Season 1
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Feb. 8, 2022
#90: Wes Kao – Should you teach a cohort-based course?
Wes Kao is co-founder of Maven, the first platform for cohort-based courses. She also co-founded the altMBA with Seth Godin.
Jan. 25, 2022
#89: Hrishikesh Hirway – From full-time musician to Song Exploder and back again
Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and podcast creator. He’s the host and creator of Song Exploder, an award-winning podcast and a Netflix original television series, where musicians break down the creative process behind their songs.
Jan. 18, 2022
#88: Tori Dunlap – Building an audience of millions on TikTok with Her First $100K
After saving $100,000 at age 25, Tori quit her corporate job in marketing and founded Her First $100K to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money.