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The Colin and Samir Show — 401 episodes

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CANNES DAY 3: The Art of Standing Out: Pablo Rochat, Sir John Hegarty & E.L.F Beauty

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CANNES DAY 2: Instagram vs. YouTube: The Battle for the Living Room

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CANNES DAY 1: Anthpo, Ramp, and The Best Ads of the Year

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Markiplier Breaks Down His $50M Movie Live

5

Emergency Pod: The YouTube Kids are taking over Hollywood

6

Kareem Rahma: How SubwayTakes Became the New Late Night

7

Why every creator is making a show

8

Mark Rober's $60 Million Dollar Experiment

9

Yes Theory and the Art of Making People Care

10

Why Sam Altman Spent $100M on 10,000 Viewers

11

3 Trends Reshaping the Creator Economy in 2026

12

YouTube, Meta and the case of the Infinite Scroll

13

He Built an AI Podcast and It Became the #1 Show.

14

Who Is Actually Making Money in the Creator Economy?

15

How Markiplier’s $50M Movie Changed Hollywood Forever

16

AI Slop and the End of the 'Human' Internet

17

Inside Jordan Matter’s Netflix Deal, and what it signals for YouTubers

18

How TBPN Built the Luxury Brand of the Creator Economy

19

The Art of Reinvention on YouTube - ft Speeed

20

The Creator Economy’s Abundance Crisis

21

Our 2026 Creator Economy Predictions

22

Instagram on TV, YouTubers on Netflix, Disney on AI

23

Gambling, Creators, and the Future of Trust Online

24

Why the Future of Creator Businesses Is Offline

25

Why Netflix Is Stealing Podcasts from YouTube

26

How Instagram Became the Center of the Universe

27

How Extreme Birdwatching on YouTube could redefine Hollywood.

28

The Business of Email: How Substack Changed Everything

29

Adam Faze: How TikTok Reinvented the TV Pilot

30

Ai Video and the Future of the Creator Economy

31

LIVE: Casey Neistat Unfiltered on Modern YouTube

32

LIVE: How Diary of a CEO became YouTube's #1 Show

33

The Highly Addictive World of Chinese Micro-Dramas

34

Inside Michelle Khare's Most Dangerous Video

35

Masterclass: The YouTube Playbook in 37 Minutes

36

Josh Johnson on Building a Comedy Career on YouTube vs Netflix

37

Is YouTube Turning Into Reality TV?

38

The Future of Attention, Human Connection & the Internet with Mustafa Suleyman

39

Nick DiGiovanni: From Harvard Dropout to YouTube's most watched Chef

40

Inside Ryan Trahan’s 50-Day YouTube Marathon

41

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy : Why live streamers are driving culture in 2025

42

The Viral Expert: Anthpo

43

How $1 Trillion in Ad Spend Is Shifting Toward Creators

44

How Corridor Crew Made One of the Internet’s Favorite Shows

45

3 Creator Economy Trends Shaping the Future

46

Walking Away From 15 Million YouTube Subscribers

47

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn Founder) on the Future of AI in Storytelling

48

Hollywood is Broken. Can YouTubers Fix it?

49

The Secret Strategist Behind The Biggest YouTubers

50

Mark Zuckerberg on the future of Facebook, Creators, and Dead Internet Theory

51

Why YouTube is obsessed with the Emmys

52

How Johnny Harris Changed The News Forever

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The Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Internet: Patreon CEO Jack Conte

54

Lessons in Creativity from Kevin Hart, Beast Games and Adam Grant

55

An Unfiltered Conversation with Pokimane

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56

We interviewed the CEO of Snapchat

57

MrBeast Reflects on Beast Games, Feastables, and the State of YouTube

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58

Buying and Selling 2025 Creator Economy Trends

59

An Honest Conversation with Linus Tech Tips

60

Jake Shane: from TikTok to Hollywood

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on the Future of Podcasts

62

Dude Perfect on their path to Billion-Dollar YouTube Brand

63

How YouTube Podcasts Decided the 2024 Election

64

Dr. Peter Attia on How to Increase Creativity and Prevent YouTube Burnout

65

Good Good Golf: The YouTubers Saving the Golf Industry

66

The Future of Creativity with Scott Belsky, Adobe Chief Strategy Officer

67

Are we too easy on AI?

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We Predict the Future of YouTube

69

We interviewed the YouTuber taking down Netflix: Kinigra Deon

70

How Cleo Abram Dominated YouTube in 1 Year

71

VidSummit Takeaways, Colin and Samir Growing Pains, and Dax Shepard's $80M Deal

72

Scott Galloway's No Bullsh*t Business Advice for Creative People

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Ronaldo joins YouTube, AI scraping on YouTube and the 25 most influential creators

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A Brutally Honest Conversation about 100 Thieves

75

How YouTube accidentally beat Netflix

76

A Hollywood Showrunner’s POV on YouTube

77

Why Rhett and Link are Making a TV Show (On Their Own Terms)

78

13 Years of YouTube Knowledge in 46 Minutes

79

AI companies are stealing from YouTubers

80

The Fast Approaching Death of Hot Ones

81

How Hasan Piker became the most successful (& hated) political streamer

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We want your feedback

83

Key Takeaways from Cannes Lions

84

Creators on Creators: Cleo Abram x Johnny Harris

85

Alex Banayan: How this college dropout caught the attention of billionaires

86

We interviewed the Head of Instagram: Adam Mosseri

87

PrestonGoes: The Rise of the Next Big YouTuber

88

Why the Try Guys are starting a streaming service

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Is being a YouTuber a Recession-proof job?

90

The YouTube video that broke Hollywood

91

Bucket List Family: They sold their company to Snapchat (and then became YouTubers)

92

Inside John Green's Film Premiere

93

When YouTubers ask for money

94

How Mark Rober built the perfect creator business

95

We asked MKBHD about his 'devastating' Humane AI pin review

96

How to develop discipline: A conversation with Ryan Holiday (2022)

97

The TikTok ban, Ryan’s World and YouTube Shorts monetization

98

An Unfiltered Conversation with Jesser (18.6M subscribers)

99

Why YouTubers are fake retiring

100

Inside Nebula, the Creator-Owned Streaming Service

101

MrBeast reveals his biggest project ever

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102

Jacob Collier

103

Inside MKBHD's Eye-Opening Ridge Deal

104

Surviving 48 hours with Ludwig

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105

Hank Green Unpacks YouTube's Biggest Problems

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106

Why YouTubers Love Apple Vision Pro

107

Inside The Sidemen's Netflix Deal

108

Why MatPat Quit YouTube

109

Our bizarre call with Elon Musk (one year later)

110

Mai Pham

111

A Brutally Honest Conversation with Smosh

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112

Our thoughts on Yes Theory's new book, the most influential videos on YouTube, how to pick the right idea for a YouTube video

113

We interviewed MrBeast’s newest employee: Dan Mace

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Why MrBeast lost his YouTube record, how to improve the first 5 seconds of a video, recapping 2023 Trends

115

4 lessons from podcast legend Tim Ferriss that changed our business

116

Emma Chamberlain on money, fame and the future of YouTube

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117

The Murky Ethics of Clipping on YouTube

118

Why this YouTuber replaced himself with AI (Kwebbelkop interview)

119

Is TikTok ruining the music industry? (Our interview with AJR)

120

C&S Rewind: The Full Story of MrBeast

121

YouTube's AI updates, our favorite videos of 2023, and what to do if your audience is disappearing

122

Casey Neistat's Latest Video, Prime's $1M Golden Bottle, Responding to hate comments

123

An Unfiltered Conversation with Kurtis Conner

124

Why creator economy startups are struggling

125

Should creators unionize?

126

An Unfiltered Conversation with Brittany Broski

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127

An Honest Review of the Dude Perfect App

128

We interviewed the CEO of YouTube

129

The Curse of a Viral Video

130

The Absurd Business of Being an Internet Prankster (ft. Max Fosh)

131

AI YouTubers are already replacing us

132

How Amelia Dimoldenberg built every celebrity’s favorite show (Chicken Shop Date)

133

Unpacking YouTube’s $14 billion NFL investment

134

An Honest Conversation with MrWhosetheBoss

135

Did MrBeast ruin YouTube?

136

3 books that made us better YouTubers

137

How to craft the perfect YouTube intro

138

The Man Behind the Sidemen's $100M Empire

139

7 habits of highly successful YouTubers

140

How Ali Abdaal makes $5,741,266.32 a year on YouTube

141

We broke the 3 laws of YouTube

142

A conversation with YouTube’s rising star BENOFTHEWEEK

143

An update from London

144

An Unfiltered Conversation with Dream

145

12 things we've learned from 12 years on YouTube

146

An Unfiltered Conversation with MrBeast

147

We interviewed a YouTube employee about why videos go viral

148

What life is like right now...

149

An eye opening conversation with podcast legend Tim Ferriss

150

The Ultimate Guide to Selling YouTube Merch

151

How Mr Beast made the best YouTube ad we've ever seen

152

An Unfiltered Conversation with The Try Guys

153

Do anti-thumbnails work on YouTube?

154

How much do YouTubers charge for brand deals?

155

Why YouTubers do things that don't make sense

156

Doug DeMuro’s Wild Ride: How Car Reviews Became A $37 Million Business

157

Is this the future of YouTube?

158

Our interview with Deepfake Tom Cruise

159

Answering questions we've been avoiding

160

Deestroying’s $10 Million YouTube Dream

161

Do YouTube subscribers still matter?

162

How Cassey Ho went from fitness instructor to YouTube millionaire (Our full interview)

163

Is MrBeast still the most creative person on YouTube?

164

Life after Nelk (ft. Jesse Sebastiani)

165

Is AI going to destroy YouTube?

166

The Copy and Paste Culture of YouTube (ft. Austin Kleon)

167

Our thoughts on the TikTok Ban

168

When is it too late to become a YouTuber?

169

Why YouTubers were better in 2017

170

How Kai Cenat became the King of Twitch

171

Should you work for a YouTuber?

172

What YouTube's CEO stepping down means for creators

173

The problem with copying on YouTube

174

How much YouTubers charge for collaborations

175

We interviewed YouTube employees about Shorts monetization

176

Why YouTube paid us $268,016.60 in 2022

177

3 Things We Learned from 3 Brilliant People

178

How Caleb Simpson Mastered YouTube Shorts

179

What happens when a creator gets cancelled

180

Our conversation with Elon Musk

181

The future of Twitter without Elon Musk

182

Predicting the impact of AI on creators

183

Year in Review: Analyzing YouTube's Top 10 moments of 2022

184

We lost

185

The Full Story of Mark Rober

186

The Cure for Loneliness as a Creator [Creator Support]

187

Making sense of Elon Musk's Twitter

188

What FTX's collapse means for creators [Creator Support]

189

The Making of our MrBeast Burger Documentary

190

Why everyone is getting fired in the Creator Economy

191

Inside the complicated business of Vlogging: Interview with UrMomAshley

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Our thoughts on Elon Musk's Twitter [Creator Support]

193

4 predictions for the future of the creator economy [Creator Support]

194

3 genius strategies Dream used to get 31 million subscribers

195

What a YouTube producer actually does [Creator Support]

196

How to make a comeback on YouTube [Creator Support]

197

Lessons from a Master Storyteller: Hasan Minhaj

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How it actually felt to cross 1 million subscribers [Creator Support]

199

How to develop discipline: A conversation with Ryan Holiday

200

Our response to getting copied on YouTube [Creator Support]

201

The story behind Twitch's worst week ever

202

How YouTube is about to change forever [Creator Support]

203

How Jarvis Johnson Quit His Job to Sit and Talk to Millions

204

How we deal with jealousy [Creator Support]

205

What creators can learn from professional athletes — our conversation with lacrosse star Paul Rabil

206

What really happened at the MrBeast Burger opening

207

How Rhett and Link Failed their way to 8 Billion Views on YouTube

208

What the end of Instagram means for small businesses [Creator Support]

209

Why creators need a bucket list – our interview with Ben Nemtin

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What to do when a video tanks [Creator Support]

211

Cody Ko & Noel Miller on Quitting That's Cringe, Monetizing TMG, and Partying with Elon Musk [Extended]

212

Addressing criticism from our audience [Creator Support]

213

The nearly impossible job of managing MrBeast: An interview with Reed Duchscher [Extended]

214

Why it's so hard to hire a good editor [Creator Support]

215

How Flagrant’s Andrew Schulz fixed the biggest problem in comedy

216

How to make challenge videos if you can’t give away $1 million [Creator Support]

217

How MrBeast crossed 100M subscribers and became the biggest YouTuber in the world

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The one thing all successful creators have in common [Creator Support]

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YouTubers ask us questions — how much money we make, our biggest regret and more [Extended cut]

220

How to create on days when you have no motivation [Creator Support]

221

An honest conversation with TommyInnit

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An honest conversation with Jordan Matter: The oldest YouTuber with 11M subscribers

223

Why taking a break is terrifying [Creator Support]

224

3 Key Takeaways from VidCon [Creator Support]

225

Why KSI can do everything all at once

226

How short-form content gets monetized [Creator Support]

227

How to build a podcast on YouTube [Creator Support]

228

Why our show is changing [Creator Support]

229

How Nick Martell & Jack Kramer built Snacks Daily and then, The Best One Yet

230

How much do YouTuber employees make? [Creator Support]

231

How Ryan Trahan Changed YouTube with a Penny

232

Does Consistency Matter on YouTube Anymore? [Creator Support]

233

How Michelle Khare Became the Most Badass Human on YouTube

234

What does a recession mean for Creators? [Creator Support]

235

Meet YouTube’s Worst Inventor: Simone Giertz

236

Has Instagram turned its back on creators? [Creator Support]

237

How ZHC Became The MrBeast of Art

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How we deal with hate messages [Creator Support]

239

Why we're struggling to make videos [Creator Support]

240

Why Andrew Callaghan is the last honest man in News.

241

Elon Musk bought Twitter, now what? [Creator Support]

242

The Most Popular Kids in New York: Ur Mom's House

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Should creators drop out of college? [Creator Support]

244

Yes Theory: The Business of Saying "No" with Thomas Brag and Ammar Kandil

245

Why some creators fail and others succeed [Creator Support]

246

How much money should I charge? [Creator Support]

247

Why TikTok's Top Stars Raised a $25M Fund 💸

248

The Untold Truth of Binging With Babish

249

Why Emma Chamberlain Quit YouTube

250

Inside the mind of Artist Van Neistat

251

How Amelia Dimoldenberg built a hit YouTube Show

252

How Ludwig Ahgren became the #1 Streamer on Twitch

253

What Kanye taught us about YouTube

254

How Andrew Schulz dismantled the business of comedy

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TikTok Takes over the SuperBowl, David Dobrik, and Wordle

256

The Richest Kid on YouTube

257

MrFeast & a day with Van Neistat

258

Why Liza Koshy Disappeared from YouTube

259

TikTok’s Money Problem

260

MrBeast is selling his YouTube Channel

261

Answering your Questions [Audio Exclusive]

262

Logan Paul & KSI's $10 Billion Sports Drink

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How we built The Colin and Samir Show

264

Inside the Mind of MKBHD

265

Jeff Wittek's Rise and Demise (and rise again)

266

The Entire Story of Lilly Singh

267

How MrBeast "Stole" Squid Game

268

Let’s talk about the Metaverse

269

Dude Perfect’s struggle with YouTube

270

Jack Conte: The Unexpected Story of Patreon

271

Elle Mills: Life after Burnout

272

How Squid Game saved Netflix

273

The Future of YouTube: A Conversation with YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl

274

The Silent Genius of Khaby Lame

275

Predicting the Future of the Creator Economy

276

The Dark Side of the Charli and Dixie D'amelio

277

The Full Story of MrBeast

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A Conversation with MrBeast’s Mom

279

Dear Emma Chamberlain, You've Changed

280

Why the Paul Brothers are Saving the Boxing Industry ft. Hayden Hillier Smith

281

The Wildly Lucrative world of Ice Cream TikTok ft. Dylan Lemay

282

72 hours with the most popular YouTuber on the planet, Mr. Beast.

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Why does everyone leave the Hype House?

284

He sold his company to Amazon for $970,000,000 ft Justin Kan

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👋🏽 Hey It’s Samir.

286

Tai Verdes: The making of a modern day popstar

287

The TikTok Cult Leader - Victoria Paris

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How College Athlete Vloggers became Millionaires Overnight.

289

The High Price of Airrack's Success

290

How Much Money Airrack Makes with 1M subscribers on YouTube

291

The Disney-Fication of the Nelk Boys

292

Being a YouTuber in India ft. Sejal Kumar

293

We played Roblox so you don't have to...

294

Ryan Trahan: From college dropout to the YouTube trending page

295

Is TikTok Ruining the Music Industry?

296

Why Creators are opening Hotels ft Shelby Church

297

How Dixie D'Amelio Murdered Late Night

298

Selling our first NFT pt 1

299

How much YouTube has paid us since the beginning (14M views) ft. Li Jin

300

Why Emma Chamberlain is the new Casey Neistat

301

How Nas Daily makes $8 million a year with Facebook video

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The Problem with Buying Stock in Logan Paul (BitClout)

303

The Mr. Beast Interview: Spending Millions of Dollars for Billions of Views

304

Meet the Girls Saving Clubhouse and Social Media

305

Charli D'amelio is selling out... (of Cold Brew)

306

The $69M Digital Painting: Beeple, Explained

307

The MKBHD Episode

308

The NFT Episode: How Logan Paul made $5million selling air

309

YouTuber Products: Winners & Losers

310

David Dobrik's $100 Million Dollar Deal with Spotify

311

Elon Musk, Clubhouse and going to the Moon 🚀

312

How Graham Stephan makes $4,578,896.32 a year on YouTube

313

How Mr. Beast turns $Millions into Billions

314

Reviewing our worst Brand Deals

315

Predicting the Biggest Creator Trends of 2021

316

Building a better world for Creators ft Joe Albanese

317

Making Music a Career with Henry Hall

318

Creativity, Video and the meaning of Life: The Evolution of Jack Coyne

319

Making your own Market: Why Logan Paul Bought $200,000 in Pokemon Cards

320

VOTE: A conversation about Voting

321

Our Thoughts on Casey Neistat's Return to Vlogging

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The Social Dilemma: A conversation

323

What we want to do when we grow up

324

Actor, Farmer, TikTok Star - Pierson Fode's Life Story

325

Is College Still Worth it?

326

A $17,000 gamble on YouTube ft. Airrack

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New Studio, New Subscribers and a New Business Venture

328

F*ck it, let's get jobs (Part 2)

329

The Growing Pains of Growing a Creator Business

330

Why Tiktok is taking over

331

George Floyd and American Racism, A Discussion.

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A candid look into our brainstorming process

333

The Future of the World

334

Lessons from 8 years of YouTube

335

A day in the life of Colin and Samir **Quarantine Edition

336

The Value of Comedy during times like these ft. Esteban Gast

337

10 Things we Learned from 10 Days in Quarantine

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50 Million Views with Coolman Coffeedan

339

Our Perspective on the New Normal.

340

$70,000 in a day ft. Thomas Dajer of Yes Theory

341

Lessons from Failed YouTubers

342

Instagram is Removing Likes.

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If you could do anything for 30 days

344

Why we took a break

345

We made another movie ft Yes Theory's Ammar Kandil

346

Candid Thoughts on Turning 30

347

Ask Samir Anything.

348

Behind the Scenes of Yes Theory ft Thomas Dajer

349

F*ck it, Let's just get jobs.

350

Who do you want to be? A conversation about Masculinity and Identity in Media

351

Making a TV Show: What we Learned

352

A quick update, See you in June!

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Dealing with Self Doubt

354

Saying Yes to Yes Theory

355

The importance of having a North Star - and we answer your questions

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Lessons from Game of Thrones - the value of consistency

357

How to Delete Instagram and take a break from Social Media

358

How to be more than an athlete with Paul Rabil

359

How to Change the World with Ammar Kandil of Yes Theory

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We did it, We made a movie.

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The art of love, kindness and empathy with Houston Kraft

362

We never thought this day would come

363

Creating a career doing what you love with Matt D'avella

364

Finding your niche audience - LIVE Episode

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Our first big Hollywood meeting

366

New Year, New Beginnings

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We want your feedback

368

Dealing with Uncertainty and looking back on 2018

369

We've got a lot to learn

370

Finding the the artist within yourself: ft. Sahil Chaudry

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The value of feedback

372

Lessons from a Failed Pitch: dealing with nerves, comparison and imposter syndrome

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How to remain authentically You: The return of Jack Coyne

374

17 Year Old Entrepreneur and YouTuber, Jade Darmawangsa on being different and finding success online

375

Questions to ask yourself: Are you living the life you want to live?

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Designing the life you want to live with Rachel and Daniel from Mango Street

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Why are we doing this? Answering the toughest question we've asked ourselves.

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Yes Theory's Thomas Brag and Matt Dajer on working through uncertainty, dealing with lows and Saying Yes.

379

Candid thoughts on fame and early stage success on YouTube.

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18 Year Old Filmmaker Braxton Haugen on YouTube vs Film and Working with Colin and Samir

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Brand building and struggling to stay consistent on YouTube

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Living in a Van and building Community on YouTube: Minimal Millennials

383

Creating Authentic Content on YouTube as a Company: Caleb and Niles from Moment Lenses

384

Working with Jake Paul and the importance of Diversity in Entertainment with content producer, Mai Linh Nguyen

385

Building a long lasting brand with Professional Lacrosse Player Kyle Harrison

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Facing your fears, Conquering Imperfection and Daily Vlogging with Cody Wanner

387

Legally Blind Filmmaker James Rath on Accessibility, Self-Acceptance and Overcoming Adversity

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How to send cold emails and bring your ideas to life: Madison Dye, Aerospace Engineer

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Instagram Robots and The Future of Storytelling with Filmmaker Kerry Furrh

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Conquering your Fears, Jumping out of Planes and Self Storytelling: Skydiving with Josh Rottman

391

Lessons from traveling around the world in a car: Alex Portera of The Nowhere Men

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Bringing an idea to life and dropping the term "YouTuber" : Your Questions Answered

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Ask us Questions: Show Update #1

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Dealing with Creative Block and Burn Out

395

The Future of Live Entertainment: HQ Trivia, Twitch and Logan Paul vs KSI

396

How to Sell Your Movie to Netflix with Filmmaker Matt D'avella

397

Jake & Josh: building a World Record Trick Shot Channel on YouTube, Sending Cold Emails, and Making the content you want to make.

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Jack Coyne on working with Casey Neistat, Beme News and Finding your own voice as a YouTuber

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Why Every YouTuber Has a Podcast

400

Creative Partnerships

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