🤠 Rapid Round Up
😬 We figured out just how happy we are in a collab with Joss and Adam at HowTown in their video about how researchers find the “happiest” country on Earth.
👻 We tormented Tom Scott again on Lateral, his comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers. Listen here.
📝 Taha vlogged his experience at Make with Notion, a conference about our favourite organizational app. Check it out!
🙉 Taha took a closer listen to the sounds in movies and worked with a foley expert in his latest video.
👟 Sabrina took a run at making her own running shoes to set a new 5k record in this video.
🧀 Melissa faced her biggest enemy: the 2007 Canadian Food guide in this video.
✨ We have new bonus content including an extended foley session with Colt Kirwan, and full interviews with Stefan the foley artist & Nataly the nutritionist. You can access them on our website using this month’s password: HAPPY.
🔓 Patreon Unlocked
Exploring the Hills of Switzerland
Taha, Melissa, and Sabrina went off to Switzerland for Creator Camp - an event bringing together some of the greatest storytellers of our generation (and also the three of us). It was a weird time and we talked about it in the bi-weekly podcast we release exclusively for Patreon supporters.
🎧 Mixtape
Run!
Aggressively lipsync to this pop playlist Sabrina curated for her runs. You can also check out all the other Answer in Progress playlists on our Spotify!
📝 Business Insight by Answer in Progress
When is it time to hire?
Last month, we decided it was time to hire a part-time production and operations coordinator. We’d recruited for creative roles before, but this was the first time we had to expose the ugly, messy, and inefficient side of our business.
It was scary being so vulnerable and it came with a lot of questions, the biggest being: Why now?
After all, we have already managed quite a bit with our tiny team: 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube, collaborations with brands like Google and HISTORY, and living wages for our entire team. So how did we decide now was time to grow?
Well, like the first paragraph suggests, the business side of Answer in Progress is messy. We started this company as college grads with zero business experience so, alongside making videos, we also needed to figure out the basics - like calculating exactly how much money we even have. After 4 years, we have discovered that it is more than zero!
Being risk-averse, we figured it would be better to save the money for a rainy day and stick with the status quo… but then we thought about the status quo and realized: it’s already raining.
Our newsletters comically flip-flop between saying we have burnout and then claiming we solved it. Our video releases are all over the place for the same reason. We’ve got prototypes and pilots just waiting to be made but they can’t because there are only 24 hours in a day.
So why now?
Because the actual best time to hire some help was approximately 7 months ago.
🔦 Creator Spotlight
Oddio Studio
We had the chance to explore Stefan’s studio and work in Taha’s video about foley, but you can also experience the fun through his Instagram (@oddiostudio)! He showcases his prop collection and runs interactive foley games where he makes a sound and you try to find a gif to match the noise. Send him some love!
⏭️ Up Next
🎁 Sabrina unpacks the weird world of blind boxes and potentially gets a little too into Sonny Angels in the process.
🙏 Thank You
Thank you for subscribing and following our chaotic little journey - see ya next month!
from ur neighbourhood nerds,
Sabrina, Melissa, and Taha<3