83: $1M+ net worth started from TikTok! Griffin Johnson leaves nursing school and reveals $$$ behind the sway house, his media career, ventures in investing, and more
Trading Secrets
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4.9 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jason is joined by social media influencer and TikTok Megastar Griffin Johnson!
Griffin rose to social media fame in the early stages of the pandemic after being a founding member of Sway LA, a notoriously “fratty” TikTok collaboration house comprising some of the most popular online stars. Since then, Griffin’s social media following has grown to over 13 million followers between TikTok and Instagram and if you include all the other social media platforms out there, it's 15 million+. He’s now led various other career opportunities within acting, music, and the investing space.
Griffin provides insight on how he started on TikTok with the sole intention of making money, how attending Playlist Live resulted in the launching point of his social media career, how much money he made with each venture, and his different interests in the film world. Griffin also reveals how he was originally in nursing school to go into anesthesia with never having any ambitions to do social media, what the biggest deal he lost while living in the Sway house, what his best business move was, and what project he is most excited for. What was his first brand deal? How did he end up with a lip tattoo? What is the most ruthless industry he has been exposed to? What is his finance goal for 2023?
Griffin reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. |
| 0:19.2 | Today I am joined by social media influencer in TikTok |
| 0:22.7 | Megastar, Griffin Johnson. Griffin rose to social media fame in the early stages of the pandemic |
| 0:28.5 | after being founding member of sway LA, a notoriously quote unquote, |
| 0:34.0 | fratty TikTok collaboration house comprising some of the most popular online |
| 0:39.8 | boy stars now complete grown man since then Griffin social media following has grown to over |
| 0:45.9 | 13 million followers between TikTok and Instagram. And if you take all the other social media |
| 0:51.2 | platforms out there, it's 15 million plus. He's now led various other career opportunities |
| 0:56.9 | within acting, music and the investing space. Today we're going to do a deep dive into the |
| 1:02.3 | world of TikTok. The ways that his life has changed for the better. And maybe the worst since |
| 1:07.6 | his rise to fame and where he sees his career going from here. Griffin, thank you so much for being |
| 1:12.4 | on trading secrets today. Thank you. Let's get into the whole tickety-tockity world. Let's get |
| 1:18.4 | into the tickety-tockity world. Now I would say in general just to like set the stage, my audience |
| 1:23.6 | is probably more of like the millennial crowd. So what I got to do is I got to wrap the millennials |
| 1:29.0 | where it might be like a fusion around the tick-tock. So if I sound like a tick-tock 101er, that's why. |
| 1:34.1 | That's right. Okay. But before we get into that, this is where I want to start. So 2020 before the |
| 1:38.4 | pandemic, the research I did said that you were, I had to read this three times because I just, |
| 1:43.9 | you know, I see your image, I've done this read, I see your profiles, all your gear, and |
| 1:48.0 | your nursing student. Okay. I was like, well, nursing student, Indiana State University. Okay. |
| 1:53.2 | Now on the show, we talk a lot about money. The average nurse in Indiana earns around 69k a year. |
| 2:00.0 | So when you hear that, like that was the path you were on to making 69k a year. And where you are |
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