I built a $3M/year business, bought the dream car, lived the “perfect” life - and still felt empty. This is the raw, unfiltered story of how I lost myself chasing success… and what I’m choosing to build now instead.
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A little about me :)
I'm a 24-year old entrepreneur and student of business. Within my first year of e-commerce, I launched over 10 different e-commerce brands and Dropshipping stores, some of which exceeding the six-figure revenue mark within months of operation. My dream is to continue running my own businesses, and help as many people reach their dreams as I possibly can.
#earn #money
➡️Turn your high-income skill into a $20-30k/mo online business:
https://www.nazarethconsult.com/mainyt
➡️FREE CUSTOM STORE + Program
https://buildyourstore.ai/nathan-naza...
➡️My Website: https://nathannazareth.co
➡️Business Channel: • I Built a $10M Lifestyle Business By 24 (H...
A little about me :)
I'm a 24-year old entrepreneur and student of business. Within my first year of e-commerce, I launched over 10 different e-commerce brands and Dropshipping stores, some of which exceeding the six-figure revenue mark within months of operation. My dream is to continue running my own businesses, and help as many people reach their dreams as I possibly can.
#earn #money
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00:00500 000 subscribers three to four million dollars a year supercars high rises dream lifestyle but
00:07what if i told you that this entire time i was living somebody else's dream i built a life that
00:13looked like heaven on instagram but hell in my mind i've been lying to all of you and i've also
00:19been lying to myself perpetually convincing myself that i have everything i ever want and more and
00:24preaching that to all of you before i explain i first need to take you back in time i grew up
00:29middle class in canada my parents gave me every opportunity to learn grow and explore but never
00:35spoiled me they paid for what i needed not what i wanted i learned how to hustle for what i wanted
00:40and by the way for that i'm forever grateful i chased the dream of becoming a pro soccer player
00:45and i was on the rise until a year-long injury took me out of the game entirely and along with it my
00:51whole identity i spiraled i even got suspended from school but by god's grace i snapped out of it i
00:57re-enrolled became a straight a student and for the first time i saw my parents crying tears of pride
01:04instead of disappointment first year in college i came out swinging top marks but then boredom hit
01:10was this really the path sit through lectures grinding on meaningless assignments and waiting
01:16for the weekend to roll around so i could get drunk i knew i wanted more i wanted so much more i wanted
01:22to travel nice dinners take care of my friends and family i wanted the freedom the freedom to have
01:27the flexibility to do cool and never stop laughing with the people that i love so i became obsessed
01:34with building a life that most people don't even try for i watched every business youtube video i bought
01:39courses speed read over 30 books and i learned marketing and sales from the ground up then i stopped
01:46watching and i started doing my first business a facebook ads agency out of my dorm room in college
01:51i called every single business in my city 100 rejections and then finally a yes then another
01:58then i hired help and before long i was making 15 000 a month out of my damn dorm room in college
02:04but i was overwhelmed clients school burnout and that's when one client mentioned drop shipping and
02:11my life changed forever at the very beginning of the whole c19 shitshow one of the products that i started
02:17testing practically overnight got a 5x roas on a cold traffic facebook ads campaign if you don't know
02:24what that means it basically means for every one dollar i spent on facebook ads zuckerberg put five
02:30dollars right back in my pocket it was my first real money printer and i planned on using it to get rich
02:36within weeks i was pulling 3k days 10k and before i knew it i was making over a hundred thousand dollars
02:43per month at 19 years old i bought my dream car a range rover paid in cash i started treating my
02:49friends and eating at restaurants that i used to walk by and say one day i was finally living the
02:55dream that i had just fantasized about one year earlier except now it was real every single dopamine
03:01hit from the dashboard spikes the car keys my first watch and my family and friends finally coming
03:07around and saying dude you did it i made it but what i didn't yet know was that i had built the
03:14entire foundation on sand one morning i rolled out of bed followed my usual routine of refreshing my
03:20shopify dashboard to check the sales and then i saw a big fat zero dollars refresh again still zero okay
03:27now i'm getting out of bed my heart's racing my hands are shaking check my email boom dmca takedown notice
03:34shopify had completely shut down my store literally overnight i'd used a piece of copyright infringing
03:41content that i grabbed from some viral post on twitter and just like that my entire business was
03:46gone and that wasn't all that same week i found out that my supplier scammed me on my last order for
03:52over ten thousand dollars fake tracking numbers ghost emails vanished inventory i was cooked and this moment
03:59was brutal but not just because i started losing money but because i started losing face
04:04my friends my family they'd finally come around after so long and realized that i was legit and now
04:12i had nothing left to show for myself i didn't want to go outside i didn't want to talk to anyone
04:17i didn't want to admit that i built something so fragile and made all these terrible mistakes
04:22because deep down i knew i avoided all of the red flags i was chasing fast money and not building a real
04:29foundation i was using content i didn't own and scaling faster than i could imagine cutting every
04:34single corner in the book and worst of all i wasn't even building something that i believed in
04:38i just chased the numbers i looked at what worked and then i looked at what didn't i learned from my
04:43mistakes and i used the skills that i stacked up in ads copywriting product testing and i started all
04:49over again from scratch just six months later i had rebuilt multiple brands cleaner systems better
04:55suppliers another hundred thousand dollars per month run rate but this time things felt different
05:01because i had learned what doing real business actually requires but even then i didn't slow
05:06down at all i didn't know how to i couldn't and around this time is when i also started posting
05:11on youtube at first it was completely just for fun a promise that i had made to my younger self but
05:16little did i know that that decision would end up opening so many doors that i never expected and
05:22pushed me deeper into the chaos that was coming after rebuilding my brands and finding stability once
05:27again something lit up inside of me not the hustler but the creator see i had always loved youtube i
05:34grew up on smosh ryan higa casey neistat and even logan paul's daily vlogs i used to film prank videos
05:40with my friends edit them on windows movie maker and pray they'd get a hundred views but every channel
05:46i launched over the years i failed miserably one for sports one for pranks one for sneaker reselling when i
05:52was 16 all dead in the water after my third channel failed i made myself a promise one day when i've
05:59actually done something worth talking about as to where people will actually care i will start youtube
06:04once again and that day had finally come i was making a hundred thousand dollars a month before 20
06:10years old i thought that was something pretty damn cool that i could share online and people would
06:14actually care wrong like clockwork after i posted my first video four views six views eight views
06:22probably which most of them are my friends me a bot and maybe my mom but you see this time i didn't
06:28care because i knew this was the next mountain and i had just came off the back of climbing one pretty
06:34damn high so i committed one video a week for an entire year and then i'll decide if youtube is something
06:41i want to continue pursuing week by week i strive to make each video just a little bit better and
06:47after 50 weeks i finally looked back and realized i'd actually made some real progress i had 25 000
06:54subscribers one year in and i know that might not sound like a lot but i was making ten thousand
07:00dollars a month in adsense revenue because business or financial channels happen to pay the highest and
07:05another fifteen thousand dollars a month just from affiliate programs and sponsorships old videos were
07:10still generating money and i was starting to build a real audience that cared so many people were
07:15reaching out to me on instagram and asking for my help youtube became more than just a hobby it became
07:21a second business and the best part about that was that this time it felt like i had built something
07:26authentic i was just telling my story documenting the journey providing advice and value no filters no
07:33funnels no false urgency or scarcity tactics just this is what i've learned if it helps you amazing
07:40subscribe but naturally i started to expand i eventually launched an info product business
07:45from all the demand of people who wanted help i scaled up my affiliate marketing and i kept launching
07:50new brands some of which i used for content and before i knew it i had scaled up to over 300 000
07:57per month in profit but here's what no one saw the darker my content got the brighter my lifestyle
08:03became and the more money i made the emptier i started to feel i started cutting people off old
08:09friends that didn't get it i went full monk mode solo flights solo bnbs solo dinners i rationalized
08:17everything i'm focused this is what it takes i'll relax later i'll relax after i've made 10 million
08:24i probably read 70 business and self-help books traveled to inspiring places i tried biohacking journaling
08:32meditation saunas but nothing worked because no matter how hard that i worked i couldn't escape
08:39the feeling that none of this was mine you see i was addicted to progress but allergic to presence
08:46i built a machine that i no longer wanted to run but i didn't know how to stop it and i mean at this
08:51point how could i stop i literally trained myself to feel guilty every time i put my work down and i'd
08:57consumed so much business related content that it's all my mind would think about a few months ago i
09:04finally snapped it wasn't loud it wasn't dramatic it was quiet creeping constant let me tell you
09:11something most people will not admit success doesn't protect you from pain in fact sometimes it causes it
09:19i had it all on paper the money the influence the dream lifestyle but my soul was laying somewhere
09:27beneath all of that and it caught up to me slowly and then suddenly all at once at first it was the
09:32little things i started sleeping in first nine ten before i knew it i was waking up at noon i'd
09:38literally open my eyes and feel no reason to get out of bed just this heavy fog like somehow gravity
09:45had tripled overnight i stopped working out i stopped answering texts i stopped creating as much
09:51and i stopped showing up for the people that i loved every night i'd smoke up just to quiet my mind
09:56not for fun not to relax just so i could go to damn sleep without spiraling and the next day
10:02it would all repeat wake up late low energy fake motivation numbness but here's the part of all
10:09this that haunted me the most i kept showing up online still posting still performing still pretending
10:17that i was locked in because i thought that that's what people needed to see because i thought that
10:23that's what a leader does he keeps showing up even when times are tough i told myself i'm way too
10:28disciplined to burn out the burnout was just for people who were not built for this life i believed
10:34andrew tate when he said it was weakness i believed hustle culture when they said rest is for the broke
10:39but i was wrong i wasn't tired from working hard i was exhausted from living out of alignment i was
10:46building a prison and calling it success i had fully convinced myself that suffering was my
10:53requirement for greatness that if i wasn't bleeding from my goals then they weren't even real but what
10:58kind of goals destroy you in the process what kind of dream makes you resent waking up every single
11:06morning the empire that i had built it started to feel like a coffin a shiny gold-plated algorithm
11:12approved coffin i hit a point where i just couldn't lie to myself anymore i shut down my info product
11:18business i finally pulled the plug on drop shipping for good this time and i stopped caring about
11:25affiliate leaderboards not because i didn't love building but because i didn't recognize the version
11:31of me that was building i wasn't chasing passion i was chasing approval i wasn't creating for fun i was
11:38performing for validation and worst of all is i was convincing you guys to do the same i had lost
11:44the plot completely and that's when it hit me i don't need more hacks more funnels more influence
11:51or even more money i needed to remember why i started in the first place that moment that i had
11:57sitting there in silence with no mask left to wear no motivation no plan that was the first time
12:05that i felt free in a long time the past couple of months they've been quiet uncomfortable
12:11but healing for the first time in probably seven years i let myself slow down no content calendar
12:18no sales dashboard no urgency to make more money or more progress just silence and stillness and
12:26presence and in that space i finally got to ask myself properly what i hadn't asked myself in years
12:33which is what do i really want in life i realized i didn't start doing all this to be rich i didn't
12:40start to be famous either i started all of this to simply do cool and laugh my ass off with the people
12:49that i love to create for the joy of creating and to build businesses for the love of building not for
12:55the ego boost of winning and comparing myself to others and the truth is somewhere along the way i traded
13:03that freedom for performance i built a life of constant output constant comparison and just
13:10crippling pressure and anxiety so i shut it all down i let go of what wasn't serving me even if it was
13:17wildly profitable now even if you don't understand the truth is this time i'm i'm not building for you
13:22i'm building for me and if you've made it this far i want to ask you for just one thing that you keep me accountable
13:28this video it's not a rebrand it's not a pr move but it's a promise that from now on everything i
13:35create everything i build everything i share with you will not come from a place of anxiety but it
13:41will come from true alignment and if you ever see me slipping if you ever see me chasing money or clout
13:46and running myself into the ground call my ass out hold me accountable and remind me of this moment
13:52because this is the beginning of a new chapter for me and i want all of you guys to walk it with me
13:58now if you've made it this far i want to challenge you not with a tactic not with a call to action
14:04but with a question what do you actually want when you strip away the noise the followers the pressure
14:11even imagine you already have a million bucks in your account what do you do now because if you can
14:16find that and if you can live in alignment with your true self you win whether you make two thousand
14:22dollars a month or two hundred thousand dollars a month i promise you you win and what's more is
14:29by living and building this way you'll probably end up having more success and making more money anyway
14:34because authenticity will compound faster than any algorithm ever will now if you're wondering what i'm
14:39working on now i've linked some stuff down below in the description i'm working on free resources to
14:45help you guys make your first few thousand dollars online and a long-term econ brand that i'm
14:50building from the heart if this video helped you don't just like it share it to someone who needs
14:55it because this is only the beginning thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you guys in a week
15:00peace
15:08you
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