Back in med school, I actually struggled a lot with learning from pure text. I realized pretty early on that I needed visuals to truly understand things, so I started drawing my own diagrams (just simple sketches to help myself study). At some point, I figured, why not put them into PowerPoint and record myself explaining them? Not for anyone else, just so I could rewatch them before exams. And since I needed a place to store the recordings, I uploaded them to YouTube. I mean, no one was going to see them anyway… or so I thought.

Then something unexpected happened. Other students started finding them helpful too. I wasn’t making money from YouTube, and making videos took hours of my time. My English wasn’t perfect, I had no editing skills, and I had no idea how to make a “good” video. But I enjoyed the process, and knowing that my videos were actually helping people kept me motivated.

By the time I graduated, I had spent years making videos next to my studies. After graduating, I was thinking of stopping YouTube since it was time-consuming. I figured it’d be better to just focus on my medical career and start my specialization journey. But in a short span of time, a lot happened, and I actually became burned out which forced me to take a step back. And for the first time, I asked myself… what if I took a break from medicine and actually tried growing this platform into something more?

And now, here we are.