- Good morning, everybody.
Welcome to a new vlog.
It is Friday, the sun is shining,
and I am actually in a good mood.
Starting my day off in a good mood
for probably what feels like the first time this week.
I don't know, it's just been one of those weeks
that has felt a bit like a rollercoaster.
Lots of really down days, feeling unproductive,
feeling like I'm not doing good enough
and all of that. - Awwww.
- And I didn't feel like vlogging that,
which I kinda regret now, I don't know,
maybe not really, 'cause I can just talk about it
and tell you that it happened.
I like the idea of these vlogs kind of being
a documentation.
Is that the right word I wanna use for it?
(laughing)
I don't know, of my, as I figure out this role,
this new role I'm in, I got promoted to Creative Director,
if you didn't hear that, then there'll be a video linked
on a card where I talk more about it.
But yeah, I liked the idea of these vlogs
sort of documenting my first few weeks in this role
and figuring it out, and yeah,
what I deal with in that time.
And so I thought it was important to mention,
but yeah, at the same time,
I just didn't feel like vlogging on those days.
And so I didn't.
(laughing)
Why don't we just address this situation.
(blinging)
My hair is a very strange color at the moment.
It's kind of ginger at the top, greeny blonde on the bottom.
We're in between dye phases,
it's gonna go a fun color this weekend,
but I ran out of time last weekend.
So this is just what I've looked like all week,
and we will all get over it.
Anyway, like I said, it's Friday,
it's been a bit of a weird week, ups and downs,
lots of downs, last night a big up
was actually playing Among Us
with some of the people in the ConvertKit team,
which was so fun because I had been watching
Twitch streamers play Among Us for weeks.
Like I've watched hours and hours and hours of content,
mostly of JackSepticEye playing Among Us,
which has been so much fun.
And it just, I wanted to play it myself, but I was like,
I don't know anyone who would wanna play this with me.
And so last night I popped in the ConvertKit,
like random channel.
And it was like, hey, would anyone be up for trying this
and playing a game tomorrow.
And we talked about it and all got so excited
that we just started playing right then and there.
And we're gonna play again tonight as well.
So I'm very much looking forward to that, and yeah,
it's gonna be a good day,
because I know I'm gonna feel frustrated with myself
if I don't talk about some of the whys of
I don't know what's been going through in my mind
and why I feel down.
I dunno, it's just stepping into this new role.
There hasn't been any sort of onboarding documents
or whatever like you would have
when you start at a new company,
like start a new job.
The company tells you what you should be doing
in your first whatever days.
And it's very clear how you should be spending your time
to get up to speed and all of that,
because this is like a change within the same company,
and it all happened, I don't know,
at the end of a quarter,
so there was end of quarter objectives
and stuff to think about, too,
none of that was prepared for me.
And I don't know, I've just been floating a little bit,
honestly, feeling a bit like that.
Maybe it hasn't helped that this week
the directors of ConvertKit, which like,
even though director isn't my title,
I'm not actually a company director yet,
if that makes sense,
but they've all been out at a board meeting
and at the leadership review.
So I've kind of, I don't know,
just been feeling a little bit alone in a lot of things,
and yeah, not really,
not really feeling absolutely sure that what I'm doing
is the right thing, that I'm focusing on the right thing.
I don't know.
It's just tough.
But also earlier this week had a really good meeting
with the brand team, which is the team that I lead,
where just, I dunno,
their excitement about our team vision
and ideas for the future was sort of infectious to me
and made me think like, okay,
even if I don't fully know what I'm doing,
at least I got these great people
to be doing it with and we'll
figure it out together. (bell dinging)
So that was a little nice bright spark, but anyway.
Just wanted to share that because
I'm usually a pretty positive person,
but sometimes there's those doubts and down days as well.
In the last talk, I feel like I showed you the pricing page.
Yeah, that was the main thing that I was talking about,
pretty sure.
Shared that for feedback.
And basically no one can agree on which version is best.
I shared it on Dribble as well.
And again, all the comments,
it's like, no one can fully agree.
Most people like the table one better, which was,
let me just pull it up and remind you what I'm talking about
in case you didn't watch the last vlog,
which I mean, you should.
(laughing)
All right, so this one here was the table version.
We've got, looking along and seeing what is included.
And then this one was the column version,
which I liked better.
I'm now sort of attempting a hybrid
where it's a short column version.
And then you'd click this button here for a full breakdown
and it would open a table with even more stuff in it.
I don't know, still figuring this out,
still figuring out the design of it.
I'm sort of going through a weird process in this project
where I'm not really,
I'm jumping straight into the visual design phase,
not just wireframing,
which maybe I should go back to and it might be easier.
That's always the case.
When you go against your normal design process,
you struggle. (bell dinging)
And I don't know why I'm pushing through when I,
I should just follow my process and it will be fine.
But anyway, this is the thing I'm trying.
And I'm gonna prep and get ready to pitch today
to the team, just as an option,
so that we have them all there.
But if they don't like it
or don't think it's gonna be right,
then I think this one is probably gonna be
the design that we go with, or at least very close to it.
What else, what else, what else do I have to update you on?
I've just been spending some time doing
some side hustle stuff this morning,
and now it's time to get into work.
But also I try and do at least some form of
movement every day.
Like, if it's not a full on workout,
I'm at least gonna do like a yoga class
or something like that.
And I really, I'm like, eh, it's too late now.
I need to get into work and get on with it.
But I am already wearing my exercise clothes.
And this is how I treat myself, honestly,
into doing exercise a lot of the time,
is when I wake up in the morning,
I put on my workout gear so that
when the time eventually comes, like now,
where I'm feeling like, well,
I just don't wanna do it,
I am gonna feel very ashamed of myself
if I have to go and change out of the workout gear
without having done a workout.
So let's do it.
We'll do a quick one.
We're gonna freakin' make it happen.
Here we go.
(upbeat music)
Just had lunch outside in the sun.
Where did I put my actual glasses?
Let's not wear sunglasses inside.
Check out this cool hat.
Art department.
I am the art department.
And I got this hat from my friend Brent's store.
I'll leave a link to it in the description.
I think it's really cool.
I've got a print from him as well.
I've got it sitting over here,
flattening out a little bit.
Oop.
This is what it says.
Create more consume less.
I like it.
I've got a few frames sitting here
with stuff to be filled,
to be added to the print wall,
which I think I showed you in the last vlog, right?
All these additions?
Anyway, I swear I started vlogging for a reason.
What was my reason?
(bell dinging) Oh yeah, that's right.
I've spent the morning working on that page design
and sent off something else for the team to look at.
So we'll wait for feedback on that.
I've realized that, I think it's this weekend.
Let me Google this.
Mmmmm.
Mmhmm, okay.
So the clocks change here in Spain, this weekend.
So all my meetings next week,
they're kind of all over the place.
And when I suggested a time that I was available,
it's not the time that everyone else
is available next week.
So whoops.
I've gotta change the meetings around.
Anyway, I'll get that done.
So yeah, I'll get that done.
I have my Friday afternoon meetings.
I've got like, I dunno,
two and a half hours of them,
kind of back-to-back,
starting from 3:30 my time.
It is 1:30 right now.
So I think what I'm gonna do is make a coffee
and head to the coffee shop,
which is just our dining room table,
and sit here and work for a bit
to have a change of pace.
I love my office, but,
I also spend a lot of time in there
and it's nice to have a change of scenery
every now and then, while also staying inside
and staying safe.
So let's set up here
and do some work.
(gentle music)
All right, I've spent the past several hours
reviewing applications for this design role.
I think I talked about in the last vlog,
definitely talked about it in the video about my promotion
saying that we're hiring a designer.
Before anyone asks, applications are closed now.
I'm sorry you missed out.
I shared it multiple times on Twitter,
I sent it to my email list,
did my best to let everyone know about it.
But yeah, we've had a lot of applications,
hundreds of applications to go through.
So yeah, I've been doing reviews of that this afternoon.
And now I'm about to head into
an afternoon full of meetings.
There's several hours worth.
So I've got some green tea
to help me power through.
Let's go talk to some peeps on my team.
Cut to had several hours worth of meetings,
all went really well. (knee banging)
Good stuff.
Ow, I just hit my knee on my desk.
I just had to do the soul crushing job
of sending a rejection email to
like 400 candidates in our design role
that we're hiring for.
It makes me sad.
I'm a very empathetic person.
And I'm like, I wish I could give you all a job.
Especially right now when people are struggling.
So yeah, sucks.
But it's part of doing business and what has to be done.
So I tried to be very kind,
but also clear and let them know why
we weren't moving them forward.
Anyway, that was a bit of a downer note to end my day on.
But I know, also, it's more of a downer
for the people getting the email.
So yeah, keeping that in mind,
I'm gonna take a break now for a bit.
Well, I'm finished with work for the week, essentially,
but coming up in a few hours I'm gonna play Among Us
with the team, which is gonna be so much fun.
We've been making jokes about it all day.
And there's all the Slack emojis now
of the little characters with their heads off and things.
So yeah, gonna go cook some dinner I think.
And then we'll come back
and I'll show you a little bit of that
and pretend to be a gaming channel for a second.
(gentle music)
Yes.
(gentle music)
(voice muffling)
It's up it engine.
(voices muffling)
Well, that was a lot of fun.
We just played Among Us for almost two hours.
It's amazing how fast time goes by.
Anyway, that is the end of this vlog.
I don't really know what I talked about
in this vlog anymore.
It's been quite a day, quite a week.
I'm looking forward to the weekend.
But yeah, thanks for hanging out with me.
Hope you had a good week and I'll see you in the next one.
Bye.
(gentle music)