the most powerful response you can ever
have to somebody is with love and no
matter it's easy
the easy cheater way out to be like I
hate you you're so stupid
it takes so much more strength and
character to overlook that you know what
I love you as a human being and I know
you're probably going through a hard
time
what's up influences today I have a very
special interview with a friend of mine
Kandee Johnson thank you so much for
having us thanks Benji for wanting to
interview me I've been waiting to do this
interview for a long time we've been
friends for a while
Kandee Johnson been doing this for six
seven years yeah Hi guys it’s Kandee as Elsa Hey guys it’s Kandee i wanted to
start doing motivational Monday again so
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let's get started i'll show you how I
did it step one nails step two contacts I
feel very honored that I get to
interview you
so thank you so much i think the first
thing i would love to ask you about is
how you got your start on YouTube
what was the life before YouTube what
was it like for you to start and where
you at now I was crazy because I was a
makeup artist and I had moved away from
LA I thought I would move away from my
career and then my friend showed me a
video of lauren luke panacea81 yeap
in the UK and I was like oh my god this is the most genius way to youtube
ever I’ve never seen anything like
that and so I was like I could teach
other women like makeup tips and tricks
is so cool and so then I uploaded my
first video and I realized there were
other girls doing it already i thought i
was gonna be the US version of her and I was
like oh there's already US girls doing this
Judy was one Michelle Phan like all that group of
like OG beauty guru i hate the word guru but
like however no no not a lot of
professionals doing the YouTube stuff a
lot of them like Judy she would never
call yourself a professional makeup
artist would say she was an enthusiast
like just sharing her tips yeah I felt
like one thing that you brought was that
professional aspect because you already
had a career doing it yeah I hope so and
then it was I got so excited and I love
doing it and i was i was telling you
earlier i went crazy I was leveling 23
videos a day like hustle
I don’t even know how I was doing that
then but well I think that really
explains why you had such success in the
beginning of your youtube career if you
can call it that because you put in the
work right
yeah you knew your content you were
putting tons of video tons of content
out there and you really cared for your
audience can you tell us about that
journey from when you first started to
where you at now
yeah when I first started I mean I
really did love it and I loved seen
the feedback because i was like a lonely
time in my life you know and then so
getting to interact with people and
hearing like they really cared and they
wanted
so much more like did you eat for
breakfast how did you make your shirt like all
these things that do you really care
okay i'll show you everything and so I i
started that and then I got the first
email from a girl and she said she was
so depressed and she wanted to commit
suicide but she wanted to be pretty when
people found her body wall and so she
had typed how to be prettier makeup
pretty or something and my video was at the
top of google search and she's like I
saw your video I saw your story what
you'd been through and I and I'm its
eight hours later i watched so many videos and
I'm alive and tears were just like
running down my face
never had I had had anything I don't
know somebody could attribute them being
alive to the fact that I had something
to do with it and I didn't know that and
I was like oh my gosh this is amazing it
was better than any award or anything I
could have ever gotten that was amazing
and then I was like you know I want to
make people feel beautiful in the inside
and outside i want to encourage them
through things in my life that I've been
depressed or maybe felt like I wasn't
any good enough for somebody told me I
wasn't good enough or I was ugly or whatever
and then I really wanted to use that to
be I mean everybody can learn a smoky
eye that's not big deal yeah oh yeah trust
me i know i know about the smoky eye looks
all the videos
no I know the smoky eye i can do a smoky eye
but there is something I was like I want to
be more than just you learned a winged
eyeliner from me yeah you know and i think
that's a good segue to where you're at
now because obviously you still do
beauty looks you still focus on makeup
but some of your more popular videos are
you just talking to your audience right
yeah i think definitely this word
describes you inspirational for sure
I mean I know Judy has spoke very highly
of you i think very highly of you but
the content speaks for itself right like
you care so much about your audience
evidence from what you're saying right
now as well as your videos and how
popular they get can you tell us a
little bit more about what you want to
do when you're speaking to women and men
yeah yeah i mean i think mostly I want
people to know that like there's so much
negativity nowadays that there's you
know online
I mean whether you're a teenager you're
an adult it doesn't matter
or if you're 12 or you're 45 you're
gonna get more horrible comments from
people you went to high school with people at
your work everybody is bombarded with so
much opinion everybody is like loves us
about their opinion whether they think
your vacation was done what they think
your outfit is stupid or they hate your
haircut
whatever it is I really wanted to be a
voice is going to encourage people that
it doesn't matter what these people say
and the more that we get inundated with
this stuff every day
the more you need to be focused on other
things because the Internet can swallow
you up your behind a screen on your
phone your computer ever for such a
large majority of your day that you
really have to step away from that
sometimes absolutely and that's where
you really you're not going to find joy
in like looking at Instagram pictures
like everybody does that you go to
dinner and you just see people so sad
like you just see people on their phone
will let you look at the person across
the table from you like -- that part
gets annoying to me so I want to be just
remind people like their joy is not
in online things and your joy does not
is not depending upon people comment
online also
absolutely and on that no one question
that i know a lot of people have is
about the fear of judgment the fear of
negative comments and haters and that's
something you're a huge advocate on
trying to not only protect people out
there that want to become a youtuber is
there any advice you would give to
people on that note
oh yeah I mean I think I'm a
natural-born people-pleaser people there
so that's hard for me because I'm like
why can’t everybody like me what did i do
why don’t you like me so why don’t you like me what can I do and so
like when people would say mean things
like but you don't even know you did
you just hate my haircut and like that
was so hurtful for me but then you
realize like in life
everybody is going to hate something and
nowadays more people wanna they're
looking for something to point out you
know you're different you're right the
more risky you're with what you say or
what you believe absolutely and people won’t
take the time to give a compliment
oh but they will take the time to rip
something apart you how many times you
go to a restaurant and people are only
way to lacing my yelp review like the
best meal I've ever had no he's like
wait till i write this glowing
something on yelp that doesn't
happen you know people just want to go
and hate things so what I've learned is
some people that i have seen their
comments at some point have been like
I'm okay if you don't like me because
you don't really know where you're
coming from or what your world is and
what I have learned the most is it's the
most people that are the most upset the
most sad the most insecure the most
jealous bitter you they're going through
a hard time they are the ones that are
the quickest want to tell you they want
to bring them down to their level
no I feel like people will look at like
gossip magazines with a look at like
reality TV and it almost makes them feel
better because they're let's go
my life is going horrible but when i see
the Kardashian scratching at each other
I feel better you know I feel like
people want to feel better about their
situation and then if somebody is doing
better
they want to find all the reasons why
you're horrible for doing better and
I think online to it's much easier to
make that judgment physical like when
astrophysical like actually put a
comment out there because you can save
face right like you don't have to
confront or face a person you're making
that comment about and they just walk
away from the computer
oh yeah I know like I just said I hope
you die in your ugly and you should kill
yourself you would never hear people
saying this to your face in real life in
the seven eight years I've been on
YouTube for all the haters all known it
ever not do your feelings ever come up
to me i had one person that said I don't
really want a picture with you Benji and
that you are naked girls like totally
cool right
but you know did they just one one with Judy or what they just
wanted one with Judy which I was really cool with
right but again that's one person that
just didn't vibe with me right in
person
they're respectful about it right they
were not saying I think your idiot i
hate your hair color and your shirt is
dumb absolutely yeah so now great and
the other thing i love about what you do
is you acknowledge where those people
are coming from
it's not like you focus on it but you
know that they can be coming from a hard
place right or they're going through
something can you tell us about that and
how people have reacted when you respond
to them
oh sure one of the greatest thing my mom
always told me she always said the most
powerfull
response you can ever to have
somebody is with love and no matter it's
easy
the easy cheater way out to be like I
hate you you're so stupid
it takes so much more strength and
character to overlook that and say you
know what I love you as a human being
and I know you're probably going through
a hard time so this girl writes on my
Instagram you ratchet phase wa wa no talent
will this whole paragraph and just how
horrible she thinks i am and i was like
oh my gosh what did I ever do to this
girl so i click on a thing of course not
she's really pretty and i just wrote
factor i was like it's so sad to see
such a beautiful girl that said ugly
words come out of my mouth
it begins this whole conversation
unraveling and she was like oh my gosh I
can't believe you replied to me I was
having the worst day ever
it ends up and she was like thank you so
much for making me feel so loved to see
the place that she was in and how she
turned around I just know that anytime
you see those bitter comments or anytime
i replied and I always doing kindness
I've never liked you should shut your I
never do that but when i do reply in
love to them it's always I was having the
worst day I'm going thought the worst thing my
mom just died my dog just died it's all
these things and you just feel there was
so much in them it just came out at
someone had nothing to do with anything
in their world you know lightning round
this is where we have fun and we asked
Kandee some fun questions
last thing you grabbed out of the fridge
ice cream its the ice games favorite
social media platform right now i would
say snapchat yes it's just like fun it
feels carefree like Instagram it’s so much
pressure like it's going to be a perfect
great lighting and all I know it's just
like so much pressure and snapped i'm
just like look these donuts
one book every influencer
should read or listen to you were born
an original don't die a copy
hmm the reason i think that this book is
so successful either that or i would say
how to win friends and influence people
just because I think that’s my favorite i’ve read that
like seven times I think everybody
should read it
my dad like tricked me like he was
offering some money in high school If I
read like I don't care you can be twenty
dollars dad I’m not gonna read it and now I love the book
the book yeah but John L Mason has the
greatest books and it got these quotes and
just you read one and you're like you're
right i was born an original I don't
need to die a copy of what every girl on
Instagram looks like it just reminds you
of those things I just you really like
one page and you’re like I could take on the
world i love it totally and we're going to
put the link down below too if you don’t mind
awesome I’ll find out the title
it and will want that down below
would you rather never watch TV and
movies or never use social media ever
again never watch TV and movies
oh you are hardcore youtuber last song
you had on repeat last song I had on
repeat
oh my gosh it cannot be a justin bieber
song cause I'll be so embarrassed but
it's just because he’s making such a good
comeback right now it's totally really
turning the corner and i'm really loving
the Justin beaver
your go-to comfort food man that could
they could be a cheesecake i would
really if her desserts it might be like
a cheesecake and then if it's real
comfort food
I feel like macaroni and cheese like I'm
just the macaroni and cheese mashed
potatoes oh I love the macaroni cheese
with the crust on top the crust on the bottom but
still gooey middle that's thank ya go to
Benjamin TV have a video about how to
make mac and cheese like that
what ya that make a new video on repeat
Benji right there for your mac and cheese
thanks for watching in a zombie apocalypse
what is one thing you want can I have
like a little armored vehicle full of
food so the zombies can’t Oh full of food I said a tank on the way here I
was like I want to take Benji we’re like the same
person almost totally I was it just makes sense
and that’s why Judy loves me because I
reminder here you just one up me by
saying full of food that's just genius
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