✨ BRAND NEW OFFICE TOUR | Behind The Scenes Of The ULTIMATE Craft Space ✨

Y'all, you are not going to believe what I have in store for today's video. I, eight years ago, started Maker's Gonna Learn with one desire, and it was to inspire, educate, and motivate people to get crafty because crafting has changed my life. And not only has it changed my life, it has changed my business. Eight years ago, I thought I was simply going to be a digital marketer and work for other craft companies, and little did I know, God had other plans. Eight years ago, I started this business in my garage, a one-car detached garage. And if you'd have told me eight years ago that I just bought an office building, did an amazing remodel, and got to move into my dream office in a dream location, you could tell me I'm crazy, and I would have agreed with you 100%. But here's where we're at, and it has been such a fun ride, and I have no one but you all to thank for supporting this mission, and this journey of my own here on the internet. And I want you guys to really sit and imagine what could happen if you just believe in yourself, and build something, and know that if you stick with it, the right people will come. This is not some type of get rich quick, oh my gosh, everything but that. But in the past eight years, I have been able to care really well for my family. I've been able to employ roughly 20 people, give or take, full-time, which is incredible. And now we have this amazing office that we not only work out of, but we own the building, and we are able to have an amazing tenant in the front to support the payment, and the debt repayment, and it's just a great opportunity. And I wanted to take the time today to share with you exactly how this came to be, and give you a tour. So let's dive in. If you're new around here, my name is Tanner Bell, and eight years ago I started this channel, Maker's Gonna Learn, to teach people how to craft, and how to have an amazing life when they get crafty. And through that journey, I have started a membership, I teach courses, and help other creatives like be able to make money with their own passion, and ultimately have built a multi-seven-figure business. And I run it out of my hometown in Morristown, Tennessee, which is amazing. And eight years ago, I literally just started live streaming and posting videos on the internet, on YouTube, and slowly but surely, I've been able to figure out how to market, how to sell, and how to really give people results when it comes to crafting. So in today's video, I'm gonna dive in and share with you our new office, to give you a tour of our YouTube studio, and it's so fun. So here is the building. Check it out. It is in my dream location, which is here on the west end of Morristown. My Starbucks is like right over there somewhere. But yeah, so it's super fun. So let's go ahead and dive in. We still have some work to do for a sign. We probably will not have a sign. This is a private studio. We do not take any visitors. But yeah, we have an awesome program too called Passive Immerse Society, and if I show you here, we are shipping out some packages of clients. So let me buzz this in, and then look. Boom! Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Sadie Lewis right here. So fun. Oh my gosh, look at y'all. We love it. Oh my gosh, we have this. So fun. I'm trying to use the skim bowl. It's a little funky. But yeah, this is our office. So come on in, and you can take a look around as soon as you walk in. Has this amazing space, which I love. We have a little entryway for when we're collaborating and meeting. We have this amazing conference room for lunch, as well as Zoom calls and meetings with vendors. And then y'all, look over here. This is literally like our dream kitchen. So fun. We absolutely love it. We have our espresso machine, and we just got this backsplash done. And we had to put all of this in. When we looked at the building originally, originally, it was for sale for significantly more than what we ended up purchasing it for. But it came with a little bit more land or something. But this used to be a real estate office, and this wall was not here. So like as soon as you walked in, it has this huge room. It was like a training room. So what we did was we kind of wanted to, you know, segment up the office a little bit more. So that's what we ended up doing. And this is like a vibe board. So it's touchscreen. I can write on it, you know, create ideas on there. It's super fun. That is an office. That is a storage closet. Then, of course, we have two bathrooms. And then Sadie gets to sit here out front with the windows. And then, yeah, we're gonna come on in and check out our amazing craft room. Here is Lauren and Alicia. Typically, the craft tables are in a row, but we like to film on this little backdrop area. So it's a little bit different. We have whatever we're testing. You can see we've got our printers. We've got our brother's skin and gut. We're about to do a little test here. It's super fun. We have my coffee and water. And then as you enter in here, this is where the magic happens. This is where I get the most questions. So I wanted to take some time today and really dive in and look at our studio. So let's do an overview just of the studio real fast. And then we'll dive in and I'll kind of give you a little behind the scenes of how the tech works because I know we get so many questions. So let's start over here with our main setup. So the system is ran off of this right here. So this is what is called a Black Magic A10 Mini. So this is it right here. This is how we run our entire production. And if you are a YouTuber, aspiring YouTuber, anything like that, this will change your life because what will happen is that all of your cameras feed in to here. And then all that goes into the computer is one stream, which is very, very helpful when you are producing a lot of content, when you have a lot of cameras, a lot of audio, things like that. You can actually just move this around here. So you can go from camera, camera, all the things super, super easily. You could see it's really, really simple to just press buttons and it moves around. So when I upgraded to this, it literally changed my life. And it requires a lot less like computing power and things like that because this does all the heavy lifting. You put in your audio, you put in your cameras, it syncs it together and then sends it over to the, you know, the live stream event and things like that. So this is how we film a lot of content and our producer, typically Sadie, will sit right here and we're still getting used to this new studio. Our other one was definitely fine-tuned after using it for four or five years. But yeah, you know, we run a full craft company right here in the studio, which is phenomenal. We, for any sound, for geeks, this is our road something, something. I do not care or really know how to use this. I just know that this turns it up and this turns it down. I think what's so funny is I know so little about any sort of audio. Like I think people would be surprised at how little like audio knowledge that I do have just because I'm like really not into that. Like you have to understand my number one job here is to help people with our mission, which is inspiration, education, and motivation. So staying at the cusp of trends, helping create ideas, leading that vision is what I do best. And then I bring in people that know how to support it. So all of this tech is definitely not me. It is Brooks Gray, our amazing, amazing, amazing chief of marketing and head of tech. He's incredible. But yeah, so we run this and then yeah, let's go over to the studio, like the actual, what you normally see, because you've got to see us on camera for many years, but you've never got to see what it looks like to be on camera. So let's head over there and take a look. You can see it's over here. And when you're over on set is what we call this, you will see two monitors. So this is your main camera. If you were ever on studio here in the maker's color and office, you would have to your left, your share screen. So when we are actually crafting, this is what we look at. And this is what you guys see. So if I pass code, you could see we were designing and filming on here. This is what, you know, when we're on share screen, I'm looking from this angle. And then on this angle, this is how we see your YouTube comments. Now for years, this monitor, both of these monitors had been not at eye level. I love this right here because it's now at eye level, which is really helpful for us. And I think you guys too, because when we're talking to you wanting to read comments, it's easier to be kind of at your level versus looking a lot higher. So super fun. You can see up here is our grid and our grid is how we keep everything organized without any issues. So we don't want to have cords for tripping hazards, all the things like that. So this grid is allowing us to have a lot going on very well and pretty organized overall. So we love our grid shout out to our grid. One of my good friends built this years ago, and then we moved it around and got to bring it here. So super fun. And then over to our right, this is our host table. And we haven't always had a host table, but the last couple of years, we've really enjoyed being able to have like a true talk show S inspiration to kind of like kick off the show, dive into the crafting and then pop back over. So that's what we do. Our set is still not perfected. It's not mounted or anything like at our old space yet, mainly because I don't know if we should keep it. Let me know in the comments, if you would keep this or is it time for a revamp? My inspiration and like dream would be to kind of mimic just a really epic craft room. So like have this, like these shelves and like supplies and make it look a little bit more like a craft space versus when we designed this, we wanted it to be more like a conference. So that was kind of our inspiration. It's like a set. So very different than what you would typically do. You can see here's one of our mini cameras on, on set. A lot of people ask what I filmed with, which I think is super sweet. We have been using the GH fives by Lumix and it looks like we just have a typical Lumix lens. So super, super fun. You may be noticing a lot of our storage back here. As you can see, we test and have access to a lot of machines. I mean, we play around with so many machines here in the studio. This is just all storage and this is in all of them. People ask us all the time to what we do with a lot of our projects and the projects that we don't take home or utilize in our own projects. I think we do a great job at really being like, Oh, I have this coming up. Let me make it for X, Y, and Z. But we also like to have different categories of projects just on hand. So we kind of keep them stored here. We've given away a lot. We've blessed people with them for the move and we always like to keep it fresh. This is our, you know, whatever laser we're working with at the current time. We've been loving these Husky tables. They're very helpful because they're on wheels. They can move around in the studio, out of the studio, all the things. So super, super fun, but let's keep going. And you'll see in this room, this is our shipping and storage. So sometimes when you work with us at a special occasion, you may get a little special goody. And when you join our amazing Passive Earner Society program, we love to surprise and delight our clients. So we send you not only this little card, but we give you a little note. And then up here, we kind of send you out a little box, which is what you saw at the beginning. So if you ever join Passive Earner Society, this little sneak peek, you get a little, get a little hat. You get, you won't believe what we send our people. Like we take such good care of them. We send them little cups out. It's so fun. And all the things. So yeah, we absolutely love, love, love it. This is our shipping department. We ship things out all the time. And then over here is more craft storage, because listen, we want to keep our craft room super inspirational. And a lot of stuff to me is not inspiring. So we like to have this as like our storage room. And I kind of like to call it like our mobile Hobby Lobby. So we have all these bins and different sections. You can see over here, we have a lot of our wood blanks. We have some of our framed pieces, super, super fun. Lots of things like that. And we absolutely adore it. So we love that. And then we kind of peek around to see what else we got. People give me a hard time all the time because I don't keep scraps. But look, I have paper scraps, and I have vinyl scraps. And we have all sorts of transfer tape. We have resin, wood cutting, specialty paper, chalk paint, paint, sublimation blanks, other blanks, zip pouches. You can see we're actually using that one in the studio right now. We have spray paint, sealer, Dollar Tree items, canvas tote bags and towels, like just all the things you may need that we end up having in our arsenal. Like it's super fun. You can see we have a little box from our friends at Scorchmarker. They are so, so fun. He sent me so many of these. I need to keep giving them away. Thank you, Evan. Super fun. But you can see jewelry making, like, I mean, you know, like just every single craft supply is known to man that is here and available at your fingertips. These over here, we used to have a whole prop closet because we have a tenant at our office. Our office is actually a lot smaller than our previous one. But we've actually been loving it. So we've been able to simplify, clean out and really figure out what we want to keep. So I feel like we're at like the level of things we actually love to keep. So anyway, let's head over here and we'll continue our tour. So one thing I like about this studio is that you can get through the craft room to the studio, to the storage, or you can come this way, which is two offices. And you can see here is Courtney. This is Courtney's office. Say hello. She's working on all kinds of new courses we have coming out later on the year. She's still finishing decorating. But as you come over here, you can see pictures of us and the babies. So cute. Y'all look at that. This is when the twins were born. And we had the same photographer come out and do little culties. Thank you. So anyway, and then look, y'all, our office connects. Is this not crazy? Like how freaking funny is that? So you walk through here, boom, you're at my office. So if you ever are in a coaching call with me, if you ever come to one of my virtual events right now, we are having people, we're hosting people for the Etsy effect and we love it. So this is like my actual copy of the workbook. But yeah, this is again, just like another mobile studio. So I can plug my computer up here. I have another, look, I have a mini, what you saw in the big studio. I have a mini one. So this one is just at my desk. I'm able to film content. If you ever wonder how we create so much content and have like so many courses and education and things like that, this is how we do it. We are able to film at all times and you can see more pictures. We have a picture of their adoption, a vacation and then in Barcelona, super fun. And yeah, so y'all that is the office. What do you guys think? I mean, we absolutely adore this space. It is again at a dream location. I love my office. My old one was giant. It had like a closet, a bathroom. It was crazy. It had a big TV in there, but I never used it because there was no natural light. So at my birthday, a couple of years ago, the team tried to put in like a fake window. It just didn't do it for me. But this office is so much smaller, so much nicer. And it has a window. So I'm here all the time. I will work in the mornings and then walk over to Starbucks around after lunch, get a cold brew and then head back over here to finish up my work for the day. So I feel like I got to bring you along for the ride, but here's what I want to leave you with. I want to remind you that just if you have an inkling to dive into being a business owner or to post content online, like let me be the person to tell you that you should not let any of your personal thoughts hold you back. And the reason I want to call out that specifically is because it just takes consistency and failing often and failing forward over and over to reach success. Your first idea may not be the idea that will send you forward or be your ultimate success. What I think I'm an example of really well is failing quickly. Makers and Learn has been our, I think, fifth or sixth startup. And every time that one of our startups failed or we just decided not to move forward with it, what I see people doing wrong is that they look inward and be like, oh my gosh, like I'm a failure instead of, oh, this didn't work. Let me see what's going to work next. Because Courtney and I have had a team craft company. We ran an agency like making digital marketing assets and so many other things. But the business that you see today, the lifestyle that you see, like everything that you see we're able to do is based off of one concept of just showing up every day, being willing to be wrong and not letting that affect me personally and judging myself for it and not being super tied to the results. Because this is definitely 100% God's plan is way better than what I would ever thought for my life and just being super obedient and being open to hearing God's voice and just being able to follow it. I would have never been able to do this on my own. And I love getting to live out this amazing journey, getting to share and inspire and educate people on the internet. It is one of the best jobs ever. It is a very hard job to stay super on top of things. And you know, there's always places to improve. The weird part about the internet is that there isn't ever like a, like a you made it moment. Like I truthfully always feel like there's so much opportunity to learn, grow and inspire. And that's what I love most about it. So if you have been following for many years, thank you so much. If you're a member of any of my programs, thank you so much. I love getting to serve you. I love getting to work with you. And if you've ever wanted to work with us, now is the best time to check out links down below. You can come to Etsy effect, you can join our craft memberships. We are having some really fun things kicking off in July and going out for the rest of the year. So buckle up. It has been fun. It's been a little quiet down here in our neck of the woods because of our move. But we are officially moved in and we're ready to kick off an amazing 2025 to end super strong with you. So get plugged in. I can't wait to get crafty with you all summer, all fall, all winter long. It's gonna be epic. So see you soon. Bye guys.