In this short, speaker Tom Ferry delivers a high‑energy motivational monologue urging aspiring creators to stop over‑thinking and simply launch their business or content. He shares personal anecdotes from his early days: using a Flip video camera, recording a raw first episode of "Life by Design," and initially posting it despite poor audio quality. He recounts how a modest 1,000‑view video with strong engagement convinced him to invest in a proper microphone, which later helped him reach higher view counts (e.g., 3,000‑30,000 views). Throughout, he emphasizes the importance of taking action, investing in basic equipment, and treating the venture as a real business by announcing it to friends. The core message is a repeated call to "just start" and keep moving forward.
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I'm just gonna start. Say to your buddy, this is my business. You ready guys? And I wanna make sure I do this right. 12 shares and 3,000 views. 3,000 views. He told me 25, the baseball dude said 30,000. Let's make it 30,000 for easy math. 10% of the people in his market watch that show. So I'm texting back and forth 'cause he's like, I'm like, hey man, do I have permission? Can I show this? He's like, oh my God, please show it, thank you so much, that's amazing. And he's like, let me tell you what happened. Do you remember when I saw you at Cold Banker and I was only like 6 shows in? I bought a microphone, we have a microphone now. And the new intro with all the moving stuff, like, it evolves. I remember my first show went like this. I took my flip video camera, I put it on my desk, I hit the button, and I went, okay, hold on, let's start over. Because I couldn't edit, there was no editing back then. I was like, hi, I'm Tom Ferry, welcome to Life by Design, your place online for ideas and information on how to stay in the right action. Shit. Who's here from Chicago? One of the, the show that actually got me to pony up and buy a microphone, I'm in Chicago, the Windy City, and I put my flip video camera on a mailbox and I hit go and I'm standing this far away and I'm like, I'm just getting blown and I'm like, hey, it's Tom Ferry, you're a place, I'm like screaming at it and all you hear is this. Posted it anyway, still got like 1,000 views. It had more comments than any show I had currently done. Stop being cheap, get a microphone, get a microphone. But here's the point. You know what that guy did? He said, I'm just gonna start. I'm just gonna start. Say to your buddy, this is my business, I'm just gonna start. I'm just gonna start.
