Most people think going all-in on YouTube is about becoming an influencer. It's not. This is a Coast FIRE strategy disguised as a content play. In this episode, I break down why YouTube isn't just a content platform—it's a financial one. I'm documenting my journey from negative $3,200 (gear investment) to $2,000/month in semi-passive income that I can route directly to our mortgage, shaving five years off our Coast FIRE timeline. In this episode:
- Why every Coast FIRE resource assumes you have a salary (and what founders need to do differently)
- The math behind using YouTube to accelerate mortgage payoff
- Why YouTube is the only platform where content actually compounds
- The real numbers from my first 30 days: what I spent, what I filmed, what worked, what flopped
- The five skills you're learning simultaneously (and why that's what makes it hard)
- How I'm treating this like a business experiment, not a creative outlet
The raw truth: I'm at 99 subscribers. My thumbnails are embarrassingly bad. But I'm tracking every metric and sharing the journey—because no one else is showing this path for founders in their 40s building toward Coast FIRE without a traditional salary.
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