18 Years Old. $18,000 in One Month. He Almost Quit YouTube Twice.

Boris is 18. He lives in Slovakia — a small country in Europe that most people couldn't point to on a map. He doesn't want to go to college. He doesn't want a regular job. He just knew... those paths weren't for him.

"I was in a really low spot in my life," Boris told me. "I was trying to figure out what I was going to do. I knew I didn't want to go to college. I didn't want a regular job. So I was just looking for a business to start."

He tried finding his passion. He tried a bunch of different things. Then one day he was just like... forget it. I know I can make shorts.

He started in January 2025. Got his first channel monetized in three months. Then it got demonetized. Started another channel. That one got demonetized too. His third channel finally stuck... and that's the one making him $18K/month today.

Three channels. Two demonetizations. Six months stuck at $1-2K. Most people would have quit. Boris kept going.

Here's the part of Boris's story that honestly frustrated me when I first heard it.

Before working with us, Boris was in another mentorship. He won't say who. I won't either. But here's what happened... they told him to just run more channels. Four channels. Post one video a day on each. That was the strategy.

The problem? Only one of those channels was even monetized. He was spreading himself across four channels with zero evidence that three of them would ever make a dollar. It's like telling someone who can't swim to jump in four pools at once.

"I was just making one video a day on four channels," Boris said. "And that got me almost nowhere."

The other mentorship was group coaching. Generic advice. No one looked at Boris's specific content, his specific analytics, his specific problems. He paid money he didn't have a lot of... and got answers that didn't apply to him.

When he came to me and told me all this on our first call, I remember thinking... this kid has talent. He just got terrible advice.

Our first call was about a month before this interview. I asked Boris to tell me about himself. He goes: "Hey, my name is Boris. I'm running four YouTube channels."

Cool, I thought. Then I asked the obvious question. "How much is each channel making?"

"Oh... only one channel is making money."

I was like... what?

This is one of the most common mistakes I see. Creators think "more channels = more revenue." And yeah, eventually that's true — I run 41 channels myself. But you have to have one channel that's actually working first. You can't scale zero.

So I did something that felt counterintuitive to Boris... I told him to kill three of his channels. Immediately. All the energy, all the effort, all the videos — funnel it into the one channel that's actually monetized.

That was the first call. Drop three channels. Focus on one.

The results started coming back almost immediately.

Here's what's crazy about Boris's transformation. The changes weren't complicated. They were small, specific, and tactical. But stacked together... they turned a $2K/month channel into an $18K/month machine.

Let me walk through the big ones.

Boris summed it up better than I could: "One 20-minute call with you is like 6 months of doing it by myself."

That's not because I'm some genius. It's because I've been doing this for eight years. Boris has been doing it for one. The gap isn't talent — it's reps. And a mentorship compresses those reps.

Let's talk about what happened after Boris made those changes. Because the numbers are absurd.

January 2026: $18,000 in revenue. Almost 200 million views. Approaching 100K subscribers. And he still had two days left in the month — meaning he probably cracked $20K.

He shared his screen during the interview. Pulled up YouTube Studio. Showed the currency settings. USD. $18,000. Real.

But the stat that hit me hardest? Four days in a row where Boris made over $1,000. Peak days hit $1,400. In four days, he made more than he used to make in an entire month.

"I've never made this type of money in my life," Boris said. He's 18. He's from Slovakia. A month ago he was stuck at $2K and questioning everything. Now he's making CEO money from a single YouTube channel.

And remember — this is one channel. Not two. Not four. One.

Those were Boris's exact words at the end of our call. Not "you helped me make more money" or "the tactics were good." He said: "You literally changed my life."

And honestly... I believe him. Because think about where Boris was a month ago.

He was 18. In a small country. No college plans. No job. Had already been burned by one mentorship that took his money and gave him group coaching that didn't work. Was running four channels that were going nowhere. Making $1-2K a month — enough to survive, not enough to build anything.

Now he's making $18K/month. He's about to hire his first editor. He's learning how to manage people. He's building skills — attention, creativity, hiring, operations — that will transfer to literally any business he starts for the rest of his life.

"A lot of us don't plan on doing YouTube stuff forever," Boris said. "My dream isn't to be the biggest YouTuber. I just want to have some freedom. And I want to have skills in business. This is a great business model to start with because you learn the skill of getting attention... and then once you get bigger, you start hiring people, managing people. That's a skill you'll use in any business."

He's 18 and he already gets it. Attention is the skill. YouTube is the gym. The money is a side effect.

Boris did $18K on one channel in one month. Let that sink in for a second.

He hasn't even started his second channel yet. Once he does — and applies the same playbook — the math gets very simple. Two channels at this level puts him in the $30-50K range. And that's conservative.

He's already talking to editors. His first hire. At 18 years old, he's about to become a manager. That's not just a YouTube win — that's a life skill that most people don't develop until their 30s.

The thing about Boris that makes me confident he'll hit $50K? It's not the revenue. It's the resilience. This kid got demonetized twice. Got burned by a bad mentorship. Was stuck at $2K for six months. And he never stopped.

Every time he got knocked down... he started another channel. Every time he hit a wall... he found a way around it. That's not something I can teach. That's just who he is.

I told Boris I think he can do $30-50K/month once he starts scaling channels. His response was simple: "Yeah. I see that happening."

No hesitation. No doubt. Just a quiet confidence from a kid who's already proven he can 10x his income in 30 days.