We appreciate you ! Been rocking with you since about 2020, even though I never competed the sell music master class your contents got me through a lot of long work hours in this foundry and helped me up my game as well. wherever the journey takes you next wish you nothing but blessings!!
Whenever I felt demotivated to make music, I’d come to your videos for you to rant at me and 15 minutes later I’d be super fired up and I ended up putting out the biggest records of my entire career. Thank you sir 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 over 60 million total streams and over 400 live shows later, I can confidently say that You literally changed my life. I wish you all the best 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Hey Adam.. I just wanna say thank you. I'm so glad , to have been born in this time for your story. God bless you and your family. May da Lord continue to bless your family.
It sounds like you did a lot of soul searching and this seems like a natural progression for you. Congrats and best of luck in the new direction. I am here for it.
Wow Adam, thank you so much for your transparency. I’m grateful for everything you’ve taught us so far. You touching on becoming a parent and it completely changing your mindset really resonated with me. I have a 16 month old now so I’m literally crying as you talk about it 😂. I just want you to understand that what you’ve done with the Sell Music Masterclass is remarkable. The time and effort you’ve put into it does not go unnoticed and I truly appreciate it. It’s top tier! The program is organized and very easy to navigate. I joined at a very dark time in my life and you were so kind to me when I fell short. I’m definitely one of the students that did not put 100% in after learning the knowledge due to life. I literally heard and agreed with everything you said and taught. My lack of action has absolutely nothing to do with you as an instructor, you are absolutely amazing. Personally speaking, I just could not grab the reigns on my personal life and also there was a ton of fear present that I absolutely could not shake which sucks. Hearing you talk about that specifically definitely made me feel something. You’re right, being infront of the camera is unnatural and you have to be a determined, disciplined and confident person to do it consistently and like you said you have to want it. It really confuses me how anyone can question your credibility due to our lack of action (some of us). People don’t know the full story and that’s why this video is appreciated. It’s always about perspective. I just want you to know that a lot of your strategies I’ve taken with me throughout life and although it’s not music, I’m a current esthetician student and a lot more confident on social media and the camera. Your strategies work for estheticians too 😊. I’m still trying to learn where and how to do both. I still love music and haven’t completely stepped away but I appreciate you! Thank you for all that you’ve done. Take care of yourself Adam. May God continue to bless you and your family. I’m always here to soak up what you’re teaching simply because I like your style of teaching and you’re a great person. Thank you again.
I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to leave this comment. You’ve been rockin with me for years and this means a lot to me. Thank you! Congrats on your baby as well! Our daughter just turned 20 months.
Adam, thanks for being so candid. I really appreciated it. You have motivated me to get off my backside and start creating. For years I watched your channel kidding myself that it was to help my son with his music career (he doesn't need or want my help!) but its actually me that needs to stop procrastinating. yes I have a decent corporate job, but there is more to life! Today I'm going to achieve two things - I am going to edit the concert video for my wife's performing arts school that I was supposed to finished before Christmas and then I'm going to make a video for my channel and start putting some effort in instead of constantly watching stuff and doing nothing (it won't be very good I'm sure but it'll be a start!). All the best - looking forward to more of your video's.
💛💛💛🫂🫂🫂 Thank you so much for everything you've taught us. Thank you for listening to your body and your mind. Thank you for being so transparent with us. This helps more than you know. 🥹💛🫂🌺
Words can not describe how proud of you I am Adam, and how proud I am to have been a Sell Music Mastermind student! One of the first major connections I ever got to make in the music industry, as well as become the main reason I ever got to meet Redd who got me in contact with the team that would become my production team! So thankful for you, so damn proud of you! - Fletcher Daniel
Thank you for your vulnerability man. As a more Christian-based hiphop artist who has grown a lot on IG, I have encountered the struggle of dealing with online trolls and it can pull you out of your element some days, and it takes its toll after a while. Some people are simply unhappy
Thank you for your honesty. Having started several businesses myself I know exactly what you went through. I am a traditional boring business type guy and I followed your channel strictly to see if starting a channel and social media business would be something for me. I have learned a lot from you, mainly for me it was your work ethic and time management, and I have learned that although I can do anything and learn anything, there's a certain comfort that comes from anonymity and that for me is crucially important. People are as good as good can be however they can be as bad as bad can be, and unfortunately social media gives the bad ones a certain courage to confront people when in real life they would be too chickenshit to do the same face to face. That kind of stuff would eat away at a person's patience and it can affect your life, so for me it's better to keep private. I respect you for leaving it all out and I'm exited to continue following your journey. I'm in FL as well and I think if we met we would be instant friends because I have the same values. For what is worth, know that at least for me you are a value to my life and I love you for that so thank you Adam and keep driving on man.
I can’t imagine this was easy to create, let alone share with the world. And even more difficult is carving your way through pivots & changes with grace & humility. Taking the next step is not giving up on the last but building upon it. Much love & respect for you staying true to who you are. God has bigger plans for you, Adam!
Appreciate you sitting down and telling us Adam. I think I soesk for everyone to say we're grateful for it. Thank you much for your time and effort into the channel. I have taken so much from it over the years. Wish you the best for whatever will come next!
I really thank you for this kind of honesty and this just makes me respect you even more, although I have always respected you. As some other people have said here, when I felt discouraged I watched your videos to get some excitement and motivation. I think this is the most important thing I learned from you: "use what you have until it pays for what you want". I've been stuck with content creation for several excuses: I don't have a good camera, a good mic, I don't have this and that" and I wasted years because of this. Then when I studied Sell Music Masterclass and you showed how one can make content with a shoestring budget I was blown away. I'm going to stay here and watch your videos because whatever you do, I think you have many good lessons to teach to others even if it's not related to music anymore. Have a great weekend!
❤ - Thanks for all your inspiring work. Don’t for a second doubt that we are many pro’s out here, that have been super inspired by your energy + efforts 🙏🏿🙏🏿💫
Thanks for the work you did for the indie revolution during these years. All the success for your next steps!🪜 And gongratulations for the new family member 🎉
Hey man, I've watched your content over the years and have definitely gained a lot of insight. I appreciate your journey and applaud you on your evolution. As a fellow content creator and musician, I know the struggles you mentioned here all too well. Looking forward to your new podcast and even hope to collaborate with you at some point!! Cheers to your success!
@AdamIvy good video. We had some pretty parallel paths. When my daughter (first child) was born, I was a careen military man. Suddenly, as a senior chief petty officer, I was looking at deciding between leaving my career or joining the civilian world. I left as soon as possible and now none of my children have any memories of me in uniform. All of the advice you five is dead on, and if I could stress any of it, I would say that it's important to remember that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. I've retired from two careers now, and my children are grown and and on their own. I could give them the best advice I had in my toolkit, but it was up to them to use the good, leave the bad, and make the best with the tools they have. Rock on, and I look forward to more in the future.
OMG congrats Adam on your 2nd baby!! Thank you for all your help and consistency. Wish I found your channel around now when my ‘product’ (EP + songwriting skills) is almost there ready to be promoted. I started the other way around wanting to promote smth that wasn’t there, which burnt me out early on instead of finding the joy in building my network and music skills. Which thankfully I have now! I can’t wait to start utilizing everything you taught us again in the masterclass very soon when my EP is done.
Wishing you nothing but the best, Adam. This year will be a huge success for you. 🎉🎉 I thought about building a home gym in my house in Kansas, but I'd have to put an AC in the garage as you probably know summer feels like hell in Kansas. 😅
I’m rocking with you full way regardless of what it is. You’ve helped me with my music a lot 🙏🏽✅this video made me look inside myself for more of what I’ve been lacking
I've watched you for years and looked to you as motivation to understand its actually possible to have a career in music. I noticed over the years bad reviews of you on reddit and in youtube videos. I didn't really listen to them. It's wild to think you're quitting this side of music. The haters won. This is very sad to see you let them get to you. And convince yourself you don't have what it takes anymore to make it in music to some capacity. The very thing you preach you now are doing the exact opposite. Way to let us all down.
Sorry if you took this video as me saying that somehow the haters won. I was merely explaining the whole picture and at 40, as a father and husband, my skills and passions are much better suited in other places. It’s not really quitting if you no longer want to do something. I’m excited for this next chapter of my life.
@@adamivy Man forget this, I'm quitting music too then. I remember watching your videos about taking quick photos for social media where you went out on the streets and did a whole segment, stuff like that was very useful and inspiring. Can't believe you're quitting, I'm so pissed right now. Fuck.
You’re a young guy bro. Just because I’m evolving in my own way doesn’t mean that you can’t stay on your path. I never set out to do music as a lifetime career. That’s just me personally though. The content I come out with moving forward will actually be more beneficial to musicians in my opinion as well.
Hey Adam, I wrote down on paper a comment before watching the whole video, and those words are unnecessary. I hope I can inspire even a little bit with the following story: I entered the 2nd year of my undergrad studies in October and due to *Reasons* it was just too much pressure. I picked up meditation and deep meditation since, went hard on the more spiritual side of things (Which sounds weird. But cultivating a grateful & calm presence, and increasing passion & motivation via better sleep is such a different, less physical kind of work). I also convinced myself to stretch the studies (Physics & Biology) to four years, and not view myself as any less for that (some *Reasons* I couldn't affect or predict in advance). And the last thing I'm going to continue on, is the interpersonal sharing of this journey of mine, going along other's journeys for their improvement of mindfulness.
Keep keepin it real My autentic friend, bringin the basic with u is a great and Sollid foundation, Thanks for the sharing, good listen for artist, human and producer baking some bread, take care brother👊
Gonna miss your content in this space Adam, I remember years ago when I discovered your content, I would stay up until like 3am to watch your insta lives. I think your content has been very helpful to many. Hope you'll leave your old videos up, it could still be a gold mine for many artists in the future. Congratulations on your second kid and best wishes to you and your family for all your future endeavors.
I'm a musician of 50 years. Been with and surrounded by the highest level to this day. All this stuff with content, YT this new age stuff is mind bending. The music industry has completely changed to pretty much destroy artists. Have aYT channel there are always people who want to destroy you. Winding down the musical side not because of anything except there's more to life. You cannot change your outer world until you change self. This world is merely a reflection of you. I highly recommend Neville Goddard.. book: Feeling is the Secret That's it. Try it.
Thank you to everyone who has shown support over the years. I genuinely appreciate you guys.
We appreciate you ! Been rocking with you since about 2020, even though I never competed the sell music master class your contents got me through a lot of long work hours in this foundry and helped me up my game as well. wherever the journey takes you next wish you nothing but blessings!!
I’m guessing you didn’t see much results with your clients
Whenever I felt demotivated to make music, I’d come to your videos for you to rant at me and 15 minutes later I’d be super fired up and I ended up putting out the biggest records of my entire career. Thank you sir 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 over 60 million total streams and over 400 live shows later, I can confidently say that You literally changed my life. I wish you all the best 🙏🏿🙏🏿
That’s amazing to hear and I really appreciate you sharing that with me. Keep up the good work!
wow... amazing!
Hey Adam.. I just wanna say thank you. I'm so glad , to have been born in this time for your story. God bless you and your family. May da Lord continue to bless your family.
Thank you for all your years of expertise and hard work, its paid off for me, and I'm nothing but thankful for your channel. Happy Fatherhood Adam!
Appreciate you, man! I'm excited for what's next and glad you've been along for the ride.
It sounds like you did a lot of soul searching and this seems like a natural progression for you. Congrats and best of luck in the new direction. I am here for it.
Thanks bro! I appreciate it. I’m stoked for the new content coming out soon.
Wow Adam, thank you so much for your transparency. I’m grateful for everything you’ve taught us so far. You touching on becoming a parent and it completely changing your mindset really resonated with me. I have a 16 month old now so I’m literally crying as you talk about it 😂.
I just want you to understand that what you’ve done with the Sell Music Masterclass is remarkable. The time and effort you’ve put into it does not go unnoticed and I truly appreciate it. It’s top tier! The program is organized and very easy to navigate. I joined at a very dark time in my life and you were so kind to me when I fell short. I’m definitely one of the students that did not put 100% in after learning the knowledge due to life. I literally heard and agreed with everything you said and taught. My lack of action has absolutely nothing to do with you as an instructor, you are absolutely amazing. Personally speaking, I just could not grab the reigns on my personal life and also there was a ton of fear present that I absolutely could not shake which sucks. Hearing you talk about that specifically definitely made me feel something. You’re right, being infront of the camera is unnatural and you have to be a determined, disciplined and confident person to do it consistently and like you said you have to want it.
It really confuses me how anyone can question your credibility due to our lack of action (some of us). People don’t know the full story and that’s why this video is appreciated. It’s always about perspective. I just want you to know that a lot of your strategies I’ve taken with me throughout life and although it’s not music, I’m a current esthetician student and a lot more confident on social media and the camera. Your strategies work for estheticians too 😊. I’m still trying to learn where and how to do both. I still love music and haven’t completely stepped away but I appreciate you! Thank you for all that you’ve done. Take care of yourself Adam. May God continue to bless you and your family. I’m always here to soak up what you’re teaching simply because I like your style of teaching and you’re a great person. Thank you again.
Alsooo Congratulations!!!!!!
I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to leave this comment. You’ve been rockin with me for years and this means a lot to me. Thank you! Congrats on your baby as well! Our daughter just turned 20 months.
Adam, thanks for being so candid. I really appreciated it. You have motivated me to get off my backside and start creating. For years I watched your channel kidding myself that it was to help my son with his music career (he doesn't need or want my help!) but its actually me that needs to stop procrastinating. yes I have a decent corporate job, but there is more to life! Today I'm going to achieve two things - I am going to edit the concert video for my wife's performing arts school that I was supposed to finished before Christmas and then I'm going to make a video for my channel and start putting some effort in instead of constantly watching stuff and doing nothing (it won't be very good I'm sure but it'll be a start!). All the best - looking forward to more of your video's.
Great video brother, super honest and vulnerable. Appreciate you sharing this with everyone. Excited for what’s to come !
Thanks for the support, I’m stoked for what’s next!
I have always been grateful for all the help and advice you gave me when I first started on RUclips. You will do amazing at whatever you decide to do!
That means a lot to me, thank you for the support Ida!
💛💛💛🫂🫂🫂 Thank you so much for everything you've taught us. Thank you for listening to your body and your mind. Thank you for being so transparent with us. This helps more than you know. 🥹💛🫂🌺
Thanks for all the content over the years and for the vulnerability of this video. I, for one, can relate. Wish you and your family all the best !
I really appreciate you saying that.
congrats on the new addition to the family man. stoked to see what you are doing next
Words can not describe how proud of you I am Adam, and how proud I am to have been a Sell Music Mastermind student! One of the first major connections I ever got to make in the music industry, as well as become the main reason I ever got to meet Redd who got me in contact with the team that would become my production team! So thankful for you, so damn proud of you!
- Fletcher Daniel
Thank you for your vulnerability man. As a more Christian-based hiphop artist who has grown a lot on IG, I have encountered the struggle of dealing with online trolls and it can pull you out of your element some days, and it takes its toll after a while. Some people are simply unhappy
Thank you for your honesty. Having started several businesses myself I know exactly what you went through. I am a traditional boring business type guy and I followed your channel strictly to see if starting a channel and social media business would be something for me. I have learned a lot from you, mainly for me it was your work ethic and time management, and I have learned that although I can do anything and learn anything, there's a certain comfort that comes from anonymity and that for me is crucially important.
People are as good as good can be however they can be as bad as bad can be, and unfortunately social media gives the bad ones a certain courage to confront people when in real life they would be too chickenshit to do the same face to face. That kind of stuff would eat away at a person's patience and it can affect your life, so for me it's better to keep private.
I respect you for leaving it all out and I'm exited to continue following your journey. I'm in FL as well and I think if we met we would be instant friends because I have the same values.
For what is worth, know that at least for me you are a value to my life and I love you for that so thank you Adam and keep driving on man.
I appreciate the support and it's always good to hear from other people with a similar mindset! It’s encouraging.
Congrats brother and good luck with this next step
I can’t imagine this was easy to create, let alone share with the world. And even more difficult is carving your way through pivots & changes with grace & humility. Taking the next step is not giving up on the last but building upon it. Much love & respect for you staying true to who you are. God has bigger plans for you, Adam!
Adam! You are an inspiring rock star in my book! I'm glad your back and going in a different direction! Thanks for lifting me up!
Appreciate you sitting down and telling us Adam. I think I soesk for everyone to say we're grateful for it.
Thank you much for your time and effort into the channel. I have taken so much from it over the years.
Wish you the best for whatever will come next!
I appreciate that!
Thanks for your time focusing on growing us music people. Can't wait to see and follow the new direction my man!
Appreciate that, man! I'm excited for what's next.
I really thank you for this kind of honesty and this just makes me respect you even more, although I have always respected you. As some other people have said here, when I felt discouraged I watched your videos to get some excitement and motivation. I think this is the most important thing I learned from you: "use what you have until it pays for what you want". I've been stuck with content creation for several excuses: I don't have a good camera, a good mic, I don't have this and that" and I wasted years because of this. Then when I studied Sell Music Masterclass and you showed how one can make content with a shoestring budget I was blown away.
I'm going to stay here and watch your videos because whatever you do, I think you have many good lessons to teach to others even if it's not related to music anymore.
Have a great weekend!
❤ - Thanks for all your inspiring work. Don’t for a second doubt that we are many pro’s out here, that have been super inspired by your energy + efforts 🙏🏿🙏🏿💫
Thanks for the work you did for the indie revolution during these years. All the success for your next steps!🪜 And gongratulations for the new family member 🎉
Much appreciated!
Right here with you brother! 🙏🏾
I appreciate you being here!
Hey man, I've watched your content over the years and have definitely gained a lot of insight. I appreciate your journey and applaud you on your evolution. As a fellow content creator and musician, I know the struggles you mentioned here all too well. Looking forward to your new podcast and even hope to collaborate with you at some point!! Cheers to your success!
I appreciate you taking the time to leave this comment. Your support means a lot man.
@AdamIvy good video. We had some pretty parallel paths. When my daughter (first child) was born, I was a careen military man. Suddenly, as a senior chief petty officer, I was looking at deciding between leaving my career or joining the civilian world. I left as soon as possible and now none of my children have any memories of me in uniform. All of the advice you five is dead on, and if I could stress any of it, I would say that it's important to remember that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. I've retired from two careers now, and my children are grown and and on their own. I could give them the best advice I had in my toolkit, but it was up to them to use the good, leave the bad, and make the best with the tools they have. Rock on, and I look forward to more in the future.
Thanks for sharing your story and that's great advice for parents!
Keep growing Adam move onto the next adventure in your life hope to see what that is. Reinvent yourself
Thank you so much man! I’m excited for this next chapter.
I always enjoyed your contents! You are a real great person and I am really sorry to see you going. i wish you all the best
OMG congrats Adam on your 2nd baby!!
Thank you for all your help and consistency. Wish I found your channel around now when my ‘product’ (EP + songwriting skills) is almost there ready to be promoted. I started the other way around wanting to promote smth that wasn’t there, which burnt me out early on instead of finding the joy in building my network and music skills. Which thankfully I have now!
I can’t wait to start utilizing everything you taught us again in the masterclass very soon when my EP is done.
Honestly always loved ur vids bro
keep up the grind brother ❤️❤️❤️
Always
Wishing you nothing but the best, Adam. This year will be a huge success for you. 🎉🎉 I thought about building a home gym in my house in Kansas, but I'd have to put an AC in the garage as you probably know summer feels like hell in Kansas. 😅
Yeah man! The heat is no joke. We have insulated garage doors and a big AC unit in there when it gets too hot. I appreciate you bro!
I’m rocking with you full way regardless of what it is. You’ve helped me with my music a lot 🙏🏽✅this video made me look inside myself for more of what I’ve been lacking
That means a lot to me. Thank you.
Much love bro!!!❤
I've watched you for years and looked to you as motivation to understand its actually possible to have a career in music. I noticed over the years bad reviews of you on reddit and in youtube videos. I didn't really listen to them. It's wild to think you're quitting this side of music. The haters won. This is very sad to see you let them get to you. And convince yourself you don't have what it takes anymore to make it in music to some capacity. The very thing you preach you now are doing the exact opposite. Way to let us all down.
It's sad to see for sure
Sorry if you took this video as me saying that somehow the haters won. I was merely explaining the whole picture and at 40, as a father and husband, my skills and passions are much better suited in other places. It’s not really quitting if you no longer want to do something. I’m excited for this next chapter of my life.
@@adamivy Man forget this, I'm quitting music too then. I remember watching your videos about taking quick photos for social media where you went out on the streets and did a whole segment, stuff like that was very useful and inspiring. Can't believe you're quitting, I'm so pissed right now. Fuck.
It's pretty sad to see you go man, I always looked to you as a reason to keep going with music.
You’re a young guy bro. Just because I’m evolving in my own way doesn’t mean that you can’t stay on your path. I never set out to do music as a lifetime career. That’s just me personally though. The content I come out with moving forward will actually be more beneficial to musicians in my opinion as well.
U got this! Looking forward to the next chapter! Congratulations on your growing family! Blessings 🙏🏼🙌🏼💪🏼
Thank you! I am really excited for the future!
All just a re-direction brother. You are and always have lived life on purpose. I’m super proud of you and I’ll be here always!
Hey Adam, I wrote down on paper a comment before watching the whole video, and those words are unnecessary. I hope I can inspire even a little bit with the following story:
I entered the 2nd year of my undergrad studies in October and due to *Reasons* it was just too much pressure. I picked up meditation and deep meditation since, went hard on the more spiritual side of things (Which sounds weird. But cultivating a grateful & calm presence, and increasing passion & motivation via better sleep is such a different, less physical kind of work). I also convinced myself to stretch the studies (Physics & Biology) to four years, and not view myself as any less for that (some *Reasons* I couldn't affect or predict in advance). And the last thing I'm going to continue on, is the interpersonal sharing of this journey of mine, going along other's journeys for their improvement of mindfulness.
Keep keepin it real My autentic friend, bringin the basic with u is a great and Sollid foundation, Thanks for the sharing, good listen for artist, human and producer baking some bread, take care brother👊
Gonna miss your content in this space Adam, I remember years ago when I discovered your content, I would stay up until like 3am to watch your insta lives. I think your content has been very helpful to many. Hope you'll leave your old videos up, it could still be a gold mine for many artists in the future. Congratulations on your second kid and best wishes to you and your family for all your future endeavors.
It really means a lot to hear you say that! I'm not going anywhere just focusing on different things.
@adamivy I look forward to seeing what you'll be doing next!
7:22 Have you read "12 Rules of Life" or "We Who Wrestle With God" ?
I have the 12 Rules but haven’t read it yet.
I'm a musician of 50 years.
Been with and surrounded by the highest level to this day.
All this stuff with content, YT this new age stuff is mind bending. The music industry has completely changed to pretty much destroy artists.
Have aYT channel there are always people who want to destroy you.
Winding down the musical side not because of anything except there's more to life.
You cannot change your outer world until you change self.
This world is merely a reflection of you.
I highly recommend Neville Goddard.. book: Feeling is the Secret
That's it.
Try it.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment and recommendation!
11:00 so true especially when you were atheist. I’m Muslim not so feel better but still hustle and sometimes I get that feeling but religion helps
Sounds like you were dealing with people that still lives with there parents
There is a lot of that for sure. Haha!
I like ya.
Thank you for that!