Audience Building Episodes
April 19, 2022
#99: Amanda Natividad – Growing on Twitter and using her platform to lift up others
Amanda Natividad is VP of Marketing for audience research startup, SparkToro. She’s also a contributor for Adweek, a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, and a former journalist.
April 5, 2022
#97: Dickie Bush Returns! – Jumping ship from full-time job to full-time creator
Dickie Bush is the creator of Ship 30 for 30, a cohort-based course and community of people developing a writing habit in 30 days
March 1, 2022
#93: Codie Sanchez – Growing a newsletter by dominating social media (in just over 2 years)!
Codie Sanchez is the Founder of Contrarian Thinking and Cofounder of Unconventional Acquisitions. She helps people think critically and cashflow unconventionally while allocating to what she calls "sweaty & boring" small businesses.
Jan. 18, 2022
#88: Tori Dunlap – Building an audience of millions on TikTok with Her First $100K
After saving $100,000 at age 25, Tori quit her corporate job in marketing and founded Her First $100K to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money.
Jan. 4, 2022
#86: Mitch Long AKA OG Pickle – Building brands for influencers and becoming a professional streamer
Mitch Long (also known as OG Pickle) is a professional streamer, Twitch Partner, and PUBG Partner.
Oct. 5, 2021
#75: Ali Spagnola – Making outrageous music and videos while trying to befriend the algorithm
Ali Spagnola is a musician, comedian, and artist. Ali creates outrageous videos including turning her car into a Chia Pet, covering her apartment with fur, or putting 3200 PopSockets on her wall! She also creates "What If" videos where she remixes popular music into the style of another artist.
Aug. 17, 2021
#69: Jack Rhysider – 300,000 downloads per episode as an indie podcaster
Jack Rhysider is the creator and host of Darknet Diaries, audio stories specifically intended to capture, preserve, and explain the culture around hacking and cybersecurity.
July 27, 2021
#66: Chris Sutherland – How a Physics professor built an audience of 2M+ followers on TikTok (in less than two years!)
Chris Sutherland is a former collegiate Physics professor turned full-time content creator. Chris began posting videos to TikTok in January 2020, quickly going viral and building an audience of more than 2 million followers.
April 13, 2021
#52: Cole Cuchna – Dissecting how an indie podcaster went from side hustle to full time as a Spotify Original
Cole Cuchna is the creator of Dissect, a serialized music podcast that examines a single album per season, one song per episode.
April 6, 2021
#51: Dickie Bush – Building an audience, product, and community in less than one year
Dickie Bush is a macro investor and the creator of Ship 30 for 30, a community of writers developing a writing habit in 30 days.
March 23, 2021
#49: Corey Haines of Swipe Files – Five pillars of growth and a tactical guide to sharing your work on Product Hunt
Corey Haines is the creator of Swipe Files, a membership site that provides content, community, and courses to help you master marketing.
Jan. 12, 2021
#40: Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions
The evil genius of Unnecessary Inventions creates products no one is asking for
Dec. 1, 2020
#35: David Perell – How "The Writing Guy" thinks about Twitter, education, and creating your own games
David Perell is a writer, podcaster, and the creator of Write of Passage.
Oct. 20, 2020
#30: Anne-Laure Le Cunff – From burnout to mindful productivity and quickly building an audience
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is an entrepreneur, an ex-Googler, and a neuroscience student.
Sept. 8, 2020
#24: Tiffany Aliche, The Budgetnista – Paying off debt, saving for retirement, weathering a recession, and building wealth
Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche is an author, speaker, and founder of the Live Richer Academy.