustle.
Your nine-to-five is the bicycle shop.
It keeps the lights on with zero pressure on the channel, right?
It funds your side hustle.
And then eventually, your side hustle can turn into a full-time thing.
And you can just go ahead and shut your bicycle shop down.
And this is what I recommended to my own brother.
To start a personal brand on YouTube, right?
My actual family.
And you saw what happened.
And that's how much I believe in it.
And that's exactly why I made this video for you.
So here's how this ends.
99% of you are going to watch my free content.
Get a ton of value out of it.
You're going to download my free resources in the description.
Get a ton of value out of those.
And you're going to attend my live trainings and get a ton of value out of that.
And it's all going to be for free.
And we are never going to work together.
And that's completely fine.
My goal is to give as much value as possible and expect nothing in return.
With that being said, there's going to be 1% of you out there.
Or even 0.1% of you out there that want a one-on-one mentorship experience.
A one-on-one hand-holding experience.
Or you literally just want us to do the work for you.
The types of people in this situation are typically people who have really good paying
jobs that have been in their industry for over 10 years at least.
Or they own businesses where they want to get more views, more subscribers.
Or they have their own businesses that want to get more leads and more sales for their business.
Or they have a YouTube channel that's getting a lot of views,
but they're struggling with monetization.
So they're just one step away from making it work.
Or they have a YouTube channel where they're crushing it,
but they want to crush it even harder.
Or they have a large social media presence on a different platform,
but they want to bring those people over to YouTube because they know that YouTube is the best.
If that sounds like you, then go ahead and click that link in the description
in the pinned comment below.
Should be the second one down there to book a call with us.
On this call, we'll figure out where you are right now, where you want to be.
We'll make a plan to get there.
And we'll see if we're a good fit to work together or not.
The call will be valuable whether we end up working together or not.
With that being said, only book the call if you're very serious
about growing and making money on YouTube,
as we are only accepting about five people right now,
because it is intensive one-on-one work.
And it is very expensive for us to deliver on.
And we only accept about 18% of people apply,
because we want to make sure that we only accept people who we know we can get results for.
So if that sounds like you, go ahead and click down there.
And with that being said, check out this video right here,
where I go over exactly how we helped my brother go from zero to a full-time income
in less than one month.
And we break down every single step.