what's up influencers I'm here with Bryan
and today we're talking about how to be
a daily blogger combine two passions
into one channel and still raise a
family right now
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influencers welcome to another interview
with Bryan Lanning Hey man thanks for
having me daily bumps
thank you for having us be able to
interview you
yeah totally this is awesome that’s alright
you know I've known Bryan for a while now
I've seen you kind of have this
explosion of success of course there's a
lot of hard work that's why I really
wanted to interview you
you guys are now go check it out daily
bumps vlogger and superstar new position
you would make man you know what
actually I was like whoa man i got some
pipes on him so if you gotta take it
out but I really wanted first asked you
number one to share your journey of this
YouTube success you've had which
obviously started somewhere you start at
zero right and the hard work at work it
took and share that a little bit about
that experience to where you are today
yeah totally so I my wife and I we were
a young married couple and we want to
start a family and we had gone through a
couple of hardships with it as is pretty
normal you know and my wife really want
to share her experiences so she started
blogging yeah online writing and you
know you're telling her story telling
your feelings and kind of her plans and
one day i logged into her blogger
account i saw that she had like a
hundred thousand reads in that month and
I was like whoa babe a lot of people are
reading this and she had no idea because
she was using it as like a personal diary
yep I'm and she's like I i know a lot of
people are reading but kinda over writing
I don't really enjoy writing just like I
really been watching these youtubers
now what year was this a 2011 ok 2011-12
like I've been watching these youtuber
youtubers talk about like getting
pregnant starting a family and I was
like what that’s thing and she's
like I want to do the same thing so we
jumped right in and she started her
channel we talked about you know the
struggles that we don't you trying to
have a family and then when that kind of
took off a lot of people wanted a lot
more of us and so we started another
channel called daily bumps and sort of
challenged myself to really share life
everyday and you know we were pregnant
with all over to about three months
pregnant with Oliver so we kind of have
everything since then to now now he's
three years old so we started when he
was she was three months pregnant and
now he's three years old Yeah is
amazing well first off congratulations
thanks man
obviously on the surface people just
assume it's like you know like
especially with how fast you grew that
you got lucky right but I know for a
fact because I've talked to you for the
last couple years I know how hard you
worked and you talk about the hustle it
takes to just be a youtuber in general
right and specific to your journey and
other things that you have to do to get
your jack
yeah I hustled sure I at one point I was
doing I was a full-time graphic designer
at a church yeah I was waiting tables at
a steakhouse
I was doing freelance wedding
photography and then I was filming and
editing every day for our daily channel
that 7 videos a week throw three more
videos on top of that for Missy’s
channels which I was also filming and
editing for her so I totally know that
hustle and that it got to a place
where I was like I have to choose
something because everything was kind of
good good good problem to have
yeah it was and you know it's one of
those things right after we moved back
to California that everything started to
sort of form this way I was getting a
lot more wedding gigs I was getting a
lot more work and responsibility at the
church you know being really good money
money and our YouTube was blowing up and
but it got to a point where right after
Oliver is born we had to choose
and I had sat down with missy and I was
like this week has been crazy
yeah I feel like I've barely seen Oliver
and i was like we have to choose
something and so that was the point
where i was able to walk away from all
those normal jobs and step into this
whole unknown territory of YouTube
absolutely and you know one of the
things that I love hearing about your
experience because you know i don't know
a lot beyond what I see on the vlog
right but a lot of your experiences
before YouTube have served you so a lot
of people say oh it took you four years
to get to where yet actually probably
took you much longer
yeah that's number 20 yah have served
you can you tell about how those
experiences are important to your
success now and how other people can
maybe relate to that what you would want
to say to that for for new youtubers I've
always been an entrepreneur and I think
that's one of the biggest qualities that
you have to have as a youtuber I've
always sort of had that mindset of what
is something that I can do that i love
and how to make money from it and i've
been really good for YouTube doing
that you know taking photos of something
I loved shooting video with something I
loved I loved editing yeah exactly so
I definitely feel like all of that sort
of served a purpose i think a pivotal
moment was in college when I decided to
not become a computer science major two
years in and switch to an art major and
I started out getting design and
graphics and and video and photo and I i
feel like you know I did that for a year
and I feel like just even that year
helped me get to where I am today you
know i love using Casey Neistat as an
example you know a lot of people would
just assume he just came on the spot
you know the last five years but he's
been doing video for very long time
right yeah so like that experience
before you even started that youtube
channel on that's what we try to relate
to our viewers right
especially new people create a channel
today
do you have any advice for people maybe
that doesn't have a skill of yet or try
to find what they're passionate about
when it comes to starting a youtube
channel i would say just don't be
discouraged because yeah if you look at
a lot of popular youtubers who are
making it a career
they've had a lot of steps pre youtube
that sort of led
them to that you kind of have to factor
that into a well it's been making videos
for two years how come nothing happening
well it's because you also didn't do
five years of business school and what
weren't studying photography and stuff
so i would say it's really easy to get
discouraged with a man time you put into
it but all of that will make a
difference eventually what is your
number one tip for a vlog channel title
and thumbnail baby wow fire that's all
it is totally it has nothing to do with
description has nothing to do with tags
i would say even the the amount you
upload it's all about title and
thumbnail pretty doesn't she
and it's all the videos right and
literally after spending sometimes 12
hours of producing content just spent
another 20 minutes just on the thumbnail
totally understand that the most
important part even on this channel
video influencers Sean spends a lot of
time making sure that that captures your
attention so I love that it's very
practical you know you didn't get all
philosophical which there's nothing
wrong with a right but anybody can learn
from that because you know one thing
that people forget
youtube is a search engine people were
searching for things that are searching
and clicking and they're going to click
on what works you know so you got to
think about right colors you got to
think about you know a sense of mystery
where you're not giving it all away
those are all super important alright
last question before the lightning round
okay uh you also do music right you sing
and you can you talk about how that
enhance your vlog channel or vice versa
and how you combine two passion to create
what you do on YouTube
well you know I've been singing since I
was so little i would annoy my mom so
much just running around the house
singing so I've been seeing forever and
it was kind of something that I stopped
doing because of I was bullied a lot of
high school for it was kind of something
I put on the back burner and didn't
really ever really addressed but I think
being on YouTube having an audience you
know having so much support from people
really gave me a lot more confident yeah
and i was able to you know write my
first single two years ago this is home
get it produced and put it on on itunes
and you know now it's sold over 200,000
copies and that's from being an
independent artist yeah but having this
this audience that is so connected with
what you do there even more connected to
my music because music is about what we
blog about you know me so that's been
really fun in it and I feel like people
have been loving getting to see a lot of
behind-the-scenes going to see me
working in a studio or on set with music
videos and even you know I have a couple
times i've logged like some songwriting
session and stuff didn't really enjoy
being a part of the whole process i love
how you you actually did it backwards
compared to most other people most
people would start with the music right
and then do a blog you guys started with
a vlog right with Missy’s following what
kind of your circumstances in life and
then you revisited your love for music
right now and that's what I love about
YouTube there are no rules with this
rightly home
I don't think there's some guidelines
like you know thumbnail title ranking but
so you should do this the way you want
it is there anything you want to talk
about because i think that you are so
different than a lot of vloggers because
obviously you're a musician but found
that passion afterwards can you talk to
that little bit
well I think that our viewers are are
watching us for a reason they're
watching us because every every family
member you know Oliver Fin Missy me we
all bring something different to the
table in our vlog and if we were all
doing the same thing or if it was just
focus on one person and i really want to
be a family blog now so what I try to do
when I'm filming our vlog if I really
try to split up the attention and if you
go through our thumbnails you'll even
see it split of attention there it's you
know if there's something with only the
next day I'll make sure it's something
different and that everyone sort of gets
that ample time because I never wanted
to be the Olly show i never wanted to be
the Bryan show and his music so people
get really invested in each thing that
we do is over for Missy people are
following you know how she is growing up
being a mom and and overcoming certain
things in her life to get to where she
is and for Oliver there seeing him
learn to be potty-trained you know and
and play well with other and we've got
and then for me they get to see you know
behind the scenes of my music so people
are invested in every sort of aspect
music is a really great piece of that
because it's something that we love the
lightning round this is where we have a
light month ok what I know you gotta
just flew here but what's the last thing
you remember grabbing out of the fridge
milk that's a bit of dad answer it's always
milk for chocolate milk house for top
dada can i have some chocolate milk
social media app of choice right now
Instagram Instagram on Instagram stories
Instagram stories it’s fun it’s a hack right now
they just they just added links in
stories
a mayor they literally changed the
game okay which would you rather give up
movies and TV or social media movies and
TV
well very popular I I had a youtuber
that actually said social media today
all the way they must be really must be
like halfway through season they're like
I'm not stopping that until i know what happens
netflix last question what is the
channel that you like watching right now
in YouTube oh oh so much pressure that’s why I love
asking its Ryan’s toys reviews
Ryan’s toy reviews if you are a dad or yeah
you know what's up
that's the one Ollie I want to watch
Ryan, Ollie and Ryan can be best friends so funny
as a bad you end up watching
what your kids are watching it is true
is not that’s the first choice of yours to
you’re like are sure you want to watch Casey Neistat
No!
yeah so now haha alright well thank you
so much Brad you thanks for having me
out you know like i know that you're
very busy
you've had a lot of success but you know
you still keep it very humble in your
blog you guys are trying to like help be
a family and doing normal familiy first
vlogger second and how it is and the last
thing I want to ask you for anybody out
there that wants to start a channel
what would be some advice for those
people are spying to be a youtuber their
own youtuber don't set too high of
expectations for yourself you know
because you don't let yourself down
yeah I think that's important yeah and
not going into it with them with a
motive
you know I mean go at your own pace
right and success that looks different
for everybody
oh yeah for sure you don't have to have
a
million subscribers to be successful right
yeah in fact that we've interviewed
people with 10,000 or less subscribers
that i would say legit or successful so
yeah great advice you guys you can find
Bryan will put the link down below
anywhere you want to tell people to
find you at? yeah i mean go check out our
daily vlog channel youtube.com / daily
bumps
ok and i did just put any music video on
my youtube channel youtube.com / Bryan
Lanning go check it out Benji Travis I’m sorry
are we recording we’ll do the whole thing as
a whisper interview yo yo I’m here how’s the vlog going
pretty good is the vlog ok not can we talk a little louder then this
people are watching