Young Trep

More About Young Trep

Here is the show’s description: Benjamin Wong, Entrepreneur and visionary interviews some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs from a teenager’s perspective to empower and inspire today’s generation of youth to be equipped for tomorrow’s future. The length of each episode is around 30 minutes. Ben has currently paused making new episodes, but plans to start back up very soon, so this gives you time to go through his backlog of episodes and get caught up.

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Introduction to Ben

I’m Ben Wong. I’m a kid podcaster. I’m 16 years old. Also an entrepreneur in philanthropist.  I’m on a podcast called Young Trep, where I interview entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, whoever I feel would have some cool advice for kids.  You know, like when I first got into podcasting, it was 2018 and it was a brand new kind of industry at that time, and it was kind of a perfect prelude to. To be able to represent things that I was interested in at the time and be able to get more kids involved. So it just kind of worked out.

How Young Trep Got Started

So originally when I started a podcast, it was called Kid ceo, and the idea was I was really into investing stock trading at the time, and I wanted to have a way to be able communicate this passion with others. So I would talk to kids at school and they would be like, Hey, how can I do this too? Of course, I was 12 years old, made it seem, you know, like I just made all this money 20 bucks. But I wanted to be able to communicate this in a way that I could have one central place that had everything you needed to know about, about investing, and I could just refer people to that.  And it was also my mom’s idea with using podcasting versus, you know, a blog or social media. 

What to Expect From Young Trep

You know, every episode I’ll bring in a guest and they all have a slightly different angle, whether it’s a slave coach or a entrepreneur or a speaking coach or you know, whoever’s on athlete, they’ll all have a slightly different angle and different message that they wanna communicate.

And that’s, that’s human, that’s natural human order. But the general idea behind the entire podcast is that it’s never too early to make a difference. In your world, in an industry, in a passion, that’s the central idea. Everyone will come in with some sort of form of that, whether it’s, oh, make sure to follow your dreams, or you know, whatever.  There’s many different ways of saying that, but I think the central idea is taking a step further with kids and applying everything that these people have said into the form of kids in the message of it’s never too early to be able. Fill in the blanks, follow your dreams, make a difference in their community.

The Vibe of Young Trep

I feel like we’ve touched on it, but like what words would you describe your show, the vibe of your show with? That’s a tough one. Cause it’s, it’s evolved so much over time. From when it started, it was a very episodic, very harmonious you know, very cinematic. It’s a perfect word. Okay. When I first started, it was very cinematic. You know, I put a lot of time into music, into editing. Everything was perfectly crafted. There wasn’t a second that was unaccounted for whereas now it’s a lot more natural and free flowing.  I wouldn’t say either ones better or worse, but it’s a lot more, take it as we go unedited. Not simplifying anything, not over glorifying anything, but just, and we’ll add a little bit, but just releasing the raw content and allowing people to make their own interpretations and, and being able to allow people to understand each episode in their own separate way, which I think has a beauty in as well.

Ben’s Favorite Episode

I think I always go back to this one episode I had with a guy named Evan Carmichael. He’s a motivational YouTuber.  He’s made a big name for himself, on YouTube and his episode I think I was the most nervous for, but it was kind of the perfect everything. I’ve had some guests that are maybe more famous or more, you know, successful, but I mean, that successful’s a hard one, but maybe more famous, right? But I’ll only have like five to 10 minutes with him.

Whereas the Evan Carmack episode, I had the perfect amount of everything. He, himself, of course, came with so much fire and content miixed with the perfect amount of time. And I feel like that episode taught me a lot, both from a guest standpoint and from a host standpoint. It taught me so much about how to run a podcast from the way his team interacted with me.  Uh, so yeah, I would say that one, not only for the finished result, which was an amazing episode that I always point people towards as the first episode they should listen to, but it also taught me so, so much.