Trey & Katie Kennedy

Show Notes:
Trey Kennedy had 2.5 million followers on Vine when the app announced it was shutting down. Most people would have called that the end. Instead, it became the start of a career that now includes sold-out theater tours, a podcast, and a stand-up special streaming on Amazon Prime. In this conversation, Trey and Katie open up about the leap from viral clips to a real business, why 80% of what Trey writes for a special never makes it to the stage, and how they got married in an empty chapel at the height of the 2020 shutdown. With their third child on the way, they also get honest about the systems that hold it all together: a hard cap on nights away, a daily hour of coffee together, and a shared belief that the career serves the family, not the other way around.

Key Topics:
-The Vine Collapse: Why millions of followers on a dying platform isn't a career, and how Trey used the six months between graduation and "real jobs" to find out if comedy could be one.
-Writing the Special: What it actually takes to build an hour of stand-up when 80% of the material gets cut, and how touring rooms tell you what's funny before the internet does.
-The Touring Marriage: The two rules that keep their family steady: three nights away a week, max, and one hour of coffee together every day, no phones.
-Building Everything at Once: How Trey and Katie handled the wedding, the business, and their first kid all landing inside twelve months, and what they'd tell couples trying to grow a career and a family on the same timeline.
-Comedy of Real Life: Why the best material comes from marriage, kids, and the everyday stuff nobody thinks is content until it is.

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