Jesse Appell is a Fulbright scholar, bilingual comedian and tea guy who has found that the best conversations happen over tea with interesting people.
By sharing tea from his own tea shop with guests of diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds, Teatime With Jesse lets you be a fly on the wall of Jesse's Teahouse when interesting friends come by to visit!
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Jesse Appell is a Fulbright scholar, bilingual comedian and tea guy who has found that the best conversations happen over tea with interesting people.
By sharing tea from his own tea shop with guests of diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds, Teatime With Jesse lets you be a fly on the wall of Jesse's Teahouse when interesting friends come by to visit!
You're not going to be internet famous overnight with Nick Touma
Teatime With Jesse
1 hour 20 minutes
1 year ago
You're not going to be internet famous overnight with Nick Touma
Tea friends, welcome back to Teatime with Jesse! On this episode, we have Nick Touma ( @nicktguy ) that guy on Youtube that makes candy art.
If you ever wondered what it takes to get to over 1 million subscribers on Youtube, well, for this guy it was lots of trial and error, plus over 70lbs of candy! We talk about what it takes to be a content creator, getting started, understanding your audience, and walking a mile in candy shoes. Content creating is really a whole journey. Anyway, of course we have some tea!
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4:00 Big puff (Tea pet)
6:07 NickTGuy’s Youtube Journey
7:27 Growing up and changing interests
08:26 Setting intentions with Youtube
9:38 TikTok vs. Youtube
10:58 TikTok as a slot machine
11:53 The start of NickTGuy candy art
13:23 The journey of the tea flavor
11:26 The Starburst ball
14:08 “That thing took over my life forsure”
13:14 Steeps and tea journey
15:29 Phone addiction
21:48 Context and content, 23:34 Shift in content
29:48 Can’t pour from empty cup
35:06 Sister Ai’s red tea cake
44:00 Starting out as a content creator
44:30 The hidden cost of time investment
48:32 The barrier of entry to create
50:24 Creativity is sharing your perspective
53:13 Be yourself
55:00 The channel is the movie
55:16 Series content
55:35 Using charmander to defrost someone
57:28 Art’s value is deemed by the limitations
59:44 Bringing people into your world
1:01:39 What’s art vs. commodity?
1:05:43 If you wanted to you would
1:07:29 The moment you sell too hard, you lose the audience
1:08:21 Taking a break from content
1:09:25 Output vs. quality
1:13:03 Lightning round
1:13:24 Passion and work
1:13:42 Stop caring about other people’s opinions
1:14:04 Dream project made of candy
1:14:52 What’s it like meeting Mr. Beast
1:17:43 Anything for the shot
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Teatime With Jesse
Jesse Appell is a Fulbright scholar, bilingual comedian and tea guy who has found that the best conversations happen over tea with interesting people.
By sharing tea from his own tea shop with guests of diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds, Teatime With Jesse lets you be a fly on the wall of Jesse's Teahouse when interesting friends come by to visit!
