Real YouTube Advice for the Everyday Person (Create Anywhere) ft. Simon Caron | The Dept. #71
The Dept. w/ Omar El-Takrori
Omar El-Takrori
4.9 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In this episode of The Dept. Omar sits down with Simon Caron better known as The Uneducated Economist, who built a 150K+ subscriber YouTube channel filming unedited videos from his car using a $100 iPhone.
With over 2,000 uploads and $40K+ earned from ad revenue last year, Simon shares real, relatable advice for everyday creators who want to start making content without fancy gear, editing skills, or a production team.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have over 2,000 videos uploaded to your YouTube channel? |
| 0:02.9 | You have 152,000 subscribers. |
| 0:05.9 | All of that is from unedited content shot on your smartphone. |
| 0:11.0 | I grabbed my camera, which was my used iPhone 6 that I bought for 100 bucks. |
| 0:15.5 | I went down to my car and I recorded an introductory video to the uneducated economist. |
| 0:20.1 | And that was the day the uneducated economist, and that was the day the |
| 0:20.9 | uneducated economist was born. |
| 0:22.5 | And I love the dynamic of your type of content. Anyone can do it. Most people have smartphones, |
| 0:27.0 | most people have cars. Oh yeah. I didn't really care about the ELICOM. It was the energy that I was |
| 0:32.0 | putting into the video to begin with. And I think that's the reason why the channel did so well. You represent the majority in that that you did this while you had a job or while you have a job, |
| 0:41.3 | where somebody would say I'm like, I'm too busy to create content or I'm too busy to start that YouTube channel. |
| 0:46.3 | How did you find the time? |
| 0:48.3 | I do find that most of the time people get caught up in like... |
| 0:53.3 | So I have with me, Simon Caroneone who has started a youtube channel how many |
| 0:58.0 | years ago uh november of 2017 november of 2017 i just looked you have over 2 000 |
| 1:04.4 | videos uploaded to your youtube channel you have 152 000 subscribers And just from the front, all of that is from pretty much unedited content shot on your smartphone. |
| 1:21.3 | And you just, you know, you just unlocked a lot. |
| 1:25.8 | Okay, because the reality is like a lot of people who know |
| 1:28.0 | that they should be creating content they are stuck because they think they're it's a perfectionism |
| 1:33.0 | they don't know how to show up i just want to kind of like unpack your thought process in your journey |
| 1:38.0 | i guess we could start with why did you feel like youtube was a place you can share your ideas |
| 1:43.3 | and your insight yeah Yeah. Well, |
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