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The Light Watkins Show

168: Robert "Brix" Glover Reveals The Secret To Growing A Viral YouTube Channel and The Personal Journey Behind It

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to start a successful YouTube channel? And how does that differ from building it once you’ve got it off the ground? Joining us today is return guest Robert Brix Glover, a health and fitness YouTuber whose first video (which documented his remarkable weight loss transformation) went viral and garnered him thousands of new subscribers back in 2016. Today that video has over six million views — and it’s not even the most viewed video on his channel! We first had Brix ...

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I knew when I felt that click that this was connected to my purpose here.

0:07.0

This was somehow connected to me serving humanity in some way, right? I figured it'd be in the fitness industry and I have videos like of me

0:18.0

310 pounds talking to the camera saying hey you know what I what, I'm going to get a six pack and

0:23.6

I'm going to help other people lose weight as well. Like I was still fat

0:28.0

saying this stuff. And again, I didn't even understand the concept of speaking

0:31.8

things into reality at the time.

0:34.1

It was just me speaking from my heart and I made all of these proclamations over my life.

0:43.0

Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show where I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who have taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission.

0:56.0

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who

1:05.4

witnessed them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.

1:10.8

And this week on the show I'm back in conversation with someone who I originally

1:14.8

interviewed back in episode 14 which aired almost three years ago in August of

1:22.1

2020 his name is Robert Glover, but he's better known by his YouTube

1:28.0

handle, which is Brix Fitness.

1:31.0

Brix is a Ytuber who documents his personal transformation of losing over 150

1:37.2

pounds and going from what he refers to as fat bricks which is the old version of

1:41.9

him to becoming fit bricks which is the old version of him, to becoming fit bricks, which is the current version.

1:46.0

His first video, which he posted when he only had about 50 subscribers, was a video that he literally

1:52.1

threw together in under an hour and he improvised this sort of voiceover narration

1:58.1

and it was a video that depicted the transformation using clips that he had collected over the years. This was many many years ago and that was the video that I originally saw that made me want to have bricks on my podcast back in 2020. And he said that when the video

2:15.0

went live within a few weeks he started getting thousands of new subscribers a day. The

2:20.5

video was going viral and it now has over six million views and that isn't even the most viewed video on his channel

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