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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So did you just, have you always been the type of person who just kind of ignores when people make fun of you or think that something you're doing is goofy?
A No, no. When I was a kid, I was super overweight, and so I got bullied pretty significantly. Um, but I think that kind of like gave me a pretty thick skin early on. Um, and I mean, I ended up losing all the weight, which was great. I lost like a 140 pounds when I was like 16. So, you know, In a weird way, they kind of pushed me to do that, so it's hard to, I, I regained this new perspective where I was like, I mean, you know, they were mean to me, and they made fun of me, and I'm not saying it was right, and the way they went about it was way, way, way not okay, and I don't condone bullying, but It did push me in a direction that changed my life, which made me realize, oh, I can, like, literally just change something in my life and make good things happen for myself if I'm willing to put in the work. Ok, cool. And that attitude stuck with me from that moment forever. So the whole, like, people saying negative things about me kind of was this wash after that.
AI assessment note: “No, no. When I was a kid, I was super overweight”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Do you think that people are happier Today than when you were first creating YouTube videos, like what, nine years ago when you started?
A Probably not. You know, I think, I don't know why exactly. I think that there could be socioeconomic pressures right now. So much has changed in like a five year, or maybe a three to five year time span with COVID, and just weird, wacky shit happening that's never happened before in society, like used Each car is now 20,000 dollars over MSRP, even though it has 40,000 miles on it, and inflation, everything's more expensive, and, uh, and then a pandemic, and then, and then after the pandemic, I guess it's fine, but is it fine? And, like, everyone's so confused. You know, after society's gone through all these weird filters, it's kind of, like, shredded them down to the bone, almost, I feel like. And so, happiness level seems to be significantly lower, or the way that they deal with their feelings has definitely changed. It's like the age of the hater. In a way. Right. But that's okay. I also think it'll go away. I think it's a phase, but if you scroll on Instagram, you're probably going to find a negative comment. 80% of the time and 20% of the time you'll find a positive one at the top.
AI assessment note: “Probably not. You know, I think, I don't know why exactly.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q Are there mental models that you use to not take things personally and not catch feelings when you get feedback and pushback?
A The first thing is recognizing that feelings will always be there. Can't make feelings go away. Feelings are out of your control. Sometimes I do get feelings. Nowadays I don't really, honestly, I'm kind of like, I don't want to say numb to it, but I just, I'm seeing the same thing over and over. I'm like, okay, cool. Like that was unoriginal. Let's try something new. If you do get feelings, that's going to happen. The biggest determiner is what you do, right? Like you just have to decide how you want to react to those feelings. And if you're able to get into this habit of every time a feeling hits you, it goes into the, into your brain. You mentally process the feeling. You feel it. You feel bad. You will feel bad. That's not going to not feel bad. And you choose to not react in the way that you, in, in, in the negative way that you think you should, whether that's like if, you know, for example, If someone comments something, or DMs you something negative, and it could be a close friend, it could be a relative, right? This happens all the time with relatives. Relative says something, oh, I don't know if I like this new guy you're dating, you know, or whatever, then you get that DM, it hits you emotionally, and it, maybe this one really hurts, and you're like, fuck you, grandma. I'm fucking shitting on you today. Just stop for like, you can literally just not do anything for a …
AI assessment note: “recognizing that feelings will always be there. Can't make feelings go away.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q just want to make more money than I do at this other place, and I want to be my own boss, and I want to grow online. To now, you know, I have a best-selling book, oh wait, I have two best-selling books, oh wait, I'm one of the biggest YouTubers out there, On cooking. What is next and how has your goal changed as you've climbed your varying mountains?
A You know, it's funny, it actually hasn't changed. I would say most people get into this nowadays by accident, right? They're like, oh, I made this video and it went viral one day and then I kept, no, that's not what happened here. Like the two hours of sleep every night, that was not by accident. I didn't accidentally, you know, hustle my ass off. Uh, it was very much of like when I started, I knew exactly what I wanted to build. And that, that vision of what that is, that, like, thing that I see in the distance is still there. I look at it every day. And I have been looking at it for probably the past, I don't know, decade of my life. Or maybe even longer. Because, you know, I started cooking when I was five. And I've cooked almost every single day, all the way up till today. And so I've done the fucking hundred million hour rule, you know, whatever that is. When I was 11, this is the differentiator here, when I was 11 or 12 is when I saw Gordon and I was like, I want to make something like that, I think I can do something like that. Um, and he was a big inspiration for me. And That created a goal in my brain then, and so every decision I've ever made has always been this north star that I'm looking at, which is to build what I'm building now, but much bigger, um, with varying different things in it. You know, I don't wanna, like, give the whole thing away, but, like, you know…
AI assessment note: “You know, it's funny, it actually hasn't changed.”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q What happened, like, what was, tell me about the moment where you made that decision, even. To leave? Yeah, and to go do this different crazy thing.
A Well, honestly, you would think that I, most people would think that I would, was stupid to wait that long, um, based off of, like, what I was making on, on YouTube. Um, like, it was, like, Totally overshadowing when I was making 11 dollars an hour. At the time, I mean, obviously we've scaled this into like a substantial business, but at the time, when you're just one person, you're making like 40 K a month, it's like, what the fuck is going on? Like, you're making literally the cook's salary every month. Like, what is going on? Let me give you a very brief intro into how it led into that. So, when I started doing it, I was very gung-ho about getting into the entertainment slash Teaching side of food because I, I was really bothered with what was being produced in entertainment and food, and I still am. But what really drove me was like, I just feel like this is the, these people don't care about food. They are not practitioners. They have not worked in restaurants, but, but all that aside, it's just the fact that they didn't care is what drove me so insane. And I was like, this stuff could be so much better and no one's fixing it. No one is fixing it. And I was like, I'll fix it. I can, I can fix this shit. And so I started Making YouTube videos. The funny thing is when I started was when I got the most pushback from people. Because people were like, dude, like, just go home a…
AI assessment note: “when you're just one person, you're making like 40 K a month”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q book in a way that is not ads, That is not, even at the time you had a big audience, not the biggest audience, but you sold hundreds of thousands of copies of a cookbook before cookbooks were like mainstream everywhere. Um, talk to me about how you did that. How do you get 3000 people to line up to wait to see you for a, for a cookbook signing?
A Yeah, that was wild. And also for reference for the cookbook signings, any, any of my audience watching, we're working on creating a better method. Okay, we weren't expecting that many people to show up. We didn't do any paid advertising. There wasn't like, oh, let's, Let's put a billboard up. Let's, it was all completely organic push for the book. Funny enough, actually, we did do one ad campaign. We did for free. We did, we were doing this thing with Pinterest. Uh, we were working with Pinterest and they gave us free ad space. We used the ad space. You wanna know what's funny? Less than one percent of our sales came from that. And the amount of ad space they gave us was 200,000 dollars worth of ad space. Less than one percent of my sales came from that.
AI assessment note: “it was all completely organic push for the book.”
