“The Creative Second Act” Podcast
Episode 1: Gave Up… But His Last Video Launched A 6-Figure YouTube Business
Host: Lisa Kostova
Guest: Drew Witt of Wittworks
Podcast Air Date: July 6, 2024
Welcome to the Creative Second Act, a show about creators, teachers and storytellers over 40 making an impact on YouTube and other platforms and their journeys of reinventing themselves. In the creative second act, our guest today, drew Witt, is a creator and maker with a broad range of skills, including creative storytelling, music, graphical art, product design and entrepreneurship. In 2020, after serving as a senior pastor for 10 years, drew launched a YouTube channel to educate and inspire beginner and intermediate woodworkers. Since 2021, his channel has grown to over 124,000 subscribers and has amassed over 10 million views. Drew also established Woodworks, which is a tool company linked to the YouTube channel, and that company generates a six-figure annual revenue from you will never guess printing 3D accessories for common woodworking tools. So great to have you on the show, drew. Welcome.
Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Glad to be here.
So we started the conversation before we grabbed our beverages, which in my case, it's a matcha tea. What are you drinking, Drew?
Well, I'm a Texas boy, so, dr Pepper, it's my Achilles heel. I like it too much. It should be illegal. How much I like it.
Does it have as much caffeine as a Coke?
Oh, probably, yeah, it's terrible.
So we were chatting before grabbing our Dr Peppers about how you introduce yourself, and you were telling me that when you get interviewed, people ask you how you like being an influencer, and so I want to kind of get your reaction to that question.