<p>Our thoughts on audio only voice app Clubhouse, Elon Musk's ability to sway markets, and Super Bowl 2021 commercials. Also check out our Podcast YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/a1UVrUnrf5k</p>

<p><strong>This week on the Colin and Samir Podcast, we’re Joined by Graham Stephan. Graham is a real estate agent turned YouTube creator who has amassed over 3 million subscribers across 3 YouTube channels. He’s been covered by CNBC, Bloomberg and a bunch of other outlets as the “Millionaire YouTuber” he’s very transparent about the money he generates through his YouTube Channels, which in 2020 was over $2M just from YouTube Adsense alone… and overall, well you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out how much he made in total, but it truly is jaw dropping. Graham makes videos about personal finance, investing, stocks, and credit cards all with the goal of helping his audience become more financially literate. We talk about how he got into YouTube, and how he thinks about his channel, the strategies that have helped him get to over $2M in revenue from YouTube. If you’re listening to this episode, we do have a visual version of the podcast that’s available on YouTube - if you just search the Colin and Samir podcast you’ll find it - alright enjoy this weeks episode feature Graham Stephan.</strong></p>

<p>This week Colin and Samir talk about Mr. Beasts storytelling style and how he takes millions of dollars and turns them into billions of views&nbsp;</p><p>Watch the episode on the Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqGPn-NTBmUXcNWYf7uFvw</p>

<p>Colin and Samir break down some of their worst influencer brand deal offers and talk about what makes a good creator brand partnership. Subscribe for new episodes every Monday: https://t.co/v37tvVx74T?amp=1​</p>

<p>Colin and Samir predict the biggest YouTube Creator trends of 2021. &nbsp;We discuss the creator economy and big YouTubers like Mr Beast, Dream, David Dobrik, and Addison Rae. &nbsp;Subscribe to our podcast YouTube Channel for new episodes every Monday: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2Fv37tvVx74T%3Famp%3D1%E2%80%8B&amp;v=j5p4yuRWjSs&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqazRwOHBrSG9mblYydDJVZ3NiNmJTNVNHd0JHZ3xBQ3Jtc0tudUdFZXBoN0tBVnNKOUNEV0tqT2xURFV6am9PdW5tcGI3VnhKRTRKaEZhbnpSU2xIcEJqdmJrYW5MUFB5SHQzaEl1OUd2T0hkYTlacVoteFRSVjRKRTRtWTJjQl80TndKLUhDdUppSDQ2ZzhSSXRLOA%3D%3D&amp;event=video_description" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://t.co/v37tvVx74T?amp=1​</a></p>

<p>This week on the Colin and Samir Podcast we’re joined by Joe Albanese - Joe is the founder and CEO of Stir, a company that’s building tools &amp; software that help creators run their businesses. Joe and his team have been making quite a few headlines this year to name a few - they’ve raised $4M dollars in funding for this project from firms like Ludlow ventures and creators like Casey Neistat, Joe was recently named to Forbes 30 under 30 list, and they’ve been trending multiple times for releasing a number of one-off “drops” such as <a href="http://presubscribe.me/">Presubscribe.me</a> which helps creators understand how many people who pay for their content, or OnlyTweets which creates a paywall protected twitter account for creators.</p><p>On this episode we talk to Joe about his journey into the creator world, how we went from the founding team at YikYak to the product team at Facebook and then eventually why he took the jump to leave his stable job and pursue building Stir.</p>

<p>This week we chat with musician Henry Hall about his path to pursuing music as a career, we also get a special performance from him at the end of the episode!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

Jack Coyne returns for a 3rd time on the show.

<p>Video Version of the Podcast: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ivo2vw1zXjc">https://youtu.be/Ivo2vw1zXjc</a></p><p>Check out our Online Storytelling Course: <a href="https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmoment.8ocm68.net%2FkeM6z&amp;e=ATO1bI3LJREq-bIRBgOibD2EpRrzMFHFPsMgWh4yE0Gh49jH47Ah7gdJ1zOnNOWQZ22tbMEM18ZUtIAgVH-1cQ&amp;s=1" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z</a></p><p>This weeks episode we talk about Logan Paul &amp; his recent endeavor into buying Pokemon Cards. We also touch on Mr. Beast and the Creator Games 2.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Check out our Podcast Channel Here: <a href="https://bit.ly/3duRYKJ">https://bit.ly/3duRYKJ</a></p><p>Information about Voting here: <a href="https://www.vote.org/">https://www.vote.org/</a></p>

<p>Podcast Channel: https://youtu.be/sQ6o4XWZfZY</p><p>This week we talk about Casey Neistat's return to vlogging and the impact Casey has had on the YouTube platform as well as our careers. We talk about where the platform was when he first started vlogging and where the platform is today and ask the question - is there room today for another daily vlogger?&nbsp;</p>

<p>Watch our podcast channel: <a href="https://bit.ly/3mSXmMf">https://bit.ly/3mSXmMf</a></p><p>Check out our online &nbsp;storytelling course: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmoment.8ocm68.net%2FkeM6z&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUF2U0lzRUJuWUZ3SllaX0taT29JWXJldElkQXxBQ3Jtc0ttS0hLb0NxTlZuTUw5UHNNazNyeUk3SkZPcEpabzBsSTNXbVdqU3lFaU1faElfVFBqNDltRVlBOVVhLUJ4M25uQ0RrZTVJZlB0SWRjODZYOU5VRnNidHVlaGNfWklpRTQxcDdaNFh0dHB1SjhoM0xkSQ%3D%3D&amp;v=jNGUBzKadtw&amp;event=video_description" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z</a></p><p>Colin and Samir discuss the new Netflix film, The Social Dilemma and &nbsp;give &nbsp;their thoughts on the Attention economy and their role in it. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

<p>Check out the podcast channel: <a href="https://bit.ly/3032F1L">https://bit.ly/3032F1L</a></p><p><br></p><p>Check out our Online storytelling course: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWtYaDVkdlZZSl9pN19KcS15UFpjX2p5NXI0d3xBQ3Jtc0ttcERQOGstYTRtaWQ2NWJXZ1BUalNfSXdZc0pRbDhTRFpSZUZDQUlzdEpUNjVWYUQyS19Ucjd6NkItSDdud19TWVl1ZVRYaDQ3WWMySGNQbmpuaklGYlk0cUwxUjJqTXhhemMyMG1WZVpOS2pSdmdkSQ%3D%3D&amp;v=jNGUBzKadtw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fmoment.8ocm68.net%2FkeM6z&amp;event=video_description" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z</a></p><p><br></p><p>This week on the Colin and Samir podcast we talk about what we want to do when we grow up… Obviously right now we’re making videos, working with advertisers, uploading to this podcast and just being Creators and honestly it’s really fun - but is this what we want to do forever? Colin and I are both 31 years old, I’m getting married and we’ve been uploading YouTube videos for 10 years, so what’s next?</p><p>We explore what it means to be career YouTuber Creators and what our dream scenario looks like as we move into the future. This episode is also up on our podcast channel right now if you want to watch it, head over there like it and we do ask a question at the end of this episode that we’d love to hear your answer to so even if you listen to the episode here, head over to the podcast channel, and leave a comment there, and subscribe if you haven’t already - &nbsp;the thumbnail Colin made for this one is really great, so you’re going to want to check that out.</p>

Check out the podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqGPn-NTBmUXcNWYf7uFvwCheck out our Online Storytelling Course here: https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6zThis week on the Colin and Samir Podcast we're joined by the multi-faceted Creator, Pierson Fode. Pierson is best known for being a twice emmy nominated actor, he's been on shows and movies across a wide variety of networks including the Disney Channel, CW, TruTv and recently booked the biggest job of his career - he's going to be starring in an action comedy movie alongside Kevin Hart and Woody Harleson called "The Man from Toronto"Pierson reached out to us a few weeks ago wanted to talk about YouTube - as the quarantine era began Pierson took his career into his own hands, creating content across social platforms and quickly growing a following of over 2M on TikTok, 70,000 on YouTube and almost half a million on Instagram.He's on the few actors in his age group to make the jump from Traditional media to digital creator and he's had so much success in doing so because he's got a pretty interesting and eclectic background. We absolutely loved chatting with pierson which is why this podcast is 2 hours long, we talk about everything from his early upbrining on a farm in washington to his big break in hollywood, dating a celebrity and dealing with papparazzi up to growing an audience on social as an actor. We did film this episode and it's up on our podcast channel right now so if you want to watch the episode you can head over there, subscribe to our new podcast channel and let us know in the comments what type of topics you want to see on the podcast and the podcast channel. Alright let's dive right in - I think you guys will really enjoy this episode of the colin and samir podcast featuring Pierson Fode.

<p>Check out the podcast channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqGPn-NTBmUXcNWYf7uFvw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqGPn-NTBmUXcNWYf7uFvw</a></p><p>On this episode we talk about if College is still worth it and make some predications and suggestions for the future of college. Maybe universities should start working with creators to develop engaging online video?&nbsp;</p><p>Check out our online storytelling course: <a href="https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z">https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z</a></p><p><br></p>

<p>Watch the video version of this podcast:&nbsp;https://youtu.be/kzBU9gEHx_M</p><p>Check out our Online Storytelling Course: https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z</p><p>Eric Decker aka Airrack started uploading to YouTube in January 2020. He started this year with 50 YouTube subscribers and today he has over 500,000. He’s had explosive growth this year and his mission is to get to 1M youtube subscribers - in order to get there he’s had to do some pretty crazy things including taking out a $17,000 loan to pay for one video. He’s one of the most committed creators we’ve come across and we definitely feel like he has what it takes to get to 1M subs and probably even further than that - and once you hear this episode I think you’ll agree with us on that as well. If you aren’t familiar with his videos, just type in Airrack on YouTube, I’d recommend that you watch his Couch series, that’ll give you a pretty good understanding of who he is.</p>

<p>Check out our online course here: <a href="https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z">https://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z</a></p><p>And use the code <em>tellbetterstories </em>for 10% off&nbsp;</p><p>New Studio, New Subscribers and a New Business - we talk about what we've been up to for the past month since the last time you heard from us.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Our Online Storytelling Course is officially on presale: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbENid2dlOEtMSVdOYkVFVGpuelNoaGl2OEFUd3xBQ3Jtc0ttMjRPUnQya0hRQi1HUmVpNXNmWGhTV3hRdkpwclZBQS1EQmlFbjNodnJwYnBHMjBYcXY0N0RXc290bnR0UzJmUUVFZUFkVEFrWmY5QzJhbkFHcEZrcThVVGItRW5MVTVnSi0ySzB0NERZcVR5UnlfQQ%3D%3D&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fmomnt.io%2F36zeSxh&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=lAMFzDc2zLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://momnt.io/36zeSxh</a></p><p>Use the code: tellbetterstories for an additional discount at checkout&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In October of 2019, we were ready to finally &nbsp;call it quits... &nbsp;but there were a few key &nbsp;things that happened over the next few months that turned everything &nbsp;around. &nbsp;This week we &nbsp;moved into a new studio, started hiring a team to work at our company and launched our first storytelling course. A lot is happening with Colin and Samir and we dive in to all of that on this episode of the podcast.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Sign up for the waiting list for our Online storytelling Course: <a href="https://t.co/Lc4uqxVizb?amp=1" rel=" noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://bit.ly/2ZnVCzo">https://bit.ly/2ZnVCzo</a></p><p>This week we workshop some of the growing pains we're experiencing as a business, it's pretty raw and a bit unplanned. &nbsp;We really just recorded a conversation working through some problems we were trying &nbsp;to solve. &nbsp;Would love hear feedback on this one - tweet at us @colinandsamir&nbsp;</p>

<p>Join our filmmaking challenge here: https://bit.ly/3hi8RKm</p><p><br></p><p>On this episode we talk about TikTok and how it seems like the first real Competitor to YouTube. We also talk about Colin's TikTok and our latest YouTube video.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Justice for George Floyd: <a href="https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd">https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd</a></p><p><strong>This week on the Colin and Samir Podcast, we address the current protests that come as a result of the murder of George Floyd. It took us some time to organize our thoughts around this topic - we’ve talked to each other, friends and family and have put together thoughts that we’d like to share on this podcast as well as across our platforms in the coming days. We ask that the listeners of this podcast be open minded as you listen to our conversations - and to use our conversation as a spark to not only have conversations in your own community but to also take action.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

<p>This week on the Colin and Samir Podcast we’ve got a bit of a different episode for you guys, we asked you on instagram what you wanted to see in the storytelling course that we’re working on and a lot of you asked about the brainstorming process. So we had a brainstorm planned for the week and thought we’d just press record and bring you a long. Storytelling isn’t just about the specific videos we make but also about a brand as a whole, a great brand is a great story - and we feel like we could e telling a better story as a brand. So in this brainstorm we work through our show the breakdown and try and come up with a Unique Value Prop for the show as well as the branding elements and framework that will communicate the unique value prop to the audience.</p>

This week on the Colin and Samir Podcast we talk about the future of the world, from concerts to restaurants to college - we’re about to see a big shift in the way the world looks, which means a lot of change and a lot of innovation. On this episode we talk about and make predictions about what the future will look like. Link to our latest YouTube Video: 

<p>We started making videos together in 2012 and over the past 8 years we've learned a lot. This week we look back on our first videos ever and talk about the lessons we've learned over the past 8 years. Check out our latest YouTube Video here: &nbsp;https://youtu.be/hnxMlDLwD8Y</p><p>And if you are interested in trying out Skillshare you can sign up to get 2 &nbsp;months free here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=hnxMlDLwD8Y&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=R1SBiwOBIiJ2cJF54peY33mHqWN8MTU4OTI2NTkwOEAxNTg5MTc5NTA4&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fskl.sh%2Fcolinandsamir4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://skl.sh/colinandsamir4</a></p>

<p>This week on the podcast we talk about what a day in our lives looks like in 2020 - we &nbsp;dive into &nbsp;how our lives have changed &nbsp;as well as how our creative process has changed. We also answer questions from our instagram. Check out our latest youtube video at YouTube.com/ColinandSamir and make sure to follow us on instagram @colinandsamir</p>