so this video is gonna be filled with some unpopular opinions but my goal is
to help give you all some perspective and hopefully inspire some people along
the way what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we
talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel
my channel is all about mental health and what I typically do is pull them a
topic from the YouTube community try to teach you how to improve your mental and
emotional well-being so make sure you subscribe and bring that notification
bell and before I get started a big big big huge thank you to everybody
following me over on instagram has a lot of you know my goal the last few weeks
has been to get to 10,000 followers so I can get that swipe up feature make
things easier for me make things easier for you and we just hit 7,000 so I
greatly appreciate it if you have followed me on Instagram yeah go follow
me at the rewired soul because as soon as I hit 10,000 on the side do it some
giveaways or submerge some mental health books and all sorts
of cool stuff all right but yeah I wanted to make this video this video I'm
not sure how long it's gonna be but it's gonna be a little bit of a story time
but I get a lot of messages and comments saying like whoa Chris don't burn
yourself out Chris don't burn yourself out now check it out I love you guys
like so that I try to do like I know that you're coming from a place of
concern and I appreciate that but youtuber burnout is something that was
pretty big in 2018 and I'm just here to let you know don't worry about me and
the goal of this video is to hopefully give you some perspective on my work how
I do my work and hopefully because I know I have other youtubers who watch my
channel now too I hope it gives that Bruce some perspective as well my goal
for this channel is not only to help people with their mental health but to
hopefully motivate and inspire people as well all right
so anyways let's get started a lot of you know I was a drug addict an
alcoholic for nearly ten years okay so I started drinking at about eighteen and I
got sober on my 27th birthday so like I know I have a bunch of recovering
addicts and alcoholics who are subscribed to my channel and you know
exactly what I'm talking about that is a full-time
like you guys like being a drug addict an alcoholic is it's more than a
full-time job it's 24/7 like and this isn't a good thing this is a terrible
thing like addiction had me in its clutches whatever I would wake up I
needed to find a bottle I needed to find pills I was trying to get ahold of my
dealer and stuff right so I was working full-time jobs throughout my addiction I
got fired quite a few times or let go or asked to resign right but like to put it
in perspective for you like there was one time when I lost a pill in my like
high carpeting I looked for it for three hours okay and at the end of this video
I talked about like my YouTube process but oh just want you to remember that
I've looked for a pill because I was such a feeding drug addict I look for it
in my carpet for three hours all right like that is insane
so anyways I got sober when I was 27 years old I had a year off of work just
to focus on myself and my recovery I was very fortunate in that aspect a lot of
you by the way asked me about my recovery and to share more stories like
I have an entire playlist where I share a lot of stories about this called ask
an addict or how to get clean and sober go check that out or it's all in my book
hope which is always linked down in the description okay but anyways I got sober
at 27 years old after a year I moved back to Vegas cuz it was time to start
being an adult again and be a father to my son again okay so I moved back to Las
Vegas and the first job I got the first job I got was working from 7:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m. and I didn't have a driver's license or a car because messed that up
in my addiction and my job was across town alright so I had to take an
hour-and-a-half bus ride each way okay so if you do the math if my job started
at 7 and I'd take an hour and a half bus ride that's why I had to get on the bus
at 5:30 in the morning that meant I was waking up at 4:30 in the morning to get
ready to make sure I can hit the bus at 5:30 in the morning and then guess what
I took an hour and a half bus ride home every single day I did that five days a
week and I missed like for almost two years I think I missed
like one or two days of work all right so like put that in perspective real
quick so I was doing that for a long time and not only was I doing that
before all my recovering addicts like I tell I told clients like when I'm
working at a drug and alcohol treatment center
like don't give me the excuse that you can't go to meetings because I was doing
that that routine and I was going to five meetings a week still all right
while being a father to my son I had him on the weekends because we split custody
so after that job I ended up getting the job at the drug and alcohol treatment
center okay so by that time I actually had a car
which is pretty awesome so I ended up getting the job in the toilet alcohol
treatment center so my position there a lot of you have asked me like what are
your credentials what did you do my job was the Alumni coordinator so one of my
main responsibilities was to be on call like pretty much 24/7 for everybody who
discharged from treatment so if they were struggling with their addiction or
mental health or whatever is they can call me on my cell phone or text me or I
was on social media and they can hit me up and I would talk to him all right
some people would relapse on I had to get him back into treatment that was a
24/7 gig my work cell phone was on me all the time all right
so imagine that I was working from 9:00 to 5:00 every day but I had my cell
phone on me 24/7 so there was times I was working before work there was times
I was working after work all right aside from that I would do events for
the clients on the weekends like once a month so some day some weeks I was
working six days a week and then while I was at treatment I was doing groups I
was doing one-on-one sessions I was making phone calls I was talking to
people I was organizing other events so like I was a busy guy now I was still
working at the drug and alcohol treatment center when I decided I was
going to do a YouTube channel so check this out check this out so not only was
I doing all that stuff being on a call 24/7 but I was also not making enough
money so I was doing freelance writing on the side probably spending about 20
hours a week on average writing for other people just so I can make some
extra money aside from that I turned into a pretty much daily youtuber
okay so I want you to add all these things up I was an extremely extremely
busy guy but not only that I had my son my beautiful girlfriend and I Tristan
were already dating by then so I want you to put in perspective how busy I
actually was all right so now let's fast-forward to where I'm at today I
don't even want to call it being a full-time youtuber because youtuber is a
small piece of what I'm doing as a lot of you know I've written books you know
I'm active on social media I'm doing collabs with other people and stuff like
that and I have a lot of stuff planned for 2019 doing podcast and all that but
what I want you guys to know like how I've worked my entire life so now I'm
able I'm fortunate enough to do this full-time so think about it okay so the
average person full-time employee is working eight hours a day okay my videos
and you guys see I do two to three videos a day most days my videos take me
one to two hours from filming to the end of editing and getting it uploaded okay
so one to two hours so if I do three videos a day that is six hours of work
so technically even if I'm pumping out three videos in a day I'm still working
a lot less than some of you I'm getting off two hours early all right let's
think about that for a second so that's why I don't want you guys to
worry about me getting burnt out like this a new baby this ain't new I'm
actually getting time off now by doing this so I've made some videos about like
work/life balance as well and don't worry about that either so for example
just in the last 24 to 48 hours my son and I we went to go see Aquaman pretty
sweet movie all right this he's been with me most of this week
and he's played spider-man today we're gonna livestream we're gonna play
fortnight together I'm here on my channel so Tristan and I Tristan now we
just binge watch the entire season of Lemony Snicket's in about a day so like
I want you guys to realize like I'm getting plenty plenty of time half my
day half of my day is playing with oh so so here's my unpopular opinion all
right when you guys get worried about me getting burnt out and like this is much
throwing direct shade at anybody but like I think a lot of you have been
brainwashed by youtubers I think the lack of consistency I think the lack of
content that's been put out I think when you see somebody like me who's uploading
as frequently as I am you're worried about me so when you're seeing other
youtubers who are uploading once a week once a month like I I know I know
like I have to I have empathy I trust me I have empathy but like you guys are
seeing all these people burning out and like I want to be somebody on this path
I'm like I've already had other youtubers saying like man you pump out a
lot of content and it makes you want to do more good good
like I know other youtubers have higher production value but like one of the
issues is and I'm wearing my shirt today a lot of youtubers think that they're
they're these unique unicorns right nobody understands nobody understands
the plight of the youtuber right but like for me I feel like it would be
disrespectful to all of you to be doing this full-time and not putting in at
least 40 hours a week you know what I'm saying so like I know other youtubers
have higher production value than I do but you guys like if you put in 40 hours
a week if you put in 40 hours a week I really it's really hard for me to fathom
a youtuber not putting out one video a week like and that's being lenient I
think most youtubers could do two videos a week like I'm insane and not only do I
do videos pretty much every day I do multiple videos but think about how much
slack I'm cutting to people who are doing a lot much so like again I wanted
this to be like a well-rounded like kind of story time for all of you to
understand like don't worry about me like I'm used to hard work I'm used to
hustle okay this ain't nothing after this Tristan now we're gonna set up some
stuff in the apartment and again I'm gonna play with Dillon
but I want you guys to all think about that real quick and if any other
youtubers are watching this I want you to think about this too
because something that I talk about often is not often enough is that
youtubers become disconnected from their audience and and like live do some
videos on it eventually but I've seen some some youtubers on Twitter
complaining about some stuff I'm like oh my god like I would feel like such a
jerk complaining about this in front of my
fans you know what I mean I know some of you and if some of you are working full
time jobs that you hate right I know some of you are working full time job
some of you are working two jobs and you have kids you know what I mean so like I
feel like I owe it to you guys to put in as much work into this as you're putting
in work to the rest of the world you know what I'm saying
so anyways anyways I hope I hope this gave you some clarity and again like I
appreciate all of you who are worried like Oh Chris don't burn yourself out
like I appreciate that a lot of you asked me like do you get enough sleep
like my sleep sucks my sleep apnea has gotten better since
I've lost some weight I think these bag of bags under my eyes are gonna be there
forever I don't know what it is but yeah I sleep at least I don't know six to
eight hours a night I know I should be getting seven to eight you know whatever
it is but yeah you guys like the other thing is - I'm very fortunate and this
is why my videos were also not only to help you to help other youth but to help
other youtubers like I love what I do I absolutely love what I do whenever I
find something where I can discuss a mental health topic that might be able
to help one of you it Jazz's me up so I could make another video that might be
able to help somebody out there so that's one of the things I have going
for me is I absolutely love doing this all right but anyways I hope this gave
you some more clarity on my situation don't forget to go follow me on
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alright thanks again for watching I'll see you next time