Nick Cannon: How I ACCIDENTALLY Built A $1.3 Billion Business & My Ex-Wife Mariah Carey Saved My Life!

Nick Cannon has lived many different lives, and if you ask him he’s won them all. In this new episode Steven sits down with TV host, actor, rapper, and comedian, Nick Cannon. At 16 years old, Nick began performing stand-up comedy, a year after this he appeared on the Nickelodeon sketch series, ‘All That’, as a writer for the show, at 17 years old, he became the youngest writer in TV history. Nick made the move into film in 2002, appearing in ‘Drumline’, and in 2005, he created, produced and hosted the MTV improv comedy series ‘Wild ’N Out’. From 2009 to 2016, Nick was the host of ‘America’s Got Talent’.

In this conversation Nick and Steven discuss topics, such as:

The power of optimism in his life

How imagination was his superpower as a child

His unorthodox childhood

His father turning his life around

The importance of gratitude in his life

Going down the wrong path in his childhood

Starting doing stand up comedy at 11 years old

Being wise beyond his years

His connection with Jamie Foxx

Living his life in the public eye

Believing in luck rather than alignment

Speaking himself into existence

His ADHD and not being challenged when he was younger

Meeting Will Smith at 16 years old

The lessons he learned from Will Smith

Losing his TV show at 19 years old

Likeminded people intuitively connecting and coming together

Becoming the youngest ever TV writer

The career advice he would give to his children

How fun is the battery for success

The importance of intuition in the world

Sad money vs happy money

The negativity of the music industry

The power of narcism and the need to balance it

Self funding and taking a risk on ‘Wild N Out’

The importance of owning your intellectual property

Wild N Out being an platform for young talent

Wild N Out being a billion dollar business

Working with Kehlani in her early career

Why he struggles with signing young artists

Why networking is overrated

Being an outgoing introvert

Being diagnosed with lupus at 32 years old

His near death experience

Facing his own mortality

The death of his child

How grieving is forever

Turning grief into purpose

The 20th season of Wild ’N Out’ premiered on VH1 on the 6th July.

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