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September 17thThe argument in one line.
Content works best as a byproduct of work you already do, so document lived experience, test it against your audience, and set goals small enough to keep you consistent.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A consultant, coach or service business owner who dreads the two-hour content block on the calendar and never knows what to talk about.
- A creator with a small audience who keeps defaulting to generic advice videos and wants topics drawn from real client results.
- Someone who has started and abandoned a content habit because the goals (leads, revenue, views) felt too big to hit.
SKIP IF…
- You want a technical guide to filming, editing or SEO; this is a topic and mindset framework, not a production tutorial.
- You have no business activity or client work yet to document, since the whole method depends on lived experience.
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Pahuus argues that content stops feeling like a burden when you document what already happened to you, your business or your clients instead of inventing topics. He fills a simple 12-box grid (me, business, clients across yesterday, last week, last month, last year), picks the idea that resonates with his core, casual and new audiences, then packages it to build trust in him, in his mechanism, or in the viewer themselves. Pick the format that fits the idea's size, and set tiny goals, like speaking in public once, so you actually keep showing up.
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00:00 – 00:42
01 · Flip the perspective
Stop creating from scratch; document and teach from lived experience so content adds no new work.
00:42 – 03:39
02 · The 12-box lived experience grid
Answer what happened to you, your business and your clients across four time spans, and notice small moments make the best content.
03:40 – 05:00
03 · Step two: package the topic
Client struggles mirror audience struggles, so pick the story that resonates and test it.
05:01 – 06:21
04 · Core, casual and new audience test
A topic passes only if it fits all three audience tiers, which is why the dog video fails and the email video passes.
06:21 – 10:07
05 · Three trust goals and choosing a format
Package each idea to build trust in the creator, the mechanism or the viewer, then size the format to the idea.
10:08 – 12:39
06 · Stupid simple goals
Content is a byproduct of real work; small, fulfillable goals are what keep you consistent.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Flip content creation from making something new to documenting what you already did, and the pressure of the blank calendar block disappears.
- Asking what happened to you, your business or your clients yesterday, last week, last month and last year produces about 12 content ideas in one sitting.
- The first time you fill the grid the big moments jump out, but the best content is usually the small everyday moments many people can relate to.
- Your audience struggles with the same problems your clients do, so stories from client work are already pre-validated content.
- A topic should pass a three-audience test: would your core, casual and brand-new viewers each find it relevant?
- A cute personal video can be fine to make, but if your core audience came for business advice it won't move the business.
- Every video can have one trust goal: trust the creator, trust the mechanism, or trust themselves.
- A case study video builds trust in the viewer's own ability because it shows the method working for someone other than the creator.
- Match the format to the size of the idea: a four-day client event earns a video, a reel and a post, while one inbound email earns a line in tomorrow's newsletter.
- Content is a byproduct of needle-moving work, so your business keeps moving whether or not you post.
- Setting big goals like leads or revenue for content made it an uphill battle; small goals made it sustainable.
- A valid content goal can be as small as speaking in public once, with no regard for views.
- Consistency comes from goals you can fulfill, because that is what makes the content a good experience.
Document what happened, then keep the goals small
WHAT TO LEARN
Content gets easier when it records work you already do, gets filtered through your audience, and is tied to goals small enough to keep.
01Flip the perspective
- Replace creating something new with documenting what you already did, which removes the pressure of the two-hour content block.
02The 12-box lived experience grid
- Ask what happened to you, your business and your clients across four time spans to surface about 12 real stories without adding new work to your calendar.
- Expect the first pass to hand you big moments; the more relatable material usually sits in small everyday events like an inbound email or a first client.
03Step two: package the topic
- Client problems mirror audience problems, so stories from real client work are already relevant to the people you want to reach.
04Core, casual and new audience test
- Test each topic against your core, casual and new audiences before making it; a charming personal story can fail when your audience came for business advice.
05Three trust goals and choosing a format
- Give each video one trust goal: trust in you, in your mechanism, or in the viewer's own ability, and build the video around it.
- Size the format to the idea: a major event can support a video, reel and post, while a small moment fits an email or a photo post.
06Stupid simple goals
- Treat content as a byproduct of needle-moving work, so your business keeps progressing whether or not any single video performs.
- Pick goals you can fulfill, like speaking on camera once or building a bit more trust, because big lead or revenue targets make consistency feel like an uphill battle.
Terms worth knowing.
- Core audience
- People who have followed you for more than six months and are the most invested in what you make.
- Casual audience
- Followers of one to six months who are fairly new and not yet top fans.
- Trust the mechanism
- A video goal that builds belief in the creator's system or method, as opposed to the creator personally.
- Digital coffee shop
- The name Pahuus gives his own business ecosystem, where social content supplies ideas and email carries offers and invitations.
Things they pointed at.
02:40productThe Digital Coffee Shop
Lines you could clip.
01:20
“It is talking about stuff that actually happened.”
03:15
“The best content is usually the small moments, the small everyday stories.”
10:50
“Content is always a byproduct of the needle-moving task that you're always doing.”
12:15
“The only way you're going to stay consistent is by having stupid simple goals that you can fulfill.”
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First, I want to flip your perspective on creating content because I remember when I had that task in my calendar and I felt the pressure on showing up to a two -hour content block and then having to create something. So what I did and what has helped me tremendously is to flip it completely around and instead of having to create something, then I just look at what I've already done and then I try to document that.
I try to... teach and talk from lived experience and hopefully this will help you because that is the first step of a stupid simple content strategy it is to not add any more work to your calendar because you're probably like me i'm a business consultant at heart i exist to help my clients and then the stuff that i talk about on this channel is the stuff that i do for clients in my own business i don't have to make up new content i just talk about what i already do and hopefully that will help you tremendously so it's a simple question The question is, what happened to you, your business or your clients yesterday, last week, last month or last year?
And it forces you to reflect on your own achievements, both in your personal life, in your business and of course also the things that you've helped your clients with. Because that is the world's best content. It is talking about stuff that actually happened.
So this is mine. I filled it out for the sake of this video, and I want to run you through it. So for myself personally, yesterday what happened, I picked up Toby.
We're going on a little trip to plan out the next year of the digital cover shop here. Last week, me personally, me and my girlfriend found out that we're having a girl, because we went to get the scan of the gender, which was a major thing, right? Last month, I went on a family trip.
My granddad gifted us all a trip. And then what happened to me in the last year? Well, I got a dog.
Her name is Berta. She's a golden retriever. Incredible.
So that is what has happened to me, right? And it's a great exercise to fill it out as well for me personally to reflect. Then, of course, in my business, what happened yesterday?
I got an inbound email from a guy that wanted to work with me, right? Last week, I did a monthly review of the previous month in the business. Last month, I hosted a client mastermind, which was really cool, where I brought a bunch of clients together.
And then the major thing in the last year of building the digital coffee shop was that I hired Toby, my creative director. We have a one -year anniversary together, which is incredible. That is me filling out the diagram, right?
answering the question from what happened to me, my business, or my clients yesterday, last week, last month, or last year. And that right there is 12 content ideas. You'll experience that the first time you do it is quite easy because it's all the major moments, right, that just like pop out.
But when you're doing it tomorrow or the day after that, you'll start to notice that you are going to have a harder time picking these stories and content ideas because you can't default to the big moments. Because... The thing about content is that the best content is usually the small moments, the small everyday stories.
Because there's not a lot of people who can relate to getting a dog or can relate to becoming a girl dad. But a lot of people can relate to getting an inbound email or getting a first client from YouTube. Because it's smaller things.
It's not like major life accomplishment, right? So this is the way that I get content from my lived experience so that I can show people what I'm doing rather than telling them how to and it will remove your imposter syndrome and ultimately you live a richer life. The second step for a stupid simple content strategy is by taking the ideas that we just went through and then the next step is realizing how can we package this topic in a way where it will make sense to our audience.
Because the very beautiful thing is that The stuff that your audience struggles with is the same things that your clients struggle with. So whenever you help clients and you look at the things that you've done in your own business and you start talking about that, it's very useful to your audience because they are usually the same people as your clients.
So what I did was that I looked at my diagram and then I picked the topic and the story. that felt the most natural to me all of my personal achievements um i think they would be great for like instagram post and like talking about what i'm up to in my life and for for me to build uh for like for those posts to build some some trust with fred and the ultimately the idea that i went with was the email invitation that one of my clients used who saw immediate success and the way that i determined that this is the right idea is by running it through this model here because it all The best subjects for you to talk about on your channel are topics that resonates with your core, casual and a new audience.
Your core audience are people that have followed you for more than six months. Your casual audience are people that have followed you in between one month to six months. So they are still quite new, but they're not top fans.
And then we have new people which have never stumbled upon you before.
We have to remember the ultimate goal of creating content. For me, it is growing my business and attracting the right people in. Could I have created a video about getting my dog, Berta, the golden retriever?
Yes. Would my core audience who has been following the YouTube channel for business advice think that that video is relevant to them on how they can grow their consulting business? Well, probably not.
Could I make the video anyway? Yeah, I could. It would be a cute video, right?
But the... topic that stood out and passed the test here was the email right like my core audience yes sure they want to use email to grow their business and are probably already doing it same with my casual audience and if i get new people in to my channel that are interested in email they've landed in the right place because email is a large part of the digital cover shop and the way that i like to package my ideas into videos is by having a individual goal for the video and I focus on three areas in my content strategy and that is either the video is built for people to trust me, to trust the mechanism or it is to trust themselves.
So if we take email, for example, if I would like the video that we are now creating, we don't know if it's Instagram, we don't know if it's YouTube yet, we just have an idea of email and we want to package the email video in a video where they're going to trust Fred, they're going to trust the digital coffee shop, or they're going to trust themselves, right?
If I wanted to package an email video that would trust Fred, me, then I would make the email video about my accomplishments and my learnings, my insights, and how I use email in my business. So I made a certain amount of money from email.
I've gained a certain amount of email subscribers. I've written a certain amount of emails. So I want to build trust and authority about Fred.
And that would be the topic and the goal of the video that I would then sit down and shoot and talk about my email strategy. If I wanted to make sure that the email video that we're building builds trust and authority and integrity around the digital coffee shop as the universe, then I would talk about email's role in the digital coffee shop, in the ecosystem.
How is it that we are using socials for ideas and how do we make offers on emails? How many emails do we send? What is the cadence?
How do we write evergreen emails? How do we use emails for invitations? Etc.
And if I then wanted to make email as a video on where... potential buyers and the people watching for example like you would leave with a feeling of email could work for me this is great then i would make a case study video or a video focused around what my client did with email so this client had certain issue not filling enough spots then he sent out this email that said x y and c build structure this way and then he filled two spots Because then people will see that email and my strategy of using email works for others than Fred, the main man.
And then the format would simply just be what is the best way for me to deliver this idea. Again, me getting Bertha as a dog, is that a 25 -minute YouTube video where I sit down and break down how I got her? No.
But I can take 10 pictures of Bertha from the last year and throw it up on Instagram and talk about it. It's the same thing with if we take another idea here completely raw. My client mastermind.
That was a pivotal moment. So we made a YouTube video about the client mastermind. We made an Instagram reel about it.
And we also made an Instagram post. Because that was a major thing, right? It was a four -day event for clients only.
That was incredible. We wanted to show that to as many people as possible. For example, me getting an inbound email.
Should I do an entire video on me getting one inbound email? Probably not. But maybe in tomorrow's email, I could write about, hey, yesterday, this guy reached out because he saw this, this and that.
If you're on the fence of working with me, then I could have an idea of, hey, this guy inbound emailed me and then I'll probably figure that out. But you get the point, right? It gets your brain going with like, what's the best way for me to deliver this story, this moment?
And then, of course, based on this model here, does it apply to my core? audience, my casual audience and my new audience? If yes, we found the topic, then how do we want to package it?
Do we want to make it a Fred -focused video on building trust with Fred and me as the messenger? Do we want to build trust on the mechanism, the digital coffee shop? Or do we want to build trust in the person watching the video, meaning can we do it in a case study format?
Can we do it on a live format, live training where people can follow along with exercises so that they can get a good experience of writing emails? That's the thing, right? A stupid simple content strategy must have stupid simple goals.
Because content is overwhelming, it's a big task, and content is a very long -term play. And there's no model for what I'm going to explain to you now, so we can leave the notebook here. Because most people will default to content, and they will see this video, for example, and say, hey, it's stupid simple, I should just throw...
all of the stuff that i'm doing now throw it away and then just do content and then they will start creating content with the mentality of content is going to save my business whenever i put videos out i'll get immediate returns and people just like run to work with me because it's so incredible content is always a byproduct of the needle moving task that you're always doing so content is just you documenting and talking about the stuff that you're already doing meaning that you're still moving the needle in your business with content or without content but it just becomes a natural part of your habit stack so the way that you're the only way you're going to continue posting content and showing up is if you are really good at setting goals for your content my goals has changed a lot over the years for my content because when i set goals of x amount of leads or revenue or clients it was an uphill battle because the goals were too big in the short term now they are really true and it's great but you need simple goals for your content for example here with that email example hey all i want to do is just that people trust me a little bit more by me making a video about how i use email you know and it can also literally just be a goal of you speaking in public i had that goal of creating a video where i spoke in public
And that gave me a great feeling. I didn't care about the views. I didn't care about anything other than me creating it because that was the goal.
The point here is the only way that you're going to stay consistent to your stupid simple content strategy is by having stupid simple goals that you can fulfill because that's the only way the content is going to be a good experience for you. So with this video in mind and the exercises that we've done, I hope that you'll stay consistent because content changed my life and I think it will change yours too if you just stay consistent.
So thank you so much for watching and I'll see you. in the next one.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The title promises $64k, but the video is about something quieter: a way to make content without adding a single task to your calendar. Pahuus says to stop creating and start documenting what already happened.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:12model
12-box lived experience grid
- Yesterday
- Last week
- Last month
- Last year
Crossed with three areas (personal life, business, clients), it yields 12 stories drawn from what actually happened.
Steal forweekly content brainstorming
05:01model
Core, casual and new audience test
- Core (6+ months)
- Casual (1-6 months)
- New (never seen you)
A topic is worth making only if it resonates with all three audience tiers.
Steal forfiltering content ideas
06:21list
Three trust goals
- Trust me
- Trust the mechanism
- Trust themselves
Each video targets one: the creator's authority, the credibility of the system, or the viewer's belief they can do it too.
Steal forpackaging any topic
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
12:20next-video
“I hope that you'll stay consistent because content changed my life and I think it will change yours too.”
A soft sign-off with no hard pitch.
Visual structure at a glance.
