Episodes
May 27, 2021
BONUS: Freelance to Founder
Real-world, practical, actionable advice to take your service-based business to the next level
May 25, 2021
#58: Courtland Allen – Building (and selling!) a business creating community for Indie Hackers
Courtland Allen is the creator of Indie Hackers, the largest online community of startup founders.
May 20, 2021
#57: Let's talk about comparison traps
We've all fallen prey to comparison traps. But today I want to talk about why our comparisons are flawed.
May 18, 2021
#56: Allen Gannett – Writing The Creative Curve, receiving feedback gracefully, and tapping into your innate creativity
Allen Gannett is the author of The Creative Curve (Penguin Random House, 2018) that shows how the creative process can be learned by anyone.
May 11, 2021
BONUS: Behind the scenes of Creative Elements and my creative career (Everything Is Marketing)
Creating a top 1% podcast, community as culture, and unfair advantages in distribution
April 27, 2021
#54: Corbett Barr – Why this pioneering digital creator is rebooting his entire online identity
Corbett Barr is the creator of Fizzle, a membership combining courses, podcasts, and community for creators.
April 20, 2021
#53: Bijan Stephen – Digging into internet culture and what it takes to stream on Twitch
Bijan Stephen is a writer, editor, and video correspondent based in Brooklyn, NY. He covers Twitch and Streaming at The Verge and a music critic at The Nation.
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 30, 2021
#50: Nick DenBoer aka Smearballs – From construction to early YouTube remixing, working on Conan, and selling NFTs
Nick DenBoer (also known as Smearballs) a director, animator, editor, music producer, remix artist and self-proclaimed "all around great guy."
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.
March 16, 2021
#48: Rosie Sherry – What community building really looks like (beyond the hype)
Rosie Sherry is the creator of Rosieland, a community and resource hub for community builders.
March 11, 2021
BONUS: Building Community and Being Acquired (Indie Hackers)
A casual conversation between two community builders
March 2, 2021
#47: Lalese Stamps – How a 100 day project can change your life and career
Lalese Stamps is a ceramicist and the founder of Lolly Lolly Ceramics, a small-scale ceramics production and design studio.
Feb. 23, 2021
#46: Sarah McAllister of GoCleanCo – Building a Cleaning Army of nearly 2M Instagram followers
Sarah McAllister is the Founder, Director and CEO of GoCleanCo, a widely sought after cleaning company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Feb. 18, 2021
BONUS: Pat Flynn interviews me on SPI 460!
The Easy Way to Start Freelancing Now to Make Money and Change Your Life
Feb. 16, 2021
#45: Jess Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs of Lemonada Media
Turning life's lemons into lemonade, one podcast at a time
Feb. 9, 2021
#44: Jordan Harbinger – The secret to effective sales, dating, and hosting a popular podcast
Jordan Harbinger is a Wall Street lawyer turned podcast interviewer with an approachable style and knack for securing high-profile guests.
Feb. 2, 2021
#43: Emily Clouse – Our podcast illustrator talks drawing, breaking into comedy, and our childhood
Emily Clouse is a Los Angeles-based comedy writer and cartoonist who illustrates this show!
Jan. 26, 2021
#42: Alex Cattoni – From behind-the-scenes copywriter to front-of-camera YouTuber
Alex Cattoni is a copywriter, marketer, and the founder of The Copy Posse, where she teaches people to become freelance copywriters.
Jan. 19, 2021
#41: Tim Urban – Why the author of Wait But Why focuses on quality over consistency
Tim Urban is the writer of the blog Wait But Why. Tim writes about topics including artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, alien life, the size of the universe, and more.
Jan. 12, 2021
#40: Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions
The evil genius of Unnecessary Inventions creates products no one is asking for
Jan. 5, 2021
#39: Chris McAlister – Meet my business and creative coach
Chris McAlister is the founder of SightShift, a company that helps ambitious people be courageous and kind.