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Oct. 12, 2021

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Oct. 5, 2021

#75: Ali Spagnola – Making outrageous music and videos while trying t…

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 …

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Sept. 28, 2021

#74: Bad Bunnies NFT – From idea to sold-out NFT project in less than…

Bad Bunnies are 5,500 randomly generated, gamified NFTs, released from captivity to the Ethereum blockchain.

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Sept. 21, 2021

#73: Taylor Schulte – Creating a winning content marketing strategy f…

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.

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Sept. 14, 2021

#72: Jason Feifer – The Editor In Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine on m…

Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, a podcast host, book author, keynote speaker, startup advisor, and nonstop optimism machine.

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Sept. 7, 2021

#71: Steph Smith – Generating thousands of sales on Gumroad (with a s…

Steph Smith is a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She's the creator of two books, Doing Content Right and Doing Time Right.

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Sept. 2, 2021

[REPLAY] #51: Dickie Bush – Building an audience, product, and commun…

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.

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Aug. 31, 2021

[REPLAY] #35: David Perell – How "The Writing Guy" thinks about Twitt…

David Perell is a writer, podcaster, and the creator of Write of Passage.

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Aug. 24, 2021

#70: Nick Huber – What online creators can learn from sweaty startups

Nick has more than 140,000 followers on Twitter, two podcasts, a Real Estate Masterclass, and more than $20 million in self storage assets under management.

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Aug. 19, 2021

BONUS: Managing Creative Overwhelm with Nick Wignall on Minds & Mics

In this episode of Minds & Mics, I talk with my friend Nick Wignall. Nick and I get into the details of creative overwhelm and burnout and how I (try to) manage it.

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Aug. 17, 2021

#69: Jack Rhysider – 300,000 downloads per episode as an indie podcas…

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.

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Aug. 10, 2021

#68: Roberto Blake – The story behind 12 years, 531K+ subscribers, an…

Roberto Blake is dedicated to building the Creator Economy. He’s focused on helping Creators and Influencers build brands and businesses online.

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Aug. 3, 2021

#67: Gina Bianchini – Powering the business of community with Mighty …

Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks. Mighty Networks helps creators bring their community, courses, memberships, and events together in one place under their brand.

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July 27, 2021

#66: Chris Sutherland – How a Physics professor built an audience of …

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.

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July 20, 2021

#65: Austin Kleon – 10 years as a full-time writer and stealing like …

Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going.

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July 13, 2021

#64: Charli Marie Prangley - Building a YouTube Channel with 200K sub…

Charli Marie Prangley is the creator of the YouTube Channel CharlieMarieTV.

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July 6, 2021

[REPLAY] #37: Ali Abdaal – Making a living as a part-time YouTuber

Ali Abdaal is a Cambridge University medicine graduate, now working as a junior doctor in the UK's National Health Service (NHS).

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June 29, 2021

#63: Jay Acunzo – How to tell great stories with a professional speak…

Jay Acunzo is an author, speaker, and showrunner. He's the host of 3 Clips (recently acquired by Castos) and Unthinkable, which he describes as Radiolab for creators.

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June 22, 2021

#62: Jay Clouse (interviewed by Ryan Hawk!) – Turning the tables for …

Today is a special crossover episode. Last week, I interviewed the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, Ryan Hawk.

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June 15, 2021

#61: Ryan Hawk – How a top podcaster approaches outreach, interviewin…

Ryan Hawk is a keynote speaker and the host of the Learning Leader Show.

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June 8, 2021

#60: Brennan Dunn – Combining personalization and automation for next…

Brennan Dunn is the creator of Double Your Freelancing, RightMessage, and Mastering ConvertKit.

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June 1, 2021

#59: Mignon Fogarty – Making the case for shorter podcasts with a Pod…

Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl.

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May 27, 2021

BONUS: Freelance to Founder

Real-world, practical, actionable advice to take your service-based business to the next level

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May 25, 2021

#58: Courtland Allen – Building (and selling!) a business creating co…

Courtland Allen is the creator of Indie Hackers, the largest online community of startup founders.

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