Miles Teller was paid roughly $8,000 after taxes for the lead role in Whiplash in 2014. A tiny indie film that cost just over $3 million to make and grossed close to $50 million. He had no big backend deal, no massive profit share. He took the role early in his career for exposure, not money. Pure grind to prove his skills in front of what might have been almost no audience at all. The film was a hit. It earned 5 Oscar nominations, including a Best Supporting Actor win for J.K. Simmons. Flash forward 8 years to Top Gun: Maverick in 2022. Teller receives a reported $3.5 million for his role as Lt. Bradshaw. Aspiring Creators, there is a lesson here: 👉 Put in the time. 👉 Pay your dues. 👉 Prove your skills in front of a potential audience. 👉 Bet on yourself even when there isn’t a lot of money involved. 👉 Don’t give up. Success creates opportunity. Money usually comes after you’ve earned your spot, not before. There are rarely any shortcuts, usually just a lot of hard work. 👊😎

⚠️ SCAM WARNING!! ⚠️ If you get an email like this, THIS IS NOT ME! I never randomly email anyone in the community unsolicited. Anything I have going on will be posted clearly here, on my channel in videos or on my YouTube Community Tab or posted directly on website danielbatal.com. If you get an email like this, report it as spam and block the sender. Thanks to the community for letting me know about this and a very special thanks to @jayradio for sending me the screen shots. ❤️ Stay vigilant 👊😎

Don't sleep on YouTube Community Posts. They’re content, just like posting on X/Twitter. Use them to engage your community in ways your videos sometimes can’t. Strong engagement builds a strong community. And strong viewer behavior signals help YouTube to decide whether to surface your channel and content more often to the people who actually interact with you. ℹ️ Remember: YouTube limits Community Post notifications to roughly one every 3 days per channel (for subscribers with notifications on). Use them wisely and strategically. ☮️

Our pal @BrianGJohnsonTV dropped a great video giving his thoughts on why so many channels are wrestling with being demonetized on @YouTube. His take is definitely worth consideration. 👉 youtu.be/FiRd2iBDlLA?si=jgpH…

For any of my guitar geek friends, I'm giving this a big thumbs-up. It's a small company called Towner (@townerusa) and they make it really easy to add a classic Bigsby vibrato tailpiece onto a variety of guitars. I put this one onto a Sire Larry Carlton H7. The guitar itself is already really affordable (about $800 USD) and for another $260, they sent everything I needed, including the Bigsby itself, their signature down tension bar which replaces the stop tailpiece and their website even walked me through which specific pieces (larger spring and metric tailpiece mounting studs) I would need to install it onto this type of guitar. No mods or new holes in the guitar itself. The Bigsby mount installs right where the straplock screw was installed. So, for a little over $1,000, you get a pretty sweet late '60s ES-335/Bigsby B7 clone. Plays great, sounds great, looks great. ☮️ (not a sponsor)

This truly is the secret to success on so many levels. How you approach the start of your day sets the tone for the rest of it. ☮️

1. Select audio track 2. Effects > Add Emotion 3. Set to “Angry” Now back to my ‘every feature on every page in extreme detail for beginners’ video.

Sure. Let me get right on that. 😳

Welp, that’s done. Add it to the collection 😁

Huge shoutout to @YouTubeInsider and @Daniel_Batal for their help and support last year. A little over a year ago, my AdSense account was mistakenly banned. Daniel and Rene, you helped get a real human to look at it and give me my channel back. I had around 5k subs back then, now I just passed 100k and am starting to make a real living with my channel. Thank you sooooo much Daniel and Rene!!!

I’m at Carter’s Vintage Guitars, talk me off the ledge or push me off, @ElmoresMusicLab! 😜

If this image makes perfect sense to you, you've got color management figured out. 👊😎 If this is absolutely confusing, let me help make a little more sense of it. Learn more here 👉 youtu.be/_44W2PP4kJY

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Okay, this is definitely cool 😎 Blackmagic Design's Fairlight Live is out in public beta and it's completely free! Whether you're a live streamer, podcaster, or professional audio mixer, you seriously need to check this out. Fairlight Live is a software-based mixer that supports spatial audio mixing and SMPTE 2110 broadcast workflows. It even offers full redundancy. For video podcasts with multiple cameras, mics, mix-minus feeds, and live switching, Fairlight Live gives you a fully integrated audio and video workflow. It can easily handle hundreds or even thousands of audio channels, depending on your system. Plus, it works with standard computer audio or USB audio from ATEM live production switchers. Learn more here: blackmagicdesign.com/product…