Yeah.... So, I blew my wildly ambitious deadline, and now... I'm running out of runway. Excellent.

In this month's brutally honest Zero Percent Up update, I talk about falling behind, watching my financial runway get shorter, realizing I've been treating my creative work with too much flexibility, and confronting the possibility that I'll need to take on temporary work if I can't make this business pay for itself fast enough.

I also dig into why I've stepped away from the doom-cycle of the internet, my growing concerns about employment and economic instability, why I keep coming back to entrepreneurship, and what it actually means to bet on yourself when the stakes aren't theoretical anymore.

Topics Covered this Week:

• Missing the original 100K YouTube subscriber deadline

• Reassessing goals after falling behind
• The reality of running out of financial runway
• Building a creative career while facing financial pressure
• Why the online world can feel like an escape hatch from traditional employment
• Taking a temporary side job to protect financial stability
• Balancing entrepreneurship with practical backup plans
• Setting stronger boundaries around creative work
• How flexibility can become a liability without structure
• Procrastination, intimidation, and the uncomfortable parts of building a business
• Dealing with judgment from people who don't understand your goals
• AI, layoffs, and changing employment conditions
• Entrepreneurship, ownership, and financial independence
• The tension between traditional employment and building your own thing
• Social media doom cycles and stepping away from constant negativity
• Why consuming endless negative news can contribute to fear and inaction
• Recommitting to 100K YouTube subscribers by the end of November
• Building income streams before the channel fully monetizes
• Exploring sponsorships, paid offerings, and short-term client work
• Learning to take the business side of a creative career seriously
• What happens when the "fun experiment" becomes financially consequential
• Choosing intensity now in pursuit of long-term autonomy
• Continuing to build despite fear, missed deadlines, and uncertainty

Thank you for listening!! 🖤🪽

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