Avi Grondin, the CEO of Variance Marketing, shares his insights and philosophies on scaling and automating businesses and explains his marketing and sales tactics for entrepreneurs. Avi Grondin is a Canadian entrepreneur, digital marketer, and speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Variance Marketing, a Toronto based full-service marketing agency. Avi has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Yahoo Finance, Chicago Tribune, and other top-tier publications for his work in strategizing sales &...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Josh is joined by Sam Marfleet to discuss storytelling for creators and entrepreneurs based on Sam's research on writing a study guide for The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Sam Marfleet is a writer and marketing consultant helping businesses tell more profitable stories. He has worked with DTC brands and CPG manufacturers helping scale brands to 7-figures. Sam runs a content creation project called SamLearns where he explores what it takes to be a creative-entrepreneur in the di...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Josh is joined by Robert Scoble in his Tesla over Zoom to talk about the future of Tesla and autonomous vehicles, computer vision and augmented & virtual reality. Robert Scoble is a silicon valley pioneer and tech blogger who grew up in Cupertino, California and studied with Apple's co-founder in college. He wrote for Fast Company Magazine, and was the first person to drive a Tesla with Elon Musk. Robert is a futurist and technologist who has written four books on technology. His latest book...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Josh is joined by Micha Saade and Shane Peterson, the cofounders of Namastetics, to learn about their journey in fashion entrepreneurship and creating a successful direct-to-consumer apparel company. Namastetics is a direct-to-consumer yoga wear brand that focused on sustainability and boho fashion. learn more at https://www.namastetics.com/ Connect with Shane on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shaneapetersen/ Connect with Micha on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/micha.saade/ *****...
Oct 06, 2020•2 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This is part 2 of 2 of this conversation with Zachary Murray. Josh and Zach discuss passion projects, having many obscure / niche interests, accumulating wealth, scaling businesses, the endless pursuit of learning new skills, building things that outlive your own life, productivity hacks, building a "horizontal to-do app", and much more. Zachary Murray is the Founder & Creative Director at Foreplay, a Toronto based performance marketing and creative agency helping e-commerce and D2C brands s...
Sep 28, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This is part 1 of 2 with Zachary Murray. Josh and Zach discuss a wide range of topics including running and scaling multiple businesses at once, business in the time of COVID-19, design tools, creative processes, tools and systems for capturing ideas, and things good and bad about Apple products and the App Store ecosystem. Zachary Murray is the Founder & Creative Director at Foreplay, a Toronto based performance marketing and creative agency helping e-commerce and D2C brands scale alongside...
Sep 21, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Brent Stirling runs social media performance marketing at Shopify. He's experienced in all forms of paid and organic social, as well as multi-channel strategy building for a number of verticals and industries that include SaaS (Software as a Service), tech startups, direct to consumer brands, hospitality and politics. Connect with Brent on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brentertainer ********** For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod ********** If ...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Josh and Juvoni talk about the bleeding edge of productivity and knowledge management tools and how to use these tools more effectively, ideas around combining multiple skills, better thinking & tools for thought, personal development ideas and habits, entrepreneurship and nocode tools, and discovering how systems in the world affect us during COVID-19. About Juvoni: Juvoni Beckford is Software Engineer at Google currently working on Google Maps, previously on Google Docs. He's a Community B...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Jay Vasantharajah shares his philosophies around starting and growing a "phase 1" business, then evolving it from a service-based or consulting business into a thriving e-commerce or scalable software company. Jay is a trained accountant, so he shares some tools and hacks on how to better manage and hack your business finances to save money and be more profitable. We also talk about how Jay is investing in the Creator Economy and how that, along with the NoCode movement, will change how business...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 13
Part 2 of 2 with John Marzo. In this episode, we discuss John's experience being an Amazon FBA seller and John gives us tools and hacks on how to successfully rank on Amazon's search engine. We talk a bout Billionaires and monopolies, and how they ultimately drive society forward, and we talk about how John lost a lot of money in a cryptocurrency scam. If you haven't yet heard of the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange scam, you're going to want to listen to this! We also go deeper into John's BOLD...
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Part 1 of 2 with John Marzo. John describes his bold 40-year vision of creating an asteroid mining company, his lessons learned from past failed ventures and how one of them was killed by Bumble. We also talk about his experience of getting a patent for his revolutionary dust pan design and John explains his mental model for how he views life and how to get to where you want to get in life by avoiding problems and distractions to keep moving forward to your ultimate destination in life. About Jo...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
James Jani creates documentary-style YouTube videos on topics surrounding entrepreneurship, money, and business. Within 4 short months of launching his YouTube channel, he went from a few hundred subscribers, to now over 317K subscribers (at the time of this podcast). Some of his videos got picked up by the YouTube algorithm and within a few weeks, his videos have already gained over 7.5 Million views within four months of launching his YouTube channel. Some of the videos he posted recently incl...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Dive into Bram's philosophies on validating your startup idea and learn about the methodology of how to validate a business idea before sinking too much time, money or effort into it and having it fail later on. As an added bonus, we talk about how you can do this for a software idea without evening knowing how to code. Bram Kanstein is an early-stage startup expert and non-technical product builder who had 3 of his products acquired. He currently runs an online course called No-Code MVP where h...
Jul 20, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Stephanie Andrews is the CEO of Origins Media Haus a full-service podcast production agency that helps brands bring their shows to life. OMH has worked closely with a number of brands including RBC, Diva Cup, SaaS North, and Axway For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod In this episode, Stephanie shares her wisdom on how to successfully start and grow a podcast. She shares tips and strategies on creating a podcast that actually matters, as well a...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode, Josh and Mike talk about immersive technologies and ubiquitous computing. We explore how how they can be used to better our lives, teach us new things, and ultimately drive humanity forward. Mike Dopsa (@mcdopsa on Twitter) explores cutting edge technologies, how they can be used to better our lives, teach us new things or bring us a smile. He is a University of Toronto Alumnus, an MIT Hackathon winner, and evangelist of all things immersive. From depth cameras to interactive di...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Josh Maldonado is a virtual reality Producer at Secret Location, a Toronto-based VR studio owned by Entertainment One and Hasbro. He previously founded a venture-backed VR education startup called Discovr. In this episode we discuss how we got into the VR industry, current and next-gen VR headsets, location-based VR, Josh's two greatest pieces of advice from a Canadian media legend, remote work, investing philosophies, and his ideas on the future of politics. Follow Josh Maldonado on Twitter: ht...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Michael Aubry is the creator and founder of Story Creator ( https://storycreatorapp.com/ ), an app that lets you turn your content into short form videos for social media. He also uses Story Creator himself to create a weekly newsletter called Podbytes ( https://podbytes.co/ ) where he turns his favorite parts from each podcast into short videos. In this episode Michael talks about his journey of becoming a startup founder in Silicon Valley and the story of how he came to start story creator as ...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Josh sat down with Anthony Morgan to discuss his research on how to gain wisdom from a scientific perspective. In this episode Anthony gives us some actionable tools and a scientific method for gaining and building wisdom in our lives. Anthony Morgan is the founder of Science Everywhere, where he develops, creates and hosts engaging live experiences & media to foster critical thinking. He was a segment host on Daily Planet, which aired on the Discovery Network, the host and writer for Vice C...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Matt Lionetti is a content creator and realtor with Century 21. Previous to getting in to real estate, Matt was a touring musician playing stages from Dundas Square in Toronto to The Viper Room in Hollywood. His outgoing personality and passion for entertaining led him to his unique style of marketing and sharing comedic videos on social media to promote his real estate business. Seeing the oversaturated, typical marketing strategies on social media, Matt knew he wanted to break the mold and not...
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Chris Olimpo is an award winning creative director, and unique entrepreneur. He is known for bringing together unparalleled talent and building cutting edge products, notably: Tom Cruise’s first VR film, The Mummy VR : Zero-Gravity Stunt for Universal Studios. Chris is the Co-founder and CEO of The Arcadia Games , which uses VR technology to combine the best of video games with competitive, movement-based sports, revolutionizing the way we play. ********** If you enjoy the podcast, would you ple...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Alex Rühl ( @alexmakesvr ) is an award-winning virtual reality creator, international speaker and founder of immersive storytelling studio CATS are not PEAS . She received The Drum's 50 under 30 women in digital, Women of the Future Awards, Pioneers of Immersive Realities Award. Her VR films Keyed Alike and Playing God have exhibited at film festivals like Cannes, Raindance and Aesthetica, and she is a VR curator for the British Film Institute and Phoenix Leicester Cinema. Alex gave a TEDx talk ...
May 15, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
