#2 Zoella - Talking Internet Fame & Being Your Own Boss

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 9 April 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Zoe Sugg AKA Zoella is one of the most famous YouTubers on the Internet. She is a fascinating 26-year-old #girlboss running her own online empire pretty much from her bedroom. She launched her YouTube channel back in 2009 and started connecting with other people and uploading "hauls" for anyone who might want to watch it. Fast-forward seven years later and she has over 10 million subscribers, two best-selling books under her belt and her own range of beauty products in Superdrug, sung on the Band Aid 30 single, and has a LOT of awards. We chatted at her Brighton home about all sorts of things: work, life, switching off, working for yourself and busting the myth of what a "proper job" is. Every time I speak to her I find her an inspiring, interesting and incredibly incredibly down-to-earth person. Hope you enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete the podcast with the same name as my book which is out in July with Ebray at Penguin Random House
0:07.0	So this is episode two and I'm so excited to announce who I've got as a guest on the show today. I'm going to call it a
0:14.2	show. That sounds quite a professional when I say show. So yes, this podcast is a
0:19.7	place where I get to interview people who I think are just doing really cool stuff on
0:23.9	internet and we discuss lots of things from friendship, relationships, careers,
0:29.6	feminism, creativity, but at the heart of every conversation is really how social media has changed our lives.
0:35.0	So I'm so happy to announce that my guest today is Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella.
0:40.0	So I first discovered Zoe in about 2011 when I used to read her blog and a YouTube channel. Fast forward five years, she now has 10 million subscribers, two books, one of which was the fastest selling novel of all time, beating JK Rowling, and she has her own beauty line in a superdrug called Zoella Beauty.
1:00.0	So yes, I went to Brighton on a very, very sunny day to interview Zoe. We sat on the floor and Nala was there and it was awesome and we got to chat about all sorts of different things.
1:10.0	So I really hope you enjoyed this episode. I came away feeling really inspired from
1:15.3	chatting to Zoe and I hope you do too listening to this.
1:20.4	I couldn't possibly do a podcast about the internet and social media without
1:24.8	interviewing the Queen herself of YouTube and all things internet. So yeah I'm here with
1:32.1	Zoe Serg. It's amazing to be here in your house, Zoe, thank you for having me.
1:36.8	I try to tidy up as much as possible. It just looks amazing.
1:40.0	It's from the pumpkin stain that I have here on my carpet.
1:43.0	Yeah, so chic.
1:45.0	But no, it's so funny because obviously I'm a massive fan of your YouTube videos
1:50.0	and you are probably the person I watch the most online. I don't think I've watched some
1:54.8	other YouTube videos but I just like that you kind of cover everything.
1:58.0	Yeah. But I thought we could like go back in time to when you were younger because I think like you've always been really
2:04.2	creative and it's not really a surprise that you've ended up doing what you're
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