Season 10 of the Meet the Mancunian podcast: social impact stories from Manchester launched 11 February 2025.

M. Daniel Firea

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Photographer and Self Development Youtuber

Hi, I am attaching here the email template that I am sending to podcasters/YouTubers I want to collaborate.
Would be great to hear back from you.

I am Daniel, a photographer, videographer, editor, content creator, and most recently a Youtuber. I opened a channel for self-development and improvement.

Before this, I was working only in very bad, harsh warehouse environments as a warehouseman. At one point I was a FLT driver in a massive freezer, driving at -5 degrees Celsius with no windows to the FLT.

I have also done many other jobs such as waiter, parcel sorter, bakery operative, warehouse operative and Logistics, Warehouse cleaner, gym cleaner, and even support worker for kids with autism and disabilities.

But this was not always like this, I used to be in a very dark place, I had them all: anxiety, depression, struggled with porn addiction, ADHD, laziness, undisciplined, miserable, and full of vices( cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, even steroids at one point), bad friendships and circles, bad eating habits and many more. I was as down as it can be, even my mindset, or especially my mindset.

Now, I am in a much better place and always looking to improve than yesterday.

I am happy, calm, and at peace with myself, strive to get better, I found God again, I have been constantly at the Gym for the past 4 years, my diet is better, and always positive and I have a dream, a purpose, reasons to wake up every morning happy and excited for what each day will bring.

To say it in a more condensed way, I solved all the problems I mentioned in the first paragraph. Was not easy and relapsed a few times, but I am grateful now that I managed.

Disclaimer: I know some people might have it even worse than this, but we all feel life struggles deeper or lighter. My experiences felt that deep for me, and the pain was so real that managed to break me. But that was a good thing, now I am rebuilding myself and rearranging my pieces in whatever order I want.

Why I am saying all this, so you can understand a bit about me and my story and who knows maybe even relate.

Also, I realized, that even though I lived until my 30th birthday in a dark place, with a thick fog over my mind, sabotaging myself and going through life aimlessly.

I realized that I also lived through many unique experiences, that I can now recall, and I can relate myself to anyone, I can understand somewhat what everyone is going through.

Anyway, I am still in the process of self-discovery, self-mastery, and self-improving, that’s why my recent channel opened on the topic of self-development, I think I have a very unique and different perspective view about the world and life.

I am full of ideas and I want to express them and document the journey and where it leads me, even if it would not lead me anywhere.
But I have faith that I can achieve anything I put in my mind now, so that won’t be the case.

My vision: I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur, Youtuber, author who will influence, motivate, and inspire others.

Call me delusional, but that is what I see myself as.

Here is a simple road map that I want to follow:

Start Content Creation with Positive Impact
Grow an audience
Serve my audience with quality content
Write my first book
Invest money in personal projects but also do charity
Live with moral and ethical views and lead by example
Repeat writing a book, making content, motivating, inspiring, helping others, Being a man of God, getting better every day, and so on.

Now I know it might sound delusional for some, but sometimes even for me, I am thinking: What am I trying to achieve here, maybe I can’t, maybe I should calm down, leave this idea, have a chilled and content life, but this is not possible anymore, I lost already everything few times in life. So I feel like there is nothing to lose anymore, so I might just go for it.
Just do it, why not? Why not me?

My mission: If I would have enough resources, I would probably have a lot of missions, not just one. But here we go with this main one:

I realized everyone is suffering, and hurting for some reason, everyone is lost, and nobody is truly bad in their heart, or if they are, is because of what they been through. Also, everyone thinks they know the way, but in reality, nobody knows THE WAY, because I think is not just ONE WAY, there are MULTIPLE WAYS because we are all unique and different and we lived so so different experiences. And we all need to craft our unique ways

So knowing this, my mission would be to stop the suffering, as much as possible, I know all problems of the world come from ignorance.

So the way I plan to solve the suffering is firstly by example, then documenting and sharing what I have been through, not for people to follow step by step what I do, I am not an expert, I am as lost as you are and my path is so uniquely paved for me.

But to motivate, inspire, and bring the fire inside you, even if you realize if I can do it, a foreigner with a weird accent and not an expert in communication, why can’t you do it?

Disclaimer: I don’t know all the plan details, not have the full road map, sometimes I feel idk what I am doing, but I am doing it anyway. My current situation is doing every day what I can to better myself and to get even 0,1% closer to my vision. But I am confident that the path will reveal slowly to me, and I also have something more important than that, which is Faith.

Faith that it is possible, that I can make a change, that I can do it, and that Humanity is going in a more positive direction.

And I don’t want to be a hypocrite, in the sense that I did in the past with loads of mistakes, I had the wrong mindset, and I believe probably totally different things than now, and most probably my thinking might still change with time. I just want to be me, not perfect, but trying and striving.

Okay, this was all, thank you very much for your patience in reading this.

Knowing all this, I would like to kindly say I would like to appear as a guest on your channel/podcast - or You on My channel, and I will cover all the filming and editing

Of course, if only you consider I would be suitable and match your channel voice.

It would mean a lot to me, and it would be greatly appreciated.

We can discuss about anything:

Why self-development and not photography
How I wanted to be a bodybuilder and break my back at 18 old (disc herniation)
From Warehouse to Content Creator
Vices
Being a foreigner in the UK
My mission
Working history
Spirituality

My Links:

https://linktr.ee/Daniel_Firebred

Daniel_Firebred | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

Some defining books that changed my life, I want to write them here just so you might have a better understanding of my mindset and maybe can relate better.

Think And Grow Rich
The richest Man in Babilon
As a man think
The Magic of Thinking Big
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Atomic Habits
The E Myth Revisited
A New Earth
The Power of Now

My plan is to become the Best Motivational Speaker that ever existed, with an accent on Mental Health, Vices, Ignorance, and finding the missing piece God!

Thank You for taking the time to read this

Daniel

Aug. 27, 2024

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