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Brock Johnson is an Instagram growth coach with nearly 800,000 followers. Brock has grown his Instagram by 1,000 followers per day, for the last two years. He's helped thousands of people improve their Instagram through one-on-one coaching and his membership, the InstaClub Hub.

In this episode, I ask Brock a lot of my basic questions, like how often to post and whether scheduling has a negative impact, and some more nuanced questions, like how to move people off of Instagram.

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Mark Manson is an entrepreneur and author of the best-selling book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

Mark's entrepreneur-first approach has enabled him to speed-run his YouTube success, gaining 2,600,000 subscribers in just two years.

In this episode, we break down Mark's approach to YouTube, from content strategy to setting up his channel for long-term success.

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(00:00) YouTubers and Business

(01:13) Why Do YouTubers Suck at Business?

(10:14) Make Brainstorming Ideas Easy with 1of10

(11:50) How to Turn Your Channel into a Business

(15:55) When to Make the Transition

(24:43) When Maximizing Views is Bad

(27:31) The Case For Not Taking Brand Deals

(35:33) 1st Step to Take

(37:48) Futureproofing Your Channel

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Lara Acosta is one of the fastest-growing creators on LinkedIn. She specializes in personal branding and teaching people how to tell short stories in their posts. As a result of her SLAY framework (which you’ll hear about in this conversation), Lara has generated tens of millions of impressions on LinkedIn.

In this episode, Lara teaches us her secrets to growth on LinkedIn, her outlook on the future of video on the platform, how she thinks about the opportunity of Company Pages, and more.

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Valerie Feghali is a member of our membership community, The Lab. She impressed me immediately – and during my paternity leave, she hosted a workshop inside The Lab about how she’s used paid ads to grow her business. Namely, she used paid ads to convert to paying customers for a low-priced membership, generating enough revenue to cover the ad spend while also growing her email list.

Her story gets even more incredible because just a few years ago, she was a wellness coach serving clients 1:1. But she quickly transitioned from being a wellness coach to empowering *other* wellness coaches with all of the tools and resources she had built for her own service business.

She then went a step further by turning those resources into a custom-built web app that she sells as a monthly subscription. And her retention is through the roof. Valerie has a fantastic story, and you’ll hear how she made these transitions, how she thinks about paid ads, and what it took to build her software.

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Justin Moore is a sponsorship coach who has generated over $5,000,000 in brand partnerships. As a full-time creator since 2014 and a former influencer marketing agency owner, he brings unique insider knowledge of how brands evaluate and select their ideal partners. Through his school, community, and latest book, Sponsor Magnet, Justin shares proven frameworks for attracting, pricing, and executing lucrative brand deals with a mission to help creators big and small land one million paid sponsorships.

Justin's first-ever book is now available for purchase. It's called Sponsor Magnet: How to Attract, Price, and Execute Your Dream Brand Partnerships. I was an early reader of Sponsor Magnet, and I enthusiastically endorsed this book.

In this conversation, we get candid about the highs and lows of writing this book, including launching it just ahead of his first-ever in-person event Sponsor Games, which I will be at in March of this year.

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Rachel Botsman is a leading expert on trust in the modern world. She is the author of 3 critically acclaimed books, What's Mine is Yours, Who Can You Trust, and How to Trust and Be Trusted, that have been translated into 14 languages.

That last one, How to Trust and Be Trusted, is brand new and actually just released today in audio only, which is a fascinating decision that we'll also discuss later in the conversation.

Rachel is consistently recognized as a top keynote speaker, and her TED Talks have been viewed more than 5,000,000 times. If there's anyone who understands trust more than Rachel, I haven't found them yet.

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Mike Michalowicz is the author of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit – Creator Science is one of those companies. Profit First has helped me develop sound financials for my business.

He’s also the author of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic, and seven other books as well.

With more than 500,000 book sales, all of Mike’s books have the same goal – to help small business owners and eliminate what he calls “entrepreneurial poverty.” Simon Sinek has called Mike “…the top contender for the patron saint of entrepreneurs.”

This conversation is divided into halves:

The first half explores Mike’s unique model as an author. For each book Mike writes, he partners with a third party to license the frameworks from his books and serve as the done-for-you service provider. This is super uncommon and part of why he’s been so prolific while running a very lean team. So we dig into how that works (and what he’d do differently if he were starting over today).

The second half of the conversation is all about writing books. Mike has published nine books since 2008 – including 7 in the last 8 years. So we dig into how he determines what ideas to turn into books and how to write them so quickly.

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