We were lucky to catch up with Herby and Maddie Benavent recently and have shared our conversation below.
Herby and Maddie, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s talk about innovation. What’s the most innovative thing you’ve done in your career?
The best thing I did was to leave and follow my dreams. I was a dentist and had a dream to go sailing across the Atlantic, so I retired after working for five years and became a sailing YouTuber, documenting my adventures across the blue sea!
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
What really sets us apart from other sailing channels is we have an electric motor and synthetic rigging. Most sailing channels make their way to the Caribbean and stay there, making boobs and beaches the center of their channel. We did sail through the Caribbean, but first sailed to Europe, Africa, and South America, focusing on the travel and knowledge we have gained instead of our bodies.
How did you build your audience on social media?
The trick is to be consistent. We have been making videos for over 5 years and every Sunday at noon there is a new episode that goes live!
What else should we know about how you took your side hustle and scaled it up into what it is today?
We started the social media side as a catalogue of our adventures for our own memories, but then it took off and became the primary focus!
Contact Info:
- Website: RiggingDoctor.com
- Instagram: Instagram.com/RiggingDoctor
- Youtube: YouTube.com/RiggingDoctor