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COMMIT FIRST with Sagi Shrieber

I'm Sagi, a 7 figure creative business owner coming from a design and tech entrepreneur background and with a deep passion for personal development and mental fitness. On this show I interview entrepreneurs that I believe will help me grow as a creative individual - and to step up to the next level of ourselves, as well as people in the tech scene that I find incredibly interesting. These are people that have achieved tremendously exceptional results and most importantly - have built themselves up to be the kind of people that achieve these kind of results! We talk about the strategies, tactics, and mindset needed in order to flourish in all areas in life, and fulfill our potential in this world, even in unpredictable times. The deep and diverse interviews here offer practical tips and strategies, from entrepreneurship to health and wellness, personal development, and spirituality. Enjoy - and don't forget to follow and rate the show if you liked it!
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Episodes

44: How to Build a Personal Brand and Actually Produce Engaging Content on Social Media (w/ Lauren Tickner, Business and Personal Branding Coach)

Lauren Tickner is a fitness coach turned business coach that teaches how to build an engaged audience, how to build a personal brand, and then how to later convert your audience into paying clients for coaching and education programs. In this conversation we talked about tips for content creation and working on your personal brand, how to find a niche and how to get clear on your message.

Jun 08, 201958 min

41: Dealing with Fear and Stress as Entrepreneurs

Experienced failure? Feeling like you just can't get a fucking break? Feeling fear and stress? In this short solo-cast I share a recent period where I had those feelings big-time, and what got me out of it. I go into the topics of mindset when experiencing failure, setbacks, and challenges, and recommend some tactics and one GREAT book that helped me through that period. Check out ALL shownotes and more at creativepreneur.show

Apr 24, 201911 min

40: Networking Tips that will Boost Your Business (w/ Travis Chappell, Founder of the Build Your Network Podcast)

Travis Chappell helps others learn how to network the right way by interviewing top performing entrepreneurs on how they do it themselves. Travis is quite the networker himself, having interviewed entrepreneur celebrities like Grant Cardone, and Elena Cardone, John Lee Dumas, Brad Lea, Tim Storey, Ed Mylett and more. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the show if you haven’t yet (on iTunes, Youtube, Spotify, Stitcher or your favorite podcast app). Find all show notes and links from this talk on ...

Apr 04, 20191 hr 2 min

39: How to Dominate Your Niche (w/ Cassidy Tuttle, Founder of Succulents and Sunshine)

From the outside, Cassidy would seem like an ordinary person: She’s a wife, a mother of two sweet kids, she goes to church, has hobbies such as photography, and growing plants. Well, what people can’t see is that Cassidy is one hell of a top-notch, massively successful CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR! When her kids are in schools, she is at her home studio shooting videos, managing an entire outsource team, writing super extensive and well-researched articles, and creating funnels for her online courses. ...

Mar 08, 20191 hr 22 min

38: The Ripple Effect And The Key To Networking With Successful Entrepreneurs (w/ John Lee Dumas, Founder of EOFire)

John Lee Dumas - or JLD as he’s referred to in the industry - is a multi-7 figure self-made entrepreneur and is one of the world’s most popular podcasters, running the ever so famous podcast - EOFire. I’ve followed JLD for years and listened to him almost on a daily basis. I, in fact, met my coach Calvin Wayman - who helped me from $50k in debt to making that much every month - through one of his podcasts. In this conversation John and I talk about ‘The Ripple Effect’ which basically means is ho...

Feb 23, 201919 min

37: What's Your Origin Story

Hey Everyone, In this podcast, I will talk about ‘Origin Story’. What is it? Well, it’s actually your own story. The story of how and what got you started on your vision. What got you excited and geeking out about whatever it is that you are doing in your career - that you love talking about with others. The thing about ‘The Origin Story’ or as I like to call it ‘The Epiphany Bridge’ basically talks about that moment - that epiphany - which got you all pumped up and excited about your vision. In...

Feb 15, 201929 min

36: Creating & Selling Online Courses Around Your Skills (w/ Greg Rog, Founder of LearnUX.io)

My guest this week is Greg Rog, a Polish designer & entrepreneur that managed to create an online empire out of his skills. He built a brand by writing on Medium and guest writing on popular design publications, and then repurposed his courses to Udemy and other platforms to increase reach. In this podcast, we talk about the importance of tools, and the meaning of them to us as professionals. We talked about learning how to learn, and about tips for newbies when it comes to creating online c...

Feb 14, 20191 hr 15 min

35: How To Find Time To Build Your Brand

A lot of people tell me they don’t have time. But, the truth is – we have more time than we think. In fact, the feeling of having no time is an illusion. We may think that we are at our full capacity when it comes to utilizing time, but the truth is – that Elon Musk might be the only guy who really operates at 100% capacity. We all have time… But we just need to study these things: Our effectiveness as busy humans with time Our relationship with time Setting your expectations right Read the enti...

Feb 07, 201927 min

34: How To Build A Business That Will Make You Money Outside Of Your Day Job (w/ Nick Loper, Founder of Side Hustle Nation)

My guest this week is Nick Loper. Nick is a podcaster and blogger, and founder of Side Hustle Nation, where he teaches others to create successful side hustles and earn money outside of their day job. In this conversation we talk about creating content (on your blog or podcast) and getting your content out there. We talked about methods to get more exposure to your content after you wrote it. We talk about finding time, having a vision for growth, revenue streams (that I bet you never thought of...

Feb 03, 20191 hr 11 min

33: The Personal Brand Authority Quartet – How To Build Success & Authority In Your Market

In music, a quartet is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers, or a musical composition for four voices or instruments. “If you make sure to play the Personal Brand Authority Quartet symphony, the echo would be the beautiful sounds of opportunities hitting you from all directions in the theater of your career.” In order to be a great personal brand and to build authority in your market - you have to have 4 things in place: Professionality Networking Content Pitching and selling N...

Jan 25, 201946 min

32: Building a Thriving Company of One (w/ Paul Jarvis, Blogger, Podcaster & Author)

My guest this week is none other than Paul Jarvis! I’ve been following Paul’s content for years now. Paul has an awesome community of makers that he sends weekly emails too, in a newsletter called ‘The Sunday Dispatches’ (You can sign up here - https://pjrvs.com/). He’s built multiple online courses and products for his community and also hosted multiple podcasts, including the joint podcast with Jason Zook - ‘Invisible Office Hours’ which was one of my favorite podcasts ever. He’s also now a fr...

Jan 24, 20191 hr 19 min

31: Lessons learned from 2018 & Plans for 2019 ( + one MAJOR announcement)

Hey everybody, just wanted to give you a recap of 2018 and what's coming for you all in 2019. In this episode I also make one major announcement. Enjoy! And don’t forget to subscribe to the show if you haven’t yet (on iTunes , Youtube , Spotify , Stitcher or your favorite podcast app). Find all shownotes and links from this talk on https://sagishrieber.com/podcast ....

Jan 18, 201940 min

30: How to build an online audience the right way (w/ Heather Parady, Host of The Weekly Parady Podcast)

My guest this week is the amazing Heather Parady - Online Entrepreneur and the founder The Weekly Parady Podcast - an awesome podcast for unconventional leaders. You know - us people. Heather is not only hosting her podcast. She is building an amazing online brand while at it. This means writing, growing and running a team, being active all across social media, and building audience in an authentic way. In this show we talk about how to build an audience - even if you don’t have an audience yet,...

Jan 17, 201959 min

29: Tips for starting a successful blog (w/ Leslie Samuel, becomeablogger.com)

My guest this week is the awesome Leslie Samuel. Leslie is a former university professor and the creator of ‘Become A Blogger’ - a blog dedicated to the craft of professional blogging. He’s also the founder and host of a podcast called ‘Blogging with Leslie’ in which he interviews other bloggers who have built successful platforms. Leslie has a passion for education, and has taken on the mission of - as he calls it - "Changing The World, One Blog At A Time”. In this interview we discuss how to b...

Jan 17, 20191 hr 6 min

28: How to Be a Freelancer - and why content is a huge part of it (w/ Jason Resnick, Founder of the ‘Live in the Feast’ Podcast)

My guest on the show today is Jason Resnick. Jason is a Work-from-home dad, Wordpress Developer, Founder of the weekly Podcast call ‘Live in The Feast’ and his daily podcast ‘Ask Rezzz’, and a coach for other freelancers. He helps other freelancers with their business by teaching them how to differentiate themselves in the market and build recurring revenue. For that he uses what he calls The Feast model. In this episode Jason and I talk about Freelancing, what things can help a freelancer alway...

Dec 03, 20181 hr 7 min

27: How to Build an Impactful & Profitable Blog (w/ Pete McPherson of doyouevenblog.com)

Pete is an entrepreneur, blogger and podcaster that is all about helping other create successful & profitable blogs. He’s the founder of the blog and podcast DoYouEvenBlog and Blogger U. Pete quit his day-job in 2016 (the same year I did), leaving behind a $70K a year salary for launching his blog and podcast. Since then he’s been growing his empire, interviewing some of the most successful bloggers and online business owners in the world, launching an online education platform for bloggers ...

Dec 03, 20181 hr 4 min

26: The Life Coach that uses metaphysical principles to transform lives (w/ Coach Blair Robinson)

Blair Robinson, or as he calls himself - The Naked Coach, is a successful coach that while still being a coach and working with people to transform their lives - has done something that many coaches don’t do: He built a community of over 34,000 people called “Practical Metaphysics” and is engaging with his community and putting out content on a regular basis. Blair is practically the master of Facebook groups and is an experienced coach with a very interesting take on coaching from a metaphysica...

Nov 23, 20181 hr 38 min

25: Marketing a digital product to serve millions of creatives (w/ CMO of Elementor - Ben Pines)

Ben Pines is the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Elementor - the popular page building plugin for Wordpress. Elementor has reached more than a million active users and is now considered one of the hottest plugins out there. I’m personally using Elementor for my own websites and loving it. In this conversation I talked to Ben about how he came up and ended up joining Elementor 3 years ago and about his work there. Now if you’re a Wordpress and Elementor fan - this conversation gets pretty techni...

Nov 20, 20181 hr 8 min

24: What Differs Olympic Champions from Others (w/ High Achievement Expert Allon Khakshouri)

My guest this week is Allon Khakshouri. Allon is a High performance expert, sports entrepreneur and former manager of three world #1 tennis players, including Novak Djokovic. While he’d managed some of the world’s best tennis players, he’d witnessed first hand what distinguishes winners from everyone else. Their relentless desire to continuously find out how they can push themselves at every level in their lives. That’s exactly what Allon is all about teaching, and what I’m about learning, so th...

Nov 12, 20181 hr 3 min

23: How to grow a blog to over 200,000 visitors in less than two years (w/ Jeff and Ben from Dollarsprout.com and RJ from TheWaysToWealth.com)

Hey everyone. This conversation was recorded at Fincon 2018, and it’s with 3 amazing individuals who have built successful blogs that get over 100 thousand visits per months and monetize these blogs with affiliate sales and info-products. These individuals are Jeff and Ben from Dollarsprout.com and RJ from TheWaysToWealth.com In this conversation I wanted to ask them - how did they do it? How did they create such a successful online brand? What’s their secrets? If you’re looking to start a blog ...

Nov 12, 201849 min

22: Parenting kids to be money-smart & entrepreneurial (w/ Connie Albers)

Hey wassup everybody, Sagi here, the host of the show. Today we have a different kind of a show, it's a show that I recorded here live in FINCON 2018, and I just meet Connie Albers, she was the one who basically recruited us and trained us, volunteer in social marketing world this year, I just meet her and has an incredible story, she's actually writing a book right now, well I will let you hear it, we talk about entrepreneurship, mindset, her story coming from Disney, and mindset that as workin...

Nov 08, 20181 hr 16 min

21: Why culture and mindset beat strategy (w/ Coach and Author Naphtali Visser)

Naf Visser is an author, an entrepreneur & coach. Naf is the CEO of Humans Working, an executive coaching firm that helps executives and teams build organizations that inspire innovation, productivity and loyalty. He is also the author of “The Human Operating System – Why culture and mindset beat strategy”. This is a SUPER important episode for anyone in the group because it’s on the mindful side of the Mindful & Ruthless spectrum. In this interview, we talk about mindset VS strategy. Ab...

Nov 07, 20181 hr 25 min

15: There's a Lot of Money Out There, Now Get Your Hands On It (w/ Itay Adam — Serial Entrepreneur)

Itay Adam is a serial entrepreneur and is one of my mentors in business. He has made millions, lost millions, he has been active on the dark side of the internet as well as the bright side. He built startups - product companies - and pitched to investors, and he was the one always telling me to raise my prices as a creative. Every time I talk to Itay he inspires me to reach higher and stop bitching about things. So in this interview, I just wanted to let YOU have the ‘Itay experience’ the same w...

Oct 02, 20181 hr 12 min

14: Growing an Engaged Community & Staying Creative with Your Offers (w/ Jason Zook - Creative Entrepreneur)

Jason Zook is one of the most creative entrepreneurs that I’ve ever met or even heard of. He left his dayjob, and managed to creatively build a 7 figure business called iWearYourShirt which was covered on almost every possible news outlet. He basically wore tshirts of brands and made a creative viral video on a daily basis wearing tshirts with the paying company’s logo. But then he found himself in a lifestyle he did not want for himself - so he made a bold descision, shut down iWearYourShirt an...

Oct 02, 20181 hr 8 min

18: Insights about Life & Business from Living the Digital Nomad Lifestyle (w/ Tomas Laurinavicius — Life Designed)

Tomas Laurinavicius is a designer turned blogger and digital nomad. Originally from Lithuania but working in London, he launched Despreneur, a magazine for designer- entrepreneurs, co-wrote a book on Mobile design and co-founded a stock photo marketplace. Noticing his business does not necessarily need him to be in any specific geographical location - he decided to become a digital nomad and to travel the world while working on his current projects. He launched “Life Designed” - a brand in which...

Sep 24, 20181 hr 20 min

20: A practical guide to finding your book idea (w/ Coach Azul — 1M Views TedX Speaker, Podcaster, Writer and Coach)

Azul Terronez is an entrepreneur, TedX speaker, Podcaster, writer and coach for other entrepreneurs that want to write their book. He works together with other entrepreneurs and helps them overcome their fears, gain a clear vision for why they want to write their book about, and then pushes them to get started. From there he takes them step-by-step through publishing their own book. Besides being a thought-provoking conversion about life, creativity, and how we can open our minds more, this conv...

Sep 23, 201851 min

01: What does Mindful & Ruthless even mean? (w/ Sagi Shrieber - Designer & Entrepreneur)

Hey everybody! After already having recorded 14 episodes interviewing some of the most successful creative entrepreneurs I know - I thought this was time to make the much-needed intro episode to the show 🙂 In this episode, I share my story, my journey, and what brought me to launching this community in the first place. I talk about my previous podcasts and communities, about my failures and successes, and about the meaning of the name Mindful & Ruthless. Enjoy this episode. Enjoy the show. ...

Sep 17, 201841 min

16: Building a Brand for Selling Physical Products (w/ Scott Voelker — The Amazing Seller)

My guest today has been experimenting with online brands since 2008. At some point, he got introduced to the concept of Fulfillment by Amazon and started experimenting with this new platform. The result - In the past couple of years, he has managed to build and grow multiple successful eCommerce brands, some of which made 7 figures. Today he is one of the leading influencers in the eCommerce field with a huge engaged community surrounding him, and some of them even get to be coached by him to bu...

Sep 13, 201856 min
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