He Uploaded 3 Videos. The Third One Got 71 Million Views.

Adam works as a flight attendant. Twenty days per month, he's away from home. Stationed in Berlin. Originally from Croatia. Living in Zagreb when he's not crammed into a hotel room.

He keeps the job because his girlfriend lives in Berlin. Otherwise? He said he would have already quit.

"I work a 9-to-5 as a flight attendant," Adam told me. "20 days per month I am away from my home. I'm stationed in Berlin. I live in Zagreb. And for 20 days of every month I spend them closed in a hotel room."

That's where he was making YouTube videos. From a hotel room. Between flights. With limited hours and limited Wi-Fi so bad it cut out during our interview.

Before the program, Adam had one channel making about $1.2K per month. He knew he needed help scaling, managing, hiring editors. He just didn't know where to find it.

Then he found my free content on YouTube. Watched everything. The TrustScore guides, the scaling breakdowns, all of it. For about two months he just consumed the free stuff. And then... he noticed something.

This is one of my favorite origin stories from any student.

Adam had been watching my content for about two months. He didn't even know I had a mentorship program at the time because it hadn't launched yet. He was just watching the free videos and applying what he could.

Then around early November, he noticed something. Our birthdays. November 3rd. The same day.

"I figured, okay, this is a God sign," Adam said. "You and me, we have the same birthday. I decided, holy cow, I got to meet this guy. I got to thank him as a mentor. I've been struggling for some time. I need someone to guide me. And this is the sign."

He locked in completely. His exact words: "I'm getting this guy one way or another. Either force or money. One way or another."

That energy? You can't fake it. From the very first call, Adam was different. We took a screenshot together after every single call. Every single one. It became our thing. When I look at my schedule and see Adam's call is next... I get hyped. Every time.

Adam's first channel was doing okay when we started. We pushed it up, hit some $200 days, things were moving. But then something happened that happens to a lot of creators... competitors flooded the niche.

The views dropped. The revenue dipped. And instead of trying to fight a losing battle in a crowded space, we made a call: switch the niche. Experiment. Find something better.

"A lot of competitors actually came into this niche," Adam explained. "So we switched niche. We were experimenting to find a better one. And like two or three days ago, we actually found one. It's picking up again."

But here's the thing. While channel one was being rebuilt, we weren't sitting around waiting. We launched channel two. And channel two is where things went completely off the rails.

Let me set the scene here. Adam launched a second channel. An aged account he already had sitting around. We changed the name, set it up properly, and started uploading.

Video one. Video two. And then... video three.

71 million views.

Not 71 thousand. Not 7.1 million. Seventy-one million views on the third video he ever posted on this channel.

That single video got him monetized. He hit the 10 million engaged view threshold in the process, and the video just kept going. By the time of our interview, it was at 72 million and still climbing.

"I still feel like this isn't real," Adam said. "Like, this is not happening. But it's obviously happening."

The video would have generated roughly $6-7K on its own if Adam had been monetized from the start. But because he hit monetization at around 45 million views, the first 45 million views earned nothing. That's the one that stings. But even with that lost revenue, the channel was already pulling nearly $5K in just 16 days of being monetized.

If there's one tactical takeaway from Adam's story, it's this: TrustScore is everything.

We maxed out the TrustScore on his second channel from day one. Set everything up correctly before uploading a single video. And the result? Almost none of his videos got stuck in view jail. While other creators in the Discord were posting videos with 105% average view duration and 81% swipe rates wondering why they weren't going viral... Adam was getting pushed with a 75% swipe ratio and 85% average view duration.

"I feel so bad," Adam said, half-joking. "These guys have 81% swipe rate and 105% AVD and they're stuck. And I'm here with 75% swipe ratio going crazy. Just TrustScore, man."

His most viral video, the 71-million-view one? The swipe ratio was 78.6%. The average view duration was 21 out of 24 seconds, roughly 85%. Those aren't perfect metrics by any means. But with a maxed TrustScore, the algorithm trusts your channel enough to push imperfect videos to massive audiences.

That's the difference. A high TrustScore means YouTube gives your content a chance. Without it, even videos with incredible metrics can get stuck at 30K views and never escape.

At the time of the interview, Adam had five consecutive hours where his channel was pulling over 1 million views per hour. Five hours straight. That's what happens when TrustScore is dialed in.

Adam didn't just join the program. He became its energy source.

When a potential student had objections about joining, we brought him into a voice chat with Adam, Clark, and Ian. Those three started talking to the guy, answering questions, sharing results. And then they just... didn't leave. They stayed in the voice chat for 29 hours.

"The aim is 67 hours," Adam said, completely serious. "That's the goal."

That's not normal. That's not what happens in most online communities. But it's what happens when you put a group of hungry, passionate creators together who all share the same obsession.

"This is the best community I've ever been in," Adam said. "All these people, you are surrounded with people that think the same things as you do. You are meant to win. Whenever I'm on Discord, all I see is questions about YouTube stuff. And by surrounding yourself with those people, you are meant to grow."

The community became a multiplier. Everyone experiments with each other. Everyone shares what's working. Two brains are smarter than one. Fifteen brains focused on the same thing? That's how you get 71 million views on your third upload.

Adam's trajectory right now is steep. Two channels running. The second one already pulling $5K in 16 days. Channel one getting revived with a new niche. And the scaling hasn't even really started yet.

He made a point at the end of our interview that I think a lot of people miss about what the mentorship actually covers. It's not just TrustScore and getting monetized. It's the entire operational side of scaling.

"He also knows everything about scaling, managing, editors," Adam said. "He has connections everywhere. He tells you about SOPs to write for your editors, who to pick as your manager, what to do. Literally everything. You have everything here."

The plan for Adam is the same path other students are on: perfect one channel, launch the next, hire editors, build systems, and keep compounding. Clark is already on his fourth channel. Adam is on his second. The trajectory points to $30-50K/month.

And apparently, when enough students hit those numbers, everyone's meeting up in Miami.

"You changed literally the course of my life," Adam told me at the end of the call. "My whole life is going in a different direction than I was planning. It's crazy to me."

Six weeks ago, he was a flight attendant making $1.2K/month from YouTube in a hotel room in Berlin. Now he's got 128 million views, two channels, a community of people who stay in voice chats for 29 hours, and a future that looks nothing like it did before.

He's also got terrible Wi-Fi. But somehow... that doesn't seem to be slowing him down.