Today's forecast is all about overcoming the fear of judgment and not letting other people's opinions. Stop you from doing the thing that you really want to be doing because I know that you're listening to impact school today because you want to make an impact perhaps you want to start building your personal brand. Maybe you want to start posting content to Instagram or YouTube or maybe even your own podcast, but maybe the reason why you're not starting is because you're worried about what other people think about you and today's episode is going to beFact if you fit that bill and there's also a lot of insight in here about how to actually start a YouTube channel and maybe even become a best-selling author because that is what my guest today has done. His name is Mariah and he is a fitness influencer and he literally is a best-selling author. So it's awesome to have him on the show today where we're going to be talking all about everything that I just mentioned. So make sure that you've hit subscribe and stick around until the end because at the end I'm going to be sharing. You a personal story that I've not shared before or La a my personal insecurities when it came to actually building my brand from the get-go when I was around the age of 16. So with that said if you are somebody who is looking to build your brand then of course you're in the right place, but I do also have a free workshop for you. So I'm gonna leave that link in the show notes. If you're listening to this on Apple's podcasts up and then you just look at your phone screen when it's unlocked. You'll basically see obviously the logo where it says impact school a podcast by law. Tecna but then on the bottom right-hand side of the screen, that's three little dots. Just click on those three little dots then click on where it says the title or Liz you just click on the logo the mini logo that's in the Square on the left. Click that and then that will take you to the page where there is the show notes where you can click on all of the links. So without further Ado, let's get into today's episode of the podcast with my Ryan. And by the way, please just take a screenshot and share this on your Instagram story. Tagging me at Lauren Tecna and tag. Being at maroon because we would love to share it on our own Instagram stories. Look if you're trying to build your brand and you share a book course and tag me then I'm going to share it as well which basically means you're going to get a bunch of followers coming to you. So that's a win-win-win. So anyway, I started off this podcast by asking a Ryan how and why he got into business indirectly. I was interested in business. I would like I've always wanted to be my own boss and like run a business. That was always my goal. I just didn't like the things that were talking about in the class. yes, well, I wasn't really interested in and I always like ask myself like what is this contribute to me me starting a business like me doing something and then once I started like watching YouTube videos and also watch other videos on online business and that kind of stuff. I started realizing that you actually like you have to do things not just learn about about a lot of random stuff that you probably never use bubble certain models and all that kind of stuff. Like I learned so much stuff in school, but I that I like I've never used any of it. Like I still I still wonder like when I think about it that she didn't teach me anything that I know today. Yes my business good. Just like it's like you do a lot of stuff and since I wasn't University anymore, I also started learning like I only learned things that I need to know and I want to know and I'm actually going to put to practice so you learn way more effectively in a way. I'm not trying to talk down universities here that's not like their findings that they that they do teach you about a lot of important stuff, but for me personally, like the thing I wanted to do was just like I didn't learn too much about it. I dropped out of University as well. But there's so many different routes that can get You to the different outcome, like one plus one equals two, but so does 6-4 and that's a really important analogy different people like different things. I personally went into University to meet friends and make friends and whom still so I'm so glad I went but then I dropped out because like you said I love about this thing which is like just in time and we actually learned about it in University, but it can be applied to real and smart in like a manufacturing process, which is basically where they just get things done just in time so that they can be As the cause of production and storage and all that Shenanigans, but basically yes just-in-time learning is essentially where you learn something as and when you need it, so you're not learning all of this massive brought amount of stuff. You learn something just before you need it so that you can implement it right away and it's a way to learn because it means that you can learn it and you can execute and I think that taking messy actual is so important to do because if you don't start and if you just constantly learn and just focus on perfectionism, then you're never going to Get anything done. Exactly exactly. Oh my gosh a fine line between like being a perfectionist and being someone who does stuff. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. It's like the whole Ready Aim Fire versus like ready fire aim, and I would even argue that I'm like fire Ready Aim. Like I literally do it way before I'm even ready. But so yeah. I just wanted to ask you so when you first made YouTube channel and when you were doing all this stuff, Did you overcome the objections of people around you? Because I know that typically when people start a YouTube channel. Yeah, do you say it like it's a normal thing to do all my time was going into fitness and pursuing that and then I saw then I started seeing people do that online. I'm making money out of it and then I realized what like this is what I need to do because this is literally like this would mean that I could do what I love for a living. So that's when I started pursuing it and then I yeah, like you said I had to overcome the obstacle is like telling my friends and all the stuff. I was actually pretty awkward I like is when I started my YouTube Channel first of all, I took me to many months of like thinking about like, how do I start? Am I actually going to start an IV started like getting anxiety and like doubting yourself and you start thinking about like a like a lychee scenarios in your head like a like what if it started I tell someone what is he going to say or like like what like what happens? Are you started getting all these thoughts in your head and just like at some point you just gotta say fuck it and it took me months to say that to myself then I did ya like I had the idea for months. Yeah, really? Yeah exhibit. Yeah. It was a big step because I'm I've always been the type of guy that would really care about others and I would really care about my like my on my social status and like what are people thought like I wanted to, you know be cool get you know, Dad's always I'm completely honest about that. I was always kind of how I felt. So for me like stepping on our comfort zone and being considered maybe like an idiot or because you put yourself on the internet like no one does it here right? Like no one in my city. I'm like what's important to note? Like just let people know about because I know when I went over and we met up in Amsterdam and like your poster was the gym and like you was because obviously in your country. It's not like a massively common thing. I think in the state's being a YouTuber has Kind of come up and normalize in the UK. It's getting there. But well, yeah, it's really not. Yeah, it was very nice. So Sam was fake. Thanks. I'm sleepy. We're going to ask you like what like what the hell are you doing? So I didn't tell anyone to be completely honest. I started my channel and my idea was to get some followers before I told anyone about it. Just probably like the fool savings time. But now I ended up looking like an absolute fool because someone like some people 'well, I think someone at my gym came across one of my videos and Ragga medalist. And yes, so he was like Hey, did I see what you're doing through him and I was like, so I still didn't have any views. I wonder how he saw it. But I like I got ashamed of myself when he had when he asked me so that's how that's how I'm not confident. I was to start a fight. Yes. I did tell myself like you gotta have the balls now. You gotta say fuck it you gotta do it, but that doesn't mean that I from Woman 1 I didn't give give give a fuck. Like I actually did. You know, I still like I didn't feel fully confident about it, but I think people going though because I did have the mindset of you know, like if I keep going I will get confident and what was will be, you know, I think it was just like self-acceptance. I think that is the main thing as well when you started YouTube. I am start putting yourself on social media. You have to be really self-aware like know who you are and know what you want know what you stand for because it if you get like, Like if you're really doubting yourself or you don't know as someone will post a comment that is like against you it's really going to hit you hard. So I never really had that because I quickly accepted like I was at a point where I knew who I was and what I wanted like I didn't really care about what anyone can say so I think that's very important thing. Yeah, and I said she was so funny because the exact same thing happened to me. I don't know how the hell people follow my Instagram account. I started actually on Instagram and not YouTube. It's just crazy because You think back to when you first start and it's like such a big scary things you and I think a lot of people are at this stage of the moment where they want to start something, but maybe they're just afraid or maybe they have started but they're not seeing any success in their friends are mocking them, but it's just riding through it. So when this guy came up with you in the gym, and he said like about your YouTube channel, what did you say back? And how did you actually condition along with it rather than quitting and we're speaking about social media right now. So just take a screenshot of this and share it on your Instagram story while also saying What your biggest takeaway is so far? Because if you are able to share this and just let people know what the biggest takeaway is. So, for example, you take the screenshot you share it you tag me you tag my Ryan and then you write awesome book glass about overcoming the fear of judgment. Then other people will be able to understand what the podcast is about and why they should tune in obviously, you can go into more detail as to exactly what you're learning, but just a small little sentence will be amazing and I just love seeing where you're listening to this. I love seeing What your biggest takeaways are and when you share with your biggest takeaway is from any episode. I will commit to sharing it on my story. I don't share all of them anymore because fortunately you guys are amazing and you're sharing this on your stories consistently, but the ones where they at, you guys actually like share what you're learning eyeshadow on my story because that's super super valuable for other people. But anyway, we get back to the episode now, please please do that for me. I would really appreciate it. I don't know what I said. It was just like like it was actually like even it would have been cool. Thank you. You think about it? It's actually cool thing. They found me. Yeah, I just felt like about it then. Yes, awesome. But then it was so hard. And yeah, and I'm just now when I think about a bag, I don't really know why I felt like that but it was just it was a feeling at a hat and it was not enough felt like quitting. I just felt really awkward in that particular moment that he actually came up to me also because I have always been I've been out like I'm actually close person. Like, how do you say it English is my second language like I don't Open up to everyone. Yeah, you're closed off. Yeah, this is same as me. Yeah. Yeah, but that's kind of how I am. That's also my parents like when I started YouTube and they watched my videos. They were like who like who the hell are you? You never like you never speak much. Now you dislike about I could take you thank you so much. I like it's just one camera pops on I'm like like I don't know it's going my role personality just comes out and it's easy for me to express myself. That's one thing. I love about YouTube as well for me. It's actually like what? You mean personal personal thing? Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, I guess because i'm think when you're talking to the camera, it's just you and the camera and like, you know, you can delete it if it goes wrong and all this and you can just open up your true authentic self and like there's no judgment there. Right? I think that's actually a really good point because something that I found is like a lot of YouTubers who started YouTube and then build a big YouTube channel and our amazing on YouTube. They're actually quite I'm confident and like insecure in real life. Then the able to build up that confidence through doing this one thing which I think is so amazing and so powerful because just a few years ago that wasn't even possible. So it's really good. Social media has allowed that Circle. So now obviously you own all these businesses. And you said when you began your YouTube channel, you were like worried about all kind of like an imposter syndrome type thing. Did you have that when you started these businesses as well, you know. I think it's last I think I think that it's even want to start in. My first one was a lot less. Yeah, because the gospel is I build up it's just like it's like unreal like when I when I think back of those times, I'm literally like like why was I like that but I can understand a lot. Yeah. I'm a completely different person and I'm like, I would say I'm not afraid of starting any business or doing anything because I know that like if you follow you get up again and it only makes you better or makes you realize he did something wrong. Yeah, it makes you understand like what you do better like I don't know. I'm just like fully confident. I would say obviously there's always like dots in the back of your head what can go wrong or what can happen. But I'm at a stage where I just know that you just gotta you gotta try you got to do and that's what you will learn. He's like, how did this happen? Because you weren't always like this. I'm so interesting how you became so confident. Yeah. Yeah, it was just it was starting YouTube to be honest really. It was just putting putting yourself out on I think about it you put yourself out on the internet for the whole world. So then she know what you do what your updo what you're thinking. I like I show everything like I don't hide anything on user. So I decided I decidedly to accept myself at the put it out and whatever people think that they can say it on YouTube and I can't read it and like I don't care about it. Yes, obviously when I first started I wasn't like that. I did I did like in the back of my head when someone posts a comment like oh you got a big nose and then maybe I didn't say that but you know, you didn't you say something about whatever or though your chest is not big enough, you know are like your legs look like shit and you start thinking about it, but then it kind of hits you a little bit but by now and like it doesn't help me at all. It's just something you build up. I guess you just say getting you anything realize that there's always one out of a hundred people that will say something negative because they Hate their lives or you know, just yeah, you know, I just yeah. Yeah so that let you just sat in that little room just like commenting hate because they're insecure and they have nothing better to do it. I think it's not the same time. Sometimes let's say they make a comment about something that you said and maybe you hadn't thought about that opinion then I think it can be a good thing sometimes like if you're open-minded and and take it on board as constructive criticism. There's been times when yeah in the past I would have yeah like Shrugged it off massively and has been like this. I'm the loser, but then I actually think about what they say and I'm like, oh, maybe this is actually a good point. I can take that on board and I won't do that again, or maybe I'll alter the way I say something to make it clearer to make it evident that I'm not saying it this way or whatever. So I think yeah, there's a fine line between actual haters and then like constructive criticism. I think. Oh, yeah people can be so Savage especially on YouTube like they can achieve mean so any of the lessons right now if you're about to go commentate on someone's thing. Because that's mean and nasty and if you've really got something to say I think just send a direct message because if somebody direct message me and like gives me a genuine constructive criticism. I have so much more respect for them like doing it that way rather than calling you out publicly on making a public comment strand as soon as it's like belittling you and it's just not productive in any way shape or form. So anyway now that we've talked about that for a little bit. I love to speak about your book because I think it's so cool that you're a best-selling author. I know that it's published in two languages, right? Like an English and Dutch that process come about how did you decide to write a book like this is really cool because you're only 23 and have a book. That's amazing. Yeah, thank you. Yes. We we launched the Dutch phone first and then English after just touches my main language. My first language is most your audience then Holland. No. No, it's about about 20% is in Holland, okay. Like relatively that is a lot because it's obviously very small country which is why like if I'm in America, I don't get recognized like that much but here I will write a nice everywhere because yeah, just like a lot of people in a small small area of 20 percent is still rather be a lot. But yeah about the book honestly, we didn't necessarily A New Beginning expected to become this big because I like my main thing has been coaching. I did I wasn't saying to myself I'm going to Amazing my book, but obviously you never know what happens right when you when you decide to do something. So I work on a vote for about I would say eight months of writing it because the book is mainly about how to lose fat and do it well and living in enjoyable lifestyle, so it's not it's not like a 12-week program to get ribs, which is obviously the out there a lot on the internet. I wanted to do something different and I run into like actually have a book where I if you watched my video As you read the book you'll literally you'll understand and you realize like like why I wrote the book. It's actually all the information that I shared in all the years. I mean channel on how well I personally do it and my clients do it and how they get great results. I wanted all of that together in one piece of knowledge like one piece of Boom as I thought it would be cooler as an e-book as well because you can like bring me a book places. We actually made it into an interactive book as well where you can like you can write down. Progress like all that kind of stuff. So you really stay dedicated as well. I sort of bukas really complete guide to like getting in shape while enjoying your life. We talked about like drinking how goal and like If It Fits your Macros and we're fasting all those things, I do like tools to help you which will make it easier for your lifestyle and it explains like everything how you can set it up a program for yourself. Like whether you want to train two times a week or five times a week is the, you know, some people might have a 9 to 5 job. They might not want To go every day if you set goals for like if you tell yourself I'm going to go to gym five days a week. Then you'll never make it five days a week. That is obviously never going to work for your lifestyle. That's why you don't see a lot of these programs that are way too extreme for people and they cannot sustain it. So the book really goes in-depth on different methods for your lifestyle. Let's say you want to some people want to track their macros every day. Some people are simply just not going to do it so you can you can tell them to do it, but they are not going to do it and then they're not going to sustain it. So it's on. Talk about different approaches like counting macros, but also intuitive eating, you know, like meal portions. I guess a lot of different ways of doing Fitness and like making it fit your lifestyle. So it's literally just like complete guide of everything. Yeah. So amazing when I wrote that whole book I work together with two guys. So we do my shroud lifestyle with the three of us. They do what they work on a full-time and they still do so, it's pretty cool because like One of them actually had a 95 job. Once we started writing my shredded lifestyle. I wrote about 90% of the Boop and then they help me write a part of it as well because obviously I don't know like I don't know how to write a book. You know, I know how to like, I have all the knowledge. I have the information. I don't want in there but like as far as the structure goes and like an actual book. It's a big thing. Obviously. I have no experience with that. So I'm not going to lie and say that I do because you know as business, aren't you need to be honest? You know what you can do and what you have to Outsource and other people to write so they are a big part behind the boot. So I have the knowledge and they did the rest. They put the book together and later. We had it translated into English as well. We obviously we had some people like checked over at her and like Parenthood. There's been a lot of people that have been involved in a book so multiple multiple people multiple checks. And then when we published a book we yeah, we didn't expect it to become that big right because I like I know how many for example programs I've sold. I might have done evil before like froebel and this one literally just purchased even more than like free variety, which would be crazy to the realize analysis shows like how big of the support I have on the internet obviously, which is awesome. Like all other people as for me I get I got a lot of people that Which is actually a really cool thing. Am I always super grateful for that? That's helped me realize like hey, man, I bought your book and even though I follow you for years, like I already knew it was going to be in it because I don't all the information but I just wanted to give you something back for all the information you happy that is always on your stuff is so cool unless you they comment on that all your videos, which I think is amazing. It just shows how you bought like such a loyal Drive. Yeah, and it's awesome because they've been following me for years and like I gave him so much and like I might have changed. Life in a way, they might have lost 30 kilos from from doing Fitness or you know - teach him some other things and they just want to give back to you today. They will buy your product or service and that's obviously very important business. I feel like many people will I go back a lot of information and be like, you can only get it if you buy my stuff and I think that is absolutely wrong approach. So yeah, but as far as the book How would be getting the best out of here in the Netherlands is mainly because of all The reviews that I got so we are on this this website scalpel that calmest biggest web shop in the Netherlands. You could compare it to Amazon. They actually threw an event together with me about two months ago, which was super awesome. They reached every day and we're going to launch the next book together with that. So yeah, it's really awesome and a next week is actually launching after summer. So it's pretty quickly, which is a conversation. It's a recipe move an expedited not only shows the recipes and macros. And there's a like awesome recipes in there. It also really I also talked more again about how to like calculate your Macros and all that kind of stuff like some other information that will help you set up your diet. So it's not just the recipe book, but it's more it really shows you how to actually implement the recipes right because you don't want to like you can have recipes if you still don't know how to implement them into your diet, then it obviously doesn't make sense. Just a little bit bigger than a recipe book, which I think is awesome and also to Barnes little bit of different demographic as well. See I think the book is going to do really well. We're super excited but the way became a best-seller one of the things that disgust so many reviews and the average review is like almost a five-star review out of 400 reviews. Well, right so that you just get listed very high and like most of people have bought my book a big percentage of it doesn't even know my YouTube channel or they don't even know my histogram. Definitely how you expend successful. This is you know, you can use your socials obviously to grow it first of all or two as a start with you like the main the main idea or the main goal you should have is to actually have people Beyond also makes good people beyond that. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's so interesting. So, how did you manage to gather so many reviews? Okay. So one of the things we did was it was a little after the book got launched out because I so first of all all the sales we met were my following we asked them literally to like, please write your office review. If you if you enjoy the booth and we said like my honest review because we want them to you know, like obviously share what they think about the book. Yeah, and then just a lot of people started doing it again just to give back. As well. Yeah, it's amazing. That's so good. That just shows the power of having such a loyal audience. And so just maybe let's start to wrap up now, but I'd love to hear maybe a few of your biggest tips about how you are able to cultivate such a just your fans. Like how were you able to bring them into your life so much and make them so like obsessed with you and want to bind everything that you're doing amazing. Yeah, so I think for me like the cool thing has been like if you thought of my journey is that you can really see how I how I improved as a person not just in like I don't just get fitness test, but I show my whole life I like how I improve in life and in business and I take my own following through it. So when they went back my videos when I was night, some people been around since the early days is that five thousand drivers and you know that I was this Kitty University working a side job. Like cooking my meals and like, you know, like going to the gym and between waking up early to prep my meals and it was just a whole different life that I have now and then yeah some videos here be say like, oh, yeah, I feel this class again. But yeah, I'm really I like I have a half and half a year delay now, that's cool. But I'm really going to try harder now. I'm really going to I'm going to do this. I bet a couple months later. He's like, yeah. I'm actually thinking about like maybe that he quit But I'm not sure yet. And as I slowly like you see my whole life to see what's happening. You see me just going from like an average guy University IV. Nothing wrong with that nothing wrong with like being mean or average guy University. But today we got to stop that. I yeah, I'm able to do, you know becoming the person I am today and still being relatable because I like I was still that guy that other people were yeah, I like it. It literally proves that like if you have a dream and you had you have something you really On you can do it, you know, maybe I didn't have any like I obviously like I have a great life. Like I am very happy with my parents the way they raised me and the you know, everything going to have here in Annapolis and amazing country. But obviously I still all did it myself, you know, I'm still self-made and it shows that other people can do it as well to wear my position because it wasn't that my parents gave me money to start his business or that I had infest servers or whatever like L did it myself so it shows that anyone One else can do it as well. Like if I can do it you can do it and I think that's for people as an amazing thing to realize and I think that is why my family's is really attracted because I show everything and I've shown my whole life like ever since I started YouTube and yeah, I think that's great. Yeah, you let people any you keeping yourself because once you stop doing that it is going to turn to shit people going to see that, you know, people are not going to have that. It's not a long-term thing. Like I don't think I think especially on YouTube. You can't you can't fake it. You can't pretend to be someone that you're not because then you meet people in real life and you're just like wait what and it's like the most I remember we said that each other when we saw each other. I was like, you're exactly the same as you're on YouTube and it's just yeah exactly and it's just so nice because yeah, you really can't fake it and you just go to be your true authentic self. So how do you set these boundaries? Like how do you know what to share and how do you know what not to share? Are because you can literally get I don't know if you've ever been in this stage where you just want to share everything like every single thing and then you're just like, okay. This is not good for me. Mentally. It's impossible to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah actually been in stage recently to be honest a little bit where I've been I've been realizing that I might like I should like Vlog a little less sometimes like I should worry about a little less because I'm literally like you find yourself being on. Phone all day especially since I run like says I do multiple businesses as well. I'm like Oh my phone and I'm doing the instant story for my own badge, but I also have another page and then I have another base like I have for Instagram pages. I right. So yeah, so you just like you find yourself that you just keep on going everything that you do in the back of my head will be voice like oh, how can I capture this? How could I share this with my followers - I make and I saw some stage or just like can't do anything with Without without capturing it yeah, it's not that it drives me crazy, but I do realize it's time to die. I should like shove it up a little bit more. I'm so drawn to you because I always thought that it was just me like because I'm always in my head thinking like, how can I take a nice to hear? How can I get your story? Like, how can I blog about this and like I feel like it could get annoying people that I'm around. I really try not to let it affect my relationships or anything. So, I mean, I'm thinking in my head, I don't know. Already always act on it. But I feel like it can it's something that's really quite hard to balance and get out of especially if yeah, if you're a nice specially if you're if you're a go-getter is just really wanted like I will always ask my like if I don't if I don't film something, I feel like I missed out, you know, I feel like I missed opportunity, you know that they could have made me grow more and I said, my sounds stupid but I think that is the reason why like why I'm successful is because I that is just a a I am I just want the most out of everything. It's your money. I do agree that there is a point where you gotta like take a little step back maybe because at the end of the day I'm doing well. It's like, you know, I always want more and more and more. Sometimes you just gotta I think except that you're doing really well be proud of yourself and just like enjoy other things as well. Yeah, exactly like whether it's with content or in your business when Self-employed your input directly equals your output. So yeah. Yeah. It's so important to set boundaries I think but I could talk about that all day. Well, I'm very grateful that we were born into Sage because the opportunities we have like, I mean when I started like my parents obviously didn't did not understand what I was doing and did not like realized like what a big opportunity and what like what you can accomplish with with the internet with social media and I they'll think a lot of people still don't know because now when I dropped out of University and I like I do all this stuff, sometimes I run into people that were a university that are still studying order finishing your study by now. And when I tell them II quit my study and doing this and like they they felt see me out see on the internet because my Facebook ads to everywhere here, so and they all see me coming by and asked me like are you going back to like, where do you think you're ever going back to studying? I like bless you. I feel like what do you mean like why would and then like they think it's only like it's a short-term thing or Tony Tony something I do now or like like they don't realize what kind of money that's in it if you do it if you do it correctly, right because I also have as you run all these businesses and I think I still think many people just don't understand what a big opportunity it is, which is why I'm glad I took it pretty quickly right? I was still true. Laid like it's never you're always like you're always too late. Right? It's never the right time start if I started you a years before would have been even way better obviously, but those are also excuses just even now it's up to you harder to get into it. You just gotta find your own thing. You got to do it say every day. It's going to be day later every day that you put off starting a brand whether it's posting to Instagram whether it's posting to YouTube whether it's reaching out to people to tell them about your vision. Mission is a day that you are missing out on impacting people and that you're losing out on getting ahead of everybody else and really being able to make an impact. So with that said I love this episode with Mariah and because he was afraid to start his YouTube channel and if he had never started his YouTube channel, he would not be The Confident person that he is today. He would not have his businesses and he would not be a best-selling author. So that is why you need to take action and you just need To go ahead and do it. So like I promised in the beginning. Here's my story when I first started on social media. I actually had an Instagram account before the Instagram account. I had today now, I've never shared this before I shared about the fact that I started off my Instagram as a secret and that nobody knew about it and that my user name was Fitness life Lauren and all that but I actually had an account before that one and I ended up deleting that one because I was worried that people would find it. Now then eventually I made the new one again because I knew that I wanted to connect with these people and I knew that as time went on I wanted to just make friends who are into the same thing as me and then as time went on and on and on and I was sharing value. I realized that people were coming to me for advice and for information, but before that before all of this like when I had that first Instagram account, the biggest reason why I never went all in and when I know why I never did it. Why I never committed to posting content and doing it publicly was because I was genuinely afraid that I was not going to be successful at that. Now other stage the reason why I was doing it is because I wanted to make friends with other people, but the reason why I didn't think I'd be successful with making friends with other people on social media and all that is because I doubted myself I didn't believe in myself and I didn't know what was really possible. So it was it was on me. I have realized this recently that you know, of course. Yes, I was afraid about what other people are going to think about me, but that was due to my own personal insecurities. And so the reason why I first created the Instagram account the one that isn't all I have now is the one that I had before the reason why I created that was again because I wanted to connect with all these people but I guess it's because I was I don't know they're like the reason why I deleted it is because I I was so insecure and myself and I was just doubting the fact that I could do this and I can make friends with these people who were quote unquote influences. And so if I hadn't of quit and if I'd have done it when I actually initially wanted to do it. So this was just me and my Instagram like I would be ten steps ahead of where I am. Now, who knows where I am now where I would be now sorry, so like just imagine if you actually took the action and started the That you want to start weather is Aug whether it's a business whether it's all asking somebody on a date if you did it today, you would be already ahead because like there's never a time that's going to be riots never going to feel good is never going to feel perfect. So my action plan for you right now is to write down one thing that you were terrified of doing but that you really want to do that. You keep putting off and I want you to send me a message on Instagram and tell me what that thing is so I can give you a kick up the but to actually make it happen. Sometimes you just need need some accountability and sometimes you just need to talk to somebody to actually do it. Now. Here's the thing. If you're listening to this podcast because you know of Mariah and you've seen everything that he's done with all of his online coaching and you perhaps want to be an online coach to great you're in the right place because I have a business that helps you build an online fitness coaching business. So if you just go to online Fitness business school.com / blueprint, then you can get a free Workshop that will give you the first steps in order to build your online fitness coaching business, okay? You're someone who doesn't want to build an online fitness coaching business, but you want to build your brand. Maybe you want to become a YouTuber and you want to create a business from that then great. You are also in the right place because I do have a business that will help you do that called impact through influence. So I have a free Workshop of that as well. I've left it linked in the show notes. And so yeah just start stop caring what other people think about you. Yes. You probably will still count they think about you but you just can't let it get to your heart and the more and more you actually put yourself out there and do these things the less and less It hurts every single time. They judge you I still get judge to this day. I speak about that on this book cause I have episodes were I reference these things that have happened to me in my life where people have judged me and it's nearly held me back and it's not just the stories that you've heard already. There's other unique stories that I share on this book are so hit subscribe. But anyway with that all said, please tell one friend about this podcast tag us both on Instagram at learned Tecna at Moravian. And yeah, we would love to see you share this because then we can share it as well and Stories and we can start a conversation. So thank you for listening and I'll see you in the next episode and just as someone who stayed all the way until the end. I do need to let you know that I do have a fruit Instagram ebook that you can grab. It's linked in the show notes. You can just click the link. It will take you straight to Facebook Messenger and then that means that you can get access to the e-book there. So that's what I'm giving you for free for staying all the way until the end and if you could do what I said earlier just you know, take that screenshot share it on your Instagram story just Letting everyone know what your biggest takeaway has been because I honestly love doing this podcast so much. This is now almost 40 minutes not to mention all of the editing that has gone into this episode in itself. It's hours and hours and hours of work and if just you could take I know 5 10 20 seconds to repay the favor, I guess I would greatly greatly appreciate it and then obviously I'll share it and then that will help you reach more people. So yeah, I mean this focus is all about making an impact you are able to make an impact. Impact the more you share, so please do it, and I appreciate you. Bye.
In today's episode, our host Lauren Tickner is joined by fitness influencer, business owner and best-selling author Merijn from the Netherlands. In this episode you'll find out... - More about Merijn's story and how he dominated his niche in the fitness industry - How to overcome the fear of judgement on social media - How to build a loyal following that wants to buy from you  FREE Instagram Ebook: http://bit.ly/InstagramChecklistAndTips  The Impact School Podcast is a show by Lauren Tickner (www.laurentickner.com) designed to impact your life through giving you actionable steps and strategies to build your brand, increase your income, and become the best version of yourself. 