My father gave me my first laptop in 2014, for studies. I needed money — a lot of money — and I knew I could not make it in the offline market, because I had no resources and no skills. But a laptop, internet, and time felt like enough.

In 2016 I started a YouTube channel about kids and parenting. I had no expertise in it at all. One video went viral — “solution to stubborn child” — and got 250,000 views. Over the next two years the channel reached 15,000 subscribers. It’s down to 13,000 now, because I abandoned it. It gave me a few AdSense payments and nothing else, and I needed a lot more than that.

Since then: SEO content writing for local clients, an office in Manawala, Etsy SEO on Fiverr, a team I trained myself, 250 students, offices opened and closed, a team that left, and now an Etsy shop I run alone. Ten years, and around $200,000.

I will tell all of it properly, one piece at a time.

The real question is why I never shared any of it, and why I am starting now.

Honestly, I was shy. I was not comfortable sharing. I kept thinking I was not at the point where I could tell anyone anything — that I had to be successful first, and then I could speak.

I don’t think that anymore. I don’t need a result to share with you. I need a journey to share.

When someone goes on holiday, they share the journey, and we enjoy it. Nobody waits until they get home to say anything. This is the same. I work, I share, I learn, you learn.

So I will share all of it — what worked, what didn’t, what failed, why it failed, and what I learned.