A Beautiful Morning and So Much to Be Thankful For
It's August 4th, 2026, and this is my Jerry Banfield show vlog, giving you my real, raw, authentic life. I just had a beautiful experience this morning at yoga, and last night as well, that I want to share because it'll help you tap into the magical, beautiful experiences waiting for you. I also want to thank everybody, because that is huge and it means the world to me. We're up to 22 people in the community now. One person joined at $96 a month, four others joined at $9 a month, and one member scheduled two one-on-one calls with me today. I'm super grateful. I made over $300 yesterday, and thank God. I told my mom, "I might not have to move in with you now," when she was over last night. She was kind of defensive about it — and dang, I still had spaghetti on my mouth while I was telling her, trying to wipe that off. I'm really grateful, because I'm really good at what I do.
My Content Philosophy: Six Videos a Day
I was watching a Gary Vee video yesterday, which I don't usually do. He said he laughs when people call themselves content creators and then tell him they only published five pieces of content in the last week. He said that would be like telling him you were training for something physically and you did five pushups all week. He said he published 378 pieces of content yesterday. That's my philosophy too: I publish six videos a day — six ten-minute videos like this one, every day. Yesterday I only got five. The day before that, I got 17. My videos are scheduled in advance on most channels, and I want my videos scheduled at least a week in advance on all my channels, so I can take a week off and still put out 42 pieces of content. I'm even wondering how I can do more than six videos a day in the same amount of time.
I went through and did this AI workflow — I'll get to the dating stuff in just a second. I took 20 livestreams, and the AI, using my graphics card and the rest of my PC and about half of my Claude Fable session credits, went through all 20 of them — 20 hours of video, actually probably 25 or 30 hours of video — within a few hours and cranked out something like 25 gaming highlight videos yesterday. That's so nuts. All I need to do now is upload them. Wow, I'm so grateful for this AI technology, because now I can work by myself and crank out so much content.
The Dating Front
On the dating front, I got several more matches on Hinge yesterday. I tried using a boost and had — I'm not even sure — five, six, seven likes on my profile, and I matched with a few of them. I think I'm going to unmatch a couple of them today, because I can only talk with so many women, and if I'm not that excited at this point on a dating app and they live a ways away, it's not going to work. I've got to keep a tighter focus.
This morning I got up feeling full of energy — easily aggravatable, but full of energy. I took the kids over and dropped them off at their mom's house, and then I went to a yoga flow at a studio I don't usually go to. I've been thinking a lot about the queen — the woman I dated for a week or two. Man, it was such a powerful, beautiful experience. For most of the last week my mind has been stuck on how sad it is that it didn't work out. But first of all, you don't know that it didn't work out, at least with her. And second of all, having a beautiful experience with somebody is something to say thank you for. That first week of spending 12 hours together was so beautiful and so euphoric — an experience I will always treasure. And it was a great learning opportunity, especially the next week and a half, of what not to do. At the same time, I don't think it makes sense for me to reach out to her again, because she's the one who wanted space and said she was less interested.
Saying Thank You Instead of Staying Sad
I went to yoga yesterday and I thought I saw her — this beautiful woman who looked a lot like her — and my mind was going, why is she reacting so positively to me? It took me a minute of talking to this woman to realize I knew her from somewhere else. I've actually known her for a year, and she looks so similar, at least in the yoga studio, to the woman I had dated. I was really happy to see who it was, and we had a really nice conversation before and after class. And I just kept saying thank you. I've been digging into almost a constant chant, a prayer, constantly saying thank you. Because when I look at it and think, "Oh, it's sad it didn't work out with that woman I dated," that point of view is valid. But can't you also say thank you? Thank you for that experience. Wasn't that awesome — a week where you thought you'd found someone, a week where it felt really great? And imagine that it's going to happen again. Say thank you. And it's going to happen again even sooner, because it seems like everything with my dating has been accelerating. Dating used to feel slow and miserable — getting separated, everything was almost pain, and nothing was working. Now it seems like the women are coming at me faster and faster, and they're more and more exciting, and I'm like, dang, I might be about done being single, or I might have a lot more fun adventures ahead of me.
I went to yoga this morning at a different studio, because the one I usually go to didn't have quite the right times today — and I have a massage 12 minutes after recording this. There was one attractive woman there, so I put my mat down near her and put out all the good vibes toward her, like I talk about on my dating channel. I'm big on this: women are often subtle communicators, and there's a heartfelt, almost telepathic connection between people. If a woman is interested in talking to me, she'll make it easy for me to talk to her. This woman jetted out of the class right away, so I'm like, well, that was easy — she didn't want to talk to me, and that works just fine. It's always great to put out love and put that energy toward people.
What really felt nice is that I ended up having a good cry in that yoga class. Some country song came on about a woman who went the other way, and God, dude, I just started sobbing. That one really took me by surprise. I was thinking about the queen, and I was praying: please let her see how special what she could have with me is, or please let me find that with another woman where we both feel the exact same way. To me, that's an ideal way to pray, because yes, I would love for it to work out with the queen, but at the same time, I'm open to having it work out with anyone else where both of us feel the same way. I know what I want, and I'm not going to attach it to one specific person. My first choice currently would be the queen, but I'm open to anybody else. The world is full of women, and I've got two dates scheduled on the calendar for Thursday right now. I'm looking forward to that, and I'm feeling so grateful today.
I just want to keep feeling like this — keep chanting thank you, keep feeling grateful, keep having my heart open. I feel like this whole experience has strengthened me. It's funny — some of you were so concerned when I was feeling a bunch of emotions. But to me, it's a sign of strength that you can feel a gigantic, intense range of emotions, even show them publicly, and then, boom, you're back stronger and better than ever. That's how I feel right now.
YouTube Feels Like Early Udemy Again
I'm super grateful my YouTube is kicking off, and everything feels like Udemy. For those of you who have followed me back a while, like 2014 — everything feels like early Udemy, like 2015, such a magical time. I know what's going to happen, and it's awesome. My Crypto Reviews channel keeps hitting one-out-of-tens on so many of my videos, and I'm really grateful for all this traffic on YouTube. I hit a one-out-of-ten on the YouTube coach channel too, which has been one of the most frustrating channels, because starting a YouTube coach channel from scratch is hard — nobody's ever cared about YouTube, and nobody cares what some small YouTuber has to say about YouTube. But that channel finally got a really nice one, and if that's a journey you're on too, you might enjoy my YouTube Coaching playlist. My games channel has so many videos scheduled out, and I just got a one-out-of-ten there as well. This experience with this woman was just what I needed at just the right time. It was so perfect, and I just pray that I keep saying thank you.
Today I thought back to a lot of the women I dated, and all the magical experiences I had to prepare me for where I'm at now, and all the great times I had with my ex-wife. I'm grateful she's got someone she seems to be really enjoying, and I'm glad that on her journey she doesn't have the time and energy for as much drama as my dating journey has been. At the same time, I'm probably looking for something more difficult to find. I want a woman to have kids and a family with, and it's harder to line all that up — but to me, it's extremely rewarding when it all is lined up.
I really appreciate all your love and support. This is probably one of the most magical times to be in the community, now that we've got 22 people — when it's small, when you've got a bunch of people just joining and posting and really excited, and there are still few enough people that I can pay individual attention very well to every single person in the group. If you want to be part of that, join the Jerry Banfield Family while it's still this intimate.
I really appreciate your love and support. I'm feeling all of it, and I hope I'm giving it back to you effectively.