In this January 2025 YouTube video, Matt Ragland introduces the #Create30 Challenge, a 30‑day creator sprint running from January 27 to February 25. Participants commit each day to (1) producing one piece of content, (2) spending 20 minutes learning, (3) connecting with five other creators or entrepreneurs, and (4) journaling/meditating for 5‑10 minutes. There are two ways to join: a free option that involves posting daily content with the #Create30 hashtag and receiving daily prompt emails, or a paid Hey Creator membership ($30/month) that adds a built‑in community, weekly expert calls (Tuesdays at 2 PM ET), a full prompt database, a resource library, and unlimited access to courses. Ragland emphasizes the community’s engagement, feedback loops, and the momentum he gained from a similar 30‑day effort in 2017. He ends with a clear call to action: sign up via the link in the description or bio, reply to the welcome email, and start the challenge on January 27.
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Hey creators, it's January 2025, and I want to invite you to do something with me that I've had on top of my mind for a while. It's a 30-day creator challenge. Now, I went through Ship 30 for 30 a long time ago, and I've been like really inspired by the 75 Hard movement, and I've thought like, what would it be like to have a challenge for creators that kind of combines both of those types of challenges? And so The thing that I came up with that I want to invite you to be a part of is this #Create30 Challenge. And what we're going to do every single day together is we're going to create one piece of content, we're going to commit to 20 minutes of learning, we're going to connect with 5 other creators, entrepreneurs, founders, like people in your, in your space, in your market. And then we're also going to clarify our goals, our visions, our dreams, our purpose with 5 to 10 minutes of journaling and meditating. Now, the Create 30 Challenge is going to run from January 27th through to— let me make sure I counted this properly— February 25th. That's a Tuesday. There are two ways that you can be involved with Create 30. The first is just by sharing what you're learning, sharing the content that you're creating every single day on social media with the hashtag #Create30. The other way that you can do it is by joining the Hey Creator community. And in Hey Creator, we're going to be not just commenting on each other's, you're already going to have like hundreds of people that are ready to like comment and engage with you. You know, already have a built-in community of people who are on the same page and doing the same things as you. But on top of that, you're also going to get feedback. You're also going to be able to be a part of the weekly expert calls that we're going to have every Tuesday. At 2 PM Eastern. We have a social media or content or entrepreneur expert that's going to come in and join and share their wisdom and expertise with you. The other thing is that we're going to have this whole database of prompts that you can sort through. If you join the free challenge and you get the free emails every single day, you'll still get a prompt, but whatever is in the email is the prompt that you have for that day. And to be clear, you don't have to follow the prompt every single day. If you want to post about something else, go go for it. It just is meant to be a little bit of instruction, a little bit of inspiration. But if you're a part of the Hey Creator community, you also get access to all 30 prompts right from the beginning, and we're going to be adding more and more as the challenge goes on and as the community grows inside of Hey Creator. Now, as a special for Create 30, the monthly price for Hey Creator is only going to be $30 a month. So 30 days, $30, Create 30, $30 in Hey Creator, that's all you have to commit to, and you're going to get access to all those things that I just mentioned: community engagement, weekly expert calls, and access to the database of prompts, along with all the other challenge sprint content that we have in our resource library and a couple of courses that are already in Hey Creator that you can have unlimited access to while you're a member. Either way, I want you to join the Create 30 Challenge and be a part of what we're going to be doing together. I'll be looking for that hashtag everywhere on social media. You can post on X, you can post on LinkedIn, you can post on Instagram, wherever it is that you post, go for it. Post on YouTube. That's where I'll be posting a lot as well. In fact, I kind of got my, you know, break as a creator when, or at least like built enough momentum in February of 2017. I committed about this same time. So it's going to be about 8 years now. To 30, 30 short YouTube videos in 30 days. And that gave me the momentum, that gave me the experience, that instilled in me an excitement for creating content and sharing it with people. So there's going to be a lot more instruction. I encourage you to sign up. You can just go to the link and go to the link in the description or wherever, wherever it is this video is posted. There's going to be a link nearby or in my bio. So would love to see you in there. If you sign up, hit, hit reply to that welcome email. Tell me where you saw this and can't wait to start. Create 30 with you on January 27th. It's going to be awesome. See you out there.
