I Made $97k My First Year of Being a Content Creator

Image created by Jada Dreyfus for author’s YouTube video.

I almost lied and said I made six figures because that would make a better headline. However, one of the lessons I’ve learned after making very nearly six figures in a year is that optics shouldn’t matter to me as much as they do. So I’m going with honesty here: I made $97k my first year of content creation and it was a blast.