WATCH Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Over the last decade, Justin Welsh has helped build two $50M+ ARR companies, teams of 150+ people, and raise over $300M in venture capital. Then, in 2019, he burned out. Now he runs a boutique advisory firm for entrepreneurs and creates digital products for creators. He has 150,000 followers on Twitter, 250,000 followers on LinkedIn, more than 35,000 subscribers to his email newsletter, and has earned more than $2M as a solo creator. In...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH Subscribe to our YouTube channel *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION I wanted to drop into your feed today and share some BIG news with you If you havent listened to yesterdays episode with Justin Moore yet, I wanted to let you know that it just so happens to also be the first video episode of Creative Elements! Its beautiful, Im so proud of it, and I wanted to tell you a little bit more about it in case you havent already given it a look on YouTube. Because heres the thing I think youre going to be s...
Jul 13, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Justin Moore is a Sponsorship Coach & the founder of Creator Wizard, a school & community that teaches you how to find & negotiate your dream brand deals so that you stop leaving thousands on the table. Hes also a member of my membership community, the Creative Companion Club! Along with his wife April, Justin has been a full-time creator for over 7 years and has personally made over $3M working with brands. He has also run an influence...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Chanti Zak is a quiz funnel strategist and growth coach for online business owners, change-makers, and brands. Chanti has developed quizzes for Jenna Kutcher, Carrie Green, Rick Mulready, John Lee Dumas, Amy Porterfield, and many more. Those quizzes have attracted hundreds of thousands of qualified leads and millions in sales for my clients and students. In this episode, we talk about how Chanti got into quiz building, the different types of quizzes you can use, the steps to building your OWN qu...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Klitsner is the inventor of Bop It and more than a dozen different versions of Bop It including Bop It Extreme, Bop It Blast, Bop It Tetris, and even Bratz Bop It.Since 1996, Bop It has sold more than 30 million units worldwide. Dan estimates that he's seen hundreds of his game ideas go to market and has given up to 40,000 total concept pitches. And today, Dan has nearly 500,000 followers on TikTok. In this episode, we talk about how Dan broke into the world of game creation, how the game in...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Matt D'Avella is a filmmaker, YouTuber & podcaster that explores what it means to live a good life. Matt directed Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, which was acquired by Netflix in 2016. His YouTube channel has nearly 3 million subscribers, and his videos have been viewed more than 175 million times. In this episode, we talk about his experience creating the Minimalism documentary, managing his creative energy, crafting a good story, and how Experimentation has helped him fin...
Jun 21, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain. Tiago has spent more than 10 years researching and personally experimenting with a new way of organizing our digital lives and improving our productivity as creative professionals. The Building a Second Brain system is the result of thousands of hours spent teaching, speaking, coaching, and writing about Personal Knowledge Management. In this episode, we talk about Tiagos interest in digital organization, how he came up with the name Buildin...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Steph Smithis a growth marketer,writer, andindie maker. She's the creator of two books, Doing Content Right and Doing Time Right. Doing Content Right is a 270-page book published in 2020. The book retails for $100 and has sold nearly 3200 copies on Gumroad. Steph creates her independent work on the side while leading Trends for the Hustle, which generates millions in ARR and has 15000+ paying subscribers. In this episode, we talk about how Stephanie found her way from chemical engineering into b...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jordan Harbinger is a Wall Street lawyer turned podcast interviewer with an approachable style and knack for securing high-profile guests. His show, The Jordan Harbinger Show was selected as part of Apples Best of 2018. And today, the Jordan Harbinger Show generates more than 6 million downloads per month. In this episode, we talk about building strong relationships, effective sales strategies that people actually appreciate, being a great podcast host, and ALL of it really comes down to relatio...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hello my friend! I wanted to share a very short message today This past Memorial Day weekend, I married my best friend! Mallory and I had a beautiful, amazing, perfect outdoor wedding here in Ohio surrounded by about 120 of our closest friends and family. Weve been engaged since December 2020, so for this to finally all come to fruition in such a beautiful way was absolutely amazing. We got married on a 12-acre farm at a property built in 1850. Theres a pine forest in the backyard where the cere...
Jun 06, 2022•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Daphne Gomez is the creator of Teacher Career Coach. She is a former teacher turned instructional designer, podcaster, and career coach. Teacher Career Coach receives more than 150,000 monthly views. Daphne has 85K followers on Instagram, more than 85K email subscribers, and a podcast that generates nearly 50K downloads per month! In this episode, we talk about Daphnes transition out of the classroom, how shes leveraged partnerships and collaboration to grow on Instagram, how she gets so many po...
May 31, 2022•56 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast We have a special episode this week! For the first time, I wanted to do a little listener Q&A episodewhich Im calling a Mailbag! A couple of weeks ago, I posted on my social media looking for listener questions. So if you dont follow me on Twitter or Instagram yet, be sure to do so! Im @jayclouse on both. So today I have 12 listener questions that Im going to answer for you. This may be a little more free-form and rambly than a typical episode of Creative Elements, but let me know what you think...
May 24, 2022•49 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Sam Parr is the co-host of My First Million and the founder of The Hustle. My First Million is one of the top business podcasts on the planet, generating more than 1 million downloads per month. The Hustle is a business and tech newsletter that had 1.5 million subscribers when it was acquired by Hubspot in February 2021. We dont know what the terms of the deal are Sam has said that hes taking the number to the grave. But Axios reported that The Hustle was valued at $27 million. In this episode, ...
May 17, 2022•1 hr•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain. Tiago has spent more than 10 years researching and personally experimenting with a new way of organizing our digital lives and improving our productivity as creative professionals. The Building a Second Brain system is the result of thousands of hours spent teaching, speaking, coaching, and writing about Personal Knowledge Management. In this episode, we talk about Tiagos interest in digital organization, how he came up with the name Buildin...
May 10, 2022•59 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Arvid Kahl is the creator of The Bootstrapped Founder. The Bootstrapped Founder is the home of his Twitter course Find your Following, the books Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business and The Embedded Entrepreneur, which is an audience-driven book teaching you how to build an audience-driven business. Previously, Arvid was the co-founder of FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with my partner Danielle Simpson. FeedbackPanda was sold to SureSwift ...
May 03, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast To continue to celebrate our 100th episode this week, Im airing a second interview with yours truly this week. This interview came from the Danny Miranda Podcast, where I appeared as a guest just last week. I thought Danny did an excellent job of interviewing and asking questions that Im not often asked. Since this episode covers a lot of new ground, especially in comparison to my interview earlier this week, I asked Danny if I could share it on my feed as well. And he was kind enough to oblige....
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week marks the 100th episode of Creative Elements! That's 100 unique interviews (and 87 unique elements) in just over two years. In March of this year, 2022, the show crossed 1,000,000 all-time downloads! And it gets about 40,000 downloads each and every month. Its been featured in Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Castro, and more. The success this show has had and continues to build is all because of YOU. You listening, supporting, and sharing the show. We have nearly 250 f...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Amanda Natividad is VP of Marketing for audience research startup, SparkToro. Shes also a contributor for Adweek, a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, and a former journalist. Amanda previously led marketing for Growth Machine, led marketing for Liftopia, built Fitbits B2B content program, and led content and communications for NatureBox. In this episode, we talk about Amandas path into marketing, her advice for growing your Twitter following, her new live talk show on YouTube called The Menu, and wha...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Over the last month, Jay Acunzo and I have both launched our own membership programs. And while we were in the thick of designing and launching those programs, we thought it would be a good idea to record a podcast about it. This episode is part of Jay Talking, a series of conversations with my friend Jay Acunzo that are less of an interview, and more of a conversation between two creators in the trenches of building their businesses. Jay is an author, a speaker, and a showrunner. He started his...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Dickie Bush is the creator of Ship 30 for 30, a cohort-based course and community of people 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. Since our first interview, Dickie has grown his Twitter following from 10,000 to more than 175,000 at the time of publishing. He's also now served 4,000 students ...
Apr 05, 2022•59 min•Ep 97•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 04, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nathan Barry is a creator, author, speaker, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit. ConvertKit powers the audiences for creators like Gretchen Rubin, Chris Guillebeau, Pat Flynn, Tim Ferriss, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Tim McGraw. Prior to ConvertKit, Nathan made over $150,000 from self-published books in less than one year. His book Authority is still often referenced within the creator community. In this episode, we talk about Nathans wild year of selling ebooks, trends hes seeing among creators t...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Josh Hall is a YouTuber, course creator, and web design coach specializing in WordPress and Divi. Josh helps people build and scale 6-figure, work-from-home web design businesses. He's created nine web design courses as well as a membership, Josh's Web Design Club. On his YouTube channel, he posts videos about the business of web design, the tools he uses, the video interviews of his podcast, and live stream Q&A sessions. In this episode, we talk about Joshs evolution from underpricing clients t...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Turla is the guitarist, lead singer, and founding member of Murder By Death, a five-piece band from Louisville, Kentucky. They have a unique sound that's somewhere between folk, rock, and spooky western. Even more unique is their cult-like following that has supported them for the last 20 years. In this episode, were talking about how Murder By Death has built such a loyal following. We talk about the early days on tour, how they accidentally got lumped in with the Emo movement, why they us...
Mar 15, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ann Handley is a writer, digital marketing pioneer, and author of the Wall Street Journal bestsellers Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content and co-author of Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business. Her company, MarketingProfs, is a marketing training and education company with more than 600,000 subscribers. She is a LinkedIn Influencer with more than 420,000 follower...
Mar 08, 2022•57 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Codie Sanchez is a reformed journalist, turned institutional investor to cannabis investor and advisor, to now Founder of Contrarian Thinking and Cofounder of Unconventional Acquisitions. She helps people think critically, and cashflow unconventionally while allocating to what she calls "sweaty & boring" small businesses. Most notably these are businesses in the micro-private equity space in traditional service-based industries. Throughout her career, she has worked at the intersection of market...
Mar 01, 2022•59 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Cathryn Lavery is the Founder & CEO of BestSelf. Since 2013 she's designed, launched and sold over $32 Million in consumer products. Along the way, BestSelf Co. won Shopifys Build a Business Competition in 2016 and the Build a BIGGER Business competition in 2017 the only company to win both awards consecutively. We have been featured in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, MTV, Huffington Post, Forbes, Inc., and more. Were funded solely through the investments made by thousands of customers who hav...
Feb 22, 2022•53 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Mariah Sinclair is an award-winning designer. During most of her career, she worked for advertising agencies as a designer and digital marketer serving Fortune 500 companies and the City of Los Angeles. Then she designed her first book cover in 2001. Now known as the Queen of Cozy, Mariahs clients regularly dominate the top of the cozy mystery charts on Amazon. Today, Mariah sometimes designs hundreds of pre-made covers and lists them for sale at once, earning thousands of dollars within minutes...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Last week I was featured on The Accidental Creative, a podcast hosted by Todd Henry since 2005. Its one of the most influential and important podcasts out there for creative professionals, and I was honored to be a guest. And its great for the show too Im sure a lot of new listeners found Creative Elements by listening to that episode. In this episode we talk a lot about Creative Independence a topic I care a lot about and think YOU will too. We all seem to strive for financial independence...bu...
Feb 10, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wes Kao is co-founder of Maven, the first platform for cohort-based courses. Maven helps creators build a cohort-based course and deliver an incredible student experience at scale. She helped build cohort-based courses for Outlier.org (from the co-founder of MasterClass), David Perells Write of Passage, Tiago Fortes Build a Second Brain, Section4/Professor Scott Galloway, and Morning Brew. Previously, Wes was the co-founder of the altMBA. Under her leadership, the altMBA grew from zero to 550 ci...
Feb 08, 2022•56 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast 
