027 - Mastering Content In The Education Niche w/ Seeam Shahid Noor

@SeeamShahidNoor is a Product Manager & Sr. Strategy Consultant at IBM - but he is primarily known as a creator in the education space, where he helps aspiring students with tips and tricks to be better at what they do.

With hundreds of thousands of followers online, Seeam uses his expertise from his current role and draws from his degree at the prestigious Harvard University. In this episode Seeam and I sit down from two different ends of the world and discuss his journey, the creator industry and what it takes to be successful as a creator in the education niche.

Intro animation: Ahmed Fahim

00:00 Intro
01:15 Seeam's Harvard University story
04:25 Who is Seeam Shahid Noor?
08:13 Why create content?
13:03 IBM vs. Content creation
15:07 Satisfying the creating itch
16:57 Issue with being a fulltime creator
18:10 Seeam's growth story
25:04 What's hard about building an audience 
30:21 Dealing with negativity
31:49 Is the audience smarter than creators?
33:27 How the audience influences creators
35:04 How audience behavior shapes content
37:38 Lack of a diverse audience     
38:58 Creative rut
41:22 What is quality content?
42:07 Biggest reward as a creator
43:15 Personal goal in 5 years
44:12 Seeam's advice for aspiring creators
45:43 Outro

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