In this episode, we're going to do another listener mailbag. Instead of doing a guest interview as I typically do, I'm going to do a question and answer. I'm going to start with the questions that I got from members of The Lab, then I'm going to transition to Twitter, LinkedIn, and then finally Threads. I'm going to answer as many questions as I can before I lose steam. Listen to my recent Mailbag episode Full transcript and show notes *** RECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODE → #169: Q&A with Jay *** WHEN Y...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep 161•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Tori Dunlap was originally on episode #88 of this show back in January of 2022, and a lot has changed for Tori. Now Tori is the founder of Her First $100k. This is something that she built after saving a $100,000 herself by age 25. She quit her corporate job in marketing and founded this company to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money. Tori started on TikTok – or at least that's where she first had her breakthrough. She has two...
Aug 15, 2023•55 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Nuseir Yassin started the channel Nas Daily with the mission of highlighting incredible people and places on the planet. He set a goal to post a video every day for 1,000 straight days. 1,000 STRAIGHT DAYS… and he did it. Amassing 12 million subs, 6 billion views, and started two multi-million dollar companies along the way. He’s living out every YouTuber’s wildest dreams…right? So in this episode, you’ll learn: How Nuseir manages ou...
Aug 08, 2023•24 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast Kieran Drew is an ex-dentist who quit dentistry to learn writing, and now that is what he is teaching others as well. Kieran has a newsletter called Digital Freedom with nearly 30,000 subscribers. He also has more than 175,000 followers on Twitter, which is potentially where you have heard of Kieran. And recently, Kieran launched a new course called High Impact Writing. In this episode, you’ll learn: The process for creating and launching this course What he would do differently if he were to do...
Aug 01, 2023•53 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Phill Agnew is the host of The Nudge Podcast. On his podcast, Phill dives deep into the behavioral science of marketing. Phill has spent over 50 hours studying MrBeast’s channel, breaking down the psychological hacks Jimmy uses to hook viewers, so you don’t have to. So in this episode you’ll learn: The 3 Psychological Biases MrBeast uses most frequently Why they work And how you can apply them to your own videos Full transcript and s...
Jul 25, 2023•35 min•Ep 157•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and podcast creator. He’s the host and creator of Song Exploder, an award-winning podcast and a Netflix original television series, where musicians break down the creative process behind their songs. Vulture called Song Exploder “probably the best use of the podcast format ever.” As a musician, he’s released four albums under the moniker The One AM Radio, and an EP with Moors, his project with Lakeith Stanfield. Fast Company named him one of th...
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast This week, the Creator Science YouTube channel turns one year old! In the first year, we've uploaded: 35 interviews 2 solo videos 9 clips 79 shorts As a result, our channel has: 7,600 subscribers 255,000 views 23,900 hours of watch time $1,008.28 in earnings In this episode, my good friend and YouTube editor, Conor Conaboy, joins me to talk a little bit about our experience on YouTube in the last year. In this episode, you’ll learn: What we learned in our first year on YouTube The changes we've ...
Jul 11, 2023•57 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Ed Lawrence is the creator of the YouTube channel Film Booth, which helps YouTubers grow their channels. But Ed approaches his videos differently than your typical YouTuber. He’s found a way to make education entertaining. He's the answer to the question, what if learning wasn't boring? So in this episode, you’ll learn: How to use story as a teaching device How bingeable videos can turn first-time watchers into loyal fans Ed’s produc...
Jul 04, 2023•37 min•Ep 155•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION We're gonna do something a little bit different this week. In this episode, we're gonna slow down. We're gonna make this a little bit more casual, a little bit more of a hangout between me and you. Instead of doing a guest interview as I typically do, I'm going to do a question and answer episode. I'm going start with the questions that I got from members of The Lab, then I'm going to transition to Twitter, and then finally LinkedIn. I'm going to answer as many questions as I...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 154•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Tina Roth Eisenberg, also known as Swissmiss, started Creative Mornings in September of 2008, in New York City. She wanted to create an accessible, inspiring, morning event for creative people to meet. Today, there are Creative Mornings in more than 200 cities, about 70 countries across the globe, and it reaches 25,000 people per month. In addition to Creative Mornings, Tina is the founder of the designer temporary tattoo brand, Tatley, and the co-working community, Friends W...
Jun 20, 2023•51 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Paddy Galloway is the most sought-after YouTube strategist in the world. He’s worked with clients like MrBeast, Jesser, Ryan Trahan, and Noah Kagan. All in all, his clients generate 750 Million views PER MONTH. And that’s because Paddy puts most of his focus where other people don’t: pre-production. So in this episode, you’ll learn: What makes a great video idea How to develop great titles and thumbnails Why it’s better to take a few...
Jun 13, 2023•36 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION 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. If you're not familiar with Nathan, he was a guest on episode number 96 of this show a little more than a year ago. Nathan and I caught up about a month ago at CEX, the creator economy expo in Cleveland and there is some big news. ConvertKit acquired Sp...
Jun 09, 2023•51 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION This is a special episode for me. I've been a long-time listener of Tropical MBA. TMBA is a podcast between Dan Andrews and Ian Schoen. It's the first podcast focused on location-independent entrepreneurship. I was first on the show back in 2018 on their first ever "Consulting Corner" episode where they helped me work through some issues I was facing in my business. Fast forward to two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being a return guest on the Tropical MBA podcast to talk a...
Jun 06, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Jamie Rawsthorne is formerly half of the Zac and Jay show and is a current Youtube advisor to clients like Codie Sanchez and Morning Brew. In 2018, Zac and Jay posted "We Entered the World’s Strangest Sport," a video where they take part in the age-old Welsh tradition of bog snorkeling. That video was the catalyst for the channel's explosion, becoming one of the fastest-growing channels on YouTube. Jamie helped grow the Zac and Jay s...
May 30, 2023•33 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. As part of the research for this book, Dan analyzed 16,000 regrets from more than 100 countries. It’s a great book and I highly recommend it. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have bee...
May 23, 2023•1 hr•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast 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....
May 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Kevin Espiritu is the founder and CEO of Epic Gardening. Epic Gardening has a simple mission: to help people around the world learn how to grow fresh, healthy food, no matter where they live. And they’ve done a really good job of that – with nearly 300 MILLION views on their YouTube videos alone, Epic Gardening is one of the biggest names in the gardening space. Not only that, but Epic Gardening generates millions of dollars in reven...
May 09, 2023•50 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Chenell is the writer of Growth In Reverse, a weekly newsletter where she reverse engineers how a top creator grew from 0 to 50k+ subscribers. Chenell has done deep dives on Justin Welsh, Codie Sanchez, Lenny Rachitsky, Harry Dry, and many more. I read it every week and think it’s incredibly well-done. The premise is super clear, and as a result, Chenell has seen her OWN newsletter grow very quickly – nearing 10,000 subscribers in just about four months. In this episode, you’...
May 02, 2023•46 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Justin Moore is a sponsorship coach. His business, Creator Wizard, helps you find & negotiate your dream sponsorships so that you stop leaving money on the table. Along with his wife April, Justin’s been a full-time creator for over 7 years and has personally made over $3M working with brands. He has also run an influencer marketing agency for over 5 years that has helped other creators earn an additional $2M. For the last couple of ...
Apr 25, 2023•43 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Matt McGarry is the owner of Growletter, an agency helping some of the biggest newsletters in the world grow. He's helped The Hustle, Codie Sanchez, The Milk Road, and others attract millions of email subscribers. He also studies the world’s best newsletters, content creators, and media companies and shares their strategies and tactics through his newsletter, called The Newsletter Operator. He is THE guy to know if you’re focused on building a newsletter and are interested in...
Apr 18, 2023•50 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Bari Baumgardner is the founder of SAGE Events. Bari has been in events since the 90s and has worked with some of the biggest names in business. When Tony Robbins was figuring out how to build his legendary virtual event stadium, he got in touch with Bari. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to create a perfect event The perfect event format The costs associated with an event How you can earn revenue outside of ticket sales Full trans...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Guy Raz is an independent producer who has been described by the New York Times as "one of the most popular podcasters in history." He's the creator of the wildly successful podcast How I Built This and he's also the former host and co-creator of TED Radio Hour. All together, Guy's programs are heard by nearly 19 MILLION listeners EACH MONTH. In this episode, you’ll learn: What Guy has learned from these Great Creators The similariti...
Apr 04, 2023•54 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Hello my friend! I have some BIG news to share with you today. This podcast has a new name! This show is no longer named Creative Elements. Moving forward, this show will be named Creator Science. Don’t worry, there’s nothing YOU need to do – it’s the same RSS feed that you’re already subscribed to. You’ll just see it pop up under the name “Creator Science” instead of Creative Elements and you’ll notice some slight differences in the new artwork. Rebrands are really hard. But I have two mantras ...
Mar 28, 2023•33 min•Ep 142•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 21, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Sean Cannell is the founder of Think Media and the author of YouTube Secrets. Think Media has nearly two and a half million subscribers and their videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. Sean is one of the most respected voices in the world of YouTube, and he says that the game is changing. In this episode you’ll learn: What types of videos are doing well on YouTube today What metrics you should be paying attention to S...
Mar 14, 2023•55 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Maurizio Leo is a software engineer-turned-baker who's baked sourdough bread for more than ten years. Maurizio started a blog called The Perfect Loaf in 2013 to share his passion for baking sourdough bread at home. Since then, Maurizio’s business has grown a lot. The Perfect Loaf has nearly 100,000 email subscribers with an incredible 72% open rate. He has nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram and a growing YouTube channel as well. R...
Mar 07, 2023•54 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE DESCRIPTION Brennan Dunn is a friend and a man of many skills and accomplishments – he’s a writer, marketer, developer, and even designer. Brennan built Palladio, the tool I used to create my email templates. He co-founded RightMessage, an incredible software for segmenting your email subscribers. And these days, he writes a fantastic blog called Create & Sell where he’s documenting all that he’s learned over the years. We were talking over email recently and he told me he’s actually cre...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Chris Williamson is a former club promoter turned podcaster with his show Modern Wisdom. In just a few years, Modern Wisdom has generated more than 70 MILLION downloads with interviews of guests like Jocko Willink, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Ryan Holiday. Not only that, but Chris has more than 700,000 subscribers on YouTube too. And while Chris started podcasting in 2018, things really accelerated for him in 2020. In this episode, you’...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast This week I have a really actionable, audio-only episode of the podcast for you. For the past several months I've been experimenting with my own growth strategy on LinkedIn and have been paying attention to the current research. As a result, I've doubled my following over the last several months! In this episode, I share how I'm incorporating that research (combined with my own observations) into my current LinkedIn approach. So, in this episode you'll learn: • Current LinkedIn algorithm researc...
Feb 14, 2023•44 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast WATCH ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Kevin Parry is a stop-motion animator and video wizard who creates fun animation and mind-bending illusions. Kevin has a knack for going viral – and, as a result, he's built a massive following on just about every social media platform. He has nearly 2M subscribers on YouTube, 1.3M followers on Instagram, 2.3M followers on Tikok, 200K followers on Twitter, and Kevin even has more than 100K followers on LinkedIn. In this episode, you’...
Feb 07, 2023•52 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast 
