What's going on YouTube Family? It's your boy Aydian Dowling here
And in this video we're just going to do some life updates, so let's get to it
Alright, alright, alright!
So, uh y'know, I wanted to do a little quick video on life update because
I feel like I've been doing a lot of the informative stuff and
it's cool it served me really well, but like y'know it's been like two months of doing that
a little more than two months, so I kind of y'know not getting bored,
but I feel like I am running out of some things to talk about. So I was like y'know,
I'm gonna do a life update. I've been pretty busy this summer
I unfortunately haven't been uploading as frequently as I would like to, but y'know I'm doing
a couple of things this end of August into September
So it's like, y'know maybe I should share some stuff with you
So backing it all the way up, my wife Jenilee threw a surprise 30th birthday party for me
If you did not know, I turned 30. Oh my gosh I know
I turned 30 on July 16th of this year. So that was really awesome- a beautiful, beautiful time
It was really dope. Then, I went on my first ever vacation with Jenilee to Hawaii.
Which was awesome. We went to Oahu and we had a blast there. It was super, super fun.
I enjoyed my time thoroughly.
So now I am back and I've got some things lined up for the end of this month
And so I'm going to Gender Odyssey, I'll put some links of all the places I'll be going
I'm going to the Gender Odyssey in Seattle, so if you are in the Seattle area,
If you want to drive to Seattle, you should come to Gender Odyssey. It's really awesome, super fun
It's really good for children too, like and families. So if you are more of like a transfamily
instead of just like a transperson, you can check that out
It's a really, really awesome, awesome conference. There's still registration going on so go
for it if you want to. I think it's a great place. I'll be there
with Point5cc, my clothing company
As well as my non-profit, Point of Pride.
You can check out, meet some board members there. Nash, shoutout to Nash, he'll be there.
And also trying to get one of our recipients of the Top Surgery fund to come down and meet
people there too. Thought that would be really cool to kind of see exactly
where our funds and programming goes to. And Point5cc and Point of Pride will also be at
the Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference, which I've gone to, I don't know I mean, I think this is going to be my 5th year going
This is going to be my 3rd year in a row, but I've gone 2 other times that are kind of had years in between them
So that'll be really fun and so if you are going there or to Gender Odyssey, drop a comment below
Let's link up, let's say hi. Again, I'll be at the Philly Health Conference with Point5cc and Point of Pride.
One difference between Gender Odyssey and Philly is that Philly is going to be more young, more people there
Just to go and chill and meet each other. It's free so you don't have to pay, so you're going to
Have more people in and out, just meeting up saying hi, going in and out of talks and meetings and events and stuff like that
As opposed to Gender Odyssey, you have to pay, it's a registration, people are really there, really focused
to learn, get information, share stories. Not that you don't have that in Philly, I'm not trying to say that
Philly is also kind of like cool and y'know people like go out a lot at night. Little less family oriented and a little more just queer/trans oriented.
Sorry I feel like that maybe might have confused some people, but it make sense if you go to them. You'll know what I mean.
So, yeah I'll have tons of stuff at both events, I'm excited for it.
So that's kind of what's going on there
Also, in between those events, Playlist Live in D.C. is happening, so I will be there also.
Going to be linking up with some people there. I know my friend Miles McKenna will be there too, so it will be cool to see him again.
So yeah, I'll be going to Playlist Live in D.C.
So it'll be, almost the last week of August I'll be in Gender Odyssey in Seattle, then
there's like this weekend between, then I'll be going to D.C. for Playlist Live, then I'll be
going to Philadelphia for the Philly Trans Health Conference.
Then I'll be flying back home [laughs]
So, all those things are going on, super stoked
Just like the non-profit is going to be opening soon for more transfemme programs which I'm really excited
We should be announcing them towards the end of August to early September
So that'll be really cool. We have our surgery fund which will be opening for the entire month of November coming up, so that's awesome
Again, you can check out all this information in the links below
So that's kind of what's going on business wise. Been travelling and doing some other hush-hush things that I can't necessarily talk about
But I will be able to soon, so that's exciting.
But yeah, other than that like I've just been, y'know, really working on trying
to balance my gym and regular life because it seems like I haven't been able to
go to the gym as much as I want to because I've just been doing so much stuff and prepping
so much stuff like, just feeling a lot of pressure and overwhelmed-ness
So, I haven't been able to hit the gym as much which is like making me feel kind of crappy, but at
the same time I know that like I don't look necessarily any different, but
Yeah I just kind of, y'know, I'm trying not to make going to the gym making me feel good or bad about that day. You know what I mean?
You guys know like if you've been watching the channel, I've been trying to work on that relationship with
my body my whole life. And even with the gym too, because I feel like I started holding up going to the gym
as more of a priority than like my business or my work, my passions like and I feel like
I don't want that to be like going to the gym supports my passions and my work, but I don't want it to come before anything else
And so like even today, I went to the dermatologist for the first time ever
because my family has melanoma in its history
So, I went to the doctor because I turned 30, so I went to get a check-up
I was really good, everything in my body is great, everything's great except I had this one little spot right here
So, I got some local anesthesia and they removed this spot
And it's gonna get tested and so I wasn't able to go to the gym today
So I'm kind of annoyed because I was like "Oh I'll go to the dermatologist, then I'll go to the gym, then I'll come home and start work"
But I couldn't and I didn't go yesterday cause I was super busy
And I feel like it wasn't gonna help me necessarily taking the time out and so now I'm just like
"Man, now I didn't go-now I didn't go two days, and not Sunday so three days"
So I'm just kind of like really annoyed about that, but trying to get through it
So yeah, you guys really loved my top surgery- my chest video like my chest workout video, so that was really dope
Thank you guys for liking that video, it's cool to see what you guys like to see on here. I can always tell by the amount of views, and shares, and likes
Certain videos get, so I did get some asks for like a day of eating and an ab workout- at home ab workout
So, I will give- I will be making those 2 videos, as well as I also got an ask, which was funny
Because I was literally making the- like making the outline for this video while I was asked this question so
That was kind of funny, on how to start a YouTube channel. So those are going to be 3 upcoming videos that will be coming out shortly
I'll probably try to do the "How to start a YouTube Channel" this week and also the day of eating will probably be possibly this week too.
But I'm not 100% sure. But yes, so I'm just trying to mix it up, y'know like I just am super real with you guys
This channel has always been just about like me doing my thing, I get asks all the time to like promote shit
that has nothing to do with me and I'm always like "nah man, like this has nothing to do with me" or and also like
I get asks for like "Oh you can grow your channel, you can grow your channel" And I'm like I love this channel
and like of course I want it to grow, but like I don't mind that it grows organically
Like I don't mind that people come and go, I don't mind that in general because
it just flows with my life, y'know what I mean? It's just what I'm doing, who I am all the time y'know and
this is kind of a little way to talk directly to you guys instead of on like such a broad platform like Instagram or Twitter or something like that
So yeah that's been my life
My life is pretty much as disorganized as this video was, so this is some true, real shit right here
I just wanted to give you guys a quick little update, really quick, and otherwise be on the lookout for some more videos this week
because I will be making them, just gotta get to it. Honestly I just have been so busy that like I'm really really trying
to get these videos up three times a week. It's just been rough, man. It's just been a little hard. So bare with me
I appreciate all of y'all for sticking with it, I know that you guys like to have consecutive content
And I know that I'm not delivering that to you guys, so I apologize, but I promise that I'm not going anywhere
Been here since '09 and I'm not going anywhere anytime quick. So I'll still be here and I appreciate you guys for sticking around
And I'll catch you in the next video. Peace!