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The Long Game: How Reno James Grew His YouTube Channel with Consistency and Cross-Platform Strategy

YouTube Creators Hub

Dusty Porter

Business, Marketing

4.7551 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this week's episode of the YouTube Creators Hub Podcast, the host interviews Reno James, a former D1 swimmer turned social media influencer, who shares his journey of growing across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. 

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My name is Reno James! I just graduated with a finance degree and am a former D1 swimmer at Cleveland State University. After graduation, I took a full-time job and moved out to Arizona, where I decided to go all-in on social media. I started posting every day, sharing my daily routine, fitness, lifestyle, and what it's really like chasing growth while living alone. Since then, I've grown across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube by showing up consistently and keeping it real.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Working when things are going bad is so much harder than when things are going good.

0:05.3

So you've got to take the emotions away from it.

0:08.4

And that's something that I've gotten a lot better at.

0:11.2

And it's something that people have to experience.

0:14.8

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the YouTube Creators Hub podcast.

0:17.9

Hope you're having a great day whenever and however you are listening to the show. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast, whether it be on YouTube or an audio show. It doesn't really matter. We go live with new episodes on Friday. We're brought to you by all the things that we have to offer you. I offer YouTube one-on-one coaching and consultation. If you're looking to grow your channel and we'd like to work with someone, definitely check that out. I do channel reviews and channel audits. If you're not quite ready for a coach just yet and you want to have a little bit of a smaller barrier to entry, definitely check that out. And we've grown our creators community over on Discord. Five bucks a month gets you in that group. You can chat with creators all through the week.

0:54.6

We do a monthly mastermind call that I host on Zoom and I release new weekly exclusive podcast

1:00.0

episodes every Friday on that feed as well. So definitely go check out all of those things that we have

1:05.4

to offer you. But if you're looking to start, grow, or monetize a YouTube channel, this is where

1:09.8

you need to be. Subscribe to the show. We have new amazing creator guests every single week. So with that

1:15.0

said, let's jump into the conversation. Hello everyone and welcome to this week's conversation

1:19.1

on the YouTube Creators Hub podcast. I'm so excited today to be joined by Reno James. Reno just

1:26.0

graduated with a finance degree. He's a former D1 swimmer at

1:30.2

Cleveland State University. And after graduation, he took a full-time job and moved out to Arizona,

1:35.5

where he decided to go all in on social media. He started posting every day, sharing his daily

1:40.9

routines, fitness, lifestyle, and what it's like chasing growth while living

1:45.6

alone. Since then, he's grown across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube by showing up consistently

1:50.2

and keeping it real. Currently, Reno's YouTube channel is growing like crazy with a great

1:57.0

community that he has over there. It's again, R o james over on youtube reno how you doing the day

2:02.7

i'm doing great thank you for having me on um looking forward to it yeah let's go ahead and just

2:08.6

podcast ever so this is oh nice let's get into it then how did you start the youtube channel what was

2:14.3

the origin story of the channel oh that's my favorite question so back with me and my cousin way back were kids, right?

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