Backstage Careers
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBackstage Careers is a podcast where I interview the linchpins who are working behind the scenes with some of the biggest entrepreneurs and creators out there.My goal with the podcast is to show you what it's like working with these influential people, and how you can land a job working for someone you look up to.
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The 18-Year-Old Who Blew Up Andrew Schulz’ TikTok (0 to 1M Followers in 3 Months)
March 14, 2024 16:08 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBAt 18 years old, @Chifftie was working the night shift at home depot. Then he won @TheAndrewSchulz clip editing competition and got offered an internship. Next thing you know, Chifftie was on a one-way flight to New York City for the craziest adventure of his life. In this interview he tells that crazy story and everything he’s learned from Andrew Schulz along the way. 📈 Check out the special effects and subtitles Chifftie uses to edit Andrew Schulz' TikTok clips: https://chiffpacks.co...
How I Get Paid $10,000/Month To Get Mentored By Successful People | Danny Miranda
February 05, 2024 15:44 - 1 hour - 77.8 MB🎙️🗣️Check out Danny's 'Art of Interviewing' Course: https://artofinterviewing.com/ (Use Code "Jeremy" for 10% off) Today I talk to Danny Miranda, a 28-year old with a Microphone and a big dream: to one day become the first podcaster to sell out Madison Square Garden. 3 years ago he started a podcast in his bedroom with 0 listeners, and today his podcast has gotten over a million downloads, and he’s landed legendary guests like Alex Hormozi, Andy Frisella, and Seth Godin. In this episode y...
$1,000,000/Year Making Cartoons On YouTube | Oliver Gilpin
January 23, 2024 18:11 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MB📺 Watch the episode on YouTube if you want to see all the screen recordings: https://youtu.be/SRQtZeP_bj0 Oliver Gilpin is a British entrepreneur, building Telos Media. A holding company scaling a new YouTube channel every month. With the creative vision of his business partner Alvaro Calmet - they've gone from 0 to 10M subs in 2.5 years, earning $1m per year, with 90 team members. In this episode, I talk to him about: 1. How he runs so many channels without being involved with any of the...
How Andrew Kirby Made $1,000,000 On YouTube By Age 21
July 26, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB⏲️ Timestamps bellow 👇 This is part 2 of my 2 part interview with @AndrewKirbys where we dive into Andrew's Backstory. In Part 1 I ask Andrew how he took @Hamza97 from $20,000 to $200,000/month in under 30 days: https://youtu.be/I6ya9pe94zU ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode I talk to Andrew Kirby who at only 23 years old has grown a Youtube channel to 600k subscribers, made his first million, retired from YouTube, and who’s now spending all of his time helping other creators grow a...
How I Took Hamza From $20,000 → $200,000/month in 30 days
July 14, 2023 17:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB⏲️ Timestamps bellow 👇 💸 If you have a YouTube channel with +100,000 subscribers, apply to work with Andrew here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aS4j7pEkqJ_99sySVOJIp5VW2TG7TosdGztyw7u8ppw 📲 Follow @backstagecareers on Instagram to get clips & highlights from the latest episodes: https://www.instagram.com/backstagecareers/ Today I talk to Andrew Kirby who at only 23 years old has grown a Youtube channel to 600k subscribers, made his first million, retired from YouTube, and who’s now spe...
Why I Quit YouTube After Hitting 900,000 Subscribers | Jamie Rawsthorne From The Zack & Jay Show
May 27, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Today I talk to Jamie Rawsthorne who at 25 had grown a YouTube channel to 900,000 subscribers (The Zack & Jay Show) with his best friend Zack. They were getting paid +$300k to make videos sneaking into some of the world’s most exclusive events. But something wasn’t right with the YouTube fast life. Jamie started feeling burnt out and one day he decided to drop everything and move to Mexico to become a YouTube consultant instead My...
How Noah Morris Make $100,000/Month On YouTube At 19
April 30, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 📧 Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive job opportunities to work with your favorite creators and entrepreneurs: https://sendfox.com/jeremyjohnmary 🖥️ Check out Noah's Course NexLev: http://nexlev.io ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Today I talk to Noah Morris who at only 19 years old is running 20+ profitable YouTube channels that are making him around $1M/year. He’s able to do that by building teams that run the channels for him… let’s find out how he does it...
Behind The Scenes Of A 6 Million Subscriber YouTube Channel with Charisma On Command's COO
April 06, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 📧 Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive job opportunities to work with your favorite creators and entrepreneurs: https://sendfox.com/jeremyjohnmary ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Ivan Hidalgo sold his marketing agency for $3 million when he was just 21 to go work with the guys behind the Charisma On Command YouTube channel. As the COO he's helped to grow the channel into a $3 million/year business in just 5 years. In this episode we talk about the massive o...
Ryan Holiday's Research Assistant Reveals NYT Bestseller Formula
March 03, 2023 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 📧 Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive job opportunities to work with your favorite creators and entrepreneurs: https://sendfox.com/jeremyjohnmary ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Billy Oppenheimer is Ryan Holiday’s book research assistant. Over the last 4 years Billy helped Ryan write 3 best selling books: Stillness is the key, Discipline is destiny, and Courage is calling. Today’s episode we’re going to dive into the exact strategy that he used to land his d...
Airrack’s Producer Reveals The Secrets Behind 10M Subscribers
December 13, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 🚨 Apply for the 6-week Backstage Careers coaching program to land a job with your favorite creator: https://pullv8zgme5.typeform.com/to/d3DZ4Wza 📧 Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive job opportunities to work with your favorite creators and entrepreneurs: https://sendfox.com/jeremyjohnmary ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Today I talk to Hayden Trowbridge, the 20-year-old YouTube producer behind Airrack’s viral videos. His job is literally to take Airrack’s ...
The Man Behind Ali Abdaal’s $5 Million YouTube Empire
November 10, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 75 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 🚨 Apply for the 6-week Backstage Careers coaching program to land a job with your favorite creator: https://pullv8zgme5.typeform.com/to/d3DZ4Wza 📧 Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive job opportunities to work with your favorite creators and entrepreneurs: https://sendfox.com/jeremyjohnmary ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Today I talk to Ali Abdaal’s general manager, Angus Parker. Angus literally runs Ali’s $5M/year business, and manages the team of 13 peopl...
The Man Who’s Spent $40,000,000 On YouTube Ads For Info Marketers | Brian Moncada
October 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 In this episode I talk with Brian Moncada, the man behind some of the biggest YouTube Ads in the info business space who's spent over $40,000,000 on Ads over the course of his career as a marketer. The crazy part is that only 4 years ago, Brian was still a door to door salesman who was struggling to make ends meet. But then he decided that he needed to go work for a mentor; Someone who had already built a successful business and could teach him to do ...
The Man Behind GaryVee's TikTok Growth AND Alex Hormozi’s Content Strategy | Caleb Ralston
August 24, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB⏱ Time stamps for the episode below 👇 In this episode I talk with Caleb Ralston who worked with Gary Vaynerchuk between 2018 and 2020 and who recently was hired by Alex and Leila Hormozi to run their content. Caleb was initially editing and shooting Gary’s daily vlog, but when Gary started going hard on TikTok he asked him to own the strategy and content creation for the platform and Caleb took Gary’s TikTok account from 300,000 followers to 1.5M. Today, Caleb just started working with Al...
How Charlie Hoehn Landed His Dream Job With Tim Ferriss at 24 (& What It Was Like)
July 11, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB📧 Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive job opportunities to work with your favorite creators and entrepreneurs: https://sendfox.com/jeremyjohnmary ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode I talk to Charlie Hoehn who’s worked with a couple influential figures, like Ramit Sethi, Tucker Max, but most notably he was the assistant and later "director of special projects" for Tim Ferriss. This is a very special episode for me since Charlie is the guy who inspired me to embark on this journey of a...
Paddy Galloway On Working With MrBeast & Making +$50k/Month From YouTube Consulting
June 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBIn this episode I talk to Paddy Galloway who’s by far the best YouTube consultant I know of in the industry. He worked for MrBeast for a little bit before deciding to focus full time on his YouTube consultancy. If you’re interested in the business of YouTube consulting and want to find out about all the different career opportunities there are working behind the scenes working with people like MrBeast you’re going to want to stick around for this one. SHOW NOTES: 00:00 Teaser 02:01 Intro...
How Stephen Shedletzky Got A Job With Simon Sinek
June 10, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBIn this episode I talk to Stephen Shedletzky who’s been working closely with Simon Simon over the last 10 years! He went from answering customer support emails for Simon to becoming the chief of staff for his company. Today Stephen is one of the star speakers for the company and he’s also working on his own book which will be coming out in the fall of 2023. SHOW NOTES: 00:00 Stephen Shedletzky's origin story 11:30 Losing his job at Ernst & Young to focus on coaching 15:00 The email form...
From $0 To $30,000/Month On YouTube In 12 Months | A YouTube Masterclass By Leon Hendrix
March 22, 2022 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBThis episode is a little different because I'm not interviewing someone who works behind the scenes like I usually do, but someone who's very much on the front stage himself. His name is Leon Hendrix, and he's a good friend of mine who started a personal development YouTube channel a little over a year ago. In that short period of time he's managed to grow his channel past 250k subscribers and he's making a solid income from it. In this episode, we go deep on the business of YouTube and ho...
Andrew Yang's 16-Year-Old Campaign Photographer
March 13, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIn today's episode, I spoke with @Lucas Kult-Banout who at only 16 years old, became Andrew Yang's campaign photographer. This guy is a networking ninja, and I'm not surprised at all that he's gone so far at such a young age. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Lucas! SHOW NOTES: 00:00 How Lucas started his career At 16 years old 03:10 the 1st step to becoming a political photographer 11:00 Starting his journey with Andrew Yang 21:50 How he became obsessed with photography 24:00 ge...
Meet The Right Hand Man Who Manages Gary Vaynerchuk's Life
March 08, 2022 14:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBIn this episode I talk to Tyler Schmitt who worked as Gary Vaynerchuk's personal assistant from 2016 to 2020 and whose gone on to manage a team of 50+ as the General Manager of 137pm -one of the media brands under the VaynerX umbrella. This is an interesting episode where we cover a lot of ground,I hope you enjoy it! SHOW NOTES: 01:00 Background story of Tyler 04:10 Starting to work at vaynermedia 05:15 Getting a job with AJ Vaynerchuk 12:45 The first week after getting the job 18:05 Fr...
How This 24-Year-Old Makes $50,000/Month As A YouTube Consultant
February 15, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBIn today's episode I'm talking to Jeremy Stickney (@jeremy.stickney) who's Evan Carmichael's right hand man and business partner. What's fascinating about Jeremy's story, is that he started working for Evan for free while he was still working at his local grocery story. Within 6 months of working together, they started a YouTube Consulting business. Today, Jeremy's making more money in a month than most Americans make in a year. So if you're interested in working with one of the people yo...
How To Find Your Purpose By Working For Your Mentors — Bryan Wish
February 08, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBIn this episode I talk to Bryan Wish (@bryanwish_)the founder of BW Missions who's worked with a bunch of best selling authors to help them launch their books and build a movement around their book launches. To give you an example, one of his clients is Nir Eyal the bestselling author of "Hooked: how to build habit forming products." Bryan has an incredible story of how he finally found his passion after years of therapy, self reflection and experimentation and he has a lot of lessons to ...
Meet The Million Dollar Man Behind Airrack — Zack Honarvar
February 01, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBIn this episode I talk to Zack Honarvar (@ZackHonarvar) who's the business manager for not 1 but 2 HUGE YouTube channels you might know of: Airrack and Yes Theory. He also manages the cheeky boyos, 2 Tiktokers who have over 10M followers on the platform. What's unique about Zack's management style is that instead of managing a dozen clients, he's decided to manage only 3 and go all in on them. That allows him to go beyond the basic brand deals and merch drops, and instead partner up with...
Meet The Intrapreneur Who's Running Alex Hormozi's Companies
January 20, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBCale Owen is the general manager at Gym Launch, a $30M/year info business that helps mom and pop gyms get customers and grow into million dollar businesses. We start the interview by talking about Cale's background being homeschooled, playing as a professional baseball player in the MLB and opening up his own gym, and the impact those have had on his overall career. But if you're mostly interested in the nitty gritty details about Gym Launch's business operations and sales funnels, and wha...
How This 20-Year-Old Found His Business Mentor Using His Podcast
January 09, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBIn today's episode I talk to Brandon Zhang (@brandonthezhang) who at 19 years old, landed an apprenticeship with Jack Butcher from Visualize Value. Like a lot of the guests on this show, Brandon didn't just apply to be an apprentice, in fact there was no job opening. It all started when Jack agreed to be interviewed on his podcast... In this episode, we dive deep into the strategies that Brandon used to convince Jack Butcher to come on his small podcast, but also how he transformed a simpl...
How This 25 Year Old Got Mentored By Naval Ravikant And "The All In" Guys
November 06, 2021 23:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBIn today's episode I'm talking to Henry Belcaster (@HenryBelcaster on Twitter) who works behind the scenes with an impressive list of A-list entrepreneurs: He's working with: 1) the "All In Podcast" besties (Jason Calcanis, Chamath, David Sachs, Friedberg.. you know them), 2) Naval Ravikant, 3) Sam Parr and Shaan Puri from the My First Million Podcast, 4) Hassan Minaj... and a bunch of other cool clients! If you want to work with your dream mentors while growing your own business at the sa...
#18 How A 23 Year Old Got Hired By The Founder Of Bleacher Report
September 13, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBIn today's episode I talk to Nejc (@heynejc on Twitter) who's currently working behind the scenes with Dave Nemetz the founder of Bleacher Report (a media company that sold for $175M in 2012). Nejc is Dave's right hand man when it comes to producing and growing his personal brand -and we'll go into detail about what that means exactly. SHOW NOTES: 03:32 How Nejc's desire to work in the US started 07:05 The exact strategy Nejc used to get in touch with Nir Eyal (best selling author of Ho...
#17 Chris Hladczuk on Apprenticing For Shaan Puri And Growing His Twitter Following From 0 To 56,000 in 12 months
August 03, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBIn this episode I talk to Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad on Twitter) who popped on my radar last year when he became Shaan Puri's apprentice. Shaan is the founder of Bebo (acquired by Twitch for $25,000,000 in 2019). Chris was still a senior at Yale when he landed the job and throughout his apprenticeship he worked with Shaan to research and ghostwrite twitter threads and newsletters to grow Shaan's audience. In the process he also grew his own Twitter following from 0 to 56,000 followers. Her...
#17 Chris Hladczuk on Ghost Writing Tweets For Shaan Puri And Growing His Twitter Following From 0 To 56,000 in 12 months
August 03, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBIn this episode I talk to Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad on Twitter) who popped on my radar last year when he became Shaan Puri's apprentice. Shaan is the founder of Bebo (acquired by Twitch for $25,000,000 in 2019). Chris was still a senior at Yale when he landed the job and throughout his apprenticeship he worked with Shaan to research and ghostwrite twitter threads and newsletters to grow Shaan's audience. In the process he also grew his own Twitter following from 0 to 56,000 followers. Her...
#16 Tam Pham on Dropping Out Of College To Apprentice Under 3 World-Class Entrepreneurs (Sam Parr, Andrew Warner, and Jason Gaignard)
July 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBTam Pham is pretty much the perfect guest for this podcast.. He dropped out of college and instead of pursuing a traditional path he decided that he wanted to go learn business from the entrepreneurs he looked up to. He's apprenticed under 3 world class entrepreneurs that you might have heard of: 1) Sam Parr founder of the Hustle 2) Andrew Warner who's the host and founder of Mixergy 3) Jason Gaignard who's a master networker, event organizer, and best selling author (I first heard of him...
#15 Head of Sales at Consulting.com On How To Earn a $500,000 Salary Working Behind The Scenes
July 12, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBIn this episode I talk to David Draey who's the head of sales a Consulting.com a $30M/year educational business helping experts start and scale their business. David joined consulting.com in 2018 and he's since become so valuable to the business that he was made a co-owner. Here are a couple of things you might enjoy from this episode: 1) How David ended up in sales and why it might be a good fit for you. 2) How to be become so good at your job that you work yourself into becoming a partn...
#14 Dan Lok's Director of Media & Marketing on Growing an 8 Figure Business and Growing a YouTube Channel to 3 Million Subscribers
June 29, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBGabe Saldarriaga is the Chief Revenue Officer and Director of Media & Marketing for the Dan Lok organization. He's been a key asset behind the growth of Dan Lok's business and social media presence over the last 4 years. He helped grow the business to 8 figures in revenue, and he's largely responsible for growing Dan Lok's YouTube channel from a couple thousand subscribers to over 3 Million subscribers!!
#13 Tom Boyd on Working with Pharrell Williams & Scooter Braun, Babysitting Justin Bieber, and Co-Writing a Multi-Platinum Song
June 08, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBTom Boyd has a fascinating background working in the music industry. He was Asher Roth's collaborative partner and he played a key role in his rise to fame. In the process he worked with big names like Pharrell Williams, Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun to name just a few. Today Tom is the head of content production at Jimmy Buffett's billion dollar brand Margaritaville and on the side he's creating his own content to help creators unlock their creative power, tell better stories and build ...
From Watching “The Secret” to Working With Everyone in The Movie
April 22, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBAnton started his career in social media working with Logan Paul's team and then went on to start his own social media agency working with clients like Dr. Joe Dispenza in the spiritual space helping them reach millions of people on social media. As he's scaled his agency, he's also been able to spend more time on his second passion which is teaching people how to use breath work to overcome trauma. 03:46 How Anton was making $2k/month while he was still in high school 08:15 Anton though...
How I Got A Job as Tom Bilyeu's Social Media Manager (with no experience)
April 08, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBUsually I'm in the interviewer seat, but for this episode of Backstage Careers my good friend Tom Boyd is taking over to ask me a couple questions about working behind the scenes with Tom Bilyeu and Noah Kagan. I got a job as Tom Bilyeu's social media manager in 2018 and worked with him at Impact Theory for 2 year. After that I joined @Noah Kagan 's team to help him produce and grow his YouTube channel. SHOW NOTES: 04:40 A little bit of my backstory before I was working with Tom Bilyeu 09...
Behind the Scenes of Logan Paul's Podcast with Brad Denham
March 29, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBIn today's episode I talk to Brad Denham who went from bailing hay in Indiana to working with Jay Shetty and Logan Paul to produce their podcast. SHOW NOTES: 01:25 Brad’s background and story 03:27 Helping Gary Vaynerchuk set up his podcast studio 6:12 How getting banned from Upwork started Brad's podcasting career 8:20 The strategy Brad used to land his first podcast clients 10:20 How Brad landed the founder of IndieHackers as a client and what was it like working with him 17:00 Why persi...
Employee #1 at Consulting.com on Growing from $0 to $26M in 2 Years
March 22, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIn today's episode I talk to Nick Fisher who was employee #1 at Consulting.com -one of the most successful courses for entrepreneurs online with over 20,000 active students. Before that he was the marketing director at Clever Investor which he helped grow from $5 to $16M/year. A couple fun facts about Nick: 1) He's spent over $15M in Ads on Facebook and YouTube throughout his career, and has generated over $87M in online course sales 2) He landed his first marketing director job by retar...
The Research Assistant That Helped Mark Manson Sell +11 Million Books
March 15, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBIn today's episode I talk to Drew Birnie whose the content manager, book marketer and research assistant for Mark Manson, the best selling author of The Subtle Art of not giving a fuck. Together they've sold over 11 Million Books! SHOW NOTES: 0:00 How Drew got to know Mark Manson 05:00 What Drew was doing before he met Mark 8:24 On living in Warren Buffett's neighborhood 11:37 How Drew got a job as a research assistant with Mark 17:15 What made Drew stand out from 700+ applicants 24:00 Ho...
How Josh got a Job with GaryVee through IG DMs
March 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBJosh Ordonez is a social media marketer who worked behind the scenes with people like Gary Vaynerchuk & Lonzo Ball while he was still in college. Today he runs his own social media marketing agency. SHOW NOTES: 01:45 How Josh's social media marketing career got started? 03:40 How he started working with Big Baller Brand and what that was like? 15:38 The Instagram DM strategy that Josh used to reach out to famous people and get social media gigs? 19:34 Why Josh stayed in college even thou...
The Man Behind the Tim Ferriss x Jamie Foxx Podcast Episode
February 28, 2021 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBIn this episode of Backstage Careers I talk to Richard Reis, whose the founder of a fast growing website called MostRecommendedBooks.com He's also one of the most connected people I know: He's good friends with Jamie Foxx, regularly plays soccer with Ronaldo, and he's been invited to Drake's house parties. Here are the show notes: 01:23 - Why Richard decided to drop out of college to go start a movie studio with his dad 05:56 His day to day responsibilities working on building the movie st...
The Creative Director Behind Jesse Itzler's Social Media Account
February 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBIn today's episode I talk to Amanda McCreight who's the Creative Director for Jesse Itzler and his brands. She's also worked with Yes Theory on a clothing collaboration that dropped at the end of last year. Amanda and I talk about: How she got introduced to Jesse Itzler (03:05), How Amanda landed a job with with Jesse (06:05), How to develop the skills to help you land your first job with an entrepreneur (15:23), The story of Amanda’s first day working for Jesse and moving into his family's...
Noah Kagan's Entrepreneur in Residence - David Kelly
February 07, 2021 18:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBIn today's episode I talk to David Kelly who's the General Manage of AppSumo Originals -which is kind of AppSumo's version of a Google X division. He basically gets paid to start companies! In today's episode you'll hear: How David's first job was managing a $50k ad budget for Fox News (3:42), How he got a job working as a copywriter for Ramit Sethi (6:27), How to land a job with someone you look up to when you have no experience (9:45), How David leveraged LinkedIn to land a job as the fir...
The Producer Behind Naval Ravikant's Podcast
February 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBJason Sanderson is the producer behind podcasts such as The Naval Podcast, The Jordan Harbinger Show, Noah Kagan Presents to name just a few. In this conversation we talk about: *How he started his career as a "tea boy" for a punk rock music studio *The story of how he bought a church and turned it into a music studio *How he got his first big podcast client by offering to help for free *What it's like working with Naval and the other influential people he works with *How you can start an a...
Tom Bilyeu's Personal Copywriter
January 27, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBIn episode #3 of backstage careers I talk to my good friend Gerald Xavier who worked as Tom Bilyeu's copywriter. Bookmarks: 1:52 How Gerald Got His Foot in the Door at Impact Theory with a Tweet to Tom Bilyeu 13:15 Why Gerald worked for free for 6 months 30:11 How Gerald finally got a full time position at Impact Theory 36:40 The biggest lessons Gerald learned from working with Tom Bilyeu 55:29 Why Gerald left Impact Theory after 9 months 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for short clips of the int...
The Art Director Behind Impact Theory's Comic Division
January 21, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 100 MBIn this episode of Backstage Career I talk to David Kim who’s the junior art director at Impact Theory. He works directly with co-founder and CEO Tom Bilyeu to create intellectual property (stories, characters, worlds) that will eventually be turned into movies and shows for Hollywood. David joined Impact Theory as an intern back in 2018, and today he's a junior art director leading the digital comic division. Bookmarks: 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for short clips of the interviews: https://w...
How Tony Landed His Dream Job Editing Videos For Thomas Frank (+2M Subscribers on YouTube)
January 16, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBTony is a self-taught video editor who's currently the producer behind Thomas Frank's YouTube channel -one of the biggest YouTubers in the productivity niche. Here are 3 big things you'll enjoy from this conversation: 1) The "stairstep strategy" you can use if you want to work with big creators 2) What it's like working with big YouTubers like Thomas Frank 3) A bunch of "YouTube job opportunities" that no one knows about Follow Tony online 👇 On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr6...