The Claude AI “Second Income” Plan For People Who Can’t Quit Their Job Yet

In this video, I'm going to be giving you the Claude AI second income plan for people who can't quit their job yet. And this is the exact system that regular employed people are using to build income streams that grow into 12,000, 30,000, or even 186,000 in a single month in about 4 hours a week. And those are real people that I'm going to show you here in a minute. But this is coming from someone who lived it, right? I was a full-time pharmacist with a doctorate when I started, and I built my channel on lunch breaks and weekends. and YouTube was paying me two to three times more than what my pharmacy salary was while I was still counting pills. And today, I've got over 1.5 million subscribers, and I've made over $10 million from YouTube. And I've watched hundreds of community members with full-time jobs run this exact play. We're talking nurses, programmers, cyber security specialists, IT guys, doctors, a 50-year-old HVAC owner who'd never touched a camera in his life, and he still went from zero to a full-time income, making $214 in a day in his very first month after starting. So, when somebody tells you that the only path to success is to quit and go allin on a business, well, that's a hell of a lot easier to say when it's not your mortgage on the line. So, if you appreciate me making this type of content, you want to see me make more of it in the future, then let me know by gently cheersing that like button and let's go ahead and jump in right now. Okay, so let me open with a claim that sounds fake. A second income doesn't help you retire two times faster. It can help you retire three times faster. And I can prove it with math that a fifth grader could check. But first, a story. Little over a century ago, there was a patent clerk in Switzerland. And he had a full-time job. And he was working six days a week sitting at a desk reviewing other people's inventions. And this was a job that he took because no university would hire him. And at night after work, this guy writes four physics papers. One of them was the theory of relativity. And his name was Albert Einstein. And here's the part that everybody forgets. He didn't quit. He stayed at that patent office for four more years after publishing the papers that rewrote physics. Even though he was very famous, had a lot of opportunities out there, and could have made a lot more money, he still didn't leave until four years after. So, the most famous breakthrough of the 20th century was a second income built by a man who couldn't quit his job yet. So, no, you're not behind because you still have a job. You are in the exact position that this plan was designed for. And I know because I ran this play myself. I was a full-time pharmacist, doctorate and everything. And I started a channel about the education and career questions that I wish someone had answered for me when I was younger. And my plan going in was honestly kind of ridiculous. I was going to post helpful videos for 10 years. I was going to give value and expect absolutely nothing in return. And if nothing happened after a decade, then fine, I'd stop. But it didn't take 10 years. Within months, it was a full-time income. And I still didn't quit, right? I still kept working my job for over 2 years after I got to a full-time income from YouTube. And there were some months where I was making two to three times more from YouTube than I was from my job. But now for the math. This is how you can retire three times faster, not just two times faster. Say you make $10,000 a month at your job. And your costs are $5,000 a month. And we're just keeping the numbers simple on purpose so it's easy to follow along. So that leaves $5,000 a month that you can invest. And that $5,000 is what's actually building your future. Now let's add on a second income of $10,000 a month. Your income doubled, but your costs didn't. See, rent is not going to double just because you're making double the amount of money. Groceries don't double either. So now you're investing $15,000 a month instead of $5,000. So it's the same job, same costs, but it's three times the wealth building speed. So think of your money like a bathtub. Your job is a faucet. Your costs are the drain, and the water level is your freedom. Most people try to get free by shrinking the drain. They skip the coffee, they clip coupons, and the tub barely notices. But a second income is a second faucet. The drain stays the same size, but the tub fills three times faster. And I run my numbers through that tub. And the wild part is even if I had never quit pharmacy. The channel alone would have let me retire somewhere around the age of 35. But you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, I don't have $10,000 a month to spare just lying around." And I totally get it. But that's what the rest of this video is all about. And the vehicle to make this happen is boring and it's more available than you think. Quick break. I'm going to be doing a live training this week on how to start YouTube step by step for beginners. This is going to be for people who want to start a channel, but they don't know what niche to pick, what videos to make, or how to actually get started the right way. And it's a completely free training. No strings attached. In fact, I'm giving away even more bonuses at this training. Just as an example, I'm going to be giving away my niche validator, which works for Chatabt as well as Claude Skills, which is a super valuable piece of software where you can finally figure out what the best niche for you is. So, do not miss out on this training. Make sure you sign up for it down in the description and the pin comment below because you only get it if you join the training. So, if you don't join now, you might miss out on it forever. But that being said, in the workshop, you'll get to meet me and you'll get to ask me questions directly. So, I look forward to seeing you. So, click the link in the description and the pin comment below this week, make sure you put on your calendar. And if for whatever reason you missed out on it or you weren't able to attend, make sure you still click that link because we might be having workshops in the future as well and you'll be the first to know about it. So, yeah, hope to see you there. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. So, let's talk about why a YouTube channel, right? Why not drop shipping, freelancing, print on demand, or whatever else your feed is yelling about this week. It's simple. Every side hustle that you've ever heard of works and almost none of them work part-time. And here's what I mean. Picture a freelancer who's genuinely good. Great designer, great writer, whatever. You know what she does every night after her day job? She's not designing. She's cold messaging 40 strangers hoping that one person answers. Or the online shop with beautiful products and they got 11 visitors and zero sales this week. Well, the products were never the problem. The traffic was. Every business on Earth needs one thing before anything else, which is attention. buyers finding you. And for basically all of human history, you had exactly two ways to get it. You could pay for it or you could get picked to get it. Aka TV, radio, a publisher, somebody with a platform choosing you. Now, paying takes the money that you are trying to make. And getting picked isn't a plan. It's a lottery ticket. Which is why most side hustles quietly turn into prospecting jobs. You finish 8 hours of work and then you clock into three more hours of hunting for customers. And that is not a second income. That's a second job. And it's dressed up as freedom. So there's exactly one door left, the one social media opened, and that is you post content and the traffic comes to you. So think of it like this. Hustles that need daily prospecting are hunting. The day that you stop hunting is the day that you stop eating. And a YouTube channel is planting an orchard. You plant a tree on Saturday and it grows Monday through Friday while you're at work. So videos that you made last month bring buyers this month. And I'm not messing around when I say this. We have literally gotten $100,000 contracts from videos that we posted 5 years ago. And the funny thing is the video that we posted 5 years ago didn't even have that much to do with the service that we were offering. They just stumbled upon the video, looked in the description, clicked the link, and they ended up signing with us. Right? So, you post a video one time and it's basically like a little soldier that you just hired for $0 that works 24/7, never takes a day off, and it's just going to go out, get you views, get you subscribers, and make you money forever. And this is exactly why YouTube is the only vehicle in this plan. Not because I'm the YouTube guy. Okay, partially because I'm the YouTube guy, but it's because it's the one side hustle where a person with a full-time job can genuinely compete with people doing it full-time because the algorithm does not check your employment status. So, here's the actual plan, and I'm going to show you somebody running it before I explain a single step. My brother Zach. He's 50 years old. He runs an HVAC business full-time. He does real estate on the side, and somehow he has more of an active social life than I do. So basically, he's a very busy guy. Now, he is not a tech guy. He has never made a video in his life. He is not particularly charismatic. But the script that he wrote for his very first video that blew up and got 800,000 views took him about 15 minutes to write with Claude doing the heavy lifting. And 29 days after starting, he made $214 in a single day. Now, that's a $70,000 year run rate. So, he went from zero to a full-time income in less than one month. And then just last month, he made over $18,000. And he is not special, right? He's using the same playbook that I'm giving you today. So, here's the whole plan in one sentence. One niche YouTube channel about 4 hours a week, one video a week to start with Claude as the staff that you can't afford to pay. And that last part is the unlock because it used to be that starting a YouTube channel would be terrible advice for busy people, right? It used to be four different part-time jobs. Researcher, writer, strategist, marketer, etc. and Claude collapsed all four into a $20 a month employee that works whenever you have 11 spare minutes. Right? It used to be that if you wanted to write a good script, you'd either have to pay somebody else to do it for you or you'd have to spend 5 to 10 hours doing it yourself. Now you can literally write a really high quality script that's personalized to you that is not AI slop because the source of information is coming from you and you can write it in a few minutes on your lunch break or while you're going to the bathroom or on your morning walk or you can talk out loud to Claude while you're driving safely of course. So the phases here are going to be simple. Pick the niche, find proven video ideas, write with Claude, package it, record and then publish and repeat. And listen, I'm not going to pretend that every phase fits in one video because the first two, the right niche and finding video ideas that are already proven to work are where 90% of people quietly fail. You get those wrong and nothing else matters. You get them right and it's honestly hard to lose. So, here's how to start. Open the channel this week. This takes like 10 minutes. You know, use a simple working name. You can use your own name or something very similar to your own name. You can change it later. Block your first 4 hours on the calendar, like a shift that you can't skip. Grab the free light cla skills linked in the description and the pin comment below. It should be the third link down there. Use them and then do not buy a camera, right? Your phone is completely fine or you could just use the webcam on your laptop. And just as an example, Nurse Jyn, who was watching a video just like this about 3 months ago, joined a free live training, which we're actually doing the next one this week, so click that link in the description in the pin comment below. And then she recorded videos with her webcam on her laptop and almost immediately blew up. Three of her videos have over 600,000 views. She was making a full-time income about a month and a half after starting. And just this last month, she made over $10,000 in a single month. And if you want to see exactly how we helped her do that, the step-by-step simple system, and get access to our free niche validator, Claude AI, which is going to help you either pick your niche in the first place if you don't have one, or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. Then click the link in the description in the pin comment below to attend our live training cuz we will be giving it away completely free there. And do not miss out on it because seats are limited. Last time we literally ran out of seats and people couldn't get in. So click that link in the description, the pin comment below to check it out. The live training will be the first link in the description in the pin comment below. All right, so four hours a week sounds like a guru number, right? There's even the 4hour work week by Tim Ferrris. So, let me show you where the hours actually live. Starting with a community member who shames every excuse that I've ever heard, which is Nurse Jen. She drives around the country in a camper van. She records her videos in the van and she writes them with AI whenever she has a spare pocket of time. And that's her studio, a vehicle in a van and she records the video with her webcam and that's it. And by the way, she's able to travel around in that van because she was able to quit her nursing job because of our YouTube systems. Okay, so here's the operating system. Once a month, you sit down one or two hours and you come up with your video ideas. And that's going to be enough for the entire month, right? That's it for ideas. One session. Then for scripts, this is the part that used to eat people alive and now it happens in the cracks of your day, right? Lunch breaks, waiting room, you know, you're in line at the pharmacy waiting for your prescription. I'd know all about this cuz I was the pharmacist. Maybe while you go to the bathroom, while you're taking a walk, while you're driving, whatever. and you open Claude on your phone and you just yap, right? You talk to it like you'd talk to a friend about the topic and then you let Claude fill in all the boring stuff. Now, remember my brother's script took him 15 minutes and that video blew up and got over 800,000 views, right? So, the titles, the thumbnails, the intros, just batch them one sitting a month recording once per day. Some people record weekly, some every 2 weeks. But if you batch smart, you can knock out a month of videos in one Saturday morning. Now, my record for recording videos in a single day is 25 videos in one day. And I know that is absolutely absurd, but I actually did it. I've also recorded 21 videos in a day, and that is absolutely wild. Like, that's insane. Don't recommend doing that. But realistically, you can easily record 3 to five videos in a day. I've just optimized this stuff to the point where I could probably work a couple weeks at the beginning of the year and then I would have videos for the rest of the year if I wanted to. Right? So, you can almost think of this like meal prep, right? You don't cook 21 times a week. You cook Sunday, you meal prep it, and then you eat it all the rest of the week. Same food, fraction of the kitchen time. So, your channel works the same way. One idea session, script snacks throughout the week, and then one cook day of recording, and you're eating content all month long. And the output when you're starting is just one video a week. And I'll be straight with you, through a lot of expensive trial and error in the education space, I found that three videos a week gets the fastest results. Three videos a week is better than one video a week, and it's also better than five or seven videos a week overall. So, we always recommend that people get up to three videos a week if possible, but one a week is completely fine to start with because consistency beats intensity here. Now, let me show you the single biggest cloud secret that we teach because this is where most people's AI scripts go wrong. So, watch this. So, what I do here is I record a voice memo on my phone. 3 minutes of me rambling about the topic just off the top of my head, right? Then I paste the transcript into Claude and I say, "Turn this into a YouTube script in my voice." And then the magic words, "Enter interview me until you have enough information to give me a really good answer." Instead of spitting out generic AI slop, Claude starts asking me questions. You know, questions like, "What happened next? What did it cost? What would you tell a beginner?" And my answers are the script. Now, that one sentence is the difference between AI content that sounds like everybody else and content that could have only come from you. Right? Claude is basically interviewing you like it's a ghostriter for a book that you're writing. and it's going to ask you questions. You're going to answer those questions and that is what's going to make the content actually come from you. You are the source even though you didn't have to do most of the heavy lifting. And by the way, if you weren't aware, 99% of the time when your favorite athlete or your favorite artist or politician or whatever comes out with a book, they didn't actually write it themselves. A ghost writer interviewed them, got all the context they needed from them, and then the ghostriter wrote the book. So Claude is literally like a ghostriter for you. So here are some really good prompts. I'm going to put them up on the screen. You can copy and paste them into Claude if you want to. Highly recommend that you also download the Claude skills which is again the third link in the description in the pin comment below. But real expectations because I promised you no hype. Some community members hit a full-time income in their very first month. We've actually had a lot of people do that at this point. But realistically for a lot of people, it's 2 to 3 months before this starts paying real money. But the thing that's different about YouTube than almost any other side hustle out there is it just keeps growing over time. So yes, it is a slow burn. you know, most successful people are making money in the first two to three months and you could hypothetically make money faster with some of these other methods, but it also just keeps growing on the back end. Whereas, if you started doing like Task Rabbit or something, and you know, sure, you could make money with TaskRabbit right away, but it's not going to grow nearly as much over time. You're going to hit a ceiling very quickly. So, if that timeline offends you, then this isn't your video. We like working with people that think long term. Now, you might be thinking, Shane, I'm exhausted after work. I hear you. So, don't use after work. Use before work, right? Wake up early, use breaks, use the weekend, use the waiting room. A lot of this stuff you can literally do in those little moments of the day that you're checking Instagram or Tik Tok or YouTube or whatever. Instead of doing that, you can be writing scripts on Claude. And let me be real with you for a second. US adults spend on average about 4 and 1/2 to 5 hours a day on their phones. So don't tell me that you don't have a little bit of extra time to write the scripts when you're in those situations where you're bored and there's nothing to do and you're looking at your phone, right? You have the hours. You're just spending them scrolling through somebody else's channel instead of building your own. Now, this is tough love, I know, but I say it because I've watched people with way harder schedules than yours pull this off. And you're about to meet them. For instance, Dr. Danny, who I was just talking to yesterday, joined our community, pivoted her niche, and within 2 months, she got over a million views on YouTube. And these are long form views. These aren't short views. These are a million long- form views. Now, Dr. Danny, I promise you, is much much busier than 99.99% of people watching this video. And she still made it work. So, here's how to start. Sunday, 60 minutes with Claude on the video ideas. Use prompt number two. I'll put that up on the screen again for a second. Then Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 20 minute lunch break script sessions. Yap first and then polish after. That's from prompt number one. I'll put that up on the screen here in a second. Again, copy and paste that and put it into cloud if you'd like. And then Saturday, 90 minutes to record one video with your phone or your webcam. And then Sunday, 30 minutes to title it, thumbnail it, and publish it. And the total is right around 4 hours. Now, again, you don't have to do this weekly. You could just batch it all once a month. And then it could get even more efficient than that. But I can tell you that my brother Zach spent 4 hours a week or less getting his channel to a full-time income. And he's a very busy guy. Same thing with Dr. Danny. So, if they can do it, you can do it as well. All right. Now, let's talk about the employed hall of fame. So, nobody in the next few minutes that I'm going to go over quit their job to start. Not even one of them. Watch what happened. Anyways, Josh Madakor, community member in the cyber security and IT niche. And while working full-time, he was making genuinely useful videos. Which certifications actually matter to get into the right types of jobs, which jobs you should even try to get into, whether you should go to college or not, and if you should go to college, which college you should go into to land these different jobs, how to land the right roles, etc., etc. the content that he wished existed when he was coming up. No gimmicks, just useful information. And then something backwards happened. The channel started getting him hired because he became the authority in that lane. And Fortune50 companies and fang companies even started reaching out to him with offers. Now, just to put this in perspective, fang companies have a lower acceptance rate than Ivy League universities. And people who do get into fang companies typically on average apply to them for years before they get in. and they were reaching out to him and offering him a job. So, he takes his literal dream job, multiple six figures a year, getting to travel, right? Because it's a remote job. And he ends up living in Japan, which was his lifelong dream. And that channel was supposed to be the side thing, but it upgraded him to the main thing, right? So, the channel kept growing. First, he was making less than $1,000 a month when he first started working with me. Then 5,000 a month. Then 10,000 a month. Then 30,000 a month. And eventually he made $186,000 in a single month in the time that he worked with us. And at that point, keeping the job stopped making sense, so he left. But he left on his terms, on his timeline. So the channel never forced a choice. It bought him one. Then there's Richard Walls. He might be the single busiest community member that I've ever worked with. Like this guy was so busy he could barely even respond to my emails or my messages, right? And he was working 80 plus hours a week at a Fortune50 company as a product manager, right? So he was responsible for like $100 million product launches. So the man could literally only work about 2 hours a month. Okay? Two hours a month. The time we worked together, he got to $12,000 in a single month, right? Barely working at all. He got to $12,000 in a single month. So if Richard has the time, you've got the time as well. Antoine Wade's another example. He was already crushing it in tech sales, making over $500,000 a year as a master in tech sales. And then he had the channel on the side. And the job plus the channel together cleared over $100,000 a month. And my favorite part is he actually stayed for a long time because he really likes his job and he likes his book of business that he's built up, but he's just also stacking a second fortune next to it right now. So dual income, but zero permission needed. And for balance, one of my clients, Isaiah, made nearly $30,000 in a single month when he first started with us. And he went the exact opposite way. The moment he started making money after starting with us, and by the way, he was teaching people how to sing better. He's a vocal coach. But the moment he started making money after he started with us, he quit his job as fast as humanly possible, right? And he was in sales as well. So both roads are open. And it's not just these four, right? Carla Singen, she landed a contract worth over $100,000 with a channel of about 1,400 subscribers. and her videos only got 100 to 200 views per video. Nicole, she made it to over $80,000 in a single month. And when she first started working with me, she had 85 subscribers. And she did it just by teaching women how to get into cyber security jobs, specifically a cyber security job called governance, risk, and compliance. Then there's Craig. He's a realtor in his 70s and he has one of the biggest realy businesses in Montana. One of his very first videos with us did over a h 100,000 views. Then there's Clifford. He made it to $30,000 a month, and he actually did it across three separate channels, which we typically don't recommend. Then there's Shawn. He went from $30,000 a month all the way up to over $500,000 a month working with us. And then there's Felix, who now makes multiple eight figures a year. And the lion share of it comes from his YouTube channel. And he came from a banker background. And guys, I could just go on and on, right? But you might be thinking, "Sure, but those people had credentials, a background, something that I don't have." Respectfully, no. Almost every person that you just saw started the same way that I did. They made the content that they wished existed. Most of the knowledge that they have on the channel, they already had because they had experience and they just let the channel turn them into the authority. And that's not luck. It's not talent. That's the system. Which brings us to the question that you've been waiting on. When are you actually allowed to quit? Well, first one more story because this one reframed the whole thing for me. There was an accountant in Oregon. He had a business degree from a fancy school who spent his weekends selling Japanese running shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets. And he did not quit his day job. He stayed an accountant. Then he took a job teaching accounting. Roughly 5 years of day jobs while the shoe thing grew on the side. And that shoe thing was Nike. And the accountant was Phil Knight. So the day job was never the enemy of the dream. The day job was the funding round. And that is exactly what a second income plan looks like when you can't quit your job yet. The paycheck can bankroll the build. So, here's the rule that I give people, and I'm keeping it deliberately conservative here. Two green lights. Green light one, your second income has been consistently beating your main income. Not one lucky month, but consistently beating your main income. Green light two, you've got about 12 months of living expenses sitting in cash. A full year of runway. Hit both and quitting isn't a leap anymore. It's a step, right? It's like climbing with a rope. You don't uncip because you're tired of the rope. You uncip when your feet have been flat on the next ledge long enough to trust it. Now, with that being said, you could just keep stacking that second income, keep working your main job, and then just retire three times faster. I personally kept working for over 2 years after I was making significantly more money from YouTube than I was from my pharmacy job. And looking back on that, it probably was a mistake. But that's with 2020 vision, right? Cuz everyone says that your hindsight is 2020, right? Hindsight vision, right? I probably would have grown my business significantly faster if I would have quit my job right away. With that being said, it's not always the case. So, I'm still pretty happy that I made that decision. But some of the smartest people that I know hit both green lights and stayed anyways, right? Bill Hannah, the financial controller. He's making multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the job. He's a financial controller, obviously, and then also making multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the channel, and he kept both for a long time on purpose. Antoine, last time I checked, is still in tech sales as well, and he's still stacking. And me, well, full transparency, YouTube passed my pharmacy salary, then doubled it, then tripled it, and I still kept counting pills for two more years. And I kind of got stuck around $30,000 a month while I was working my job. And I couldn't really break past that. But then after I quit, I was able to scale to over 100,000 a month, then over 300,000 a month, and then scale past that. And now I've made over $10 million from YouTube. And I can easily retire at this point. But with that being said, if I would have just kept working my pharmacy job and kept making money from YouTube, and let's just say it never got past $30,000 a month, I still would have been able to retire around the age of 35. Because the plan was never about the exit. It's about having a choice, right? Josh chose to leave. Bill chose to stay. Isaiah sprinted out the door as fast as possible. Richard barely changed a thing. Every one of them won because every one of them got to choose. So, let's land this plane. One niche, one video a week, about 4 hours, most of them hiding in your lunch breaks, Claude as the staff that you can't afford to pay, and a paycheck funding the whole build while you sleep at night. That's the plan. And now that you know more about building a second income than 99% of people posting about it, which is honestly a hell of a place to be on a random weekday. And remember, if there's some other side hustle that you're doing, right? Maybe you're starting an agency or you're doing coaching or you want to sell digital products or you want to sell physical products or you want to sell services, all of those other side hustles work like 10 times better if you have a YouTube channel. Okay, so a YouTube channel works really well on top of just about any other side hustle out there. So, a lot of those other side hustles, they seem like they're not that much work. I mean, oh, I could just create a course and then sell it. Yeah, creating the course doesn't take that long, but then you're going to spend all of your time marketing and selling the course, unless you have a YouTube channel where you make videos, where the videos are doing all the marketing and the sales for you. Now, I know that 99% of you are going to watch this. You're going to nod along. You're going to get a ton of value from these videos. You're going to click the links in the description, the pin comment below, get those free resources, like the free AIS, for instance. You're going to get a ton of value out of those. And you're going to attend my live training. Click the link in the description, the pin comment below. Should be the first link there. And you're going to get a ton of value out of that. And that is completely free as well. And we are never going to end up working together. And that's totally fine. I always want to give way more value than I receive and expect nothing in return. Right? I've been like that since day one. With that being said, there's going to be 1% of you out there, maybe 0.1% of you out there that are watching this and you're thinking, "I want one-on-one mentorship. I want to do this on my own to get there the quickest, fastest way possible, and I don't want it to be a massive headache." Or you want us to literally just do the work for you. If that sounds like you, go ahead and book a call by clicking the second link in the description in the pin comment below. On this call, we'll figure out where you are right now, where you want to be. We'll make a plan to get there, and we'll see if we're a good fit to work together or not. It is very expensive. We give all the information away for free, and we sell the implementation. So, do not book this call unless you are very dedicated to growing and making money on YouTube. The types of people we typically work with are going to be professionals with at least 10 years of experience or people who are overachievers and they have a lot of value to give to the world. We work with business owners that want to get more leads and want to make more sales and build their brand on YouTube. We work with YouTubers who are getting a lot of views, but they're struggling with the monetization side. We work with YouTubers who are crushing it, but they want to crush it even harder. And we work with people who are big on other social media platforms or maybe they have a book, something like that, right? They're already an expert in their field and they want to come over to YouTube and be an authority on YouTube because they know that YouTube is the best. So, if that sounds like you, go ahead and book that call by clicking the link in the description, the pin comment below, and we look forward to talking to you. With that being said, click this video right here to see how I picked a random member of my family and got them from zero to a full-time income in less than one month. And you can check that out by clicking right here.