Warren Smith
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Podcast Appearances
They insinuate that we'll make it so you can't teach.
Essentially, we'll give you a good recommendation if you sign this thing.
I hope you don't make any mistakes.
That was their language.
There's a fear that I see at the college level and the high school level around the emotional impact of the students to be able to have these conversations.
Many would claim there is no true way to run a business.
It's up to me, and all interpretations are equally valid.
So I was teaching media content creation and a piece of content went viral, opened a door for YouTube.
I was like, oh, see how far this will go.
This is interesting.
I knew there was a risk, but the
It didn't outweigh the cost of not trying, if that makes sense.
Caught up kind of in a way that I thought there was an 80% chance that the school given kind of skipped over this video and viral, or we said that I knew they weren't happy with that.
I thought there was like an 80% chance they just won't renew my
They did a slightly different move, got rid of me quickly, midday, kind of threw me into this weird limbo where now I have to focus on this.
I was under 50,000 subscribers, wasn't financially viable.
Scary time, worked out, here we are.
so i don't want to dox the school because it it would be unnecessary i mean it would take a google i imagine no people have tried oh okay they don't want it so nobody knows which college you were teaching at this was a high school high school okay okay right um so you asked me which schools what was the other part of the question what was the video