Hi, everyone.

Different sort of substack.

This was a little bit uncomfortable, but something that I felt that I needed to be said because I'm sort of touting what I've done or talking about myself. So, but anyway, I think this is important because I think it's a lesson. There are lessons here for everyone. And that is we have reached 750,000 subscribers. And I believe that you need to celebrate every single success. And we have

done it on our own as an independent media company. Really, a lot of it has been sheer.

Our success has been sheer force. We wield it into existence. So what a year, this is what I

want to put here to show you. Bet on yourself, what this year has taught me and what a year it has been.

Okay. So I'm going to go through this and I just want to read some of it and I'm going to react to it.

So when I first stepped into the world of streaming, there it is, 750,000 subscribers. There it is. So thank you from Don Lemon and the Don Lemon

show. When I first stepped into this wild world of streaming, it was 15 months ago now. I didn't even

know what would happen. I had no roadmap. I had no guarantee that any of this would work. And I had just left CNN. I'd

been there for nearly 17 years, almost two decades in corporate America. And let me just tell you,

when you have spent that long inside a system with all the infrastructure, with all the security,

all of that stuff, all of the steady rhythm of it.

You're taught that to believe that the brand, the brand, the logo, the building,

that's what matters, right?

You get so indoctrinated into that.

That's what matters.

And then one day, the building is no longer yours.

That's what happened to me. The cameras, the sets, gone.

The security badge doesn't work anymore.

And all you've got left is yourself. All you have left is yourself. It was daunting for me to say the least. I had no

corporate net, no nightly platform, just my voice, a video camera, a deep conviction that there were

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