The Bliss Bean Show

005 | Manifesting Your Goals and Growing a YouTube Channel w/ Shan Rizwan

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How do you find the motivation and creativity to start and grow a YouTube channel from scratch? Shan Rizwan is a YouTuber whose videos about his life as a student at Boston college have racked up over 5 million views. On this episode we talked about:

  • when & why he started his YouTube channel (0:29)
  • his early creative interests (1:35)
  • keeping your YouTube channel a secret in the beginning (4:01)
  • how he used the law of attraction to manifest 1,000 subscribers (6:15)
  • the best piece of advice Shan has received from other YouTubers (16:31)
  • how do you balance the analytic side of YouTube with the creative? 17:58)
  • the negative effects of paying attention to fluctuating view and subscriber counts (21:00)
  • Beatrice’s 2 pieces of advice to stop caring about the numbers so much (22:38)
  • how Shan’s “guessing college majors” video went viral (26:12)
  • balancing running a YouTube channel with school (29:46)
  • the importance of self discipline in starting creative projects (31:45)
  • how do you stay inspired and continuously come up with video ideas? (34:36)
  • the best way to improve when you are just starting out on YouTube (37:56)
  • lightning round: most important habit, book recommendation, and favorite holiday song (41:22)

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