When did you take

action towards

realizing the dream? Could have been a

very small thing, I don't know, but like

what was the kind of defining first step

that kind of set you on the actual path

to

realizing what you laid out? I took

action pretty immediately, but it took

me a year to quit my job. And I'll

define what the difference is. I took

action immediately by This might be

crazy. This was a Tim Ferriss

experiment. I really resonated with what

you wrote about

coming to terms with the worst possible

outcome. Mhm. And so I decided, I'm

going to train myself for the worst

possible outcome.

>> it. So I moved into a studio apartment

with a roommate.

I cut like like financially stripped

down I mean, I didn't have much anyways,

but stripped as much as I could to

simulate if if I'm truly failing at this

and having having to live in a Hollywood

apartment with a bunch of roommates, I'm

just going to get used to that. I'm

going to get used to it right now. I'm

going to cancel all of my memberships

and figure out how to stay healthy

with just myself just myself in this

small place. I am also going to commit

to working on my own stories after work

on the weekends because if I can't do it

now with stability, I I need to prove to

myself that I actually give a about

this really. And I did that for an

entire year.

Growing a little bit of a personal

savings, but also growing mental and

physical stamina towards

I'm already in still a place of safety,

of course, but I am in a situation where

I think I can handle this. I got this.

Like LinkedIn is up to date. Little

resume is up to date. I am so ready. I

have defined, prevent, and hopefully we

don't got to go to that third column

repair.

And so then a year later exactly, I quit

my job. And when I quit, I had

two months of videos backlogged ready to

go. Also legally for the record on my

own machine.

Not company resources.

All of that was ready to go.

And I knew what my first big project

would be, training with the stunt

doubles.

I had a shoot date ready. I had taken

you know, I only had like three months

of savings at that point. And I had had

allocated this is going to be for the

dream project. My first risk on my

channel. Nothing will touch that. The

rest is is for operating daily life

expenses. And I said, I got three months

to to make this work. And like you said,

you know, like we've been talking about,

sometimes you got to put your back

against the wall and go. I love this. So

>> [laughter]

>> So this is I feel like we were separated

at birth. So

>> [laughter]

>> So a few things. I'll I'll say number

one to try to I mean, not that I have

I'm not a paragon of self-awareness, but

I I will say that I for different

reasons have a certain like

hyper-vigilance focus on safety and

security, which might sound strange to

people listening, but

I'm always trying to risk mitigate,

right? I'm actually I don't view myself

as a big risk-taker.

I have done a few things that have ended

up with

>> [laughter]

>> me accumulating injuries that maybe in

retrospect shouldn't have done. But

broadly speaking, I'm always trying to

mitigate risk, which is underscores this

entire fear-setting exercise, right? Cuz

it's not just about convincing yourself,

it's also in my mind

completely intertwined with what you

did, which is

preparing

and training yourself and your

circumstances, right? So

when I flash back to starting my first

company, it's like, how did I start the

first company? I started my first

company during lunch hours, evenings,

and weekends basically while still doing

my other job and doing my other job

well. Mhm.

But I wanted to have a head start so

that I wasn't beginning from scratch

after quitting a job.