good morning and welcome back to my channel or welcome if you are new here today
my name is josie and we are going to get to know each other on a little bit of a closer level
so if you haven't seen any videos before you're going to get a whole bunch of information today
i can't wait to tell you i have a whole bunch of questions that you guys have been asking me
for a long time now and today we're gonna answer them i'm gonna have to leave thailand
the question is just when but first that's my favorite coffee shop let's go get a coffee
so we're gonna find out today whether i'm staying in thailand or not all of that jazz
but first let's have my coffee okay so i've been getting some questions from you guys for a while
and i just thought i'd make a video to sort of answer them all in one go i thought this might
be helpful considering so many of you are new here and thank you so much for subscribing thank
you so much for watching my videos i thought i'd give you sort of a plan as to what is next
so one of the main questions i get asked a lot is what i did before youtube and if youtube
is my full-time job basically so i grew up in sydney i worked in as an underwater photographer
for about seven years ish and then i moved into health and fitness i worked around the fitness
industry gyms things like that and that's what i did for a really long time so yes i left my jobs
back in australia to travel and to pursue youtube and instagram and social media full-time so
that's the goal at the moment and that's what i'm doing with all my time youtube is
my full-time job but it's not a full-time wage so at the moment i do do this full-time but
i don't earn enough for it to be a full-time income if that makes sense now in saying that
what does help me to keep creating content and being able to do this full time is if you press
that like and subscribe button that means the absolute world to us creators and especially me
trying to do this for you and trying to show you the world this is my dream and if you could
support me on that that is amazing not to mention that it's free also what's interesting to know is
that 70 percent of you who watch my videos aren't actually subscribed so if you could
take a second to click the subscribe button on any of your favorite creators it really helps
us out more than you know to continue to make content for you so that's also why i appreciate
it so much when you guys donate anything to me not saying that you have to you do not have to
at all with that whether it's on my lives or on my buy me a coffee page that's why it means so much
to me is because i do work seven days a week so now let's get a teeth toasty for breakfast
so right now i would say the hardest thing about youtube which is also another question i get would
be that i work seven days a week at the moment i'm putting out a video every second day which
means i'm sort of filming one day and editing the next with no break and sometimes both in the same
day as well so that would be the hardest thing but in saying that it's also not hard because i love
it like i love that i can make content and that this is what i'm working towards for like a job
if that makes sense so while that's the hard part it's not hard at the same time i will say though
that i think a lot of like business people and entrepreneurs or even youtubers or creators or
anything they come from like a nine-to-five job which is what i had and you're like oh
i'm gonna get i'm gonna work for myself and that way i don't have to work monday to friday nine to
five i can work when i want and then you end up working every day from like nine till nine so i
think that's a little bit of a misconception uh is that we actually do work really really hard
i think you guys also ask me a lot if i like thailand i get that question quite often whether
it's on my tic toc or instagram uh or on here also if you're not following my tick tock on
my instagram they're on the screen and in the description bar below go follow me along there
i usually keep up to date things on instagram so you'll always see what i'm doing at what
time no matter what kind of thing so you'll keep up with me in real time and talk somewhere i can
post funny things i love thailand i had never been before i'd never come to thailand before
and if you're in australia i think when your friends go on a holiday and you go on a holiday
with your friends you end up going to thailand or bali that's kind of where you go for a holiday
i never went but i've always wanted to come i think this is where i always wanted to have a
holiday and now i'm just lucky enough to be able to like stay here so yes i love thailand i love
how pretty it is i love how different it is to australia i love how friendly everyone is i love
how good the food is i love how beautiful your landscapes your mountains your beaches i love
thailand in general and i love being here i love the country i don't think i ever want to leave if
i could stay here i probably would and this will not be my first time to thailand i will be back
many times i can tell so a lot of you have actually obviously asked me how michael and
i have met and what michael does for a job as well so i guess i have to share the limelight
as he does help me with my channel a lot so i have to tell you a bit about him as well i guess
so michael we met uh on instagram so we're both from australia he grew up in newcastle and i grew
up in sydney so that was about a two hour distance so we met on instagram it was many many years ago
seven years ago or something we talked very briefly and i think we both kind of decided
that we didn't i don't know like each other i don't know what happened but we stopped talking
and then we both found other relationships and we dated other people for many years
and then we both left those relationships around the same time and then we sort of reconnected
through instagram again and then we met and then here we are in thailand and the rest is history
but that's how we met and he does his own business so he runs his own business he owns his own
business it's on line so he can work from wherever he has internet basically which is why we're able
to travel to thailand for so long and travel i do work for his business just a little bit um
because like i said this isn't enough for me so i work for him sometimes a little bit every day
for his business just to help um keep me sort of going so that's what he does he owns it he's the
boss and i'm very proud of him he works very hard he's a very successful business so good on michael
so i did also want to add that i technically haven't made any money yet from youtube i mean
i have but i've reinvested everything i've gotten into my youtube so whether that was
buying my new lens or we'd just gone out and thank you to everyone who's donated me because
because of you i was able to go out and invest in a drone as well so everything i've kind of earned
i've kind of spent back into my channel to make it a little bit better to make it a little bit bigger
and to keep you guys enjoyed enjoyed to keep you guys enjoying my content so that's a little thing
as well i technically haven't made anything because i've spent it to making what i have
even better but i just want to take this as well to thank everyone who has donated to my buy me
a coffee because it was because of you i was able to purchase my drone and hopefully that will make
my content from now a little bit better i used it first in my column video my last one so go
check it out if you haven't already but i'm still getting used to it so i just wanted to say a big
thank you to all of you and all of you who watch my channel who watch this video who watch my other
ones who like who subscribe every single one of you right now this is for you and i want to say
thank you now let's get on to what we're doing next in my channel and if i'm leaving thailand
so i guess this brings us to what's next for my channel and when or if i'm leaving thailand
so like i said before i do work for seven days and i do put out a video
every second day so every 48 hours from now on i'm gonna change that to three days a week and i'm
gonna do videos on monday wednesday and saturday so really in the scheme of things this is only
one less video a fortnight for you guys so it's not that much of a difference but they will be on
set days now i've made this decision so that i do have more time to make better videos learn how to
edit better and sort of put up a little bit more quality i think moving forward and it gives me a
little bit of a time to have some breaks as well which is good now the other thing as well is i
love making travel videos so i love making videos where i go to kolan or i go to lampang or i go to
the islands they're i love making those videos i watch them back and i'm like
wow they're amazing and i edit then i'm like wow this is water this is so cool
unfortunately those kind of videos don't do as well as me eating food which is quite unfortunate
because i have put on a lot of weight since coming to thailand because all i do is eat food
um but if you could show some support as well for the videos if you like them please make
sure you let me know if you like those kind of content and those kind of videos i love making
them so if you give them some support and some love as well that would be amazing but moving
forward i am going to do some more travel side video style videos like that we have an airplane
we do have some trips planned to like ko samui and things like that as well so like i said i'm
gonna really love going to the islands and i really love those travel videos as well and we
have a couple of little other trips planned also we're probably planning a mae hong song loop trip
and a trip to pai um so we have a few little travel ones coming up as well to show you a
couple of different places in the near future so again make sure you subscribe to see them
and put on the notification bell so that you don't miss the new schedule of when the
videos go up okay so now to answer the age-old question of when am i leaving thailand or
are you living thailand if you're leaving thailand so our original plan was to stay
for the full nine months of our visa and we've been here at the end of this visa part for six
months look it's hard because i don't want to leave thailand i love thailand so much i don't
want to go anywhere but i do think in order for my channel to grow and for me to get a few
more experiences i think i need to travel to a few more places so that's what we're that's what we're
kind of deciding at the moment we're deciding when we go what we do but we will be here for
a little bit longer because i still have so much of thailand that i want to see that i haven't yet
so there's a lot that i want to do before i go and then also there's a lot that i still
want to do even if we do leave we're not going to be able to do everything that i want to do
if we go so no matter what happens no matter where i go no matter anything i will be back to thailand
so don't you worry about that so come on a journey with me and i promise i'll be coming back
to thailand because i really still want to do the islands we're still not sure we're still deciding
on what we want to do i do think that i need to get to other places um and see new cultures i want
to eat new food i want to learn new things i want to travel and i want to do all of those things and
most of all i want to bring you along with me so i do think that in order for some growth youtube
growth but also growth for myself even i think that i need to travel a little bit more but that
wasn't the original plan and honestly it's been a really hard decision to make so that's sort
of what we're discussing we're discussing where we'll go we want to go to cambodia lau philippines
bali vietnam singapore qatar kuala lumpur we want to go to all of these places so
eventually i'm gonna have to leave thailand the question is just when and we're still figuring
that out but like i said no matter what i'll be back to thailand i don't think i'll be able to
not come back but i think at this point it's something that i i have to do a little bit
earlier than expected so i hope that answers some of your questions that's all but thank you to each
and every one of you i wouldn't even be sitting in this workspace in thailand editing my video in the
other room for you to watch if it wasn't for you so i recently also just hit 5 000 subscribers so
thank you to all 5 000 of you for believing in me and for being here at the very start and hopefully
you like my content and you stick with me and we go on a really big journey together thank
you so much for watching and stick around for the next one we have some exciting videos coming up
and now that i'm doing one less video of fortnite it's not that much for you but it will give me
a little bit more time to hopefully work on my editing skills my video skills and as always make
sure you leave in the comments any suggestions any advice any support and leave them in the comments
below make sure you let me know anything that you're thinking you've heard it five times in
this video but make sure you subscribe like my video um and i'll see you in the next one bye