Today, we sit down with Sarah Petty , founder of Sarah Petty Photography , a successful photography business specializing in portraiture and Joy of Marketing , which teaches photographers how to increase their profitability. She has also co-authored Worth Every Penny: Build a Business That Thrills Your Customers and Still Charge What You’re Worth and hosts the Worth Every Penny Podcast. Sarah grew up in Illinois with a love for sports and eventually played division-one volleyball at the Universi...
Jan 21, 2021•53 min
Today I welcome my sister and Finding Founders editor, Sophia Donner, on the show to talk about how to speed read. I put her through a series of tests that actually increases her reading speed in just 15 minutes! We learned all this from Jim Kwik's recent book, Limitless. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 18, 2021•5 min
What failures have shaped you into the person you are now? It’s an easy question to ask, but a hard one to answer. Yet for Omar Zenhom, it’s the question behind all of his successes today. In this episode, we sit down with Omar Zenhom, founder of Webinar Ninja, an online platform that expedites the configuration of large-scale webinars, and host of the award-winning $100 MBA Podcast, which provides aspiring entrepreneurs with free, daily doses of real-world business advice. While Omar may seem l...
Jan 14, 2021•55 min
Today I talk with Jeff Harry about how we can make our remote work more fun. So much of our lives is over Zoom and Slack, so Jeff is coming in to give us some advice. Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Jeff is an international speaker who ...
Jan 11, 2021•7 min
Today, we sit down with Max Hertan, founder of Megaphone Marketing and Telstra Business Award Finalist . Since starting the company in 2012, Max has helped businesses optimize their advertising conversion rates and buffed up their social media presences. He also runs a YouTube channel with over 100,000 subscribers where he documents learning a new skill every 30 days, featuring challenges from learning the violin to juggling. So press play and listen to Max explain the whole journey. Starting as...
Jan 07, 2021•45 min
Today I talk with Joanna Vargas about the book Growth Hacker Marketing. We analyze Uber's strategies, talk about Joanna's business ventures, and explore the importance of a customer avatar. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2020•6 min
This is the last episode in our series on Puerto Rican Entrepreneurs and today, we sit down with Sebastian Vidal. Sebastian is the founder of Parallel 18, a start-up accelerator that provides mentors and resources for aspiring Puerto Rican and international entrepreneurs. At Parallel 18, Sebastian has served as a judge and participant for many start-up focused events, including SXSW, Stanford Ignite, and the MIT Innovation Awards Español. Recently, Sebastian was invited to be the standing Chief ...
Dec 17, 2020•48 min
Today I talk to a member of the Finding Founders design team, Shruti Ramanand, about how we can be more productive with less work. We discuss the concept of the Pomodoro and how we can apply it to our lives to instantly become more productive! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 15, 2020•6 min
This is the second installment of our Puerto Rico series where we are trying to explore how destruction sews the seeds of opportunity and growth. And Carlos embodies this idea perfectly. Today, we sit down with Carlos Goyco, founder of Libros787, an online bookstore focused on selling books by Puerto Rican authors. Rather than letting the winds of disaster pin him to the ground, Carlos’ love for his community mobilized him to create Libros 787, an online bookstore focused on selling books by Pue...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today we talk to Mark Fidelman, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at Fanatics media. I was reading a book called "Growth Hacker Marketing" by Ryan Holiday, and as I was browsing the footnotes I saw Mark's name. I knew I had to talk to him, so we scheduled a call to discuss how to market a product and steal your competitors customers. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 07, 2020•6 min
When all is smooth sailing, community is something that we often take for granted. But when the waves get rocky, there’s truth in the saying “it takes a village” -- after all, difficult times are made easier when we know we have others to lean on. Today, we sit down with Nelson Colón , CEO of the Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Community Foundation) and Honorary Recipient of the 2014 Martin Luther King and Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Awards for his work in soci...
Dec 03, 2020•40 min
Today we cover conformational and contradictory evidence and why you should try to prove yourself wrong. Joyce Mok, our scriptwriting team lead, and I do a test, analyze the results and see where these results apply in our own lives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2020•6 min
We're back for part 2 of the Mac Davis' quest for immortality! (If you haven't listened to part 1 there are links below). In the second half of the episode we'll cover a near death explosion, revolutionary discoveries, mysterious deaths, incredible experiments, and the founding of a successful company: Minicircle. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving! Listen to Part 1 Apple Podcasts Spotify Anchor --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choic...
Nov 26, 2020•53 min
On today's episode, FF's own Adrian Tapia (editing team lead) and Samuel Donner talk about the issue with second hand information. We delve into why you can't trust any conversation that starts with "My friend did [this]." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 23, 2020•5 min
When was the last time you skimmed over a book or article and realized that by the time you finished, absolutely nothing stuck? Well, it turns out speed-reading isn’t as easy as 1-2-3; like any superpower , it needs to be trained. Today we sit down to talk with Jim Kwik , author of Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, & Unlock Your Exceptional Life and founder of online brain-training platform Kwik Learning , which aims to enhance memory and teach speed-reading techniques . ...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Storytelling is an essential part of any business whether you are trying to sell a product, raise money, or get your team on board with a mission. And so it's essential that you know how to tell interesting stories. At Finding Founders we have a motto: "No story is boring, it's just too long." Through a method of contracting and expanding certain parts of the story we are able to make almost anyone an engaging storyteller. In this episode of Founder Wisdom, we delve into how to expand and contra...
Nov 16, 2020•6 min
Today we talk to Andrew Warner and we start with Andrew describing the impossibly fast pace of his first business’s success. Shortly out of college, Andrew was handling millions of dollars and taking on massive risk. Only a few years later, he’d give up that frantic lifestyle, jump ship and head for a respite in the Caribbean. Andrew’s life with all the peaks and valleys of the entrepreneurial journey, mirrors that of his initial mentors who lived within the pages of books. He took those lessons...
Nov 12, 2020•58 min
What are questions you can ask to get people more vulnerable? How can you get someone to open up to you in a short amount of time? These are questions that can help us in our personal and professional relationships. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 09, 2020•7 min
Today we talk to Brad Lea and he starts with his first few weeks in LA. Not long before he was at the mercy of a crack pipe, he got kicked out of his home in Oregon at 16, convinced a friend to quit his job, and drove to California to pursue his dream of becoming a movie star. And while this dream didn’t exactly pan out, that same charisma he hoped would end up on the silver screen, has helped him become a master salesman. Today, Brad runs his multi-million dollar business, Lightspeed VT, which ...
Nov 05, 2020•48 min
What is the formula for interesting storytelling? Today we discuss the essential components of a great story and how to craft narratives that matter. It's enough to just have a subject that is of consequence, you have create an interesting and unique take on that subject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 02, 2020•6 min
Today we talk to Cory Allen, meditation teacher, author, podcast host, musician, and today’s featured Founder. Cory’s story begins in Austin, TX, with a choice to live a markedly different life from that of his gun-toting, Republican, cynical, and distrustful father. He tells me about his moment of awakening, and teaches me that enlightenment can happen anywhere, even in a urinal. He speaks about his relationships with his mom, with organized religion, with drugs and Nietzsche and death metal. H...
Oct 29, 2020•57 min
Why can't you lie in a podcast? Today we talk about authenticity, otherizing, presidential debates, and why podcasts are better lie detectors than videos. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 26, 2020•7 min
Today we are talking to James Altucher and we start just after James went broke. This wouldn’t be the last time he lost money, and we’ll learn that James has an interesting relationship with risk, in fact we’ll talk a lot about risk in this episode. Regardless, James has been incredibly successful. He’s published 25 books and founded over 20 companies, many of which failed. But it seems that failure is something that has defined James. His entire career, and for that matter his personality, is i...
Oct 22, 2020•55 min
How can great work be a curse? Today we look at exceptional work, how to deal with it, how to avoid the Sports Illustrated jinx, and how statistical regression can help us make sense of it all. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2020•8 min
We start with Dan Pashman's his live event to promote his food podcast, Sporkful. After seemingly endless hard work and sacrifice, Dan finally felt the excitement, the palpable energy his audience invested into his work. He’s been able to create such an enlivened community around his podcast due to the passion he has for food and high-quality audio storytelling. Today, Sporkful has evolved into something deeper than food; food is just a vehicle Dan uses to explore science, history, culture, and ...
Oct 15, 2020•51 min
Does success breed success and does failure breed failure? We asked Barry Ritholtz what book he recommends to understand the stock market and he recommended the book 'How We Know What Isn't So' by Thomas Gilovich. We talk about the clustering illusion, coin tosses, basketball, hot hands, and attaching emotion to success and failure. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 12, 2020•11 min
Today we talk to Travis Chappell who starts by describing to us just one of the many rules he was taught to abide by in the small, religious town of Lancaster. Growing up in a structured environment where your appearance, your music, your profession are monitored, it seemed that Travis was destined for a life of rigidity and conformity. However, Travis didn’t follow the path his community paved for him, he forged his own and became the host of Build Your Network and the founder of Guestio. And t...
Oct 08, 2020•44 min
How can you persuade people and your team more effectively? Persuasiveness essentially boils down to two things: expertise and trustworthiness. Expertise describes whether someone is worth listening to; that is how intelligent and knowledgeable the person is about the subject at hand. Trustworthiness describes whether someone should be listened to; that is whether the person has your best interests at heart. To boil it down a little further, expertise is whether they have the knowledge, trustwor...
Oct 05, 2020•5 min
Today we are talking to John Lee Dumas, and much of John’s life, centers around impact. From joining ROTC, to serving in the military, to going to law school, and ultimately to pursuing podcasting, impact is something that John has successfully curated. Now, with the Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast, John releases interviews with inspirational entrepreneurs and impacts the lives of millions of his listeners. It’s not just his listeners that are rewarded, since 2012, the podcast has brought in a gro...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min
How can we easily categorize people’s personality? This is the Founder Wisdom. Where we’ll answer that question by distilling advice from our founders and the books they recommend. Then we’ll show you how we are applying that knowledge ourselves! Last week we talked about how we could categorize emotions into four categories. Interestingly enough we can also do the same thing with personalities. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support Learn more about your ad choices...
Sep 28, 2020•5 min
