Gina Bianchiniis the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks. Mighty Networks helps creators bring their community, courses, memberships, and events together in one place under their brand. Mighty Networks has more than 10,000 paying creators, brands, and coaches today. Users include established creators and brands such as YouTube star Adriene Mishler, Xprize and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis, author Luvvie Ajayi Jones, comedian Amanda Seales, Girlboss founder Sophia Amoruso and bran...
Aug 03, 2021•52 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Sutherland is a former collegiate Physics professor turned full-time content creator. Chris began posting videos to TikTok in January 2020, quickly going viral and building an audience of more than 2 million followers. Chris parlayed that audience into 144K+ Instagram followers, 60K YouTube subscribers, and 30K followers on Twitter too. Today, Chris is building anewTikTok profile focused on crypto and building an online course too. In this episode, we talk about Chriss path to becoming a c...
Jul 27, 2021•51 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Austin Kleon is theNew York Timesbestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age:Steal Like An Artist,Show Your Work!, andKeep Going. Hes also the author ofNewspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. Hes been featured on NPRsMorning Edition, PBSNewshour, and inThe New York TimesandThe Wall Street Jou...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast Charli Marie Prangley is the creator of the YouTube Channel CharlieMarieTV. Every week, she shares insights into life as a professional designer alongside tutorials and advice on design tools and concepts. The channel has nearly 200,000 subscribers. But by day, Charli works as the Creative Director at ConvertKit while building her channel and podcast, Design Life, on the side. New Zealand-born and half-British, Charli currently lives in Valencia, Spain. She's passionate about side projects and h...
Jul 13, 2021•59 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Ali Abdaal is a Cambridge University medicine graduate, now working as a junior doctor in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). He started making YouTube videos in his final year of medical school at Cambridge University in the summer of 2017. As of October 2020, his channel has 1.1 million subscribers and earns over 100,000 ($130k) each month, with 5-10 hours of effort each week. In this episode we talk about going to medical school in the UK, why he started his YouTube channel, how you can g...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jay Acunzo is an author, speaker, and showrunner. He's the host of 3 Clips (recently acquired by Castos) and Unthinkable, which he describes as Radiolab for creators. Jay writes a weekly newsletter called Playing Favorites, a membership called Make What Matters, and in 2018 he published his book, Break The Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work. With a combined 15+ years of public performance and creative projects working with companies like Google, ESPN, and ...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Today is a special crossover episode. Last week, I interviewed the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, Ryan Hawk. After a while, all podcast hosts are asked by their listeners to spend some time talking about THEIR OWN journey. But it's weird to talk about yourself, and borderline insane to interview yourself. Luckily, my recent guest (and incredible podcast host) Ryan Hawk asked if he could turn the tables and interview me for a special crossover episode of Creative Elements and the L...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast Ryan Hawk is a keynote speaker and the host of the Learning Leader Show. The show has been listened to by millions of people in more than 150 countries, and Forbes called it, the most dynamic leadership podcast around. He is also the author of Welcome to Management: How To Grow From Top Performer To Excellent Leader. Previous to the Learning Leader Show, Ryan worked in corporate America for 12 years. I started as an entry-level telephonic sales rep and worked my way to manager, director, and ult...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Brennan Dunnis the creator of Double Your Freelancing, RightMessage, and Mastering ConvertKit. Brennan is one of the most well-regarded email marketers on the planet. Using cutting-edge techniques in personalization, Brennan has generated millions of dollars in sales of his products and a lot of that is automated. After starting Double Your Freelancing as a blog in 2015, Brennan realized that he could more effectively sell his courses using personalization on his website and in his email. In 201...
Jun 08, 2021•54 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl has published more than 700 episodes since 2007. The podcast provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. It's one of eleven shows on the Quick and Dirty Tips network. She is an inductee in the Podcasting Hall of Fame and a five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. In this episode, we talk about the growth of Gram...
Jun 01, 2021•55 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Im sharing with you an episode of Freelance To Founder, another show here on the Podglomerate Network. Freelance to Founder features real-time coaching sessions with freelancers who want to scale their service business. In each episode, show co-hosts Preston Lee and Clay Mosleywho have both scaled their one-person businesses to something biggerhelp guests and listeners on their journey to finally achieve founder status. Freelance to Founder strives to provide real-world, practical, and actionabl...
May 27, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Courtland Allen is the creator of Indie Hackers, the largest online community of startup founders. He created the site in August 2016 and it was acquired by Stripe in April 2017. He is an MIT graduate, Y Combinator alum, full-stack web developer, and professional designer. Today, Courtland continues to run the Indie Hackers team at Stripe and hosts the Indie Hackers podcast. In this episode we talk about how Courtland learned web design, why he doesnt recommend quitting your job, selling Indie H...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Hello my friend! Welcome to a special solo episode of Creative Elements Ive been thinking that Id start sharing some more short episodes like this where I go a little bit deeper on topics that have come up both on the show and in my life And today I want to talk a little bit about comparison traps. Subscribe to my email newsletter Let's talk about this in the community Follow me on Twitter or Instagram *** WHEN YOU'RE READY Creator Science Newsletter Get CreatorHQ (creator operating system) Join...
May 20, 2021•14 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Allen Gannett is the author of The Creative Curve (Penguin Random House, 2018) that shows how the creative process can be learned by anyone. He founded and served as CEO of TrackMaven, a marketing analytics platform that merged with Skyword, the leading content marketing platform, in 2018. In this episode, we talk about how Allen built TrackMaven into a multi-million dollar company in his twenties, the challenges that come from being ambitious, how to receive feedback, strengthening your innate ...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast I wanted to share a little bit of a different episode with you this week. Back in episode #49 of this show, I spoke with Corey Haines, the creator of Swipe Files. Corey and I spent the majority of that episode talking about his approach to Product Hunt, and so we didnt dive as deeply into Swipe Files as we probably should have. But a big part of Swipe Files is Coreys podcast, Everything Is Marketing. And in April, Corey interviewed me for that show. He caught me at a really interesting time. And...
May 11, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alec Torelli is a professional high-stakes poker player turned creator, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business. Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices. Lately, Alec is one of the leading voice...
May 04, 2021•1 hr•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Corbett Barr is the creator of Fizzle, a membership combining courses, podcasts, and community for creators. Corbett started Fizzle in 2012, and has been self-employed on the Internet since 2005.He recently decided to start over to refocus on writing and re-evaluate his digital self. In this episode we talk about what brought Corbett into the nascent world of digital creators in 2005, the evolution of Fizzle, cultivating community, and why a digital reboot is a step we may all want to consider. ...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Hey! I'm dropping in today to share with you a new show from the Podglomerate called Trail Weight. After 30 years of feeling stuck, Andrew Steven attempted to get in shape for a month-long backpacking trip through the Sierra Nevadas. Looking at his career for inspiration, Andrew finds an unlikely revelation by imagining his lifes narrative arc. But after a death in the family, he found himself in a story of repeating loss. Trail Weight chronicles Andrews journey as he narrates a year of his life...
Apr 22, 2021•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bijan Stephen is a writer, editor, and video correspondent based in Brooklyn, NY. He covers Twitch and Streaming at The Verge and a music critic at The Nation. Independently, he co-hosts a show on Twitch called One Time On The Internet, streams, and is a character on an actual play podcast called Fun City. In this episode we talk about Bijans experience in journalism, why he decided freelancing wasnt for him, the differences between gaming and streaming, what it takes to get started streaming, a...
Apr 20, 2021•48 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast Cole Cuchna is the creator of Dissect, a serialized music podcast that examines a single album per season, one song per episode. Dissect was named "Best podcast of 2017" by Quartz, and the following year was named "Best podcast of 2018" by the New York Times. In this episode, we talk about Coles attempt at being a professional musician, his love of creative writing, the beginning of Dissect, and how his perseverance through late nights paid off in helping him create Dissect full time. Listen to ...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Dickie Bush is a macro investor and the creator of Ship 30 for 30, a community of writers developing a writing habit in 30 days. He is passionate about providing writers and creators with the tools, resources, processes, and mindsets required to find points of leverage and achieve exponential growthboth personally and professionally. In this episode we talk about Dickies humble newsletter beginnings, his experimentation with Twitter, the growth of Ship 30 for 30, and why listening to feedback lo...
Apr 06, 2021•55 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Nick DenBoer(also known asSmearballs) a director, animator, editor, music producer, remix artist and self-proclaimed "all around great guy." With a following of 75,000 on Instagram and 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, Nick has worked with clients including Conan, deadmau5, KFC, Old Spice, Wieden + Kennedy, and more. Nick has an incredibly unique style of animation, and has recently begun selling his work independently as NFTs on the crypto art platform SuperRare. In this episode we talk about Nick...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Corey Haines is the creator of Swipe Files, a membership site that provides content, community, and courses to help you master marketing. Corey curates marketing examples, copywriting help, and more through his newsletter, membership community, and podcast. In this episode we talk about Coreys five pillars of Growth, how he achieved early traction with Swipe Files, why he decided to go full time, and a complete strategy for using Product Hunt to get in front of potential fans and customers. Clic...
Mar 23, 2021•55 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Rosie Sherry is the creator of Rosieland, a community and resource hub for community builders. She previously led community for Indie Hackers, a community of more than 140,000 independent makers. In this episode we talk about Rosies history of building community with Ministry of Testing, what she learned through her time at Indie Hackers, the different forms community can take, and why trust is at the heart of improving community participation. Transcript and show notes can be found here *** REC...
Mar 16, 2021•54 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, I'm talking with Courtland Allen, the founder of Indie Hackers. As Ive shared a couple times over the last few months, my accelerator and community Unreal Collective was acquired by Smart Passive Income in January of this year. I wrote an article about the acquisition, and it got quite a bit of attention. One of the places it got shared was on Indie Hackers, a massive online community of nearly 30,000 people trying to build profitable side projects. It was originally share...
Mar 11, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amy Landino is the creator of the award-winning series AmyTV and author of the best-selling book Vlog Like a Boss; How to Kill It Online With Video Blogging. With nearly 400K YouTube subscribers and over 23 million views, Amy has empowered people from over 100 countries all over the world to go after the life they want. In this episode we talk about leveraging YouTube, building an audience, creating a persona, and how Routine has been at the center of her entire content journey. Transcript and s...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lalese Stamps is a ceramicist and the founder of Lolly Lolly Ceramics, a small-scale ceramics production and design studio. Since undertaking a 100 day project at the end of 2019, Lolly Lolly Ceramics has grown to more than 100K followers on Instagram. In this episode we talk about Laleses start to ceramics, the process of making a mug, growing a large following overnight, brand partnerships, and how her tenacity has helped her to make the most out of her opportunities. Transcript and show notes...
Mar 02, 2021•51 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah McAllister is the Founder, Director and CEO of GoCleanCo, a widely sought after cleaning company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The GoCleanCo Instagram account serves more than 1.8M followers today with cleaning hacks and tips. In this episode we talk about Sarahs scrappy beginnings, how hard it was to even pay herself in the early days, accidentally selling out products on Amazon, and Sarahs best advice for growing a following on Instagram. Transcript and show notes can be found here *** RE...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Last week, I was featured on the Smart Passive Income podcast. The SPI Podcast is one of the biggest shows in online business. The host, Pat Flynn, has been podcasting for nearly a decade, has published somewhere close to 2,000 episodes of his shows, and the SPI podcast has had more than 60 million downloads all time! Pat was on the show back in August of 2020 with his business partner, Matt Gartland. And the two of them spoke about the future of SPI, and how they were focused on growing the bus...
Feb 18, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs are the co-creators of Lemonada Media, a podcast network that shares the unfiltered version of the human experience. In 2015, Steph lost her brother, beloved comedian Harris Wittels, to a heroin overdose. And in 2017, Jess lost her newly-married brother Stefano Cordova, Jr. to a fentanyl overdose. In this episode we talk about creating Last Day, how Stephanie produces their narrative shows, how Jessicas intuition led to creating Lemonada Media, ...
Feb 16, 2021•43 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast 
