If you enjoy hearing about the challenges of being a creator, I recommend you check out my conversation with the creator of ‘Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPqBc2qJ8E

There’s carving your own lane and then having over 3 billion people view the lane you have carved, all from the starting point of being a 17 year old teen father living in a trailer park.

Casey Neistat is an America YouTuber, vlogger, filmmaker, and co-founder of the mobile application ‘Beme’, which he sold to CNN in 2016. He is one of the most famous people on YouTube, and his channel has over 12 million subscribers and 3 billion views.

In this conversation Casey and Steven discuss topics, such as:

How life has thrown unpredicted things at him
Having a child as a teenager
Leaving home forever on a school night
Working 80 hours a week and doing anything to support his son
The importance of patience
Why he felt like a scumbag
Feeling as if he was never heard
Why he started making videos
The reasons behind his filmmaking style
The magic of Mr Beast
Why Mr Beast is the most important person in the history of entertainment
How great work matter
The strangeness of fame
Why you need to do something you hate to figure out what you like
Being the definition of success but being in debt
Becoming a millionaire but disappointing the people who got him there
His moment of real darkness
The challenge of his daily vlog
How his daily vlog was taking away from his life
Linking happiness and fulfilment with winning
The only thing that gives him fulfilment
The importance of knowing that nobody gives a care about you