We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Travis Doodles. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Travis below.
Hi Travis, you’ve got such an interesting story, but before we jump into that, let’s first talk about a topic near and dear to us – generosity. We think success, happiness and wellbeing depends on authentic generosity and empathy and so we’d love to hear about how you become such a generous person – where do you think your generosity comes from?
My generosity comes from my relationship with God. He has given so much to me, and it naturally overflows out to other people.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I was working a job making 6 figures as a videographer, but I was miserable. I was working for a guy as his personal videographer, but the content was pointless to me. He was very wealthy and showed me money doesn’t buy happiness. I was having a conversation with a friend, and said “Man, if I had this guy’s money, I would give it all away.” Helping people is what makes me happy.
I felt God checked me in that moment and said to me, “Well if you’re not giving it away now with the little you have, you’re not gonna give it away when you have millions.”
I always wanted to do ministry full time, so I took the risk. I quit my job and felt called to start a nonprofit called “Worth and Purpose.” The main concept was generosity and acts of kindness. I had a goal to give away as much money as possible before I die. It was a huge risk because I had an easy, secure, high paying job. I had no money coming in after I quit and I was giving away thousands of dollars a week from my savings to random strangers to make their day better.
Videos started exploding, going viral, and donations started coming in to fund the videos. Then I became a YouTube partner and started paying my bills from social media. From day one 100% of the donations go back out to the people, and we do not draw a salary from the nonprofit. Very different than most nonprofits. It started small by buying groceries for people, and then turned into buying people homes and getting homeless people off the streets permanently.
Fast forward, almost 2 years later. We went from zero to over 9 million followers across social media platforms and have accumulated almost 3 billion video views spreading love and kindness all over the world through social media.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
The 3 most important thingst that lead to success was trying to seek God first in everything I do, putting in thousands of hours of perfecting my craft of making videos, and mastering story telling. It is all about patience, and doing things with a purpose behind it. A lot of people think I got lucky and went viral out of nowhere, but it took me 15 years to become an “overnight success.”
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I want to collaborate with people who want to change the world. I want to change lives and team up with people who want to make a massive impact on this earth before they leave it. The goal is to bring Heaven to Earth before we go there ourselves. Love God, love people. I’d love to get entrepreneurs and other people behind me who want to fund missions that are beyond their reach.
We have a headquarters building that is perfect for a collaborative space to join forces. It is a building like no other, full of murals and fun photos opps. My wife and I are both artists so we made the place an experience when you come in the doors. We would love to get more creatives involved in serving and making an impact visually as well. We also have an ice cream truck to drive around and bless the community with free food and treats.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.travisdoodles.com
- Instagram: @travisdoodles
- Facebook: @travisdoodles
- Twitter: @travisdoodles
- Youtube: @travisdoodles
- Other: tiktok: @travisdoodles
