Zero Percent Up

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What does it actually feel like to try to build a bigger life for yourself from zero? Zero Percent Up is an anonymous, real-time audio diary documenting the messy process of ambition, creativity, visibility, reinvention, internet culture, and becoming impossible to ignore. No polished retrospectives. No pretending I already know how the story ends. Just the real thing — week by week, while it’s still happening.

  1. 8월 24일

    I Have 3 Months to Make This Work.

    Yeah.... So, I blew my wildly ambitious deadline, and now... I'm running out of runway. Excellent. In this month's brutally honest Zero Percent Up update, I talk about falling behind, watching my financial runway get shorter, realizing I've been treating my creative work with too much flexibility, and confronting the possibility that I'll need to take on temporary work if I can't make this business pay for itself fast enough. I also dig into why I've stepped away from the doom-cycle of the internet, my growing concerns about employment and economic instability, why I keep coming back to entrepreneurship, and what it actually means to bet on yourself when the stakes aren't theoretical anymore. Topics Covered this Week: Missing the original 100K YouTube subscriber deadlineReassessing goals after falling behindThe reality of running out of financial runwayBuilding a creative career while facing financial pressureWhy the online world can feel like an escape hatch from traditional employmentTaking a temporary side job to protect financial stabilityBalancing entrepreneurship with practical backup plansSetting stronger boundaries around creative workHow flexibility can become a liability without structureProcrastination, intimidation, and the uncomfortable parts of building a businessDealing with judgment from people who don't understand your goalsAI, layoffs, and changing employment conditionsEntrepreneurship, ownership, and financial independenceThe tension between traditional employment and building your own thingSocial media doom cycles and stepping away from constant negativityWhy consuming endless negative news can contribute to fear and inactionRecommitting to 100K YouTube subscribers by the end of NovemberBuilding income streams before the channel fully monetizesExploring sponsorships, paid offerings, and short-term client workLearning to take the business side of a creative career seriouslyWhat happens when the "fun experiment" becomes financially consequentialChoosing intensity now in pursuit of long-term autonomyContinuing to build despite fear, missed deadlines, and uncertainty Thank you for listening!! 🖤🪽 If you need: extended shownotes, bonus resources, mini updates, or accessibility tools and episode transcripts, they can all be found on substack. xx

    I Have 3 Months to Make This Work.
  2. 7월 8일 ·  보너스

    The Life I Want Wants Me Back 🐎🌠

    After a short publishing break, V returns with a bonus episode recorded on location during a major life transition. Reflecting on missed deadlines, perfectionism, and the difference between commitment and flawless execution, she explores the idea of bringing "someday" into the present. The episode follows a pivotal moment: choosing to let go of hard-earned stability in order to pursue an opportunity that could dramatically accelerate her creative future. Along the way, V unpacks fear, resilience, action, and the surprising realization that the life she's been dreaming about may be much closer than she ever imagined. It's an honest conversation about compressing timelines, trusting imperfect action, and discovering that the biggest breakthroughs often come not from certainty, but from simply continuing to walk toward the life you want. This week we're talking about: • Why perfectionism isn't the same thing as commitment• What happens when "someday" becomes right now• Letting go of hard-earned stability to make room for bigger opportunities• Why action quiets fear better than certainty ever will• Compressing long-term dreams into much shorter timelines• Learning to trust imperfect, resilient progress instead of flawless execution I'm recording this in real time, before I know exactly how everything unfolds. Think of it as a snapshot from the edge of a leap. If you've been waiting for permission to start before you feel ready, maybe this is it. — New episodes every week. Substack: behind-the-scenes writing, accessibility features, transcripts, and bonus essays. 💗

    The Life I Want Wants Me Back 🐎🌠

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What does it actually feel like to try to build a bigger life for yourself from zero? Zero Percent Up is an anonymous, real-time audio diary documenting the messy process of ambition, creativity, visibility, reinvention, internet culture, and becoming impossible to ignore. No polished retrospectives. No pretending I already know how the story ends. Just the real thing — week by week, while it’s still happening.