The story of how I went from $0 to $57k MRR in 30 days...

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Aug 13 (edited) in Other

This is the story of how I went from being a gaming YouTuber, to winning the skool games.

I share my biggest lessons that have gotten me to achieve almost everything I ever dreamed of since a young age, at only 20. This includes becoming a big YouTuber for my favorite game and becoming financially free doing what I love. I'm nowhere near perfect, but my wish is that this inspires some of you to go and achieve what you want to by using the lessons I give you. I talk about mindset, action, and go deep into manifestation.

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I had never been paid for thumbnails.

I had never been paid for coaching or consulting.

I had only hit $10k/month from YouTube AdSense on my old gaming channel, “KaiGuy”

But I didn't enjoy making this content anymore.

And I recently heard about how monetization worked since

@Hamza Ahmed

had started Adonis School with the help of Andrew Kirby, which I joined on the first day it was released...

On a coaching call with Hamza, I was talking about the decision I had to make...

Go to college, or skip college and go to Paris with

@Bella Rose

to pursue my entrepreneurship dreams.

I told him that my mom and grandparents really wanted me to go to college, but that I had a feeling I would have a much better life without it.

He said something like, "Kai, in this situation, someone's dreams have to die."

And that hit me hard.

By the end of the call, he said, "Don't go to university. See what's going on in Paris."

I was all in.

And I knew I wanted ultimate financial freedom as I knew I would leave Hawaii in 2 months and hopefully go to Paris with my girlfriend.

So I did what any of Hamza's followers would do.

I shaved my head and went on "Monk Mode."

I felt like a badass waking up at 5:30, taking a cold shower and taking 2 seconds to dry my non existent hair.

I was meditating, I was exercising, I was journaling, and I was manifesting.

Out of nowhere,

@Andrew Kirby

messaged me on Skool... (attached image)

It was an auto DM for joining his free community, Synthesizer School.

But I assume he replied again when I said I had 750k subs haha.

He offered to get on a call with me to help me get started on Skool.

So we did!

Then I started coming up with the idea for Infinity School.

Overtime I had tons of help from

@Andrew Kirby

and

@Wiktor Romanowicz

in their Creator Monetization community for creators with over 100k followers.

I went over their “Monetization Protocol” course many times…

This course has had an INSANELY huge impact on my understanding of how making money actually works, as they synthesized tens of thousands of dollars of their learnings into one simple course.

So I took action.

I did market research calls with my audience.

I created and tested multiple offers.

I even made a fully edited 4-video launch for a new community, “Infinity School,” which tens of thousands of people saw. (Here's the 4th final video - I spent $1500 on the edit 😭)

I got great feedback in the comments of the first 3 videos, but when it came to the 4th video where I made my pitch to join Infinity School for $199, then $99/month (to help gamers achieve their goals by turning life into a video game)…

Nobody joined. Not even one. Not EVEN one…

So did I give up? No. I had decided already that I didn’t want to go to college. I was going to make it work on Skool. I was tired of making stupid gaming shorts, even though I got 200M views/month.

I wanted to monetize in a meaningful way, and I knew Skool was the right platform for me to do it on.

I got on a call with Andrew and Wiktor, telling them how the launch went, and going over the next ideas I had in mind. I told them I could help GD (Geometry Dash) players start a GD YouTube channel. and I could also help them get better at the game. Andrew told me I had to just pick one, there was no way I would find out which is better until I tested it.

So I chose.

I chose to help Geometry Dash players improve at the game (and secretly help them improve their mindset and set goals for real life) through a new community called “Geometry Smash.”

I started this community at just $9/month, as the previous $99/mo didn't go so well with my younger audience.

I promoted it through the community tab and some shorts, and made the MVC. (minimum viable course).

Then once that was done, I made a 20 minute launch video for it, published it, and started on creating the main course, "The Pro Code 2.0"

I interviewed every pro player I could find in the game, contacting the most creditable top players in the game, ever.

I was only able to get in contact with these people because I had gotten so popular in this niche, and just 2 years prior I had been fans of each of them.

I was excited as most of what the players were telling me about improving at the game was simply mindset and ultimate confidence. I thought this was awesome.

I was getting a few people to join the community each week. Slower than I had hoped, but I was slowly but surely building the community. And everyone that joined (once they interacted) seemed to really like it. These gamers were young, and for most of them, it was their first time being exposed to such deep mindset topics, and self improvement in general. A lot of them tended to like this part over the gaming part actually.

Over the next 9 months, lots happened. From almost partnering with the biggest YouTuber ever in the niche, to almost giving up multiple times, to finally hitting $1K MRR, to questioning myself for even starting the community.

My entrepreneur friends would tell me I should stop, and just be a YouTube consultant (because I would vent about the community when I was burnt out). But I kept telling myself I couldn’t give up. I was right around the corner from the riches, and helping thousands of gamers improve their lives.

But I got such an insane amount of hate across the GD community for selling this $9 course that people on twitter started calling me a predator and a scammer. They actually called me a scammer for Infinity School but the predator accusations were new. They said this because I was targeting kids with the community, and trying to sell to kids. I was like "no shit dumbass, kids play the game. Am I supposed to target adults??"

Despite all of the negative energy I was getting, people in the community were happy, so I kept persisting with the hopes of one day reversing my image in the GD community to be the person that created the best product for GD players of all time. I had journaled about this a ton and tried for 9 months straight to make it a reality.

But finally one day, I had a call with my friend

@Luke Hansen

who runs a successful Rocket League business (now on skool), and he helped me realize that I wasn’t being persistent, I was being stubborn. He said "who's validation are you trying to get?"

And I said something like "oh shit. You're right."

I wanted validation from the Geometry Dash community. Which when he pointed out, was really embarrassing. That was the day I decided to stop trying to create that reality. I knew it would eventually work if I kept going, but that didn't matter to me. I had already envisioned winning the skool games, being #1 on discovery, making $100k/month, but I didn't care about getting there with the current vehicle anymore.

So I made Geometry Smash free, and it's still active to this day. This was the best case scenario. More people get help from the course, and I don't have to be responsible for it anymore because it's free and I have a great mod team that still runs it.

Overtime, I had many friends recognize my YouTube skills including

@Luke Hansen

@Daniel Bissonnette

, and

@Manessah de Graaf

. And I always enjoyed helping people for free, and even making people thumbnails for free. Overtime I even got great case studies and testimonials, helping dozens of people get millions of views with my advice and thumbnails.

There was about a month of thinking. What do I do? I could go all in on skool affiliates. I could help people with mindset. I could help people with YouTube. What do I do? I felt lost.

But then I got recommended a podcast from Skool Stories one day, and I thought, "God this thumbnail SUCKS." So I messaged

@Matthew Thompson

, "Yo bro your thumbnails suck, want help?"

I started making free thumbnails for him. And I sent the same offer to

@Max Perzon

. I make thumbnails for free, then if they work, later we make a deal.

Matthew was one of the most friendly people I had ever met and he kept asking me about my goals, what I really want by helping him with thumbnails, and I told him my ambitions to win the skool games.

He then helped me come up with a no brainer YouTube offer, based on what HE would buy. He said $999 for 4 thumbnails/month. No brainer. I then added on 1:1 consulting, a full channel review, group calls, and an unconditional 30-day refund guarantee.

I had a call with

@Goose Dunlavey

a few days before May, and he successfully sold me into Captivate, but he also gave me free advice on the sales call 😎 Start a free community, be active on skool, get as many people into that community as possible, and get as many people as possible to buy your offer on Day 1 of the next Skool Games to stay on the leaderboard (free traffic to free group + VSL).

I did that. Matthew helped me by referring a few people. One of those being

@Ted Carr

who I ran 2 webinars with and got about 20 people into my group from. And I worked all day, everyday for 30 days straight. Then I ended up winning The Skool Games at $57K MRR. After May, I got insanely lucky to partner with

@Harut Martirosyan

and start building the business with strong foundations instead of just slapping a no brainer offer together and selling it to as many people as possible haha. Now we're doing multi 5-figure mentorship deals, and I really enjoy the work. But NONE of this wasn't possible without the support of my friends and my family.

But it REALLY wasn't possible without the full year of failure I had behind me. Every single time I failed I got stronger, and I knew I got stronger. When Eric, a huge GD YouTuber called me to tell me he wasn't ready for the partnership (after I literally had an "I made it' moment when he initially had said yes), I got super excited, because I understood how big of a "failure" that was.

I had watched this YouTuber since I was 10 years old. And I was an inch away from being business partners with him, the most well known GD YouTuber ever... He had said YES, then he said no. This would make most people depressed. But this made me excited because I understood something better was coming.

You need to implement this mindset ASAP. Every time you fail, someone you're competing with is getting to that same point, but THEY are giving up. To win, YOU need to persist forward.

But NONE of this REALLY, REALLY wasn't possible without my skill of believing in something that might even feel unrealistic to the point that I'm convinced of it's truth and I don't accept any other reality.

I have a theory that when one big problem is solved, everything else naturally falls into place.

That problem is the root of everything.

You could say the right beliefs cause the right actions which cause the right results.

But then there's gotta be something that causes the right beliefs. Maybe it's the right relationships, maybe it's the right relationship with yourself. Maybe it's being a fruitarian, like Ted.

On paper, I got extremely lucky. But the reason everything fell into place so perfectly was because of one thing. And I'm not really sure what the true root of this was, but as deep as I can go, it's belief.

I like to explain it in terms of quantum physics but that would cause some people to not take this seriously haha, so I'll put it into more logical terms. Cause and effect.

What is the one cause that is under your control that will lead to a domino effect to getting what you want?

For me, that was simply believing. Now there's surely a cause of me believing in things that people tell me are impossible or delusional, but I'm not quite sure what that is.

I've always hated authority and people telling how to think and what to do. I was kicked out of multiple preschools and the teachers told my parents that there was something wrong with me. But what was the cause of that? I don't know. But I do know that belief is trainable, because I've done it.

If you put $10k/mo on a pedestal, you won't get there.

If you put Skool Games Winners on a pedestal, you won't get there.

People have different ways of training belief. Some people don't need it, but most do.

What I do is try to feel what it would feel like to be in the reality that I currently feel is unrealistic, or impossible, or on a pedestal.

I mostly do this when I'm on a run, or doing a hard workout. That's when I get the best visions.

Okay fuck it, I'm gonna explain it in quantum physics terms so everyone who is uninterested, please stop reading haha.

The double split experiment proved that photons behave like waves when they're not being observed, but behave like particles when they are. This is also a testament to Schrödinger's cat theory that when something isn't being observed, the quantum position is undecided. The idea is that if you put a cat in a box with poison and close the box. The cat is both dead and alive since you don't know if it has eaten the poison or not.

Quantum particles are proven to spin both left and right at the same time, be in multiple different places at the same time, and exist in multiple states at the same time (waves and particles).

Reality is also proven to not be locally real, but on our scale of the universe, reality is simplified for the benefit of our observation.

To me, this means that we control out reality through the frequencies we project through our mind.

Since quantum particles are also waves when they're not being observed, I think that means the universe is just a big song containing tons of different vibrations.

Every thought is a series of waves, every concept is a wave.

Wealth has a frequency, success has a frequency, money has a frequency, depression has a frequency.

I believe we have the power to intuitively know the true frequency of everything, including individual things, like money, and achieving a certain objective.

When 2 guitar strings are plucked (or 2 different waves interfere), they either create a constructive interference (harmonizing and amplifying each other, creating a new & beautiful sound), or a destructive interference (destroying each other, creating a terrible sound and eventually canceling each other out).

When I try to achieve a goal, I try to match my current reality's frequency with that of my desired reality.

What would it feel like to win the skool games? I imagined and felt this day and night (important: But I still took f*cking action)

By doing this, my current frequency harmonized with my desired reality's frequency and it became my reality. This isn't possible without strong belief and persistent action.

If you want to achieve a certain goal but you don't believe it's possible.

You're attacking your desired reality with your f*cked up frequency, destroying the chance of it manifesting.

And when you "fail" and react by lowering your frequency, you let that "failure" slow you down by creating a destructive interference with your shitty frequency lol.

Anyway, that's how I like to think of it because I'm weird. You can do what you want.

In more logical terms. If you envision a reality, you are more likely to take the actions necessary to get there.

But in my opinion, "luck" is simply the right frequencies in a constructive interference.

That being said, thank you to everyone that supported me in getting to where I am now.

I am extremely grateful.

So, quick recap: