100k Q&A - Sam Harris, Brian Rose & Podcast Tips - #289

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, wonderful people. Welcome back. It is finally the long-awaited 100,000 subscriber Q&A episode. We've been working for quite a while, so I figured that we would celebrate this by offering you the opportunity to ask me some questions on my Twitter and Instagram. I was gonna cut them out and just do a few and put it up as a YouTube-only video, but so many of the questions were awesome, like legitimately fantastic questions. So I was finding it difficult to cut them and thought I'll just answer most of them on a full podcast. So this is it. It is just me talking to you without anybody else, which is also a first and something that we may be doing more of in the future. Massive thank you to everyone that sent questions in, except for the people who asked for photos of my feet, because that's a little bit, a little bit far, and also doesn't lend itself to the podcasting medium. So dumb question. So today, expect to learn whether I think Brian Rose is a sham, whether Sam Harris will ever get rid of his Trump derangement syndrome, my biggest tip for starting successful podcast, whether I get annoyed by people calling me Chris Wills and much more. In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by brand new sponsor, Athletic Greens. You know that I am a massive fan of Greens drinks and I've been trying a lot of them for a while. Athletic Greens reached out and asked me if I wanted to trial the product and then consider a sponsorship afterwards. I couldn't not. Like it is by far the best tasting Greens drink that I've ever come across. And the profile on it is insane. It's a multivitamin, multi-mineral, pre and probiotic, digestive enzyme and Greens supplement in one scoop. There's literally no other product out there that I know of that combines so much into one package. It means that you only need to take one scoop once per day. No other supplements are needed. You've got all of those bases covered. It works if you're keto, paleo, vegan, dairy free, or gluten free and it contains less than one gram of sugar. And it tastes fantastic. Like I'm really, really excited to be working with them. I'd heard them for a long time on Tim Ferriss' show. And I wondered why Tim was such a fan of them. And now it makes a lot of sense. Athletic Greens definitely are like one of the power houses of the supplement world. And if you are looking to really make a change with your health and fitness this year, then it's the first place that I would recommend you go. On top of that, the deal that they've given is awesome. You can save 19%, you get free liquid vitamin D up to one year supply. You get five free daily travel packs. You get a welcome kit, which includes a ceramic jar and a shaker to keep your athletic greens powder and to drink it in. You can get it on a monthly delivery where you can cancel at any time. And there's a 60 day money back guarantee. It's so good. athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom. Go and check it out. Have a look on the page. Look at the 75 different vitamins and minerals and whole food sourced ingredients that are in there. Have a look at the different reviews. There's over 14,000 people who use athletic greens every month to look after their vitamin and all in one nutritional insurance needs. athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom. Go and check it out. There's awesome freebies. There's so much stuff that you can get. 60 day money back guarantee. athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom. But for now, it's time for the wise and wonderful me.
What's happening, beautiful people? Welcome back. It is a 100,000 subscriber Q&A special with yours truly and no guest. This will be my first full solo podcast episode. So I hope that you enjoy it. Thank you to everyone who's tuned in over the last three years and supported us and shared the episodes. I really do appreciate it. I asked on my Twitter and my Instagram for some questions. So that's what we're gonna go through today. Let's get into it. does it annoy you that people think your name is Chris Wills? yes, it does. It is very hard to get a hold of Chris Williamson on any handle on social media. And there's one guy, some designer somewhere, that bought every URL in existence with every different permutate, chriswilliamson.io, chriswilliamson.au. Yeah, so I would like to be able to find a better handle if possible, but not a thing. What was the biggest mistake you made on your YouTube journey? That's an interesting one. It's different coming at YouTube from a podcasters' perspective because I'm only bothered about having good conversations. I've never really learned about gaming the algorithm or creating content that's YouTube friendly. So I suppose that I should have learned earlier how YouTube works, what makes a thumbnail clickable and a title enticing. I wasn't really too sure. Yeah, I think learning the basics of YouTube to maximize the impact you can get from a podcast. What do you think is the biggest misconception about you and your channel? Conversely, what one thing do you wish people knew about you and your channel? Yeah, that is a really good question. I think there's two broad groups of people that arrive at the channel. One of them are people that have seen me talk with the big name guests that tend to bang on YouTube. Douglas Maurice, Andrew Doyle, Sargon of Akkad, Michael Malice, etc. And then the other side of that are people who perhaps know me from what I did in my past life as a sort of club promoter and reality TV guy. I think the biggest misconception is probably that I'm really interested in politics and I love wokebashing. To be honest, I'm far more interested in individuals than I am in collective groups. I don't have a massive interest in politics. I don't really care about how different groups get on and group disparities and stuff like that. But YouTube really, really rewards those sorts of episodes. So they get a disproportionate amount of attention because they feed the algorithm. So it looks like I'm constantly talking about politics. But if you actually take a broad view of the 300 episodes I've done, it's like less than 10% of them are even related to politics. It just happens to be those ones that get the most views. What one thing do you wish people knew about me and my channel? It's that as I move forward, I really, really want to help people get from where I was about five years ago, which is someone who didn't really understand himself was not really living a true sort of alignment of the type of person he wanted to be. And get them to where I am now, which is feeling a lot more happy in myself. I find joy in the things that I do. I have a project that I love and I care about. I'm a much better friend. I'm a much better son. I'm just all around have improved myself in ways that I thought you couldn't. I've deconstructed source code in me that I didn't think that you were able to rewrite. I really, really want over the next few months and years with this channel to increasingly focus on that. I want to make down the pipe monologue YouTube videos like this that are helping people do that. Even thinking about that, even thinking in that sort of a selfless way is something that I wouldn't have considered five years ago. Even that itself counts for quite a lot of the progress that I've made. Where do people recognize you from the most? Hosting the podcast or being on Love Island? I suppose it depends on who it is. I haven't been out of the house an awful lot over the last year. Same as everyone, we've been locked down. I imagine that it's going to be more from the podcast when we get re-released into the real world. There was a period where I was barred from the front door of my own event by my business partner, because the Love Island thing, because everyone wanted to ask about like, what did you think about that girl there? And did this really happen? But no, that's no longer holding as much water. I think, man, like people's fame from Love Island is so fleeting anyway. And also I would much sooner, hundreds times more prefer someone to come up to me and say, man, I love the show. I really enjoy that. As opposed to what? I was watching ITV2 at the time when you came on and did that thing in those shorts. I don't need to go into that. Which story from a guest do you think about the most and how often? That is an awesome question. I think Aubrey Marcus really opened up on an episode I did with him, which is nearly two years ago now. And he used this analogy around, you do not serve other people from your cup, you serve them from the saucer which overflows around your cup. It is the same episode where he said the persona is incapable of receiving love, it can only receive praise. And this really resonated with me. This was sort of still, as we all are, right, we are still trying to grow. But yeah, this is a period where I was like really, really keen of just trying my hardest to understand myself and why I didn't feel fulfilled and how I could feel more fulfilled and find more meaning. And yeah, that was awesome from him. And I must think about it. I mean, it's the basis of one of the sections of my TED Talk. So it tells you all you need to know about how often it comes up in my mind. Who are the dream guests you have yet to interview? This sort of constantly changes based on the tide of whatever my topical interests are at the moment. A couple of years ago, I would have said, it would have been Jordan Peterson and then Seth Godin. I've had Seth on the show. It would have been Aubrey Marcus. Aubrey's been on the show. I think Jordan would still be really good.