Kevin Espiritu grew @Epic Gardening from a blog about hydroponics to the $59,000,000 it’s valued at today in just a few years.
I think it’s amazing how he’s built such a huge successful commercial enterprise out of something he’s passionate about and we talk about what he loves about gardening, surviving for 30 days off food he grew, and test his gardening trivia…
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⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰
0:00 Introducing Kevin Espirtu From Epic Gardening
1:15 How Kevin Developed His On Camera Personality
6:07 30 Day Survival Challenge
11:25 Morality Of Factory Farming
13:29 Why Do You Garden?
18:40 Gardeners Vs. Preppers
19:59 Self Sustainability In 2023
24:16 Surviving DoomsDay
29:30 Kevin’s Origin Story
36:34 How Epic Gardening Became A Multi Million Dollar Empire
46:36 Ways To Grow On Youtube
50:56 Hard Pivot – How Do You Feel About The Show “ Cops”
57:09 What’s The Online Gardening Community Like?
1:06:36 Henry’s HotSeat
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looking forward to the renewed podcast!
This is interesting and also something I wish more YouTubers were aware of. It’s very likely for people who were interested in your original content to be interested in other things you’re interested in. Even if they’re personally not interested, they have people in their lives that are, and if they like your online personality they will pass those resources along to the right people.
In my case for example: I’m a terrible gardener, but my husband’s been talking about hydroponics for over a decade. He likes growing things from seeds of fruit we get in the grocery store.
I’m a passive podcast and YouTube listener. He almost never goes on the internet for entertainment. He sometimes reads articles about his hobbies, but spends most of his free time offline, but I send him a ton of videos on topics I come across that I know he’s gonna like. I know this is just my personal experience, not a data driven answer, but I don’t believe I’m in the minority on this one.
Feedback: feel free to ignore, this is just optional feedback. The episode was good overall.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed learning about gardening. I don’t understand the new podcast format. I think I’d still watch if you move away from charisma and dating and all that stuff. I think I’m really enjoying the conversation about business building and philosophy. I’d really like a podcast episode introducing Henry and making him apart of the podcast. I want to see more YouTubers and business owners from businesses I wouldn’t expect like in this episode.
I feel like a lot of the value I got from the podcast was the feeling of learning, I think that should remain in the transition.
Hey it might just be me but you look overly airbrushed in the thumbnail, idk if that’s meant to be the case or just the low resolution on my phone. Either way I don’t think it looks great. Might also make sense to just call it Charlie Houpert as opposed to “Dropping in”
I loved the hard pivot part, when you guys were just shooting ideas about crime, drugs, law enforcement and the morality of it all. kind of in a philosophical way. that's what I got used to hear in this podcast, that's what kept me coming back every week. you are into something that week or month and you just talk about it – it can be a tv show like House of the Dragon, or an experience like microdosing MDMA, it doesn't matter. what does matter is the analysis, thinking deeply about a subject that most people gloss over.
We love you, Charlie. Keep up the great work!
Good stuff!
To be honest, I never really enjoyed the interviews on here – I think I felt it got in the way of "Charlie + Ben time". But I'm thoroughly enjoying this episode and am looking forward to more. Great work, Charlie!
Really cool episode.
In general, the specifics to one person's career doesn't interest me as much as the philosophy behind it and their core values/ beliefs. That's why I liked the podcast to begin with.
You're doing great, Charlie, and have my full support.
I liked this
The episode was great, you asked great insightful questions and the interviewer was very interesting and calming to listen to – like yourself, Charlie. My only concern is what does this mean for solo podcasts? You have so much invaluable lessons to share about things that are adjacent to the charisma stuff about mental health, spirituality, money, relationships etc – I and others would hate to miss out on that. In the update video, the comments were more for solo podcasts than interviews (though I'm sure listeners appreciate them still), would you be able to do both, maybe in some rotation? If you're happy doing either, maybe you could poll your fans. I would also be interested in knowing what people would like to hear what you and others prefer the solo podcasts to be about. You mostly talked about current affairs in the old podcast, which was interesting though it feel repetitive since I knew your position on things and could predict what you would say and even agreed on most points so a bit like preaching to the choir. The most value I took was whenever you shared lessons and lifestyle stuff – which I believe was a small part of the main podcast and what the extra patreon episodes were for.
Tomato is a vegetable smh
You’re the man Charlie!
This content is amazing. Loved the old format but this new direction is promising