I think youre missing the point completely. your videos have just become completely unrelatable and unobtainable for everyone. I started watching you because you showed the reality of backpacker travel and now all you do is go on paid vacations or stay at 5 star resorts and film you and your girlfriend getting massages, no one is saying that you shouldn't evolve your content to reflect your life, but yah... and then you sit here and say you hate the west when what youre describing building in Bali is a mini western world thats exclusive and only for "the right people", super weird vibes. you hate the backwards cultures but then youre going to go on a paid trip to Saudi Arabia?

Watching you grow over the years has been a real trip.Your a good man with love and passion in your heart. Thank you.

I personally really appreciate behind the scenes chat. The people who care about you care about this.

As someone who has been watching this channel almost from the beginning, I’m am so impressed by your heart, vulnerability, and transparency. You have shared so much truth. Be unapologetic for your opinions, dreams, and goals. People who have changed the world have often done so in the face of adversity. Your passion and integrity shines through. Continue to dream big.

THANK YOU being so raw and opening up. Haven't been here since 2015, but discovered you in 2020 when you were traveling through Mexico and it really inspired us to pursue a nomadic lifestyle. Been working remotely in my field since then and going strong. You'll have ups and downs but you have made a difference in many people's lives

Goes to show that “leaving the 9-5” doesn’t mean having an easier responsibility free life, but a more fulfilling life because you’re doing what you enjoy. It’s clear you are working hard to do that, good for you! Just keep doing what makes you happy and cut out the excess

Big props to you for sharing this behind the scenes info and issues. Really, it helps so many other small businesses, seeing not only that "others" go through the same problems, but that you shared a gameplan for the future. I've never thought your channel was suffering in any way, but sharing those business struggles it humbling and super transparent. I guess the only thing I always wondered about was the "family" issues you disccussed. Being so remote and away from family must take its toll. What a great thing to discover, I wish you well as you cultivate this new endevor and reach your new northstar.

I appreciate you so much Christian! I am also figuring everything out on my own and you have been an inspiration and guide for me due to your transparency since I found your channel 2 years ago. I respect that you also show the mistakes you made and how you have learned from them and taken responsibility for your part! Thank you for the transparency and insight behind the scenes and into your heart and mind ❤️🙏🏽

Been watching you for a while now and think you're a solid dude. Rooting for your channel to find its way.

So inspirational to hear that - even the downsides. Thanks for sharing! ❤️

Christian, you never cease to amaze me. That was a brilliant video. You were such an old soul in a young body, in addition to that, you are incredibly inspiring. Stay focused on the Why and when you feel a little lost, go back to the why. You’re doing a great job. I am from California and you’re absolutely right regarding what’s happening now. We are totally backwards. And going further all the time. So sad. I look forward to seeing what’s going on next with the direction that you’re going. You’re an extremely insightful young man and you will do just fine. Thank you very much for the brilliance today. Sending love from California.💜🤗🤟🏻😎🇺🇸

Love hearing you share your vision, thanks brother!

Christian! This is one of the best videos in this channel for me! I have been following you for a very long time but this is the first time I comment. You have mentioned so many important topics that resonate with me and I think resonate with a lot of us. The direction you want to take this forward sounds amazing and I wish you the best!

Thank you for your honesty! I have to remind myself on a weekly if not daily basis what the purpose was behind my channel ... and it is a constant battle to not get sucked into trying to do things that are chasing the success model of other channels. It's important to stay true to who YOU are... and I really loved hearing your long term goals!!! Good luck on your journey. I'm still working on the same thing myself!❤ Dara

Keep going never stop doing what you are doing never doubt yourself you are an amazing inspiration to me personally you have no idea how much your honest and transparent ways is well received by millions, regards from Bermuda Island .

Thank you for your transparency and honesty, Christian. We have a similar dream… Land, community, spa, co-working, etc. I love how the universe connects us with likeminded people on our journey. I’m looking forward to getting to witness your evolution.

One of the best videos of this channel. Feel super connected to this channel now more than ever. So raw. Thank you and good luck on your journey and early 30s.

authenticity trumps all man - been following you for years and this is one of my favorite videos. Pursue what your heart desires, people who truly resonate will follow

Here since the first travel vlogs and finally started on my own channel so I can tell you the impact is already present, thanks a lot mate, congrats and good luck with those beautiful goals!!

Been watching since day #1. Love them all but the early days vlogs in SEA will always be my favorites. Your sense of humor and "dad jokes" are what makes your channel unique :)

It was nice seeing “you” in this video again. Celebrating your growth and energetic responsibility. Sending you love and gratitude. Heading to Bali in a month ❤

Thank you so so much for sharing this. So much love and respect. I hope I could be there with you one day and build a community just like what you mentioned❤

I really appreciate your honesty. I think this was much needed. Always there to support you in whatever path you choose to work in future. Good Luck Christian!!

We’ve watched you for a long time, and like the content a lot! fully support you in your goals, it’s a really good idea “to feel like at home”👍

the part you've been talkin about you and Ruby and your family was sooo touching! Thank you for sharing this video, it may not be as fucny/entertaining as you mentioned but it's so valuable!

Great video man! Even though you might be less happy with the quality of your channel at the moment, this is still the only KZfaq channel that I watch consistently. I love following your journey and seeing how you grew from a backpacker to someone with a successful business. Love the villa content as well. Keep up the good work🙏

Thank you for your heartfelt update. So wonderful to hear how you have grown over the years bringing you to the place you are today. Thank you for sharing your behind the scenes thought process and how your self-reflection...and how that will complement the channel in the future based on your values and priorities today. To live our most fulfilling lives, then just as you are, we should be continually grow and evolve. I also...relate very much to your sentiments on what we are seeing in the western world. Born in the US, today I barely recognize the country I love so much. I have been on a search abroad to find a place abroad that feels most like home for all of the reasons you mentioned. I know no place will be perfect and I don't expect it to be. I just want a place that shares more of my core values and has a more unified spirit. Wishing you continued success in every area of your life!!!!

Its been great to follow your journey mate. Finding your balance in life, love and work will always challenging. But that's part become a better person. I honestly like your more personal down to earth videos. Enjoy yourself always! 🤙

This is the second video I'm watching of yours and I really appreciate your vulnerability and transparency. Take your time. Its so much easier to add a task than take one away. Find your pauses and trust the process.

It takes guts and sincerity to come out like this. Been on the channel for years and will always be here. Every channel goes through ups and downs. Thanks for letting us know what's going on. Now we want to stick around more than ever.

I called you out with a comment on one of your previous videos. I’m happy I did. Thanks for recognizing your faults as your strive to be genuine on such a challenging platform

Thank you for being real and I support you as you move forward. Don't stop!!!

Thank you for sharing 🙏 I like the direction you’re choosing, it’s like a good red wine, with time it’s getting richer, deeper, more complex, and delicious. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏

Well said ! I appreciate what this video was meant to be , and I hear you. Take care

filtering comments shows you may be living in a bubble.

You have grown inward. And it shows. You have my attention again. Blessings 🙌🏽

Thank you for sharing, Christian. I have similar dreams for the future and value many of the same things you mentioned in this video. Wishing clear direction and blessings for you!!

I'm cheering for you! Welcome to life where it is more questions than answers for all of us. You are a good man, asking meaningful questions. That alone places you in an incredible spot in life with limitless potential. Please be encouraged, even while you continue to make many mistakes, the good you have done and will do is meaningful to many.

Thanks for sharing such personal info on you & your life. I'm still in the process of learning through the Academy, so thank you. I definitely would like an in person event with other content creators! :) Being with your parents and making memories is amazing and wonderful, don't stop. You won't regret it EVER!

You inspire me and I am taking the plung as a full time traveler, thank you for inspiring me and I love all your videos, I’m sure you will be happy with your channel again your a great creator and a great person, I’m saving to get in your academy, hopefully I can afford it soon so I can learn from you, you are my inspiration and my favorite KZfaqr, thank you for being you

Thank you for making so many inspiring videos 🙌

I have been following you for a long time now .. iv seen growth, iv seen energy , iv seen happiness and also raw truths… be proud of your channel and know your inspiring 😅ppl like me each and every week .. .. thanks for a great channel 😊

It takes a big person to make a video with such humility with a channel so big and inspiring. This is why you are the GOAT. Proud to be a member of the lost creator academy 😊

Thank you for sharing this to us. Those videos like this you make inspires a lot of people. From 42 year old canadian. 🤙🏿🇨🇦

I’m at minute 5 and I can resonate with it a lot, felling that our channel has wonder between topics… I already loved the video!

You have a beautiful soul, be proud, and best of luck!

This video was so real and beautiful thank you for sharing !

what an inspirational person you are, and thanks for sharing your journey with us. it gives us straight to push forward and strive to achieve our goals and ambitions. i come from morocco, where the only way to have a decent live is to work a 9 to 5, but i plan on following my heart and one day, be able to live the life I've always dream about and bless my family and friends.

Here to stay. Best of luck on your realignment and excited for your vision to happen! Cheers!

Having done a project manager class just now I can tell small teams up to 8 work best. You as a KZfaqr deliver incrementally and iteratively, which works best to be agile. Been following you since 2017, more closely since 2018 and you inspired me to start KZfaq for travel vlogging. Meanwhile I am at almost 80'000 subs. Thanks for your videos and being a great inspiration to us!

Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re doing well and you’ll work it out.

i followe you since day 1, and i really appreciate this honest talk. Thank you! more of this

Hi Christian. For me, this is the best video you have made. I have enjoyed you sharing a bit of Bali, a few other adventures and what you are doing with the Lost Creator Academy and your additional focus on your personal home and the homes you are building. This video however spoke to me because it is so closely aligned to the reason I will soon be making Bali my home (4-6 months at first, eventually growing to full time.) I will be semi retiring, but since I am not a golfer etc, it is your passions that have kept me looking every week for your newest video. While I have felt this way from the time I discovered your channel, today you spoke to a spiritual side, or at least a much more personal side. Having you share that Bali just feels more enlightened and forward than much of the west is exactly where I am at and am you seriously brought a great deal of emotion and even tears while listening today. I could go on, but will just say thank you for now and I will be looking foward to the next time you share. Take care and sending grace and blessings your way. Have a safe trip to Saudi Arabia.

Appreciate this video so much. Thank you for your openness!!! Your channel is so special to me, it helped me plan my honeymoon to Thailand. All the best and support to you

I'm still here am have been since the beginning. I quit my job because of you 5 yrs ago and I'm still here and very happy. I'm very proud of you and I pray for you often. Next time you talk, how about doing it while you take us for a walk through your garden. Love you, Christian! Peace & Prayers.

What a powerful video. Thank you for speaking from the heart.

Been watching you since the original Philippines series. Its THE reason I went out to the Philippines and started my travel journey. It was the immersion, it was off the cuff, it was organic and we could tell. You were just a guy amazed by the world around you and a bit of that magic seems gone. There was something so genuine about it that I fell in love with. Me and my fiance would RUSH to the computer to watch your videos, and sometime around 3 years ago I just couldn’t get myself to stay involved.

Been following you since 2017, started watching your Song Kran vids, so seeing your new daily backpacking vids in Thailand was really awesome, felt like like some of your older content

thank you for sharing ❤ wishing you and your loved ones the best 🥹

Pretty sure you've hit the nail on the head. Also pretty sure you've worked it out. Appreciate this frank, sincere and honest vlog -I think you needed to Make it. Hope you can get things moving again Christian. Your channels success can also be its demise, it's a tough cookie to crack .You got this man. LCA member and follower since the early days.

Have followed your channel since 2016 and this is one of the first videos that genuinely made me feel connected to you as a PERSON. Hope that says something. Keep these up man, ignore the lower views. It’s good shit.

Thank you for sharing this Christian. I think I’ve seen this coming lately and I so much recognize my ten years ago self in this message. I was building business and hiring people and was in a constant high stress mode for so long. Haha actually when I was in Bali a month ago I thought that if I meet you on the street I would say “hey man, don’t forget to breathe every once in a while and enjoy life a bit.” 😎 And you are right - let more of this perspective shine through, it’s a beautiful picture you’re painting. But hey - no rush 😉

I have to admit I haven't watched many of your newer videos, but I watched through this entire one. It's really nice and refreshing to hear from you as just you!!!!

This is such amazing content. Some people aren't kind enough to share their insight.

I am so very proud of you it touched my heart keep doing what you are doing you are on the right path. blessings to you and your family

Wow! You are evolving in the right direction... Knowing and doing the important things in life and being grateful to your blessings and continue sharing it especially the least previliged... God bless and more power to you. Been following you since your first visit in our country - the Philippines....! Just remember your name- Christian and you will be lost in the arms of our creator...

We started out global travel vlogging at around the same time, and even though our journeys are completely different, especially the part about Western culture feeling "backwards" is something that truly resonates. I've personally moved to India because that's home for me, and I love giving back here by showing the completely different side of India that old school media would never bother to show. As an introvert I can't indulge too much in building a community, but every time I feel 'lost' when creating a video or building my business I always come back to your channel. It always shows me new possibilities to 'expand as an average person'. Thank you for opening up, loved this open heart to heart talk! All the best for you, Ruby and your family

This is really good to hear mate and so interesting. You make so many good points. Be interesting if u did a video connecting back to some of the people that help start your journey.

you've been always an inspiration but to be honest like you said the purpose and meaning was lost at some point. So Im glad you brought it up, hopefully you find joy in what your doing and keep inspiring other people.

💫what a speech!!! Love the direction you are heading, love the way you speak about your vision and your way of wanting to be living your Life happily together with your loved ones and everyone around you being free to enjoy and build with you…🙏🏻pure Awesomness!! Kind regards from Switzerland. Tonja 🙏🏻💫

I love this. Helping Others is a Huge Why that God wants us to Fulfill 🌺

Great video, totally agree with your Canadian out look, You’re living the dream!!!! keep it up and keep moving forward

This was what we needed, Thank you!

Awesome video and your vision is bold and inspiring….I’m happy to be following along your journey!

Holy crap. What a ton of BS. Tried with 2x but didn't help

What a wonderful and refreshing video mate. It takes a lot to admit our own failings especially when we put so much work into things. As we know it's not about who is wrong or right but just what's best for the situation. I wish I was this smart when I was this age. Sure I'm 44 so not entirely ancient but you're an inspiring guy and I soak in the positivity into my own things... Cheers man!

I follow you from a long time, loved this video, thank you! Sustainability is EVERYTHING! i shre your dreeam, hope you get that soon

I'm always here for the adventure part of the program. Along the way the travel guide portion of things showed up. I started watching for the great blue water video and sand you brought during the early years. The interesting part of the equation here is the community part of things you talk about. My guess will be that 2023 will have some spotlight content from other channels in the LCA.

I love everytime you did this ❤ still appreciate you like crazy thanks man one Canadian to another

As someone that has watched your videos since early 2017 and has traveled the world myself, inspired by your content, I have no doubt you have amazing things ahead of you! I know for sure that wherever you bring the channel next it will be as inspiring and incredible as always and I’m excited and look forward to seeing your next chapter!

Thank you Sir LeBlanc, you build a path for so many of us, for me at least, thank you for sharing ✨✨😌😌

Such a beautiful video Christian! Raw and real. Thank you so much for this

Hi, Christian, Thanks a lot, I m so glad, you are giving that transparency right now. I ll be in Bali very soon. Big Hug AND once more thanks for your essence shared so freely.

Been following you since the Philippines 🇵🇭 trip :) You’re doing amazing and you should be proud of what you’ve accomplished. At the end of the day, the bulk of your content has been sharing super informative videos and helping your fellow travelers achieve their travel dreams!

It is what it is, you are one of thousands of travel vlogger. You were fortunate in getting an early start. I watch your channel to escape. Not to seek life revealing answers.

Appreciate the raw video Christian, been watching since 2015, inspired enough to leave the western world and start similar path couple years later, and wouldn't change it for anything. Don't worry about numbers, you've already done your numbers, focus on your happiness, the real people will stick around with whatever you transition into, and that's all that matters. Sending love from Creator house 💚

your mention your concerns about Canada but are you concerned about the human rights of the people living in Indonesia? A lot of concerning laws affecting peoples human rights

This life update was amazing. Vulnerability is important.

What ever you chose to do, do it with passion. And I wish you can accomplish All your dreams! 🙏

I remember watching you when i was a student in 2016 when i was mega broke and just feeling so inspired , you have come so far 💖

Great video as always. Been following since 2016 and it's been great seeing the evolution and also how you're thinking beyond the endless cycle of travel content like most "influencers". Looking forward to being a part of one of your meetups at some point.

I am new to your channel. This is just my second video. Wow…this is the most inspiring and thought provoking channel I have experienced. Your genuine personality is why you are so successful. I found it hard to understand why this channel is called “Lost” Leblanc as I think you have clear direction on who you are. We all know the path at times is a mystery but your foundation is solid my friend. Thank you for building what is now my favorite channel on uTube.

I appreciate this video so much and all that you have done and continue to do for others. Rooting for you always

With 2 million mostly loyal subscribers you have the luxury and freedom to guide this ship in any direction you desire. I for one am happy with this new course you have set.

grandiosity at a whole new level - love it !

❤I like how transparent you are. Nice to hear a video heart to heart. Thanks for sharing❤

Go get it brother. I know you can do it!

Follow your heart, brother. Keep speaking truth.

Thank you for sharing 🙏 you have a beautiful why and projects

It's amazing how far you have gone with your passion. I have followed your vlogs since 2016. Congratulations! I remember when you first met Will D in Boracay... all the best! Your inspirational ❤