How I Turned Cycling Into a Career in Content Creation and Freelance Marketing – VisChange Podcast

Join me as I share my unconventional path from cycling enthusiast to content creation and freelance marketing success on the VisChange Podcast with Amon and Jonas. In this revealing conversation, we delve into my motivations for embracing fitness, the importance of stretching, both passively and actively, and so much more.

We’ll dive into my move to Germany and how it ignited a passion for marketing and social media, as well as hear my thoughts on the role of e-bikes in cycling culture.

There’s so much more to this discussion so head over to the VisChange Podcast and listen to the full episode!

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Hey guys, welcome to another video. Today is a very different kind of video that we’re doing because it’s kind of, well, it is a podcast and although this is my YouTube channel, I’m actually a guest on a podcast with two people that I’ve gotten to know from the local gym.

It’s an amazing gym. It’s called BodyFit and I want to introduce you guys to Amon and Jonas. So Amon, Jonas, why don’t you guys go ahead and introduce yourselves really quick. So my name is Amon. I’m 20 years old and everybody who knows me knows that I play football in the youth for

The American guys. It’s like soccer and my new passion is to make this podcast with you and us and train in the gym. That’s exactly how we know Amon. I’m Jonas. I’m very glad to be here. Very nice to be here, you guess, and also do the podcast in here.

I’m a trainer also, also personal trainer or nutrition coach and I do a lot of group fitness also. So a variety of different kinds of fitness stuff and also I play cello a little bit and so I do CrossFit style training for myself and I love to be in training mode.

I’m also eating good stuff. By the way, I feel a little bit hungry but I had this gear today so that’s fine. Yeah, and today we talk about a lot of topics and I’m very happy about every kind of information we will filter out or we bring to you today. Me too.

Yeah, very excited. Well, thank you guys for joining and let’s jump into it. I’m very glad to be here in your office. It’s very nice. Very good equipment here and very good atmosphere and I already saw that we can do pull-ups on your stairs. That’s true. Thank you.

I didn’t even realize that when I moved in here a year ago now but I will definitely say that I am the trainer. You have to sing it because I think copyright wouldn’t let us actually use the sounds. You guys know the song we’re talking about. My first question is what

Do you think about eBikes? Oh wow. Here we go. Right into the thick of it. First of all, thank you guys for inviting me onto the podcast because it’s something that I probably wasn’t going to do for a while. Because we’re working together already at the gym, you guys are constantly helping me

With all the different training tips that I need at the gym which I’m super grateful for by the way. Thank you. But to be in a space where we can freely talk about all these different things I think is really cool. I wanted to thank you guys again for the opportunity.

It’s a good honor for us. Maybe at the beginning for German listeners, Mitch is a no-mitch for content creating and for cycling stuff. We couldn’t have talked about the German community. Can you stand up for that? No, I can’t. I’m not the German one. Sorry for the English guys.

As a Mitch, I’m a bit of Instagram. The content is really good and I’m really happy to be here with you. And I’m really happy to be here with you. I’m going to do a YouTube, Instagram, and tell us a few things about you. Yeah, so we’ll get to the e-bike thing.

Of course, the version is open, but we can do it after that. Yeah, I mean in short, I do a lot on Instagram and on social media. I am originally from Los Angeles, California. I moved to Germany five years ago now, which is crazy. Yeah, it’s wild to be here now and go,

Wait a minute, I had a whole life before then. So I was working in the bike industry and I told myself, when I go to Germany, I’m going to just restart everything. I’m going to completely rebuild my life from the ground up. And that’s what I did.

And I based it around cycling, marketing, social media, and then kind of developed it into where I’m at now, which is kind of leading into more consulting and specific content creation for companies. So that’s, I guess, the premise of what I do. I’ve always been an athlete.

I was doing track and field in high school and college, loved it. But, you know, just the injuries, there were so many injuries and I wanted to work. So I said, I’m done. I’m leaving college. I’m going to leave sports and just start making some paper.

You know, because I wanted to live, I wanted to live life and that brought me here. What was your first contact with cycling after the track and field came? It was actually when I was about 14. So I started doing fixed gear cycling, fixed gear freestyle. So basically like BMX,

But just on a fixed gear. Did it for years, had tons of fun, saw, you know, people doing it all over the world. And like to me, that was super, super interesting. And that kind of led or that moved into my college days, high school and college days.

But I just couldn’t do it anymore because I was doing college sports. And college sports means if you get injured doing something outside, you’re not competing properly. So, and maybe for our audience, so fixed gear, what does it mean? Because we are not so into the cycling thing. Maybe you can explain it.

Fixed gear. So you have like your road bikes, you have your touring bikes, your normal bikes. Fixed gear bikes have one gear. So you have one chain ring on the front and then one smaller chain ring on the back. And the fixed part of it means that when

You pedal forwards, you go forwards. And when you put a backwards, it’ll also go backwards. So it’s literally fixed. It’s one chain that goes around the whole group set. And you can drive backwards also if you want. Yeah. Okay. So like, those are some of the tricks that we were doing as

We were riding backwards and doing all the BMX stuff, but just a little bit differently. And you also have track bikes, which are raced professionally in the Olympics, for example, Paris Olympics, 2024. That’s going to be very interesting. Okay. Yeah. I think also in the CrossFit world,

There’s also a lot more of cycling stuff about also track bikes and something. And it’s very funny to look at all the athletes with that much muscles and then they go crazy with all the bikes. First month, first of month? But you don’t do CrossFit. He’s I think on the sprint. Yeah.

Just the track sprint. And you have legs like this. This is crazy. Okay. It’s remarkable seeing what these guys can do on a bike and in the gym as well. Yes. What’s the fascinating thing about cycling for you? Cycling has so many different aspects to it that make it fascinating.

For me, I think it’s the fact that I’ve been able to literally travel across the world into multiple different countries and cities and have different experiences because of riding a bike. So it’s for me, you could say it was my path to freedom, which is a very loaded statement.

It’s a very intense thing to say, but cycling takes you away from being in a car. So you’re limited. When you’re in a car, you have to park somewhere. You can go further, right? But being in a car, you’re driving faster. You have to pay attention to the road,

Pay attention to drivers, pedestrians. Fuel everything. Fuel all those things. Yeah. Anything can broke any time. Exactly. Lay down and have to have to call from. Very interesting. When I was in Australia, I was nearly one year. I was there in 2013, I guess. It’s 10 years ago.

Oh my God, I’m so old. And there was a very famous road, I think it’s called Gibb River Road. And it’s very famous because there were also cyclists, but yeah, only with their bike and with a backpack. They had good equipment and they drove all the day through the road.

And then they slept near the road and the next day they woke up and go on. So it was very interesting to talk to these people. I was with the car there, but it was no good car because it broke then a few kilometers later. But it was a very…

Bikes over cars, man. Very good adventure. And I thought it’s very interesting to maybe drive only a bike and be more independent and free maybe. But I also thought maybe one bike of them was more worth than my Ford Mondeo I drove there. They can get pretty pricey.

Now there’s cycling, there’s road bikes, there’s professional road bikes, and then there’s what you would call a bespoke road bike. I don’t know what the German word for bespoke is, but super custom, high-end, maybe it’s even one of one. And these bikes will easily go into

20,000, 25,000 for a bike, for a bicycle. But let’s step one and step back. What was the first impression where you meet the bike or the bike meets you? What was the situation? Maybe you were five years old or something. So I grew up in Venice Beach, in particular from LA.

And I used to ride to the beach all the time with my dad, and it was on a bike. And we would just go ride up and down the boardwalk. And those moments, those memories are just so deeply ingrained in me from childhood. And that led to when the

Fixed gear craze was happening. And my God, when was that? 20, 2009, 10, 11, 12, these are my high school days. I’m kind of giving myself away now, how old I am. But that’s when I kind of changed into this fixed gear lifestyle. I left it, went to college, and then I

Went through a very, very, very dark period of my life. And this was like, you know those moments that define you? And not define you because of how dark that place was or those moments were, but because of what you did to get out of it. Right?

And these are those moments that really help you define your character. And a buddy of mine was working at a bike shop. And he goes, “Hey, you got to try mountain biking.” Okay. So I rented this piece of crap mountain bike. I mean, it was so bad.

And the guys on the beach said, “You can ride this up and down the boardwalk, but you cannot use this in the mountains and get it dirty and use it for mountain biking.” Which is exactly what we went and did. We took the bikes up to the mountains and we went mountain biking.

And I almost threw up my entire lungs, but I had so much fun. I enjoyed it so much that a week later, I bought a new mountain bike, and started working at the bike shop. I think it was like a month later. Yeah, from there, the bike shop life brought me deeper

Into the cycling culture. And then I was introduced to road bikes and that was it. That was history. And I went, “I can ride fast. I can ride far. I can climb mountains. I can descend mountains. I can meet up with people and do group rides with them.

I can even do some tricks if I want to on a road bike.” Although it’s a little bit more difficult. But the road bike is the main part. After the fixed gear bike, you felt in love with the road bike, I guess. That was all I rode. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, I commuted a lot on my track bike to and from work because it was very short distance. But it got to a point where I was working at… I think I started to work at 10 in the morning. And I knew that if I got up a little bit

Earlier, I could do a two hour ride, come back, shower. And I lived five minutes from my job. So I would just boom, boom, boom, hurry, do my ride, come back, rinse off, and then sprint to work. I’d get there sweating. So it’s like the shower didn’t even matter because I was

Already drenched again. But I just fell in love with it. It was just such an engaging experience. So you decided to come to Germany one day. What was… Why this decision went to the south? Why did I come to Germany? It wasn’t for bikes. It was kind of that decision of, do I

Stay in the States and do the same thing I’ve been doing my whole life and do the same thing everybody does. They go to school here, then they go to school here, then they do this. And then they stay in their town and then they don’t do anything.

And for me, it was like, I have international parents. So my mom is from Jamaica. My dad is American, but more like European American. And so I thought, this is my opportunity to leave. And not many people do this. And it’s really scary. And I was crafting my pants, you know,

Like thinking, what the heck am I going to do? You know, one way ticket sold everything. Sold all my belongings, sold my track bike. So, you know, like all of these things that I held so dear. But I, you know, I wanted to see what was going to happen and

Move forward with that. I fortunately am in a much better relationship now and very happy with, you know, what we’ve built together. You know, and now we’re in a very small town, Heidenheim, which is different to Berlin where I was for four years or so. But it’s yeah, it’s just been an

Incredible journey to get here now, five years later. You know, just from like, let’s see, you know, let’s see what happens. Let’s see where this goes. At which point do you start with your content as we have cycling in your life, but at which time you consider to film

The whole stuff and put it on Instagram, for example? Pretty much right when I got here. So I was already posting things on Instagram before I left. And actually, that’s funny. I didn’t realize this. I think the first experience that I had getting into this world of social media and cycling is

I was riding a Bianchi bicycle at the time. And a guy came in, he had a nice camera. He took a picture of me wearing a Bianchi hat. And the Bianchi account, Bianchi USA account, reposted it on their Instagram. And I was like, what? Like, that’s, you know, this was huge.

I was just the guy in a bike shop riding this bike. And I didn’t think that I could be published on such a prestigious, you know, one of the big names in cycling on one of their accounts. And suddenly it was just like all the doors opened.

I had seen it before in the fixed gear culture and watching all these cool, edgy documentaries that, you know, like think of a skate film, right? These really cool skate documentaries, but about fixed gear cycling. So that was kind of my influence. And then, you know, getting older into my early, early 20s,

That’s when I went, huh, people are like, people are doing this a lot. People are taking really nice pictures. And so I started posting a little bit more. But it was just to friends, really, you know, it was just sharing my story and talking about my cycling journey.

So when I got to Germany, it was totally different. I mean, it was my whole American audience was like, what are you doing? What’s going on? What is this like? We came in October. So of course, October, it’s starting to get a little bit colder. I’m from Los Angeles.

I’m from sun and palm trees and beaches and, you know, mountains in the winter if you want to go snowboarding. This was not a culture shock yet for me, but it turned into one very quickly because the weather was fine. I ended up in Berlin for a few

Weeks just to kind of explore. And then, you know, again, taking pictures of everything, taking videos, just posting it, sharing this experience. And it was so everything was so new to me. It was just like a little kid going around like, wow, look at this. Look at, oh, my God, this building,

There’s a castle here. What is it? You know, like there’s castles everywhere in Germany. And the language that was also extremely difficult to really overcome. But that’s another story. And so, you know, from there, I just kept posting things. And I got my first official collaboration from this clothing company

And they sent me a lot of cycling kit and I couldn’t believe it. You know, I mean, this was it was probably, I don’t know, a thousand or two thousand euros worth of cycling kit. And like to me, this was like I made it. You know, I was like, I did it.

This is incredible. How is this happening? You know, and I was just this small thousand, two thousand follower, you know, account, some guy from L.A. living in Germany now. And I just kept going with it. At this point, you think that this is going to be your work and your full time shop.

So only a hobby at this point. It’s really it was a really interesting and difficult time because I was applying for my residency in Germany. I don’t know how familiar you are with the process in Germany. Not very familiar. But I think America is also not very easy. In the US. Australia too.

Australia, yeah, it was work and travel, so it was not too bad. Right. Residency is tough, especially when the Auslänebihode, or the immigration office, loses your document. Oh. You’re documented, actually. And… These are the following questions at this time. And what kind of work did you want to?

– I wanted to work in marketing, although I hadn’t done it before. You know, I was trying to find opportunities for me to, you know, fit into some company somewhere. It didn’t really matter what it was, although I wanted it to be cycling. I just wanted to switch fields because working at a

Bike shop is cool and all, but you hit the ceiling very quickly. In the process, I thought, if I start a blog, if I start writing articles and I have my Instagram, maybe a YouTube channel, I could try to do this blogger, Instagram influencer thing and just build it.

– So at this point, you start with your homepage, for example, and can you tell us a little bit about this process? – Everybody, you know, left and right is going, “Ah, WordPress, WordPress is the best thing to use, and it’s free, and you can get started here and do all these things.”

But I was seeing everybody using Squarespace with these beautifully designed websites. So this is not an ad, by the way, this is not an ad for Squarespace. I just happened to use Squarespace because I liked the design of it, and I built my first website and it looked awesome. And everybody was like,

“Wow, how did you, you know, look at what you’re doing here, that’s great.” I’m like, “Ha ha, yeah, didn’t really do much. Just put some pictures in here, put some text here.” But for me, it was about kind of emulating, so like modeling my design after what I liked already.

The website was like a reflection of what I wanted to do and what I was intentionally putting out into the world. So it wasn’t fully happening yet, but it was the foundation for it was there. – I think we own a similar stadium with a website that we pick up some

Screenshots from other websites and just have a look, okay, that’s nice. So just try to implement this part here and that part there. And that’s very interesting process of it. But it’s also very, yeah, you have to put in a lot of work and a lot of know-how, I guess.

That’s not very easy for us, but very nice to hear your process. – Really quick before we jump over, I just wanna say YouTube is your friend. YouTube is your best friend. I tell people all the time that, I have a lot of people reach out to me up to today,

Asking about what gear I use or how does this work, how does that work? We’re talking to you guys, what different things can we do to improve this aspect of whatever content, right? YouTube has every single answer you could possibly search for. – There’s also one video we saw and that video told

Us what we have to do. – So it was also our best friend and it comes to things like recording, homepage and all this stuff. And YouTube is very creative. We already speak a little bit about sport, about cycling. Which part is strength training at this point for you?

– Like what role does strength training play in my life now? It plays a very important role now for me. And there’s a couple of maybe superficial reasons to that. And there are a couple of very essential life changing reasons to that, which I’m sure you guys will both agree with.

When I was just dealing with, these more darker places in my life and kind of getting out of them, I had to move back into my parents’ place and was living in the same room as my brother. So I was 21, 22 and I had left the house.

I was living on my own with a best friend and then I had to move right back in again and share a room with my brother. And we started going to the gym every day for months. And I went from like scrawny little skinny dude to like cut and it blew my mind.

I was like, how this took three months of just consistency, but three months, right fueling supplements, I wasn’t doping or anything, no steroids or anything like that, but just the right fuel is different, creatine and I don’t know. I could, list goes on of what we were taking at the time,

But it gave me a whole new insight into the gym life and the looks were great, but I felt so good. My body felt good, like walking felt stable. You know what I mean, right? When you go from like this state of, you’re just kind of walking and then suddenly you have

Core stability and leg strength and then walking just, you feel planted, you feel more grounded. And so that was kind of an influence into me going back into the gym years later now because as a cyclist, you are almost exclusively focused on your legs and kind of on your core.

In particular, as a road cyclist as well, you’re hunched over, right? And so your back is doing this, which means you need to have a good core stability, you need to have good back stability. Our arms are out, forward in front of us. And so, our chest gets caved in,

So you have to open everything back up again. There’s so many negative things about cycling that you need to combat if you don’t wanna have long-term negative effects. So the gym was my opportunity to strengthen all the different aspects of my legs that we’re gonna contribute to my cycling,

To being a stronger rider, to being a better sprinter. I don’t compete or anything, you know, but whenever you’re on a group ride, we’re always racing to different town signs and, you know, just sprinting is fun, sprinting is enjoyable. And coming from being a track runner, it’s the same principle.

And, you know, I was watching a podcast the other day and they were talking about how once you hit, I don’t know, 30 years old or something like that, you have the super high chance that you’re never gonna sprint again. And I, you know, it hit me like really hard

Because I’m a runner, that’s where I came from. And every time I get on a bike, I do a sprint just for fun because it’s like, it’s so enjoyable and you feel the activation in your muscles. And so all of the gym was to help improve my cycling.

But the other side to it was, you know, when you are just focused on riding a bike, you forget that you have to take care of your neck, that you need to, you know, increase the strength in your back so that you can, you know, stand up a little bit straighter.

I work at a desk, I work on my computer, on my phone, on an iPad, like I’m constantly hunched over doing something on technology. And riding a road bike doesn’t help with that at all. (both laughing) It’s the same position, but worse. And so this was, for me, this was my way

To improve my posture, improve my overall strength, but also like visually just to start filling in my shirts a little bit more because like normal shirts, whoops, normal shirts just weren’t fitting the way I wanted them to. And I wanted like a different look, like literally just a different look personally.

I’m very happy with my girlfriend, you know, I’m not trying to impress anybody. It’s just that physical strength that for me makes me feel good, you know? Picking up a heavy box, for example, and you just have that extra bit of strength or doing a deadlift.

I mean, we were, before we started this, you guys were talking about deadlifts and your friend that just did this crazy amount of weight, you know, and it’s like, I see you guys do them in a gym and I’m like, damn, that’s, you know, that’s awesome.

And I also think about what it means to have that much strength in your glutes, right? Glutes and lower back. – And lower back and also core stability. – And core. – Also that’s very underestimated because the core stability especially is very, very important for deadlifting or similar lifts like sports or, yeah.

Especially for pressing, the shoulder press or military press. – Even the neck and the upper back isn’t cool, everything. – Yeah, and that’s exactly what we talk to other people. And it’s very, very good to hear that you are so far in this process and you understood all of these

Very, very important things. And I think most cyclists, most bikers don’t even know about that point. So that’s maybe only my feeling. I don’t know. because you mentioned the hip flexors and because of how they get shortened. And we didn’t get a chance to fully talk about this yet,

But one of the last couple of times I was in the gym, I talked to Imanwa because you’re busy doing something. And I’ve been having this problem with my right hip. It’s, I don’t know what it is, I don’t know where it came from, but when I move it in a certain direction,

It’s this like tension pain inside the hip. And it’s when I kind of move it out and I’m using the hip joint to like to move it, using the strength from the hip joint. – Yes. – So this is something that I wanted to actually work with you on in the gym.

And I thought it would be a really good bit of content actually for us to do. – Yeah, it would be a very, very good content because there are so many things we can do for this part of the hip or for the movement, for the variety of movements, I have to say,

Because the hip is so flexible. Normally you can do, yeah, a lot of movement there. – Painted normally. – Normally, yeah, normally, but I’m also not the most flexible guy there, but we can do a lot of exercise. The most important difference is between static and flexibility movements or positionings more.

And yeah, more with movement, the active mobility exercises. And the newer studies shown us that with movement integrated exercise are more effective for most parts or most problem problems. – Versus just static stretching. – Because of the brain, because of the mind, because of the connection between mind and muscles, nowadays that it’s

More important to activate all of these movements. For example, if you straighten out one leg and lean down, and then you have a long muscle there inside your leg, but it’s not very active. It’s only stretched down passive. And if you raise your leg as high as you can sideways,

And it’s not very comfortable, (laughing) then you activate all of the important muscles to make this movement possible. And then you have more good effects and good injury prevention. If you train the end positioning of your hip joint active in every possible way, then the, yeah, you don’t get injured so quick.

So that’s the difference between passive and active stretching or mobilization. – I think we have a lot to work on in the gym. – And in the squat, there’s so many movements in one exercise, we can see at which point you’re weak, or at which point exactly we have to work on. And that’s another great thing about the squat or the bed lift. – So you guys were testing me then. (laughing) – For example.

– For example. – But really though. – Yeah, we can let you make a squat and then we can see, okay, where’s the weakness at this point? – So for example, going back to the question about what exercises I like or what I enjoy doing to help, I kind of like the squat,

But lately I have been doing the hack squat. – Hack squat, yeah, the machine. Häckenschmitt. Häckenschmitt? Yes. The Häckswort is right in English, but it’s Mr. Häckenschmitt. He designed the machine in 1910 or something. And crazy guy, if you look at the picture at him, for over 100 years, he’s like a machine.

I think we’re going to throw up a picture of him. We’re going to find this later on and then I’ll throw a picture of him. You know, I can’t have my legs kind of parallel and go down in the squat. So because my ankles don’t have that flexibility to even be

Able to go back like that. My ankles just won’t do it in that position. So they have to be wider. So is that really just something that you just work on? You just do it more and more and more? Or is that kind of your body type? Very good. Very good question.

So we have to see that every person can make a different squat and that’s all right. So because they are different kind of length with the leg or with the anatomic, a physique from each person is very different and that’s okay. We have to work on some things.

It depends on how it looks. So sometimes a wider stance is all right, but sometimes we can see, okay, if we increase the ankle mobility a little bit, the hip has less work to do or the back and you can hold your upper body a little bit more upright and then you can

Increase the weight, for example, a little bit more if there would be some weakness, for example. So we have to look about the whole concept of the squat and then we pick some narrow points or some points that are not so good as they should and then we can work on them.

But every time it’s a little bit different with each person. At the same time, it’s not bad to do the hex cord. So you can work on your squat, technique, ankle mobility and all the stuff you must describe and at the same time for the hypertrophy, you can work on hex cord machines.

What is hypertrophy for the people that don’t know? It’s about the muscle, about the increasing of the muscle size, the muscle crowing, that’s hypertrophy. And you’re using how many different parts of the body when you’re doing a squat? Like really focused. Sorry, let me rephrase the question.

Which focus parts of the body are you using when you’re doing a squat? Because people think, yeah, well, it’s your legs, it’s your butt. And then when you guys were telling me, no, no, it’s actually all of these things, it was kind of shocking because I didn’t realize how much of your

Body you really have to have stable to do a good squat. So yeah, the squat is a very big movement. And it would be easier to tell you what muscles are not involved because there are not many. The whole body has to work as one concept, one machine, one unit.

So there are the parts they will move, so like the glutes and the quads. And yeah, that may be the tools that everybody will know. And then there are all other muscle chains. They have to work together to make it possible that your body stays stable in the squat and

Not fell down or something. And so the most underestimated muscle chain, I guess, is the core muscles because they have to help the back muscles because everybody thinks about the straight back and that’s fine because everyone knows not to bend the back during the squat.

It’s not good for the spine and for your health with weight on because it’s also different without weight. It would be no problem. It would be also sometimes very good to do it. But with weight, it’s very, very, very important to keep the spine neutral and then you have

To activate all of your ventral, your core muscles. And I think it depends also on your hip positioning because if you turn the hip forward and you press your belly button inwards, for example, if you want to say it inwards, then you have more core stabilization or activation and

Then your back gets supported. Then we should definitely do like a series. I think it would be really awesome actually to do series. Maybe we’re just going to put this out there right now. Another topic is social media. Social media is a big part of your work, for example.

Maybe you can give us a little bit introduction how your social media works look like. So I am what you would call an influencer as well. I have a couple of followers on Instagram and I was able to tell my story as a cyclist and as a black cyclist

From the US and Germany. So there are a lot of different aspects of what I do. Within that, I started to tell the story through better content creation. So I bought a camera, a Sony A6400, which is what you guys are being filmed on right now.

I think at this point it helps that you have the marketing background. I didn’t. I didn’t at the time. Okay, at that time, not okay. It was just a natural progression because, you know, when you learn to manage your own account, then at some point you’re watching all these brands

And you’re going, okay, I have to plan this out. I have to plan that out. Well, maybe I can do this for a company. And then you learn how to manage a social media account. So then I got a client, you know, and then next thing you know, you’re taking pictures

And creating content for that company. So you’re doing a balance of becoming a social media manager. So now you’re in marketing, right? And you’re writing blog articles. So now you’re a copywriter and then you’re creating content. So now you’re a photographer and then you’re doing, you know, you’re creating little videos.

Now you’re a videographer. I mean, suddenly you’re now wearing four, five, six different hats and you realize you’re a one man production studio and you’re going, how did I get here? You know, it’s just, I’m learning by doing at this point. Exactly. A hundred percent.

And from there, it just kept, I just went deeper and deeper and deeper. And that led to tons of different partnerships and collaborations within the cycling industry. I mean, yeah, without going over, you know, some of the companies before, you know, I was fortunate to work with awesome companies in the cycling

Space and, you know, tell really cool and fun stories and travel as well because of it. And that was, you know, something that I always wanted to do. So I was able to turn that passion of cycling and travel into my work. Thank you for the conversation.

I think it was a nice podcast and I hope very fluidly to hear and sorry for the English guys to follow our English. And sometimes, yeah. It was a pleasure to have you in our podcast and also to be guest in your channel. Likewise vice versa. And yeah, it was very, very pleasure.

It was a good learning session for us. Thank you guys for coming. Thank you guys for having me. I really appreciated the time. It was really cool to talk about. Yeah. All the different things that we try to talk about in the gym, but we’re, you know, I’m

Normally working out and you guys are trying to help all the other people, you know, but I really think that we have a lot to unfold, you know, in future conversations as well. And I can definitely see us doing maybe even more of this, maybe here, maybe not, maybe

At the gym, doing some content. You know, like there’s so many different things that we can really explore here. So thank you guys for coming. Thank you for being here. It was a pleasure for us to be here and yeah, that you helping us as your guests.

And it was very helpful for us to learn some things about content creation. And it’s very interesting to sit here in between of all these cameras and yeah. Lights camera. Actually. Yeah. One thing, it was a challenge for me personally to do it in English, but thank you for that as well.

I do appreciate it. And it was very fun and nice. And I wonder how many people and listen both episodes that the YouTube one from you and the Spotify or Apple podcast version from us. This is the real fans that go through the full version and for the video.

And you know, with that, I also want to direct you guys to the viewers watching right now. Please go subscribe or follow this change on Spotify and Apple music, Apple podcasts. Sorry as well. You’ll be able to find the full link to the episode because this is the shortened version for YouTube.

I didn’t want to for you guys with all the amazing details. Actually, we talked about so much. So please hit the link below. Go listen to the full version. It is in English, so you will be able to follow all of it. And again, thank you guys for watching. I appreciate it.

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