{"id":822,"date":"2017-10-27T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=822"},"modified":"2017-10-27T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:29:28","slug":"what-it-takes-to-be-a-youtuber-with-lucy-earl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/what-it-takes-to-be-a-youtuber-with-lucy-earl\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes to Be a YouTuber with Lucy Earl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCz4tgANd4yy8Oe0iXCdSWfA\">English with Lucy<\/a> star, Lucy Earl, will be back on campus on Wednesday 22 November to tell us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/events\/what-it-takes-to-be-a-youtuber\">#WhatItTakes to be a YouTuber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy will be telling us how she followed her passion for languages and teaching to start her own YouTube channel\u00a0with a little help from a \u00a3500 business loan from her dad. She now has over half a million subscribers who listen in to hear grammar and pronunciation tips, as well as confidence building and English expressions and idioms.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of her talk, we interviewed Lucy to give you a taste of what to expect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Come join Westminster alumna and YouTuber Lucy Earl to find out What It Takes to be a YouTuber\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJ_YivXEeHw?list=PLe_QAxzqR4IcZE69MZaDFe3ft1kgtPPVW\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/events\/what-it-takes-to-be-a-youtuber\">book your place<\/a> to hear about her success, challenges and advice for budding entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/events\/what-it-takes-to-be-a-youtuber\">What it Takes<\/a> is a new series of talks, panel events and workshops, designed to inspire and motivate students and young graduates through our alumni speakers who have all achieved something amazing, exceeded expectations or overcome barriers to success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English with Lucy star, Lucy Earl, will be back on campus on Wednesday 22 November to tell us #WhatItTakes to be a YouTuber. Lucy will be telling us how she followed her passion for languages and teaching to start her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}