Nick Cannon has lived many different lives, and if you ask him he’s won them all.
In this new episode Steven sits down with TV host, actor, rapper, and comedian, Nick Cannon.
At 16 years old, Nick began performing stand-up comedy, a year after this he appeared on the Nickelodeon sketch series, ‘All That’, as a writer for the show, at 17 years old, he became the youngest writer in TV history. Nick made the move into film in 2002, appearing in ‘Drumline’, and in 2005, he created, produced and hosted the MTV improv comedy series ‘Wild ’N Out’. From 2009 to 2016, Nick was the host of ‘America’s Got Talent’.
In this conversation Nick and Steven discuss topics, such as:
- The power of optimism in his life
- How imagination was his superpower as a child
- His unorthodox childhood
- His father turning his life around
- The importance of gratitude in his life
- Going down the wrong path in his childhood
- Starting doing stand up comedy at 11 years old
- Being wise beyond his years
- His connection with Jamie Foxx
- Living his life in the public eye
- Believing in luck rather than alignment
- Speaking himself into existence
- His ADHD and not being challenged when he was younger
- Meeting Will Smith at 16 years old
- The lessons he learned from Will Smith
- Losing his TV show at 19 years old
- Likeminded people intuitively connecting and coming together
- Becoming the youngest ever TV writer
- The career advice he would give to his children
- How fun is the battery for success
- The importance of intuition in the world
- Sad money vs happy money
- The negativity of the music industry
- The power of narcism and the need to balance it
- Self funding and taking a risk on ‘Wild N Out’
- The importance of owning your intellectual property
- Wild N Out being an platform for young talent
- Wild N Out being a billion dollar business
- Working with Kehlani in her early career
- Why he struggles with signing young artists
- Why networking is overrated
- Being an outgoing introvert
- Being diagnosed with lupus at 32 years old
- His near death experience
- Facing his own mortality
- The death of his child
- How grieving is forever
- Turning grief into purpose
The 20th season of Wild ’N Out’ premiered on VH1 on the 6th July.
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