Six Stars Only

Matt met Casey Neistat in Boston and asked him a simple question, "How do you decide to give up on a project and when do you decide to muscle through it anyways?"

We're talking about how MKBHD (AKA Maques Brownlee) went from an unknown creator to the dominant YouTube tech review channel with 6.5 million subscribers by sticking to 3 simple video types over a stretch of 1,000 videos.

We discuss how to streamline your editing workflow to create professional-looking videos that keep your viewers watching all the way to the end.

Another book review! This time we're unpacking the highlights from Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller and sharing why clear storytelling works as a sense-making device to grow your YouTube channel, business, or anything else.

Matt and Jake deconstruct the YouTube Channel "How Rich Are They" and discuss how we can add our own personal style and flair to their content.

We walk through the definitive guide to getting your videos found in organic YouTube search so you can get your videos found and build your subscribers — faster.

On this episode of Six Stars Only we're talking about how you don't need a million fans, you just need 1,000 True Fans. We're dissecting Kevin Kelly's amazing essay, "1,000 True Fans," and how we can apply it to our own lives to make a living off of our own videos.

We're taking a deep dive into Donald Glover's history and tracing his humble beginnings from one of the world's first breakout YouTube stars.

Matt and Jake dissect the popular YouTube channel Red Letter Media, why its so addicting and successful, and how they can apply the strategies they use to their own channels.

We’re sharing the best list of 100% free resources we've actually used to create videos that stand out from music to motion graphics.

On this weeks episode of Six Stars Only we're going to be talking about The ONE Thing, and how to use its lessons to carve out our time every day for compound results.

We explain where our podcast's name actually came from and how Matt and Jake started creating weird videos and ended up meeting in college.

We’re going to show you the quick and easy outlining trick we use to bring laser focus for short, impactful videos.

We're talking about how Jake wrote a 50,000 word novel and how you can use the storytelling and outlining lessons he learned to clarify your video creation process.

Today we're talking about the most common (and inexcusable) mistakes we see video creators making — and how we've stumbled into the right strategies and gear to cure them with minimal effort.

Matt and Jake deconstruct why the popular YouTube channel Looper is so addicting and how we can apply it to our own videos

If you don't want to be just another wannabe YouTube creator, writer, or podcaster with no following and no hope of making a difference, keep listening... Because we're in the same boat.