It's been a while since we did an episode where we pulled back the curtains and talked about what we're up to, what we're struggling with, where we're going, and what we're excited about right now. So that's exactly what this episode is. It's a BTS look at what's going on with Hustle & Flowchart and Hard Fork Gaming, with a pretty major announcement about the Hustle & Flowchart Podcast at the end. Don't miss this one as we break down what's happening next for the show and why we're still...
Jul 12, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 472
We’re doing another game breakdown! This time with the founder of Life Beyond, Ben Charbit. Life Beyond is one of the first open metaverse style games where the gamers create the economy. You don’t have to be the hero, running off into battle… You can be the farmer or the butcher or some other member of a function society and earn real in-game incomes (that can be swapped out for real-world dollars). This concept of the open economy Metaverse is one that really really excites us! We’d love to he...
Jul 05, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 471
We chatted with Joel Comm back in September of 2021 and the conversation completely changed the trajectory of careers. This was the episode that caused us to take a closer look at NFTs and completely shift where we’ve taken the show and our business. We’d love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at HardFork.gg/discord Some Topics We Discussed with Cagyjan & CryptoStache Include: The secret sauce behind Joel’s successful life A perfect explanat...
Jun 28, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 470
In this episode, we're showcasing some amazing guests that recently joined us on our (every other week) live show on YouTube. Each show features guests, live games, NFT giveaways, contests, skits, and much more. On last week's show, we managed to get two “OGs” in the gaming/crypto space, Cagyjan and CryptoStache. In the midst of one the worst bear markets we've seen in crypto, we wanted to get insights and feedback into how to approach the opportunities that exist in gaming right now. We'd love ...
Jun 21, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 469
In this episode, we have the honor of chatting with another true internet pioneer. We’re talking David Wurtz, a co-founder of Google Drive, an advisor to Shopify, and now, the co-founder and CEO of Fractal. In this episode David breaks down the evolution from Google Drive to going “all-in” on blockchain-gaming at Fractal. We’d love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at HardFork.gg/discord (We’re moving Hustle & Flowchart Discord Here) Some To...
Jun 14, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 468
Once again, Joe and I sat down for a chatty chat without any special guests. We’re breaking down the vision for Hard Fork Gaming, giving behind-the-scenes details of running an epic livestream, and then diving-deep into the power of gaming guilds. We’ve talked about gaming guilds with past guests like Peter Ing and Brendan Wong but we’ve never really taken the time to break it down into the simplest explanation. Hopefully this episode will bring a lot of clarity around the concept and help expla...
Jun 07, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 467
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May 24, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 365
Ready for a deep-dive into the intricacies of gaming guilds and how they're built? Today we're talking with the founder of the largest gaming guild in the blockchain space. Brendan Wong is the co-founder of Avocado Guild and he generously unloaded a ton of wisdom on the current state of blockchain-gaming! We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleAndFlowchart.com/discord ! Some Topics We Discussed With Brendan Include: What exactl...
May 17, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 464
Everything is changing and innovating at breakneck speeds. And today we have a seasoned entrepreneur and world adventurer who shares his wild stories and where he sees technology and society going. Rich Robinson is on the show today and he is beyond passionate about Web3 and where gaming is going. He is the Entrepreneur In Residence for Animoca Brands, the unicorn blockchain technology and investment company worth over $5 billion. Rich breaks down his experience before Web3 and how he’s blown aw...
May 03, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 462
In this episode we're chatting with our new business partner at Hard Fork Gaming, Crypto Buffalo. This is a wide-ranging conversation around Buff's journey into crypto, the current state of crypto, NFT gaming, marketing in the crypto space, and much much more. You're really going to enjoy this high-energy conversation that revolves around what we're trying to build with Hard Fork Gaming. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleA...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 460
The topic of gaming guilds is one that we've discussed quite a bit lately. Today, we have someone that likely knows more about gaming guilds than anyone else on the planet. We're talking to Peter Ing of Blockchain Space, a company that collects and aggregates data on over 20,000 gaming guilds. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleAndFlowchart.com/discord ! Some Topics We Discussed With Peter Ing Include: How Blockchain Space ...
Apr 12, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 459
In this episode we chat with a good buddy of Joe. They go way back to the college days. Ivan Santana is one of the head guys over at West Coast NFT, a company that helps launch generative NFT projects with up to 10,000 unique images. These projects are quite the undertaking. So we sat down with Ivan to break down exactly what goes into this type of launch. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleAndFlowchart.com/discord ! Some T...
Apr 05, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 458
In this episode, we’re chatting with Brycent from The Loot Squad about the current state of Play-To-Earn Gaming. It’s a relatively new industry and it’s already seeing some major roadblocks in its growth. We discuss the biggest issues in the space as well as some ideas to improve and steer things in the right direction. If you’re interested in investing in some game assets in the space, this is the episode to listen to in order to hear both the pros and the cons of the current state of the indus...
Mar 29, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 457
In this episode, we’re doing our first “game breakdown.” From time-to-time, we’re going to bring on the teams behind some of the games that we’re most excited about in the blockchain-gaming space. We’ll be breaking down the team behind the game, the tokenomics of the game, how the gameplay works, how people can make money or earn NFTs by playing, and how you can get involved in the NFT and token sales so that you can potentially capitalize on the growth of these games as well. Today’s game break...
Mar 22, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 456
In this episode we speak with a legendary founder! Justin Kan started Justin.tv, which eventually became Twitch, and then sold to Amazon for $970 million... Justin's gone on to become a successful investor and, most recently, the co-founder of Fractal.is, a platform that helps launch video games on the Solana blockchain. We had the opportunity to sit down with Justin and chat about Justin.tv, Twitch, plant medicines, Web3, play-to-earn, gaming, his new platform, and much much more. We'd love to ...
Mar 15, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 455
We're bringing back another favorite from the archives today while Joe's on vacation in Maui. In this one, we're talking to Guy Kawasaki about podcasting, Clubhouse, working at Apple, how to build a career as an evangelist, and why Guy is just always so smiley. This is just a really fun conversation that takes us into the way Guy's brain works and changed some of our thinking on how to properly promote other products. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. ...
Mar 08, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 454
In this episode, we chat with our long time friend, Lisa Buyer. Lisa has helped us so much over the years with PR and she happens to be the person who introduced us to concept of the Metaverse in the first place. Be a fly on the wall as we chat Web3, branding, NFTs, the Metaverse, virtual reality, digital influencers, and so much more! We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleAndFlowchart.com/discord ! Some Topics We Discussed Wi...
Mar 01, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 453
In this episode, we chat with one of the most prolific content creators in the Play-To-Earn gaming space. Today we're talking to Cagyjan, an influencer with 70k+ YouTube subscribers and 100K+ Twitter followers. We're discussing what he loves about the play-to-earn (p2e) space as well as get some advice on how to grow a strong social media following. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleAndFlowchart.com/discord ! Some Topics W...
Feb 22, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 452
Today we're chatting with two great friends of ours from the digital marketing world who have also pivoted a bit into the world of NFTs and Crypto. We're going down the rabbit-hole with Jason Moffatt and Dave Tatera about everything NFTs. They recently launched a new course all around NFTs and Hustle and Flowchart listeners are some of the first people to get access. Check out the episode and then dive even deeper into NFTs with their NFT Profits course . We'd love to hear your thoughts about th...
Feb 15, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 451
In today’s episode, we breakdown the big transformation we’ve made in the business. We’re all-in on gaming and we think that, after this episode, you’ll fully understand why. We’d love to hear your thoughts about this one over in the community Discord. Join us for free at www.HustleAndFlowchart.com/discord ! Some Topics We Discussed Include: What we’ve been doing for the past month we’ve been gone The 3 current real world applications of crypto The area of crypto we’ve gotten most rekt in Where ...
Feb 08, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 450
Some Topics We Discussed Include: Why people don’t worry about the price of Nic’s tokens How to stop checking your crypto prices so often Are you value investor or a day trader? What does it mean to “Base Case and Chill” Why everyone fails in crypto What’s the future for Knight Swap The importance of TVL when operating in crypto The difference between information and innovation The extreme value of the Dicksicle NFT References and Links Mentioned: Subscribe To The Hard Fork Media Channel Join th...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 449
This is the perfect episode to round out our month of uber-impactful shows. Victoria Song set our minds up for the big transition we’re making in our lives. She reminded us that we should follow the paths that bring us the most joy. She reminded us that we have the ability and opportunity to make a bigger impact on the world. Most importantly, she gave us the tools to feel ok making big, new, uncomfortable moves. What an absolutely amazing month of reminders and insights. I really hope you had t...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 448
We're about to wrap up the month of sharing the most impactful episodes from Hustle & Flowchart over the years. Today we have our episode with Steven Kotler. Steven is probably the worlds foremost expert on flow states and, in today's rewind episode, he breaks down how to put yourself into flow states, how to induce creativity, and how to avoid burnout. We also discuss the pros and cons of the technological advancements that came about during Covid. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 447
Today we're bringing back one of our favorite episodes we've ever done. Today we're talking to Chris Voss, author of "Never Split The Difference," probably the best book ever written on negotiation. With the changes we've made in our business recently, we find ourselves in many more negotiation scenarios. Relistening to this episode has been huge for us, going into discussions that could have big money implications. Ever since recording this episode, we've changed our speech patterns and approac...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 446
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Jan 18, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 445
For the month of January, we're rereleasing the most impactful episodes of Hustle & Flowchart. These are the ones that completely changed the way we think after we recorded them. Today, we're bringing back our episode with Mark Joyner. We recorded this episode in mid-2020, only a few weeks after everyone started being locked down. We dove deep into where to get your information and how to verify if the information is correct. This has become a more and more important topic as time has gone o...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 444
This month, we're rewinding back and sharing some of the most impactful episodes we've ever recorded. These are the episodes that changed the way we see the world and business during and after recording them. In this episode you’ll hear James lay out a super practical thought exercise that you can do along with us, to determine a life of wealth freedom, for whatever that means to you in the most conservative way possible to keep that money flowing. James has started 20 companies, 17 of which hav...
Jan 11, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 443
This month, we're digging into the archives to pull out the episodes that have had the most profound impact on the two of us. In this episode, we chat with Nic Peterson, an absolute genius at mental models. He really knows how to help define what's important and what's now and how to know if you should pursue something. His advice around being successful at things that you don't really enjoy really hit home and was a big piece of our recent change in direction. Some Topics We Discussed Include: ...
Jan 06, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 442
This is a "rewind" episode from 2017 with Michael Taggart. This was one of the first times we discussed Bitcoin and blockchain tech. on the show. We wanted to republish this episode because it's borderline prophetic. Much of what Michael breaks down in this episode actually played out exactly like he said it would. We discuss DAOs, what will replace Bitcoin, artists using tokens to build communities, influencers creating coins, and much much more... In 2017! I was worried that this episode may b...
Jan 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 441
This is the last episode of 2021. As the year ticks over, we're turning over a new leaf with our business. It's out with the old and in with the new. We've burned the ships and have no choice but to succeed in this new territory that we've ventured into. But we've got a plan... A plan to build a business that has the opportunity to be bigger than we ever imagined and make a lot of people wealthier than they could have ever imagined. It's an exciting time over here at Hustle & Flowchart... An...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 440
