TikTok’s loudest Italian in a gold chain is a lot quieter in real life. In this episode, we sit down with Gianluca Conte, better known as QCP, to talk about how a kid making pizzas in his dad’s restaurants turned into a 27M follower internet business, a cookbook author, and a full-time entertainer, and the toll all of this can take on what you don’t see behind the camera.

We get into the real stuff behind the chaos: work ethic, grief, mental health, relationships, creativity on command, and what it actually means to build a career off a character who screams over pasta.

In this episode, QCP talks about:

• His family rooted love for hospitality and how that grew to the media empire he has built today
• Performing at prom and the totally random Xbox moment that birthed the name QCP
• How his mental health and personal life has to feel “in check” in order for him to perform and how clearing chaos out of his personal life became non-negotiable for his career
• Why virality is never an accident
• Relationships & boundaries
• Why he’s single on purpose, what he’s like as a partner, and his belief that he “has too much to offer” to do it halfway
• What we can expect next from him and how he hopes to spread his knowledge
• Why the single biggest lever in his career has been listening to his own gut

Find QCP:

TikTok: @itsqcp

Instagram: @itsqcp

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