Redefining Retirement: Finding Joy in the Present

Episode 491: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks with Samir Chaudry (https://twitter.com/samirchaudry) — Youtuber and co-host of the Colin and Samir. You’ll hear Samir share how he prepares for interviews with folks like Tim Ferriss, MKBHD and Dream, where he thinks the creator economy puck is heading, what he’s learned from working with MrBeast, which Youtubers are building billion-dollar empires, and much more.

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• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com/

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:00) High stakes interviews

(5:15) How Samir preps for big interviews

(11:45) Learnings from Tim Ferriss interview

(19:45) The next wave of creators

(26:00) The future of the creator economy

(34:30) AI tools Samir uses

(37:30) What’s MrBeast actually like?

(44:00) If Samir was advising MrBeast…

(49:00) Why Samir made a newspaper

(56:00) Creating scared

(1:05:30) Hiring a collaborator

(1:07:45) Most interesting creator businesses

(1:18:55) Which Youtubers are building billion-dollar empires?

(1:39:30) How long does it take to “make it” on Youtube?

(1:44:10) Dabblers vs. Masters

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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