[0:01]hi everyone good morning it's Friday
[0:03]morning here I'm just waking up it's
[0:06]only 7:30 in the morning sorry for my
[0:09]hair I'm still trying to figure out what
[0:11]to do with this mic I feel like you
[0:12]won't hear me without it it's kind of
[0:15]bulky I just I haven't figured out where
[0:17]to put
[0:19]it it's not working here so
[0:22]well anyways I wanted to talk today
[0:26]about what helped me to get over my fear
[0:28]of living the RV
[0:31]lifestyle and start my YouTube channel
[0:33]it's actually the the reason is the same
[0:35]for both
[0:37]so about just one or two days before I
[0:41]posted my first video I went to a
[0:44]dealership and I was supposed to come
[0:46]back there was an RV there that I was
[0:48]going to buy and I was supposed to come
[0:50]back the very next day basically to to
[0:54]buy it to do the
[0:55]paperwork and I went
[0:57]home and I just started thinking about
[1:00]what that life would look
[1:02]like and I got overwhelmed with fear I
[1:05]started thinking about what am I going
[1:06]to do when I get to a gas station you
[1:09]know how am I going to navigate that
[1:11]situation how am I going to find places
[1:14]to go camping just everything about it
[1:17]just felt countered to how I'd been
[1:19]living my life and it just seemed like a
[1:21]lot to try to take on but I knew that
[1:24]this lifestyle would work for me that
[1:26]it's what I needed it's what I
[1:28]wanted and I just I had to come up with
[1:30]a way to overcome the fear and that's
[1:33]what led me to YouTube I just did a
[1:36]search something like RV life you know
[1:39]fear of driving like I think that's what
[1:41]I put in there and somehow I ended up on
[1:44]a channel called carolin's RV
[1:47]life I spent the next eight hours
[1:50]watching this person All Night
[1:54]Long by the I was still watching in the
[1:57]morning when my mom woke up from
[1:58]sleeping all night I was still watching
[2:00]her I just watched video after video
[2:02]after
[2:03]video and as I watched her I I feel like
[2:08]I overcame a lot of my fears first of
[2:11]all she's really fun to watch she's very
[2:13]enjoyable to
[2:14]watch but even beyond that I was
[2:18]watching things that she wasn't like
[2:22]like deliberately trying to share with
[2:24]us like I was watching her drive or I
[2:26]was you know I was watching like how big
[2:28]is her RV you know like like like I was
[2:31]looking at things beyond what she was
[2:33]presenting like I was trying I was
[2:37]analyzing just everything just you know
[2:40]try to bring my level of fear down and I
[2:45]just thought to myself look at her doing
[2:47]this like she's been doing it for years
[2:48]and years she's driving the same size as
[2:51]mine and like if she can do it you know
[2:55]I can do it if somebody else can do
[2:57]something I can do it and then you add
[2:59]the layer she's a woman she's single
[3:01]she's on the road by
[3:03]herself um I mean that takes a lot of
[3:06]bravery and it has to be I imagine it
[3:09]has to be scary at times and yet she's
[3:12]still doing it you know year after year
[3:14]after year you know by the time I I
[3:16]found
[3:17]her I assume you guys know her I mean if
[3:20]you're watching me you know her right so
[3:23]by the time I found her she'd been doing
[3:24]this for seven years and so I just watch
[3:29]a lot videos of her like going all the
[3:33]way back to the beginning you know there
[3:34]were some some of my favorites were like
[3:36]the ones where she wrapped up what her
[3:38]you know that particular year was like
[3:40]for her like you know like a year one
[3:42]review or year two or year five or year
[3:44]seven you
[3:45]know um I saw her on the beach you know
[3:49]just drived her RV up to the beach and
[3:51]just she was on the beach I saw her
[3:54]exploring ghost towns driving her RV you
[3:56]know all over these ghost towns just
[3:59]navigating
[4:01]stores you know doing laundry like just
[4:04]so many different things and then the
[4:06]more I watch her the more I felt like
[4:09]okay this is something I can do like
[4:10]this is something I can get a handle on
[4:12]and
[4:13]do and it is because of her I it is
[4:17]because of her that
[4:19]I went back to that
[4:22]dealership and went back there with a
[4:25]different attitude like I knew at that
[4:27]point that not only did I want to do
[4:29]this but I I had more confidence that I
[4:32]could do this and I just kept pushing
[4:35]ahead cuz I knew any fears that I was
[4:37]having they would dissipate as long as I
[4:40]just did it like I had to just I had to
[4:43]kind of push that faar side and just do
[4:45]it anyways
[4:47]and it made all the difference in the
[4:50]world watching her that night all night
[4:55]long it made it so
[4:57]that I had the confidence to move
[5:01]forward and I if you if you see this
[5:04]Caroline thank you so much for your
[5:06]channel because so much of what you
[5:09]share what makes it
[5:11]possible for people like me to do what
[5:15]you're doing to just give us the sense
[5:18]of confidence like I've been saying to
[5:21]do it you know and I really I really
[5:23]enjoy watching your channel I think that
[5:25]you are authentic and you just share
[5:28]your experience is like I'm doing on my
[5:32]channel I just think you you inspired me
[5:36]you really inspired me it's because of
[5:38]that Channel that I I posted my first
[5:40]YouTube video I I don't exactly know how
[5:44]like I just know that if I hadn't been
[5:46]watching her all
[5:48]night when I finally reached the
[5:50]decision yes I'm doing this in fact I do
[5:53]think it might have
[5:54]been that very next day that I posted my
[5:57]video like I watched her the whole night
[5:59]before
[6:01]I know that the two are linked together
[6:04]they they just are I I never imagined
[6:06]myself on camera especially looking the
[6:08]way I do right now and I
[6:12]just I guess I'm really grateful because
[6:15]it gave me the sense that I could just
[6:18]be myself on here tell my truth just
[6:21]talk and there will be some people out
[6:24]there who would want to hear would want
[6:26]to share in that Journey with me because
[6:29]lot of you do Shar and Caroline's and
[6:32]I'm one of them now I want to say one
[6:34]other thing I
[6:37]have since then you know it's been 3
[6:39]weeks a little more than that and I've
[6:42]started to see other videos and I
[6:44]haven't watched them I've just seen the
[6:45]titles and I I've seen her talk about it
[6:49]too she gets a lot of abuse on here
[6:53]um probably other places too but she
[6:56]definitely gets a lot of it on YouTube
[6:58]there there are videos about her that
[7:01]are basically just disparaging her which
[7:03]is just
[7:04]wrong if you don't like her then just
[7:07]watch someone else why are you making
[7:09]videos about about her like why are you
[7:12]doing that if I had the number of
[7:16]followers she does looking the way I do
[7:18]with no teeth I would get 5% of the
[7:21]abuse she does a lot of it is just
[7:23]because she's a woman I have seen it
[7:25]over and over and over again on every
[7:28]type of social media platform
[7:30]I don't get a lot of
[7:32]abuse ever women get it all the time and
[7:36]like we as a society have got to do
[7:38]something about that because it is not
[7:40]fair that they have to navigate all of
[7:44]that just just to share with you online
[7:47]you know it just it's crazy to me it's
[7:49]wrong it's just super
[7:52]wrong that's really I want to share
[7:55]Carolyn's harv life I assume you know
[7:57]her you know if you're watching me you
[7:59]know
[8:00]her I spent a whole night watching her
[8:03]and by the time I was done I had a
[8:06]newfound confidence that I could embark
[8:08]on this
[8:10]journey and start a YouTube channel I I
[8:13]don't know how I happened it just
[8:14]started did and I am so grateful thank
[8:16]you Carolyn thank you to you everyone
[8:19]who was watching just thank you for
[8:21]listening love you
[8:23]guys