Breakfast with Lisa & Josh #20

Welcome back to Breakfast with Lisa & Josh!

So, we decided to stop for a bit.

We just needed to take a breather, and look around at how far we’ve come on our YT channel. It’s been a while since we’ve really done that, if we’ve ever really done it at all. We’re making entirely different videos, at an entirely different quality (god I hope), and our audience has gone from basically just our parents to somehow 4100+ subscribers.

We still do a happy dance every time we get a new subscriber. It really is that big of a deal for us.

For the first month, we’ve had over 100,000 views on our videos in total, which is both terrifying and super exciting.

We really, really, really want to keep traveling, and to do that, we need to not run out of money. Seeing as we both quit our jobs to chase this dream, we are just seeing our bank accounts constantly go down, and we’re starting to feel like we need to extend our trip as much as possible, and since YouTube is our only source of income right now… and it’s not particularily a large amount…

So we’re taking this week to see what we can do to make better videos for all of you.

All we want to do is make the best possible videos about traveling the world so that we can show as many of you as possible that this dream of travel is possible for a lot more of you than you probably think. We also have another goal of being able to give the gift of travel to one of you... but that’s a conversation for another day.

So we are having our first “company offsite” this week, and are really digging deep into how to make significantly better videos, about significantly more interesting topics, for all of you. We respect your time and attention so much, and we’ve been feeling lately like we can do a much better job at creating our content so that it’s more engaging, entertaining, and puts across the message that we want it to.

If any of you have feedback about our videos, what we can do better, or anything along those lines - now’s the time to send that. Please, please - Obi Wan Kenobi (you), you’re our only hope.

Videos this week

That being said, I really hope that we’ve come as far as I think we have. Look at our first video, versus our most recent.

WARNING: CRINGE LEVELS ARE VERY HIGH OH GOD I CANT BELIEVE WE STILL HAVE THIS ON THE INTERNET

HNNNGGGG It’s so bad

Our video from today. Much less cringe. It’s still really hard to watch ourselves on camera. I’m not sure if that’ll ever go away.

What’s going on now?

I’ve created an insane list of meetings to discuss all the various parts of our YouTube videos, and we’re spending literally all day from sun up to sun down trying to get as good at this video making thing as we can.

So, if you’re out there reading this, you’re one of our VIPs. If you have any ideas, feedback, or thoughts about our videos that you want to share - please just reply to this email and let us know. We would love to hear anything that you have to share.

Sorry - I know this is a very introspective email, and these are usually very light. We’re just seeing that our time left to travel is getting shorter, and we’re doing everything we can to make these videos great for you :)

So, that’s it for this week. More great videos coming soon!

See you next Sunday…ish :)

- josh (and lisa)

Oh, and if you want to learn how we afford to take all these trips after quitting our jobs last year, you’ll likely be interested in our Skillshare course on Travel Hacking and Frequent Flier Miles. It’s been really taking off lately, but we still have a few uses of this link left for those of you who want to see the class for free. It comes with a free month of Skillshare, which is more than enough to watch our class and any of the other great courses on there!

Check it out here: https://skl.sh/3wstHhf

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