Yasir Khan
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254 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Mar
Yasir Khan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of my ex-girlfriends actually really helped me out with this. I don't know why we're going on this dating direction, but I used to get really, really nasty comments about my teeth in the comments. Like really, really bad. So I have fine teeth now. Thank you, Invisalign. Please sponsor me. But before that, I had these crooked teeth in the front. And all of the comments were just about my teeth.
And they were so disheartening. I would wake up. I would not want to post a video, check my comments. I didn't want to make any content.
And she said, Yasser, are you doing this for praise or are you doing it because you're passionate about it? You have to do this for purpose over praise. Purpose over praise. And that's when I realized if I really want to talk about this stuff, if I'm really passionate, I have to go through that. I have to go through it with grit.
I don't have to worry about getting the praise, getting the compliments. Just do it because I want to do it. And once I became more passionate about it, I forgot about what they thought of me. My message was reaching the right people. That's why I continued on this journey.
I got 2.4 on Instagram. That's my main platform.
Right.
Yeah, that's the other thing. I'm really passionate about talking about content just because I've learned a lot about it. Before we go into YouTube, Hala, my Instagram has 2.4 million right now. I created that account from scratch in May of 2023. Wow. From scratch. That's a year and a half, right?
And TikTok, I think, was a year and a half. So on YouTube, when I started, I didn't have confidence. I was just vlogging my daily experiences as a student in Canada. I would talk about job searching for a bit. Then I would talk about my journey, eating something. It was all over the place. And that's why I never learned.
And by the time I got to 1,000 subscribers, I had some followers from this topic, from that topic, and it was just all over the place. So I started a brand new channel about four months ago. And because of that one podcast that I told one of your team members about, I was on one podcast. The guy had 4,000 followers on his channel. The highest viewed video was 500. I came onto the podcast.
It went live two weeks ago. That video has 400,000 views on it now. And that got me 25,000 subscribers just from that podcast. So Hala, I know you're getting excited. Man, I can't wait to upload this video. Who knows? Maybe that same thing might happen. But then now I know how to work social media. So I've reworked YouTube and it's working quite well now.
I've had a change of heart in this. I used to think you have to talk louder to be more confident, right? But then I realized if you're always loud and just talking like this the entire time, eventually it gets really annoying. But if you're always quiet like this all the time and you look timid. So the key is not just volume. The key is variety in volume. So you go up and down and up and down.
And I do this exercise in my workshops where I'll ask people to give me any topic, like on the spot. And I'll just start talking about it. And I'll just tell them, okay, I'm going to vary my emotions and my volume. And you tell me if it sounds interesting. So the best way we can do this is just do it right now. You think you can prompt me with a quick topic? Sure. Okay.
Just give me the most boring topic you can think of in the world, okay? And before you do that, just hold your thumb up like this, just so I can see it on camera. When you do this, I have to be really high volume. And when you do that, I have to be really low volume. And let's see if I can make something boring sound more interesting, okay? We'll do 30 seconds.
Perfect. Ready to go?
Give me the thumb and I'll know where to start. Washing dishes is one of the most exciting things you can do because every single day when I make dinner, It makes me feel present in the moment because I'm there feeling the water on my hands, feeling the warmth on my hands. And I love seeing all the little dirt go off the dishes, down the spiral.
And it makes me think for a moment how grateful I am to have that meal. See what I mean?
So it's the up and down and up and down. That's what makes it interesting. Not just high volume, not just low volume.
Listen, I have ADHD. I have a million thoughts running in my head and all of them want to come out at the same time. So I'm just like you. I want to talk fast. I was once invited to do a seminar on public speaking anxiety. And I've done this seminar a million times. So I show up with my 17 different things to do to overcome your public speaking anxiety.
I present in front of 200 people and immediately people say, wow, Yasir, you covered so much information. That was absolutely amazing. One of the guys says, Yasir, I'm about to go next after you. That's exactly what I needed because I was so anxious in the moment. I said, amazing. So I went out, got some coffee, sat back in the room. I'm waiting for him to pop up on stage.
He shows up on stage and hala, I can see the notes shaking in his hand in the moment. So he slowly walks onto the lectern. He puts his notes there. He starts speaking, going through his slides and he's stuttering and You know when you have this feeling in your stomach where you know something bad is going to happen? The entire time I'm watching that, my stomach is just churning inwards.
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