AI isn't coming for you. It's coming for the version of you that was never really you in the first place. Here's a number that should make you stop and think. 85% of people worldwide are disengaged in work. 85%.
That means only 15 out of every 100 people actually feel alive in what they do every single day. And yet we keep showing up, keep trading our time, our energy, our best years of life for what exactly?
Some of you watching this are still in that job, showing up every day on autopilot, doing the work that stopped challenging you years ago, waiting for something to change. And some of you just got laid off.
And that's a terrifying place to be. I've been in both situations or both of those people. And you wanna know what I think? If AI is coming for your job, good riddance.
Not because I want anyone to suffer, but because we already are.
And what's waiting on the other side is so much better. So if you are ready to be inspired by the AI movement, stick around because this video might just change the trajectory of your life like getting laid off did for me. Hey. I'm Alexa Saranoia, if we haven't met, and I help people turn their passion into profit with YouTube. So it's time to move.
Seriously, right now. Not someday. Not in a decade. Jobs are disappearing. Industries are restructuring. Companies are replacing roles with software that cost a fraction of a human salary and never call in sick. And the people who are being let go aren't the slackers. They're the loyal ones, the hardworking ones, the ones who showed up every day, gave everything they had, and trusted that the institution would take care of them in return. I was one of those people. When I got laid off, I was in shock. I felt stabbed in the heart. I had built so many connections with the students over the years, and I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye. I had worked through every vacation. I had worked through giving birth twice because I knew we lived in a competitive and replaceable world, and I was afraid of what would happen if I took a break or stopped. I had given everything to that job, and it let me go like that anyway.
And for a while, it darkened my heart. It really did until I realized it was exactly what I needed to let go of to be more.
The question I want you to sit with right now is this. Are you going to wait until the decision is made for you like it was for me? I got laid off. Or are you going to make it yourself?
Because here's the other side of this conversation that nobody in the AI doom and gloom world is talking about. Yes. Jobs are disappearing.
Yes. The world is changing faster than most people can process. But at the exact same moment that that door is closing, another one is opening, wide open. And it has never been more open than it is right now. The tools exist today to take everything you know, everything you've lived, everything you've learned the hard way and turn it into income to build an audience around your ideas,
to create a community of people who need exactly what you have to offer, to get paid not despite who you are, but because of who you are. You can get paid to exist, and that's what we're talking about today.
But here's the thing about windows of opportunity.
They don't stay open forever. The platforms are already getting more crowded. The noise is already getting louder, and every day you wait is a day someone else in your space is showing up building trust, claiming the audience that could have been yours. The stakes aren't just financial or career related. It's about whether you spend the next decade building something on your own or spending it hoping nobody notices you're replaceable.
Two years ago, I was laid off with no plan. I had spent nearly a decade as an architecture professor. I had given that job everything. And when it ended, I had no idea what was gonna come next. I just knew I didn't wanna work for anyone else ever again.
So I started making videos on YouTube. And within three months, I was making money. But honestly, that wasn't even the most important thing that happened to me. The most important thing was that I became alive again with just one video. The act of creating, of showing up, and sharing something real stripped away the dullness, the monotony, and the quiet misery that had been building for years. Now I spend my days writing and filming and helping other people do exactly what I'm doing, make a living from just being themselves.
And I'm not saying it's easy. It takes work. It's a full time thing. Nobody is handing you anything in this realm, but my mind is sharper and more active and more inspired and more excited than it has been in years. I am constantly buzzing with ideas. I'm growing on a personal level faster than I ever have before, traversing from one version of myself to another, becoming more rather than becoming less with every passing month. There is nothing dull about this content creator life. Nothing. And I'm not here as someone who figured it all out from a place of comfort and privilege. I'm here as someone who got pushed off the ledge and had no idea how to fly and discovered on the way down that I could. And if I can, so can you. Now I want to address what's coming up in your mind right now about considering getting on YouTube or continuing if you're already on YouTube. You're probably thinking,
my job is not that bad. I mean, it could be worse. At least I have a job. At least the money is steady. At least I know what I'm walking into every Monday morning. Other people have it so much harder. Who am I to complain? Or perhaps you're thinking, the timing isn't right. The kids are small. The mortgage isn't paid off. I'll think about this when things settle down, when I have more savings, when I have more time, when life is a little less chaotic.
And then there's the YouTube thing specifically. I wouldn't even know where to start with the technical side of things, the cameras, the editing, the algorithms.
It's like a whole another world, and I'm already exhausted. How could I possibly learn that right now? And another thought that comes up a lot is, who's going to watch me anyway? I'm not an expert. I'm not a guru. I'm just a regular person who has lived a regular life and made their mistakes along the way. What do I have to say that anyone can actually benefit from? And besides, this is another big one. I'm too old to be starting something like this. That's for the young people, for the 20 with their ring lights and energy drinks and nothing to lose. Not for someone like me at this stage of life. And another thought that keeps you from starting, I'm not charismatic enough. I'm not interesting enough. I don't have the right look or the right voice or the right personality for camera. You have to be a certain type of person to do this. I'm just not that person.
So what do you do? You put your head down. You power through, and you go back to work. You tell yourself, this is just what life looks like, and you keep going. And you stay in the same situation. Nothing changes.
Sound familiar?
I want to close the door on every single one of these limiting beliefs because I've heard them all, and I want to show you why none of them are actually true. So let's start with the most common one. It's not that bad. Your job is a job, and you're lucky you have it. You're right. It's not that bad. But here's the thing about not that bad. It's one of the dangerous places that a human being can live because it's just comfortable enough to stay, just uncomfortable enough to quietly hollow you out, not bad enough to force a change, not good enough to actually fulfill you. It's the place where years become decades, and one day you look up and wonder where your life went.
Not that bad is the enemy of extraordinary.
And
the the comment about, like, other people have it worse, of course, they do. Of course, there's someone worse off than you. But other people having it worse than you doesn't mean that has to be your ceiling. You are allowed to want more than just survive. You're allowed to have a life that lights you up.
And if you're saying the timing isn't right, the kids, the mortgage, the responsibilities,
I wanna be gentle here because I know this one is real. I had small children when I started. I had a mortgage, and I had bills to pay. And I understand the weight of that responsibility.
But here is what I want you to consider.
There will never be a perfect time ever. The kids will get older, and then there will be school fees to pay. The mortgage will get smaller, and then something will break in your house, and you'll need to fix it. Life will always give you a reason to wait. The question isn't whether the timing is perfect. The question is whether you can afford to keep waiting because the world is not pausing while you do. The technical side is too complicated. If you think the technical side of doing YouTube is too complicated, because I hear this one a lot, I wanna be honest with you. Yes. There is a learning curve, but we live in a world where you can learn absolutely anything
from AI or on YouTube for free, including how to use YouTube. So if you can send an email or take a picture with your phone, you can do YouTube. I can promise you that. And the technical side is a skill, and skills are learnable. This is not the barrier you think it is. It just feels like one because it's unfamiliar,
and unfamiliar is not the same as impossible. And the other thought that comes up where you think nobody will listen to me. I'm not an expert. Here's what I know for certain. After two years of doing this and working with hundreds of people,
there is someone out there right now, probably thousands of someones, living a version of what you have already lived through, who need to hear exactly what you have to say in exactly the way that you say it. Not a polished expert with a PhD and a publishing deal, a real human who has been where they are and found a way through. That person doesn't need the world's foremost authority. They need someone who gets it, someone who has lived it, someone like them. You don't teach from the mountaintop.
You reach back from wherever you are on the path, you help the person one step behind you. That is the whole job, and you are already qualified to do it. Now the comment about I'm too old to start something new. This one makes me want to stand on a table and scream because the data tells a completely different story. Do you know who the fastest growing demographics on YouTube right now is?
People 40.
Why? Because they have something that no 20 year old with a ring light has. They have lived experience. They have perspective. They have survived things. They have learned things the hard way. They have the wisdom that can only come from having actually lived a life. That is not a disadvantage on YouTube. That is your greatest asset right now. And if you think about it, who do you trust more? Someone who read about something in a book or someone who has actually lived it? Your age is not a liability. It's your credibility.
Now that thought about I'm not charismatic enough or I'm not interesting enough or, uh, I don't have the right look or right voice. I will happily challenge that idea until the cows come home. Because I have seen the most unlikely
people build the most loyal audience on YouTube. Quiet people, introverted people, people who would never describe themselves as charismatic or entertaining, people who just showed up consistently and shared something real and honest and useful. And their audiences found them, not despite who they were, but because of who they were. People are exhausted by performance. They are exhausted by polished and perfect and curated. They don't trust anyone.
So what they are desperately hungry for is real, authentic,
human, flawed, and honest, and genuinely trying.
That is not a bar you need to be clear. And here's the thing that ties all of these together.
Every single one of these fears, the timing, the age, the charisma, the expertise, the technical stuff, every single one of them is really saying the same thing underneath.
I'm not enough. Not yet. Maybe someday, but not yet. And I wanna tell you something that took me a long time to believe for myself.
You are already enough.
You have always been enough. The world just spent a very, very, very long time convincing you otherwise.
And that brings me to the most important reframe of this entire video. For centuries,
survival required you to become less of yourself.
For the first time in human history, becoming more of yourself is the survival strategy.
Let me explain. I want you to think about this. For the past few hundred years, the deal has been the same. You take who you are, your quirks, your passions, your ideas, your way of seeing the world, and you sand them down, and you make yourself smaller, more manageable, more palatable, more employable.
You fit yourself into a box that someone else designed, and you stay in that box, and you call it a career. And for most of that time, you didn't have a choice. The factory needed workers. The corporation needed employees. The institution needed people who followed the rules. And if you wanted to eat, you complied. You conformed. You became less of yourself in exchange for a salary. That was the deal. Fit in or struggle.
And we internalized it so deeply that most of us don't even realize we're doing it anymore. We just assume that's what work looks like. We assume that's what being a responsible adult means. We assume that the part of us that lights up, the creative part, the curious part, the passionate part, that that part is for the weekend, for the hobbies,
for someday.
I remember my first job out of college. I was so excited about it. I was a researcher spending my days staring at Excel spreadsheets.
Worst job ever for me. And on top of it, I wasn't even allowed to wear my nose ring to work, and I had to dress professionally.
And I know that sounds small. It sounds like the entrance fee, but it didn't feel small to me at the time. It felt like they were chipping away at my identity piece by piece. And I remember complaining about it to the administrative assistant. I said, I don't even see anyone all day long. I just stare at a computer screen. Why does it matter if I have a nose ring in or not? Why can't I just be myself? And she looked at me with a straight face, and she said, oh, girl, you have a lot to learn. At least you get to be your color. I have to pretend to be white just to keep this job. And I didn't understand at first what she meant, and then she explained.
Every time her friends called her at work, they mocked her because she had on her white voice.
A whole different version of herself had to exist,
performed every single day at a job just to be accepted, just to be safe, just to survive in a professional environment. She had to be white,
and she was black.
That wasn't built for her. And I just started to see it everywhere after that. How much of ourselves we quietly surrender just to be considered professional,
just to fit in, just to make a dollar. But here's the thing, not anymore.
It's brilliant.
It's a brilliant time right now. Now we can show up as ourselves and get paid as we are. You probably don't care less if I show up to my videos with my tattoos showing. And if it does bother you, you won't watch. And that's completely fine. That doesn't mean I can't be myself.
It just means I don't appeal to you. No harm, no foul. For the first time, I feel like I need to stand up.
I get to be the full version of myself, and so do you. And really hear the implications of that. I mean, on a deeper world shift level. If I can be myself and get paid and you can be yourself and get paid, you no longer have to pretend to be who you are. You don't have to spend your days pretending to be white. I mean, really wrap your head around that. Because how do we feel when we are not accepted? How do we feel when all day we have to be someone we are not just to sustain life and pay our bills?
It is such a big movement happening
right now below all of this social media that I am so super excited about.
And this is the part that the fear mongering AI conversation is completely missing.
We are in the middle of the biggest identity revolution in human history.
Seriously,
for the first time since the hunting and gatherer age, when nature literally paid you with food and shelter just for showing up and being you, you can get paid to exist, to be fully, completely, unapologetically
yourself.
Think about that. In those early days of human history, you didn't need a degree or certification or LinkedIn profile. You showed up. You contributed what you uniquely had to offer, and you are part of a community that valued you for the exactly for that. And that was enough. And then we traded it for industrialization
and institutions and the promise of security. We became interchangeable, replaceable, cogs in someone else's machine.
And now, right now, at this beautiful moment in time, that machine is becoming automated. And instead of that being the catastrophe
that everyone is telling you it is, I want you to see it for what it actually is. It's an invitation to come home to yourself.
Because what AI cannot do, what no algorithm, no language model, no robot will ever be able to replace is to be you.
Live your life. Think your thoughts. Feel your feelings. Navigate your struggles. Share your hard won wisdom with another human being who is standing exactly where you once stood and desperately needs to hear
what you need to say to get out of it. AI can generate content.
Yes.
But it cannot generate humanity.
And humanity, real, lived, embodied, flawed,
beautiful humanity
is about to become the most valuable thing on the Internet.
We are not entering the age of artificial intelligence. We are entering the age of authentic humanity.
And the people who lean in to who they actually are rather than away from it, those are the people who are going to thrive in this next era.
That is the shift. That is what is available to you right now,
not despite the AI revolution because of it. You don't have to fit into someone else's tribe anymore.
For the first time in human history, you can build your own tribe around your own ideas, your own experience, your perspective, your passions,
and people will find you and follow you because they are out there right now searching for exactly what only you can give them. How amazing is that?
And I call this being a truth rebel, someone who refuses to keep shrinking, who decides that their experiences, their wisdom, their voice is worth sharing, who steps into the most radical act available to human being right now, being completely,
unapologetically,
authentically
yourself.
And
here's the brilliant part, getting paid for it.
I'm living proof that this is happening, and there's a gazillion other content creators out there that can also be proof for you, or even on YouTube or Instagram or TikTok, all over the place. And by the way, I'm so excited to announce this. I'm currently building a community called the YouTube truth rebels,
full of people who dare to dream big and get paid wildly for it by just being themselves
and create a positive impact in the world, of course, as well. I'm living proof that this is happening, and there's a gazillion other examples on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok and LinkedIn.
So it's not a foreign concept. It's happening right now, and the door is wide open. Are you going to step through it, or are you going to keep doing what you're doing and eventually
just be let go?
So
here's what I want you to do today. Not tomorrow. Not when you feel ready today. I want you to write down the one thing you know from lived experience that someone else needs to hear. Not a video idea, not a content plan, not a channel strategy, just one truth that you have earned the hard way. One thing you wish someone had told you when you were standing where your future viewer is standing right now. It doesn't have to be profound or perfectly worded. It just has to be real, and it just has to be yours. Because that one thing is the seed of everything.
It's the first brick of the audience you're going to build on YouTube. It's the first step toward the life we've been talking about in this video. You don't need a camera yet. You don't need a channel yet. You don't need to figure out the algorithm or the thumbnails or the editing software. All of that comes later,
and all of it is learnable.
But right now, you just need to know what you have to say. And I promise you, you already know what it is. You've known it for years. You just haven't given yourself permission to say it yet.
So write it down today.
And if you wanna share it, drop it in the comments below because I read every single one, and I would genuinely love to know what your truth is. And here's why I want you to take this first step. Imagine waking up on a Tuesday morning, not a Friday, not a holiday, a regular Tuesday, and feeling genuinely
excited about the day ahead.
Not relieved it's almost the weekend, not dreading the commute or the meetings or the red tape or your inbox,
actually excited,
buzzing with ideas, curious about what you're going to create, who you're going to connect with, what you're going to discover about yourself today. That is not a fantasy. That is my Tuesday, and it can be yours too. And I wanna share a story about a client that I worked with. You might know her online as Fuzzylicious.
Her name is Jennifer, and she left a corporate job without a plan. No safety net, no clear next steps, just a knowing that she couldn't keep doing what she was doing anymore. She came to me not even knowing what her channel would be about. In fact, she had already started three of them. But she was a truth rebel through and through. She had something to give and a personality that had been quietly suffocating in a corporate environment for years. She started showing up on YouTube as herself fully, completely, unapologetically
herself.
Her bubbly energy, her warmth, her genuine love of people,
all those things that probably felt like too much in a boardroom became exactly the right amount on camera. She built an ASMR channel, and now she plays with slime all day, every day, making videos about it and getting paid for it. And her personality is positively impacting the lives of thousands of people who find comfort and joy in what she creates.
She didn't have a special advantage. She didn't have a huge following to start with. She didn't have it all figured out. She just decided to try. And then she showed up, and then she kept showing up. And here's what I want you to notice about that story.
The reward wasn't just financial.
Yes. She's building a business. Yes. She's making money doing something she loves. But the deeper reward, the one that matters more than any revenue figure at all, is that she gets to be herself. She got herself back, the real her, the version of her that had been waiting patiently underneath the corporate exterior for years finally got to come out and play. And that is what is waiting on the other side of this for you. Yes. It takes time. Yes. There will be moments of doubt and discomfort and the occasional video that gets 12 views and makes you question everything. Yes. You will have to learn things that feel unfamiliar and push through fears that feel very real. The sacrifice is real. I won't pretend it isn't. But here's what I know. After two years of living this life and watching others live it as well, once you start, once you take the first step forward, becoming more of yourself rather than less of yourself, something shifts. Your mind gets sharper. Your ideas get bigger. Your sense of what's possible expands in ways you cannot predict from where you're standing right now. You start growing faster on a personal level than you ever have in years. You find your people, the ones who get you, the ones who needed exactly what you have to offer. And one day, probably sooner than you think, you will get a message from a stranger, someone you have never met in a country you may never visit, telling you something that you said changed their life, that you, by you showing up, you had an impact on them. And in that moment, you will wonder why you waited so long to get started.
The sacrifice is time and courage up front. That's true. The return is a life that actually feels like yours.
For centuries, survival required you to become less of yourself, to fit in, to conform, to put on your white voice. Shout out to Tabitha, by the way. That era is dying.
Hallelujah.
We are living through the first moment in human history where becoming more of yourself is not just possible,
it is the strategy.
And that is what is available to you right now. And if you're already on YouTube doing the work, awesome. Keep going. If you aren't there yet, I hope this video convinces you to start.
Because you know the quote, become the change you want to see in the world? We can actually create the change that we want to live in by showing up and sharing more of ourselves.
Not less, more. Because the world you want to live in, it's waiting for you to help build it. And I wanna say one last thing before I go because it just popped into my mind. Tabitha,
that administrative
assistant
that I met over twenty years ago,
she's the only person that I remember from that job,
that I remember their name, that I remember their personality, that I remember having
conversations with.
The rest are a blur, and it's because the rest were always professional.
She was real with me. She had an impact on me,
and I will never forget her. So I want to emphasize that. I got to see her, the real her,
and I remember her 20,
twenty five years later.
Your words,
when they come from the true you,
have an impact like that that could lie last a lifetime for someone.
So this isn't, like, a small thing. I really want you to see how powerful this movement is and that I want to encourage you to join it because
you can live a completely different life if you put time and effort into growing your YouTube channel and changing the world.
Thanks for watching, and I can't wait for us to make a huge positive impact on this world together. See you in the next one. Bye for now.