Season 1

Aug. 23, 2022

#114: Kat Norton aka Miss Excel – Engineering virality and earning more than $100,000 in a single day

Kat Norton energetically teaches Microsoft Excel to individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.
Guest: Kat Norton
Aug. 16, 2022

#113: Austin Belcak – From zero job offers to attracting 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn

Austin Belcak is the founder of Cultivated Culture, which people how to land jobs they love without “traditional” experience and without applying online.
Guest: Austin Belcak
Aug. 9, 2022

#112: Thomas Frank – Getting nerdy about YouTube and why he created a second channel

Thomas is a YouTuber, podcaster, and author who helps people become more capable and productive.
Guest: Thomas Frank
Aug. 2, 2022

#111: Chris Do – From running a multimillion dollar design agency to becoming a multimillion dollar creator

Chris Do is the founder of The Futur and CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind, a Brand Strategy Design Consultancy.
Guest: Chris Do
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 12, 2022

#108: Justin Moore – How to get brand deals and why they are underrated

Justin Moore is a Sponsorship Coach & the founder of Creator Wizard, a school & community that teaches you how to find & negotiate your dream brand deals so that you stop leaving thousands on the table.
Guest: Justin Moore
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
June 28, 2022

#106: Bop-It Inventor Dan Klitsner – How to create and commercialize games

Dan Klitsner is the inventor of Bop It and more than a dozen different versions of Bop It since 1996.
Guest: Dan Klitsner
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 24, 2022

#104: Ask Creator Science

Answering 12 listener questions submitted on Twitter
Guest: Jay Clouse
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 pro…
Guest: Tiago Forte
May 3, 2022

#101: Arvid Kahl – From SaaS founder to full-time creator

Arvid Kahl sold his SaaS company, FeedbackPanda, and is now a full-time creator as an author and course creator
Guest: Arvid Kahl
April 26, 2022

#100: My Story and Reflecting on 100 Episodes of Creative Elements

Why I love podcasting, where the idea for Creative Elements came from, how I’m structuring my business today, and some of the most memorable guests in the first 100 episodes
Guest: Jay Clouse
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 12, 2022

#98: Jay-Talking about Memberships with Jay Acunzo

Discussing our different approaches to launching a membership program
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
Guest: Dickie Bush
March 29, 2022

#96: Nathan Barry – from $150K/yr in ebooks to $30M in ARR with ConvertKit

Investigating trends of the creator economy with the CEO of ConvertKit
Guest: Nathan Barry
March 22, 2022

#95: Josh Hall – from freelance web design to professional creator earning $300K/year

Josh Hall is a YouTuber, course creator, and web design coach specializing in WordPress and Divi.
Guest: Josh Hall
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 bus…
Guest: Codie Sanchez
Feb. 22, 2022

#92: Cathryn Lavery – From Kickstarter to global 8-figure e-commerce business

Cathryn Lavery is the Founder & CEO of BestSelf. Since 2013 she's designed, launched and sold over $32 Million in consumer products.
Feb. 15, 2022

#91: Mariah Sinclair – How the "Queen of Cozy" began designing covers for cozy mystery novels

Now known as the “Queen of Cozy,” Mariah’s clients regularly dominate the top of the cozy mystery charts on Amazon.