We absolutely have to shout out Mr @Houston Bernard! This man has been on a tear. 🔥 - won not one but TWO big awards in the country music space in the last month (try watching this without getting emotional) - posts every video he makes, welcoming brutally honest feedback, then actually uses that feedback - has stayed consistent in his posting despite a hectic schedule - increased his view count by 21% and watch time by 38% since joining Grindstone - won the last TWO Grindstone Games (will anyone dethrone this man??) BIG congrats man. Super glad you're part of this community. 😊 ••• PS—every month we're going to have a new theme, question, challenge, or prompt. This month is a two-part question: 1. What are you doing that you know doesn't work? 2. What are you NOT doing that you know works?

Hello again skoolmates 🫡 I'm on the hunt for someone who can edit my streams into clips and youtube videos. Does anyone have anyone they'd like to recommend? Or sites they've used to hire editors in the past? I have a clear vision and reference for what I'm going for, so I'm hoping I can hand off my stream recordings and it to someone without stressing about it. I'm finding that editing these myself is zero fun and too time-consuming for me 😅

What challenges did you face that you wish you had known about before you started?

Huge shoutout to @Scott Clampet. 😎 In his first few months here in Grindstone, he: - grew his Instagram following by 33% - got the blue checkmark (verified on Instagram) - just did his first stream The stream was a bit laggy and clunky on his van's wifi. But I attended for ~2 hours while finishing some work at the end of the night. It was awesome to listen to him build great songs from scratch. He was funny. Shouted out all viewers and comments in intense reverb and auto-tune. Excited to see your continued growth my man! 🥳

Who's live streams? Or has done so in the past? What tools do you like? Any tips for first-timers? I'm going to be starting a regular IG live stream inviting people to watch how my releases are made, assuming my van wifi works well enough 😬. I'd love to make things feel as unique to my framing as possible.