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hey everyone David with the freeze dry
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business Channel hey this is my 100th
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video I'm super excited that I made it
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to this huge milestone because I started
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this channel back on August 19th of
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2022. it's only been a year but it's got
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my really really fast and I published my
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first video you can check that out it
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was the how to freeze dry High Shoes
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video that I launched on July 29th now
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the whole reason I created this Channel
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and how it's evolved to today is I
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wanted to create in video format things
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that I had learned but also that I'm
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currently doing in my freeze-dried
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business here in Idaho my business is
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called the freeze dry Depot now I
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started it in 2020 some of you have seen
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my Vlogs where I've done a couple of
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videos of a day in the life of a free
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stripe business owner but if you haven't
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watched those yet basically I started in
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2020 with a friend of mine and we were
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looking at some ways to build some side
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and my friend suggested the freeze dryer
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because he had had some friends who are
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doing some more you know prepper type
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style freeze drying and so we looked up
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on Etsy we found some people doing some
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freeze-dried candy thought it'd be fun
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split the cost of the freeze dryer and
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basically paid for the freeze dryer
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started getting wholesale clients got
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into a commercial kitchen uh my friend
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is no longer part of the company but I
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was mutual and I just wanted to start it
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up again and that was all last year in
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the summer and one of the things I
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wanted to do was I didn't feel like I
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was documenting enough videos of how to
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start a freeze dry business how the
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things are going on what is going on in
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the free trip is what types of things am
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I thinking about and what type of things
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could I share with other people that
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could be more generalized then I know
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that there's a lot of state-specific
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things and requirements but there are
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some things that just you want to know
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about and that's why I've catered to
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people who are wanting to start a
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freeze-dried business or have already
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started one and they just want to level
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up or just learn more and see what else
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that people are doing so whether you're
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in cottage food or you haven't started
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the business yet or you're in a
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commercial or industrial site I hope all
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the content has been relative now I did
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pull some stats and some summaries of
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where my Channel's been so if you're
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interested in this here we go now I've
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done 35 videos so far that are like this
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the long form type videos that are full
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of really informative content I've also
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posted 65 shorts 65 shorts throughout
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this whole entire year so that's a total
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of 100 including this video I'm now at
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as of this video about 7 400 subscribers
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which I can't believe believe me
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starting a YouTube channel is very
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mentally challenging because I was
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putting out a lot of videos I don't
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think I even had 300 subscribers up
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until about January of 2023 so I spent
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almost five to six months with very
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little people that I thought were taking
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a look at my videos and also it's just
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kind of gained a lot of traction and I'm
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so thankful for all of you who have
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subscribed and shared the videos and
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just been very appreciative of what I'm
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putting out now you might be asking
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yourself you know what is next with the
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YouTube channel which is I wanted to
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start collaborating with more YouTube
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channels and people in the industry and
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that's why I've got this creative freeze
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drying Series where I've been
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interviewing different freeze-drying
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businesses who are doing unique things
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but also freeze drying equipment
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supplies I'm actually in contact with a
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lot of YouTube people who are in the
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freeze drying homesteading freeze-drying
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space and so if you know of anybody that
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you think that would be great for me to
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interview I would love to do that I've
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been having a lot of fun with it and
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I've got a lot of things rolling out
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that are going to be very exciting and
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so I'm planning on posting at least one
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of those interviews every single month
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also what's next is I'm still going to
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stick to my weekly video I'm going to
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try to be as consistent as possible
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posting one video a week I try to post
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those on weekends at my best sometimes I
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get a little bonus video uh during the
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week now next on my list is I am working
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on a website you can actually go to the
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website right now it's
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freezdrivebusiness.com and what I'm
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going to be doing is just posting more
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of the written form of what I'm
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communicating on YouTube but also some
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other types of information as well as if
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you want to be a subscriber and send me
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your email address I'm going to be
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starting to put together a newsletter
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that's going to have really informative
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things that I'm only going to send to
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those email people uh that subscribe so
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that's upcoming also I really would like
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to activate more live streams live video
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on YouTube and do more some q a so I
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might have a topic that we can talk
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about and then you can join that live
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stream and talk in real time to me and
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I'll answer those questions live as well
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as maybe do just a little talking point
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those are the things that I'm excited
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about implementing for the YouTube
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channel as well as some of the things
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that have already started today please
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remain a subscriber make sure you hit
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the Bell notification on your subscriber
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for my channel so you get pinged once
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those videos come out and those live
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streams things like that thank you all
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very much for the comments the emails
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the likes all the different sharing
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that's going on for my videos I really
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really do appreciate it and I hope to
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bring more and more informative content
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for you that can help you in your freeze
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dry business help you become a better
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entrepreneur and help you just kind of
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grow what you want to achieve so until I
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see you again in my next video take care
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God bless we'll see you again next time
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on the freeze Drive business Channel
