Sept. 25, 2025

Regen: Identity, Streaming & Staying True to Your Gamertag | The RegenNation Story

What if your gamertag wasn’t just your name, but your purpose? In this episode of Gamertagged, we sit down with Regen, a Valorant streamer and coach whose gamertag became more than a username. From early Xbox lobbies and Call of Duty grindsets to streaming long hours after work, Regen shares how he built RegenNation: a community rooted in hype, healing, and showing up with heart. We explore Regen’s creator story, his faith, and the pressure of staying consistent in a streaming world that does...

What if your gamertag wasn’t just your name, but your purpose?

In this episode of Gamertagged, we sit down with Regen, a Valorant streamer and coach whose gamertag became more than a username. From early Xbox lobbies and Call of Duty grindsets to streaming long hours after work, Regen shares how he built RegenNation: a community rooted in hype, healing, and showing up with heart.

We explore Regen’s creator story, his faith, and the pressure of staying consistent in a streaming world that doesn’t slow down. He talks about coaching with compassion, the meaning behind his tattoos, and why his digital identity will always be Regen—no matter how big the platform gets.

We Talk:

The origin and evolution of Regen’s gamertag
Valorant, keyboard switching, and streaming after shifts
Identity, burnout, and faith in a digital space
Coaching, connection, and how RegenNation grew
What your avatar—and your mousepad—say about you

🃏 And in the ReRoll… Regen’s trading card blends gameplay edge with grounded presence: Reyna’s Leer, a backwards snapback, and his signature ink—capturing the digital persona that makes Regen… Regen.

Guest: Regen
Hosts: Marthah Maple, Scarto46
Produced by: Gamertagged Studios

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00:00 - RegenNation Begins

05:28 - The First Gamertags & COD Obsession

13:59 - Valorant, Vibes & Switching Inputs

28:20 - Coaching, Compassion & Tattoos

36:41 - Identity, Faith & Future Dreams

43:17 - 🃏 ReRoll: Building Regen’s Digital Persona

48:22 - Outro & Final Reflections

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I've had to wear like maid outfits for 24 hours on stream.

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I've had to get shot by a paintball gun in the snow.

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I think I remember that one I've had to what else I've had to like drink a cup of hot sauce.

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Yeah, I've.

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Yeah, I wore my fiance's bikini on stream.

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I've.

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What else have I done?

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I've been oh my goodness, Game attacked.

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Hey, Regent, thanks for joining us on this episode of Gamertag bro, yes, sir.

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Yeah, man.

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Hey, let's not start talking about games yet, but let's talk about you.

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When you started, what kind of kid were you?

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Were you always hanging out around video games?

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Was that always part of your life?

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When did that?

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I would say gaming was and is a very big part of my life, like when I was very young.

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The thing that introduced me to gaming, I would say, is like like the nes and snes like mario brothers.

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Oh yeah, yeah, bro.

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So when I was a kid I never played on the original console, but my dad bought me some plug-and-play where it was like the console, you just plug it into the tv and it just worked.

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You know I'm talking about like the controller was the console, yeah.

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So I learned what mario bros was on that and I was like, oh my goodness, like I really like this.

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And then we ended up getting some like third party duck hunt and I was playing that.

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And as I got older I started to get like super smash bros on the gamecube mario sunshine, luigi's mansion.

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And then the thing that really took off for my like grind for gaming, I would say, would be playstation 3 and xbox 360, call of duties like bo1, mw2, mw3, like the og ones, those are like bro, I was in grade like six to grade nine and that those years were like, oh my goodness, the amount of hours I put into gaming was insane.

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Bro, that's fire dude, that's awesome it really is a gateway it is oh my goodness, yes, there's so

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many.

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I feel like that's so many people's answer is call of duty.

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It started call of duty call of duty.

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Back in the day was just different.

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There was no fortnight or anything for all these kids to gravitate to, so it was like when, when you were a kid, there was like it was Halo or COD and then everything else was secondary.

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It was something else.

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Those were like the two primary games that people played.

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What got you into COD over Halo in that context, because I was a big Halo fan, so I think you're right it was those two.

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I had no issues with Halo.

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Cod was introduced to me and I had so many like moments for playing with friends, leveling up, trying to complete every challenge, going for nukes, things like that, where I just didn't even though I physically did have the time, I didn't mentally have more time to give to another game.

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I watched professionals play Halo and it seems interesting.

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I just I never physically grinded it.

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I always thought it was like the difference, because when halo, like when you're getting shot, like you get a little bit more time I can call you way more time.

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You're done way more yeah, like you can hide in halo and you're good.

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Yeah, yeah, but like that's the crazy part I always thought was so different.

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It's a difference for people who were like I need a little bit more time to get shot which was me, because it became more like strategy of controlling the map and like managing the power of the clock, of all those things.

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But in COD it was just like all right, don't get shot.

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I was really good at pub stomping and back in the day on Call of Duty there was no skill based matchmaking.

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So what me and my boys did, we used to have a team on MW3 called Moab Hunters and I don't know if you know what the Moabs were in MW3.

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It was like the nuke.

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It was the 25 kill streak and we would Moab hunt and it didn't end the game when you got them.

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So we would try to get multiple ones throughout the games and me and my boys would literally just run six stacks.

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And the OP thing about the six stacks in MW3 is that every single six stack got to control the map in the lobby and what I'm what I mean by that is when you queued a game, it would make you guys primary leader so everyone else joins into you.

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So every time you search for a match and two maps pop up, you can back out and research again and pretty much guarantee what map you want if you're a six stack.

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It was.

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It was like such a big part of my childhood man I don't know the exact hours I think I have 180 or 200 days of gameplay like it was.

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Yeah, it was ridiculous.

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I'm pretty sure, though, the way the gameplay counts in, that is, it doesn't count for in-game, it's if you're sitting in a lobby if it's running, yeah, yeah yeah, so it's not like other games, but it's still a lot that's crazy, bro.

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So so you're a young guy like you're getting to con, so that's when fps is start for you, right?

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Like absolutely yeah yeah, all controller at the time was there like a so you're talking about the most like being a mohav hunter.

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Was there like a specific moment or like a thing that was like man?

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This is where I just gotta keep trying to chase this feeling.

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It was just honestly.

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I'm addicted to dopamine and that was my childhood version of just like dopamine hits.

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It was just like watching yourself drop like insane stats on your scoreboard.

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You know how at the end of the match it shows the leaderboard to everyone and it'll show your kills, deaths, all that right.

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It was just like the thing I craved as a child was just like outperforming everyone else on the leaderboard.

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It was like I wasn't good at much in life other than video games like yeah I was an okay athlete as a kid.

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I could run, I could play some sports, but like gaming was like the only thing that I really felt like, oh my goodness, I'm actually.

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Like, compared to the average Joe, I can keep up exponentially.

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And that was my turning point.

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When I was younger like grade six, grade seven I was like man, I can actually shit on a lot of these people, especially when they shit talk to you and then you did better than them.

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That was the best.

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Oh, my God yeah.

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Are there any specific moments of that happening that like you still think back to it and you're like, yeah, dude, I did that.

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Honestly, I can't think of a specific one.

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Like it's happened a decent amount, to the point where it was just like like I just fed into it like rage bait, if you will, but especially as a kid.

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I don't remember a specific thing that was said or whatnot, it was just more so the the general, like the days all collide as a gamer, when you game a lot like 10, 12 hours a day as a child, every day just merges what you said, though, about the dopamine hit of seeing at the end.

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As an adult, I still crave that right.

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Oh man, I know it's just harder as an adult now to yeah it's like you're tired after a full shift.

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You want to go home and you get like sweaty 13 year old timmy just shitting on you.

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It's so much harder, dude we played apex.

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We played apex for I don't know like a couple weeks and I was like I think I'm too old to play apex.

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I'm not gonna figure this out I tried playing apex with my buddy because he wanted me to try it again.

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I saw a tiktok clip and I was like, oh my goodness, it looks so fun to try to.

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What was it?

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What's it called like tracking?

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You know how they're very high health in that game, so people would like practice recoil control tracking.

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Yeah, so I was trying to learn the game just because the tracking looked really fun and I was like I don't want to learn every character's abilities when it takes so long.

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I learned valor and I learned overwatch.

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I was considering learning rivals.

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I was considering learning siege, like.

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These are all games where you have to know how every character is played to then play against them.

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You can't counter someone you don't know what their abilities are.

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Right, the only way to counter someone's abilities is if you know what they are.

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And as soon as I downloaded the game I played like four matches.

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I was like I don't want to learn another game.

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Dude, totally agree with you.

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It can be tough to enter new games like that.

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I totally feel that.

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Yeah, like with Call of Duty.

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It's simple, because there's no abilities, a frag, grenade, a flashbang and a gun.

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You know what I mean.

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Okay, so comparing Call of Duty and what you just said about how simple it is, like your kit is your everyday kit.

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What was it about Valorant that drew you to it and made you want to focus on?

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That was it about Valorant that drew you to it and made you?

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want to focus on.

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That's what you primarily stream, right?

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Yeah, so time skipping forward.

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From me being younger playing COD, I eventually played Fortnite and I learned mouse and keyboard and I fell in love with the mouse and keyboard movement from Fortnite.

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So someone suggested Valorant and it wasn't brand new, but it was still in its early stages and at first I wasn't even new, but it was still in its early stages and at first I wasn't even focused on trying to learn everyone's abilities because I didn't think it was going to be a game I was going to main.

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I thought it was just like a let's just play this for a month or two and then figure out what we're going to play.

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Right, every game I played before Valorant, you didn't have to stand still while you shot so alone.

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That mechanic alone was new to me, so I had to learn how to play this fps game from scratch.

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In call of duty, you could jump and your bullet would go straight.

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In this game, you have to be perfectly still or your bullet goes into narnia.

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So I I enjoyed learning something new because I was still younger and I still had the free time and I wanted new content.

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Right now I don't think I'm in that position, but back then I think it was a perfect time to learn something new and it was just the one game.

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It's not like I was trying to learn Siege, apex, valorant and Overwatch all at the same time.

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Right, the thing that really made me like Valorant is it was like my first game that I played where there was so much utility that you could utilize and in the lower ranks no one knew how to use it, so I was just shooting.

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I started playing sage because I wanted to be useful to the team, but then as I started to climb it's ironic I started to play reyna because I love being full health and we can go into the whole gamer tag thing about regen, but may or may not have something to do with regening your health the fact that you could play very aggro.

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I liked how duelists were played.

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I don't know how much you guys know about valorant.

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I know martha knows a little bit a little bit okay.

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Okay, I don't know how much you play my bad, put some respect on my.

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Not like that, not like that, but so I don't know how much you grind.

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Do you play, are you like?

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I haven't been playing in a while and don't ask me there you go.

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Duelist in itself is just such a it's such a fun aggressive role.

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When I first hit immortal, I was playing jet because no one knew how to counter the op.

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It was just a simple point and click and, coming from cold, it was such a similar thing that I was used to.

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And then later on, with me falling in love with reina, I stopped kind of jet op crutching and moved towards just going for one taps with the vandal so when I hear you tell this story I see you as little region like gets into call of duty right and that's your vibe and you keep chasing that vibe of hey man, I just want to do cool shit with my friends and try some stuff and have fun and I want to chase that dopamine that leads you down a road in the future to valor it right, absolutely.

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And so like you're still little region, like just big in a way yeah, like there's things that I still chase from little regions to pass.

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I have a lot more responsibilities on my plate now and I don't have as much free time, and when I do I am physically exhausted.

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Some days, working manual labor the last six, seven years at different jobs, it's very difficult to get on and try to top frag, but days off or whatnot, you crack an energy drink and you're good to go.

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Hell yeah bro.

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So when did you become region right?

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I love the name region, region, but where did it come from?

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I've had a bunch of gamer tags in the past, before regen I had one called stunner.

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It was stun, s-t-u-n-n-3-r.

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Okay, okay, all right.

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From there I went to some more, yeah, very elementary school-esque and then there I went to some more inappropriate names that I won't talk about and then from there I was like I'm sick of this inappropriate name.

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I don't like how it looks, I don't like how it sounds.

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I'm a grown-up.

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Yeah, even then I was just like grown-up or not.

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I was just like I don't like it.

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So I was like I want something simple, I want something short, because a lot of the people that look threatening in cold duty lobbies had three to five character names oh my god, yes, there was no xx.

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There was no numbers.

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Like anyone with numbers in their name, like cool dad 1682.

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Like they're not getting 40 kills a game you know 100 yeah, or xx.

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Demon slayer underscore xx, like that guy is not getting 40 kills in a game no, it's not scary if you have just jinx zeus like something simple no, you're right those are the names where you're like this guy could be a goat, you know I mean.

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So I was just sitting there and I remember exactly what I was doing when I thought of this name and there's no like really special origin to it.

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It was just like I was playing bo2 zombies, okay, and I was just training I don't know around.

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I was just training the map and I was asking my friends I was like what should my new name be?

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And I was just sitting there spitting out names like this.

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I was like yeah, it's okay, it's okay.

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And then I thought of regeneration, because all the fps games I play you regenerate your health.

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And I was was like regenerate is too long and he goes what about regen?

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And I was like wait, that actually sounds amazing.

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And at first, regen on Xbox because I played on Xbox at the time was taken and you couldn't do dupe names.

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So I actually reached out to the OG guy that had the name regen and he didn't even sell it to me.

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He just said pay for my name change and then change your name right after and that was it?

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so I have the og gamer tag on xbox regen wait, so how long have you had that though?

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I've had it for ages now, like a decade right at least.

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So I didn't get it right away, I didn't get it right I honestly don't remember what my og one was.

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It could have been like underscore, regen, underscore, something like that, but nonetheless I made all my socials regen.

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There's other people with the name regen on xbox, but they all have like hashtag numbers after theirs.

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I don't even play xbox anymore, I just like flexing it.

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It's you just keep it.

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Yeah, I'm never going to change it.

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I'm never going to change it.

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It's literally like it's very difficult to get a five-letter name on any platform if it doesn't allow dupes.

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Cool bro.

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That's a crazy story.

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Do you think, with the history of regen, do you think that you'll be regen forever?

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Do you feel like maybe there's room for you to evolve into something else?

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I think my primary gamer tag will stay regen, because that's what I started streaming on and I don't see a need to change it.

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If I do something else that involves a different social platform, I'll obviously have a different name.

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I've had secondary channels that have no relevance to regen that I don't really advertise through myself because it doesn't involve regen.

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I don't post on it anymore.

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But I tried a short style channel called define normality and it was just one of those voiceover channels that you take someone else's content and you voice it over and then you post it and so I've tried things like that.

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I've also had alt accounts.

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So back in the cod days, what I would like to do is, after the game was out for six to eight months, I would make an alt account on COD to see what I could get my highest stats to be.

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So I would initially play on the region account and then later on I had an alt account called dying ethics, and dying ethics was like pretty much my alt account for everything.

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That's a cool ass name.

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Yeah that is a super cool name.

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Yeah, dying ethics is.

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It was actually my first Valorant name Because, like I said, Valorant I didn't think was going to be a main game for me.

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I didn't even make my name regen when I first started playing Valorant.

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If you go back and watch my first content I've ever posted on Val, all the clips will say dying ethics.

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Dude, I actually like.

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Define Normality too.

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That's a crazy name.

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I know you have, I feel like these names are like yeah, it's super creative, super layered.

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I feel like they have hidden meanings.

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Are we?

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Is this commentary on society?

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brother, there wasn't too much special stuff behind it other than the fact of, like the whole regenerate your health thing, establishing a brand around it.

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Now it's very difficult to have the concept of getting rid of it.

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You know what I mean.

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It wasn't like it wasn't until I started streaming with the name Regen and Regen Nation, where I was like you know what I can't?

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I can't change it.

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Now I can change my logo.

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Sure, I can tweak some things here, but I don't think I'll ever change my name.

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I think my name will always be Regen.

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Okay, so you mentioned Regen Nation.

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Yeah, where did Nation come from?

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What does that mean to you?

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It sounds like Regen itself is a branding for you.

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That's who you are.

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That's who people know you.

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As Does it reflect anything else?

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So I actually I don't remember the exact reason why I started the nation bit.

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I think it was because back in the day when I first started with streaming on YouTube and then later on Twitch, I couldn't use the name regen, I think it was.

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So I went with regen nation to have.

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I couldn't.

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I can't remember if it physically didn't let me or if there was just a bunch of channels named regen.

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So I wanted to stand out but, like my in-game name on everything is regen.

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But then a lot of my channel stuff is Regen Nation.

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To associate it more with the content, end of things, my display name would be Regen, but a lot of my socials would be Regen Nation.

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So Twitch is Regen Nation, youtube, even though the channel's display name just says Regen, the actual at for YouTube is Regen Nation.

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So I think, Sorry go ahead.

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I think it was just more like a socials thing, like a content thing that I threw in there Because I think regen with me being a smaller creator was too difficult for discovery Because there's so many different channels named regen, and even regen in German, I think it is means rain.

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So if you search regen on YouTube, you just get a bunch of videos of rain.

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Hey.

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I love rain videos Nation, though I think I was curious about nation because it implies like a community.

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Was that intentional on your part Because I feel like there's so many words you could have gone for.

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Yeah, no, it was absolutely for that.

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Like with me when I first started streaming I get like zero or one viewers and I like the concept of regular viewers coming in after a couple months and it's building that community aspect and even the Discord server.

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I think you can do any name on Discord but I chose to go with Regen Nation for the Discord, just because that's kind of like the whole.

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Like you said, the whole premise of the community thing is without viewers, you're just playing video games.

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Without a community, you're just playing video games.

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Right, I could press, go live, but if I have zero viewers for a whole year, then I'm just playing video games.

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So without the community which is the nation, then regen means nothing.

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It sounded clean, regen nation.

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It was nice and short, still relatively simple, and just hearing the first part, regen if you knew me, regen Nation most people could put two and two together.

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I think that Regen Nation really fits you because I feel like you have You're larger than life for anybody that has seen your streams.

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I don't know how much you told them or how much you've seen, martha, I've done a bunch of challenges on stream for like subathons, right yeah, and when I first started it was just when people donate, time gets added, that's it.

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And then someone recommended doing challenges for it and that's where it started to go crazy.

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Oh my goodness, people started suggesting challenges during my subathons and some of them were just diabolical man for the size of my community.

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The amount of support that I get, especially during these subathons, is just absolutely phenomenal.

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It is incredible, like when you put it in retrospect from my viewer count to the amount of support that I get, not just financially but just from like people's energy.

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Like I have sometimes eight viewers and I'll hit a clip and the chat will just go crazy.

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I have hundreds of people watching me, but there's eight people and they're just hyping me up.

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It's insane, that's freaking awesome dude.

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Yeah, man, it's all about quality and not quantity, man.

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You very clearly and very obviously love your community.

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I think I've known that from the very first time I landed in your stream.

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If you had to describe your community and what sets them apart from others, what would that be?

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And would you say that was what you were looking to build from the start, or did it exceed your expectations?

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It was definitely what I was looking to build from the start.

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I went into this with zero expectations, like when I started streaming seven, eight years ago on YouTube.

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I averaged zero viewers to one viewer for three months, literally like when someone joined chat.

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I would light up.

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My expectations were nothing until I made.

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In three to four months I made a hundred dollars in stream and I was like, oh my goodness, I just got a hundred dollar paycheck from YouTube from playing video games.

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This is incredible.

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From there I was like, how can we do more?

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How can we build more?

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I wanted people have a place where they could go and, again, people will never be 100% on the same page with everything, but I wanted to have a place where people could go to just be comfortable to talk.

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I'm not going to say any details, but I've had people send me such personal DMs about their life because they felt comfortable in my community and with me that I can't even say to you guys because of the amount of detail that they shared with me.

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And that's what I wanted to go for.

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I just want to create like a place where people can feel comfortable to either escape the reality that they're living, that they're not happy with, or to just create a bigger positive space for either after school, after work, stuff like that.

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You've got that vibe, bro.

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You're like an empath and you also like really connect and I think you're a conduit like people can connect to you.

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It's hard some days, especially, like I said, without having the energy, because I want to be the one supplying the energy, not getting it from chat.

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There are some streams where I went live, where I should not have went live because it was too tired so I couldn't provide what I normally want to provide.

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You can't have a perfect stream all the time, but that's that's like my main goal is.

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When I press go live, I want the people in the chat to a feel welcome and be have either a sense of escape from the reality if that's what they're going for or just a distraction of whatever they're going through.

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I just want them to feel like, once they join the stream, they are now in a different world.

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You know what I mean.

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I want them to feel like they're inside of the stream and not just watching something.

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Yeah, like they're part of the nation, exactly, yeah bro, that's it, I can tell you definitely are hitting that mark.

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If you ever have those days where you feel like you're not, you are.

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Thank you.

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There are days where I feel like I'm not, but it's not because it's an overall thing, it's just because of how I feel in that day.

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Yeah, man.

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Let's say that our listeners are out there and they, like, want to join Region Nation.

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What would you say to them?

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And one of the cool things you do and I don't know if you want to talk about this is you always notify Nation in your Discord before you go live, to let them know to come join.

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Yeah, so what would you say?

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Again, I don't care about the quantity, I care about the quality.

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If they feel welcome and they want to be a part of it, I would love to have them.

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If someone joins and they like the vibes and they want to be there, I'd be more than happy to have them.

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But I never want someone to follow just like pity.

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I want them to feel like it's actually a place they want to be, even if they can only watch me once a month because they have a very busy schedule.

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If it's a place they want to be, then you know I would love to have you here.

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I want them to feel welcome, but I also don't want their love to be forced.

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Yeah, man for sure.

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One of the things that I love about you is you coach people like you're interested in helping people grow.

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And yeah, I don't know if that's always like something that you maybe people know about you, but that's a really dope thing, like just you want to share your experiences and you want to help people grow.

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That's freaking awesome.

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I never thought I would do coaching actually, and someone suggested it a couple of years back.

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I always say with my coaching I can't guarantee that you will get better, but I'll suggest everything.

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That I feel is, if you want to try to get better, I can only suggest things and from there you have to put in the work.

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It's kind of like a mentor.

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Like, for example, if you're a brand new real estate agent, right, and you go to a big guy in the real estate game and you're like, how do I get better at it?

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You can listen to all of his words, but then you have to take action and execute.

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Yeah, that's just.

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That's all.

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Leadership is bro when you're coaching or developing people it's.

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I can give you advice, but you're the one who has to hit the buttons?

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Yeah, yeah, but no, I love coaching.

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It's.

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I think my rates are very fair as well, like not shamelessly plugging, but if anyone's trying to get better at Valorant, I love coaching.

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It's something I really enjoy doing and it's great too, because I love streaming everything, so I get to stream it so anyone that's watching can try to learn from it, even though it's not isolating their issues.

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They can potentially learn like better warm-ups or maybe, if they're doing something similar that's wrong.

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They can learn from the coaching session that I'm streaming I've for sure learned from you yeah, I do also, while we're talking about like how you stream all this stuff, I think one thing that I thought was really cool when I first started seeing your streams is your hand cam yeah, and being able to see and how invaluable that can be to somebody that I know what I need to do.

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I just don't know how to get my hands to do those things.

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What inspired that?

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And then what inspired what?

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your mouse is on top of goodness so I'll start with the second one there.

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So my mouse pads I don't use too many of the lewd ones anymore.

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Like with me getting older, I strayed away from it a bit A couple years ago.

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I really liked using them.

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If you're scrolling right and you see a diabolical mouse pad, will you stop for a second?

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They'll be like Whoa, what is going on?

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It catches your attention, positive or negative, it still caught people's attention, right?

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There was a lot of, you could say, controversy about it and a lot of my comments on YouTube were people commenting on just the mouse pad, not even the video.

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So I'm getting viewer retention and I'm getting attraction in comments, likes or dislikes, from just the mouse pad, never mind the gameplay itself.

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I've had videos where people are like are we gonna stop and talk about the mouse pad?

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Holy mouse pad.

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W mouse pad, l mouse pad, this guy's a gooner, whatever it is right.

00:26:37.051 --> 00:26:50.313
so those are like one of your like channel point rewards things or maybe it was yeah, was it channel points, or yeah, yeah, so channel points, yes yeah, I have 13 different mouse pads now so I have.

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It's a pretty high reward.

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It takes a lot of bits, but I have a lot of like I said, a lot of diehards that watch me.

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Even if I have two, three viewers, it's usually regulars, but sometimes we'll get more people in there Nonetheless.

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The reason I have that command is just because I want it to be more interactive and it's a good way to allow the chat to control some things, like I have now with channel commands like pushups, change mouse pad, what else do I have?

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Hydrates, etc.

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But I really like the change mouse pad because I would let them either choose it or I would just go into this big box I have and just grab a random one.

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But I, like I said, I strayed away from the lewd mouse pads a little now, just because A I'm getting older and it's not really something I'm too fond of anymore and also I'm not trying to get too religious here.

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I'm trying to get closer to God and with my belief in Christ, I'm trying to do better in that regard, not trying to fight head on, but try to flee from.

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So the best way to flee from it is to not emphasize it as much in my life.

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But yeah, it's.

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That's kind of like the main reasons I got rid of the kind of more lewd mouse pads.

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It was a, it was an eye catcher man.

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A lot of people commented on videos and followed and it was a symbol of uniqueness, right?

00:28:00.037 --> 00:28:01.692
Yeah, clearly Martha caught Martha's eye.

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I forget the other question.

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It was oh, oh the mouse cam what inspired starting the mouse cam.

00:28:09.173 --> 00:28:09.737
Yeah, what was that about?

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Because there are some like other creators, but I feel like you were doing that before them.

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I mean my understanding.

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I'm definitely not the first.

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There's been people using mouse cam for a while.

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I know I didn't want to just have a mouse cam because I feel like that gets rid of the you like, the personalization of it not having a face cam.

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So I wanted to have both and I haven't seen two like there are people that run both, but I haven't seen a lot of people running both.

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Usually it's just a hand cam or just a face cam.

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So I actually have four webcams now I only use two of them for my streams.

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Now I like that people could see if I hit a crazy flick shot, especially back in the cod days when I was sniping my sense I was very snappy.

00:28:49.295 --> 00:28:55.853
So like when I hit a shot you could see my wrist like just snap to the left or right and it looked very clean in the clip.

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I really enjoyed it that feels like it's just like a lot to work around too.

00:29:01.391 --> 00:29:12.417
That can't be comfortable what like positioning it so it's all in frame positioning is that's not in like the way of your limbs doing the things that they need to do.

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You can get different cameras that are like ultra wide zoom and stuff, I think if I were to do anything.

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There's external programs that you can download to your computer, then set up on OBS, where it shows the primary keys being clicked for example, wasd shift, stuff like that and it shows the inputs of it clicked for example, wasd shift stuff like that and it shows the inputs of it just overlaid on the screen, opposed to like using the actual keyboard cam as a way to show people what I'm clicking.

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I think the mouse cam itself, like just the mouse, is more clean than anything.

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So yeah, even though I got rid of a bunch of those lude mouse pads, I still have a bunch of relatively like decent mouse pads, so it's a good way to show them off too.

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Yeah, this is where you're at and this is where you're trying to make some changes and iterations, and that's super dope bro.

00:30:15.836 --> 00:30:17.018
I appreciate that.

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I was taught about Jesus and God a lot of my life and I pushed him away and as I got older I started to realize that there's a lot of evil in this world and I started to rebuild my faith.

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And the thing that got me closer to God was realizing that, like this world is too intricately designed on a micro and macro level to not have a creator I don't think two moon rocks just hit each other in outer space and boom monkeys were here and then we evolved I believe that humans were created by God, by design, and that's my faith and I love it.

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Christ has helped me in so many ways that I can't even imagine trying to struggle without him.

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Even though walking beside Christ is difficult some days, it's a test of faith.

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I think that's beautiful, brother.

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I think it's beautiful.

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You can talk about your story like that.

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I just think everyone, every person, is on their journey, with their own struggles and challenges and their own faith.

00:31:15.271 --> 00:31:16.520
So I think that is.

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I think that's really beautiful.

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I think, with me straying away from God through a lot of my teen years and early twenties, I think it was just a question of like, how do we really know?

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Do we know if, if we're going to leave this world when we pass, what's going to happen afterwards, where our consciousness just die with our brains in the dirt?

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And I started to realize that there's, there has to be more afterlife.

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There isn't just that.

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Do you ever think about like you had multiple lives?

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I think it's possible, but I don't, I don't know.

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How are you going to, how are you going to live all of these things and experiences in one Do?

00:31:52.500 --> 00:31:53.304
you ever think about that?

00:31:53.304 --> 00:31:57.060
I think if there is, you definitely don't remember your old ones.

00:31:57.060 --> 00:32:02.423
Yeah, totally yeah, I think that there's heaven and hell and I think that's those are two places you can end up.

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I don't know if God allows reincarnation.

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There's a lot of talk about it, but again, I won't know until the day comes.

00:32:09.551 --> 00:32:30.065
Yeah, it's something that's definitely interesting and I think it's possible, like maybe, for maybe, for example and again, this is all hypothetical and nothing to do with what I've learned but maybe, for example, if a child dies early and never got to experience the choice of following christ or not, maybe god will be like here's a second chance, and then they get reincarnated again.

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I don't know for sure, but that would be like a thought do you think that the only real constant is love?

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To what?

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To following Christ.

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No, I'm just saying like in general, like for humans, like us being human, right, yeah, whatever belief system people have or whatever, all we really got is love.

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And like people figure things out on their own or they engage in different ways on their own if they find their own path, but like love is a constant part of this journey, love is a very high vibrational feeling and it's one of the top.

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But I think there is more than love.

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Like, I think, everything's yin and yang.

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Like with love, there's eight With I think there's.

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But like on a vibrational scale, like love is like the highest vibrational frequency that a body can emit, Like when you're at a peak of love.

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Like it is the frequency that a body can emit, like when you're at a peak of love.

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Like it is the frequency that your body emits when you're truly in love is just like absolutely at the top so speaking of being truly in love.

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So you mentioned that your fiancee has been part of your story, so how does your fiancee fit into your journey as region?

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my like the whole gaming thing in region was there before I met her, but she like I I don't know how to describe it as far as fitting in she's very supportive.

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She helps me in ways that I can.

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For example, my logo currently is one that she drew on her ipad.

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She's very good at drawing and stuff and she supports me on my grind as long as I'm still working Like I'm a very rational person and I understand that the income that I make from this is not enough to support a family.

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It's a side hustle slash hobby and she supports me through it directly.

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And as long as I am able to still have genuine time with her if it's a date or just watching a show as long as I'm able to show her the love and appreciation that she deserves, then she encourages me to continue doing what I enjoy.

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