Giant Thinkers Podcast

Welcome to episode #33 – this is a little different to all the other episodes in the past. I've not yet done a solo episode, as I haven’t had a good reason to, until now. 

If you're a first time listener, usually I have a conversation with one expert guest and attempt to dissect their story, the lessons they have learnt along the way and the advice they would give to their younger self.

However, it’s time to mix things up, and what better way to do so than to pair the release of my second book; How to get a mentor as a designer, guaranteed, with the first 35 minutes of my audiobook version! which equates to the first 50 pages of the 200 page book.

The entire audio book version goes for about 2 hours 10 minutes and I thought I'd give you a solid amount as a sample here for you to base your thoughts on it incase you were looking to grab a copy.

I also took the liberty of reading it out in my own voice to hopefully add greater authenticity and connection with you. And let me tell you, that was my first time recording an audio book in a professional studio and man do i empathize with voice over artists. It's definitely not as easy as it may seem.

So here we go, I present the first 50 pages of my second book; How to get a mentor as a designer, guaranteed – in audiobook format... enjoy!

More on the book can be found here: https://www.gettingamentor.com

Watch the video trailer here: http://giantthinkers.com/video

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you hate having that awkward conversation with your clients about pending payments they need to make?

I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts. Thankfully, they automates late payment email reminders too, so you can spend less time chasing payments and more time working your magic.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”.

FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now.

To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.

On episode #32 – I spoke with the Chief Technology Officer of BlitzMetrics, who is an internationally recognised expert lecturer in the world of Facebook marketing. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, TechCrunch, Fox News, and CBS. He has previously held leadership positions at Yahoo! and American Airlines. His colleague Logan Young also joined to share some insights and stories. 

Some of the topics we spoke about include:

• 6 specific phases of Personal Branding to get noticed and maximise opportunities

More on Dennis and Logan can be found via the links below:

Website: https://blitzmetrics.com

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you hate having that awkward conversation with your clients about pending payments they need to make?

I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts. Thankfully, they automates late payment email reminders too, so you can spend less time chasing payments and more time working your magic.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”.

FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now.

To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.

Episode #31 is now live and ready to shake up your day! I chatted with the creator of the digital magazine Foundr, which curates expert advice from some of the world’s greatest minds in entrepreneurship. He has interviewed the likes of Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Brené Brown, Seth Godin and many more. All contributing to the Foundr communities incredible growth since its humble beginnings in 2013. 

Some of the topics we spoke about include:

• How to structure and grow your business

More on Nathan can be found via the links below:

Website: https://foundrmag.com/ 

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you hate having that awkward conversation with your clients about pending payments they need to make?

I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts. Thankfully, they automates late payment email reminders too, so you can spend less time chasing payments and more time working your magic.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”.

FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now.

To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.

Episode #30 is now live on the air! I interviewed a Scottish designer, innovator, entrepreneur and TEDx speaker who describes herself as “an ambassador of people”. Her popular service design blog; redjotter.com has attracted over 350,000 readers and she is now the Head of Service Design at The Good Lab in the UK. 

Management Today named her as one of the UK’s top 35 business women under 35, and ELLE also featured her as one of 30 women under 30 changing the world.

Some of the topics we spoke about include:

• Why fulfilment and finding meaning look different for every person

More on Lauren can be found via the links below:

Website: http://www.redjotter.com

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you want to create and send an invoice in under 30 seconds?

I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”.

FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now.

To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.

Welcome to Episode #29 Giants! Our guest is the founder of Marketing-Mentor.com, with 25+ years experience guiding self-employed creatives. She is the author of 7 books including “The Designer's Guide to Marketing & Pricing" and “The Creative Professional’s Guide to Money”. 

She’s also a CreativeLive.com instructor, the Program Partner for HOW Design Live and host of the HOWLive Podcast. She’s been featured on Entrepreneur.com, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HOW Magazine and more.

Some of the topics we spoke about include:

• How to find your niche and make it count

More on Ilise can be found via the links below:

Twitter: @mmtoolbox 

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you want to create and send an invoice in under 30 seconds?

I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”.

FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now.

To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.

Episode #28 is now live and ready to rock your ear buds! Our guest is a senior graphic designer and the brain behind Mundane Matters; known for creating beautiful and intricate masterpieces through humble fruits and vegetables. 

Her work has been featured in more than 30 online publications and TV channels, including Food Network (US), Huffpost (Japan), Mashable, Designboom, Trendland, Beautiful Decay, Design Taxi and many more.

Some of the things we spoke about include:

• Why we should stop taking nature for granted and practice sustainability

More on Danling can be found via the links below:

Website: http://mundanematters.co

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you want to create and send an invoice in under 30 seconds?

I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”.

FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now.

To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.

Giants, welcome to Episode #27, where we chat to the 16 year old Founder and CEO of tech empire Fiftysix Creations; also known as the Lego of the 21st Century. 

Coined by some as “the next Steve Jobs”, he was exposed to his first school laptop in Grade 4, and started his first blog and entrepreneurial journey at the age of 11. He’s currently still a full-time high school student who runs his business by waking up at 4am every morning to connect with his team throughout Australia, the US and London.

Some of the things we spoke about include:

• How he balances his double life as a CEO and Grade 12 student

More on Taj can be found via the links below:

Website: http://www.tajpabari.com

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you need help getting a mentor?

I’m sure you all understand the importance of getting a mentor, but many just don’t know how to go about it. So my next book launching soon, will serve as a way to cut the guess work, get the shortcuts, see the blind spots, and succeed faster.

Head on over to GiantThinkers.com/Mentor to sign up to the mailing list for all the details of my upcoming book on Mentorship.

Welcome, to episode #26! If you’ve ever wanted to hear from a woman who was born in the 60s and started her design career in the 80s, has travelled the globe working with clients including Coca-Cola Amatil for 10 years building their brand across several continents, as well as working with some of Australia’s most successful corporate businesses such as QANTAS; then you’re in for an absolute treat. 

To this day she has worn all the hats you can imagine in the design space, from junior to mid to senior designer levels, all the way to Art Director, Executive Managing Director and now she is the business owner of an agency that’s been running for 16 years.

In this episode, we cover:

• What the design industry was like three decades ago

Website: Walterwakefield.com.au

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you want a central meeting place that connects people, information, and processes for you and your team?

It's called Igloo; modern cloud-based intranet software. You and your team have access to what they need, using tools they already know. Igloo has been recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in both Canada and North America, alongside names such as Tesla, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

If nothing else, you’ve got to see their very quirky 30 second video – head to GiantThinkers.com/igloo

In 1985, he was the founder and CEO of the branding agency ‘The Leonhardt Group’, which employed over forty people and annually billed $10 million to clients including Nissan, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft.

He’s also lectured at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts, is a contributing writer for Fast Company, and now brings decades of experience in helping creatives win negotiations and be in control of their professional survival and creative happiness.

I’m excited for you all to listen to this episode because (truth be told) negotiating pricing and salaries, and asking for what we feel we deserve can be difficult for all creative people – it certainly was for me when I started out. Our guest shows us how we can learn to negotiate with confidence.

In this episode, we cover:

• 10 negotiation tips; from planning ahead, to getting as much as we can

More on Ted can be found via the links below:

Website: http://tedleonhardt.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TedLeonhardt

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedleonhardt

I’ve also included the link to my Creative Live class, featuring Ted as one of my guests: 'Get The Design Job You Want'

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you want a central meeting place that connects people, information, and processes for you and your team?

It's called Igloo; modern cloud-based intranet software. You and your team have access to what they need, using tools they already know. Igloo has been recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in both Canada and North America, alongside names such as Tesla, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

If nothing else, you’ve got to see their very quirky 30 second video – head to GiantThinkers.com/igloo

In 1985, he was the founder and CEO of the branding agency ‘The Leonhardt Group’, which employed over forty people and annually billed $10 million to clients including Nissan, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft.

He’s also lectured at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts, is a contributing writer for Fast Company, and now brings decades of experience in helping creatives win negotiations and be in control of their professional survival and creative happiness.

I’m excited for you all to listen to this episode because (truth be told) negotiating pricing and salaries, and asking for what we feel we deserve can be difficult for all creative people – it certainly was for me when I started out. Our guest shows us how we can learn to negotiate with confidence.

In this episode, we cover:

• 10 negotiation tips; from planning ahead, to getting as much as we can
• Why we should never do work for free
• How to instantly handle your emotions on the negotiation table
• Why we should ask more and talk less
• What to do with your first offer (and it’s not what you think).

More on Ted can be found via the links below:

Website: http://tedleonhardt.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TedLeonhardt

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedleonhardt

I’ve also included the link to my Creative Live class, featuring Ted as one of my guests: 'Get The Design Job You Want'

Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes.

Do you want a central meeting place that connects people, information, and processes for you and your team?

It's called Igloo; modern cloud-based intranet software. You and your team have access to what they need, using tools they already know. Igloo has been recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in both Canada and North America, alongside names such as Tesla, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

If nothing else, you’ve got to see their very quirky 30 second video – head to GiantThinkers.com/igloo