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The Calum Johnson Show

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99% of people are stuck doing something they do not truly care about, chasing a career path that does not maximize their potential. I left my 9-5 job to go all in on this podcast. Now, I have conversations with people who are fearlessly pursuing their passion in the world. On this podcast, we share the stories of people that made bold moves, chose the untraditional path and won. Going all in on yourself and the things you care about can be intimidating. Lets go on this journey together, welcome to The Calum Johnson Show
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Episodes

E24: David Morris & Blake Burge: The Power of True Friendship

David Morris the Chief Operating Officer at Neoinsulation and Blake Burge is the Director of Manufacturing. Blake has built a following of over 390K followers on Twitter & David has a following of over 66K followers on Twitter. They are friends and colleagues that come together in this episode to drop a lot of wisdom on how people can achieve their goals, live a successful life and stay humble along the way. This is one of the most inspiring, motivational episodes we have done yet. Tune in!!...

Nov 14, 20221 hr 26 min

E23: Mac Conwell: Building Startups, Venture Capital Funds & Twitter Accounts

@MacConwell is fluent in multiple languages. PHP, Python, HTML and another six, according to his Linkedin bio. He’s an important figure in the software industry, investing and mentoring underrepresented innovators. Mac Conwell is the definition of creating your own opportunity. He is the Managing Partner at @RareBreedVC, a pre-seed and seed fund for “a rare breed” of founders. Its mission is to bridge the gap in funding for minority founders that leave Black and Latinx women founders receiving 0...

Oct 30, 202256 min

E22: Amanda Natvidad: How to 10X Your Career & Build a Loyal Online Audience TODAY

Amanda Natvidad is the VP of Marketing at Sparktoro, an audience research startup. Prior to that, she helped build Fitbit’s B2B marketing team. She has also worked as the editorial producer for tech news sites paidContent.org and Gigaom. In the last couple of years she has grown her Twitter following from 1K followers to over 116K followers. Her tweets are filled with personality as she covers all aspects of marketing and building an audience. In this episode we cover: 1. Amanda's unusual career...

Oct 23, 202250 min

E21: Michael Sikand: Why Short Form Content is King, Building a Massive Media Company & Running MFM's TikTok

Michael Sikand (@michaelsikand) is the Founder & CEO of @ourfuturehq, a media company curating business news in the form of bites for Gen Z audiences. They have exploded in the last year gaining over +500K cross-platform subscribers. In total, Mike has amassed 400M views over the years. Besides creating content for his own podcast, his company also runs the TikTok for @ShaanVP’s and @thesamparr ‘s pod @myfirstmilpod, one of the biggest business podcasts in the space. In this episode we discu...

Oct 16, 20221 hr 3 min

E20: Reflections On Reaching Episode 20

This is episode 20 of the podcast. In this episode I sit down with my virtual assistant, Kolby to talk through reaching this milestone for the podcast. We talk about: Whats the podcast origin story? Lessons I have learnt from podcasting What motivated and continues to motivate me to do it Whats next for the podcast? What Mr.Beast taught me about producing content? What have been my favorite guests and how did they inspire me? Advice for someone who is looking to start building a following online...

Oct 09, 202222 min

E19: Jeremy Moser: 7-figure agency owner on the power of copywriting

Jeremy is the CEO and founder of two startups in the content ecosystem. @userp_io is an award-winning marketing agency focusing on SaaS brands, and @wordable_io , an application that makes publishing Google Docs to blogs easier. He has a twitter following of over 80,000, sharing advice on copywriting, a marketing skill he believes could make you millions. In this episode, we discuss: 1. How he started a successful agency business 2. The best way to acquire the necessary skills to run a business ...

Oct 02, 202258 min

E18: Dakotah Rice: The Journey from Wall Street to Fintech Founder

Dakotah Rice is the founder of Poolit, a platform allowing users to invest in top private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds with no minimums. Before becoming a full-time founder, Dakotah worked for some of the most prestigious firms on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs (trading GS), Coatue and The Carlyle Group. Learning directly from global investment companies with billions under management, he provided a wide range of financial services for his clients with a key purpose to invest wisely and ...

Sep 25, 20221 hr 5 min

E17: Zach Pogrob: The Power of the Boring Business

Zach Pogrob is the creator behind @behaviorhack on Instagram, where he has racked up a following of close to 200K followers. As a multi platform creator, he shares and tweets powerful messages about following-your-obsession and entrepreneurship besides, of course, documenting his own views about building his brands. He is also the founder of @Peakphotobooths, an innovative photo booth company bringing fun moments for weddings and other events in New Jersey and New York areas. From starting his b...

Sep 18, 202249 min

E16: Kirby Porter: The Creator Economy & Web 3

Kirby Porter has been a prominent figure in the sports industry. As the founder of New Game Labs, she supports athletes by building their brands in the creators economy. One of the goals of her company for the next 8 years is ‘to inspire 1 million athletes to unleash their inner creator and leverage technology to scale their brands’ but her ambition doesn’t stop there. Kirby started her career in the marketing and communications department at PepsiCo (trading PEP) before venturing into her own b...

Sep 11, 202257 min

E15: Michael Karnjanaprakorn: Founder of Skillshare on How to Live The Good Life

Michael Karnjanaprakorn is behind many successful startups. He started Skillshare and Otis. He was also an early employee at Behance and Hot Potato (now part of META). Michael, who just turned 40, writes about life, money, entrepreneurship and business for his growing 34k followers on Twitter. When he’s not creating disruptive companies, he’s probably eating burgers, improving his golf score or watching UFC fights. In this episode, we discuss: The mindset changes you need to implement in order t...

Sep 04, 20221 hr 5 min

E14: Jack Butcher Part 2: The blueprint to building a 7 figure online business

This is part 2 of our episode with Jack Butcher, Founder of Visualize Value. Jack spent 10 years working in Fortune 100 advertising in NYC as a creative director for multi-billion dollar brands. He then started his own advertising agency and is the founder of @visualizevalue - a platform that offers courses on selling digital products and creating high-impact, unique images. Jack @jackbutcher posts his unforgettable visuals to his 207.9k followers on Twitter. In this episode we discuss: Jack's j...

Aug 28, 202239 min

E13: Jack Butcher Part 1: Founder of Visualize Value on How Taking Big Risks Led to Big Rewards

Today’s guest on the podcast is Jack Butcher. Jack spent 10 years working in Fortune 100 advertising in NYC as a creative director for multi-billion dollar brands. He has since started his own advertising agency and is the founder of @visualizevalue - a platform that offers courses on selling digital products and creating high-impact, unique images. Jack ( @jackbutcher on Twitter) posts his unforgettable visuals to his 207.9k followers on Twitter. In this episode we discuss: How does the environ...

Aug 21, 202240 min

E12: Dave Kline: Former Hedgefund Recruiter On How You Can Take Your Career to the Next Level

Today's guest on the podcast is Dave Kline. He is the owner of Skillscouter, where he teaches leaders how to build great teams & level up in their career. Before that he worked for over 10 years at Bridgewater Associates, helping hire talent for the world's biggest hedgefund. He also worked at Moodys, one of the premier financial services companies in the United States. In the last year, he has grown his following on Twitter to nearly 60,000 followers writing on how people can level up in th...

Jun 26, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 12

E11: Dakota Robertson on going from college dropout to becoming a 6-figure business owner

Todays guest on the Podcast is Dakota Robertson. He is the owner of Growth Ghost, a six-figure “Twitter Ghostwriting Service” that helps grow intentional audiences, increase profits and decrease workloads for companies. Dakota started off as a “jack of all trades”, he worked as an electrician, security, even started his own drop shipping business. With a few self help books and re-evaluation Dakota began getting into Crypto and learning about Copywriting. From there Dakota created his Twitter ac...

Jun 19, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 11

E10: Barrett O'Neill on how he passed up a banking Internship to build a 7-Figure Storage Company

Barrett O'Neill is the Co-Founder of OnDemand Storage, a 7-figure storage company. He is also the Owner of BrightLine Media, a company that helps organizations rank higher in search engines. He also worked a year in corporate at Bain Capital. Barrett grew up wanting to be a professional Baseball player however an elbow injury derailed that dream. He started a storage company with his friend in college and has grown that to a 7 figure business. In the last year he has also grown his Twitter follo...

Jun 08, 20221 hr 2 minEp. 11

E9: Paige Doherty On Raising a $5 million VC Fund at 22 Years Old

Paige Finn Doherty is a Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures. It's a early stage fund investing in product led growth companies at the future of work and play at the pre-seed/seed stage & they are backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Tribe Capital, Bonfire Ventures among others. She has also written & published her own children's book, Seed to Harvest: A simple explanation of Venture Capital. She has built a following on Twitter & also hosts her own podcast, Seed to Harvest In this...

May 29, 202248 min

E8: Wes Kao On How To Take Your Career To The Next Level....

Wes Kao is the Co-founder of Maven, the first education platform to offer Cohort-based & Community-driven courses. Maven raised $20 million in Series A funding last year. Before that Wes built the Alt-MBA course with Seth Godin. She helped grow the business to thousands of students across 550 cities. She has over 130K followers on Twitter sharing her thoughts on marketing, online courses & mental frameworks. In this episode we talk about: - What inspired Wes to pursue a career in Marketi...

May 22, 202247 minEp. 9

E7: Bilal Zaidi Part 2: finding the right partner, how to network with high performers & the origin story of the Not Investment Advice Podcast

This is the 2nd part from our episode with Bilal Zaidi. Bilal is the Founder of Creator Lab, he is also the host of the Creator Lab podcast where he has interviewed Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Urban & Shaan Puri. He is also 1/3 of the Not Investment Advice Podcast with Trung Phan & Jack Butcher. In the 2nd part of this episode we discuss: - Dating & relationships: finding the right life partner - The value he has got from having a podcast - How he got guests like Gary Vaynerchuk & Cenk ...

May 15, 202241 min

E6: Bilal Zaidi: How To Live Life on Your Terms & Make Money Doing It

Bilal is the founder of Creator Lab which is a digital marketing agency. He is also the host of the Creator Lab podcast where he has interviewed the likes of Gary Vee, Tim Urban, Anthony Pompliano among others. He is also ⅓ of the Not Investment Advice podcast with Trung Phan & Jack Butcher. This is part 1 of a two part episode. In this episode we discuss: - How Bilal started working at Google straight out of university - How anyone can make an instant impact at their job - How to succeed wo...

May 09, 202249 min

E5: Tyler Schmitt on building leverage, working with Gary Vaynerchuk, starting 137PM & the Card Talk Pod

Today's guest is Tyler Schmitt. Tyler was AJ & Gary Vaynerchuk's right hand man for a number of years. He is now the General Manager of 137PM & the host of the Card Talk Pod sponsored by eBay. In this episode we discuss: How Tyler started working for Gary at Vaynermedia The power of punching above your weight How he became Gary's right hand man The importance of building leverage & stacking your chips How you can get your dream job working with someone you admire The best piece of fe...

Apr 25, 20221 hr 1 min

E4: Nathan Baugh: Finding Your Zone of Genius

Today's guest is Nathan Baugh. Nathan has gone from 0 to nearly 90K followers on Twitter in less than a year. His tweets combine incredible storytelling with a focus on sports & business. He had his own newsletter called Sideline Sprint & now runs the World Builders newsletter, which focuses on making you a better storyteller. In this episode, we discuss how Nathan got into writing on Twitter, how he uses the platform to build relationships, the simple formula anyone can use to find thei...

Apr 10, 202250 min

E3: Ben Levy, Shaan Puri's Business Partner: How to go viral online & stay authentic to who you are

Today's guest is Ben Levy. Ben is the right-hand man to Shaan Puri, he has worked with Shaan on everything from the My First Million Podcast to Shaan's Power Writing Course to the Milk Road newsletter. Ben is a master at building a trusted audience online & he shares all his tips in this episode Show Notes: In this episode we cover who is Ben Levy & what is he working on (2:20), what is great content & whats Ben's process to producing content (5:08), How to go viral online (8:04), ho...

Mar 27, 202254 min

E2: Chris Hladczuk: Building a World Class Network Through Online Content

Today's guest is Chris Hladczuk. Chris is a recent college graduate & he is absolutely killing it. He has a built an audience of over 160K followers on Twitter, tweeting about interesting business stories & frameworks. He was also the host of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society Podcast, where he interviewed the likes of Emmett Shear (Co-founder & CEO of Twitch), Michael Seibel (CEO of Y-Combinator) & Kevin Ryan ("Godfather of NYC Tech"). Today he is an Investment Banking Analyst at ...

Mar 13, 202251 min

E1: Blake Burge: How to Build a Huge Audience (The Right Way)

Today's guest is Blake Burge. Blake runs the manufacturing arm of a business in Oklahoma. He has also built a huge Twitter following in the past year, going from 0 to over 150K followers in 10 months. He tweets out life advice, business stories & productivity hacks. Show Notes: In this episode we cover what topics Blake finds interesting (4:18), how people can get started working on their goals (7:44), how Blake grew his following so quick (14:15), the first tweet that Blake posted which wen...

Feb 28, 20221 hr 10 minSeason 1Ep. 1

E0: Ruben Harris: How To Win in Today's Job Market

Today's guest is Ruben Harris, CEO & Founder of Career Karma. Career Karma gives you the information, tools, and support you need to quickly get into a tech career. In this episode we discuss Career Karma's recent $40 million funding round, how anyone can find their purpose & why its so important. Finally how Ruben finds emerging trends early & the value of an incredible network. Show notes: Career Karma's recent $40 million dollar funding round, why Ruben started the importance of f...

Feb 08, 202246 minSeason 1Ep. 1
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