Who is The Idaho Painter?

i grew up in the construction trades when i was about 12 years old and my father encouraged me to go to school to get a college degree to apparently make something of myself i um went to cal poly pomona got a college degree in urban regional planning and i couldn't get a job i had a really good friend i grew up with in california and he said why don't you come to boise idaho to try to get a job i worked for boise police department for a handful of years and then decided to go back to college to get a degree in computer networking i felt like i was extremely bored and the whole suit and tie thing really just didn't fit my personality [Music] my friend who convinced me to come here was a painting apprentice he started a painting company called bnk painting i wanted you know to build a company that was built on honesty integrity and trust the better business bureau was always an essential part you know of that relationship and building trust and it's always good quality clients that we got too i like to draw the correlation between painting and law enforcement when i worked in law enforcement all you do is make people mad because you're pulling them over writing them tickets but painting on the flip side all you do every day is make people happy and seeing something old turned new again is extremely rewarding but i was a self-taught painter and i had a lot of struggles learning there was no youtube there was no books on painting and i wanted to give back and help people out we'll see you on our next video so i started my youtube channel probably about eight and a half years ago now and started off with zero and just had this idea of utilizing these platforms to educate and also to help market myself this christian painter here on paint live tv it was about three years ago that i was around 20 000 subscribers on youtube and i was invited to you um youtube san francisco and i left that place saying i'm going to make youtube my full-time job not a product i've never used before it's branched off into a lot more than youtube into um a full product line paint life pro and um and paint life products gotten you know our own academy where we teach and educate call the paint life academy it turned into a business a corporation that was bigger than b k painting so i had to turn over my baby b and k painting to an amazing guy john cole that runs it now he's so busy with his painting company now on my youtube channel and my social media following i get comments every day that's many of three pages long where people are talking about how i completely change their lives and it's it's very rewarding one of the things i really wanted to do and i've been focused on is bringing back the professionalism to the trades i never was ashamed of being a painter there was value in what i do and now youtube has been this this platform that who would have ever foreseen a small self-taught painter from boise idaho teaching people across the world to not only paint but to love their career and have a career that's very financially rewarding