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I Make a Living

85 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings

What does making a living mean to you? Every entrepreneur answers this question differently, and we want to hear them all. On this show, our host Damona Hoffman talks to today’s most successful entrepreneurs about what it means to carve your own path, define success on your own terms, and build a business that brings you satisfaction. We’re interested in every aspect of being your own boss: The upsides, the downsides, and everything in between.

This season, on top of full-length episodes, we’re nerding out with Thursday Nerdisodes: Not your typical business podcast episode. These mini-episodes focus on the technical aspects of running a business. Listen in for tactical strategies, tips and insights that you can action right away into your own business venture.

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Episodes

Launching an Amazing Service with Alli Webb (Season Finale)

August 23, 2021 15:43 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB

Alli Webb was always interested in beauty, starting from her roots as a curly-haired kid growing up in South Florida. She says that going to beauty school was “one of the best decisions I ever made,” and Drybar, her ultra-popular chain of hairstyling studios, definitely proves her point. While she says she spent her childhood as a people-pleaser—”a wallflower, if I’m honest”—she’s grown into herself as a business owner and service expert. Alli spent her 20s in New York City, doing PR and st...

Keeping Your Cool In Business: Natasha Case, Coolhaus

August 16, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

If your memories of ice cream are mostly from childhood, Natasha Case would like a word. Her company, Coolhaus, is bringing sweet icy desserts into the millennial mindset: she launched at Coachella back in 2009, and Coolhaus’s 2021 lineup includes mouth-watering flavours like cereal milk, cannoli, and churros, all delivered in cute illustrated packaging.    Before she even got started, Natasha wanted to “change the game” when it came to ice cream and who it was for. Freya, Natasha’s wife a...

Starting a Business as a Teenager With Ben Towers

August 09, 2021 17:31 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

Chances are that your entrepreneurial idols were born after the turn of the millennium, but Ben Towers is here to change that. He’s been working since before his twelfth birthday, getting his start on web design projects for friends and family before launching into the stratosphere: we’re talking British Royal Family, angel investment, and consultancies with companies like GSK and IHG. In 2015, he was named to The Time’s Superteens list, and since then, he’s only gotten more polished in his ...

How To Tell Your Story While Making a Living with Erin Bagwell

August 03, 2021 15:22 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

Trigger Warning: this episode discusses postpartum depression and briefly mentions suicidal thoughts.  When Erin Bagwell decided to turn to Kickstarter to get her movie off the ground, she didn’t expect to raise over $100K in 30 days, but that’s exactly what happened. Erin’s movie, Dream, Girl, is about the real-life experiences of ten New York City-based female entrepreneurs, and it turns out audiences were hungry for this type of story. Erin watched as women who were longtime experts in t...

Growth and Giving Back with Josh Temple

July 26, 2021 15:04 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MB

Most contractors get their big break with a high-profile job or a great referral. For Josh Temple, his breakthrough moment was going national on Mazda’s first-ever “Zoom-Zoom” commercial. Josh was a contractor by day, but when a receptionist at his first construction company told him he should try out sketch comedy, he fell in love with improv. His path then became a bit wilder than your average home renovator. “If you get a national commercial, you’re at least buying a car,” he laughs. Josh...

Nerdisode #7- Beating Imposter Syndrome with Emily Thompson

July 23, 2021 13:12 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MB

Make Rejection Fun- Turn the icky feelings into a game and change your mindset about the negative  approach to them. Get Comfortable with Yourself - Define what confidence means to you, identify your personal values and live them daily! Check Your Vibes- What relationships are you surrounding yourself with, what decisions are you making about work, life and the space that surrounds you. All of these elements directly impact your mood and your confidence when dealing with negative feelings...

Bridging the Burnout Gap with Emily Thompson

July 19, 2021 14:49 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB

Emily Thompson’s experience starting the Being Boss podcast in 2015 is a strong argument for why you should always plan for success. She and her “business bestie” Kathleen Shannon started the podcast as a way of taking the conversations they were having about their businesses and being entrepreneurs into the public realm—and if they happened to promote their respective branding agency and web design shop in the meantime, well then, hey: that’s a bonus!  But a few months in and they were alr...

Tech Evolution with Sanjay Parekh

July 12, 2021 14:28 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

If your business ideas have ever been more of an airball than a total slam dunk, take heart: you are not alone. Sanjay Parekh is known for being ahead of the game as an entrepreneur, but even he’s had off-days. Take Pizza Impulse, his idea for pizza delivery that relied on random demand, random supply, and push messaging. His sales total on that project was a whopping two pizza pies. “There have been stinkers like that over time, but with the stinkers, you learn a lot,” he laughs.  Of cours...

A Fearless Future with Rebecca Minkoff

July 05, 2021 12:24 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

For Jewish girls, the bat mitzvah is a pivotal moment of becoming a young adult and joining the adult community. For Rebecca Minkoff, who had been designing and sewing clothes since she was eight years old, the celebration was also a chance to showcase her fashion skills—and her “newly budding rack.” Pulling inspiration from the 1700s (think Bridgerton), Rebecca designed a square-necked, Empire-waist number that checked her boxes (and her parents made sure it stayed PG-13). For Rebecca, this...

Scaling a Digital Marketing Agency with Paddy Moogan

June 28, 2021 14:45 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

Most people go to Las Vegas hoping to shrug off the demands of work, but for Paddy Moogan, a trip with mates turned into a life-changing business opportunity. On a trip to Sin City, his friend approached him with a proposal: why not take Paddy’s expertise in digital marketing and launch their own agency, a shop where they could call the shots on everything from work culture to clients. “It felt like a good idea at the time to talk about starting a business together,” he says, and after takin...

Do Good, Make Money: Podcasting with JJ Ramberg

June 21, 2021 13:44 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

If you’ve ever started your exercise time by standing there for 20 minutes choosing a podcast, know that you are not alone. You are in the company of JJ Ramberg, who launched GoodPods to help curb that endless search for great podcasts by tapping into what your friends and favourite influencers are already listening to. “It’s like Goodreads for podcasts,” she explains, channelling the energy of the popular book recommendation site.  Before launching GoodPods, JJ—who was already a podcaster ...

Nerdisode #6- Pitching Your Business Like a Boss With Lisa Song Sutton

June 17, 2021 07:00 - 4 minutes - 4.12 MB

Everyone’s story matters! Lisa wants to know everything about the people pitching to her, from their business background to how many pets they have. And if you’re not the one running the day-to-day business, make sure to bring that person into your pitch strategy: she wants to meet them too.    Where do you want to end up? From passing on the business to your kids to selling in five years, make sure every co-founder is working towards the same long-term goals.    Stability is attractive. ...

Building a Diverse Portfolio with Lisa Song Sutton

June 14, 2021 11:39 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

Lisa Song Sutton describes herself as a “serial entrepreneur,” and her portfolio is proof. From Sin City Cupcakes—a boozy bakery she co-founded in 2012—to Ship Las Vegas, her mailbox and shipping stores across the city, Lisa’s portfolio is a truly diverse set of business assets. Add in her real estate sales team, not to mention a women’s swimwear and accessories e-commerce store, and we are wowed. Her goal is to build up lifestyle businesses to eventually graduate from running the day-to-day...

Nerdisode #5- Growing Your Social Media Audience with Nai the 'LABeautyologist'

June 10, 2021 15:12 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MB

On this week’s Nerdisode, Nayamka Roberts Smith, aka Nai, the labeautyologist, gives us her tried-and-true methods for building an authentic and engaged social media audience. Choose a social media avenue that plays to your strengths, and make sure you enjoy it. Want to blow up on Twitter? “You have to like tweeting! You have to talk a lot.” When the creative juices are flowing, do a brain dump; stash your great ideas for a day when you’re not in the mood to create. Repurpose your content...

Growing a Business on Social Media with Nai, aka LABeautyologist

June 07, 2021 12:40 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

Nai Roberts-Smith might be the mega-popular skincare expert labeautyologist these days, but like many entrepreneurs, she started in a dorm room. She was an amateur nail technician, complete with a wall of polish colours, and she would do nails for less than the price of lunch. “I had a group of friends who all did beauty services,” she says a barber, a few pals who did hair, and a league of friends acting as low-key brand ambassadors across campus.  When she left college, she joined a salon...

Nerdisode #4- Keep Your Clients On Budget with David Tutera

June 03, 2021 14:17 - 4 minutes - 4.46 MB

Earlier this week, mega-event planner and reality TV host David Tutera talked to us about his path to success; in our Nerdisode, he gives us the nitty-gritty on keeping his clients and team happy.  Which questions do you need to ask to get your client’s real budget? David uses his knowledge about wedding dress designers and DJs to strategically (and diplomatically) figure out how much his clients are willing to spend. Keep your clients in the loop on expenditures! Going over budget isn’t a...

Building a Resilient Business with David Tutera

May 31, 2021 12:20 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

We know that certain industries thrived during COVID—home renovations and online shopping, anyone?—but there’s no denying that some sectors took a major hit. We got a call from Eve, an event planner wondering how she can move forward post-pandemic. Well, we brought in the capital-E expert to answer Eve’s question.  David Tutera is best known as an event planner for the stars and reality TV show host. His full business is much more diverse, including industry training events, a partnership w...

Standing Out in a Crowded Field: Podcasting with Erica Mandy, The NewsWorthy

May 24, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

If you think television journalism is glamorous, Erica Mandy is here to set you straight. She started as a “one-woman band” in a small TV news market, where reporting on location often meant that she was the photographer, camera operator, writer, editor...all while also being the on-air journalist. “That weeds out the people who are in it just to be on TV,” she laughs, comparing her small-town news experience to “grad school” for TV journalists. Over the next seven years, she worked in succe...

Nerdisode #3- How to Find Inspiration with Morgan Harper Nichols

May 20, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutes - 7.05 MB

Mine your own life for inspiration! We bet you have at least a few photos on your phone that can prompt you to dig deeper into your own experiences.   What’s in your notes? Check your written records on WordCounter to reveal which ideas you keep coming back to. (Morgan checks her phone’s notes app monthly!)   Write your to-do list by hand. It’s an authentic record of what you’re thinking about, and sharing that with your community helps folks recognize themselves in you (and your four loa...

Creativity as a Way of Life with Morgan Harper Nichols

May 17, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

Morgan Harper Nichols might be the rarest bird in the entrepreneurial aviary: she was actually looking for a nine-to-five job when she started as an internet sensation. After a half-decade on the contemporary Christian music scene, she was tired of hustling. “It’s a hard industry to be in,” she says. She was looking for something more stable, but, she laughs, with an English degree, “there aren’t a ton of Indeed posts out there.” In 2016, she put her frustration into words, shared her perso...

Nerdisode #2- Carl Smith

May 13, 2021 07:00 - 5 minutes - 5.47 MB

In this week’s episode, we talked to Carl Smith from Bureau of Digital. In our I Make a Living Nerdisode, he gives us his top tips for building organic and authentic communities. Building community isn’t something you check off a list: it requires a commitment and a purpose to keep it going. Communities evolve to reflect their members’ needs: what you start with might not be what you end up with. When you’re scaling an intimate group into thousands of members, insist on a strong code of c...

Putting The Band Back Together- Carl Smith

May 10, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB

When Carl Smith’s eleven-year-old daughter started getting into classic rock like Joan Jett, she asked her dad how he wanted to be remembered. Carl had run his own digital agency nGen Works for twelve years, but his daughter’s questions about legacy made him realize his true passion was boosting other leaders into the stratosphere. “If you’re a leader, you probably didn’t go to school for that,” he says and gave himself the goal of figuring out how to help people in leadership roles unlock t...

Nerdisode #1- Bryan Clayton

May 06, 2021 07:00 - 6 minutes - 5.91 MB

Bryan Clayton, CEO and Founder of GreenPal and small-business mentor, gives his five best ideas for entrepreneurs and small-business owners: Bake in your marketing strategies from the earliest days of your business and plan on getting your solution out to your customers.   Spend time experimenting with marketing techniques, from organic SEO to social media channels, and figure out what works best for you.   Be honest: are people willing to pay for what you’re doing? Are they coming back f...

Treat Your Business Like a Video Game- Bryan Clayton

May 03, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB

In 1998, Bryan Clayton was one more 18 year old with a lawnmower, keeping his neighbour’s outdoor spaces nice and tidy. His marketing strategy wasn’t much more than a photocopied flyer. But over the next 15 years, his landscaping business—by then called Peach Tree—took on major corporate clients and grew to employ over 150 people and bring in more than $10M annually.  But going big meant that they were leaving behind the little guys. Peach Tree was past the point of taking on $30 homeowner ...

Funding Success with Crystal Evuleocha (Season Finale)

December 21, 2020 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB

For anyone who’s ever Googled a symptom, this episode goes out to you. Crystal Evuleocha, founder and CEO of Kiira, is a kindred spirit, but her self-diagnoses landed her in surgery after she didn’t know when to get help. Her experience led her to develop an app that connects college-age women with doctors they can trust. In a year where telemedicine took another leap forward, Kiira and Crystal were on the cutting edge.  In this week’s episode, we talk to Crystal about her experiences as a ...

Scaling Up a Business with Danny Kerr

December 14, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB

Get free BTA resources here: https://trybta.com/imal We know you’re awesome—what entrepreneur isn’t?—but do you know how to transform your awesome skills into a viable business? Danny Kerr is the co-founder of Breakthrough Academy, where he teaches tradespeople to scale up their business. They offer lessons on financial management, setting goals, recruiting and managing staff—all the beautiful administrative work you don’t see during a construction project.  A former “lost university child...

Creating a YouTube Sensation with Julie Nolke

December 07, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB

Guest- Julie Nolke “There’s no one path to success, and that’s what's really exciting.” If you’ve ever watched a YouTube video from a dedicated content creator and wondered exactly how they got there, you’re not alone. Julie Nolke is one such creator—a theatre school graduate who hustled at her day job and originally used her YouTube channel as a workshop space. She’s committed six years to her channel, doing everything from the acting and writing to the editing and ad selection. Her journe...

Good Space, Good Vibes with Inessa Freya

November 30, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB

“Is your space feeding you? Or is it getting in the way?” These are the kinds of questions Inessa Freya asks her clients. As both a psychotherapist and a feng shui expert, Inessa taps into her knowledge of how our spaces affect our mood and vice versa. In a year when we’re all spending more time than ever in our house, creating nourishing and fulfilling work-from-home environments are an investment in business success and good mental health.  We talk to Inessa about the surprising ways our ...

Freelancers Unite!- Rafael Espinal

November 23, 2020 14:03 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB

Rafael Espinal knows freelancing. His parents both moonlighted—as a photographer and a baker—and as part of the New York City Council, he helped pass the “Freelance Isn’t Free Act,” which allows NYC-based freelancers to tap into city support in resolving delinquent client payments. He’s also the youngest person to be elected to the New York State Assembly, and a former teacher. Now, as Executive Director of the Freelancers Union, he spends his days helping freelancers get organized, big pict...

Get Stressed Less with Ruth Elnekave

November 16, 2020 08:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MB

Join #IMakeALiving alum Elaine Pofeldt for our next webinar “Building A High-Revenue One-Person Business In Challenging Times” on November 19! Elaine and her four expert guests will walk us through fail-proofing your business and scaling revenue. The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of Elaine’s book “The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business.” Sign up today! Ruth Elnekave knows what stress is. After all, she’s got five different degrees and diplomas, ranging from an MBA to her che...

Get Less Stressed with Ruth Elnekade

November 16, 2020 08:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MB

Join #IMakeALiving alum Elaine Pofeldt for our next webinar “Building A High-Revenue One-Person Business In Challenging Times” on November 19! Elaine and her four expert guests will walk us through fail-proofing your business and scaling revenue. The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of Elaine’s book “The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business.” Sign up today! Ruth Elnekave knows what stress is. After all, she’s got five different degrees and diplomas, ranging from an MBA to her che...

Behind The Scenes with Bryan Baeumler

November 09, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB

FreshBooks is proud to be a Baeumler Approved partner. Check out their website  to learn more about joining the program or finding your next contractor through them! Bryan doesn't believe he's put in an honest day's work unless he gets his hands dirty! A natural-born teacher, the Gemini-award winning host has been educating and entertaining viewers across Canada and the US for over seven years on the hit shows House of Bryan, Disaster DIY, and Leave it to Bryan. Learning valuable tricks of...

Accounting Secrets and Strategic Planning- Twyla Verhelst

November 02, 2020 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

When times get tough (like, say, most of 2020), it can be easy to dismiss an accountant or a bookkeeper as a business frill. Let Twyla Verhelst change your mind. She’s the Head of FreshBooks’s Accountant Channel, and while she’s got a numbers background, her greatest strength is bridging the gap between small business owners and the accounting professionals who work with them. She’s a former start-up founder and one of Practice Ignition’s 2018 Top 50 Women in Accounting, and she’s “an entrep...

Fearless Networking and Tips on Working Better Together - Stefanie and Kalani Hubbard

October 26, 2020 07:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MB

Join us on October 27th for 'From Firm to Fintech: A Candid Conversation with Twyla Verhelst, FreshBooks & Will Lopez, Gusto' a webinar brought to you by FreshBooks! click HERE to Register! “We’re better together, and we go further together.” This is Kalani Hubbard talking about one of the perks of working with his wife Stefanie at their video production company Galaxy Visuals. Together, Kalani and Stefanie have worked on projects ranging from commercials to training videos; their most rece...

SEO Insights, Business Wisdom and Bolognese!- Rand Fishkin

October 19, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

“Your job is to make good decisions. Hopefully great decisions!” Rand Fishkin is one of the best SEO resources currently working: from his early days at Moz to the market research and audience intelligence firm SparkToro, to his popular Whiteboard Friday series, Fishkin knows how to max out marketing. These days, he's putting his considerable energy into helping small businesses thrive, and helping founders avoid the endless IPO chase. Fishkin started as a college dropout who went into busi...

Chasing Creativity with Farah Sosa and Fred Villanueva

October 12, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MB

We’re celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Farah Sosa and Fred Villanueva, a pair of artists and entrepreneurs who combine their creative passions with a social mission and culturally-driven values. As Sosa, a concert photographer in the midst of a COVID pivot, explains: “I like humans from all over the planet.” Sosa's recent project, portraits of music venues that have been shuttered during COVID, explores the vital energy of live performance spaces. Villaneuva takes a complementary ap...

Passion and Success with Mimi G.

October 05, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB

Mimi G doesn't have a typical success story, but you'd never know it from her four million social media followers or her million-dollar businesses (she has two of them!). Mimi is a former teen runaway and homeless single mom who turned her childhood interest in sewing into a thriving website, consulting business, and online learning hub. With Mimi G Style and Sew It! Academy, Mimi supports sewists of all levels in following their own design dreams. In this week's episode, Mimi tells us abou...

Working Together Against Racism- Antionette D. Carroll

September 28, 2020 07:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

“At the root of our work is education, civic engagement, youth leadership, and wrapping it up with a bow of creative problem-solving.” This is how Antionette D. Carroll explains her work on the Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit that trains Black and Latinx youth to redesign their own communities for better health and racial equity. We sit down with her to talk about Black Lives Matter, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and white supremacy, and how it all relates to entrepre...

Planning for Growth- Nicole Gibbons

September 21, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB

Nicole Gibbons wants to change how we make our homes beautiful. “My aspiration was to be the next Martha Stewart,” she says, and she's on her way. The former PR rep has leveraged years of networking, blogging, media experience, and PR savvy to launch Clare, a direct-to-consumer business selling interior paint. In this week's episode, Gibbons gives us behind-the-scenes access to how she landed an on-air hosting gig soon after leaving her day job (hint: it involves a lot of networking!), and ...

Authentic Entrepreneurship-Jack Phan

September 14, 2020 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

Welcome back to season three of I Make A Living! We're so excited to bring you another round of inspiring entrepreneurs and kick-butt creatives to help you figure out your path in this new normal. We're starting off with Jack Phan: investor, founder, advisor, and unexpected K-Pop influencer. Phan got his start in medical school, but a detour into telemarketing (that was supposed just for beer money) ended launching a whole new way of marketing home improvements. Phan now mentors entrepreneu...

Season 3- Trailer

September 08, 2020 07:00 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MB

In season 3, we are moving past survival mode and onto the future; a better and stronger business on the other side of a global pandemic. Each week you can listen to some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs guide you through the small business solutions of today.

Pride- Mina Gerges (Bonus Episode)

June 29, 2020 15:01 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB

From this episode, here are 3 ACTIONS to make your business more inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. If we’re looking to make lasting change, we need to continue the conversation around workplace intersectionality all the time - not just in reaction to current events. Encourage use of pronouns - not just for queer employees but for everyone Revise company policies - act in accordance with the law and your values on everything from workplace dress codes to hiring and firing...

BLM- Eric Williams (Bonus Episode)

June 10, 2020 15:03 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB

Guest- Eric Williams The Silver Room  

Terry O'Reilly-Master Class (Season Finale)

May 25, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

Some of us want to be Lay's Chips—national! popular! instant recognition!—but Terry O'Reilly thinks we could learn a few things from Utz, Baltimore's hometown favorite chip brand that outperforms Lay's by a huge margin. In other words: small can be excellent. Terry O'Reilly is the host of the marketing podcast Under the Influence, and has 30 years of experience directing marketing for brands big and small. In this week's episode, O'Reilly reminds us to put on our marketing hats at least onc...

Financial Tips and Aid Programs During COVID-19

May 21, 2020 14:44 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

While today's bonus episode focuses on the government programs set in the U.S., we believe that the experiences and tips shared by our financial expert guests are relatable to everyone, regardless of where you are located.  Thank you to our guests Phylecia an Oona and the 3 entrepreneurs who shared their experiences with us. Find them all below.  GUESTS- Phylecia Jones - https://www.keepupwithmrsjones.com Oona Rokyta, CEO and Co-Founder, Lance - https://www.justlance.co/covid19 ENTREPRE...

Creating a Unique Business- Sonja Rasula

May 18, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB

“Artists starving? There’s absolutely no reason for that.” Sonja Rasula is the founder of Unique Markets, a Los Angeles-based pop-up market showcase for artisans and makers. In this week's episode, she talks to us about her hands-on approach to training small business owners in the art of selling their art, why she launched Unique Markets during a recession, and why hitting the pause button now can help businesses recover down the road. Rasula, who got her start in retail and later launched...

Carving Your Own Path- Allis Markham

May 11, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MB

Allis Markham describes herself as “An artist with a really strong stomach.” She's the founder of Prey Taxidermy, a Los Angeles studio that serves clients ranging from luxury brands like Gucci to natural history museums all over America. We chat about her transition from Director of Social Media Strategy for the Walt Disney Company to running her own shop that's for the birds...and foxes...and armadillos. Markham walked away from a six-figure job "explaining social media to boardrooms full ...

Wearing Many Hats- Steve Barnes

May 04, 2020 15:21 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB

"Always have a hustle that’s paying the bills," says Steve Barnes, who knows plenty about hustle. Barnes, who got his start as a radio host and actor, combined his love of travel with a passion for content production to launch Barnes Creative Studios. Now, he travels the world shooting promo videos and VR for brands and destinations that make us want to book that vacation time. In this week's episode, he talks to us about getting ahead of the pack with technology (and how working with camer...

The Science Behind Productivity- Dr. Sahar Yousef

April 30, 2020 14:25 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB

Feeling a little...unmotivated? You’re not alone. With most of us working from home, we've lost some of our best productivity tools, and we might not even know it. In this week's minisode, Dr. Sahar Yousef of UC Berkeley chats with us about why setting clear cognitive boundaries between "work" and "everything else" makes a difference when all our days feel kind of the same. She shares insights on how we can recreate and reinvent go-mode triggers for the home: setting up rituals that prime o...

Pat Flynn- Masterclass

April 27, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MB

In our special Masterclass episodes, we collect questions from real-life entrepreneurs at our live #IMakeALiving shows around the world, and ask our favourite experts to weigh in. From social media to scaling, from advertising to work-life balance, we get insights and guidance from folks who have been there. When Pat Flynn was laid off from his architecture job in 2008, he wasn't sure what to do next. On a hunch, he developed a test-prep course for architects in training; over the next year...

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