Season 1
Sept. 14, 2021
#72: Jason Feifer – The Editor In Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine on making time for your own projects
Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, a podcast host, book author, keynote speaker, startup advisor, and nonstop optimism machine.
Sept. 7, 2021
#71: Steph Smith – Generating thousands of sales on Gumroad (with a side project!)
Steph Smith is a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She's the creator of two books, Doing Content Right and Doing Time Right.
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.
Aug. 17, 2021
#69: Jack Rhysider – 300,000 downloads per episode as an indie podcaster
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.
Aug. 10, 2021
#68: Roberto Blake – The story behind 12 years, 531K+ subscribers, and nearly 35 million views on YouTube
Roberto Blake is dedicated to building the Creator Economy. He’s focused on helping Creators and Influencers build brands and businesses online.
Aug. 3, 2021
#67: Gina Bianchini – Powering the business of community with Mighty Networks
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.
July 27, 2021
#66: Chris Sutherland – How a Physics professor built an audience of 2M+ followers on TikTok (in less than two years!)
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.
July 20, 2021
#65: Austin Kleon – 10 years as a full-time writer and stealing like an artist
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.
July 13, 2021
#64: Charli Marie Prangley - Building a YouTube Channel with 200K subscribers (on the side!)
Charli Marie Prangley is the creator of the YouTube Channel CharlieMarieTV.
June 29, 2021
#63: Jay Acunzo – How to tell great stories with a professional speaker and veteran podcaster
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.
June 22, 2021
#62: Jay Clouse (interviewed by Ryan Hawk!) – Turning the tables for a crossover episode with The Learning Leader Show
Today is a special crossover episode. Last week, I interviewed the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, Ryan Hawk.
June 15, 2021
#61: Ryan Hawk – How a top podcaster approaches outreach, interviewing, and prioritizing new projects
Ryan Hawk is a keynote speaker and the host of the Learning Leader Show.
June 8, 2021
#60: Brennan Dunn – Combining personalization and automation for next-level email marketing
Brennan Dunn is the creator of Double Your Freelancing, RightMessage, and Mastering ConvertKit.
June 1, 2021
#59: Mignon Fogarty – Making the case for shorter podcasts with a Podcasting Hall of Famer and New York Times best-selling author
Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl.
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."