Hi everybody! welcome to another episode

of dear younger self. Today we'll be

discussing authenticity with youtuber

Meir Kay! Hey I'm Meir Kay!

I'm a big fan of Meir because he

listened to his true calling and on top

of following the traditional path of an

Orthodox Jew tradition I think I bad

Keeping Shabbat, going to the synagogue keeping kosher

he also decided to channel his

creativity and all of his energy into

creating a YouTube channel that has now

over 10 million views!! Each video is pure

joy, from beginning to end you'll be

laughing out loud and wishing you had a

friend like Meir which I now do!

So Meir, if you could use three words to describe

yourself as a teenage boy, which words

would you use? curious confused and

adventurous! I was shipped off to a boarding

school an all-boys boarding school

during that time it was a big transition

from the kind of lifestyle was used to

back at home I'm meeting new people and

well we're sort of leads me into the

confusion part because what happened was

during this period of my time I did come

with us a lot of a bowl of energy a lot

of energies curious excited about this

new chapter in my life and it wasn't

really appreciated there with the people

and what the environment i was in and it

was a difficult time to adjusting and

figuring out you know am i doing the

right thing is just too much am I am I

too bouncy and colorful have like color

than I like to like have funky designs

and usually in that sort of role there

was a lot of black and white today it's

changed a lot it's involved which is

really really cool to see but I was

saying 10 15 years ago when when I was

going through that process it was it was

a lot more there wasn't much of a gray

it was a lot of black and white and I

was just trying to fit in and I think

fitting in is the worst thing one can do

to themselves you have to because once

you start doing that this divide happens

where you project yourself to the people

around you and then you have what you

feel inside and over time the more you

sort of fake that if the gap becomes

bigger and bigger and you're trying to

jump jump jump and then sometimes the

gaps get so big when you jump you fold

down

how's like what was expected of you hmm

like as when you grow up well I have to

say I'm in blessed because I think the

way I am today has a lot to do with the

way it was burned off we had Shabaab we

had some tech culture of course I mean

ever sent to a Jewish school in my life

so I did grow up in that system that's

the same time it was always fused with

some color with joy joy and happiness

anybody who meets my parents they know

right away I'm like oh your mama's bossy

oh my god because like she's a ball of

energy i don't even use my i don't know

how you do it I don't know if you would

go back and tell now you're 14 year old

self what you're doing now what do you

would say oh and jeez well I mean I'm

gonna sound my so I don't sound like

really really old right now because like

this is the 14 year olds like before

YouTube right so like this was I know

kids I know I was there BC so like it's

so I mean that platform didn't exist but

at that time I had dreams I had

aspirations I I love I always loved

acting and performing and and even

directing at the time so to think like

now like I'm doing that I'm acting on

that on those goals i'm i'm able to

support myself by doing so as well i

think you know i know my fortune will

solve you like yo make a back seat bag

that i was actually known as Archie but

I was sort of back before the pre beard

I they said I look like or see the

freckles and all that that's why he'll

always be a winner what does it mean to

live an authentic life one has to always

check in with one's own because we live

in a crazy world today as every decade

as decade every year every half year as

every year goes by with technology in

the way the world is developing we're

feet will sense so much information of

what we should be how we should look we

should buy our clothing what we see what

we should anyway how we should think how

we should vote there's so much going on

there's so much noise in the world and I

think it's important to like really

touch base with oneself and to not lose

focus on who you are when the door is

shot and no one's around are you truly

happy and it's and if you're not what

are the things that in your life that

are there holding you back from genuine

happiness because there's no reason why

you should not experience genuine

happiness you should not be and once

you're happy everything else falls into

place to live in authentic world that

world have to start with oneself it's

not selfish you have to sell

oneself because once your helps me once

your authentic you could be a light

everybody else around you so what advice

he is someone that is seeking to create

a youtube channel and wants to be

authentic on YouTube the the best way to

be authentic when making any kind of

content whether you're using YouTube or

any other platform in general in life is

to be true to your own voice but if you

have passions if you have if you were

true if there's truth to it then that

will come over in the camera and that's

what's most important the content do you

want to connect it's all about YouTube

it's about you what's what's your

message to the world your voice is a

billion people billions of people in the

world there's only one you and that

allows makes you special and then you so

instead of trying to fit in with other

types of people on messages or whatnot

just really try to hold it into yourself

figure yourself out find that that voice

which only you have and share that with

the world and what will you say is the

essence of your channel I would say it's

all about happiness and positivity no

seriously it is I've been trying to push

through all my family my friends and the

message I want to bring up to the world

is about bringing people together going

beyond religion and space I think it's

all important I mean heck I'm going to

zoom but I think there's a score of

humanity which were you all connect with

and that is through happiness and

positivity get out there making stuff

create be yourself be authentic what's

yours it was your favorite video from

the ones that you mean oh ah so you know

who's just take a child on how many

children that sound like how do you

choose a favorite don't want to just

choose one everyone say oh hi 5 million

i love high-fiving or get it sort of put

me on the map so to speak yeah i guess i

would say wow what are the most favorite

days of my life i would say was the

dancing DJ party in the subway guy oh

wow that's amazing you have to check

that out right now stop this check now

it's right here you can click on it I

just what I loved about that video is

like I went out with a few friends and

we just made it work what we did and he

took this platform and we turn it into a

DJ dance party and we had music we had

life you had a bouncer with a red VIP

rope and a right VAP on the subway and

we just we just blasted out the music

and we had fun it was just a great day

like real family am I

believers in jackaroo chose a wild what

other kinds of jobs need to besides you

do which I don't even consider this a

job oh my gosh yeah seriously right a

dream yeah it's crazy i can tell my

grandmother back in Russia look what I'm

doing today you know cuz you're like

walk get married that's good so besides

besides making YouTube videos I am also

a part mr. motivator so I actually go to

the parties and like I dances the kids

that he liked to keep them under their

sport play games we we have like dance

off with the parents house the fun

flight has been one of the proudest

moments of your life I make these videos

to spread happiness positivity to

inspire when I received this letter back

this message back and they were saying

how they were they removed and by

watching you know the video the message

they become happy and it's I mean it's

such a powerful thing to hear that you

were able to affect somewhere in such a

monumental way from afar but through

this medium of YouTube of videos that's

something I'm proud about salsa was an

idea and then it turns into action and

then it's and then it just spreads I

have a last question tell me tell me

tell me tell me what more athletic /

come on I actually want you to challenge

the audience we all have that one thing

on a tip of our tongue that's sitting in

our heart in your gut that we know if we

do we create if we do something about it

it will tap into something deep within

ourselves whether it's reaching out to

somebody that you love maybe to crush

maybe it's a parent perhaps you want to

have a nice video idea and you want to

put that out into the world do it just

take action tap into it I know what it

is don't run away from it it's right

there yay whatever that is right there

hold on to it hold on to that feeling

and run with that you'll sense it with

that expression make it creative I'll

put all the links below there K merit a

is the way holika say aye mere k have a

great day thank you so much for taking

the scientist time travel with me

and see to your younger self and bring

real really valuable advice on

authenticity and everything else you

mentioned so thanks thank you so much

yourself whoo bye guys see you next time

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