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good morning guys welcome to another juicy vlog another video another daily juice whatever you want to call this thing that you're watching right now every morning we start the vlog at this window and blind ourselves so we get some good lighting but welcome to the vlog it's the only bit of good lighting in the whole vlog yes because i mustered here wouldn't that's terrible it's awful welcome to the vlog good morning hope you guys are all doing well i hope you're having a nice day wherever you are watching in the world in fact comment below where in the world right now you're watching we know we've got a lot of views in the philippines we know we've got a lot of views in the usa so comment your state not your exact address please we've got viewers in the uk where you from is there anyone in brighton or worthing our hometown area shout out to you guys watching in dubai saudi arabia norway japan south korea australia new zealand we're all over the world you guys watching so thank you thank you thank you for spending some time with us today lucy and i have woken up in a really really good mood i think our 14 day challenge we'll give you a little update on that in this video is doing wonders for our sleep and our mood in general i don't know we're both feeling happy we've had some music on the speaker this morning and we've been singing along lucy's cooking up some breakfast we've both been for a run separately because we're still in mecq and there's something really special really important and really good that we want to talk about in today's vlog but first let me show you our breakfast because lucy has whipped up one of her dagasino specials so she has made us i don't even know what it is it's like a there's a fried egg on top and then it's like a eggy veggie omelette fritter thing right cabbage peppers onions and garlic there's like a fritter with eggs it's got a fried egg on top and a little side salad thing and this is just the first part of breakfast joy really i'm preparing a second oh i love it when there's a two-part breakfast oh guys we're gonna eat this and then we'll explain what we're talking about in today's vlog so we've also got part two of the breakfast part one was delicious by the way it's already finished i'm guessing i think this is banana an avocado smoothie banana avocado coconut milk chia seeds wow so this has got like tropical vibes let's have a little bit oh it's quite thick but it's good it works oh that's good that's so creamy and thick another lucy special recipe guys [Music] good morning guys but again it's not the morning but loads of you guys commented in the vlog where i said we say good morning when it's not morning saying it's okay it's evening for us so you don't have to always say good morning so you can say good evening and it would work too but it's not even evening it's like afternoon now for us and george is just getting us some coffee it's probably the final coffee of the day we're trying to stop drinking coffee around like two or three p.m now so what time is it yeah 20 past two so that's like perfect time for the final one of the day it's quite dark is it so guys we actually just wanted to say thank you really because today was yesterday yesterday marks two years two whole years since lucy and i decided to go full time on youtube and since we announced to the followers we had at the time and our families um that we were going off traveling we were leaving the uk leaving england and yeah we decided that we were going to try and become full-time vloggers yeah today mark's yesterday we keep saying desperate to pretend it was today one day out is it's fine today we uploaded this video uh the dramatic video if you guys have watched it was our like main channel video for a while when you click on the channel so some of you may have already seen it when you hit that subscribe initially we have something to tell you and it was when i mean our families knew like a couple of months before this obviously our works knew maybe a month before we uploaded it because we had to hand our notices in but there was like a two week period when we were in the uk without jobs with like six thousand subscribers and we were like oh my god what do we do with ourselves we're so used to going into the office every day and then we had two weeks we weren't on holiday because we weren't going back to our old jobs and it was this weird like in the middle feeling and i remember when we uploaded that video we went for a barbecue at my sister's house and when we went live george and i was stood in the doorway and our family were all on the sofa watching this video and they were like oh my god it was so weird it was emotional we kind of took a leap because we weren't making any money from youtube it wasn't an income for us at that point thankfully it is now yeah um so it was a huge leap yes and no like we were in jobs that we kind of liked it was okay um they were well paid jobs and we've spoken about this so many times but we had a comfortable life we had a good situation like most people maybe wouldn't change it but there was always that thing niggling i'd say that's a good word niggling away in our brain it was it was the what if try this what if what if it works out if it doesn't work out you can go back to your old life type thing definitely we oh yeah so like it was a risk and it wasn't we knew we had family in uk we knew we probably could apply for other jobs if we needed to yeah if we ever needed to go back so thankfully it did work out we just want to say huge thank you if you guys have subscribed since then since two days ago coffee down the room if you've just found us this is the first time you're ever watching us welcome to the channel thank you subscribe yeah okay so what we're gonna do is so on that day where we had that like goodbye with the family yeah we wanted to film a couple of clips of our families and kind of like mark document that moment in time where we said to like our parents your kids are going off to asia what we thought would be for a year and can we just add that we've never been to asia before this we literally had been on holiday in europe we've been to the caribbean and that was kind of it yeah and we like we've quit our jobs we've got rid of our apartment we've sold everything off we go kind of thing and i don't know looking back to put that on your family and your parents that must have been weird for them yeah so we we filmed we asked them if they'd be happy to say a few words on camera so we could document how they were feeling at that point so we'll put that in here i'm going to miss you like mad i'm worried that you'll have a great time very sad you guys are very excited for you yeah very happy for you it's a real opportunity as you can see like emotional day i don't know but it's crazy that it's been two years and we have made it work and we have kind of shown to ourselves that if you work hard if you have a dream if you have a vision if you have something you want to work for and you put in the work this has actually been five years of work yeah five years total we've had the youtube channel for five years and it started off more of a hobby more you know only a few people really watching it yeah we've done we've done videos about like our first videos and like the reason we started and stuff before but i think when we decided to go off traveling in my head my honest thoughts were if we can make this last a year like if we can top up some money that we had we had a bit of savings we made that maybe would have lasted us like four or five months six months maybe traveling in my head i was like if we can make youtube a little bit bigger and be able to travel asia for a year i will be so happy and then i don't know what i don't know what's going to happen after that that was my fault yeah there was no vision after that we were like if we can somehow make this work and sustain ourselves great we never thought we'd be looking for somewhere to live we never thought that it would be more than a year we never thought we'd have an apartment we never thought that we'd have the following that we have like it does blow our minds and and even looking back to like 100k that was like whoa 100 000 people but now it's like nearly four times that it scares me but it's like it's not me it's like i'm looking at someone else's life yeah it was a different era and it is different now it's like i'm looking at someone else's that's the coffee machine why did she make so much that's like why um it's like i'm looking at someone else's life when i when i look at my blue tick on instagram when i look at it i don't have a bluetooth on instagram when i look at like all the comments coming in on a new video i don't think that's me i i can't put lucy devastino from wording i can't put that into this life like it doesn't make sense to me like in a in a great way but it i can't get my head around it still and it has been two years yeah i'm just like i don't know what yeah i agree i don't know what's like for you guys watching like we upload videos every day we are youtubers this is what we do we come on and we make videos i can't get my head around youtubers to us every day we wake up and we're grateful we're thankful that we can do this for another day and that it's going really really well it is going well that's all down to thanks to the people who watch the video so to every one of you guys wherever you are in the world huge thank you um i did ask on my instagram because i was interested in something right yeah it got me thinking like two we've been doing this full-time for two years we've learned some stuff we've learned lessons along the way yeah we've uh like good and bad i don't know we have experience now so i put my instagram out of interest how many of you guys watching my instagram story at the time also comment below on this vlog how many of you guys are aspiring creators whether that's you want to be a youtuber you want to be a vlogger you want to be an instagrammer you want to be a tick tocker yeah it's like a poll wasn't it and tell the guys the percentage i'm so shocked at this it was 47 of people were so nearly half way more than i thought nearly half the people watching my stories want to grow an audience online or become a social media creator of some description they want to produce content yes that's awesome i love seeing new people creating content i think i think all these platforms need new energy needs fresh stuff fresh ideas fresh perspectives so i did think why not try and help um some of those guys some of you guys watching who are who are aspiring creators let you ask us some questions hopefully we can bring you some value and help you out a little bit because i know when i was back at that stage whenever creators did like q and a's i would always try and listen and take note from what they were saying because they've been there and they've done it so i do have some questions that you guys have asked lucy yeah should we answer these now there are some questions in here about us but i'm going to try and focus more yeah it's not just a normal q a is this like i'm going to try and focus more on how to help if you if you see what i mean like agony aren't so there are a lot of questions so if some are similar we'll try and like round up the answers slightly a bit closer okay okay let's get a little bit more personal yeah so there were a lot of questions around how to get started how to actually get going so someone said how to start i've been meaning to but i'm hesitant because i keep thinking they may not like it who's they yeah i would i would start by asking yourself who's they at the very start you won't have an audience like you may have your family and your friends if you like post your videos on your instagram or facebook or whatever and you know if those people really are your family and friends they'll be supportive of you anyway i think you mean if they're really your friends they're probably your family whether um don't worry and i think this is going to be a common theme of a lot of these questions but don't worry about other people's opinions if you want to do something first do it for you do it for you if you don't have an audience yet do it because you enjoy it edit make a video because you enjoy making a video dance on tick tock because you enjoy it yeah don't worry about other people i'm i'm gonna okay i think i'm gonna i want to share something with you guys i'm gonna share my biggest piece of wisdom go on then already in the first question yeah i think you can relate it to like any problem that you have ever and this is what this is something george and i do if we've got a problem if you've got something that we're worried about any sort of situation or this person that is worried about uploading content or whatever it is because they're worried about what people think there's a three-pronged approach that i like to take you basically have to ask yourself three questions to do with this problem so i'm going to give and we'll use this as an example answer this question of what what if people don't like it kind of thing so number one is what's the worst that can happen so if these people don't like it what's actually the worst that can happen they don't like it they don't watch it okay yeah you might get a comment you might get a hate comment but their person leaving the hate comment is the one with a real problem so that's the first question the second question is the if the worst case scenario happens does that really matter if you get a hate comment does it matter no it's their problem not yours it's not really directly affecting your life if not many people watch your first video it doesn't matter does it matter no do you get less views does it matter really no then the third prong would be can you change it can you change is it like an external thing or is it something that's in your control so the fact that you're worried about getting these the fact that you're worried about what people think is in your control but it's not in your control what people actually think they're going to think what they're going to think and you can't you can't change that so then it makes you kind of think of it differently that's what them three questions are things i always ask myself in any problem that i have and i just find it kind of answers every question and it makes you feel quite satisfied if you if you go through it in your head and answer them so i feel like that might be quite helpful um if you're thinking definitely this leads on from it how to be consistent in posting videos especially as a newbie even though no one's interested and i'm glad that you said that because at the start no one no one is interested why would they be when we've uploaded our first video talking about ourselves i think if you want to grow on youtube these days the smarter thing to do would make and this is just from my experience what i kind of see on the platform videos and channels popping up is to be a little bit more focused in we weren't when we started and like maybe you could say we didn't grow maybe we did grow slowly yeah and then when we started doing more travel things then certain things started growing there's channels i watch which are just to do with cars there's channels i watch which are just to do with coffee yeah there's channels that i watched that had to do with reviewing cameras so if you're someone that's never posted a video i'm saying like video this might not be about youtube but say for example this is going to sound really harsh me saying this and i really don't mean it in a harsh way but if you're someone that you've never uploaded a youtube video you don't have like an online presence of any sort and then you do a video that's like getting to know me some people might be interested your friends and family and things but the outside audience aren't going to be searching your name and getting to know them or whatever it is or if it pops up no one knows who you are yet so they're not likely to click on it if that sounds really mean but maybe like you're saying start with something more niche start with something that's more like searchable searchable yeah exactly and make video how to be consistent simply make videos about things that you are passionate about yeah it sounds cliche but it's so true if you love cakes cakes and you're a baker there's a lot of people before so they make food on instagram yeah if you love making food how easy is it going to be for you to make four or five videos a week or even one or two to begin whatever it's not gonna be a chore making those videos because you love making videos and you love talking about cake yeah if it's like uh your i think there's a fine line between well look i'm not a fine line there's a perfect pocket in between this you know grass that you get that two circles overlapping and then there's something in the middle yes so the first circle is something that you love the second circle is something that people other people love and that will want to watch and you want to be somewhere in the middle so you want something that you enjoy and something that other people enjoy to watch as well exactly and i think that if it's something that you're genuinely passionate about it won't feel like a chore it won't be like oh i've got to do this video today because i've said to my audience i'd upload twice a week and i've only done one it should be yes i get to upload another video i'm excited to film it i'm excited to edit it it's about loving the pros it's about loving every part of it not just like other benefits that you might get later on like money and that kind of thing it's about loving the actual making and as much as it's about making a video about something or a topic if you're just starting if you want to try and attract people to the channel on the other flip side of that personal brand is so important yeah personal brand being yourself being not a character but being being known as you there's a car vlogger i watch and although i love seeing the cars i could see the same cars on hundreds of other channels but i watch him 80 percent for him and his personality his jokes his humor the way he talks about the cars i watch his channel for him so bear that in mind as well so that's kind of like getting started that's that's a good good topic so okay now we're going to like equipment and stuff how to be a vlogger do you need that expensive stuff you use before you can vlog i would say absolutely not like absolutely if you're watching this there's even a chance you're watching it on a smartphone these smartphones have cameras in 1080p or in 4k some of them you can upload straight to youtube you can edit on your phone these days i think quality does play a part it is nice on the eye if you have good gear and the audio is important as well i think it's hugely important won't watch your video if it if you can't understand what people are saying but really no it doesn't matter make 100 videos on your phone to check that you actually love it if you haven't started yet yeah you don't do spending like 500 quid on a camera yeah it's not about gear it's really not about the gear what do you guys use to edit so we personally use final cut pro i don't think that matters we always get questions like what do you use to edit i think with editing i know when we do travel vlogs and things it's a bit more it varies yeah complex but really the vlogs are making at the moment in the apartment things we're adding in music we're adding in some text we're doing some funny sound effects things like that but it's nothing to we could edit these vlogs on imovie yeah quite easily like on a phone or on a phone we could do it much more simply but we've learned how to do it on our mac with final cut pro and we're quick we're not yeah we're not that quick so don't don't go and spend like two three hundred dollars on editing software if you're just starting use whatever you have available to you imovie or and a free android equivalent yeah and also filmora filmora9 is great yeah it really is for beginners yeah and exactly like i said if we had a and a travel vlog we'd be having the drone shots the gopro shots different lenses different cameras loads of different sd cards and it would still be the similar time to this vlog you're watching now but it would be like three times the amount of editing because of the effort put in to link the music up to like the sound effects to link that and that but really it depends what kind of video you're making because i mean people aren't making travel vlogs now because you can't travel so you don't editing wise it doesn't take too long when it's more like of a basic kind of sit down or like depends what your video is it's totally bad don't get hung up on the editing yeah i think filming and having a story or a topic and making the video that way is more important than actually the editing when you're starting out did you have any mentors growing up back home i guess if this is related to youtube and things i would say for me there was a few not mentors but there was a few people who inspired me at the time casey neistat was daily vlogging hugely other people on the platform daily vlogging and making these videos and making it work as a lifestyle as a job as a career and building an audience and making fun entertaining videos that people wanted to watch that was cool on the other side of it for me was garyvee yes and he still inspires me like he inspired us to think outside the box and not settle for a life that wasn't i don't want to say not fulfilling us because it was but not using our potential yeah he helped us make that push and go and chase something because we had a little spark a little idea of something that could happen uh yeah and checked out garyvee definitely do i also think like no one in our family are youtubers or even like i hate saying the word influencer but i guess social media yeah we were around none of that none of our friends were i do think there's a certain something in both of our families that's kind of like yeah try it go for it oh they've been huge motivating and like i mean i was terrified to tell my parents same as you that we've quit these stable jobs we're selling everything and we're going traveling but not in a way of like i hope they that they they might be disappointed it was more like we're telling them we're leaving the country basically that's what i was nervous about and obviously they've taken it very well they've they're incredibly proud of us we message all the time about everything and we're lucky to have such supportive parents i think families around them because at first we thought like we would literally go home for a year go away for a year and not see anyone yeah but we managed to make it like more of a lifestyle than a one-off thing yeah so as you've seen in vlogs we do pop back to the uk for a month or two at a time and visit family we're hoping to do that as soon as we can as well after all this going on do you have a backup plan in case vlogging doesn't work um well right now no because it is working i don't like and as i say that way yeah as i say every day we're grateful that it is working and it's going well yeah you're right i don't like to i like to focus all my energy on making sure it does work so if we had a backup plan and we could fall back into this plan i'd be less motivated to do well in what i'm doing now and i wouldn't have had that drive to daily vlog to get no sleep because you're up when i editing in thailand be doing adventures every single day to film and to daily vlogging i wouldn't be putting the effort in because i'd be like eh if it doesn't work out it doesn't matter for us it was like this is the one chance we've got we're not going to get this opportunity again it was now or never we've given ourselves this amount of time no mortgage no kids we have to try it now while we're young and well he doesn't even know if you're not young that's a whole other thing that was just ours yeah i think if we did have a backup plan in place like say we wouldn't be as motivated and driven so no we don't we don't we're enjoying this hugely it's going well and we we just love it and we're grateful every day that we get to do it we don't take it for granted and we want to do everything we can to work hard to to continue it long into the future and i don't think people that have like a different career paths that they've gone down generally would have a backup plan and like another job offer open and waiting to accept like it's not i don't think it's as it's a normal thing to have back up plans um maybe like in your head like oh if i don't do this maybe i could try that but i don't think having like a set thing yeah i think to have a backup plan would show for us anyway would show that we're not fully invested in our goals and our dreams and ambitions okay confidence confidence has come up a lot in these questions how to gain confidence filming in public putting your face out there holding a camera in front of your face putting yourself out there on the internet if you're already asking this question it sounds like you want to do it but there's still maybe there still may be that barrier of confidence which we both i feel like we've overcome but i think we both have felt it at times it may look on the camera like they're always confident we're walking through some busy street like most of the time it is but don't get us wrong like i might have days where i'm feeling a bit more shy or something and i'm a bit nervous to pick the camera up so like firstly it's okay not to feel confident all the time it's so normal yeah um but also i think it's building it up and just going for it i said this on the vlog recently people will look at you because you're holding a camera up and talking to it especially if you're on your own when i go out on my walks and i'm vlogging people are like people see me in the corner of their eye on my own and they hear me talking and they're like what's this woman like why is she chatting to no one and they're like oh she's got a camera she's vlogging i mean even especially in the philippines it it seems to be easier to vlog i don't know why people just kind of jump in the shop they're excited to see someone vlogging they're wanting to talk to people people know what vlogging is yeah they're probably wondering what your channel is what they're filming for when we were in like london and things a lot of places would tell us to stop filming and people would like hide their faces or like talk get frustrated so i think and that's i'm being very generic we've had some great experiences vlogging in london and brighton or whatever all around the uk but i'm just saying i feel like it's more common to see someone vlogging in the philippines than in the uk we just had to give the camera a little break because it was overheating it just started that's how warm it is in this apartment with uh without the ac on so anyway uh we're going to finish off this little section vlog because there are so many so many questions there were a few about like um any affordable cameras to begin with if you are looking to buy camera i would say the canon g7x is a great vlogging camera same as the sony rx100 sony just released a new camera you can google that and check it out as well so um one more personal one someone asked hi george just wanted to ask if deep inside do you think it's worth it well for us yes our life has changed because of youtube we have the best life i have my dream job same for you like it's insane the amount of opportunities we get the things we get to do the amount of freedom we have um we can spend so much time with each other that's very unusual yeah we're in charge of what we do so it's our responsibility for things to go well so also our responsibility if things go bad we've got to fix them yeah exactly when you put down the work we put in if you're just like coming onto the channel now it's like oh yeah yeah they they make videos for their job whatever when you look back at like the countless days and hours and years and that was a really weird order of that sorry days hours and years yeah you know what i mean when you look back it has been a hell of a lot of work to get to where we are today and it continues to be a lot of fun yeah of course and it wasn't handed us on a play it wasn't that we had like a big shout out and we got like hundreds of thousands of subscribers yeah we we've really really put work into this we are insanely grateful that it has worked but we know there's a phrase that your granddad says the harder the harder you work the luckier you get yeah and i love that i think and it's the luckier lucky yeah i mean we're in a position where we could leave our jobs and try it so i think we are lucky for that yeah to have that life before positions but we have heard things we've seen comments about saying oh your parents must have given you a ton of money people must be paying for your lifestyle it's not true we were never given anything and like when we had our old jobs if we had a day off together we had rare days off together because i always went weekends and weekdays you worked weekdays put her weekends off and we had like a day off together every couple of weeks yeah when we did it wasn't like oh let's relax watch the film have a day out together it was let's try and film as many videos as we can and edit them throughout the week and we've spent every hour we had spare not working on other jobs putting into youtube we watched an old vlog say and lucy we were like on a vlog we were saying oh we've got four days off work now and when you work like a nine-to-five office job yeah if you play anyone does you can relate like it's tiring you're you're screwed at the end of the day you book time off too relaxed but in our time off we were like great so we've got four days off we're gonna bring you guys daily vlogs we're gonna try and film as many videos as possible and ever anytime you went on holiday we've been on a cruise with your family for two weeks we daily vlogged every we went to prague to see my family for a week daily vlogger like everything but not because we're like oh we really want to make money we want it to work it was more that we lost and we had the passion behind it and we thought in the future maybe if it could work out amazing but it was more that we really enjoyed it would we recommend daily vlogging if you're starting probably probably not there are downsides to it as well you can your brain can explode and you can burn out we've definitely experienced that and we don't i would say we still upload five or six times a week right now i'd say six or seven being realistic really i'd say we're pretty much daily but we might miss the odd one every now and then this leads into a question how do you keep up or how do you get the motivation to keep making content and to answer it in the perspective of this person if you're just starting i think it goes back to making content about something you like and something you love it shouldn't be a chore yeah you shouldn't do it for the sake of it for us at our stage right now i think the motivation comes from the audience totally like the feedback that we get the comments on every vlog you guys are waiting for the new videos um the the amount of views that we're seeing on the videos is insane to us and it motivates us to keep going and we still love it as much if not more than the day we uploaded our very first video and also i think like mixing up the content motivates us it's not like we film every day like we used to like as in a vlog style morning to night yeah sometimes we might do a sit down chatty vlog like today we might do a cooking video we might do ordering take out and eating it like a mukbang kind of thing and the fact that it's like random keeps me motivated because it's like oh haven't done that for a while that's exciting i think when we were traveling a daily style video is perfect because different things happen each day and like you might go and see a waterfall then you might drive to here then you might go and do that activity you might go to this restaurant for us now we're in this one apartment and we have been since march so i think staying motivated during quarantine to film videos i'd say mix it up a little bit and just like don't constantly do unless you enjoy that type of video but for us mixing it up is what keeps it exciting definitely hope that helped guys we're gonna actually end this video here because it's rolled on a lot longer than we thought it might but i hope that helped any of you um feel free to leave your channel names below in this video often youtube doesn't like it don't don't leave a link don't put a link it goes to straight links go straight to spam they don't even appear on the videos but for this video we will allow uh you guys to promote your own channels in the description just so just your channel name um if you're serious if you're if you're creating content regularly if you're really giving it a good go creating content that you want people to see and you want to share it you want to spread the word leave your channel name in a comment below yeah maybe say like what your channel's about like what yeah different vlogs or like cooking whatever give a little one sentence what your channel is a little advert and we can all share the love a little bit in the comments but we hope this did help any of you guys i hope you found it interesting if not i hope you just maybe liked hearing a little bit behind the scenes about us um until then we're actually going to vlog the rest of today because we're addicted to making videos don't daily but do film two in a day yeah so we will see in the next video when this one continues um until then have a great day thanks so much for watching please subscribe the channel if you're new give this video a thumbs up if it helped you and we'll see you in the next [Music] this moment