The Kids Like Us

Devin Erickson got fired by his best friends. A year later he'd built something bigger than what they took from him. Devin Erickson got fired on a Wednesday, HR in the room, severance printed, by the same guys who were supposed to stand up at his wedding. Six years of his life, gone in one meeting. This one goes back to the floor dropping out. Dropping out of college at 19 with $600 and two bins t...

everyone's consuming the same stuff, saying the same things, stuck in the same week on repeat. in a world this saturated, being genuinely interesting might be the rarest skill left. so we broke down how to be more interesting, not the born-with-it kind, the kind you can actually build. if you've ever sat in a room laughing on cue while something inside went quiet, this one's for you. what we get i...

Everything you were told you'd grow up into doesn't exist anymore. AI is coming for your career. Rent doesn't math. You can't go to Thanksgiving anymore. And underneath all of it, there's this feeling you might not even say out loud... that you don't know how to build a life from here. You're not broken. You're paying attention. Every time a generation has felt this, the same thing has happened ne...

Vlad had six months to learn English or get sent back to Russia.. No film school. No connections. A phone and pirated editing software he couldn't afford. That's where this episode starts. With a 13-year-old kid who didn't speak a word of English, opening Google Translate while the other kids opened Snapchat. Ten years later, Vlad Nikifarov (aka Vlad) is a 22-year-old creative director and videogr...

Starting a business when you're scared to be seen? This one's for you. New entrepreneur. Real conversation. No filter. ft. Ella Herbert Ella typed out a post yesterday. Had it ready. Caption written. Video filmed. And then she stopped herself. Changed it from a Reel to a Story because she got scared of what people would think. That's where this episode starts — not at the finish line, not with som...

He was on track for medical school. Instead, he pivoted...again… and again… and again. Five different career paths later, he finally built something of his own. Traveling the world, running his business, and buying gear he never thought he could afford. What You’ll Learn: How to pivot when you don’t know what you want The real cost of staying on the wrong path How Chris went from pre-med to runnin...

Being ambitious is hard. Nobody talks about the days when everything feels like too much. The to-do list is overwhelming. Business is hard. Your brain spirals. And suddenly it feels like everything is collapsing at once. This episode is for when sh*t hits the fan . Motivation is not always high, Things are not always moving like they should. Its for that exact moment when things feel heavy and you...

Luis Borjaa is the kind of creator people think is “just lucky..." traveling, filming campaigns, meeting big creators, experiencing it all... In this episode, he breaks down the unsexy truth: emails, DMs, follow-ups, reps, discipline, and the reality of what this life looks like... We talk about how he got brands to help fund trips (including Hawaii), why “closed mouths don’t get fed,” how to buil...

I walked with the monks for 2,300 miles ... from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. And I’m saying that like it’s literal… because in my head, it is. There was a time I was stuck in my body. I couldn’t get up. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t escape it. And if I’m honest, I can trace the tools that got me through that season back to the same principles I’m about to share with you. Right now, the wor...

Dropping Out of College, Couchsurfing, to Achieving My Pipe Dreams I dropped out of college. Couch hopped. And bet everything on a life I couldn’t explain without sounding delusional. This is the true origin story behind KIDS LIKE US—what happened, what it cost, and the mindset that kept me from crawling back to “safe.” In this episode, you’ll hear: The "out of the matrix" moment that changed my p...