Inside ClamourCon with Top YouTubers | Lessons on Regret and Success

Palm Springs. I guess you can't have it called Palm Springs if you don't have palm trees. It's Tim Schmoyer! With the hat! Our first time meeting in person. Roberto Blake in the house. Friend of the channel. Friend of the book. About to go on an epic rant. Oh God. It's gonna be crazy.

I'm looking forward.

Morning guys, it is just past 5 o'clock in the morning. I am on my way to a YouTube conference called ClimerCon in Palm Springs, California, and I'm gonna take you guys on my journey with me. So ClimerCon is a YouTube conference that I don't know how long it's been around for. I was invited to go by Tim Schmoyer, who I have a lot of respect for, friend of the channel, done some collabs together. And I don't usually go to conferences unless I'm speaking, mostly because the main value of going to a conference is the networking, and I don't really enjoy networking. It's not really something I want to get better at either. It's not really on my list. There's a bunch of people that I know that are going who I've virtually met, like Tim, like Roberto Blake, like Antonio, a bunch of people that I've virtually I've actually met that I know are going, so at least it's going to be a good time with them, and we'll see what happens. It was one of those things where I felt like I didn't need to go, but I may regret not going. So I want to know. I'm okay with knowing and it failing. I'm okay with knowing it not working out and it being a waste of a couple days. What I'm not okay with is wondering, "Ah, I should have gone. What if I went?" So anytime you get that feeling where you know you might regret not doing it, just go out and do it. You can live with failure, but you can't live with the regret of not knowing. That's me, that's ClamourCon, on my way to Palm Springs. We'll have some fun. Landed in Chicago, gotta hop my flight now to Palm Springs. One of the things that I love doing on airplanes when I run out of things to do, catching up on emails, is my Evernote files. So when people send me articles or I find an article that I wanna read, one of the things I'll do is I'll clip it to save it later later, and then I'll load it offline in Evernote. And it was good. There was a bunch of articles that I haven't, you know, read for a while. I saved up for myself to read and finally got to check them off my to-do list. So that was fun. In Chicago, it's rainy, but hopefully it's nice, warm, and sunny in Palm Springs, California. So I was on the fence whether to get a Starbucks or not. Try to eat healthy. But then I saw this. Frappuccino new. Midnight Mint Mocha. I have to try one. Oh. Oh my god, it's so good. The mint. Maybe it's because I haven't had frappuccino in a while. There's no coffee though. I think it's just cream-based. Oh my god, the mint. Mmm. It's like After Eight in a drink. Oh my god, it's so good. This isn't in Canada. I might end up having one of these a day. Nina's not going to be happy with me. Are you serious? But it's really yummy. Mmm. Alright, I made it. Look what I see when I come out. It says Entrepreneur of the Year. I love it. That was actually a decent trip. I decided to get Wi-Fi for the first time I think I've ever ordered Wi-Fi. From the plane. Usually I get on the plane, answer my email, I read my articles, and then I'm out of stuff to do until I watch the movie and whatever. But today I decided I'm gonna get Wi-Fi, and I was productive pretty much every single minute so far the trip. I was either at the airport, I was on Instagram just sending messages to people, thank them for following me. Look at this, welcome to Palm Springs! Look at that, it's beautiful here, nice and warm. And then on the airplane I was watching the YouTube videos, prepping for next week for all the videos Got a lot of work done. I'm being really hard on the team this week. I feel bad. But I feel good because it's for you guys. The standards are going up of what kind of clips make it into the top 10. Rising standards mean better videos. So anyway, I'm feeling good. I feel like I didn't waste a whole bunch of time in the air traveling. So I'm gonna hop an Uber and get to the hotel. I'm feeling pumped. It's beautiful. Palm trees. Palm Springs. I guess you can't have it called Palm Springs if you don't have palm trees. Kind of goes together, right? Alright, let's do it. Exit only, no return. Haha. I have to walk across the street to get to where Uber is allowed to pick you up, but it's beautiful here, guys. Look, look what I see. Nice mountains, palm trees, water fountain, flowers. Kind of missing Nina right now. We should be holding hands, doing this together. She has a 9-to-5 job, so she can only take so much time off. Ah, I love it. I'm really glad I took my allergy medication. The smell of grass. I'm allergic to grass, but ah, it smells so good. Alright, I made it home for the next couple days. The Westin Mission Hills. Let's go see inside. I think I found Tim Schmoyer, friend of the channel, YouTuber, done some collabs. I'm gonna go surprise him. It's Tim Schmoyer! It's Tim Schmoyer! With the hat! Our first time meeting in person. Good to see you, man. What's up, man? Good. Well, that was good. Tim and I meet pretty much every week in an online mastermind group that he started. So it's always fun to meet people in person instead of just meeting on the computer. I'm excited. I'm gonna go find my room. I'm gonna find my room and get checked in. 5:35. Kazakarmichael for the next 3 days. Let's turn on some lights. That's pretty nice. Master bedroom. Got some coffee. Look at the bathroom. Looks nice. I approve. Gonna unpack. And it is what, 1:30 right now? And the first reception pool party intros to people is at 2:00. So I'm gonna go hang out there. Tim offered to introduce me to people. My general strategy with these kinds of things is since I don't go up and talk to people, I will often just bring a computer or have my phone and sit down in a public place and chill or work. And then people recognize me and come up and start conversations. So that's my plan, and we'll see how it goes. I don't know why, but the first thing I do when I check into a hotel in the US is I turn on CNN. I never watch CNN at home. I don't know why. It just feels like I'm traveling and I need to put on CNN. It's a tradition. Alright, had a shower, changed my shirt. Look at that. Totally different shirt, right? You guys can totally tell it's a different shirt. Uh, gonna go check in. Apparently they have some other stuff happening. People are just still starting to arrive, and so we'll see. Today is mostly just about meeting people, connecting, hanging out by the pool. If I don't connect with anybody, I'll work on some videos for you guys, and then the conference actually starts tomorrow. So let's check in and see what happens. Here to pick up some swag. Got a t-shirt, got some cashew almond toffee. Do you have any of these? And there's some bugs.

What are they again?

I'm sorry. They're crickets. Chili lime crickets. Nina's gonna love this.

I might come back for her later, but for now—

Are they all crickets? Yeah, all of them, huh? Barbecue mealworms. I don't know about that. This is Ricky. Ricky, what's up? What's your favorite video? Um, all of them, to be honest. I mean, I wake up every morning, I have my cup of coffee and— or my espresso— and, um, you know, the marketing one, I just watch the marketing one, which is why I love to do this kind of stuff. Love it. Ricky's a YouTuber too. We're gonna chat afterwards. We're gonna chat after I grab my crickets. Time to eat. We're at the Seasons Grill. I don't know if this is dinner or lunch.

Both?

Dinner's at 7.

So this is like a—

Dinner's at 7. I'm chilling with Tim. We're on weird time zone differences. We're 3 hours behind. So this is lunch. Okay. What's for lunch? There it is. Chicken fettuccine. Tim just ordered this crazy— There's a pineapple inside the burger. That's crazy. Alright, we have to come back and get that next time. I'm gonna do a video with video influencers. Video shot. What are we talking about? We're gonna be talking about entrepreneurship. We're gonna be talking about your one word. We're gonna be talking about online video. What's up, Sean? I'm looking forward. In this video, I interview Evan Carmichael on his tips for how to stand out on your YouTube channel through branding, YouTube algorithm hacks, and how to make more money on your YouTube channel through strategic brand deals. So far so good. Fun event. Lots of people inside, big YouTubers. Nobody's really vlogging or filming, so I don't want to be the douchebag inside filming everybody. Next up, we're gonna— we're gonna— I'm gonna head back to Tim's room for a private interview for Video Creators. Go check that out. Actually, when is it— when is ours gonna go live? I have no idea. Okay, this will go live before Tim's, so So go check out Tim's channel at some point for this interview. Couple weeks at least. Couple weeks. This is Tim's setup. It's pretty impressive. Set it up once and leave it set up for the whole— His camera is bigger than mine, but it's how you use it. Look at that. I feel like a winner today. Yes. That's how I'm greeted when I come into Tim's home. Tim's home. So that was a fun interview with Tim. We'll see when it comes out. Hopefully that he keeps the bloopers on. Now there's hors d'oeuvres. Hors d'oeuvres in the background. It's basically meeting up, saying hi. Got some drink tickets. We'll see. Definitely gotta grab some guacamole. Roberto Blake in the house. Friend of the channel. Friend of the book. About to go on an epic rant.

Oh god, we're doing that.

Epic rant!

Yeah, no, so, but like, no, I was talking to Karen. Like, we got my friend Karen Cabot over here.

Hey!

We're actually like doing a panel tomorrow together. It's gonna be another, it's gonna be a long epic rant from both of us. About design aesthetic, but what I was talking about is the fact that none of us are entitled to anything. Anything. Any result that you see that someone you admire got is just a byproduct of all their hard work, and that's it. And sometimes there's a byproduct of circumstances they had no control over that were very fortuitous for them. I don't really want to call it luck because, yeah, you still had to show up and make the effort, but at the end of the day, whatever it is you want to happen, it's great that you want it to happen, it's great that you're working for it, You can't have the expectation that just because you work hard that anyone should care. Like, if it doesn't, like, what's in it for them? Like, I think no one believes in that anymore about like, what's in it for the other person? What are they getting out of this interaction? Because I think if people thought about what's in it for the other person when they start something, everything we see would be very different. Dramatically different. There's an entitlement now that just because you showed up and you work hard or you put your heart and soul into it, you're supposed to get something. I ran track. Showing up and working hard and leaving my heart on the field still meant that I could get 10th or 12th place, or as was normally the case, 2nd or 3rd. But, but I wasn't entitled to that if someone beat me. Like, I'm more concerned— and here's my other thing— if some— if I got 1st place but I was 30 seconds slower than my last race, I was more upset. I'd rather have the bronze or silver or be in 8th place and be 20 seconds faster than win and be 30 seconds slower.

Boom! Time for the play. So that was a lot more fun than anticipated. See if I can find my way. It's what, it's 1:30 or so in the morning Toronto time. We kind of closed the party. Had some good conversations. Well, you can't see me, I went dark. And had a good chunk of time with Charlie from Charisma on Command. We had met on email. Now, but I hadn't connected in person. And so we connected and had some good business talk. Him and his girlfriend Jessica, good, uh, good people. So ended up closing down the show, talking entrepreneurship. It's good, it's good. A lot of the, a lot of the people here are like family vloggers, not a lot of connection to what I do. But, uh, Charlie and Antonio and Roberto and Tim It is a good group. So I'm going to get ready for bed. The downside was I didn't get to say goodnight to Nina. So I missed that. I'm kind of sad about it but we're going to have breakfast tomorrow at 8 AM and then head off for a fun day of whatever we're doing tomorrow. So I'm back. I'm going to put on CNN. Yeah. Hahaha. Get ready for bed and I'll see you tomorrow.