Although I have 135k subscribers, I do think "serial entrepreneur" is a more accurate description but I'll get into that more below...
Hey! My name is Chelsea and I am 24 years old.
@BrianTurner (legitimately one of my best friends even though we're on the opposite sides of the country...miss you Brian and @sammymarie!) has been on me for WEEKS about making an account and checking this out, and after a while it's become really clear that this is a big deal and seems to be here to stay. With how spread out my interests are, I REALLY like the structure of this site and can't wait to post more...especially things beyond fitness like I've tailored my YouTube channel to focus on.
Hopefully you'll all get to know me better as time passes on, but I want to summarize my last 5 years on the internet as well as a bit about myself to kick things off. I accidentally stumbled into fitness YouTube in 2012 while posting as I was finishing up my Ex Phys degree when the channel took off in the first year. That growth has changed my life forever by allowing me to travel and see things that uncovered my passion for all things surrounding business. I love starting projects and getting my hands into whatever I can to learn as much as possible and expand my skillset.
It began in 2014 when I launched my clothing company, RTB Apparel. The support was massive and was the first thing that got me really hungry to see what else I could create that would serve people and create an awesome community.
Between 2014-2015, I did a lot of twitch live-streaming and built a decent following, which I continued until I was simply too busy to continue playing games and was already in the process of opening my first physical business. To end my run on twitch, I did a 24 hour livestream that raised $5k for Save the Children as well as being involved in some other community charity events and donating about $1,500 to those. Right after that event, I opened my gym, RTB Training and Performance. I'm a certified strength and conditioning coach, so was involved in more than just owning and running the gym - I coached powerlifters, olympic weightlifters, and highschool and college athletes.
Fast forward to the end of 2016, I started dabbling in investment properties/flipping houses after learning as much as I possibly could. I found a foreclosure, fixed it up, and am actually using it as a full workspace for the time being to finally separate work from home. Right now, I'm printing all of my own apparel in house...literally!
That brings us to current times: I've really become interested in cryptocurrency after realizing how crucial of a step blockchains are in technology moving forward. As an ex-RuneScape nerd (played 550+ full days of gameplay between accounts since '05...anyone else!?!?) that got totally addicted to merching, I've become just as interested in flipping as the technology itself.
I've been doing some day and swing trading on GDAX without the huge barriers of entry that day trading stocks has and it feels like I'm "at home" again.. I truly loved what I did on RuneScape, and although I don't know why I loved it so much, I can say I'm currently experiencing the same type of euphoria trading - except now it is helping to pay my bills! I know many people frown upon doing many things rather than becoming a master at one thing, but personally, I couldn't be happier. Anyone else?
All of these things have melded together to create a life I'm so thankful for. My clothing company started a snowball that still hasn't stopped, and allowed me to do and enjoy things I never thought I'd be able to. I've gotten to enjoy travel, freedom to make my own schedule, and even gotten to dive into something I've always had interest in...cars! I won't be posting about them much here because I know it can be off-putting to people who don't care, but here are my beasts: the BMW M6 and Lotus Evora S:
This is getting long so I'll wrap it up here - I had some anxiety writing this... why? I'm not too sure. I guess it's just because I'm excited and really hope this platform grows the way I, and most of you, envision it could.
I'll be posting some of my videos that I think this community may enjoy, as well as getting involved in discussion in lots of things outside of fitness... particularly cryptos. Community is everything and I'm going to make sure I'm a part of it.
If you have any questions for me, drop them below..I'd love to start a conversation!
See you all around! :)
Welcome to a platform that will make u forget l other social media
Speaking of which, I haven't been back to my twitter page since.. Well, FOREVER LOL. :D
You know there's actually twitter like service built upon Steem? https://zappl.com/#!/ still in beta but you should give it a try some day.
@jaye-irons Like the post above me check out Zappl.com.
We have services everywhere for SteemIt!
Dlive
Dtube
Steepshop
Check them all out!
Agree @journeyoflife i am addicted and it's strange as its unusual of me to be so hooked on something digital
Lol, no doubt bout dat...
haha yeah you won't have time for anything else!
heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine
Appreciate it guys <3 :)
Thank you for the motivation
Welcome to the platform! People like you coming to steemit make it better every day.
Personally, I am very grateful to be part of this community and I am sure that you will be too! Folks on this platform are amazing and everyone is excited to post, comment and curate. You will notice a tight knit community, better than on Youtube, even if we are less in numbers.
Wish you the best!
Let's hope Steemit puts enough pressure on YouTube to stop them from demonitising everything.
We are becoming bigger and better withany people signing in and sharing it to every one it's awesome here can't get enough of it @marc99
Welcome aboard you are just in time for takeoff. Sit back post away and enjoy the ride!😄 🚀
Welcome to Steemit @chelsealifts this is a really Dope Platform wish you much success..enjoy😀
Pls,make upvoted and comments my site.I do also to you.
You're likely to be muted rather than upvoted with comments like that. Just a tip.
heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine
Great stuff!
Welcome ;)
Would you be able to post a picture with a steemit sign for verification? There is a lot of identity theft going on the last days, if you are real, this sould be in your best interest!
Anyways, resteemed this via @welcoming, my account for showcasing promising newcomers!
Greets :)
I'll definitely be doing that shortly! You can rest assured though - @brianturner is the one who brought me on :)
I am quite rested, I don't think you are a fake, otherwise I wouldn't have upvoted and shared it ;) Still would love to see a verification so that others follow and do the same :)
Definitely!
@theaustrianguy would you mind helping a newbie here by restraining my post I am no fake just a newbie who still have much to earn thanks in advance @theaustrianguy
Hey austria
welcome to join friend, hope you can work well distemem this, regards to know from me @rerycore steemian origin indonesia
Welcome to steemit also check out dtube to post your videos to earn a little more steem from your posting if you like it is somewhat like youtube.
How to do the dtube? @bitcoinflood thanks for mentoring a newbie me
Hello Chelsea you welcome to this platform. I am new here myself but i believe you will have a great time here.
Welcome to Steem
Welcome :)
Such dedicated...
Welcome to steemit @chelsealifts. You should try dtube and bring your youtube subscribers here. By combining steemit & dtube, you will earn more than what you earn from youtube. At the same time you will give great value to the platform by bringing your amaazing 115k subscribers here !
@sonny. dharmawan please help me. With dtube
hi @gratefulayn, just go to https://d.tube/ and login using your steemit username and postkey. And then press 'upload video' button at the top right of the page... that's all.
And for your info, you can also integrate your account with dsound (https://dsound.audio), dmania (https://dmania.lo), and steepshot (https://steepshot.io/) the 'instagram like' platform.
Welcome to Steem! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your posts! Hope you get the word out and bring some of those YouTube followers over!
YES! 2 of my best friends from YouTube on here, how many more can we bring in? Obese to Beast is next!
Impressive work on onboarding! Have you seen how @davidpakman has utilized his position in Youtube to gain attraction here on Steemit? Those who manage to also bring most of their viewers along will do the best over here.
Yah, I'm helping bring the creators that I can on board and hope that they bring their audiences too!
<3 John needs to get in here ASAP
heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine
hey you have nice biceps.. pray for your steem career
Welcome!
welcome to steemit
from your first post I can see you're going to become a fast success here ^_^
Welcome to Steemit!
Welcome to Steemit! Super ambitious!
Welcome to Steem Community the most exciting platform ever @chelsealifts!
Tips: Don't forget to share this post on your Facebook page, Google+, Twitter and the rest. It help advertise this platform for more newbies. Bless you.
As a splendid reminder, Kindly ensure to keep your master password safe. The best practise is to use your private posting key to login to Steemit when posting; and the private active key for wallet related transactions.
Remember to always post your best. Don't copy from written article online. Beware of @cheetah because she is ready to catch you, i.e, plagiarism is seriously frown upon here.
If you are a religion post writer too, you can get more exposure from this discord channel.
To mingle with great Nigerians like you. Join the movement on discord now.
I remain @omowunmi and ready to see you at the top if you are ready to go to the top.
@omowunmi
Steem is a great platform. It looks like you are smashing it already and it sounds like you will get plenty out of it on a tech front too. Welcome!
welcome to the party. you're going to fit right in! Nice to see such a great entrepreneurial mind here!
heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine
You are welcome to the steemit platform...see you around
Welcome
Hello welcome to the best social network that has been created I wish you the greatest success here on this platform. You already have it because of the experience you have.
I'm @haydeart and on the Discor channel it's a good place to chat.
Successes
Welcome to the platform - sounds like you have a lot to offer!!
Kate
looks like @BrianTurner is a pretty good friend whom didn't give up on you, welcome to steemit
Hey Chelsea, welcome to Steemit! I just started posting myself although I made my account last year, never too late ay. I follow you and @brianturner on yt, I have a clear memory of you and brian screen printing shirts in someones garage. Mad respect for the hustle.
Steemit looks like an interesting platform though, especially for someone (like me) with less of an established audience on yt/insta etc. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone does over here and totally expecting an influx of creators with the ad crisis going on.
Welcome to steemit @chelsealifts, hope you can share your experience, knowledge and story here, greeting friendship from me @muchtarudin, do not forget to follow and upvote me.
Wow - you've done so much nice things for yourself - go you! Look forward to videos, I need some fitness inspiration :)
Welcome to steemit!! Enjoy and steemOoon! Merry xmas happynewyear
I myself am new here on steemit. I am happy to see a youtuber here, gives me a positive feeling. I think steemit is much better than youtube.and will do better the more people know steemit. I am also new to crytocurrency. But like others, I have heard of bitcoin for a long time. but have never really tok time to learn what it stands for . I started buying in May 2017. I know a lot more but you never know enough, am also a big advocate for blockchain technology. Of course I hope to get to know nice people and of course cryptocurrency and how I can get more out of it. and sorry for my English I myself am from amsterdam. So in advance sorry for me spelling and wrong grammar
Welcome dear. Don't be anxious, Steemit is a wonderful friendly place. Make sure you read the FAQ fully, there are many notions that can need some getting used to. Enjoy and have fun.
P.S. Don't beat people around with those muscles ok? 😌
Thank you so much! I'm still finding my way around the site, so will likely be slow to reply for a while but am already loving the look of things!
EDIT: oh crap... I thought checking the box would upvote your post but apparently not. Point proven LOL
It's a learning curve, take your time. Once you master it, you'll be blogging with ease.
Really drakos? Friendly place nice to hear that because im new steemian
Great to see you on here. I follow a lot of youtube fitness channels such as yours and Alan Thrall. I actually have been considering starting writing about my passion for natural bodybuilding and while researching blogging platforms I cam across steemit.
It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out and as of this writing your first post has already earned $251.. COOL!
I would love to learn more about your day trading strategies on GDAX. Perhaps this is the most appropriate platform to start sharing other dimensions of your interests to some like minded folks.
I know my posts will be all over the map. Chelsea in your opinion should I stick to one topic or do you think an article about interpreting supplement labels can share the same space as an article about beekeeping?
Anyway I gave you a follow and a like and I look forward to hearing a lot more from you on this platform.
I came on here to look at the trending introduction posts and I think you nailed it.
Oh hai girl! WELCOME!
Hey @chelsealifts . Hope you remember me. Glad to see you on here :)
I've just recently found out about Steam and made my account a few hours ago.
Hope to hear from you.
Woah, awesome cars! It's pretty cool to see so many influencers making the jump here. Welcome to Steemit!
Hi! My name is also Chelsea & I also have a degree in exercise science. =)
Welcome to steemit
HAH that's awesome! Thank you! :)
No problem. Happy holidays!
Awesome ! you have enjoyed your enough , Now you should leave world ;) hahahha kidding .. Stay Blessed Dear..
Welcome! I just started here too and also have a passion for the gym life having worked for EHPLabs at the Arnold Classic for the past 4 years! I look forward to your future posts!
Super cool. Just subbed to your channel and looking forward to learn from you (as 2018 will be a health year ;).
Tip: Make sure to check out dtube as well.
Thank you for the tip!! I'll add that to the list of things to look in to :D
You're welcome ;)
We are both very similar lol... You can check out my Serial Entrepreneur post here https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@thecore/hello-steemians-serial-entrepreneur-traveling-the-world-new-here-to-provide-content
Welcome
Welcome @chelsealifts... Wanted to do an introduceyourself post, so I decided to read a couple.. js before. Its ridiculous!! I mean.. Who would have imagined?? I wanna go social!! Career leve! Someone finally listened!! and acted!! Nice post. Doing my first post in a moment..
Welcome @chelsealifts! Since I'm new here also I can just say keep on doing like this! Good luck! :)
Welcome @chelsealifts 😊 I’m also new here.
Cheers 🍻
Im also new steemian iwanderela, hope to hear from you
Welcome to steemit.
Beautiful strong body!