In today's email:

• 🚨Thank me in 2026

• 📝Tweet of The Week: It’s Never Too Late

• 👀In Case You Missed It

🚨Thank me in 2026

For Q1 of 2025, I brought in $24,000. That essentially nets out to $8,000 a month in revenue.

Those $10,000 months feel so close, yet so far.

For context, I have been doing content creation for almost 2 years, but slowly and surely I am starting to make progress.

And although this has been a long journey - let me give you 2 years of game in a couple minutes.

First, let me show you my social media analytics for the past 90 days. This is the best place to start because WITHOUT me posting content, I earn no money.

Instagram

Instagram has been on f*cking fire! For the past 90 days (Q1), I generated over 800,000 views and 92,000 accounts engaged.

That's over 10% in engagement!!!

For the entire quarter I created 85 posts, which means roughly 28 posts a month. I want you to think about that for a second. Every time you open the app for the past 90 days, more than most likely I popped up on your feed every day.

If that's not consistency then I don't know what is.

It's important to note that out of 85 of those posts - ONLY 4 of them went viral (over 40k views), which means I had a 5% hit rate.

To simplify, most of my views and engagement came from 5% of the videos.

Lastly, based on me posting consistently, it allowed me to secure 4 brand deals, totaling over $20k in receivables.

IG was a huge lead magnet for me, but only because I was showing up consistently.

YouTube

With short form out of the way, lets get into long form.

In the past 3 months, I generated over 5k views, 240 hours of watch time, and over 200 new subscribers.

My goal was to originally create 13 videos (one per week) but life happened and I only executed 9 videos.

Which in hindsight is still pretty good, but I need to make sure I am consistent. Consistency matters for YouTube because you have to train your audience to expect you at a certain time. For me, they expect to see a video every single Sunday.

So, every Sunday I better post or I lose their trust. And hence, I lose a subscriber.

Overall YouTube has not brought me in any money, but for now it is a long-term play so I solely view it as an investment.

Also, during the past 3 months I have hired editors but none could come close to my desired style. Moving forward I might focus on editing the videos myself and try a different layout/style when it comes to video editing.

Next steps

Alright, so how do I get to $10k a month?

I had to take a step back and treat my content like a business.

Sooooo…I created a roadmap.

The roadmap is broken into the remaining 3 quarters, and each month will have a specific "content pillar.” By having content pillars, it is easier for me to not only create content at scale, but also repurpose easily across different platforms.

For example, since April and May are centered around "Personal Finance", my newsletter and YouTube scripts can be turned into multiple short form videos (shown below).

When it comes to products, I need to sell my own digital or physical items. Brand deals are good, but solely relying on them is not a sustainable business. For the month of April, I am going to improve my spending tracker and then focus on selling it to my audience.

Lastly, for activations - this is a way to build a community. I want to give back to my supporters and help them out, and the best way to do this is through giveaways. I am a huge proponent of paying it forward, so let me help some of my followers during back-to-school time.

Final Words

This is a simplified and quick breakdown of how I plan to continue the success and achieve $10k months.

If you want a more detailed explanation, checkout my latest video on YouTube.

📝Tweet of The Week: It’s Never Too Late

This year, I turned 25. And I'm nowhere near the accomplishments I wanted to achieve when I look back at my journal entries from college and high school.

And that's okay, I am still young. I still have time on my side.

If you have the opportunity to wake up, time is still on your side too.

Create content, create joy, create products, and create happiness.

Create with the intention of bettering yourself - whether financially, spiritually, or mentally - just create.

Looking back on the 25 years of my life, made me realize one thing: I came too far to quit.

And if I hyper focus and dedicate time and energy to myself and my business, then life after 35 won't feel like work.

It will feel like retirement.

👀In Case You Missed It

The stock market has been in a free-fall due to Trump, tariffs and a looming recession.

And all I can think about is pouring all my money into the stock market, since all the stocks are currently on sale.

Here is a great breakdown on whats going on (in pictures) -