Email Episodes

May 13, 2025

#255: What’s going on with Substack?

Why are so many creators making the move?
July 2, 2024

#200: Nathan Barry – The risks of ConvertKit’s rebrand (and how I can become a billion dollar creator)

Nathan Barry is the founder and CEO of ConvertKit (soon to be Kit).
Guest: Nathan Barry
June 9, 2023

#151: Nathan Barry of ConvertKit — Acquiring SparkLoop and turning email into multiplayer mode with the Creator Network

Nathan Barry returns to talk about the Creator Network (and their most recent acquisition)
Guest: Nathan Barry
May 2, 2023

#147: Chenell Basilio – How the best newsletter operators grow to 50K+ subscribers

Chenell Basilio is the creator of Growth In Reverse where she studies how creators like Justin Welsh, Packy McCormick, Lenny Rachitsky, and Codie Sanchez grew their newsletter.
April 18, 2023

#145: Matt McGarry – The man behind email acquisition for The Hustle, Codie Sanchez, Sahil Bloom, and The Milk Road

Breaking down how the best of the best grow their newsletters with paid acquisition.
Guest: Matt McGarry
Dec. 6, 2022

#128: Neville Medhora – Making millions with remarkable copywriting

Neville Medhora is the creator of Copywriting Course and SwipeFile.com
Sept. 13, 2022

#117: Josh Spector – Driving action with a daily newsletter and providing Transformation for your audience

Josh Spector is a marketing and business consultant who writes For The Interested, a newsletter for creative entrepreneurs with more than 20,000 subscribers.
Guest: Josh Spector
July 26, 2022

#110: Polina Marinova Pompliano – How "The Internet's Biographer" writes great profiles

Polina Pompliano is the author of The Profile, which studies the most successful and interesting people and companies in business, entertainment, tech, sports, and more.
July 19, 2022

#109: Justin Welsh – How a LinkedIn legend expanded into Twitter and Email

Justin Welsh has 150,000 followers on Twitter, 250,000 followers on LinkedIn, more than 35,000 subscribers to his email newsletter, and has earned more than $2M as a solo creator.
Guest: Justin Welsh
July 5, 2022

#107: Chanti Zak – How (and why) you should be using quizzes

Chanti Zak has developed quizzes for Jenna Kutcher, Carrie Green, Rick Mulready, John Lee Dumas, Amy Porterfield, and many more.
Guest: Chanti Zak
May 31, 2022

#105: Daphne Gomez – Leaning into rapid growth and finding rapid growth on Instagram

Daphne Gomez is the creator of Teacher Career Coach. She is a former teacher turned instructional designer, podcaster, and career coach.
Guest: Daphne Gomez
May 17, 2022

#103: Sam Parr – from The Hustle to one of the top podcasts on the planet with My First Million

Sam Parr is the co-host of My First Million and the founder of The Hustle. My First Million is one of the top business podcasts on the planet, generating more than 1 million downloads per month.
Guest: Sam Parr
May 10, 2022

#102: Tiago Forte – How Building a Second Brain went from public rant to thriving cohort-based course

Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain. Tiago has spent more than 10 years researching and personally experimenting with a new way of organizing our digital lives and improving our productivity as creative professionals.
Guest: Tiago Forte
March 8, 2022

#94: Ann Handley – How to make your voice a differentiator in your work

Ann Handley is a writer, digital marketing pioneer, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author
Guest: Ann Handley
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.
Guest: Codie Sanchez
Jan. 11, 2022

#87: Dan Runcie – From business school to music industry insider by covering the business of hip hop

Dan Runcie is the founder of Trapital, a media company covering the business of hip hop.
Guest: Dan Runcie
Nov. 9, 2021

#79: Dru Riley – 45,000+ email subscribers in less than 2 years

Dru Riley is the creator of Trends.vc, which has more than 45,000 subscribers and 1,000 Pro members.
Guest: Dru Riley
Sept. 21, 2021

#73: Taylor Schulte – Creating a winning content marketing strategy for a professional services business

Taylor Schulte is the founder of Define Financial, which manages over $120 million in assets and specializes in retirement & tax planning for people over age 50.
June 8, 2021

#60: Brennan Dunn – Combining personalization and automation for next-level email marketing

Brennan Dunn is the creator of Double Your Freelancing, RightMessage, and Mastering ConvertKit.
Guest: Brennan Dunn
Dec. 8, 2020

#36: Matt Ragland – Becoming a full time YouTube creator after 10 years of side hustling

Matt Ragland is an independent creator. His YouTube channel showcases videos on the Bullet Journal process, productivity, and time management.
Guest: Matt Ragland
Oct. 13, 2020

#29: Khe Hy – Leaving Wall Street success to find fulfillment and start an email newsletter

Khe Hy is the creator of RadReads, a weekly newsletter covering how to live an intentional life.
Guest: Khe Hy
May 5, 2020

#7: Val Geisler – Email, imposter syndrome, and trading the corporate ladder for a spiral staircase

Val Geisler is the founder and CEO (that's Chief Email Officer) of Fix My Churn.
Guest: Val Geisler
April 14, 2020

#4: Ash Ambirge – Humble beginnings, the Middle Finger moment, setbacks, and the unexpected impact Rihanna had on her life

Ash Ambirge is an internet entrepreneur, creative writer, speaker, and advocate for women being brave and doing disobedient things with their careers and their lives.
Guest: Ash Ambirge
March 31, 2020

#2: James Clear – Habits, research, and how to create A+ work from a New York Times best selling author

James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits.
Guest: James Clear