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.
Josh Spector is a marketing and business consultant who writes For The Interested, a newsletter for creative entrepreneurs with more than 20,000 subscribers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
#182: Noah Kagan — Behind the scenes of writing (and marketing) Million Dollar Weekend
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#181: Dr. K – The Harvard Psychiatrist helping creators with performance, burnout, and dealing with negative feedback.
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[GREATEST HITS] #152: Paddy Galloway – The most sought-after YouTube consultant on the planet
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#180: Ask Creator Science – Talking about money, managing your time, and trends that I’m seeing.
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#179: Justin Moore – A step-by-step strategy to get anyone sponsored, regardless of audience size.
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#178: Redesigning MY sponsorship strategy (feat. Justin Moore).
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#177: Chris Hutchins – A master of podcast growth and building relationships.
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#176: April Dunford – How self-publishing a book exploded her client service business.
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#175: Angus Parker – Ali Abdaal’s right-hand man shares a YouTuber’s guide to hiring.
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#174: Bonnie Christine – How to ACTUALLY hire and delegate.
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#173: Danny McMahon (aka Dodford) – YouTube’s New Golden Boy.
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#172: Behind the scenes – What I'm planning for 2024
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#171: Nir Eyal – Writing books, persuasion vs. coercion, and how to be indistractable
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#170: Justin Welsh Returns! – Behind his rebrand, innovating on social media, and building relationships.
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BONUS: How To Build an Audience From Scratch, Understanding Discovery and Relationship Platforms, Email vs Newsletters, Vertical Integration for Creators, and more
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#169: Ask Creator Science – What to create, when to focus on growth, and what I’m dismantling.
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#168: Alexandra Watkins – How to invent a GREAT brand name.
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#167: Jenny Hoyos – How she averages 10 million views per video (YouTube Shorts)
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#166: Taylor Lorenz – Investigating The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power On The Internet.
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BONUS: Creator Economy Predictions with John Lee Dumas
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#165: Announcing one of the biggest projects I’ve ever done.
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[GREATEST HITS] #114: Miss Excel – Engineering virality and earning more than $100,000 in a single day
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#164: Jon Youshaei – Ex-YouTube employee shares the best growth advice (that you’ve probably never heard)
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#163: David Moldawer — Diving deep into book publishing with an industry insider
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#162: George Blackman – How to script your videos like Ali Abdaal and Ed from Film Booth.
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#161: Ask Creator Science – when to change strategy, my issue with the term “solopreneur,” dealing with trolls, and a lot more
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#160: Tori Dunlap – A transparent look at writing a New York Times best-selling book. The process, numbers, and lessons learned.
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#159: Nuseir Yassin – The price of growing Nas Daily to 12 million subscribers
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#158: Kieran Drew – Behind-the-scenes of a $142,000 course launch
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#157: Phill Agnew - The psychology MrBeast uses to hook you
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[GREATEST HITS] #89: Hrishikesh Hirway – From full-time musician to Song Exploder and back again
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#156: What we’ve learned in our first year on YouTube (feat. our editor, Conor Conaboy)
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#155: Ed from Film Booth — The Most Entertaining Educator on YouTube?
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#154: Ask Creator Science – starting over, mistakes, delegating, and more
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#153: Tina Roth Eisenberg – Building Creative Mornings into a global brand
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#152: Paddy Galloway – The most sought-after YouTube consultant on the planet
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#151: Nathan Barry of ConvertKit — Acquiring SparkLoop and turning email into multiplayer mode with the Creator Network
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BONUS: Breaking down my journey on Tropical MBA
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#150: Jamie Rawsthorne – How to steal an idea (and get millions of views)
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#149: Daniel Pink – How to write like a New York Times bestselling author
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[GREATEST HITS] #109: Justin Welsh – How a LinkedIn legend expanded into Twitter and Email
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#148: Kevin Espiritu – How Epic Gardening went from a blog to a video empire.
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#147: Chenell Basilio – How the best newsletter operators grow to 50K+ subscribers
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#146: Justin Moore – Redesigning his perfect offer ladder
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#145: Matt McGarry – The man behind email acquisition for The Hustle, Codie Sanchez, Sahil Bloom, and The Milk Road
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#144: Bari Baumgardner – How to create the perfect 3-day event (IRL or virtually)
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#143: Guy Raz – The host of How I Built This on what he’s learned from great creators.
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#142: Creative Elements is now Creator Science! Here’s why I’m rebranding.
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[GREATEST HITS] #93: Codie Sanchez – Growing a newsletter by dominating social media (in just over 2 years)!
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#141: Sean Cannell – How YouTube is changing and what works in 2023
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#140: Maurizio Leo – the sourdough bread blogger who became an overnight success
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#139: How Brennan Dunn is Designing and Pricing His New Course Product
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#138: Chris Williamson – How his podcast exploded to 70 million downloads and 125 million views
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#137: How I’ve doubled my following on LinkedIn in the last few months
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#136: Kevin Parry – How he goes viral on EVERY platform
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BONUS: Creator Debates – Will Podcasts FAIL Without Video? | Jay Clouse vs. Joe Casabona
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#135: Behind the scenes of my first solo YouTube video (our most successful video yet)
#133: Behind the scenes: How much I earned (and spent) in December 2022
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What's underneath brand building for creators
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#132: Natalie Ellis of bossbabe – Attracting 3.5 million followers on Instagram (and what's working today)
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#131: Daniel Wall – 1.6M followers on TikTok using this viral framework
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#130: Sarah Renae Clark – How This YouTuber Built A $200K/mo Coloring Book Empire
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#129: Hayden Hillier-Smith – Logan Paul's former editor on the future of YouTube
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#128: Neville Medhora – Making millions with remarkable copywriting
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How to build a great community (my appearance on The Learning Culture Podcast)
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#127: Daniel Murray – Why LinkedIn Company Pages are a HUGE Opportunity
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#126: Kayse Morris – from government assistance to multimillion dollar membership
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BONUS: How to reach 10K subscribers and $10K revenue
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#125: Jake Thomas – How to write great YouTube titles
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#124: Nick Gray – The secret to throwing great events (online or IRL)
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[REPLAY] #77: Andy J. Pizza [Storytelling] – Writing with pictures and developing your taste
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#123: 12 strategies for becoming more consistent
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#122: Pat Flynn and Matt Gartland – Courses, community, and the future of education
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#121: Bryan Harris – How this sales master grew his business $100K/month
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#120: Derek Sivers – How to Live as a Creator and Why You Should Focus Like a Monomaniac
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#119: Omar Zenhom – Lessons from 200M downloads and 2000+ episodes of a daily podcast
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#118: Sahil Bloom – Attracting 700,000 followers on Twitter by being consistent
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#117: Josh Spector – Driving action with a daily newsletter and providing Transformation for your audience
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#116: Sara Dietschy – Algorithm Anxiety, Reinventing Yourself, and Advice for Small Tech YouTubers
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#115: Jason Sew Hoy of Supercast – How and why to create a premium podcast subscription
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#114: Kat Norton aka Miss Excel – Engineering virality and earning more than $100,000 in a single day
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BONUS: Podcast Movement, newsletter rebrand, and more!
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#113: Austin Belcak – From zero job offers to attracting 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn
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#112: Thomas Frank – Getting nerdy about YouTube and why he created a second channel
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#111: Chris Do – From running a multimillion dollar design agency to becoming a multimillion dollar creator
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#110: Polina Marinova Pompliano – How "The Internet's Biographer" writes great profiles
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#109: Justin Welsh – How a LinkedIn legend expanded into Twitter and Email
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BIG Announcement: We're on YouTube!
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#108: Justin Moore – How to get brand deals and why they are underrated
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#107: Chanti Zak – How (and why) you should be using quizzes
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#106: Bop-It Inventor Dan Klitsner – How to create and commercialize games
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[REPLAY] #21: Matt D'Avella – Freelancing, filmmaking, podcasting, and finding success on YouTube.
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[REPLAY] #102: Tiago Forte – How Building a Second Brain went from public rant to thriving cohort-based course
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[REPLAY] #71: Steph Smith – Generating thousands of sales on Gumroad (with a side project!)
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[REPLAY] #44: Jordan Harbinger – The secret to effective sales, dating, and hosting a popular podcast
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BRB – Going on my honeymoon!
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#105: Daphne Gomez – Leaning into rapid growth and finding rapid growth on Instagram
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#104: Ask Creator Science
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#103: Sam Parr – from The Hustle to one of the top podcasts on the planet with My First Million
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#102: Tiago Forte – How Building a Second Brain went from public rant to thriving cohort-based course
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#101: Arvid Kahl – From SaaS founder to full-time creator
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[BONUS] Talking about my money story and the MOAT Method on the Danny Miranda Podcast
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#100: My Story and Reflecting on 100 Episodes of Creative Elements
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#99: Amanda Natividad – Growing on Twitter and using her platform to lift up others
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#98: Jay-Talking about Memberships with Jay Acunzo
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#97: Dickie Bush Returns! – Jumping ship from full-time job to full-time creator
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[REPLAY] #51: Dickie Bush – Building an audience, product, and community in less than one year
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#96: Nathan Barry – from $150K/yr in ebooks to $30M in ARR with ConvertKit
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#95: Josh Hall – from freelance web design to professional creator earning $300K/year
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[REPLAY] #8: Adam Turla –Going on tour, building a fanbase, launching albums through kickstarter, and playing cave shows
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#94: Ann Handley – How to make your voice a differentiator in your work
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#93: Codie Sanchez – Growing a newsletter by dominating social media (in just over 2 years)!
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#92: Cathryn Lavery – From Kickstarter to global 8-figure e-commerce business
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#91: Mariah Sinclair – How the "Queen of Cozy" began designing covers for cozy mystery novels
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[BONUS] Creative Independence on The Accidental Creative
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#90: Wes Kao – Should you teach a cohort-based course?
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[REPLAY] #41: Tim Urban – Why the author of Wait But Why focuses on quality over consistency
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#89: Hrishikesh Hirway – From full-time musician to Song Exploder and back again
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#88: Tori Dunlap – Building an audience of millions on TikTok with Her First $100K
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#87: Dan Runcie – From business school to music industry insider by covering the business of hip hop
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[BONUS] Resonance Revisited with Jay Acunzo on Unthinkable
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#86: Mitch Long AKA OG Pickle – Building brands for influencers and becoming a professional streamer
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#85: Todd Henry – Practices to help you be more creative on-demand
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#84: 11 Lessons Learned in 2021
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#83: Joe Skinner – How to turn short interviews into structured, high-production podcast episodes
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#82: Michael Bungay Stanier – How to Begin Setting a Worthy Goal
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#81: Jay-Talking about Speaking with Jay Acunzo
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Unveiling Our New Cover Art!
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#80: Lauren Hom – How turning your work into play turns into my clients and more opportunities
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#79: Dru Riley – 45,000+ email subscribers in less than 2 years
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#78: Marie Poulin – Earning $40,000 per month as a course creator
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#77: Andy J. Pizza – Writing with pictures and developing your taste
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#76: Andrew Warner – How to be a better conversationalist with the host of 2,000+ interviews
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[REPLAY] #30: Anne-Laure Le Cunff – From burnout to mindful productivity and quickly building an audience
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Take our Listener Survey for a chance to win $200
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#75: Ali Spagnola – Making outrageous music and videos while trying to befriend the algorithm
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#74: Bad Bunnies NFT – From idea to sold-out NFT project in less than 3 months
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#73: Taylor Schulte – Creating a winning content marketing strategy for a professional services business
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#72: Jason Feifer – The Editor In Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine on making time for your own projects
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#71: Steph Smith – Generating thousands of sales on Gumroad (with a side project!)
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[REPLAY] #51: Dickie Bush – Building an audience, product, and community in less than one year
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[REPLAY] #35: David Perell – How "The Writing Guy" thinks about Twitter, education, and creating your own games
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#70: Nick Huber – What online creators can learn from sweaty startups
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BONUS: Managing Creative Overwhelm with Nick Wignall on Minds & Mics
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#69: Jack Rhysider – 300,000 downloads per episode as an indie podcaster
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#68: Roberto Blake – The story behind 12 years, 531K+ subscribers, and nearly 35 million views on YouTube
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#67: Gina Bianchini – Powering the business of community with Mighty Networks
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#66: Chris Sutherland – How a Physics professor built an audience of 2M+ followers on TikTok (in less than two years!)
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#65: Austin Kleon – 10 years as a full-time writer and stealing like an artist
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#64: Charli Marie Prangley - Building a YouTube Channel with 200K subscribers (on the side!)
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[REPLAY] #37: Ali Abdaal – Making a living as a part-time YouTuber
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#63: Jay Acunzo – How to tell great stories with a professional speaker and veteran podcaster
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#62: Jay Clouse (interviewed by Ryan Hawk!) – Turning the tables for a crossover episode with The Learning Leader Show
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#61: Ryan Hawk – How a top podcaster approaches outreach, interviewing, and prioritizing new projects
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#60: Brennan Dunn – Combining personalization and automation for next-level email marketing
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#59: Mignon Fogarty – Making the case for shorter podcasts with a Podcasting Hall of Famer and New York Times best-selling author
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BONUS: Freelance to Founder
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#58: Courtland Allen – Building (and selling!) a business creating community for Indie Hackers
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#57: Let's talk about comparison traps
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#56: Allen Gannett – Writing The Creative Curve, receiving feedback gracefully, and tapping into your innate creativity
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BONUS: Behind the scenes of Creative Elements and my creative career (Everything Is Marketing)
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#54: Corbett Barr – Why this pioneering digital creator is rebooting his entire online identity
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Introducing Trail Weight
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#53: Bijan Stephen – Digging into internet culture and what it takes to stream on Twitch
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#52: Cole Cuchna – Dissecting how an indie podcaster went from side hustle to full time as a Spotify Original
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#51: Dickie Bush – Building an audience, product, and community in less than one year
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#50: Nick DenBoer aka Smearballs – From construction to early YouTube remixing, working on Conan, and selling NFTs
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#49: Corey Haines of Swipe Files – Five pillars of growth and a tactical guide to sharing your work on Product Hunt
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#48: Rosie Sherry – What community building really looks like (beyond the hype)
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BONUS: Building Community and Being Acquired (Indie Hackers)
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[REPLAY] #10: Amy Landino – Leveraging YouTube, building an audience, creating a persona, and being all in for the conversation forever.
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#47: Lalese Stamps – How a 100 day project can change your life and career
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#46: Sarah McAllister of GoCleanCo – Building a Cleaning Army of nearly 2M Instagram followers
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BONUS: Pat Flynn interviews me on SPI 460!
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#45: Jess Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs of Lemonada Media
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#44: Jordan Harbinger – The secret to effective sales, dating, and hosting a popular podcast
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#43: Emily Clouse – Our podcast illustrator talks drawing, breaking into comedy, and our childhood
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#42: Alex Cattoni – From behind-the-scenes copywriter to front-of-camera YouTuber
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#41: Tim Urban – Why the author of Wait But Why focuses on quality over consistency
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#40: Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions
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#39: Chris McAlister – Meet my business and creative coach
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[REPLAY] #23: Kwame Christian
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#38: The 12 Clips of Christmas
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#37: Ali Abdaal – Making a living as a part-time YouTuber
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#36: Matt Ragland – Becoming a full time YouTube creator after 10 years of side hustling
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#35: David Perell – How "The Writing Guy" thinks about Twitter, education, and creating your own games
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#34: 5 things for creatives to be thankful for
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#33: Brian Clark – A content marketing pioneer talks about its evolution
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#32: Dan Andrews – Helping location independent entrepreneurs build businesses and find community
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[REPLAY] #2: James Clear – Habits, research, and how to create A+ work from a New York Times best selling author
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#31: Sahil Lavingia – Gumroad and the evolution of online creators
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#30: Anne-Laure Le Cunff – From burnout to mindful productivity and quickly building an audience
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#29: Khe Hy – Leaving Wall Street success to find fulfillment and start an email newsletter
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#28: Bryce Conway – How a travel hacker evolved to become a content creator and affiliate marketer
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#27: Ran Segall – How a freelance designer's YouTube hobby paved the way to becoming an educator
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#26: Ryan Robinson – How to write blog posts that rank on page one of search results
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#25: Eric Jorgenson – Creating a full-length book from Tweets, interviews, essays, and podcasts
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#24: Tiffany Aliche, The Budgetnista – Paying off debt, saving for retirement, weathering a recession, and building wealth
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#23: Kwame Christian – How an expert negotiator thinks strategically about expanding his reach
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#22: Pat Flynn and Matt Gartland – Why Pat acquired Matt's agency in order to grow Smart Passive Income
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#21: Matt D'Avella – Freelancing, filmmaking, podcasting, and finding success on YouTube.
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#20: Morgan Nield – Selling on Etsy, building a marketing strategy, Pinterest, and transitioning from physical to digital products
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#19: Miles Beckler – Affiliate marketing, building an audience, earning trust, and making money online
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#18: MICK – The early days of being a DJ, building relationships, failing micro, and future-proofing your brand.
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#17: Jude Brewer – Publishing, performing, becoming a producer, and adapting stories for different formats
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#16: Puno – Finding freelance clients, managing your time, building a business to support your lifestyle, and creating exceptional courses.
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#15: Natalie Franke – Starting a photography business, competition, entrepreneurial loneliness, and the role of community
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#14: Jonathan Mendonsa – Becoming debt free, how to cut your living expenses, saving for retirement, and investing
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#13: Cat Coquillette – Leaving the agency world, selling art online, art licensing, and being a digital nomad
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#12: Michael Sacca – Building an agency, launching software products, choosing a job, and maintaining creative outlets
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#11: Vanessa Van Edwards – Conversation starters, overcoming awkwardness, passive income, and pivoting around challenges
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#10: Amy Landino – Leveraging YouTube, building an audience, creating a persona, and being all in for the conversation forever.
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#9: Jason Zook – Learning the foundation, owning your weird, fighting fear, and showing up week after week
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#8: Adam Turla – Going on tour, building a fanbase, launching albums through kickstarter, and playing cave shows
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#7: Val Geisler – Email, imposter syndrome, and trading the corporate ladder for a spiral staircase
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#6: Grant Baldwin – Having a professional work ethic, getting clear on your message, and how to get paid to speak
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#5: Matt Giovanisci – A self-proclaimed "pool nerd" talks about web design, affiliate marketing, getting comfortable with money, and producing a rap album.
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#4: Ash Ambirge – Humble beginnings, the Middle Finger moment, setbacks, and the unexpected impact Rihanna had on her life
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#3: Danielle Evans – The creator of food typography on earning a living, competition, and changing creative directions
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#2: James Clear – Habits, research, and how to create A+ work from a New York Times best selling author
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#1: Seth Godin – Art, freelancing, building a personal brand, and the problem with being authentic