Ep. 69: Lee Shaner (Kinda Neat) | How To Grow a Podcast and YouTube Channel
Where Are All My Friends | Discovering Creative Careers with Inspiring Entrepreneurs
English - October 26, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 245 ratingsMusic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Lee Shaner is the host and creator of the Kinda Neat YouTube channel and podcast. In addition he raps under the name of Intuition.
He's been involved with the the underground hip hop scene for the the better part of two decades. He's also grown several music podcasts and YouTube channels including SkullCandy's "You Feel Me Podcast" and KnockSteady's "KnockSteady Live".
He joins us this week to bless us with his wisdom on growing podcasts and YouTube channels the right way in addition to telling his incredible come up story.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro / Who you are and what you do
5:28 - The early days of building KnockSteady
9:51 - Rapping as Intuition and building a career as an artist.
18:25 - Do you regret not doubling down as an artist?
24:38 - Working in Photography with our mutual friend Dominic Cooley and starting KindaNeat
30:18 - The benefits of being a jack of all trades // Wanting to partake in a ton of creative outlets.
33:40 - How Lee grew KindaNeat to be what it is today
42:41 - The blessing and curse of chasing trends and “the algorithm”
48:26 - Leaving a meaningful legacy
50:00 - Is Andrew Canadian?
51:03 - Breaking down the myths and numbers of huge YouTube channels
52:50 - Creating and hosting Skullcandy’s podcast “You Feel Me?”
56:04 - The importance of diversity
58:46 - Coming back to KindaNeat
1:09:05 - Advice to your past self at the hardest moments in life
1:11:50 - Where can people find you?
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Lee Shaner / Intuition
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItsIntuition
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsintuition/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KliMuvrUp7XhKu7vVeex3?si=mgDAkjhwTeuloCwrLwmrRA
Song I Freaked Out About (Weight Is Gone): https://youtu.be/bVUm4mpGC-Y
Kinda Neat
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNMZpZsyShyvgwR7jt405Q
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/71A4nbeeMusQis1Ohb6EUh?si=QFH4QWvBQPSu3iC3ljp2Hw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kindaneat/
Andrew Cramb:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew_ftw/
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