WEEK IN OUR LIFE - Acne Journey, Copilot CRM Launch, Tiny House

A vlog-style YouTube episode by Mike Andes (Mar 31, 2025) covering: a Copilot CRM update and gratitude to the engineering team after months of rebuilding; a light pottery/painting segment; a detailed, personal account by Brianna of her acne history and treatments (VI chemical peels, microneedling, Hydrafacials), including treatment timeline and costs; a tour of Michael's tiny house (Airbnb considerations, utilities, past theft, furnishing ideas); and routine lifestyle scenes (hot tub, coffee shop).
Questions this video answers
About $150.
Package of five microneedling treatments; about $500 per session.
About $1,800.
About three or four VI peels, spaced roughly one month apart.
Approximately four minutes of hot water.
Chapters
Thank you for seeing the vision and trusting what Josh has told you and what all of us are rolling up to him. So thank you for trusting us with this journey. Yeah. I just want to say thank you, everyone. I'm going to be emotional, so I'll just shut up here pretty quick. I'll take a video after. So just thank you all. I really appreciate it. All right, so it's Monday morning. Last night the update went up to copilot, and it looks like it went pretty good. We had some issues late last night and this morning, but the team was just phenomenal. And yeah, yeah, finally, 14, 15 months of just nothing in terms of feature development, but it's been rebuilding the team, rebuilding the backend infrastructure, changing code bases. Just so much has been going on behind the scenes, and it's really like going slow so we can go fast. Good step. There's a lot, a lot of work that went into the last few nights, especially the engineering team has been up basically around the clock. So I just can't say thank you enough to them.
Folks, welcome to Creativity, where we're going to make fantastic pottery and paint it because we know who won the last.
Time we did paint, there was no winner.
There was a winner. Everyone in the comments agreed.
No one in the comments said anything.
Okay. Philip and Steven, they liked mine better.
It's true, they did.
That's pretty cool, actually. These are cute. Imagine putting little sauces in this.
Isn't that what a bowl is for?
Exactly. But it's small. Everything smaller is cuter.
Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.
You're welcome.
Just buy the mug. That already looks good.
All right.
I was telling Mike I would like something that's functional so we're not completely wasting our money.
Oh, that's cool.
That is pretty sick. I went the more basic route and just got this little cup vase thing.
What's the name of your piece?
I haven't even decided what I want to do yet. And then Michael is more adventurous and he got a camera. Can you turn it around?
Look at that camera shooting the camera.
If you want to say.
We just forgot about this whole thing.
Maybe the final product might add more to it. If y' all haven't caught on by now, I am by no means a painter. Michael, on the other hand.
All right, folks, my work of art camera, my Polaroid.
Don't see me for taking the trademark.
Beautiful M plus B on the front. So cute. So cute.
We'll see what it is. Purpose turns out to be maybe a mug.
Pencil holder or something.
We're gonna do a review of my wife's cooking. It's phenomenal. Gordon Ramsay looks at this and just quakes in his boots. Or shakes in his boots. There you go. All right, first up, we have salmon with cream cheese, goat cheese seasonings, and sour cream. It's sour cream, folks. Dip. Serious action. Now what are we gonna do? We're gonna put on pork rinds. You do a little dip. Dip action. We go.
Fantastic. Okay, next up on the. On the docket, we got our entree for the evening, which is chicken. Boom. It is mostly eaten. I ate a ton of this. Paprika, salt, put it in a pressure cooker. Any meat? Like ribs. Yesterday we had ribs. Oh, just beautiful. Moist as all get out. Fantastic. Okay, next. This is actually my favorite because I am a connoisseur when it comes to Brussels sprouts. I have gone to every single restaurant in this wonderful city of Bellingham to find the best Brussels sprouts. I know the two places that are the best, but this tops it all. Also having bacon. Massive hack, you know, out here just crushing it. Michelin star, 10 out of 10. Yesterday was ribs. Out here living the good life. This is our mukbang video eating channel. So good stuff, good life over here.
You know, we're gonna have a little chit chat today. Hey, look at this. There's Max. Maybe I shouldn't have him in the shot the whole time. This is something that is a little difficult to talk about. I know that if while I was going through it at its worst, if I had just seen someone make this video even six months ago, it would have helped me so much. So here we go. Ever Since I turned 17, I started struggling with acne. Pretty. It was just, like, weird to me that I had even started dealing with it so late because usually it's around 13, 14, 15 was hormonal acne, to be more specific. So it was mostly just, like, around my mouth, jaw area, like, cheek area. Almost every time I would have a conversation with someone and, like, we'd be making direct eye contact, I would be thinking, all they can see is my acne right now. I was just, like, frustrated because I was also eating very clean, as clean as I knew back then. I consider carnivore to be more clean, but back then, it was more like keto, no sugar. It started out as, like, my breakouts mostly at the very beginning, and then it would scar fast forward. About eight months ago, I had finally gone to a dermatologist. Walking into the appointment, I already knew I Refused to take any Accutane because I had kind of figured that's what the dermatologist would tell me. And I was right. I left that office feeling very frustrated because I had spent about $150 on a consultation just for a doctor to come in and tell me for five minutes that I needed to take Accutane. And that was basically my only answer. At the end of Sept, I started doing VI chemical peels. It's like a pretty intense peel. It actually kind of makes top layer of your skin shed the week following the peel. It's pretty gnarly. I will show a picture right about here what my acne looked like at its worst. I remember it being so painful and itchy and like just scratching my face with the back of my hand instead of my nail so I wouldn't pop anything and make the scarring worse. Next month this is what it looked like a little better. Not as many whiteheads. In November you can see still pretty red. The scarring is there, but the inflammation went down a ton. And active breakouts were definitely minimized. In December I essentially almost had zero active breakouts. And it was. The skin was flat at that point. No major raised bumps. It was just scarring left. January I had my final VI chemical peel. I believe I did three or four of those total and they spaced them out once a month. First micro needling appointment. I want to say in beginning of February, somewhere in January actually. And obviously the scar scarring is still pretty pink. The redness has gone down quite a bit and it's looking more even with the skin. I'm still not 100 done with the process and I can't say that the scars are 100 gone because they're not. So I have two more microneedling treatments left in the package, but I might do more after if all the scarring is not taken care of. I realized that in the clips you guys just saw, I didn't give you a price breakdown. And that's one of the things that held me back from getting these treatments done sooner is because I thought they were like crazy expensive. 5000 plus dollars. Do know it obviously differs by who you go see, who your esthetician is, what state you live in. Things tend to be a little bit more pricey here in Washington. My micro needling sessions, it was about $500 per and I got a package of five treatments total VI chemical peel package. It came with three VI peels, three standard chemical peels and three Hydrafacials. Those nine treatments cost about 1800. If I would have known that sooner, I would have spent the money just like that. Because thinking that it cost maybe like $10,000 to get these treatments done and I just wasn't willing to put that kind of money down, I would have even gotten a second job to just make up the difference for it. So anyways, just wanted to throw that out there in case you were curious about the cost of anything.
Because yeah, it seems like such a drastic change. Like how can you get your skin from this to this and under 5,000. But it is possible. Anyways, my sole purpose for making this video is just for someone else who may have been in the same situation I was. I couldn't recommend it enough. Okay, folks, we just completed date night that didn't involve painting for the first time in a while and we are at do people know Fun fact. Michael owns a tiny house. This used to be an Airbnb.
And now you need to figure out how to furnish this place because Brianna is the new sheriff in town and she's gonna bring her law and order this design.
The thing is, even though it's such a small space, I don't know what to do with some parts of it. Like grand tour.
We've already agreed that this is trash.
Right? Couch needs to go.
Bye. Bye.
Because that thing is very uncomfortable.
Very uncomfortable. It's also small. That's why I got it. And then we never use this. But we've gotta get Starlink probably for this thing.
Yeah, the WI fi is so bad.
Also, we need to know if we're gonna Airbnb this or not.
We don't know yet. That depends. Okay. Grand tour though. I'm getting ahead of myself. Okay, red door and Brianna. Hello. You walk in, you have problem with the red door? Not at all. I like the red door. You have a bench and something to hang towels on or whatever you want to hang on. Here we have a window and a camera that I don't think is functioning right now, but I probably shouldn't tell them that.
What is it?
The camera, Is it working?
Yeah. Let's do the blue light.
Just kidding. It works so no one come rob us.
That's right.
Another little.
Well, fun fact. This place did get robbed. Someone stole my nice camera. Like four thousand, five thousand dollar camera out of this tiny house.
Then the very uncomfortable small couch that we will probably end up get rid. Getting rid of. And a table that we will probably also get rid of because we have a bar seating situation here. We plan on probably only staying here one night. At a time. Ish. So we don't. We probably won't eat here. We can get rid of this table and eat here if we ever do. Here is the bathroom situation, you know, Fantastic. Your knees pretty much touch the wall whenever you're sitting on the toilet. We have all the towels. Very nice shower that opens like.
So this is the big Airbnb, people. Four minutes of water. I literally put warnings all over the description. Everything. But it's like, look, folks, look at the size of this water heater. Do you think you're gonna be able to get like a 30 minute shower? No. Four minutes is a long time, honestly.
But the redeeming quality is that there's a hot tub outside. So if they want, you know, also.
Admire this incredible Amazon architecture.
Guys, Mike decorated this all himself. He's incredibly.
This is a 2 in 1 washer and dryer.
You'll have 2 seconds in the comments to guess what's in the fridge. Oh, ready? Yeah.
It's very, very balanced diet. Very balanced diet. We make sure we get all our vitamins and minerals and fats and proteins. Yeah, very balanced.
The bare necessities.
Not bare necessities.
No, it's literally bare. And there's the necessities.
No, that's everything you need in life.
Right.
And ice cubes.
Right. So, okay, so here's our dilemma here. Up these stairs, you are also at risk of hitting your head.
Up here, it's too small. On the Airbnb description, I had to tell people, look, if you're over 6ft.
Tall, you're not gonna enjoy yourself.
Yeah. See, this is actually how most people see me. Probably most of the time I get recognized is when people look down at me. Like this angle. Yeah, I said, like, look, if you're over 6ft tall and you're over 200 pounds, you might not feel comfortable.
Yeah. So the bed takes up about. Whoa. Half the headspace that you have over here. Pretty fantastic. Now, on this side, it used to be another bedroom situation, but we gave the bed away and now it's an empty space. So we're trying to figure out what to do with it. I would welcome any and all suggestions because we don't really know yet. Okay.
Well, we were thinking potentially.
String lights would be cool.
It's kind of hard to do a seating area up there because, like, you sit on the floor and you still need to be hunched over, much less.
Like, it'd be cool to have like a work, business, office situation.
But, like, how is that comfortable?
I don't know. You need a beanbag, but a beanbag have to go in that far right corner because there's space for your head.
Yeah. Because whenever you sit, like, you're in this shape, you know, of your body.
Lower body, you have a window. You can put a beanbag in the corner next to the window, and then, like, look out and look at the hot tub.
Let us know what you should do with that. Any thoughts, comments, opinions? String lights are about as far as we got, like, the Edison bulb lights that we have in our living room that I set up two vlogs ago. If y' all haven't seen the last two vlogs, go see the last two vlogs. I have to make plugging the last vlog a traditional.
Should we go to the hot tub now? Morning, folks.
It is the next day. Check out that incredible view. Oh, and these blossoms. The trees are blooming right now. Super pretty. Figured we'd show you what the process is of maintaining the hot tub, which is right here. There's a hot tub, fire pit, couch situation. There's a Michael, there's some goats.
As I said before, they're Brianna's relatives because she's a goat.
What a nice lover.
This is chlorination 101. This is what you do when you use a hot tub infrequently, and you have no idea what you're doing. Very infrequently, you stick a bunch of tablets of chlorine in here, and then you tighten it up and you hope for the best. So we have a very sophisticated form of doing our chemicals here.
Wow.
And if you've ever wondered why I stuck to lawn here instead of full service, now you know. Okay, don't worry. I do actually measure the chemicals in the bowl, not get ahead of ourselves.
I don't remember if we talked about it in last night's clip, but we were trying to decide between Airbnb this place out and using it for personal sake. Right.
We're doing a little bit of both.
Yeah.
IR and the S can be happy. And we can get a deduction.
Hey, hey, Digital footprint. We're going to probably turn it into, like, a workspace.
That's the goal, I think. We make it, like, the best place in the world to work on the weekend, and then we sell this, like, 300 bucks a night. And if you're thinking that's impossible, we have a tulip festival that people fly from around this stinking country for. And I think we could easily get that per night. See, over here, this is where Augusta Long hair of Mount Vernon. Used to be. You can see the parking stops, and it was all fenced off. Beautiful spot. The problem is someone reported us, and so after a couple years, we had to move. But I think they moved like, 10, 15 minutes from here. I've never been in the new shop space. That's originally actually why I got this property is not because the Airbnb, not because the house that's in front that we rent out. It's because I was in the shop space for the Mount Vernon shop, which I own. And so it's kind of sad that we can't have it here anymore. Eventually, we'll need to figure out what to do with that space. Like if we have someone park the RV or boat.
They dehorned all the goats.
They what?
Dehorned the goats.
Goats. Poor fellas. Do you already show the vlogs? What's up, guys? You guys doing good? You hustling?
We are ending the vlog off pretty much just like how we did last time. We are at Whitby Coffee. This is our favorite coffee spot. Michael's critiquing their coffee right now. We just got a great hump manning time, and now we are about to do some. This is our Saturday routine morning workout, and then we go to a coffee shop of some sort.
That's right. Thank you. I haven't even tried this. What's your rating?
Well, I'm used to the honey one. The honey one's just so much better, guys.
So you want a new coffee order?
We honestly usually have nothing in it. Usually we just have straight.
You want a really good coffee order? I recommend doing an oat milk latte with honey and cinnamon.
Yeah, we haven't had one of those in, like, six months.
No, we haven't.
That's right. Consistency.
I hope you'll have a great day. Whenever you're watching this, do you have any words of positivity for them?
Make more money today than you did yesterday.
Have a better day today than you did yesterday.
Yeah, more money equals a better day.
I can't argue. Okay, bye, guys.
That's the idea.
You know, besides Vi peels, you also get your nose waxed.
Also wear your retainers. Oh, I'm fogging it up.










