Hello and welcome back I'm Sarah Mueller a reporter with Forbes and today I am

joined by Sean McLaughlin otherwise known as Jack Septicai on YouTube. Thank you so much for joining me today. I appreciate it.

Thank you. It's awesome. Well, I want to read off your resume because it's quite lengthy.

Over the past more than 10 years on YouTube,

you've amassed more than 30 million subscribers.

It's landed you on the Forbes top creators list,

the Forbes top influencers list,

and you were also listed as a Forbes 30 under 30

Lister for gaming in 2020.

Now, you also have a coffee brand called Top of the Morning Coffee

which not only boasts being ethically and sustainably sourced but also gives

back to mental health Christlines which is incredible and if that's not enough you have a

podcast and a comic book series so that is a lot to dive into just in this conversation.

So let's get started with your YouTube career.

Did you ever have another career in mind or how did you decide to upload that very first video?

Oh God, no, I had no backup plan.

I was miserable alone in a log cabin in the middle of the woods,

and I was like, I don't know what else to do with my time and my life

and I was watching other people do YouTube and I thought that that was cool and I was like I'll try it out because I like

I was always kind of like the young one at the table when I was in my family and like making jokes and cracking jokes and everybody and making everyone laugh. So I was like, maybe I can do something with that and just started recording.

I guess out of boredom more than anything I started.

I didn't really have a plan for it,

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