Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel! Today we're doing something different,
something new, something that I've never done before! You can say I'm a bit of a virgin at this.
To be honest, I never thought I would be making this kind of a video. More specifically,
this is an unboxing video. Here's a box that we'll be unboxing in a moment. To be honest,
when I make my videos, when I work on my content, I'm so focused on providing amazing value, on
teaching and educating and advising and coaching, etc. that I don't I guess spend a lot of time
thinking about the personal updates and about my personal life. But this is actually something that
I really have all of you to thank. And if you're following me on YouTube and on social media,
you'll know that I recently crossed the 100 000 subscribers mark which is extremely exciting.
And I really have all of you to thank for that! I couldn't have done it without you.Seriously,
I have so much gratitude and so much appreciation for every single one of you, for helping me and
supporting me in getting here, getting to this point. And I guess another interesting thing about
this experience is that I wasn't actually sure if I would be receiving this box, this reward that I
will be showing you today. And this is because I am based in Australia, I am not in the US.
So I wasn't certain if YouTube would be actually sending me this reward. And on top of that,
I know that my content can be perceived as a little bit tricky
for YouTube regulators and authorities. So that's why I thought that it's possible that YouTube
might just decide not to give me this reward. When you look at the fine print on YouTube,
they actually give themselves the right to give out the rewards at their own discretion
and that's perfectly fine. So it came as a sort of a double extra special surprise when I got
a notification that I was actually getting this award. So what's inside is a Silver Play Button
from YouTube. So as soon as you reach the 100 000 subscriber mark on your YouTube channel,
you receive the Silver Play Button. For a million subscribers you get a golden award and then for,
I think for 10 million you get a platinum one and then for 100 million a diamond one, I think...
Something like that. So this is the first one of YouTube awards: the Silver Play Button.
And I'm so excited to open it right now and to show you what's inside. I haven't actually even
seen it. This arrived yesterday in the afternoon and I was... Actually, so just before I open this,
let's have a little chat about how this happened because that was a bit funny. I went out in the
afternoon to run some errands and when I came back I couldn't quite get to my house because there was
a delivery van parked outside my garage. But then I realized that the man was carrying a package to
my door that looked like it was possibly the award, the YouTube award. So I left my car,
I jumped out of it and I ran to my door to meet him there. And indeed, he had this black package
with big YouTube sign on top of it. So I grabbed it from him very happily and I took it
inside. And then I went back to get my car. Okay, so should we do this? I'm ready here,
I've got my parcel, I've got scissors and I also have a my faithful ceramic knife that might be
helpful for doing this. So this is how the award arrives. The whole box is black except for the
YouTube logo and the delivery labels at the front. So I'm just going to cut away the
tape that is holding this box together. I think this might need cutting as well...
Okay, here we go. Let's see what is inside. I'm not the best at opening boxes
to be honest. They usually just, there's just so much packaging usually and I struggle
with it. But you know, I always get there as I think we all do. Okay, so I've opened the box
and there's just a bit of black foam on top of it. So I'm going to remove that. There's a little
"Congratulations on your subscriber milestone" card, what else does it say... "We are honoured to
take part in recognizing your achievement and want to experience... and want your experience to be
exceptional." (a bit of a problem reading there) "This award was inspected and packaged with great
care by Rick." Thank you so much, very lovely! Then there is what looks like a bit of a letter,
probably quite generic: "Do you remember your first subscriber, your 100th or your thousandth?
Chances are you do and we know that you'll definitely remember your 100 000th subscriber!"
I won't be reading the the whole thing, I will read it myself but I'm going to move on.
Okay, well what I'm looking at right now... I guess it just took me by surprise!
Oh, I might have a little cry here! I was so busy reading the note and looking at the other bits
that I didn't actually even look at my reward yet. Here it is! Oh my god! So it's wrapped in plastic,
let me just peel it out of here. That's what it looks like. Okay, so that's for the box,
let's get rid of the box. So now for the award itself, let's get it out of the packaging.
There's actually my name on it so I want to make sure that it was engraved correctly.
Okay, let's see: "Presented to Helena Nista (written correctly) for passing hundred thousand
subscribers." And below it says "YouTube". Oh my god, just look at that! The button itself is like
mirror so you might be seeing my my camera right now and my lights, which is okay. So
that's it, guys! At the back there is, there are some holes if you want to hang it. Very handy,
thank you so much, YouTube, for being so thoughtful! It's beautiful and I'm enjoying
holding it in my hands right now. I need to find a very special place in my home for this award.
It's so exciting, it's so beautiful but it's really just a symbol.
It's really a symbol of how far I've come because a year ago I had about 3 000 subscribers.
And at that point I had my channel going for about a year. And so within that first year I went from
zero to three thousand subscribers. But I didn't really have a strategy and I didn't really know
how to post consistently or, you know, or really what I wanted to achieve and do with YouTube. It
was really during Covid when suddenly my channel started being discovered by more and more people.
Then I started looking at actually becoming a proper YouTuber and ways to publish more, publish
videos more successfully, so that they would reach more people all over the world. And this award is
just such a beautiful symbol recognizing all this work, all this effort. All the hours I put into
growing my YouTube channel. Because it takes me quite a lot of time every week to keep up with
my YouTube schedule, with uploading the videos, creating videos and uploading them. All of that
takes at least 10 hours per week and also just attending to the YouTube channel, reading all
the comments and responding to them and staying up to date with that communication between me
and you guys, that takes time as well. But it's just so rewarding and beautiful and amazing for
me and it's just, there's such satisfaction in the fact that I can use the YouTube platform to
spread my message, to help more people all over the world and to just reach anybody who needs
this information. So thank you so much again, thank you, YouTube and thank you, all of you who
watch my videos, who like them, who comment, who subscribe, etc. It means so much to me! I am so
excited to reach this milestone and I know it's not gonna be that far before I reach the
million subscribers and I'm so freaking excited about that! Thank you again, you're amazing!