Be the FIRST to EVERYTHING! - #LifeWithEvan

Evan Carmichael documents a day at ClimberCon in Palm Springs, including an escape room challenge with his friend Charlie, meetings with other creators, and updates on two secret YouTube projects and a book distilling rules from 50 entrepreneurs.
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So I'm lost.
Hope you have an amazing weekend.
Good morning, everybody. I had an early sleep last night. Last night and then an early morning this morning. I'm feeling great. Another beautiful sunny day here in Palm Springs. Pretty productive morning. Started off by messaging Nina. You gotta message the wife first thing, right? It's important, guys. Visit your wife when you go away. Then worked on an exciting thing that I'm planning for my YouTube channel. Two exciting things. So we'll see. They're in development. Can't drop any hints yet, but messaged some people on my team this morning as well as some outside partners that I'm working with that I'm pretty pumped to see how things turn out. Working on another potential book talking about the top 10 rules, condensing them into the 50 top 10 rules from 50 different people. Let me know what you think. Would you buy that book? You want to see that book? I'm getting some requests for that book. It's taking 50 of the most popular entrepreneurs that I have on the channel, condensing down their top 10 rules into a book, putting that out. Where am I going? I gotta go to breakfast. What else? Hiring somebody new. For Toronto Dance Salsa, so I was going through applicants and talking with Alex about who we're gonna hire. So it's a fun process. And just checking in with my team and catching up on things. It's amazing what you can do when you wake up early and you're ready to be productive before anybody else is awake. So, I'm lost. Where am I going? Oh, it's over there. Breakfast is over there. That's it, another exciting day here at ClimberCon. I'm going to breakfast and then a couple other sessions that are happening. I managed to upgrade my ticket on American, at least the second flight from Dallas back to Toronto, so I'm pretty pumped about that. Last leg. I'm excited. Get to see Nina tomorrow. Get to see Timo. Got a haircut. I'm pumped for that. And let's go eat. Hope you guys are having an amazing day. I guess when you're watching this it will be weekend. Hope you're having an amazing weekend. I'm the first one for breakfast. Alright, well, I get the best seat and the best food. Got decisions to make. Where am I gonna sit? So breakfast got filled up, you can see, but I forgot my badge. Gotta go back to my room, get my badge, and then head off to the first session. So the first session today is about how to continue finding the love in your channel, something like that. I got here early so I can get the plug, so I can be on my laptop and plug in, charge all my devices and stuff. I am the first one here. It's a day of being the first to everything.
That's what happens when you get up early. Go crush it, guys.
Mochi gumballs. Nina's gonna love these. Gotta save them for her. I missed ice cream again today. Charlie, what's up everybody? Cruzman Command, Cruzman Command, go check out his channel. Uh, we got ice cream, the toppings, but I miss ice cream. I'm very sad. He's into big escape rooms. We might, we might do that tonight. 7 o'clock. I'll do that. And go check out his Kevin Hart Kevin Hart video on charisma. What's it called? Kevin Hart? Kevin Hart 3 Storytelling Secrets or something like that. Storytelling. It's really good. Check it out. So I forget where I left off with you guys. It's been crazy. It's been meeting after meeting after meeting. And, uh, gonna go back to the room to chill for a bit, and then at 7 we're gonna do, uh, escape room. Charlie apparently is a huge escape room buff, and they have one here, so we booked the time at 7. So we're gonna meet up and, uh, head off over to there. Gotta get back and, uh, say hi to Nina, spend a little time with life. Super important. And then tomorrow morning, take off for Toronto. I'm meeting up with some, uh, a new friend. We're going to share an Uber, do some chatting. He does, uh, kids programming, how to learn Spanish. And then fly home. I managed to upgrade my ticket on the second flight, but the first one I'm flying coach. Hopefully not a middle seat. We'll see. All right, we got Nina! Woo! I called Nina at first, but she wasn't home. She was cleaning the carpets, so I hopped in the shower.
I was not available. I was just cleaning the— washing the carpet.
The carpets are more important than me, but the carpets are clean and now she can talk to me.
Woo!
So we're just chatting while I pack up, and I'm gonna head off soon to get to the escape room with Charlie. What do you want to say, Nina?
Have fun, be good.
Be good. Don't get trapped in the escape room. Make it out in time to leave at 4:45 tomorrow morning to get to the airport.
And to see me.
To come home and see Nina.
And believe.
And believe. Alright, we made it. Escape room. Palm Springs! First challenge. We'll see how we do. Charlie, the escape room master. We'll see how it is. I'm not allowed to film, so I'm gonna stop right here. Alright, we made it! We won! The hardest room had like a 19% success rate. I did not contribute much to the team, but we still won. We had 8 minutes left and made it out. Scary. Very scary. It is kinda scary. Thomas likes Decent though, but look at the eyes. Let's see Jessica in the— That's scary. Charlie, look at yourself in this. Jessica and Charlie hard carried the team. You want these guys on your team. The next Amazing Race power couple right here. Oh my God. We're gonna grab some dinner, decide on where to go. Gonna grab a bite to eat with the new fans. Probably gonna get a pizza, we'll see.
Pizzanina.
Buffalo mozzarella pizza. What do you got, Jessica? I have a shrimp. You got food in your mouth. Avocado salad. That was a trick question, I put food in your mouth. Charlie's got some salmon. Salmon, salmon and green beans. And Thomas has some, what do you got? Caviar pizza. $10,000. Hashtag Lil Bow Wow. Hashtag. So that went way later than expected. It's almost 12:30 AM. I gotta wake up at 4:45 to catch my flight. But we had a really good conversation. I guess that's what happens when you get engrossed in good conversations. So I'm excited to catch a couple hours sleep, get on the plane, go home, see the wife. And it's been a blast. I might do this again. Maybe a different conference. We'll see. I was on the fence. But I'm glad I came. Got some good results from it. Good conversations, good people. And, uh, might just do it again. We'll see. Have a good night, everyone. Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is morning. Looks the same as how I shot last night on my way to bed, huh? Just past 5 o'clock. I'm going to head to the airport, come back to Toronto. I'm supposed to meet up with another fellow YouTuber Basho who does kids' Spanish, French, and Chinese lessons I think. Teaching kids those languages. So he is leaving at the same time so we thought we'd share an Uber, have a chat in the car, and head out. I think there he is. Hey, it is Basho. What's up, man? You ready to go? Ready. Alright. Let's do it. I'm in the airport. I'm in the airport. I got my ticket. I'm excited from the coffee and maybe the no sleep, but getting there. To all gates. Yeah. I love this airport. It's tiny. People are friendly. You get in and out quickly. And it's all open air, outdoor. It's beautiful. Something's in Palm Springs. I'm coming back.
This looks new. Toasted coconut.
I think I'm going to try one of those. So I asked the barista if the iced coconut cold brew was sweet or not. I didn't know if I needed to add sugar or not. She's like, "It's not very good." Alright, it's not very good. I don't trust the barista to make my drink who thinks that this drink is not very good. So instead, caramel macchiato. Nina would approve, it's her favorite.
Mmm, yummy.
Got time like 20 minutes before my flight. So, head to the bathroom, see if I can get online, do some Instagram, answer some emails, check in with Nina, and fly home.
Hola.
So it looks like my flight there, Toronto American 110, got delayed to 1:45. Gotta get to gate C4. Alright, so it got delayed only by like 35 minutes, 25 minutes, 35 minutes, not the end of the world. I'm in Dallas and this And, uh, I've never been to Dallas. I have a lot of fans in Dallas. A lot of people bought the book from Dallas. A lot of people I know are in Dallas. My agent's in Dallas. I gotta make a stop in Dallas. If you're from Dallas and you want me to come by and spend longer than 2.5 hours, let me know. But I gotta find my gate and then let Nina know that I'm gonna be late. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to get some food on the plane. I board in about 45 minutes. But I decided to stop off and get a whole kale green smoothie.
Mmm.
Not bad. It was green kale smoothie or McDonald's or pizza. Like, you know what? I've got enough junk this weekend. Gotta get back to being healthy. Not that this is insanely healthy, but better than McDonald's. Alright, I landed. Decent flight. A little bit late. To get off and we got put in a circle before landing here. It's always something on the way back, I feel. But it was nice to get the upgrade and gonna meet Nina outside, go get Hayden, relax, get some sleep tonight after that 4 hours. And that's it, thank you guys. Alarm going off. Thank you guys for joining me. Love to know what you think. Let me know where I should go next. Do you do conferences? I wanna know if you do conferences, what strategies you learn from conferences. Put in the comments below, curious to find out. Hope you guys had a great weekend. Continue to believe. I'll see you soon.
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