Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Danny Mirands is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast. He's been hanging out on the internet since he was 14. We talk about his journey, almost getting sidetracked by the default path in college, and then betting on himself with his podcast. Danny is a friend, and he inspired me by how true he is to his own path, his ability to dream big in creative ways and spread love in the world. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: The Dan...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Jessica is a producer and a podcaster. She is passionate about shadow work and is currently working on her documentary on post traumatic growth - "Dark Night of Our Soul". 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Link to Support The Movie - Dark Night of Our Soul Jessica on IMDb Instagram - jessicadepatie_ Hollywood Con Queen Podcast Bill Plotkin’s Journey of Soul Initiation @wordsarevibrations meme account ⌛TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - Int...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Myles is a chef and a farmer's market enthusiast. He studied economics and was pursuing many other interests like filmmaking on the side. During his stay in Argentina, he realized that he wanted to follow his true passion - cooking. Although he hasn't gone to a fancy cooking school, he managed to get a position working under a former Michelin star chef in Tulum and now he's sharing his love for cooking on the Internet, makin...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Simone Stolzoff has worn many hats. He's worked as a writer, designer, and now, Author. He grew up with "four parents", each having a unique influence on him, He grew up being told he could do whatever he wanted but realized there were assumptions behind that. Over the last couple of years, he's contemplated how we can design a life not centered around work (which obviously interests me as well) and has come to some interest...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Alex was crushing it early in his career, ending up on Wall Street after getting a combined JD/MBA. But after a few years, he went looking for his next mountain, aiming his ambition at the tech sector. He ended up co-founding LiveOak, a company he eventually sold in 2020. After that, he struggled to determine what was next and finally decided to walk away from more than a million dollars. Now he's embracing non-doing, reconn...
May 15, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort In 2015 Khe left a Wall Street carrier to pursue his own path of "uncomfortable introspection", reevaluating his life. This is a constant process - Khe is always being emergent to himself. Now he finds himself at a crossroads - after a great initial success in 2020, he recently had to scale down his cohort-based course. Although laying people off was tough, Khe welcomes the change as entering a new season of creativity. 🎥🍿...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Kyle was a marketing executive who believed in the "hard work" ethic. After an existential crisis, he decided to carve his own path as a solopreneur and started Sloww - "a trusted resource of lifelong learning". Kyle describes his purpose as "synthesizing the art of living for students of life". 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @KyKow Sloww: sloww.co Happiness Book Igikai 2.0 ⌛TIMESTAMPS (01:22) - The scripts that K...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Kevin is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, a writer and a photographer. When he was young he dropped out of college and travelled to Taiwan, which he describes as a live changing experience. Kevin is passionate about owning his time, the importance of goofing off and staying optimistic about the development of technology. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Kevin's website: kk.org Kevin's articles on Wired Excell...
Apr 17, 2023•50 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Billy used to be an avid skier, working odd jobs and traveling between the northern and southern hemispheres trying to catch the best skiing. In 2018 he e-mailed Ryan Holiday and pitched him on doing some work for him for free. In a couple of months, he was hired as Ryan's research assistant. Billy is one of the most curious people I know and we dive into his journey. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @bpoppenheimer ...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort I'm sharing this conversation I had a couple of months ago with Tom Peters. Our convo got cut a bit short but it was a fun conversation reflecting on his trajectory, why he got kicked out of McKinsey To learn more about Tom: His Website 📕Buy Paul’s Book (47k+ Sold) : The Pathless Path 😁👉😁 Want To "Find The Others" On Pathless Paths? - Check out the Pathless Path Community 📲Connect + Follow Paul Twitter: @p_millerd Paul’...
Apr 03, 2023•32 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Trung is a writer at Workweek, cofounder of bearly.ai, and co-host of the Not Investment Advice podcast. He is passionate about playing the long game and unleashing the power of compounding. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @TrungTPhan Website: trungtphan.com Bearly.AI Podcast: Not Investment Advice Trung's writing at Bloomberg and Workweek Trung's Newsletter ⌛TIMESTAMPS (02:12) - College and getting up late (04:06)...
Mar 27, 2023•51 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Steph Smith is the host of the a16z podcast and is an online creator, former consultant, former digital nomad and all-around badass. We talk about money, work, relationships, and weddings... 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @stephsmithio Steph's book: doingcontentright.com a16z Podcast The Sh*t You Don't Learn in School Podcast Blog: stephsmith.io ⌛TIMESTAMPS (01:19) - The scripts that Steph grew up with (03:09) - P...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast 🥳 Join Find The Others: Learn More Here Russ is an economist, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and president of Shalem College in Jerusalem. One of pioneers of podcasting, he's been hosting EconTalk since 2006. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @EconTalker EconTalk Website: www.econtalk.org EconTalk YouTube Channel ⌛TIMESTAMPS (03:25) - The influence of Russ' father (11:33) - What modern economics often fails to observe (16:35) - Adam Smith and human nature ...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast 🥳 Join Find The Others: Learn More Here Sam is a partner at The Ready - an organizational design consultancy operating fully remotely. He is also a prolific writer, passionate about personal development, self-managing organizations and adopting a more human, adaptive, and meaningful way of working. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @samspurlin Instagram: samspurlin LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/samspurlin Sam's writing: samspurlin.com/writing Sam's writing on Medium: samspurlin.medium.com N...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast 🥳 Join Find The Others: Learn More Here Derek Sivers has been a musician, producer, circus performer, successful entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher. He has lived all around the world and has never let himself be too comfortable - constantly changing and following his inner ambition. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @sivers Website: sive.rs My Favorite Derek Book: Anything You Want ⌛TIMESTAMPS (00:54) - The scripts that Derek grew up with (06:05) - Comfort as a plateau that n...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast Want To Become A Better Writer? Join Write of Passage's Upcoming Cohort Dror worked as a real estate private equity exec, startup founder, front-end developer, parliamentary advisor, and soldier. Having lived all around the world he is now based in NYC, writing as an “Economic Historian”. Having predicted that remote work is going to become the new norm back in 2015, he has just published a survival guide titled "After Office". 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @drorpoleg Website: drorpo...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast Isabel is a writer who is very passionate about the creative process. She has some powerful original ideas about the relationship between the artist and their creation, trusting one's intuition, and why people should stop pretending. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @isabelunraveled Isabel's Writing: https://mindmine.substack.com ⌛TIMESTAMPS (0:11) Introduction (5:41) "The chronic state of performing" (12:00) Missing and rediscovering her passion for writing (34:38) Detaching your sense...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Maggiulli is a finance data analyst and writer. He is the author of "Just Keep Buying" and has a blog titled "Of Dollars and Data". 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @dollarsanddata Blog: Of Dollars and Data Nick's Book: Just Keep Buying ⌛TIMESTAMPS (0:47) The scripts nick grew up with (5:35) Writing books and blogging (32:44) Building relationships in the NYC finance scene (36:07) Why the writers shouldn't dumb down their books (37:33) Perceptions of money (1:07:26) Closing thought...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast Cécile has had a successful career in consulting, acquiring a senior position in a big company that has taken a leadership role in the energy transition in the UK. Although she was passionate about her job she decided to go on a yearlong sabbatical from work, traveling around the world and writing - creating space for her curiosity & creativity. Michelle has a background in sales but after a couple of years in the business she decided to go on a sabbatical that doesn't seem to have an end. W...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast David Senra has sponsored a $1,000 giveaway of copies of my book. You can grab a copy of The Pathless Path Here or https://tally.so/r/n0V0XZ (Check out Founders Podcast!) David Senra is the creator of Founders Podcast and is obsessed with bringing alive the knowledge of the most driven, curious, courageous, and interesting founders throughout history. He has spent almost all his time reading, re-reading, and recording one of the best podcasts on the planet right now. Links: Follow his podcast: @...
Jan 23, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast 🥳 Join Find The Others: Learn More Here Visakan Veerasamy is an internet creator and writer, he is passionate about the future of the internet, ideas, and how people can be bolder on their creative journeys. His mission is to build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen. This is our second conversation and dives much more into his current work and how he thinks about the internet. 🎥🍿 YOUTUBE : WATCH HERE Links: Twitter: @visakanv Website: visakanv....
Jan 17, 2023•2 hr 38 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast 🥳 Join Find The Others: Learn More Here Amy Tangerine is a long-time creator, entrepreneur, and mother. We talk about her path, starting a business that took off, her "third-life" crisis, learning to inject rest into her path, her relationship with her mother, having children, scrapbooking and building a business around work she loves. WATCH On YouTube FOLLOW AMY Her Website: amytangerine.com Twitter: @amytangerine Instagram: @amytangerine Facebook: @amytangerine TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Audio intro 0:1...
Jan 11, 2023•55 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast At each professional crossroad, Nina Simon has made the choice most likely to disappoint her mother. She left an electrical engineering job at NASA to design spy museum exhibits, said goodbye to a museum directorship to start a global movement for more inclusive cultural organizations, and now has put down her CEO hat to write crime fiction. Her first novel, Mother-Daughter Murder Night, will be published in 2023 by William Morrow. Nina lives off the grid in the Santa Cruz mountains with 20 peop...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was a delight. I've been following David's journey since 2017 and he was one of the fellow internet weirdos I saw on a similar path that didn't quite make sense. I've been inspired by how many people David has helped onboard as "citizens of the internet" through his course Write of Passage. I'm rooting for David and I think you'll want to as well by the end of this episode. We filmed this in David's epic studio - I highly recommend watching this one on Youtube Links Mentioned: @davi...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Get CASH to move to cities in the US: MakeMyMove.com Angie and I talked about our journey (mostly hers) over the last two years including her leaving fitness, moving to the US, enrolling in Write of Passage, finding her community, and initial traction as a freelancer. 🍿 WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links: Angie's Site: Angie Creates Her Experience in Write of Passage: From Fear To Thriving Angie's Podcast: Angie Creates (English & Chinese) Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:15 Introduction & Angie's ch...
Dec 13, 2022•56 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast David talks about his self-employment journey, discussing topics such as graphics design, studying abroad, work identity and engagement, self-publishing books, and advertising on Amazon. He reflects on his experiences and explains how he shifted from a traditional job to self-employment, including how he experienced a new reality after leaving his job. We talk about how hard it is to ever "make it" on a solo journey and how you are constantly starting from day 1. 🍿 YOUTUBE : https://youtu.be/my...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Braff grew up in a house where writing was always encouraged. His mother published a newsletter, and his father was a data analytics consultant. He started out as a lawyer, but after the dot-com boom led to a surge in demand for consultants, he decided to make the switch. He now runs his own consulting firm and writes regularly on a variety of topics. Braff himself became interested in consulting during the first dot-com boom. He transferred from MIT to Brown in order to study linguistics, ...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was a delight. Venkatesh Rao is the creator of Ribbonfarm and has been writing about the internet, technology, and gig life. This conversation focuses on his recently published book, The Art of Gig. If you are thinking about working independently, becoming a freelancer, or are interested in consulting, you should definitely buy his book: The Art of Gig, Foundations The Art of Gig, Superstructures WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/KC63HrF8V4E You can find Venkatesh: on Twitter @vgr ...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast I believe that Kyla Scanlon is one of the most talented all-around creators. She is transcending the assumptions about what people want, especially with things like short-form videos. Her TikToks are synthesized, thoughtful, and funny, setting a new bar for what people want in an information age. We talked about her journey growing up in Kentucky, writing online, hacking into the finance industry from a non-target school, and ultimately deciding to become self-employed with less than two years o...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast The legible story is that Catherine is a writer, producer, and digital media consultant. She helps creative people connect with new audiences, usually writers, usually online. But she hasn't had a W-2 job since 2017. Before that she worked as an actor, worked at a company called Longreads, and then has done a bunch of solopreneur experiments over the past five years. Her recent interest is writing and speaking about how to navigate systems that make self-employment harder in the United States, l...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast 
