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For the last few weeks Cindy and I have been staying up way too late many nights watching yet another quality Netflix produced show, House of Cards.  We finished up the 3rd season on Tuesday night.  Netflix’s self serve tv series format can be a blessing and a curse.  Yes it is awesome being able to chain watch episodes but from a sleep perspective, the traditional once a week show format is much more agreeable.

Like I mentioned yesterday, we plan to have a variety of different categories of videos on Cindy’s YouTube channel, including exercise, cooking, baking, and chickens.  One other category we are going to mess with is eating stunts, a VERY popular genre on YouTube.  There are TONS of eating stunt channels and many of them do very well, however they are almost all males doing the eating.  Having a female subject themselves to various food challenges is a sparsely populated area.

Cindy likes spicy food, I routinely challenge her to try various hot sauces on a dare basis.  We figured having her try it on tape would equal some fun.  I bought a small container of ghost pepper powder to be used in her first challenge.  Ghost peppers are some of the hottest peppers in the world.  Don’t be surprised if you see me participating as well.  Even though I am not a fan of hot stuff, I’m not afraid to throw my hat in the ring.  The worse I react to it, the funnier it is.

Thanks to the wonders of being a local government employee I get tomorrow off since the 4th of July falls on Saturday, giving me a three day weekend.  I have that backed up by three more days off when I travel up to Philly on Monday for the RunSignUp users conference.

It will be a whirlwind trip.  The conference starts on Monday at 11.  I am only flying out Monday at 6AM.  The conference ends Wednesday afternoon and I will be flying out that evening.  I decided to only utilize public transportation for the trip, skipping the expense of a rental car.  There is a chance my buddy Troy might come down Tuesday night so we can hang out but other than that, I will be in and out of my old home state like a ninja.

Over the last few days Cindy and I have been working on getting her own YouTube channel launched.  We named the channel Fit Farm Chick, looking for something unique and catchy.  I sort of suggested the idea to Cindy as one way for her to supplement her income.  Fit women on YouTube always seem to do very well, we figured in addition to exercise themed videos Cindy also could also post cooking, baking, gardening, and chicken related clips as well.

Cindy’s main job has been to produce the raw footage.  My role is to edit/produce the videos and get the channel up and monetized.  Yesterday she got final approval on her AdSense account, meaning her monetized videos on her channel now will start earning her a few pennies per view.  I have a marginally successful YouTube channel that has nearly 600,000 views and 750 subscribers that makes on average between $75 and $100 a month. I am hoping to leverage what I have learned to give Cindy’s channel a head start to success.

Cindy has always claimed that she was camera shy but the videos she has done the last few days have been solid.  Outside of a few logistical issues she comes off well and her personality shines through.   It will be a cool challenge to see how we can build the channel.  I also snagged the fitfarmchick.com domain name which for now forwards to her existing web site.

If you want to check it out go here.  Be sure to thumbs up and subscribe to her channel if you find it funny, entertaining, or informative.

Check out her latest video below 🙂