yo yo yo CPA strength here after owning
my own business for three três anos
three years oh no my own business guess
what I'm still here and that's the main
thing I'm still here I just looked at
the one after I was owning for like a
couple months then the first year then
the second year so this is a phony my
own business after three years what I do
it again and I'm happy I started my own
business yes by all means and I really
think the main thing is you can't you
cannot predict what is going to happen
you just like I thought I was prepared
and I said this pretty much in the first
year installment second year installment
like you cannot predict what is gonna
happen you just you know you got prepare
as best you can and just hope you make
it huge like huge things happened since
the last video so for four for three
years I had the lease at that office
that most of my other videos were at and
now I'm in my house my YouTube studio
house which gotta start using more and
and that actually the YouTube has turned
into you know a decent part of my
business I don't necessarily make a lot
of money from the YouTube but I get a
sense of fulfillment that I'm helping
people with my accounting for beginners
and I have other ideas for the youtubes
so owning my own business
is actually you know growing my youtube
channel as well
I know one of my goals last year was to
get out of that office and stop living
with my dad and now I have a nice big
house what about one of the things that
really happened I guess probably the
biggest thing was I had a client that
was my big my biggest client and kind of
had a mutual agreement that I would
start going into their office every day
and I'll get it's still a little wrong
but this is actually - I worked there
for three months and I still had my
other stuff like they were they were
paying me to my business still so I
still had my business I still had all my
other clients but this was my biggest
client and I still had my youtube except
that it was so just draining that I
couldn't do anything else they have for
that job and it's actually I worked
there for three months and we parted
ways to weeks ago and I will never say
anything you know I need to keep it a
professional and I'll never say anything
negative about a client of mine or
anything except you know we parted ways
and I'll go into more of you when it's
not so raw for me you know maybe maybe
next year or something so you know your
boy your boys kind of scramble and now I
do have my own business and I'm working
out of my own house now so it's a whole
new set of things um but yeah owning my
own business after three years like I
went back kind of went back to the
corporate lifestyle and that was just a
mistake like I am NOT I need to be on my
own now
you know I just can't go back to that
like like I found myself you know
looking at the clock again God you know
it's almost over just just looking at
the clock feeling like I didn't really
do anything for the day a bunch of
corporate done it all like felt like I
was just in a hamster wheel and yeah I
was making good money for me I was
making real good money for me and I've
never made so much money for me it was
it was twice as much as I ever made my
life but you know what I just wasn't
happy and I've gone back and forth with
should I of parted ways with that client
or not and you know I'm gonna make it
I'm a hustler I'm a grinder that's
really all I know is to hustle and grind
and be the underdog and so I was in a
weird space just getting that paycheck
that big paycheck every week and it was
just a weird space for me so I'm here to
say you know when I look at this for
next year owning my own business for
four years I'll be like yeah I mean I
remember that because I looked at my
other ones and you know and you know the
first year I the first year I have like
two cloud was like a third of the way to
making the money I'm I'm kind of in a
similar situation now where I'm not
making I'm not making enough money but I
know how it goes where when tax season
comes around that's when I'll pick up
new clients and and you know I'm feel a
lot better just making this video and
and stuff because and you know I hope I
hope hope I can motivate I want to
motivate people to follow their dreams
and it's not always going to be easy and
there's gonna be setbacks and everything
like that like you know where it's like
some people think success is just a
straight line where success is really
like like all the way around and
everything like that but yeah I'm still
a licensed CPA and I got options I just
that just as guess mama I got an old
lady now to which I really I really care
about a lot and LBZ she's like eat and
she's really been here for me the past
couple months through everything and I
couldn't love you a lot lb thinks thanks
a lot for being there for me in the past
couple of months I couldn't have done
this without you without your support
and understanding he'll be you'll be on
the channel soon sometime and well
anyways owning my own business owning my
own business after three years
I also I also took a while I didn't a
house and say I take I took a took a job
or I took a position or I uh I coach
Little League baseball during tax season
which I don't know if I could do like
definitely into it this year because I
need to make more revenue but my income
was good last year and I just it just
really wiped me out and I couldn't
couldn't like grow the business um but
yeah I coach the you know owning my own
business I guess it it gave me the the
flexibility to say hey I wanna coach
Little League baseball so I'm gonna
coach uli baseball so I coached nine
nine and ten-year-olds Little League
baseball last year promoting my own
business let's see am I glad I did it
yes it was one of the best things I've
ever done and what I do it again yes
if you're thinking about just do it yeah
just do it you know you're gonna watch
you know you probably watching other
videos and like owning my own business
and should I own my own business and
should I do it or whatever and I think
you know most everyone's gonna say it's
scary but it's a learning experience and
I mean sometimes you just got you just
gotta jump in and grow grow wings on the
way down anyways oh I knew what I was
going back to I knew I was going back to
what lb what lb z said she's like honey
you got you got the wind knocked out of
your sails cuz I'm like I just the past
couple weeks I've been going back and
forth I shouldn't I shouldn't have
parted ways she's a client
what am I gonna do now now I got bills I
can't afford my bills I'm a loser on
this you know and I've just had no
energy I've been all over the place with
what my next move is but slowly I'm
getting more and more wind in my sails
and you know slowly slowly I'm getting
more win to myself so who knows where
I'm going to be after next year but I
can guarantee I'm gonna still be around
another thing on my head another thing I
just thought of to owning my own
business and I just started with you
know growing the YouTube channel is part
of owning my own business it's it's that
you know with with baseball with
coaching baseball and taxis and I just
didn't have any extra bandwidth for the
YouTube channel I wanted about 200
straight days of uploading and then just
stopped for about seven months after
baseball season I was still coaching
baseball moved in closed closed mailed
office moved into my house office studio
and started working at this new job
which was
insane stressful and everything for me
so I left you two for seven months and I
lost all that momentum and I wish I
didn't do that but I did you know I
noticed I've been posting again recently
and a lot of my daily Watchers I had you
know a good chunk of daily Watchers
before that would watch all my videos
and they're not you know very few have
come back and I totally understand I
totally understand I left him in the
dark but you know what I'm I'm back now
I'm not this is what I love and I'm not
leaving again but I know you know you've
got to show it with your actions more
than your words so I'm here to do that
and one another thing I learned with you
know owning my own business and doing
this and doing that is that I'm not mate
to me and I think you'll hear from a lot
of other people that making a lot of
money means nothing if you're unhappy
and that was true that was true for me
also you're never gonna be really truly
successful unless you're super unless
you're passionate about your work you
know if you can't wait to get up you
know and get going which I'm getting
back to that now so owning my own
business and kind of figuring out which
ways I want to get my revenue stream
from is you know I'm passionate about
that and I guess if I'm not if I don't
get monetarily rich I will be rich from
my happiness I also suffer with
debilitating anxiety debilitating
depression I'm a drug addict
call it five and a half years sober from
that and so I deal with a lot of things
and I just want to keep pushing forward
anyways I'm gonna end this was kind of
an all over the place but it is what I
thought and owning my own business for
for three years and I guess the thing is
yeah I've been able to pay my own bills
make my way rent my own house and I'm
still here and that's that's another
thing when the dust settles almost still
being here I'm 41 years old I grew up I
grew up eating body bodies which was the
lamest welfare cereal ever so I've been
hustling grinding forever and I'll see
you next year for owning my own business
after four years anyways this is CPA
strength and I'm out for now Joseph's