185. Looking for a man in finance? The origin story behind the viral hit by Girl on Couch! Megan Boni reveals the whirlwind of capitalizing off a joke on dating, the deals behind it, and escaping the 9 to 5
Trading Secrets
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5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Prior to going viral for her parody of what girls are looking for in today’s dating world, Megan was working a corporate 9 to 5 job. Shortly after her video caught the eyes of millions of social media, she found herself with a music label and brands from all over at her doorstep wanting to partner with her. Her outlying success to fame quickly emphasized to people everywhere, how people are creating and consuming music today.
Megan gives insight to how she started posting on TikTok in the first place, how addicting going viral on social media can be, where the idea to Men in Finance came from, how long after the video went viral that she was working with major music labels thanks to her best friend Amanda, why she turned down a $100k deal, what royalties look like for the song, what she wants to do long term, and who gets a percentage of her income. Megan also reveals which platform she feels most comfortable with, what it was like meeting David Guetta, how she handles the hate online, and her advice for those who want to get out of their 9 to 5. Does she want to be a pop star? How much money did she make on TikTok off that video? Has anyone reached out to her to be on reality TV?
Megan reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Megan Boni
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. I'm your host |
| 0:15.4 | Jason Tardic and welcome to the pre-market trading segment where I'm gonna tell |
| 0:19.5 | you a little bit about what you can expect from today's episode and update from the market and a quick |
| 0:23.5 | update from my personal life. If you've not subscribed to the podcast, please just smash that |
| 0:28.4 | subscribe button on Apple and Spotify that really helps us out and go check out this entire interview on my |
| 0:35.5 | YouTube page Jason Tardic and all of our clips on trading secrets podcast page on |
| 0:40.8 | Instagram. Today's guest is Megan Bonnie. Ever heard of this song? I'm looking |
| 0:46.1 | for Abandoned Finance. Trust Fund. Six-five, Blue Eyes. Well one day she |
| 0:51.8 | decided to sing it into her phone and then posted on |
| 0:55.4 | Tic-Toc and all sudden 55 million humans saw it in her life changed forever. |
| 1:00.4 | She left her job, she got a label deal, she was offered tons of money but declined it. |
| 1:05.2 | She's going to tell you in this podcast what she thinks she'll make in a year from now, |
| 1:09.0 | exactly the structure of that deal, how it works, how much she's going to make on that deal, and you're going to hear a lot of discussion around this whole concept of virality. Now stop, take a deep breath. Know that anyone in 2024 can go viral. |
| 1:28.0 | You listening can go viral. |
| 1:30.0 | It can change your life. |
| 1:31.0 | This concept has changed the trajectory of a lot of businesses, a lot of just economics of |
| 1:38.1 | social media, and we all need to know about it because there's no age restriction on who can go |
| 1:43.5 | viral it could be anyone anytime any place and it could change your life |
| 1:47.6 | so trust me this is an episode you can't afford to miss an update from the market |
| 1:51.4 | wow big shake-up. President Joe Biden is stepping down and it |
| 1:57.1 | looks like Kamala Harris will be running now and the big question mark will be |
| 2:02.1 | who is her VP and do the Dems fully get behind her and support her. |
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