He Quit Corporate at 44 | Hit Full-Time YouTube in 12 Months
YouTube Creators Hub
Dusty Porter
4.7 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Episode 500! Ty Myers left a 20-year corporate career at 44 and hit full-time YouTube income in 12 months — with no prior video experience. He breaks down his $3,500 mentorship, why most creators spend their time completely backwards, and the fastest on-ramp to leaving your 9-to-5.
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Ty Myers left a 20-year corporate career in late 2024 to go full-time on YouTube at 44. In 21 months, he's grown to 33K+ subscribers and built a coaching business around helping mid-life creators start, grow, and monetize on YouTube — without burning out chasing hustle culture.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're more active with it, then you can sell your own offer, your own product, your own |
| 0:04.4 | service, and you can charge whatever the market will pay. |
| 0:08.1 | And so I've mentioned this in some of my videos that I think the quickest on-ramps of |
| 0:12.5 | full-time income on YouTube is one-to-one coaching because it's easy to set up, pretty low |
| 0:18.8 | friction. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode, episode 500 of the Creators Hub podcast. |
| 0:26.9 | Man, I cannot believe I've been doing this show now almost 16 years. |
| 0:31.9 | That is just nuts to me. |
| 0:33.9 | Our guest today is Ty Myers. |
| 0:56.6 | A bit about Ty. Ty left a 20-year corporate career in late 2024 to go full-time on YouTube at 44 years old. In 21 months, less than two years, he's grown to 33,000 plus subscribers, I believe now looking at his channel, yep, right at 33,000 subscribers, and he's built a coaching business around helping midlife creators start, grow, |
| 1:01.5 | and monetize on YouTube without burning out chasing the hustle culture. Ty, how are you doing |
| 1:07.2 | today? I'm doing well, and first of all, congratulations on 500 episodes. |
| 1:12.0 | That's an amazing milestone. |
| 1:13.4 | So it's good to be here. |
| 1:14.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah, I appreciate that. |
| 1:16.9 | It means a lot. |
| 1:17.6 | So on your YouTube channel, it says on the banner, it says clarity, confidence, and community, |
| 1:24.6 | join our growing community of midlife, 40 plus content creators and entrepreneurs. |
| 1:30.1 | I love that tagline. I love the mission of your channel. And speaking of mission, if you haven't |
| 1:35.0 | already and you're listening to this, subscribe to the podcast. That way you know when we go |
| 1:38.5 | live with new episodes. Also, we have a ton of offerings for creators of all shapes and sizes. |
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