Today we’d like to introduce you to Ash.
Ash, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I was originally born in Northern Ireland during the Troubles to a Protestant mother & Catholic father which wasn’t seen as a positive! We moved to Dublin when I was five due to the Troubles, & then moved to the Isle of Man when I was nine. I went to a boarding school on the island called King William’s College, & when I was 16 in 2004 I moved to South Tampa. I attended Academy of the Holy Names for my Junior & Senior year & graduated Academy in 2006. I then went onto the University of Tampa & graduated early in 2009. My first two years at UT I worked at American Eagle (Westshore & International), but then started serving at CDB’s Southside on Westshore. After graduating, I kept my CDB’s job after graduating & starting to work at LoCicero Medical Group because I made about the same money in tips working Thurs-Sat night at CDB’s than my full time LoCicero job, & working both jobs was a grind! I then started as a Supervisor at AMC Theatres (Woodlands, Westshore & Veterans), becoming a manager in two months & after six months I became a Senior manager, a job I loved. I then moved into the gaming industry working for Pokerstars & moving to New Jersey for two years in 2016. In 2020, I went back to the Isle of Man for Covid, as being an island the island was largely shielded from it. In 2020 I also started my own marketing & social media business & my first YouTube channel, hoping one of those two things would take off. I have always wanted to pursue something in media, since I was first on a film set at nine years old when I had a small part in a Julie Andrews & Colin Firth movie, Relative Values. Over the years I was doing other bits in movies, working events, working for a studio in 2020, making friends in the industry & learning as much as I could, whether being paid or not. When I started my original YouTube channel, Ash Silver, I was largely using my knowledge of the industry, behind the scenes, my experience on sets & when relevant, information from friends or people I knew to explain things about filming, tv shows, shooting schedule of shows & how everything worked in general, & I would also review certain shows as well. I had always wanted to work in TV, & loved the movies too, so I had learned basic editing at UT, & then taught myself a lot more largely through YouTube. I wanted to make more extensive & detailed videos, & so in 2022, two years into having my original channel, I started a new channel, Coffee & Cults, with my co-host & star of the channel, my cat, Ms Gloria. At this stage I was picking up marketing & social media clients in my business too, my original channel was doing well & I was working my full time job, so in the beginning Coffee & Cults videos were few & far between, as on top of everything, they required a lot of research, writing & editing. Over 2022 through the first half of 2023, I had had a few videos do decently well for being such a small channel, I had more clients in my social media business & decided to attend a cohort by Paddy Galloway who taught me a lot about storytelling, editing, & the creator space. In September of 2023, after some successful videos, a lot of time, energy & hard work, I had a video about the Murdaugh family do very well for my very small channel, & then the following month in October 2023 I had a video about Danny Masterson’s trial take off & climb over a million views. From that point my channel has continued to grow & I have a wonderful audience who keep coming back & watching. My channel mainly focuses on long deep dive videos about the behind the scenes of Hollywood, TV Shows, celebrity crime cases, cults, fraud & a lot more, with some of my most successful videos being about a lot of 90’s & 2000’s tv shows (That 70’s Show, Buffy, Grey’s Anatomy, Sex & the City, Glee etc). This past June I was able to sell the majority of my marketing business & while I still do some consulting, I have transitioned into Youtube & Coffee & Cults being my main focus & full time job.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Living in four countries before I was 16 & having ADHD
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Coffee & Cults on YouTube is my channel where I make videos about a lot of different topics, from 90’s & 2000’s tv shows to Theranos to celebrity trials to Oceangate.
What are your plans for the future?
To continue making videos on Coffee & Cults, along with extra videos on my Patreon, Coffee & Cults Extra. Now that I am able to focus on YouTube full time, I hope to put out more content, to venture into some other areas & start posting on my second channel Coffee, Cults & Cats. I also like helping my friends with their YouTube channels & helping them grow.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.youtube.com/@coffeeandcults
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theashsilver
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/16Nsd4eTqj/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Twitter: https://x.com/theashsilver?s=21&t=zexSkoXg_gPVaOdS2dw5oQ
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@coffeeandcults
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/coffeeandcultsyt
Image Credits
Ash Silver
