3. Rosanna Pansino’s Million Dollar Youtube channel
In her mid-20s, Rosanna Pansino decided to take a big risk – that paid off in the end. At the time she was working as an extra on shows, while sleeping on the couch in a crowded apartment with six roommates. She made the bold decision to invest all her savings that she had on starting a youtube baking channel called Nerdy Nummies.
After several years of building up a following, Pansino made Forbes’s list of the highest-paid YouTube stars in 2015 and 2016 after she earned USD 2.5 million.
“From a young age, if I made USD 40 babysitting, then I would save 10% of it. I put that into my savings account and that was my rainy-day fund … It wasn’t easy. It took years for that to be natural. You have to just not look at it. You have to put away the 10% and never look at it again.”