From Navy SEAL To Viral Content Creator - MrBallen’s Insane Story

I watched this grenade come over the wall. It's like I can see it for a second. It disappeared. I can see it for a second. And it was like time absolutely stood still. And when I was in this blackness of not seeing and not hearing I knew absolutely that this is dead. I had mental issues, I had emotional issues, I had real physical issues. I was a complete psychopath, and when I got out, I thought social media and content creation was just kind of fascinating. How did you decide that was a worthy way to spend your life? If you create the right thing at the right time, it's like a lottery ticket and it goes viral and then it's your chance at that point.

to capitalize in whatever way you want to. So I was obsessed with it. So despite the many failures over the course of probably you know six months or so, maybe a year of just like awful cringe videos that went nowhere. on a whim, I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna shoot a quick video and I leave my phone in the room for a couple hours, come back, and I couldn't even open my phone. And it had over five million views in a matter of a few hours. You built this empire quickly. I went into this feverish like Constantly telling stories on TikTok, uh three a day for 30 days, and then up to like seven million subscribers on TikTok, and then shift it to YouTube and Here we are.

What's one thing you can teach me to make me a better storyteller? It's something that people love and hate. You're gonna tell a story. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to Sean, uh have you have you ever uh seen the Mr. Ballin channel before like I asked you if he should come on? No, when I found out you were coming on as a guest, that's when the research started and I went to your TikTok first.

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