The Week Of Reflecting And Ripping Around On A Motorbike

This Week:

The 3 social events I went to this week!
Reflecting on another year around the sun.
Ripping around Da Nang on a new motorbike.

April 2025

Su	M	T	W	Th	F	S
30	31	4/1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	5/1	2	3

Where In The World Was I?

🇻🇳 Da Nang, Vietnam

Metrics From The Week

Man, still struggling with the sleep routine. It, uh, didn’t help that I stayed up until midnight to finish editing and upload my video from this week oof 😅 (more on that later)

Not pictured:

Sunday morning pickleball
Tuesday night fitness studio class (intro to inversions)
Wednesday night pickleball

Business Update

Another report delivered ✅ Finally no longer backlogged.

Got more good feedback, creators saying they want to give me a great testimonial without even asking them for one.

Things are still taking a good while, but I’ve started to systematize more of my process and analysis which has felt very long-term valuable.

Personal Brand Update

Things are mostly going well, but my video from this week on my routine How I built a routine that works wherever I am in the world resonated with some people in the comments.

Yes this is good for my long-term brand building, and on-brand, but doesn’t help with my current YouTube strategy stuff, so still trying to figure out how to balance those.

Snaps From The Week

Got a haircut. Cost me 70k VND ($2.69). Cheapest haircut I’ve ever gotten and it was actually good 😮

Moved to an Airbnb for the week (it was ~$14/night)!

It was nice to have my own space.

AND laundry machine WOW that was so helpful.

But I did kind of miss just bumping into other people from hostels even if I don’t talk to everyone.

Maximum Procrastination

I waited until Wednesday to record+edit+upload my video this week.

I usually post at noon eastern time on Wednesdays which is 11pm local time.

Recorded in the afternoon,

played pickleball in the evening, 6-8pm,

then came back and edited it.

I was close to making it but was late about 30 minutes 😅, uploaded at ~11:30pm

Then I couldn’t get myself to just immediately go to bed, so stayed up an extra hour just on my phone.

Which ate into my sleep even further and pushed back my wake time.

I’m gonna uh, try to not do that again 😂

Social Fitness Events

I went to pickleball last Sunday morning as well and it was a lot of fun! Very hot (felt like a sauna), I was absolutely drenched in sweat (again).

We had some great games, then we all went out to lunch at a noodle place and then this local Vietnamese dessert place.

I got something like a “mixed sweet soup”

It was basically just everything put into one glass.

And that’s where I met the gaming livestreamer guy who wanted to get into YouTube as well.

I also went to an intro to inversions fitness studio class. It was interesting, fun, and very difficult.

It was a lot of wrist mobility and warmup, shoulder mobility, core strengthening, then dynamic handstand movements. Then we ended with some actual handstands along the wall and with partners.

I did my first handstand! (I think? I don’t remember the last time I did a handstand).

Getting down was VERY sketchy.

I made it the full whatever 30, 40, 60 seconds, whatever it was.

But my eyes were burning from sweat getting in them.

And my hands were starting to slip from the sweat dripping and pooling on the ground.

I slipped a little bit on my sweat but I caught myself and thankfully managed to get down without smashing my face into the concrete floor 😅

Tough! But fun!

The Special Day

Took the day off for my birthday to reflect on the last year and do some exploring.

I rented a motorbike for a couple days and MAN is it fun to drive around. You have to be VERY careful because every intersection is just hectic chaos but it’s so freeing.

I went to The Local Beans for coffee and reflected on the travels, experiences, and progress I’ve made over the last year.

Great cafe for lunch and some more bopping around.

Then went back to Recharged for a sauna + ice bath evening.

And then found a steakhouse for dinner (Olivia’s Prime Steakhouse). It was absolutely incredible.

And over the next couple days did some more ripping around on the motorbike. Went to the Son Tra Night Market and another night randomly came across this festival on the beach walkway.

Reflecting On A Year Around The Globe 🌎

Some highlights from the last year:

Renovating the back of my van.
East coast van life (Vermont, NY, VA, North Carolina)
Driving the van back out west!
The motorcycle license side quest up to Wyoming and South Dakota.
A LOT of bopping around:
- Mountains of Colorado
- Phoenix
- Granada, Spain
- Budapest, Hungary
- Miami (for Christmas)
- Porto, Portugal
- Istanbul, Turkey
And back to Southeast Asia!
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Da Nang, Vietnam
Embarrassingly proved that I still don’t know what I’m doing. Built my first proper-ish SaaS, then swallowed my ego and pivoted it to a service.
And posted SO MANY DailyVs (182 to be exact): From after renovating the van through Granada, driving back out west, up through part of Budapest. Then from Phoenix and the van life out there to the channel rebrand right before Christmas.

And like last year (The Week I Completed My First Circumnavigation Of The Globe, April 28th, 2024), here’s my year in photos:

[Interjection -> It’s currently 10pm writing this and this is gonna take me a minute, if you’re reading this as an email come back to this post in a couple days and I’ll update it]

Thoughts From The Week

202504251213 The first request for coaching

(this might not be the first but maybe the first formal request)

202504251213 The first request for coaching

#journal 

Comment on my video How I built a routine that works wherever I am in the world

> I totally forgot about black out blinds. What a great idea. I enjoy your content. Gives me motivation. Do you do coaching ? Love to get into how you use chat gpt for your goals and staying on track. That’s how i first found you.

-> "Do you do coaching?"

It's beginning hehehehehe muahahaha