Yes, I make silly YouTube videos. Now I'm sharing them.

I make silly YouTube videos! The channel went through a series of titles: Teachey Pete, PJD, a Giraffe with a Camera. But it was all me showing a goofy, less professional side of me.

For a long time, I made it a point that googling my name wouldn't surface my channel. Not because it was vastly different from my personality live, or that it was outrageous, but because, as was my common refrain: you can't unshare something.

If sharing the videos resulted in me being seen as unprofessional, less competent, or even antagonistic to business at large, would I be passed up on promotions? Would my team still respect me?

Would clients act differently, as if they had "dirt" on me, by googling my name and finding a pun on the term "stakeholders"? My self-censorship was an act of self-preservation.

So, why share them now?

Practically, I think it's valuable for folks that might want to work with me to know this side of me. It gets across a big part of my sense of humor.

..and I hope people tell me it made them laugh.

More than that, the one-on-one coaching relationship is personal: yes, I'm here to help with the specific problem we're tackling, but ultimately I didn't get in the business of coaching for a sense of anonymity, for impersonal transactions at work.

And you didn't choose to work with me because you wanted a hyper-corporate coach. You chose me because you want to make work suck less ™️. And that starts with less self-censorship and more mash ups of Ted Talks and TikTok called TedToks.

I want to help you, and for you to see that I care. And part of that is me being vulnerable – I'll best be able to help you if you share what you're really coming up against, what you're honestly seeking, what you're struggling with. It requires a level of vulnerability.

So as a first step, I'm going to show my own vulnerability.

And yes, me showing vulnerability means videos where I pretend to be a pirate doctor.