Hey! You are listening to my conversation with Chifftie, a producer for Andrew Schulz's Flagrant podcast.

Chifftie moved to New York after graduating high school to edit for Andrew Schulz and Flagrant. I wanted to find out how an 18-year-old dropout flew across the country to hustle his way into the creator economy.

Show Notes:

0:00 Intro

0:20 Schulz's editing competetion

2:54 The first grind

6:00 Left on read

7:20 The clipping hustle

10:23 Andrew follows back

15:00 The one-yard line fumble 

16:15 Graduation day

18:30 Orientation @ Flagrant

21:05 The Creative spark

22:30 Imposter

23:23 Do creators need college?

28:00 The YouTube game

30:00 Vulnerability 

31:10 Life as a NY creative

32:04 The clipping formula

33:38 Editing Andrew's Special

37:35 The Flagrant community

39:39 TikTok vs YouTube

45:08 Being your own subject

47:06 A 19-year-old in New York

48:10 Take it easy

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