I went from having 300 dollars in my bank account as a high schooler to being a multimillionaire. Just A.
Few years later and just saying these words out of my mouth honestly sounds fake. But it's true and this is my story now. If you guys don't know me, my name is Matt Parr and I'm a twenty-two- year- old and I know that the title of this video sounds unbelievable. But it's the truth, and even though talking about my story here honestly makes me a little bit uncomfortable, I'm still gonna share this with you because I think that it can provide a lot of value to people out there who want to level up their lives. I literally went.
From being depressed, not knowing what I was gona do with my life and honestly just feeling like giving up on everything to making millions of dollars, traveling the world in first class, completing bucketless items. I've always wanted to do like dive over a 1000 feet deep in a submarine. And now at this point. I literally don't worry about money at all. And on top of that, I've got millions of subscribers on youtube, play buttons, awards and I run an education company now with over 7 thousand students. Now my story starts in the year 2 thousand. That's when I was born to a middleclas family in the Midwestern United States. Now by no means was my family rich, but we weren't poor. Either we weren't in poverty or anything. We're a normal middleclas family, and my parents worked hard for both my younger sister and I to grow up and live a decent life. So at a very young age. I was brought up seeing working hard.
Associated with getting money. So I made that connection in my brain early on. That the only way to live a decent good life is to put in a lot of work and trade time for money. I had a great childhood, i was super creative as a kid like I would always write stories, to entertain my younger sister and stuff. And everything was great until.
It wasn't and I realized that this wasn't gonna last forever. This was just a temporary thing and eventually I was gonna have to grow up and get a job just like everybody else did. And I came to this realization when I was in middle school. I kind of had like an existential crisis wondering like, what's the meaning of this whole thing like? I saw my parents, they were working nine to five jobs and they didn't really seem to love them. They were just doing the best that they could to provide for their family and I wasn't looking forward to have to go through that as well. Now I personally never really cared.
For school whatsoever. As I got older. I actually started to hate it more and more, having to go in and learn about things that I didn't want to learn about and that I didn't feel would benefit me in my life in the future. And like I would come home from school. I would take my homework and I would show to my parents and I would ask them, are you even using this stuff that I'm learning in your jobs or in your everyday life? And they would tell me no, but you have to go to school, get good grades and then that's gonna translate into being able to go to a good college.
Which in turn will allow you to get a job. And it's not like I wanted a job like they had. But honestly I didn't know of any other options that even existed out there. So at the time. I kind of just figured, you know, I'm gonna have to go through with this script. That's kind of been laid out for me. It's like someone else wrote the story of my life somewhat, and the story seemed to go like this. I would finish high school, go to college, work little by little to pay off the college debt, buy a house with a mortgage.
Work my whole life to pay that off as well, then hopefully retire when I'm super old and live the last couple years of my life, enjoying what I did with most of my time and then die sounds fun right now. The reason I'm telling you this is kind of to preface everything that was going on in my life at this time because I had some major changes coming up that had no idea were about to happen. But everything changed for me when I was in.
5th or 6th grade. I believe I realized that I could go to the dollar store which is basically a store here in the United States where you can buy things for a dollar where everything in it is a dollar. So I went to the dollar store and I saw that there was pop-tarts for sale for a dollar like a whole package of them. And I saw at school they were selling poptarts at the school lunchline for a dollar each. So one package of five poptarts if I sold all five, boom. I would make four dollars of profit, and so that's exactly what I did. I started selling poptarts at school at lunch and over the course of a couple months I had over 300 dollars saved up. Now this is the first money that I ever made in my life and I thought it was awesome. I could literally go to the store and buy something if I wanted to. I felt like I had everything figured out in my life until of course, some of the teachers at my school shut it down.
And I went straight back to not knowing what I was going to do.
Now around that time also my sister and I found out about a website called youtube.com. Now at the time we just consumed youtube and we would watch videos like prank videos, scary stories and stunt videos. And while watching those videos I saw people living their dream lives being able to travel fulltime if they wanted to do literally whatever they wanted with their lives and I thought that looks so cool. So at this point this kind of infected my mind that this was possible success was possible.
So at 12 years old I started my first youtube channel and I started uploading just like backyard prancing stunts, just stuff that I was doing with my friends. I would upload it to youtube and you know i'd be lucky if a video got 50 or 100 views and at that time I kind of just figured that you know maybe those people I was watching on youtube, maybe they were destined to be successful and maybe it just wasn't in the cards for me, so I didn't really think much of it. I thought it might just be some fun thing to do now.
Fast Forward a little bit by the time I was 14 years old in 2014. At this point. I absolutely hated school with a passion. I dreaded hearing the alarm clock, go off every single day super early and we lived way out in the country. So we had to ride the bus for like an hour just to get to school.
And then in school I'm sitting for hours in a classroom learning about subjects I literally have no interest in, and at that point I kind of just zoned out in my life and I don't know if you guys have ever felt like this. But I kind of became apathetic about everything and I didn't really care about anything too.
Much and I guess you could say I was depressed at this time as well and this affected my friendships at school because honestly I was just kind of zoned out during this time and not paying attention to anything just kind of like. Well, this is my life, this is the cards I've been dealt. I guess I have to go through with it and I kind of felt like I had no free will. My whole life was written for me and because of that I kind of took my resentment out on the people that I cared about. So this time there was a lot of family conflict as well. I stopped caring about school so I didn't really get good grades. My parents weren't happy about that, they just wanted what was best for me and they believed that you know getting good grades going to college would do that and it was at this point that I knew that time was running out as well. In just a couple years I was gonna be graduating high school and of course that meant going to college and potentially working a job. I was at this point that I would spend some time watching youtube and this is when.
My Life completely.
Changed. I came across a youtube channel called Top Fives and whoever is out there running this channel probably has no idea that this was such a pivotal moment in my life. But when I came across this youtube channel. I saw that the person who was running that channel was literally just creating faceless videos, talking about different cool subjects, scary videos and stuff like that. And they would just upload it to youtube and they did that consistently and they got millions of views on their videos. Now at this point. I didn't even know how you could make money on youtube. I didn't know how any of that worked, but I saw them succeeding on youtube right and I thought to myself if they can do it, why can I? You know? I got nothing to lose at this point, I'm just gonna try it, so I took this really crappy iphone that I had at the time. The screen was all cracked and I used the voice recorder. Started recording voiceovers.
Started editing the videos together on my laptop that barely worked and literally, within one day of finding out about that channel. I started my very own youtube channel and even though I had no idea where this would lead me in the future. I took a chance. So for a few months I uploaded videos on my channel with absolutely no results. I was just kind of trying to model what already worked on youtube, just creating similar stuff. Nothing really seemed to be working at that point. It was just another day, just like every other day. Redd wake up, dread going to school and I checked my youtube analytics and I saw that one of my videos got a 100 thousand views. And at this point I was ecstatic. I couldn't contain myself.
This was one of the first successes that I ever had in my life and I don't know if you guys have ever felt like this where you want so badly for something to work and then it does and remember that day showing all my friends on the school bus and my video got a 100 thousand vi just bragging about it and at this point there was nothing that was going to stop me. I doubled down on youtube. I started uploading videos every single day on my channel, literally spending every bit of free time that I could on this even time that wasn't supposed to be free. I supposed to be working on homework. I basically put school on the back burner at this point and just focused fully on youtube as much as I possibly could. And I kind of treated youtube as a video game, so I started taking notes like what worked, what didn't like, oh, this type of title works for this scenario. These types of thumbnails seem to do really well and I still wasn't making any money at this point until I read this article online.
About some of the top youtubers making millions of dollars per year and some of these people were like my age, even younger than me, and they were making millions of dollars from youtube. So I looked into this a little bit and I found that the main way of making money on youtube is something called the youtube Partner Program. And this is where you sign up for it and they will pay you a percentage of the ad revenue that they get from people putting ads on your videos. So I thought that was pretty cool. I signed up for it as soon as I possibly could, and at this point it's like early 2015 and just like that flipping a light switch. I was making 3 thousand dollars per month. This was more than all my friends. This was life-changing money at that age and of course I didn't have any expenses either. So I was basically rich now, my parents and teachers. At that point they thought that was cool. They were happy for me, but they were concerned as well. Rightfully, so how long.
Is this gona last? They've never seen something like this before now going forward to 2016. I was just working on my youtube channel nonstop and as if things couldn't get any better. I had my first video get over a million of views like that's a proper viable video if you guys are into youtube and I was honestly just so happy about that. And at this point it's very strange to say. But I was making more money than my parents, but things were not as good as they seemed. In fact. I had to spend every waking minute of my life basically focused on youtube to get these kind of results and I basically had no social life whatsoever. I didn't have any time to spend with friends. I didn't have any time to play Xbox or video games or anything like literally, all my time was consumed in there and there was still a lot of family conflict because I wasn't focusing on school like my parents wanted me to. Teachers at my school weren't happy. I had to balance youtube and just doing like.
The bare minimum not to fill my classes. So I knew this wasn't really sustainable. And even if I became an adult. I would literally not have any life outside doing this. And I knew that wasn't a life that I wanted to live. So at this point this is kind of humiliateating to say. But the only thing I knew about business at this point was from a Dr. Seuss book called The Lomax. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but basically in that book there's a guy who figures out how to make money selling this thing and the only way that he sca it was hiring other people to do the work for him. Now that's kind of a bad example. He's like the villain of the story and stuff, but you get my point and that was the only thing I knew about business. So I made a job post on a website called upwork.com looking for someone to do the voiceovers because that was one of the parts I hated about this the most. I didn't like the way my.
Voice sounded or anything and so I found this guy to replace me and do the voiceovers for me and this was an absolute game changer for me because I essentially put together a video creation machine where I would just come up with the video ideas and then I would pass that along to a scriptwriter who would write this script and then they would give it to the voiceover artist who would then give it to the video editor who would then finally send it back to me and I would then upload the video and I also hired a thumbnail designer as well and this freed up a ton of time for me. But I was so accustomed to working on youtube and stuff at this point that I started making more channels and different niches and outsourcing those from the start. And in 2017 I reached what was at the point my all-time goal with youtube which was getting over 100 thousand subscribers and in turn they give you what's known as a Silver Play button, basically an award for reaching that milestone. So I.
Got the silver play button honestly, I'm just on top of the world at this point. This like meant absolutely everything to me and it was around this point as well, where I bought my dream car which was a blue Ford Mustang and going forward now into 2018. This is when I graduated high school and I remember before then I was literally just counting down the days like when is this nightmare going to be over? And at this point I was making 30 thousand dollars a month from ad revenue from my different youtube channels. Honestly crazy to say, and a lot of people close to me including family members, kids at my school and stuff they were asking me how they could do youtube as well. How could they do what I was doing because they saw I?
Was getting some success at this point. They wanted to learn as well, so I looked into it a little bit and I saw people, you know, selling courses online, teaching other people how to do this. So I thought, you know, I'm gona give it a shot. At this point. I was still really awkward, scared to get in front of a camera. You know. I would never in my wildest dreams think that i'd be able to sit in front of a camera and record a video just like this. But in October of 2018. I started my youtube channel called Make Money Matt actually the same one you're watching right now. But about a week before making the channel. I spent about a week putting together a very rudimentary version of my youtube strategy and my youtube program and to.
Give you an idea of how low tech this was was literally just a screen recording. With.
A slideshow and me just showing how to grow on youtube and that's literally all it was. It took me a week to put together, so by the time I uploaded my first video and make Money Mad. I did have a youtube program and at the time I didn't know how much to charge for it or even where to start doing this. So I just price.
It it 100 dollars and hope for the best now over the next few weeks after I launched my channel, since I was actually the one making the videos, it's kind of embarrassing to say, but I only uploaded five videos on the channel and in all honesty, the videos were terrible, like you guys can go back and watch my first videos, they're just screen recordings. I didn't honestly expect much and make money. Mat was just kind of an experiment I was doing too just to see if it was even something that I wanted to do in the first place and I remember very clearly. One day I'm driving around in my car and I get a notification on my phone and I check my phone and I see that I just sold one of my courses for 100 dollars and at this point I only have five videos on my channel. I sold a course for 100 dollars and a light bulb went off in my mind and I was like. Holy.
Crap I just added 100 dollars to my daily income. Just with One course. Five.
Videos that barely got any views. Imagine if I got 100 thousand views per month on this channel, or half a million or a million views per month, i knew that not only could I change a ton of people's lives and show them my youtube strategy, but make a ton of money in the process as well. Now at this point. I was already making a lot of money with my other youtube channels, but the fact that my channel only had a couple videos on it and made this much. I kind of projected out in the future. What might be possible with.
This and over the next few months after uploading a bunch of videos I had one kind of take off, get like 100 K AB views and make money. Mac got to the point of making over a 1000 dollars a day with selling my courses and I made over 27 thousand dollars in a single month just a couple months after starting the channel in early 2019. So I.
Was making just as much as my niche channels with just one channel now around that time in 2019. I realized it was a time for a change and even though this was really difficult for me. I moved out of my parents' house and I packed up my car and I drove all the way to California because I saw so many youtubers living there and stuff. I knew that's where a lot of the technology was being created as well. So I moved to California and that's where I actually met my girlfriend as well. And I took a break for make money mad for a while because at the time, there's so many things changing in my life, you know, finding a place to live being an independent adult for the first time in my life. I was also creating companies for my businesses, consulting lawyers and accountants, and figuring out basically how to live as an adult. And eventually I did get over my fear of getting in front of a camera and I'll tell you the secret to that. I basically just recorded 100 videos, which I never uploaded to youtube.
Until I was good enough to just be able to talk to a camera like this and I decided to scrap the original version of my youtube course, i didn't think it was good enough, and instead I was going to create a new course that literally went over everything step by step in a very chronological manner. So in order to do this. I actually did something very strange. I sold my course before ever creating it, and I might be asking Matt how in the world did you do that?
The.
Way that I did that was I did a webinar on my youtube channel selling my course telling them that I was going to teach it to them live if they bought it. I'll just basically teach you everything I know live. Plus they'll get live consulting for me on that call and we did that and I made over 10 thousand dollars in a single day on that webinar. And this is the first time I ever made that much money in just a single day. Then over the next couple weeks. I deliver the program, created a private Facebook group for it. Over the next couple months. I spent time building out the absolute Best youtube program on the market. All the while, my youtube channel was growing as well and I was starting to buy shutouts on my Instagram page at Make Money mat also and then selling the course in the DMS. Now I was like that was great with that webinar, but I can't be doing.
A webinar every single day. So I automated the webinar meaning it could sell at all hours of the day no matter what, even when I was sleeping and it could still get sales. And now that brings us to the year 2020, which was an absolutely explosive year in terms of just my business, personal growth, so many things. And at the start of 2020, my course was making about 2 thousand dollars per day and my faceless niche channels were making about 1 thousand dollars a day and this rapidly scaled up over the course of the next few months as I just kept putting out more and more videos. I bought more shutouts on Instagram, started of buying ads on youtube as well to promote my course and it got to the point where in March of 2020 I'll never forget this was the first month that I made over 100 thousand dollars in a single month and this is a huge turning point in my life because ever since that month I've never made less than that per month and then.
Going forward into July of 2020 we actually moved to Florida because I really like beaches. There's summer all year and no income taxes, and I'm starting to make a lot of money at this point and my youtube course crossed over a million dollars in revenue. And going forward into August of 2020, my course crossed over a million dollars in revenue literally one day before I turned 20 years old, so I could say that I was a millionaire as a teenager for a day. And in 2020 we did way over a million dollars with my course. So I also got the Two Coma Club award from clickfunnels that they give you when you make over a million dollars using their platform right here now. Going forward into 2021, everything was going great, but there was still a really big problem in my.
Life you see I was still really afraid to spend money even though I was making a lot of money at this point. I was in the 0.1 percent for my age. I was still deathly afraid to spend it, so I'm like renting a house that's like less than one percent of my monthly income, still doing all my grocery shopping and everything. And then I read a book that completely changed my whole mindset on all this stuff and it's called Die With Zero. And basically the premise of that book was that you're not going to be taking your money with you when you.
Die and if you make enough money to still be able to retire in everything it might be worth it to spend on some experiences to still live a good life. So this changed my whole perspective on things and in 2021 I completed a lifelong dream of diving off the coast of California in a submarine it to over a 1000 feet deep and that did cost 18 thousand dollars and I believe that I would not have done that if I didn't read that book. But when I got back home from that I just went right back to work. And now in 2022 literally just last year I started again getting really bored with life. You see my life was kind of just one big routine doing the same thing over and over every single day. I don't know if you've ever felt like that before I was just staring at a computer screen for like nine or ten hours a day. It wasn't healthy, so I.
Decided to make a change in my routine and we travel to Europe for the first time in my entire life and we flew business class which is really cool and this completely blew my mind that there's a whole world out there just waiting to be explored. So I desperately then wanted to travel more. That being said and in 2022 I also bought my dream home which I'm sitting in right now. But even though I bought my dream home. I haven't spent as much time here as i'd like to because I've just been trying to travel so much. So this brings me now to 2023 and so.
Far this year I've gone to over 20 countries. I run over a dozen different youtube channels, I've gone millions of subscribers between all my channels. We have over 7 thousand students in my Facebook group, and we have a Tello board of literally 100 if not thousands of results from students who built their own youtube businesses. And in some cases empires. I was literally just talking to someone the other day who's in my Facebook group making over 30.
Thousand dollars per month by implementing my program and that's literally as much as I make with my faceless channel. So I was telling them I've thought you literally everything you need to know and now some of my students are even surpassing me. I'm also in good terms with my parents again, which I'm so happy about and overall just really happy with life and even though.
There's a lot of dark times in my life. Nobody's life is perfect, even if it looks that way from the outside. I've had a much easier life than most people and I don't want this video to come across the wrong way. Obviously it is subjective, so people have even had easier lives than me. They still go through a lot of hardships and suffering and I totally understand that and your journey out there. Whoever's out there watching this video is going to look different than mine. But the reason I'm making this video is to show you that if I can have success. I literally almost gave up so many times throughout this journey. Then you can too. And I know I'm super young. But hopefully this can inspire people at any age that anything is possible. You can make your dreams come true if you put in the work and if you believe in yourself at any age. Now if you're ready to start writing your story and creating your journey whatever that might look like to you, then hopefully this video inspired you and if you got you interested in doing youtube at all, you can check out this video next to me right here. It's basically a completely free course which teaches you how to grow.
Faceless youtube channels and make money from them. So check it out. I'll see you right there. Feel free to subscribe as well. If you like this and I will see you next time.
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