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DEGENCAST EP.467: Successtalk with @iCrazyTeddy
Recorded: Aug. 6, 2025 Duration: 1:47:19Space Recording
Short Summary
In a dynamic discussion, key insights emerged on the growth of crypto partnerships, the importance of adapting to trends in content creation, and the ongoing fundraising efforts fueling the gaming sector's expansion. The conversation also highlighted the increasing demand for talent and the significance of yield-generating strategies in the evolving DeFi landscape.
Full Transcription
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I'll be leaving tomorrow
No time before
Get me out
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I'm coming to the fire, I made it to the water
I feel better than I've ever been
I can feel the rain, I'm scoring, but I won't stop now.
Don't you tag me now, I'll be leaving things tomorrow, no time to call.
Get me out, yeah I do bring it all for you. oh I'm I mean, it's a gangster. Yeah, gangster. Yeah, I don't know what I actually laugh, shit.
It's a little bit of a shit.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, it's a gangster.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we all need to dance.
It's like Jesus walking.
Who's another man?
I'm like Christopher Walker.
I mean, it's a fancy name.
I know it's a song. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be here. like
i'll be in new york with the gangsters My I'm Gangsters, know a nigga that'll shoot you for a tandem Them mobs are chillin' in the floor real Where my nigga shootin' up to fame
I'll be in New York with the gangsters
Know a nigga that'll shoot you for a tandem
Them mobs are chillin' in the floor real
Where my nigga shootin' up to fame GM, GM everybody, we're starting in a few minutes.
Everybody retreat the room.
Sean Khalif from MAM.
Two chains. We on vacation, I did it before I fail It's whatever we had to do, it's just who I am
Yeah, it's the life I chose
Gunshots in the dark, one eye closed
And we got it cooking like a one eye star
You can catch me kissing my girl with my white clothes
I'm back to my passion, thanks for asking
Couldn't slow down so we had to crash
You use plastic, we about cash
I see some people in the head that we gon' pass Yeah, I never fear nothing So we had to crash. You use plastic. We about cash.
I see some people in the head.
We going to pass.
Yeah.
I never fear.
I only fear.
And whatever.
I am.
Only God can judge me.
One shot.
Everything. I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Everything rides on tonight Even if I've got three strikes
I'ma go for it
This moment
We can't believe it
I'm not to be played with me
Cause it can get interesting
These people I ride with
This moment
We open
And the same ones that I ride with
Be the same ones that I down with
Put it all out on the line with If you're looking for for me you can find wit, in the new crowd, or the crowd wit, my new broad, that's a fine chick, in the one squad I'm down wit, ain't no way a while.
What you say, tell me what you say, working hard, reppin' for my dogs, need us every day, takin' off, looking out for all, makin' sure we ball like the mob, all you do is call. Catch you with your ball. I never feared that for dying.
I only feared that for trying.
I am whatever I am.
Only God can judge me now.
One shot.
Everything got on tonight.
Even if I've got three shots, I'ma go for it.
This moment, we are thinking. I'm not going to reach us. I'm going to go for it. This moment, we are making a lot of doubt.
Don't be late with me.
Plus, it can get into the city.
It's going to be alive.
This moment, we are making a lot of doubt.
This is the biggest day of my life.
We got big guns.
Been graduating from Niles.
It's the day of my life, and I'm ready to ride, got the spirit I'm feeling like a killer inside, oh, financial outbreak I'm free but I ain't out yet, ride with the blows so I'm close to the outlet, hit the red light, Ramson, I'm sick, I look better on your car than everything.
GM GM everybody retreat the room we're starting in a few minutes Oh I will just return inside your policy.
Your hands inside your mind.
I will just return inside your policy.
I will just return inside your policy.
I will just return inside your policy.
I will just return inside your policy. The Oh Oh Oh yeah
yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
nah, ay, nah, okay, nah, I ain't got the time for you, oh no, oh no, get up by my face,
I ain't got the time for you, oh no, oh no, bitch, I'm gettin' paid, she said I'd ride
for you, oh no, oh no, stay inside your way, she said I'd ride for you, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, okay, baby. We don't hang like, like, like Tell me what is you saying with my name, like, like
Tell me not in your name how you change, like, like
If I lose all this fame, we gon' change, right
These hoes came so quick, ain't no shit, this ho just ain't no shit
If I shoot my shot, I ain't gon' rest, I swear
I ain't gon' break, but you can't get in my head, like
You can't get in my bed, no, no, you heard what I said, no, you heard what I said, I ain't got the time for you, oh no, oh no, get up by my face, I ain't got the time for you, oh no, oh no, bitch, I'm gettin' paid, she said I'd ride for you, oh no, oh no, stay inside your way, she said I'd die for you, oh no, oh no, baby, I'm okay, I ain't got the time for you, oh no, oh no, get up by my face, I ain't got the time for you, oh no, oh no, bitch, I'm okay, I got the time for you Get up by my face, I got the time for you
Watch y'all getting paid, she said I'd ride for you
Stay inside your lane, she said I'd die for you
Baby, I'm okay, baby, kid
You good, little bitch, you good okay good morning everybody i think we're ready to start everybody sent a hundred
and thank you for coming um i would like to say hi to our co-host Teddy
and thank you for your time.
Thank you for coming.
I've been looking through your website
and I really appreciate all the,
for example, the content about VeChain
because this is one of the first projects
I've invested in last bull run.
And this project is really in my heart so I appreciate that you're posting
so much about it and I've seen the content that you're doing regarding gaming and I
thought it's really interesting, it was entertaining to watch. For the people who don't know you,
maybe you can tell us a little bit about you, What do you do? How are you today? How was your day? And yeah, just like so we can get to know you a few sentences.
Yo, how you guys doing? I got to hit you guys with the mandatory GMGM.
I noticed a lot of you guys do that even when it's like 8 p.m. at night.
People will still be like GMGM or the hey, can you guys hear me?
And it's like everyone can hear you unless the, hey, can you guys hear me? And it's like, everyone can hear
you unless you're muted. How are you guys doing? Thank you for having me on. Thank you for
dedicating an episode to little old me. But yeah, I'm a content creator and influencer for over 12
years now. When I started in the UK, there wasn't many people from my background or even my city
that were making content. And this is on YouTube, this is on Facebook, this is on
Twitch. A lot of these things weren't popular. It was quite taboo and it was seen as a waste of time.
And I started when I was in high school and most of it consisted of gaming. And then after a few
years when esports was popping off, I lived in some content creator houses across the US and
worked with some of the biggest creators in some content creator houses across the US and worked with some
of the biggest creators in the world and have helped build brands and channels across different
medians, whether it's TikTok, whether it's massive YouTube channels up to like 20 million subscribers,
whether it's collaborating with big Twitch streamers and all that sort of stuff. And
yeah, it took a very keen interest in Web3 last cycle.
Yeah, it was mostly NFT trading and doing some marketing and advisory.
But I knew there was still a long way for the community to go with how volatile it was.
And I have a huge passion for gaming and also for sports.
And I knew, given a few more years for more business acumen to be in the space.
And long behold, I returned when there was more opportunity and way better builders in the space.
And, you know, there was obviously more fun to be had.
I do miss the peak vibes of what events felt like back in the day.
I feel like it's not the same now, but we're slowly getting there with the resurgence nfts and and all that sort of stuff but mainly focused on making lifestyle content and i do tend to include
web3 elements in my content as well a lot of my peers and people um that i still make content
with whether it's youtubers and twitch streamers that you know they still don't talk about this
stuff much i'm quite open to it because i've had an esports background and if you look at most esports companies they'll happily partner with you know big exchanges or with other you know projects and
crypto stuff like that and for me I run my page the same as as a brand as an influencer and not
separating the two so you'll you'll see me hanging out in web3 circles you'll see me hanging out
in normal gaming circles you'll see me hanging out in normal gaming circles you'll see me hanging out in mma circles and it's more so just about having fun and just showcasing a portion
of my life so that you know people asked for years like i built my social following to a couple
million and then i disappeared to work behind the scenes at some of the biggest creators but when i
came back it was uh some really good reception and I'm glad I also tapped into the web3 ecosystem as I returned but yeah love your content as well team I've been
watching for a while and it's nice to see you doing more video content you guys should definitely
support her retweet up all of her video content and and show mad support whenever she does it
because it takes guts to go from doing twitter spaces or posting GMs to actually go in front of
camera, produce pieces of content, and then you critique them yourselves, then your peers
critique them, and then when you put them out on the internet, it's there forever.
It takes courage, but it's a journey, and it's one that pays off no matter what type
of business you're doing.
If you're in Web3, if you're in finance, if you're in sports, everyone wants to be in
front of camera, but there's only few have the the confidence to consistently do it and um you reap the rewards
but there's also a bunch of other things that come with it that you need to deal with
well thank you so much uh i appreciate that you uh see the work behind of this and i have to like
12 years is crazy and I like I see you've
been very consistent in that and I'm very sure that you're going to like this cycle because
I'm hearing since uh two years already that this cycle is going to be very heavy in gaming
um because like this is one part of the mass adoption is coming now so i think like i
think maybe probably this cycle is going to be one of your favorites and i hope you're going to be
successful in it um but like you have you have had like your own way you had a huge path you have
made many experiences i can't even imagine how many experiences you made in these 12 years and
like you're saying you went from doing different things and like you develop, etc, etc. Now,
when you think back, what do you think does success personally mean to you right now?
And how has the definition changed over the last years?
That's a really, really interesting one.
I wouldn't say it's changed drastically in the last few years
because I've been in the game since, you know, there wasn't,
like when I think about it, when I count it off my hands,
like back then having 1 million was like having 10 million.
Now having like a couple million followers on on social media it's just like having
100k so um understanding of success hasn't changed much but the the ecosystem and the opportunities
have evolved and being able to create teams being able to bring jobs into the ecosystem being able
to maintain and help other people i think that's's the difference that at least I've been looking to make, which is how can
you support more people, whether it's more editors, whether it's more graphics designers,
whether it's your community and so on.
And to be able to do that on a bigger level, you have to make sure your brand and your
on a bigger level, you have to make sure your brand and your content is consistent.
content is consistent.
The biggest thing I would say is I understood from early is that consistency in your brand
and your content is really what's going to lead to you having that relevance and passing the test
of time. And that's what a lot of content creators struggle with which is you know success is
relative but staying consistent will lead to you having success whether or not you see it as success
because at the end of the day and I've been speaking to a bunch of people that work at big
exchanges I've been speaking to a bunch of people that are founders I've been speaking to other
content creators some of them tell me I just don't know how to get started or I just I've been speaking to a bunch of people that are founders. I've been speaking to other content creators. Some of them tell me, I just don't know how to get started, or I've made a
bunch of content and I want to see better results. The thing is, if you're not making that content
and taking that mindshare, someone else will do it. They could be 10, 20 years older than you.
They could be 10, 20 years younger than you. They could be someone who is less able, is less fortunate, has less resources. But if you don't do it, someone else will. And
whether they're doing it successfully or not, or whether they are getting the metrics of success
that you would deem success, or whether they're successful in their own right, doesn't really
matter. Because as long as they're on that journey as a creator they're exploring the different things that lead you to monetization that lead you to increasing
in mindshare that lead you to increasing in impressions that lead you to get closer to
the circles that you need to to improve as a creator to monetize more so yeah for me it's
really consistency man are you seeing me post every day like a DGEN?
Are you seeing me be a reply guy like a DGEN?
Are you seeing me hanging out with creators?
Are you seeing me accepting and hopping on Twitter spaces when it's time to... I really don't do Twitter spaces much anymore.
But when you invited me, I was like, you have your own unique story.
You have your own unique show. It's not the same, you know, two or three people that are talking about the
ecosystem or that are speculating. So why not hop on and share what I have to and also learn from
your experience as a woman in the Web3 ecosystem, as a content creator, that's showing her face,
that's willing to network, that's willing to put
everything out there and also willing to take everything from the space. So yeah, let me hear
from you, man. How's your journey been and how would you deem success in the space and what are
you chasing right now as well? I think your answer was really interesting also because like especially
the beginning, I completely agree with
you when I was younger like when I started this whole journey it was like six seven years ago no
seven and a half seven and a half and it was like 2018 and for me was being successful having money
that was my definition of success back then but when I came into the niche of mindset
of personal development when I started trading when I started becoming a little bit bigger in
that space and had like my first little team of 10 people 15 people and like I've tried to support
those people as much as I supported myself and I I had the first messages saying, hey, Tima, thank you for helping me and thank you for giving me this opportunity.
This actually changed my life.
And then to going to the first people who made like six figures in the bull run and like almost seven figures just because I gave them that opportunity and I supported them.
That's when I realized this is the true success,
when you realize you can leave an impact in this world.
And my dad always used to tell me, before I die,
I want to leave a big footprint on this earth,
so people don't forget me, after a generation or two.
And so this is what gave me the vision when I'm leaving I want to have
millions of people saying okay I know this woman and she showed me things that changed my life it
doesn't have to be like one thing that changed their whole life but at least a few advices that
help them based on psychology based on personal growth If it's just like a money-making opportunity, whatever.
I think everything that we learn, if we build our brand, as you said,
and we can spread our word and share it with some people,
you will always have something to say that will mean a lot to somebody else.
And for some people, it might be a small advice or a small thing
or like a small information that fades away after five minutes.
But for some people, it's a huge thing.
And I think the bigger our brand is and the more we speak and bring our ideas outside, the more people we can help and the more we can change the world.
So, yeah, that's like that's how how my view to success changed a little bit.
And, yeah, I think this definition is going to change also a lot in the next past, in the next 10 to 20 years.
So, yeah, but interesting conversation.
Interesting conversation.
So what do you think, like, was there a specific moment in your journey
where you felt like the switch from ambition to saying,
okay, this is my purpose, like, I have to stay and stick with this?
Yeah, yeah.
So I sort of achieved everything that I needed.
Like, I became the biggest YouTuber in my city.
I also, like, they became the biggest YouTuber in my city. I also like, they were
putting me in the, in the newspapers. They were, I was getting opportunities, you know, across the
US and across Europe, which by the way, I'm going to be in Gamescom in Cologne in two weeks. Any
German homies pull up, you know what I'm saying? Let's go get some schnitzel. But yeah, like
everything was abundant and I had everything and I had reached everything and
that's where where it sort of plateaued and I thought to myself like where do I go from here
what am I doing you know um and I met someone who was probably like 40 years older than me
and I started telling them about my achievements everyone in my city knew me and getting recognized
was also very normal but I ran into someone and it was an older man. It was at a mosque, actually. It was a Sudanese
gentleman whose sons flipping all became doctors. And I was speaking to him. I was just like,
yo, I grew up with your sons. I went to school with them. We used to play football, blah, blah,
blah. And then he asked me about my job and what I do. And I explained to him, you know, thinking I'm hot shit. Like I'm, I'm, I'm the bees knees in my city. And he goes to me like,
but what have you been able to make from this? Not as in what have you earned? Not as in how
many people follow you? Not as in how many, you know, invites have you got to call things? He
said like, what impact have you made for your community with this or for your family with this? And I was just like, yeah, that's a bit of a scary question.
I genuinely had no answer for it.
And I took everything that I had achieved and I sort of threw it into my garage
or into my loft, into my basement or what have you.
And I just said, okay, well,
I'm going to find out what the next chapter is. And so I did what most people don't do in the YouTube scene, which is I went back to school and I did university. And then I got back into
the content space, but through a different lens. So I was always in front of the camera. I was
always being the clown. I was always the presenter. I was always in front of the camera. I was always being the clown. I was always the
presenter. I was always the talent in the video. And I took a backseat and I realized there's so
many people that have these same traits of being amazing creators. But if I help mold and shape
the brand, then I can tell messages to their audience without even having been in front of the camera. And so we created
this revolution of virtual entities and VTubers in 2020 and 2021, which were
massively successful, that were getting billions of views across the internet. And again, VTubers,
AI influencers, nobody was talking about this back then, but I partnered up with the biggest YouTuber from the Netherlands, who's my boy, Kwebelkop.
And once he found out that I was back in the game, he was just like, just move to Amsterdam and let's do this.
And then from there it became, okay, let me use the information I've learned from studying teaching at university and put that into
making the content more purpose of making it more potent and telling and showing things and
Spreading a better message and making it you know my my content wasn't necessarily family friendly at the start, but as I
veered towards
curating content towards larger audiences, it did have to change
towards being that direction with some of the brands that I was a creative director for. And
so all of a sudden, I was able to have a larger impact over a very broad international viewership
pool. And we're talking like, again, like billions of views every single month
on some of these channels.
And most of it for voice actors or for our talent
or for our editors was just,
they were in that stage that I was
when you're running a successful brand
or you're a successful influencer
where you're just going with the flow.
Every single piece is another task for you.
It's another piece of content.
Whereas when I look to my left
and I look to my right, I saw my peers who were already established, who were already in the game
for like five or six years and had created multiple brands and had had successful creative products.
Like we were looking at the game differently. We were looking at how can we maximize the impact
that we have? How can we tell stories and share our experiences? How can we provide
things like education within content for kids? How can we do things like share this lifestyle
of content creators without making it completely miscued as in like you create parasocial
relationships with people that are watching, but you also want it to be very oriented towards okay this is 1% of the world that lives this lifestyle not
everyone is going to be able to do social media full-time so you know make
sure you stay I might be lagging but make sure you stay read it read up make
sure you stay engaged make sure you're critical and not following people blindly and make sure you
are also
investing in yourself.
So, yeah,
just to sort of leave this
point, after a while
I just realized like...
Should I take a lap?
Thumbs up if you guys can hear me.
Yeah, I can hear you.
I can hear you.
Okay, yeah, I think she might.
I think I'll have to take a look.
I don't hear anyone.
Oh, boy.
That's just like spaces.
But yeah, after a while, I realized like I can do way more with my content.
And most of that comes to getting into rooms and meeting people that also have those objectives,
whether it's someone working in education who I wouldn't have been able to really connect with across paths, whether
it's someone working with a local municipality or government, whether it's someone working
for a charity, you know, like all these other bigger steps, like you can dabble in them,
but you don't really necessarily have a deeper impact unless you chase that. It's always easy to do something as a
collab, but to do something as a longstanding thing that actually changes lives, takes more
intention than just going with the flow and going with the punches. So having more intention in the
content, having more purpose with the content, and also creating up networks of people
that can connect with one another to make it easier for anyone and everyone who's looking to
do good from content, that's looking to have, you know, a positive impact, whether it's on
the youth that are watching, whether it's on people that want to be inspired, whether it's
with people that want to go from part-time to full-time on content, creating networks so that people can find their space within content creation
and not feel alienated if they're from a certain background, if they're from a certain diaspora.
Again, all this came down to me having success coming from a certain background and
realizing, again, I wasn't just the 1% of content creators that did it. I was the 0.1% because I was from my certain background,
with my certain faith, from my certain city, and so on and so forth.
And now I look at it as, you know, we kick down so many doors.
When I look at people from my background,
there is a few more people that are successful or big on social media.
But back in the day, it was just FouseyTube that was doing the IRL content.
Maybe Adam Saleh.
And in gaming, it was maybe Vickstar123 as a brown dude doing it.
Me, and then I really can't think of many other brown dudes that were doing it.
But it's just, yeah, making it so that everyone has this equal opportunity
making it so that everyone has this equal opportunity what took its time um and and it
took its time.
takes being able to speak to people that sometimes you don't see potential in the last thing i'll say
is sometimes we hit people up and um they don't see our messages for a few months and then we're
hot we're collabing with someone or we're at some event or we're doing something great and then they
message us back and you're like wow this person's person's a piece of shit. Like I messaged them months ago and they
didn't want to have anything to do with me. But now they see I'm hanging out with their friends
or they see I'm hanging out with some CEO or they see me doing some sort of brand deal and they're
messaging me back. That's very common. And it's happened to me as well in the sense that don't
worry if that's happening to you constantly constantly because eventually you'll become so busy and you'll become so good at what you do
that you'll accidentally do it to someone else, you know? And I've got several examples of people
that are sometimes even way more successful, like 10 times successful than I am, whether it's at
Twitch or YouTube that wanted to work with me at some point or wanted to do something for me or wanted to hook me up with something or do a favor or be part of
content, have me part of content. So yeah, don't ever worry about people not supporting you,
because if you grind, eventually you'll find your crowd and those people will be on the same level
as you. You know, you never want to spend too much time looking at people that are trying to make their way up. Just make your own way up and eventually you'll find people that have been researching the exact same things, that have been posting the exact same way, that have been networking the exact same way and you'll know that that's your crowd then and those are the people that you can climb up together with.
crowd then and those are the people that you can climb up together with yeah okay um i really
appreciate the answers thank you for taking the time and um i think i think from the answers we
can definitely learn something and i hope it's going to be an inspiration for some people who
are listening and um okay so when you look, what do you think has more weight?
Being disciplined or building the identity?
What do you think is more important to start with?
Definitely being disciplined.
Making the identity I've shown and proven you can do by changing your Twitter bio.
I've shown you can do by changing your PFP.
I've shown you can do by just collabing with one person
and setting it as your pinned tweet.
Like, sometimes you want someone to see something
and change your identity.
It just takes a matter of pushing that forward,
whether it's making that industry-facing content,
whether it's making that broad-facing content,
whether it's to do something that follows your peers and
proliferates within their network. Consistency is going to be the main one. That is the one
that really provides opportunities to people. Again, we know this from Web3. You get rewarded
for taking part. Anyone who missed out on the opportunity, including myself, anyone who disappeared. Last cycle I left, once I smelled, when I sniffed the bear was there, I mentioned like I knew there was a lack of business.
I mentioned that projects were rugging all the time.
I mentioned that games were trash.
The lack of infrastructure was also horrible, but that's just because the industry was growing.
But had I stayed, the opportunities I have right now would be completely different because people would have seen the work that I'm putting in through the bear.
Again, hindsight's 20-20.
Same thing with YouTube.
If I would have continued on YouTube, I know I could have 10 million subscribers right now because I got from zero to 1 million in two years.
And then I realized the things I needed to do.
And I helped get other YouTube channels to 5 million, 10 million, all the way to 20 million. So it's just
like consistency. My one thing I would say is your consistency will pay it forward no matter what.
Once you get that snowball of your content, once you start getting the impressions,
once you get opportunities to collab with creators, Whether you see it or not, that will compound because, as I said, you'll eventually find your peers,
you'll eventually create a network, and that network will be people that work just as hard
as you. In the meantime, you might be speaking to people that don't work as hard as you,
you might be collabing with people that don't want it as much as you, but don't worry about
that. As long as you're willing and open to opportunities and you're consistent, you'll eventually find your crowd and your
consistency will pay dividends at the end of the day.
Okay, thank you. I really like the answers. I can really relate to them and I agree with
many things that you say and I think they have a lot of value.
And I also see a few hands up and I would say I have like 20 more questions for you, but let's take a quick break.
I would like to say hi to our second co-host NFTKit and then I would like to know what Jashaka is asking for.
Tshaka is asking for and then we'll continue with all the other questions
And then we're continuing with all the other questions.
What's up Tshaka
Hey, how are you guys I didn't see you for like a week. How have you been? How was your weekend?
Well, you talking to me or Keith huh I'm not sure he's the co-host I was saying hi to Keith first and then I said I wanted to know what
the chakra is raising his hands for okay Keith how was your weekend can you hear tima yeah just rocker can you not hear tima yeah i can hear fine i can
hear everything my weekend was good though yeah everything's good man what do you got going on
we got teddy up here talking about some successful things talking about his journey through web 3 and
being an influencer on youtube all kinds of good stuff so uh yeah i thought you had a question for him yo my team oh sorry to cut you off team uh keith can't hear you um maybe if you
rejoin keith i don't know but she was addressing you earlier but go ahead jishaka yeah that's what
happened he can't hear her i'm so sorry it's confusing i think um x is. Well, so glad to be here and so cool to be able to listen and learn.
We're building a Web3 game.
And, man, I would have to say I have 100 questions.
So we basically came at this as builders.
We spent over two years building.
And then we realized the importance of community.
So we got into community and spent the past six months building community.
But I guess my question is, if you're launching a Web3 game, so our game is actually browser-based.
It's like Street Fighter. It's AAA quality.
We're going to have play to earn, play to win.
But basically, come to our website and log in, and you can start playing Street Fighter.
We're going to have arenas.
It should be super cool it's all like unreal engine 5.6 we're using web gpu but um kind of spent the past six months coming from the whole art lore nft side and now i'm
realizing that we need to we need to get through to the gamers and figure out how to get gamers involved.
What would be your advice there?
Do you think it's more important to start focusing on our YouTube or on Twitch?
Or do you think there's enough gaming community on X to be able to get enough people to get kind of behind what we're doing?
get kind of behind what we're doing.
Just to clear that up,
you're asking what should you do to make it successful
and to have the Web3 community get behind the game?
Well, how to get the gamers, right?
Because we got that side, right?
So, I mean, do you think we should just focus on trying to do collabs
and work with gamers on X?
Or do you think the action is on um
more on youtube and on live because i see gamers have huge followings on youtube and on twitch right
yes sir so i just uh i just collabed with um the biggest ufc game youtuber um you know again like you already hit the nail on the head.
If you want to get gamers, you go to where the watch time hours are going to be the highest
on gaming content.
And that will be Twitch.
We'll have the highest YouTube gaming and YouTube live.
We'll have the highest and also long form and short form content on YouTube is money.
TikTok funnels are also amazing.
I run a TikTok agency out of the US and yeah,
the ability for guys to convert to games and let's not even talk about the conversions that
girls are able to do for us on TikTok Live with video games when whether they're playing the game
or not, it's insane. Looking at the other verticals and getting people involved is very,
very important, but also knowing where you people involved is very, very important.
But also knowing where you stand in the market is very important.
There's already the tech and there's already the UFC.
There's already the Mortal Kombat.
Invincible is coming out with their game as well.
There's so many factors at play.
There's so much competition.
It's so saturated already you need to find where you sit in the market and come up with with a plan that
allows for you to uh sort of expose your game and the reasons why people should play the game or the
reasons why people might enjoy the game or the reasons why people might earn on the game um and
you need to rub shoulders with these other communities and expose your game to these
communities so the first thing is like okay anyone that's like that likes fighting
games or anyone that likes Mortal Kombat or Tekken or these games that we've loved Street Fighters
you need to find a way to you know inseminate or whatever find your your um message and put that
into that crowd there deep you know find the the key movers within that crowd and get them to test
out your game to play it or
to comment on it um even the casual fans to start hitting up reddit start hitting up all these these
forums start hitting up um you know the the youtubers that are making this content but then
the next level is is okay let's say people that don't care about street fighter and mortal combat
but i'm also a bit more broad so they care about fighting games as a whole, not just the cartoonier ones, you know, the people that like the UFCs,
the people that like the boxing games, the people that like the wrestling games.
How can we also include that as a larger viewership pool and include those both?
And then, you know, the biggest one, obviously, would be the broad gaming section.
How can we make this a fighting game that is loved by anyone just
because of the mechanics just because of the gameplay and then obviously you have your tertiary
objectives which maybe might be your primary objectives to get more web 3 gamers involved
and to get the web 3 community involved um but then again that's up to how you're dealing with
it but um as i said like it's there's so many different niches that you have to
study. There's so many different ways to engage in this that you need to explore. But again,
getting your game into the hands of gamers that really care about that niche and genre is the
most important thing. And the best thing that I could say is do that in person at these different events.
I'm going to be at Gamescom.
And I go every year.
And I've been invited to Gamescom since 2015.
It was the first time a manager hit me up
and he's like, yo, we're going to Germany.
And now, I never would have thought crypto games were there.
Team Liquid just posted out that they're going with SWE.
And the SWE play is going to be there.
And they're going to have six games on SWE at Gamescom.
Avalanche and Beam are doing something at Gamescom. Immutable, I'm going to be making content with them at Gamescom.
All these companies that didn't even exist when I used to go to Gamescom and now not only going to Gamescom, but bringing their titles there.
And they're working with whoever's, you know, working with them as a chain or as the publisher to bring those titles there and they're working with whoever's you know working with them as a chain
or as the publisher to bring those titles there so i would find partners that are also able to
help accelerate your ability to be able to get your game into the hands of gamers whether that's a
chain that's doing events whether that's communities that are doing game night events
whether that's creators uh that are going to do tournaments with their players,
these are the most effective ways of not only getting feedback, which is very, very important
for the game's lifecycle, go to market and all that, but also in making sure that you
hit your proper goals.
But yeah, sorry.
I'm going to keep my answer short from now on, sorry for rambling a bit.
But yeah, nice to see you as well, Keith.
The last time I saw you, you were at Sam Alvey and he was caving some flipping dutch guys heading at uh at dubai
that was fun to watch i was i was low-key rooting for the dutch guy because i lived in amsterdam for
a while and bro is a legend but uh yeah man another l for henry hoofed and his boys that night
but yeah yeah that was crazy i was actually in a corner against henry hoof and i won
it was like amazing but so proud of sam and it was crazy like after the fight he's like
yeah thank you to jesus christ and i'm like we're in like a muslim country i'm like oh this is wild
and uh yeah crazy fight really happy for sam and uh yeah man good to hear from you again well guys while we're speaking about
gaming now all the time I'm I'm also a partner of BC games now like Keith and I actually plan
to do my first live gaming stream maybe you guys want to join me I'm super nervous it's going to
be my first time oh I'd love yeah I Yeah, I want to join. That sounds fun.
I don't even know how to play those games.
Like, really, it's going to be my first time.
I have to figure out... I need someone to explain me how to play those games
because I just, like, click random things and I make money or lose money.
So, yeah, but I really want to try it out.
So, if you guys want to join me, I'll be super excited
and I will be be happy to not to
have to do it alone what can you hear me now no i can hear you 100 and it'll be fun because i told
bc games i gotta do more streams with them so uh yeah bc games obviously they have a big i was just
talking to shaka about this they have a big... I was just talking to Shaka about this.
They have a big repertoire of a bunch of people
that are into, like, big high-level gamers
that they have signed, that they work with.
So, yeah, we got to get better at this streaming,
these games, Tima.
We're both going to get better at gaming
because I suck, too.
So, it's all good.
Okay, okay.
Let's practice, LFT.
I started recently those trading streams,
and they went pretty well,
even the first times I messed up
because I used new platforms
and didn't know really how to trade with them.
But they're still educative and entertaining,
and it's a lot of fun.
So I thought I'm going to try those trading streams too,
and not sorry, gaming streams.
And I think they will be i don't know like
maybe even more visited than the trading trading streams because like i think people are more
interested in gaming because it's like everybody likes to have fun and gaming is fun right they
don't really have to use like um i don't know like i don't know if it's a like not not when
it comes to strategy games but like when it's like normal games they don't know if it's not when it comes to strategy games
but when it's normal games
they don't have to use their brain as much
as if they were calculating
and trying to read the charts
so I think it's drawing more attention
and people will more likely watch this
and yeah
I think it's a great opportunity
also to
sorry I'm missing a few words because this is not my native
language. But like, it's a great opportunity to, to build new communities and to fuse communities
with each other and like building a brand that like, especially while we're here in web 3 and we can't do like we can't
do so many stuff here that is like we're going to develop into different diverse it's complicated
for me right now to try to say what I want to say just let's let's just continue let's just say you
smoked a lot of weed you're feeling good and we'll go from there no i don't i didn't
you didn't what the hell okay what's happening because i stopped i don't do this anymore since
a few you stopped when yeah a few months before or a few weeks before something like this
i don't have a sense of time but like a long time ago and i feel more awake actually so Ich habe nicht einen Sinn von Zeit, aber ein langer Zeit. Und ich fühle mich mehr wunderschön.
Ich werde es für dich, nicht zu worry.
Okay, weiter mit den Fragen.
Ich habe 100 mehr.
Teddy, du hast über...
Was ist es wieder so? Teddy, you've been talking about, what is it called again?
Like people who do the same thing as you.
Like, how do you deal with self-doubt?
Are there things still, even like after your long journey, where you say, okay, I feel insecure about this and that.
And I still have to work with it,
and you have a huge audience,
and everything that you do is being watched.
How do you deal with this?
Yeah, that's a really interesting question.
I'll keep it short.
Everything is watched at the end of the day,
and I know this because I always watch anyone that I want to be like
or anyone that inspires me or anyone that I see coming up and is doing well.
I'll always watch and support and be dropping random likes
or random comments on people's stuff.
And there's people that are doing that to me,
whether they're engaging or not.
People are watching because they want what you want and they want to get what you have. The only difference is are they willing to put in the
same time and the same energy and the same commitment. And just a long story short, like
you have to be comfortable. And I mentioned this at the start, like you're brave for putting your
face out there. You're brave for putting your face out there. You're brave for putting your image out there.
You're brave for being on video first and foremost.
But being able to do it consistently, you grow that thicker skin and you realize like this isn't a game anymore.
This is something that if I take serious, the more I take this serious, the more the industry will take me serious.
So, you know, whenever you have plans or goals, just always know that you're going to
reach those goals. Once you get there, you have to, that's the moment that decides, you know,
let's say you have a fight coming up, or let's say you have a big collab coming up. Let's say
you have a stream coming up. Let's say you have a Twitter space coming up. Where do you go from
there? How do you capitalize from the opportunity? How are you able to milk that opportunity or that stage for everything that it has? And then be like,
man, that was amazing. Not only for my partner, not only for the person that paid me, not only for
my friends that were there. That was amazing because I was there and I added and gave so much
to that space. I gave so much to that video. I gave so much to that promotion.
And when you feel that you really understand your worth and you're able to, you know, in your own
mind, realize, okay, we're always moving forward. Content never sleeps. As I mentioned at the start,
if you're not posting, someone else is, and they're taking that mindshare. And you shouldn't,
you know, let that make you work 24-7. Although if you're't, you know, let that make you work 24 seven. Although if you're
chasing, you know, crazy success, and you want to get it in a shorter amount of time and get these
goals, you will obsess. But just know, like, when you reach a goal, there's always going to be
another one to open. And when you want success, and if you really want success, then you need to
watch what how other people have managed to not only consolidate influence,
but proliferate that to the next stage.
Sometimes it takes leaning on someone else.
Sometimes it takes collaborating with bigger people.
Sometimes it takes delineating work that you've always done that you take so much pride and time and effort into
and being like, I need someone to take care of this portion of what I'm doing
because I have plans that are bigger. And my whether it's my personality, whether it's my
time on air, on video on spaces, that's what matters to me getting my my brand out there.
So yeah, I would say the number one thing is to know where you're going to go once you reach a
goal and start planning for that. And don't just let it creep up on you because you can feel quite shizy
after hitting some really big milestones
whether it's when you're earning
or whether it's when you wanna collab
or whether it's when you wanna work with someone
or another creator.
And the second thing is find people that you can rely on
and build out a good network
that also is going through the same sort of journey.
Okay, thank you for the answers.
When, when, okay, so you've been in this since a long time, you've gained your experience.
in this since a long time, you've gained your experience.
Can you name me one thing that you do on a daily basis,
a mental framework that you think everybody else
should be doing too, but most of them probably
don't even know that this kind of stuff exists
or that they should be doing this?
Is there one thing where you think like, okay,
I really wish everybody would do it
because it would be a really big positive impact in their life,
but they just don't know it.
Is there one thing?
Yeah, supporting people costs nothing.
I think it was like 2019 or 20.
One of my boys made a company.
It was like a meal replacement thing.
And then one of his first investors was was Rick Ross. And it's called control. It's in a lot of esports
circles. It's in a lot of fitness circles. And one of the early investors and partners was Rick
Ross. And I was recently at his house in Atlanta. And I remembered something that happened with them
back then, which was all of a sudden, this this guy who was a partner with him was going above and beyond to promote the brand.
As in Rick Ross is a flippin' big rapper and he's doing all these shows and for some reason he's taking this product with him and he's using it and he's posting on social media and he's going above and beyond the expected, you could say, deliverables as a partner.
say, deliverables as a partner. And when he was asked about why he's doing this, he publicly said,
if someone's in my circle, then helping them in terms of giving them a positive word publicly
costs me nothing. Commenting on someone's video, giving someone constructive criticism,
DMing someone, sending them their flowers. Again, going back to
our first interaction team, you can go back through our messages and you'll find it and we
don't have to talk about it here. But exactly what I'm talking about right now is what certain
people know me for. And the only reason why that is, is because other people have helped pave the
way for me. Other people have seen me on a road,
and they've cleared the dirt,
or they've given me the optics,
or they've helped open the door for me.
And sometimes just by commenting on someone's post,
just by liking, just by DMing them,
helps a lot, and it costs you absolutely nothing to do that.
Just one quick funny story.
I've had a bunch of micro-influencers, some even in the
Web3 space that I've noticed have been supporting my content for a while. And then I was just like,
you know, I'll follow this person. And eventually I also want them to be able to be making good
content for me to check out on the timeline and support. The moment I gave them a follow back,
line and support. The moment I gave them a follow back, I just realized the support disappeared.
All they wanted was just, you know, the only thing they had on their mind was I just want to tick off
or cross off, you know, this thing of, oh, this big creator follows me. And I'm just like,
man, what a way to just end the conversation we could have had if we continued supporting each other if we ended up making
content together or if we ended up doing xyz so supporting others costs nothing and um you know
when when you do support other people just know that there's a real person behind that screen
and that opportunities don't just go from up to down they can come from down to up. And whether someone has less followers than you, more followers than you,
doesn't matter.
Everyone eats at the end of the day.
And like I said, realizing that there's real people behind the screen
is really what changes your understanding of exactly what's happening in the space.
You know, what's happening in the space and seeing that from a holistic view,
being able to step outside and see what's actually going on, who the movers are, who's actually curating lists, who's actually curating events, who's actually meaningful people to speak to, who are people that regularly waste people's time, who are people that might burn your energy versus who are people that might increase your opportunity, your productivity, or even upskill you
is very, very important. So using your time wisely and never discounting anything that you give to
anyone. Like I said, I mentioned like three times now, helping people is free, but don't ever discount
your own contributions to someone else's journey, because whether they
admit it or not, it might help change the trajectory of their success. And you shouldn't
expect anything back. But eventually, you will find people that are, you know, helping you,
whether you know it or not, the way you are helping other people. They might do it behind
the scenes, they might do it forward facing, but it's happening as long as you're putting out that good energy at the end of the day.
I think you're mentioning a very important point, supporting others.
I realized that the biggest people in the space are the ones that support the most.
in the space like are the ones that support the most and for example
Keith also he also like sent me a message a few months before and just saying okay like
let's grow together and I didn't really expect that because like you also like you both are guys
that are like more far in the space than me and i always
thought that people are connecting only with people that are likewise like likewise far
um but when i look back i realized this is probably the reason why you came that far because
you don't really like um look at numbers and just like support people and
try to see the potential of people and like not having this mindset of oh I
have more followers I'm better or like I'm longer in the space and yeah I think
at the end that's an important point and this is where I also realized okay maybe
I can give that back and do the same thing and also try to support my
community even more and giving it more advice is giving more chances to come up
on spaces mentioning them etc etc and since then I also realized like it's working better
for me so it's like it's like an exchange of energy if we can go into
that way like whatever you give like whatever you bring out into this world
you're receiving back and I think that's beautiful so I realized the people that
are constantly in comparison with others and try to be the best and the only best are those who are driving a little bit slower.
And the ones that like it is like those people are competing against people that work in a team and teamwork at the end will always work better.
work better I think because in a team everybody's working on something and you can grow together and
just like it's just more energy than if someone would try to do it alone and I think the part
of support is like really really interesting in this and I didn't really think about that I just
like realized that I don't know a few weeks before so great point thank you
So, great point. Thank you.
Okay, okay. Now, we've been talking about all this way up.
Now, let's say someone would take everything from you.
When I had my mentors a few years before, they always said,
we're trying to build something that nobody can take away from you.
And if you did it once, you can do it twice and three times and four times.
And like most of the successful people were people that have to build from scratch over
and over and over again.
So on the way up, there will be many times where you lose everything and then you have
to come back.
So if someone would take away from you everything, let's say all your social media accounts,
you would have to start from zero.
You would have to start from scratch and you would have to start from scratch,
and nobody would know you anymore.
What would you do?
How would you start?
That's a really interesting one,
because if you start from zero completely,
you know, there's that,
starting from zero is kind of like a myth, because you'll always have some sort of network and you'll always have some sort of contacts or relations or findings or
groups or networks of people if you've seen a level of success that you can follow, that you can study, that you can watch. But again, if let's say if you were starting from
zero, the first thing is, is to find, you could say, the KOLs, or you could find the companies,
let's just say, in the context of business, or you can find your peer, people that you perceive as
being your peers, whether it's now, six months from now, a year from now, and you need to look at all of them. First thing is, is find a niche where there's
not much saturation and be like, okay, it's not that saturated. However, if it is saturated,
then I'm going to do something that is different to everyone else and provide more value
in a way that people will perceive and that will
be what makes me stand out so find a niche or a competitive space where you know you bring or have
a certain edge to and it could be anything if you start from scratch it doesn't mean that you have
to be an influencer again it doesn't mean you have to start a business again or it doesn't mean you
have to start a game project again it doesn't mean you have to start a game project again. It doesn't mean you have to start a social media page again. You could completely 360 and if you obsess about something long enough
and if you study long enough and if you watch people long enough within that space, you'll
notice patterns and you'll figure out exactly who's doing what, what everyone's up to. And then
you'll find that opening of, okay,
this is how everyone else is operating. Here's the good things I can take from these people.
Here's the not so good things I'm observing from these people that I'm going to stay away from.
And here's how I'm going to use my own personal personality. Here's how I'm going to use my
personality. Here's how I'm going to use my own business acumen. Here's how I'm going to use my personality. Here's how I'm going to use my own business acumen. Here's how I'm going to use my own flair to bring something new to this current viewership pool or monetization pool.
So it really comes down to planning, execution, and also processes are very important.
A lot of people that, again, we'll start off with content because that's what we're talking about here. But this could be for for business, it could be for scaling anything. A lot of people get burnt out because the menial work and the processes of making a video, for example, or making a product, for example, becomes too hard for them.
creator, you can't make, you know, one video a week, or two video a week, or three video a week,
then you need to pack it in and go find something else to do or realize, okay, well, this is going
to be a part time hustle, you know, or if you can't do two to three spaces a week, and you're
supposed to be, you know, a KOL that's known for, you know, hashtag spaces host in your bio, then
pack it in and do that part time and look
for something else. But if you can hone in and find processes that make these tasks easier,
you know, once you do 10 spaces, all of a sudden you look back at your first one, you're like,
man, I was so nervous for this first one, man, finding an audience or finding guests was so hard,
but 10 spaces in, I found ways to make these smaller,
more menial tasks a lot easier. I found ways to either outsource these things or I found a network
of people to share information with. That is really, really important. You can't always do
things a certain way. You have to level up every single, let's look at it as like a video game, every single skill branch or skill
tree, you have to place a bit of priority in. So whether that's your editing, whether that's your
effort, whether that's your quality of video, whether that's your lighting, whether that's
your microphone, whether that's your internet, you have to find ways and solutions to be able to give
you know, 1% to every single one so that there isn't parts of your game that have holes in them.
Because if that's the case, then eventually later down the line, that will become a problem that you'll need to address.
And the moment you spend time addressing that problem, you've missed out on capitalizing on other opportunities or other work that could have been presented.
on other opportunities or other work that could have been presented.
So find ways to make the processes and the day-to-day tasks a lot easier.
And you don't need motivation to do those things necessarily.
All you need to do is work because as you work and as you go down this path as a creator,
your mind as you get these flight hours will already be figuring out, you know,
whether it's you wake up one morning and you have ideas about things, whether you're writing
about things, whether you find out about things while you're dreaming, even ideas and inspiration,
that inspiration will come sometimes even by watching someone else. It could be you can watch
an amateur at spaces and find they did something amazing that you want to do. You could watch an amateur at Spaces and find they did something amazing that you want to do. You could watch an amateur content creator and see that they have an amazing content idea and
you're like, I can do this, but I'm going to do it better. So I'm not directly stealing it,
but I'm inspired. So find that inspiration everywhere and find ways to level up in every
single facet of your game. You can't just go in throwing jabs and throwing hooks because that's only going
to work for a certain level. At some point, you need to diversify and become more dynamic so you're
able to keep away from plateaus and get that snowball going and you'll really feel the momentum.
Every single successful video will just feel like another day in the office.
And why do I know this?
Because when we were uploading YouTube videos up until one year ago,
I was still working full time as a creative strategist.
We would upload a YouTube video,
and if it didn't have like 700,000 views in the first day,
we would call it one out of 10.
Between 500K to 700K long form videos, not even shorts,
if it didn't have like 700,000 or 500,000 views within the first 24 hours, we wouldn't feel that
buzz. You know, that's what we were chasing. We were chasing that buzz of this is doing amazing.
This is super successful. Find those things that make it worth you chasing. That is what keeps you, I wouldn't say motivated,
that's what keeps you in the game. Find that monkey to chase or that dragon to chase that
keeps you entertained. Gamify the process. Don't let it wear you down and don't let it trick you
into thinking that you're just another cog in the wheel or you're just one out of a thousand creators. No, your individual journey matters just as
much as anyone else's. You had some really really interesting points. I don't
know if I can repeat all of them but okay so I had like one little question
in mind while you were talking.
Did you know that you are going to end up where you are right now?
Like, did you start, like, did you plan this from the beginning?
Or did you just try, like, did you just start something and develop into what you are right now?
Yeah, going back to the point that I made earlier,
when you think about it, right, everyone here,
like, as long as you're able, an able-bodied person
and, you know, have a roof over your head,
we're all going to be working for the first, I don't know,
after the age of between 15 to 20
till the age of 60 to 65. All right, you're all
going to be working. Whether we're making videos, whether we're sitting over here and flipping meme
coins, whether we're streaming, whether we're fighting, whether we're working an office job,
whether we're working a cleaning job, whether we're working in retail, whether we're flipping
burgers, it's all the same thing.
It's every single one of those things that I just mentioned, when you look at it from the outside perspective, is labor, right? If you can complete the labor and you have the satisfaction
while completing it, then you can open that next chapter of, okay, now I want to work,
right? I've seen people that, again, like Nadeshot used to work at McDonald's and now he's the
biggest esports creators in the world. I know multiple Call of Duty pros, people that are
casters, people that are working in these leagues. A lot of them are out in the esports World Cup in
Saudi. These guys were detailing cars. They were dog sitting. they were doing X, Y, and Z. That was
the labor that they had to put in. That's the bare minimum. Each and every single one of us
has to do the labor. It's just, does doing that, you know, do you feel good enough just doing that?
Some people do, right? Some people do feel good enough. And I can say this, you know,
I spend a lot of time in these circles,
some people are good enough getting one workout a day in, but some people will come after the
workout and they'll hit pads. Some people will come after the workout and they'll, you know,
do some throw on the gi and they'll start wrestling. Some people will make their one
video or do their one space a day and then they'll go network with other creators. So it's just like,
do your labor and do it happily because each and every single one of us has to put in and dedicate that time to take care of ourselves, to take care of our families.
But finding those opportunities for work, that's different.
That's what's changed in the last, like, I don't know, 20 to 30 years, like post-internet.
Work is really what separates people from the laborers.
The laborers, that's every single one of us when we're born, regardless.
Maybe if you have a silver spoon, you'll never have to labor.
I've seen that as well.
That usually leads people down a dark path.
But if they're smart, then they can do amazing things and make amazing change.
But each and every single one of us in here is put in that labor, and some of us do it happily. Some of us are content by it. You know, once we've complete the labor,
we'll go and get into leisure. We'll get into family time. We'll get into holidays. We'll get
into video games. We'll get into consuming content. But there's that, I don't know, 1%,
5% that just like, okay, the labor's done now, let me go work on something.
And that's what's going to be able to change the trajectory of your life or your career, as you could say it.
Okay, thank you for the answer.
Yeah, I agree with almost everything that you say.
And like, as I said before,, you're giving some great insights.
Now a more personal question.
Do you think that pain is a necessary part of growth?
Or do you think...
Because what I've seen,
the most successful people that are writing books
um that are like i don't know um robert kiyosaki etc etc that they all come from a
sort of pain before they started building and most of the people that I know that are like really big started from pain.
Do you think that it's necessary or do you think it doesn't really play a role?
And somebody who is not in a situation where he really doesn't want to be can come to that as fast as possible too because like from what I've realized
people who are still comfortable are less likely to do something what do you think about this
yeah I totally agree there's there's so many success stories and and inspirations of people
that have come from nothing whether these people are like prime ministers and presidents today
or whether they're billionaires.
I would say for a certain percentage of people, they do need that.
I mean, understanding what that is in terms of pain,
it's like what happens to time when you're going through a period of pain?
We've all been there where we've all looked at the clock or we've all sat around and just thought, man, my life's over.
You know, that pain slows down time.
Time feels like it's going to drag on your life, feels like it's over and you feel like you're never going to get out of this.
going to get out of this. And some people comfortably navigate through that or some people
are, you know, happily navigating through that knowing that there's a light at the end of the
tunnel. Others are able to break out quicker and so on. But I wouldn't say necessarily everyone has
to go through a certain degree of pain to see success. Because as I mentioned, you could be
born with a silver spoon, you could be born with multiple opportunities and you find a way to flourish without it being painful.
You know, there's a lot of rhetoric these days, especially in the postmodern era of, you know,
overthrowing people that are already successful, that are already doing amazing.
And it's just about how does everyone go through those moments and how do
they adapt? So you might find someone that's gone through extreme severe pain for a long period of
time and become successful sitting next to someone who hasn't gone through severe extended pain,
but their end goal or where they met along their journey was the exact same. You know, you find billionaires, some of them who inherited their daddy's money
but were smart and played their cards right sitting next to people that flipping,
you know, worked two labor jobs, flipping burgers and then working at a car wash
and then starting their business and then becoming just as successful as someone else.
But the difference is, you know, their journeys were different. So there doesn't have
to be a certain degree of pain that people have to feel to get success. Obviously, for us that
aren't in the upper echelons of society, that can be a catalyst. And turning away from that pain
could potentially slow down your objective growth. But there's nothing wrong with finding
ways or modes of doing things that are less painful or less stressful. At the end of the day,
we're all going to have a certain degree of stress. But I totally get what you're saying,
though. Like pain is a very, very important part for a lot of people to find those pockets
of growth within a short period of time.
Because the moment the pain goes away, you realize I've learned something or I feel good.
I've seen that the door that was right there that I needed to open, you know, or sometimes
it takes an intense amount.
Sometimes you need to be slapped out of it.
You could be in pain and all of a sudden you've gotten another shock and that's just jolted
you and woken you up and you're like, damn, it wasn't pain after all.
It was just the perception of me perceiving it as pain.
No, this was just a normal journey of someone.
As I said, it was me just going through this moment of committing to this labor.
Some people might describe it as pain. Other people
might describe it as a grind. Other people might describe it as hell, you know, but it's just about
being content and being grateful will take you further than seeking pain because, you know,
I heard a really awesome quote, and this was right as I was finishing up college.
I heard a really awesome quote, and this was right as I was finishing up college.
One of the lecturers said, like, if you put other people in your providential care, then God will do the same for you.
You know, I mentioned this earlier.
When you're taking care of people, when you're helping people out, whether they know it or not, just know that someone else is also going to extend that olive branch to you.
So long as you're still putting in those flight hours, so long as you're still working hard,
whether it comes to you, you know, through a painful period,
whether it comes through a period of you being through bliss and achieving so much.
Sometimes we just can't catch a break and then we finally catch one.
Other times it's going
really, really good. But having gratitude throughout that whole period is where a lot
of people go wrong. And a lot of people sort of somnambulantly just, just go through life.
But having gratitude throughout, whether it's a painful period, whether it's a successful period,
whether it's a boring period, that's what changes people's, um, moods. That's what changes people's moods.
That's what changes people's circles.
And that's what changes people's attitude and behavior and allows for you to cultivate,
you know, better things for yourself and other people around you.
And it's not just about being grateful because the moment you are grateful about things, the first thing you realize is everyone around me is ungrateful.
The moment you realize I'm going through so much pain is the moment you realize everyone else around me is not going through as much pain as me.
But taking that backseat and being like, I'm going to go through this and I'm going to
come out of this and I'm going to be grateful through it is really what separates people from one another.
And just to end it with an anecdote, I've spoken to some of the biggest creators in the world.
And I still do speak to some of the biggest YouTubers in the world. And everyone here has
seen these people's content because they're working with Amazon and they're working with
Netflix and they have these game shows and they have these collabs. And we speak to one another as peers, not because of the journeys we've been through,
but because we're still around and we're still constantly working.
That's the degree of respect we have for one another.
It's not like, oh, I had to go through a harder bracket to win this tournament.
Or I had to go through the blender to get this job, or I had to message 100 people to get this collab versus you had to message one person.
You know, at the end of the day, once you make it to that podium, you're all there and you all deserve to be there regardless of what anyone says.
If anyone becomes ungrateful or, you know, doesn't seek that you could call it pain or doesn't want to grind through that anymore, then they'll be replaced by someone else.
So whether you call it pain or whether you call it a grind, whether you call it commitment, whether you call it consistency, you can call it whatever you want.
The moment someone stops wanting that, the moment someone stops pushing forward through that is the moment they'll be replaced by someone else who does feel comfortable in that position but uh yeah sorry sorry for that long-winded one but
these are just things that I've observed for a really really long time being on social media
and working in the upper echelons of social media and of YouTube like when we started it we were
just rats in a basement making content
and then getting invites to, you know,
like NBA games or flipping recording promos
with like NFL stars and other things like that.
You just realize like, you know,
you're no different to the people that are there,
but this will only continue.
The success will only continue so long as you cultivate
and you nurture it. The
moment you become complacent, it will be handed to someone else. And yeah, to be grateful during
those pockets of time and to be grateful throughout all of it. A lot of people say it's usually the
poorer people or the people that are grinding more that are more grateful. And that seemingly
is the case. Why? Because they're able to appreciate
and have gratitude throughout the whole journey. Sometimes when you achieve objectives, you're
looking around and you're like, what's next? I've got everything I want and I'm still miserable.
I've got the deal I want. I've got the money I want. What's next? But whatever is next is literally
you going on your journey and still grinding and
still going through that pain and restarting the cycle all over again and re-evaluating and
navigating towards something bigger and better because there's always a bigger goal there's
always a bigger deal there's always a bigger creator there's always a bigger collab there's
always a bigger stage um and there's always more people that you can share
the bounty with um you don't have to apologize i think it's uh really like you surprised me that
you're speaking about gratitude at this part but like i have a like very big experience with this
topic and like it's a very very very very very important
topic to me and I'm just like really surprised that you mentioned and I
completely agree a hundred percent like with every single point that you
mentioned and I'm for example like they have been many times where I've gone
through a lot and I've been talking recently to a person that went through
the same and I was in a good mood I asked her like are you also happy that you experienced all
of this and she was like no not really like like it gave me pain why would I be happy but like I'm proud that I made it and when I think back like I'm
really so grateful for the things that are happening to me I'm praying five times per day
and I'm every single time I'm saying that I'm happy and grateful for everything that happens
to me the good things and the bad things because the bad things are making me at the end of the day like to that like really really really strong person i am today and
like i if if you if you don't if you would have told me a few years before what i am going to
manage in the next years i would never believe and and I would think, no, this is impossible.
I will not be able to survive this.
But I'm here and I'm super fine and I'm super good.
And I realized how strong I am.
And I'm so grateful for these experiences so I can know how strong I am.
So I can know.
So now I'm at this point.
I know whatever comes to me, I'm going to come strong out of this
I'm going to survive and I'm going to manage this situation with
I don't know if it's the correct word like bravery like
with bravour. I don't know if it's the correct word.
But like I
was really surprised of
what we can do and in the beginning we think that we will not be able to handle this,
but at the end, we can.
And there's like one sentence I did read over and over again.
God will not put you through situations that you cannot handle.
And I realized, like, this is true.
And people should not be, like, coming into situations and then breaking in them and saying,
okay, this and this happened to me.
So this is the reason why I give up.
I give up my life.
I don't know.
I try to take my life.
I'm homeless.
I stop fighting.
Like, there are people that actually give up.
And I think this is so unnecessary because they
could be instead grateful for the experiences and grateful for surviving those things and grateful
for the experience and the learnings that they make and they could come out like stronger out
of this and I think everything that happens to us is a blessing and I would never not be grateful grateful is like like gratitude is a really
important part you know like I'm like I'm even grateful for okay so when I'm praying I pray in
front of the window and have like a big window like from the roof to the to the floor like
every time I pray I just like look outside and I'm grateful that I'm able to see I'm grateful that I'm able to see the things
that I see in front of me that I'm like the most simple things like being
healthy grateful for a slow morning for example grateful for having a nice
breakfast and for the simple things and if you can't be grateful for the small things,
you can't really be grateful for big things.
And that's what I realized with people around me.
I know people that are not grateful at all.
Like whatever you give them, it's never enough.
It's never good enough.
And like they keep complaining.
and they always want more and more and more.
They always want more and more and more.
And I've seen those people making seven figures,
And I've seen those people making seven figures,
growing teams that are filled with 500, 600, 800, 900,000 people.
And they were working with those people
and they were still not grateful when they had everything.
And I think this is because they weren't grateful for the small things.
So I think it's a really important part and
it's a topic that we should not
look over. It's a topic that we should speak much more about it and I
actually don't hear many people speaking about this
so it's a really great point
okay
let me take a few more questions we're almost done
just a second okay so are there moments when you like put a lot of effort into it
and the external results don't match the internal effort that you put into this. Why are you laughing?
Why are you laughing?
Yeah, because I learned this when I was like 16 years old.
I was grinding YouTube and I would spend three days making a video and it would get like 50,000, 100,000 views.
And then I would make a video in two hours and it would get a million views.
And I'm just like, something's not adding up here.
But learning that lesson that early in life sort of helped me.
And it's just like, you know, again, if I'm putting in the effort and if I'm producing the work, then let me, again, take a step back and look at what's important here.
Okay, clearly I'm chasing results.
Clearly I'm results-driven.
Clearly I care about analytics.
But I also have a love and a passion for this, that I want to do things my way and have my own touch to it.
And then it's just about balancing, you know.
At some point you have to make decisions, uh, in your life that are
almost like business decisions, whether that's with friends, family, um, business, like sometimes
you've got to cut off doing certain things or giving certain things energy and you have to,
you know, not make the emotional decision of, of, of doing X, Y, and Z. So I've spent,
you know, days making certain videos and they've, they've flopped or, you know, not make the emotional decision of doing X, Y, and Z. So I've spent, you know,
days making certain videos and they've flopped or, you know, under my understanding of flopped,
obviously other people will look at it and be like, yo, that's great. You know, that's a good performance. But for me, it's just like learning that early. That's just a part of it. You know,
sometimes you do a collab with a company and you want to re-up and you want to do it again and all of a
sudden you're like oh they didn't pick me again and it's like did they pick me they're not picked
me because of performance and you look and you're like oh they didn't not pick me up again because
of performance they picked someone else up because they want to they like that person more that
person spoke to them in real life and so on and so forth. There's so many factors that you can't control. But accepting what's what and finding solutions to it is where
a lot of like that's the disconnect for people. Just because something doesn't breed results
doesn't mean that you did something wrong. It's just, okay, let's take a step back and let's
reevaluate how we could have optimized
our approach to handling this situation. You know, I've done this and I've taught this critical
thinking to teams so many times. And for the most part, if you don't have someone drilling that
into you, you learn it yourself. You know, whether that's in math class, whether that's in school,
whether that's playing sports, whether that's through someone coaching you, whether that's by the, you know, for me, I didn't learn this stuff until
I got into end of high school and started doing YouTube. It's something that school never taught
me. Um, and then understanding the next level of it was when I, when I went to university,
you know, understanding critical thinking, understanding ways of, of, of researching
these things that sometimes you have to go out and look for them yourself. Um, but not let them
drag you down just because something didn't give you the, you know, reach its aims and objectives
doesn't mean that you can't give it another go. Uh, one example I'll give you is
posting your content. Whenever you're posting it, that matters
a lot. I saw a bunch of people in the US and I was just like, they're posting good morning, like
on UK hours. What's going on here? You know, clearly this fool ain't awake, girls and guys.
And I was just like, let me just, they're doing something good. It's giving good results. Let me
just start doing it. And all of a sudden, my engagement doubled on something as menial, as simple, as basic
as that, you know.
Same thing with any objectives you want to reach.
If you find a way to get those results and it's not harming someone else, then go ahead
and go for it.
And always be willing to question your own biases
and always be willing to take that constructive criticism from other people
and always look towards people that are doing the things you want to do successfully.
And as I mentioned before, take the good from that and always put your own flair to it.
So yeah, it's just a part of the game, the ups and the downs. Sometimes you'll put in a bunch of effort and you'll get peanuts. You know, we've
all done that. We've all loved the product and wanted to work with it. And then you see that
product go kiss someone else's ass. And you're just like, oh, we could have made so much great
content, but we could have had such an organic collab. I could have bought so many viewers or
revenue to you, but instead you want to go, go you know stick your head up someone else's ass who doesn't couldn't give a shit about you and other
times you'll get a company that you don't care about and they don't care about and you'll have
a good uh business relationship and it doesn't feel quite fulfilling but um sorry i scream vans
stream sniping right now but uh you know as long as you realize this is part of the game,
you'll have good connections, you'll have missed opportunities,
you'll have money that lands, you'll have money that misses,
you'll have views that hit, you'll have impressions that hit.
It's all part of your journey and, you know, being able to...
What's the word?
Extrapolating the information or reading between the lines and understanding
what's happening internally is just as important as what's happening outside with your journey as
a creator. You know, how does a video doing shit make you feel if you've put a lot of effort into
it? And how can you make it so that it doesn't feel as shitty next time so you're more prepared for these outcomes um so yeah it's you know it's the internet the first time we ever posted our face
a thousand people told us you look goofy or you look like an idiot or you don't look like the way
you look like or oh i thought you were you know people even told me like oh i thought you were
white now i'm not gonna watch you anymore i'm, you know, saw that one come in from a mile away. But this is all the way back in 2015, when I did my face reveal. So rolling with
the punches, but understanding that you have to process these things internally as a creator,
and, you know, find solutions to them, whether it's with yourself or having the trust of
reaching out to your peers and asking them how they deal with that stuff,
that can help quite a lot.
Sometimes you're one conversation away from feeling really good about a not-so-good result
of whether it's your content or your business or your revenue,
because you realize everyone else is also going through the same thing,
going through the same thing and some people are finding solutions and ways to make headway
and some people are finding solutions and ways to make headway,
and others are just sitting there stressed and trying to figure things out and throwing
shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.
That's some great points. And when...
Okay, so was there a time when you had to reinvent yourself?
Yes. As I said, I left social media for probably five years.
I had some, like, my social media was a decent, you know?
I have, like, 100K on Facebook.
I used to have, like, I think it was close to 50,000 on Instagram,
which isn't much, but I lost, like, 25,000 followers or something.
I used to have, like, 1.2 or 3 million on YouTube,
and I lost, like, 200,000 subscribers from being,
from just not posting, you know, from investing my time in other things. And when I came back,
I did have to, I didn't have to necessarily reinvent the wheel, but I cut out the things
that weren't positive. I cut out the things that weren't, um, you could say progressive,
or I cut out the things that weren't needed anymore, because the social media landscapes changed, the humors changed, the players and the actors, everyone
I knew who was working at agencies, or was at big PR firms, or was working with these publishers,
everyone's either changed to a different job, or they're more senior, and there's more processes,
and there's more jobs involved, there's way more bureaucracy um you know there's a lot of things going on um reinventing i recently saw
ksi speaking about how he's making mr beast type videos um and i think the guy's going to do really
well because i've been following the sidemen for a very long time and even been part of like
influencer collaborations and campaigns that those people have done and they've been extremely
successful in their own right but seeing someone who's been in the game for like 15 years now
almost 20 years like KSI saying oh I'm going to um I'm going to start doing Mr. B style videos it's
just like everyone would look at him and be like, yo, you're stealing someone else's idea. Whereas he sees it as, no, I can do his videos, but I can bring my personality to it. And I can bring my audience to it. And I can bring elements to this niche and genre to this viewership pool that, you know, an American guy can't bring because I have my own culture, my own background,
my own friendship group and my own sort of ecosystem. So, you know, these are things that
you add to your utility belt as you go along and there's certain things that fade away.
It's funny because when people talk about fighting, they always talk about, you know,
how would this person do against Mike Tyson? about how would this person do against Mike Tyson
or how would this person do against
a prime Conor McGregor
and it's just like the variables aren't matching
the game changes, people evolve
the landscape evolves
and the new age of figuring out different problems and working on new techniques for new, you know, for new gain, for new.
They're solving things that are completely different and they're working on things that are completely different.
And the stuff of old either gets shelved or becomes part of tradition or is the ABCs that you have to learn
anyway. And or some of it, you know, you just have to learn to respect but not adhere to because
there's a new wave. So as I said, when I stepped away from social media, I realized there was a
bunch of people that had the exact same talent, if not
way more talent than me. And I was like, damn, if I'm a creative strategist, if I'm more of
working in upper management here, I can scheme a lot bigger. I can get these people to tens of
millions in subscribers and revenue and all that sort of stuff. And it let me adjust my understanding of exactly what's
going on. And as I said, it started off from me making content, editing my content, making my
thumbnails, which means that I had to learn the editing, I had to learn Photoshop, I had to learn
the research, I had to learn creating the video scripts and doing all of these, I had to learn
being confident in front of camera until now you have a production assistant. Now you have
the person that does the lighting. Now you have the person that does the mic. Now you have the
person that does photography. Now you have the agent and the manager that sorts out the collab
and blah, blah, blah. And it's just like, everything's always going to develop. As long as
you feel like you're bringing a positive impact to the space, as long as you still feel comfortable
in your own skin doing stuff, as long as you feel feel comfortable in your own skin doing stuff as long
as you feel like you're still adding stuff to your repertoire that's all that matters keep adding to
your to your understanding keep adding to your skill tree keep adding to that utility belt and
if anything feels like it's dragging you down then um you know stand on business you know okay thank you for your answer um i have one more question for you we're almost done we're
almost done i'm not going to take more of your time but like let's say this is the last public
conversation that you will ever have what would you want to be remembered for
have. What would you want to be remembered for?
That's an interesting one because I was hoping to live my life after this
Twitter space and go on to do amazing things. If it was the last public
conversation ever, it would be pretty scary. But I wouldn't be scared because I
hope that there's at least one person that would take something that I've said.
And again, one of the things I mentioned is the background that I came from, the place that I came from.
When you think about England, what do you think of these days?
You don't get that amazing picture in your mind of the British Empire.
empire. You think of what you see on the news today and what's on the news today is basically
You think of what you see on the news today.
these places that I grew up in, the environment that I grew up in, the lack of ambition for certain
people, if they're second generation like me, for people in the diaspora can sometimes be quite
diaspora can sometimes be quite scary. The one thing I would say is be willing to always move.
Be willing to always move. You know, some of us, some of our parents, like my grandparents,
immigrated to England in the 60s, but that doesn't mean that, you know, this is where I need to spend
the rest of my life. Some of our families moved to the UAE, some of them moved to America, and so on. Some of them moved to a particular
state. That doesn't mean that you have to stay there always, you know, be confident in being
able to, to be like, no matter where I go, I have, you know, a healthy body and a healthy mind. And I'm able to create and provide,
even if it's from scratch, because the opportunity that we have with technology,
with resources, with networks, with even though our governments do a terrible job of doing things,
there's still that certain level of stability that we've never had before, that, you know,
our parents and grandparents never saw, whether they were from villages or cities.
Everything is readily available. We just need to be confident in our own ability to be able to take
care of ourselves and take care of the people around us. So that's what I would say is don't
be shy to take a leap of faith and to try something new, to move somewhere new, because the lessons you'll learn, the people
you'll meet, and the amount of growth you'll be able to do.
Like, when we're moving houses or we're moving state, you know, there is that.
When you're going on a flight, you ever been on a, you're heading somewhere and you're
like, man, you're going to the airport and you're like, I wish I was just in my bed right
now.
Do I really have to do this?
You know, this is a commitment that you've already agreed to.
And you're like, shit, I would rather be in bed than take this flight, you know.
And it could be the coolest opportunity ever.
It could be you hanging out with your friends.
It could be you going to see someone that you like.
It could be you attending a social function.
You're like, ah, just halfway through, you get that, those thoughts of doubt enter your mind.
And those are the thoughts that certain people let develop.
The thought starts of, do I really want to do this?
If you let those thoughts prevail as a content creator, as a person, as a person that's trying to be successful,
if you let them transpire and you carry on down that mode of thinking,
then you can come up with infinite ways of why
you shouldn't be doing something or why someone else should be doing something instead of
you. But if you cut those out, if you nip those thoughts in the bud and you do that
prayer that you were supposed to do, if you make that piece of content that you were supposed
to do, if you go do that workout or that extra session or go see that guest that's there or learn that skill that you could only do for a particular amount of time, if you commit to that, then it will compound and you will be able to sort of master your thoughts in a way that you'll realize most people are, you know, they want that, but they're not willing to take the first steps,
which is that belief and that control in their mind of their own thoughts and understanding
their own abilities and understanding that their limits are endless, no matter where you come from,
no matter who you are, no matter what color your skin is. But yeah, thank you so much for having me
on. Keith, bro, we'll definitely link up and do something.
So many awesome people in here.
Hope you guys had a good listen.
I know I ramble a bit, but yeah, I appreciate you guys being out here anyway.
You're all amazing.
And yo, yo, go retweet Tima's like pinned post.
Go retweet all her content.
Go like all her content.
Go shower her with comments and replies on all her content.
And let her know she's doing a good job.
We want to let you know that you have to stop apologizing all the time
for answering questions that we ask you.
Because we want to know what you have to say.
You don't have to apologize.
You're not wasting our time. We come to listen to you. No. you don't have to apologize you're not like wasting our time
we come to listen to you no yeah he's very well thought out too i really like the conversation
i was like doing a little work in the background listening the whole time so
yeah man i'm i'm like shit you gave me a lot of really good ideas to kind of cross over and kind
of just uh branch out a little bit and even the what way you're talking about the GM at a certain time,
I saw people doing that.
I'm like, why are they GMing like in midnight?
But yeah, it's all very interesting.
So no, I appreciate you, man.
Thanks for coming on.
Yeah.
Thank you a lot for your time.
Both of you, thank you for coming, Keith,
and supporting where we have been talking about support before.
And Teddy, thank you so much for taking two hours to talk and talk and talk.
I think your throat must be very dry.
Go drink some water.
And thank you for all those advices that you gave us.
We have almost 60 people listening.
I think they could pick up a lot of good stuff and they could get inspired.
And this was the goal of this conversation
And I think it was a really nice conversation. I think the goal has been reached. So thank you guys very much
I really appreciate you
Appreciate y'all have a good one and
Yeah, as they said last cycle stay hydrated guys
I got Stanley Cup next to me if any crypto companies want to make their own branded Stanley Cup I'll be sure to show
it in every single one of my videos and streams because things a lifesaver all
right now everybody go drink some water I'm going to see you next week again for
the next success talk everybody go drink water I'm going to I'm going to check
this I'm going to send every single one a DM and ask.
No, just kidding.
I don't have the time for that.
But love you all.
Bye bye.
