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Mind Meld With Josh Gonsalves

Josh Gonsalveswww.joshgonsalves.com
Josh Gonsalves hosts in-depth conversations with some of the brightest people in the known universe. Guests include entrepreneurs, artists, creators, innovators, scientists, and more. The aim is to spark deep conversations around interesting topics to find the tools, tactics, and philosophies that listeners can use in their personal and creative lives.
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#52: The Conscious Psychedelic Explorer — John Robertson

Psychedelic Explorer and Guide John Robertson shares his framework for how to prepare for, set up and integrate meaningful psychedelic experiences so you can harness its power for personal insights and accelerate your personal growth. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-52 About John Robertson John Robertson is a the creator behind Maps of the Mind. He’s a psychedelic explorer and guide, with experience in the fields of mindfulness, meditation and...

Sep 29, 20221 hr 38 minSeason 2Ep. 52

#51: Thomas Frank — $100k/month selling Notion Templates & Decade Worth of Advice for Creators

Thomas Frank shares an inside look at his side business making over $100K per month selling Notion templates, as well as advice from over a decades' worth of experience as a YouTuber with over 2.5 million subscribers. ——————————————— For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-51 ——————————————— About Thomas Frank Thomas is a video creator, writer, podcaster, and entrepreneur with over 2.5 million YouTube subscribers at the time of this podcast, with a fo...

Sep 19, 20221 hr 5 minSeason 2Ep. 51

#50: Addiction Recovery Expert Dr. Robb Kelly

Robb Kelly, PhD is an addiction recovery expert who successfully recovered from alcoholism. During his early twenties, he worked at the elite and influential Abbey Roads Studio as a session musician in London and has worked with thousands of people including celebrities of film, music, and sports. Based on his own experiences working with addicts and alcoholics over the last 20 years, combined with a PhD in psychology, and as a recovered alcoholic himself – he is a triple threat against the dise...

Aug 03, 20221 hr 5 minSeason 2Ep. 50

#49: Supercharge Your Productivity with Khe Hy

An in-depth conversation on creating an impactful career without sacrificing your lifestyle. We talk about transitioning careers from a well-paying job to starting your own lifestyle business on your own terms. We also dig into Khe's 10K Work concept, identity, productivity, as well as copywriting, marketing and branding secrets that Khe has learned over the years, and much more. Check out Supercharge Your Productivity: https://mindmeld.fm/supercharge-your-productivity ********** For full show n...

May 02, 20221 hr 56 minSeason 2Ep. 49

#48: Intentional Life Design and How to Overcome the Four Horsemen of Fear with Dr. Corey Wilks

Dr. Corey Wilks is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach. He writes about the psychology of business, performance, creativity, and fulfillment. His mission is to help entrepreneurs build an Intentional Life by doing meaningful, purpose-driven work that fulfills them. In this conversation with Josh they discuss Corey’s transition from being a Clinical Psychologist to becoming an Executive Coach and Entrepreneur, Corey’s coaching framework on how to build an Intentional Life, how to...

Apr 25, 20222 hr 22 minSeason 2Ep. 48

#47: Influencer Marketing Masterclass with Taylor Lagace

This is an influencer marketing masterclass with Taylor Lagace, the co-founder of Kynship, an influencer marketing company that has helped some of the world’s largest brands leverage influencer marketing to grow their revenues. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-47 About half way through this episode Taylor shares his computer screen to walk us through specific software they use to give us insight into how he actually executes this blueprint. You...

Mar 24, 20221 hr 30 minSeason 2Ep. 47

#46: Compounding Your Knowledge and Credibility with Dickie Bush

Dickie Bush joins Josh to talk about the intersection of creativity and productivity, compounding your knowledge and credibility, how writing online changed his life, and how he teaches people how to start writing online with his online course Ship 30 for 30. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Dickie Bush Dickie Bush is the founder of Ship 30 for 30, a community and online course that teaches the fundamentals of writing on the internet. But un...

Feb 07, 20221 hr 19 minSeason 2Ep. 46

#45: Transform Your Body, Transform Your Life with Dan Go (@FitFounder)

Dan Go reveals the method he uses to get high-achieving people into their ideal body and stay fit for the rest of their lives. Dan shares his simple four-step process that he takes all of his clients through to get amazing results. We also go deep into how Dan has grown his business using Twitter in the past two years. He shares some of his biggest hacks and lessons on how he grew a massive Twitter following, how to stay a productive creator on social media and not get sucked into shiny object s...

Jan 31, 20221 hr 22 minSeason 2Ep. 45

#44: Microdosing Psilocybin to Improve Your Life with MindfulMeds Founder Keegan Downer

Josh is joined by MindfulMeds founder Keegan Downer to discuss microdosing psilocybin as both a means to help with mental health issues like anxiety and depression, as well as using it as a nootropic to improve your cognition, creativity and problem-solving abilities. Keegan also shares his story of battling depression and alcoholism, and the journey he went through to discover the need for psilocybin in our mental health system. NOTE: Keegan goes deep on his story, which ends at about the 30 mi...

Jan 24, 20222 hrSeason 2Ep. 44

#43: Career Hyperdrive with David Elikwu

This is a masterclass in accelerated career development with David Elikwu on how to build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business or personal brand. This podcast is an overview of David's new course 'Career Hyperdrive' where I asked David about his career journey and how we can build an anti-fragile career and generalist skills that will compound over the course of our lives. I also asked David how he's able ...

Nov 15, 20213 hr 6 minSeason 2Ep. 43

#42: Get Paid to Surf the Web with Swish Goswami

Swish has built a multi-hyphenate career at just the age of 24. He's built multiple successful ventures including Trufan and Surf, advises and invests in startups, and is a professional speaker and podcaster. Swish talks in-depth about his new product, Surf and how it will change the way we surf the web. He's done so much in such a short amount of time, so Josh asked him to share his philosophies on entrepreneurship, personal branding, building a network, and and how to help people get noticed a...

Nov 08, 20211 hr 23 minSeason 2Ep. 42

#41: World Class Chef Doug McNish on Veganism, Creativity and Cancel Culture

World famous vegan chef Doug McNish joins Josh to talk about his experience with veganism for the past 15 years and how he creates his award-winning vegan recipes. Doug also shares his wisdom and advice for entrepreneurs or any creative person who wants to get more out of life, and Doug opens up about his experience with burnout and cancel culture. About Doug McNish Doug is an internationally award-winning Executive Chef and Restaurant Consultant, best-selling Author, passionate educator, celebr...

Nov 01, 20211 hr 43 minSeason 2Ep. 41

#40: New Age Consulting & Building a Unified Field Theory with Mitch Gonsalves

Mitch shares his sales & marketing strategies that has grown his consulting company to over $2.5 million dollars per year, how to cultivate a winner's mindset, building a Unified Field Theory of interconnected ideas, and a lot more. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Mitch Gonsalves Mitch Gonsalves is the Founder & CEO of Executive Advantage a Consulting firm that helps Coaches, Consultants, Agencies & Service Businesses scale to $...

Apr 05, 20212 hr 10 minSeason 2Ep. 40

#39: Mark Metry — Social Anxiety and Reprogramming Your Mind for Success

Mark Metry joins Josh to talk about his book Screw Being Shy, social anxiety, mental health and reprogramming your mind for success. We also get into topics like podcasting, and how to use it for personal development, we talk about how virtual reality and psychedelics will have an impact on mental health, and we touch on mystical experiences during meditation. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Mark Metry Mark Metry is the author of Screw Bein...

Mar 29, 20211 hr 36 minSeason 2Ep. 39

#38: Building in Public & Making Twitter Friends with Kevon Cheung

Josh and Kevon Cheung to talk in depth about the building in public movement happening in the indie creator community. They explore the opportunities that creators have to build in public and make friends on Twitter to accelerate growth and make a bigger impact. Whether you're building a company or your personal brand, this episode is PACKED with actionable tools and strategies to help accelerate your brand awareness in an authentic way. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go...

Mar 22, 20211 hr 37 minSeason 2Ep. 38

#37: Multi-Hyphenate Creative Entrepreneurship with PB+J Co-founders Tom Collver & Kyle Dutka

Tom & Kyle, the co-founders of award-winning creative agency PB+J, bring their decades worth of experience as creative entrepreneurs to share their strategies and philosophies on multi-hyphenate creative entrepreneurship and building enduring ecommerce brands. They discuss everything from exploring and finding your niche, fighting perfectionism, recipes for success in both ecommerce and creating a highly sought-after agency, as well as what it takes to build a long-lasting, enduring brand. F...

Mar 15, 20211 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 37

#36: Corey Haines — Mental Models for Effective Marketing

Corey Haines joins Josh for a wide-ranging conversation on effective marketing strategies and mental models, personal knowledge management for marketers, and his philosophies on stair-stepping entrepreneurship. About Corey Haines Corey is the founder of Swipe Files , a membership community and resource hub for cutting-edge, comprehensive, and sometimes crazy marketing ideas. Corey hosts the Everything is Marketing podcast and teaches multiple courses on marketing including Refactoring Growth and...

Mar 08, 20211 hr 57 minSeason 2Ep. 36

#35: Danny Miranda — Spirituality, Self Development & Content Creation

Danny Miranda joins Josh to talk about their experiences with spirituality, personal development and content creation. Danny goes in-depth about the art of consistent content creation, how he gets world-class people on his podcast, including Gary Vee and Kamal Ravikant, and his mission to put out 1000 clips on YouTube by the end of the year in 2021. They talk in-depth about their views on spirituality, and share personal stories of their spiritual awakening, as well as their experiences with med...

Mar 01, 20211 hr 34 minSeason 2Ep. 35

#34: Creative Entrepreneurship, Working with Beyoncé, and Creating VR/AR in Unreal Engine with Andre Elijah

Andre Elijah joins Josh for a wide-ranging conversation on creative entrepreneurship, mixing technology and art, big opportunities in the virtual and augmented reality industry, and working in Unreal Engine to create multi-platform interactive products. About Andre Elijah Andre is an award-winning Immersive Director, Creative Technologist, and New Media Graduate that has built a reputation for delivering cutting edge technical projects. Andre led the technical elements of both production and pos...

Feb 22, 20211 hr 46 minSeason 2Ep. 34

#33: Arvid Kahl — How to Build and Sell an Audience-First Business

Arvid Kahl and Josh go deep on the process and strategies of bootstrapping a profitable software business, what it means to build an audience-first product, and building in public. Arvid has years of experience with building and selling online businesses, and he gives us some really helpful strategies on how we can build and sell a sustainable business with a greater chance of success. About Arvid Kahl: Arvid Kahl co-founded, bootstrapped, and sold FeedbackPanda.com , an online teacher productiv...

Feb 15, 20211 hr 28 minSeason 2Ep. 33

#32: Marie Poulin — Master your Life and Business

Josh is joined by Marie Poulin to talk about the online education business, digital systems, mindset training & self-development, and how Marie decided to go from a generalist designer to finding her niche and going all-in with Notion. We also get into building up self-confidence and creating content online. One of Marie's biggest growth channels is her YouTube channel, but it took her YEARS to build up the courage to start posting consistently, and it clearly paid off. Marie offers lots of ...

Feb 08, 20211 hr 51 minSeason 2Ep. 32

#31: Play to Win with Top 20 Pro Poker Player Chris Sparks

Josh is joined by Chris Sparks to talk about his latest Article 'Play to Win: Meta-Skills in High-Stakes Poker' where he breaks down his strategies and meta-skills that enabled him to become an elite poker player, and turns them into actionable strategies and productivity hacks that you can use to level-up your game in life and business. About Chris Sparks Chris Sparks is a professional poker player, recently ranked in the top 20 online cash game players in the world. Chris teaches the applicati...

Feb 01, 20211 hr 47 minSeason 2Ep. 31

#30: Best of Season 1 (2020)

BEST OF Mind Meld Season 1 This is a compilation of highlights from all 29 episodes of Mind Meld published in 2020. Enjoy & have a Happy New Year! *********** Get my FREE annual reflection & goal planner template here: http://bit.ly/annualreview-notion *********** Subscribe to Mind Meld on your favourite podcast app: https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod *********** If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes https://apple.co/2Y86xww It takes...

Dec 28, 20202 hr 6 minSeason 1Ep. 30

#29: Mixing Love and Business with Marisa Tassone

Josh is joined by his partner in life and business, Marisa Tassone, to talk about their businesses Contraverse and Longboi , and how they make their romantic-business partnership work. Marisa Tassone is the Co-founder of virtual reality start-up Contraverse and Longboi , a dachshund-inspired apparel company. She is a graduate of Ryerson University's Masters of Digital Media and Media Production programs. Connect with Marisa: Twitter: https://twitter.com/misstassone LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin...

Dec 21, 20201 hr 39 minSeason 1Ep. 29

#28: VR Architecture & Tools for Thought with Andreea Ion Cojocaru

Andreea and Josh talk about the creative and philosophical implications of designing spaces in virtual reality, as well as philosophies around tools for thought and software that can completely change the way we think creatively. About Andreea Ion Cojocaru Andreea is a software developer and a licensed architect. She’s the co-founder & CEO of NUMENA, an award-winning German company that designs and develops both virtual and physical spaces. NUMENA’s projects span from XR applications for tra...

Dec 14, 20202 hr 26 minSeason 1Ep. 28

#27: Building Generational Wealth Selling on Amazon and Owning Real Estate with Melisa Vong

Melisa Vong shares her philosophies on building generational wealth through building and selling e-commerce companies, then buying real estate with the proceeds. Melisa also shares her experience with branding, marketing and selling products on Amazon, and how to stand out on one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the world. About Melisa Vong: Melisa is a serial entrepreneur and investor in multiple 7-figure E-Commerce brands in the Beauty and Health space. With features in Entrepreneur, Fou...

Dec 07, 20201 hr 36 minSeason 1Ep. 27

#26: Media & Psychedelics with Casey Blustein

Josh is joined by Casey Blustein to talk about the state of the media industry in a post-COVID world, as well as psychedelics and how its medicinal use will be one of the biggest revolutions in our lifetime. About Casey Blustein: Casey Blustein is a Toronto-based producer, strategist and company builder currently helping accelerate and democratize psychedelic research at Quantified Citizen. Casey was part of the founding team of Transforms.ai ( https://transforms.ai/ ), a studio-lab focused on t...

Nov 30, 20202 hrSeason 1Ep. 26

#25: No-code, Fatherhood and Ultrarunning with Tom Osman

Tom Osman from Makerpad joins Josh to talk about the growing no-code community, automation tools, and software innovation. Tom also shares his best parenting and work-from-home advice, as well as his strategies and mindset for running an ultramarathon. About Tom: Tom Osman is currently working at Makerpad where he teaches people how to build software and automate work without writing code. Connect with Tom on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/tomosman ) Learn more about Makerpad ( https://www.makerp...

Nov 23, 20202 hr 7 minSeason 1Ep. 25

#24: Product Design, Biotech and Restaurant Franchising with Sarkis Buniatyan

Sarkis joins Josh to talk about his experience designing complex digital products without code, investing in start-ups, creating a biotechnology company, and scaling a successful restaurant franchise. Sarkis also showcases his complex Webflow prototypes including a full rebuild of the Playstation 4 interface, MacOS, and Civilization 6, all natively in Webflow. About Sarkis Buniatyan Sarkis is a product designer and serial entrepreneur that creates hyper-realistic prototypes, develops MVPs, turns...

Nov 16, 20201 hr 42 minSeason 1Ep. 24

#23: Nat Eliason on Starting a Life-Changing Blog

Nat Eliason joins Josh to share his experience building a successful 6-figure personal blog with multiple viral articles and passive income projects. Nat also shares his digital marketing and SEO insights, content creation strategies and productivity hacks. ********** For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod ********** About Nat Eliason: Nat is the CEO and Founder of Growth Machine, author and writer at nateliason.com , and co-host of the Made You...

Nov 09, 20201 hr 28 minSeason 1Ep. 23
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