My Social Life: How Content Creators Grow on YouTube & TikTok

Joey Kidney is a YouTuber with over 700,000 subscribers. He originally started on GIF Boom a social network kind of like Vine without sound and he was able to transfer his audience from there to YouTube where he is a mental health advo

In our conversation we chat Joey’s humble beginnings recording his videos on an iPod 5, why he had to delete his first few videos and more! We’ll also get into how he as able to be so open and honest online and put out videos like ‘i film my anxiety attacks for a week’.

We’ll also look at all of his different revenue streams, including his live shows, merch, and more!

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This week's episode of My Social Life is a bit different from normal. I just got back from New York City with my good friend and Episode 1 guest Hayden Cashion and we went down to NYC to record episodes for the podcast. We ended up shooting 10 episodes of My Social Life with amazing people and I'm really excited for you to hear them all.

This episode is a preview of what is to come as Hayden and I recap the entire trip, hence the name 'Precap' (Preview + Recap = Precap). This trip was amazing, the people we met were incredible and I'm really looking forward to start publishing these episodes.

Today's episode is a takeaways where I sit down solo and talk to you about the most recent episode of the podcast. Today I talk about, figuring out who you're following and who's following you, always trying to have your best day and more!

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Elisa Kurylowicz (@elisakurylowicz) is a former member of the Canada’s Mogul Ski Team and was one of the top skiers in the entire world. Following her skiing career she became a high performance coach and one day her athletes said she should try to become and “Instagrammer” so she bet them that she could a company to pay her $1 to make a post and the rest is history. Today, Elisa has over 21,000 Instagram followers, does social media consulting for small businesses and manages multiple company pages and she has her own podcast ‘Elisa Unfiltered’ which is all about how “life is more than the daily 9-5 grind.”

In our conversation today we chat about her time with Team Canada, missing the Olympics by 0.003 of a point, how she started in the whole social media world, how she ensures she creates content for her audience, some of her tips and tricks for business when it comes to digital marketing and more!

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In today's Takeaways episode I tell you the story of how Corey and I got connected and how he was supposed to be the fourth episode but ended up being the 19th. I'll also talk about some of the key things I'm taking away from my conversation with him.

Be sure to follow Corey's businesses: Flapjacks, Pudgy Boys, and Trusty Wagon and if you would like to follow me you can find me at @TheJacobKelly.

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Although not a big fan of the word entrepreneur for it’s overuse in today’s society, Corey Sauve is without question a serial entrepreneur. Founding, co-founding and running multiple successful business including Flapjack’s Canadian Diner, Pudgy Boys, Trusty Wagon, and more - Corey should be considered without a doubt one of Ottawa’s 30 Under 30.

In our conversation today Corey and I chat the humble beginnings of Flapjack’s that Corey and his business partner Max started in their early 20s right after university, what it takes to run a successful business, why Corey feels the need to continue opening businesses (with his most recent being Flapjack’s in fall of 2018), and his big plans for the future.

Of course we also talk about social media - Corey runs all social media channels for all three of his current businesses with his most successful being Flapjack’s with over 16,000 followers. But when I say Corey runs all three, I mean every single post on all platforms, every day, 365 days a year are made by him. With Flapjack’s alone that is over 3,400 posts! The cool thing with his social media strategy is 99% of all content is fan content so we’ll discuss why he does that and how he decides what content to use.

This episode provided a really unique opportunity for me as Corey and I recorded this live in his brand new restaurant, Pudgy Boys. With that in mind there is quite a bit of background noise as the restaurant was open. However, this episode is definitely still worth a listen, Corey drops of ton of knowledge and insight in this one and I really think you’re going to like it.

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In today's takeaways episode I talk about why I had Jake on the podcast, chasing your dreams and more.

Any questions feel free to message me on Instagram at @TheJacobKelly and make sure you go and follow Jake's new IG Vlog series showcasing the life of a D1 athlete at @UVUGolfBoys.

Jake Bryson is a Division 1 golfer for Utah Valley University. Jake is the first guest I have had on the podcast without a big following on social media, he only has 1,200 followers. However, when Jake messaged me saying that he was looking for a platform to produce some content and start working on his personal brand and wanted to come on the podcast I said yes!

In our chat we talk how Jake became a Division 1 golfer, advice for high school athletes who want to do the same, crazy stories including random drug tests and someone trying to pay him for playing a round of golf and more.

We also talk about Jake’s plans for social media and the type of content he could be producing.

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In today's takeaways episode I discuss how Pilot Luana's niche helped her grow and I also tell you about an important part of the episode that I had to remove!

Be sure to checkout Luana at @PilotLuana and you can follow me at @TheJacobKelly.

Luana Torres, better know as Pilot Luana online is a helicopter pilot originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is now based out of Vancouver, Canada.

Luana began the journey of becoming a helicopter pilot a few years ago (she is now licensed in three countries) and began posting about her experiences on her Instagram. Since then she has grown her account to over 125,000 followers.

We chat how she got into creating content, how she’s grown her account and continues to grow (averaging +9,300 a month), her collaborations with companies like Lincoln and why you should be charging to collaborate and so much more!

Please be aware that this was a Skype interview and we had an issue with the Skype quality the audio for today’s episode isn’t the same as other episodes of My Social Life.