Ndubuisi ‘Andy’ Egwim recounts how a consultant (a psychiatrist) encouraged him to start a podcast and video channel. He launched on YouTube and, aided by an existing newsletter, attracted early interest (about 50 pre-launch subscribers and roughly 1,000 within the first 4–6 weeks). He describes disliking being on camera, using a simple phone setup, publishing weekly episodes and a newsletter.
But then one of the consultants, who is a psychiatrist, kept asking me, why don't you do a video? Why don't you do a podcast so we can listen to it on the way to work? So I learned the podcast, and within the first. So I started on YouTube, and within the first, before we did the first video, we got, like 50 subscribers waiting. So within the first six weeks, I think that was the first four weeks, we got a thousand subscribers on YouTube, which was helped by the fact that I had a newsletter. So I informed them about the podcast. So I thought, maybe there's something in this, but I hate being in front of cameras. You hate being in front of the camera? Because I've probably seen you every time, you know, you're in front of the camera. That's my alter ego. That's not me. Yeah. So basically, I started, set up, phone, different things, no special setup. Did the first one. The video is still there. It's horrible. It's embarrassing. But lots of people watched it. They seem to think it was valuable. And I've just released one every week since then, including a newsletter. I've.
