How He Turned a Layoff Into a Full-Time Creator Career (w/ Josh Cirre) | 057

Dillan interviews Josh Cirre.

Josh is a software developer, content creator, and former actor who blends his creative background with his technical skills to help others navigate web development and creator life. His YouTube channel shares developer insights, Laravel tutorials, and his journey balancing creativity, fatherhood, and a full-time job.

They discuss: combining creativity with tech, getting fired and starting a YouTube channel, building an audience around Laravel, how to balance ambition with reality, why repeatability matters more than perfection, niching too early, and much more.

Josh's links...

Website: https://www.joshcirre.com/

Twitter / X: https://x.com/joshcirre/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joshcirre

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0:00 intro
0:53 what "keep creating" means
4:32 the start of Josh's creative career
6:51 how tech entered his life
9:27 figuring out what to do
16:50 getting laid off with 2 kids
26:04 Josh's first YouTube video
36:00 asking for $1
39:59 what is work to others, but play to you?
45:33 ambition vs. what is repeatable?
56:05 to niche down or not to niche down?
1:07:59 how Dillan & Josh met
1:09:30 what's getting easier, what's getting harder?
1:16:53 #1 lesson Josh learned the hard way
1:19:09 a belief Josh has that most disagree with
1:25:11 Josh's favorite creator
1:27:37 what Josh has sacrificed & not sacrificed
1:30:03 bye bye bye