Jerry Banfield: YouTuber in St. Petersburg, Florida

I used to have a life I needed to escape from.

For years, I was trying to get away from myself.

Sometimes that looked obvious: drinking, gambling, gaming, chasing stimulation, chasing money, chasing attention, chasing the next hit of validation.

Sometimes it looked impressive from the outside.

I was building online businesses.
I was making money.
I was teaching courses.
I was getting views.
I was growing channels.
I was becoming “successful.”

But inside, a lot of it felt like a prison.

I started my first YouTube channel in 2011. At the beginning, I had no connections, no money, no special advantage, and no idea what I was doing. I just kept going. I uploaded, tested, failed, learned, adapted, and kept trying.

Eventually, things worked.

I became one of the top instructors on Udemy. I made millions of dollars in sales teaching Facebook marketing, hacking, YouTube, Google Ads, entrepreneurship, and more. I built online courses. I ran ads. I learned sales pages. I learned funnels. I learned SEO. I learned how to get attention.

Then Udemy banned me.

So I pivoted.

A League of Legends livestream took off on YouTube. I rebuilt around gaming. Then I burned out and quit gaming.

So I pivoted again.

I became one of the early crypto YouTubers. I made videos about Bitcoin, Ethereum, altcoins, exchanges, wallets, and all the insanity of crypto. I made money. I got attention. I learned the space from the inside.

Then the market crashed, and I had to face what I had been participating in.

So I pivoted again.

In 2019, I went all in on a business idea and ended up in the worst financial situation of my life. I was borrowing aggressively, spending too fast, and imagining some investor or buyer or huge wave of sales would save me. It did not. I ended up in a bankruptcy attorney’s office wondering how everything had gone so wrong.

So I pivoted again.

In 2020 and 2021, I went back into Facebook Gaming and became one of the top partners on the platform. I figured out how to combine gaming, self-help, recovery, spirituality, marketing, and spectacle in a way that pulled people into my livestreams from all over the world.

It worked.

It also started to disgust me.

I watched people spend hours of their lives watching me play video games. I watched mothers, fathers, lonely people, angry people, bored people, and struggling people get pulled into another screen addiction while I made money from it.

That was not the life I wanted.

I had been telling myself I was helping people.

But eventually I had to admit that a lot of what I was doing was keeping people on their phones, in their screens, and away from their real lives.

That is a hard thing to admit when it is also paying your bills.

Then in June 2025, I deleted everything.

Channels.
Followers.
Videos.
Passive income.
The old identity.

I went from being famous on the internet to being a man in St. Petersburg asking a much better question:

What kind of life do I actually want to live?

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Why book a private call instead of joining something first?

Because a call is personal.

A school is broad.
A community is broad.
A course is broad.
A video is broad.
A blog post is broad.
Even AI is broad unless you know how to prompt it with the full truth.

A private call lets us start with what is actually happening in your life.

Your channel. Your website. Your book. Your business. Your wallet setup. Your dating profile. Your communication pattern. Your health system. Your AI workflow. Your local marketing. Your money problem. Your content problem. Your confidence problem. Your “I don’t even know what the real problem is” problem.

I love broad learning. I have sold broad learning for years.

But I also know the trap.

Most people buy courses and do not watch them.
Most people join communities and do not participate.
Most people collect information because collecting information feels safer than making a decision.

A private call cuts through that.

You show up.
We talk.
We look at what is real.
We find the next step.

That is why I start with a paid one-on-one call.

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What we can talk about

Bring me one topic or bring the whole mess. We can make it practical, personal, technical, strategic, emotional, creative, or direct depending on what you need.

AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Claude Code, and workflows

I use AI heavily every day.

I use it to think. I use it to write. I use it to research. I use it to build websites. I use it to create thumbnails. I use it to make presentations. I use it to organize video ideas. I use it to turn dictation into books. I use it to create business assets. I use it to build systems that would have taken teams of people before.

I can help you use AI in a way that still sounds like you.

We can talk about prompts, workflows, research systems, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, website building, content workflows, business operations, and how to stop treating AI like a toy and start using it like leverage.

Possible call topics:

• “How do I use AI in my actual business?”
• “Can you help me build a workflow with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?”
• “How do I make AI write in my voice?”
• “Can AI help me make a website, presentation, book, or content system?”
• “What am I missing with AI right now?”

YouTube, livestreaming, and content creation

I have built and restarted YouTube channels from scratch.

I have had tens of millions of views on YouTube, and I have also deleted channels that most people would have clung to forever.

That gives me a different perspective.

I can help you with:

• YouTube channel audits
• Titles, thumbnails, and shorts
• Livestreaming
• Video ideas, topic selection, and niche strategy
• Viewer satisfaction, click-through rate, and retention
• Posting systems and calls to action
• Avoiding burnout
• Building a channel without becoming a slave to the algorithm

I know what it feels like to chase views until your life becomes smaller.

I can help you build smarter.

ICP, crypto education, wallets, staking, and project visibility

I have been in crypto since 2014. I have researched thousands of coins. I have made crypto videos, taken crypto calls, held crypto, sold crypto, regretted trades, made money, lost money, and watched the whole industry from the inside.

Today, I am especially interested in ICP because I see real technology there.

We can talk about:

• ICP education and crypto research
• Wallet setup guidance and staking setup guidance
• NNS, OISY, and Caffeine AI
• ICP websites and on-chain websites and apps
• Crypto project visibility
• Risk awareness and how to think through narratives
• How to avoid getting sucked into hype

If you are confused by crypto, that is normal.

Most of crypto is designed to confuse you.

A call can help you slow down, look at the setup, and understand what you are actually doing.

Websites, landing pages, and business tech

I have built websites for myself for years. I have built landing pages, sales pages, funnels, course pages, scheduling flows, and AI-built websites.

I have also paid for things I could have learned to do myself in a few hours.

That lesson matters.

We can review:

• Your homepage, landing page, offer, and CTA
• Your scheduling flow and checkout flow
• Your tech stack and AI-built website
• Your Google Ads setup and local marketing
• Your blog strategy and customer journey

A lot of websites do not need more design.

They need more honesty. They need a clearer offer. They need a stronger reason to act. They need fewer distractions. They need the courage to ask for the sale.

Business, money, and making money online

I have made millions online, and I have also had to rebuild after the thing that made me rich stopped feeling acceptable.

That is a strange place to be.

I know what it feels like to make easy money doing something that drains your soul. I know what it feels like to walk away from that and wonder what comes next.

We can talk about:

• Offers and monetization
• Online business and local business
• Google Ads and digital marketing
• Sales pages and AI leverage
• Community, coaching, and course models
• Content funnels and money mindset
• Business tech
• What to stop doing, what to simplify, and what the next clean way to earn might be

Sometimes the best business advice is not “do more.”

Sometimes it is: stop selling the thing that makes you hate your life.

Books, Kindle, paperback, Amazon KDP, audiobooks, and legacy

Books changed my life.

After years of chasing algorithms, books gave me a container that felt honest, durable, and real.

I have published 35 books. I have dictated books. I have turned transcripts into manuscripts. I have designed covers. I have uploaded to Amazon KDP. I have published Kindle and paperback editions. I have created audiobooks. I have written daily autobiography. I have written short books. I have written books that probably make people uncomfortable because they are honest.

I can help you with:

• Book ideas and outlines
• Dictation workflows and turning voice notes into manuscripts
• AI-assisted editing
• Kindle and paperback formatting
• Amazon KDP publishing
• Audiobook planning
• Book positioning, memoir, and legacy books
• Turning your life story into something your family can keep

One of the most meaningful things I can imagine doing is helping someone preserve their story.

A book can outlive a social media post by decades. A book can help your family know who you really were. A book can give your life a container.

Dating, communication, confidence, and connection

I am dating again after a long marriage.

That means I am not talking about this from some fake pickup artist fantasy. I am talking about it as a sober, divorced father in St. Petersburg learning how to be honest, direct, confident, and connected again.

I met my first wife on Match.com in 2011. I have gone back into the modern dating app world and found it horrible. I have written about deleting dating apps, meeting people in real life, being direct, understanding patterns, and learning not to hide behind politeness.

We can talk about:

• Dating profile feedback and message feedback
• Communication patterns
• Confidence, directness, and connection
• Dating after divorce
• Rejection and standards
• Emotional honesty
• Meeting people in real life
• What your profile or messages might actually be communicating

A lot of dating advice is manipulative or fake.

What I care about is honest communication. Clarity is kindness.

Health habits, sobriety, weight loss, and life systems

Sobriety is the foundation of my life.

I got sober in 2014 through Alcoholics Anonymous, and I have stayed sober through marriage, fatherhood, money stress, online fame, internet hate, business failure, rebuilding, divorce, dating, and starting over.

I also lost 80 pounds and kept it off.

My life today is built around systems:

• Sobriety and AA
• Whole-food habits
• Yoga, tennis, and walking
• Sleep and massage
• Time outside
• Parenting
• Writing and honest inventory
• Not escaping into screens the way I used to

We can talk about the systems that hold your life together or the systems that are quietly tearing it apart.

Often, people want more money, more views, more dating success, or more confidence. But underneath that, their daily system is broken.

If your body, mind, home, calendar, and habits are working against you, everything gets harder.

Creating a life you love

This is the umbrella over all of it.

Create a Life You Love is not a slogan to me.

It is the question I had to ask after deleting the old life.

What do I actually want to wake up to?
What do I want my kids to see?
What kind of work feels clean?
What kind of people do I want around me?
What kind of body do I want to live in?
What kind of relationship do I want?
What kind of city do I want to belong to?
What kind of contribution do I want to make?
What am I done tolerating?
What do I need to build now?

That is why the topics fit together.

AI, YouTube, ICP, books, business, websites, dating, health, sobriety, and money are not random. They are all pieces of a life.

The call is where we look at your pieces and ask what needs to change.

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How the call works

1. Book a time.

Click the button, choose a time, and book your private call.

2. Pay $96.

The call is $96 for 30 minutes. That keeps it simple.

3. Bring the real topic.

You do not need to impress me. You do not need a polished pitch.

You can show up and say:

• “My YouTube channel is stuck.”
• “My website is confusing.”
• “I want to use AI but I do not know where to start.”
• “I need help with ICP.”
• “I want to publish a book.”
• “I need dating profile feedback.”
• “I do not know what to do with my business.”
• “I feel like my daily system is broken.”
• “I have ten things going on and I need help seeing the next move.”

That is enough.

4. We meet on Zoom.

Most calls happen on Zoom. If screen sharing helps, we can screen share. That is especially useful for YouTube channels, websites, AI workflows, ICP setup, book files, landing pages, ads, and tech questions.

5. You leave with clearer next steps.

The goal is not to overwhelm you. The goal is clarity. When the call ends, I want you to know what to do next.

That might be:

• Change the headline
• Stop making that kind of video
• Make a different thumbnail
• Build a simpler AI workflow
• Publish the short book first
• Clean up the homepage
• Fix the CTA
• Use a different dating message
• Stop using the app
• Learn the wallet setup more carefully
• Book more time
• Build a better daily system
• Stop chasing the thing that is draining you

6. Need more than 30 minutes?

Book multiple sessions in a row.

If you want one hour, book two sessions.
If you want 90 minutes, book three.
If you want two hours, book four.

That is the cleanest way to get more time without complicating the offer.

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Watch me across all six channels

This is the free broadcast. I create across six channels because my life is not one niche. I talk about life, money, dating, ICP, YouTube, games, AI, business, and the process of rebuilding in public.

You can watch for free as much as you want. Then, when you want help with your actual situation instead of another video, book a private call.

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What happens after the call?

Sometimes one call is enough. You get the clarity, make the change, and go do the thing.

Sometimes the next step is another call.

Sometimes you book multiple sessions in a row because we need more space to work through a channel, website, book, AI workflow, business system, crypto setup, dating pattern, or life transition.

Sometimes there may be an implementation project.

Sometimes there may be private advisory or retainer support.

Sometimes the right answer is that you go take action on your own.

That is the point of starting with the call. I do not want to push you into the wrong thing before I know what is actually happening.

Let’s talk first. Then we choose the next best step.

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