Matt Brown Show - CLIPS!

 Grit. The difference between entrepreneurs who make it and those who don’t. This theme has been a consistent one of the last three years of doing this show and yet stories about entrepreneurs who do whatever it takes to break through the obstacles that lie in their way just never get old. The story of Jonathan Kohler is no different and it is a story that truly brings to life what it takes to build a monster of a business. As the saying goes, only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. 

Taken From MBS (Episode 114):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPEnOUCM0Us&t=1631s

 It is said that to live a creative life we just lose our fear of being wrong. As an entrepreneur it is about knowing where your blind spots are and this is easier said than done. Let’s take creative companies and agencies for example. They are so busy building the brands of other companies they very rarely build their own brand which is one of the greatest paradoxes in the business world today. Yet most creative agencies do not acknowledge this blind spot even exists because as the saying goes, when you are stuck inside the bottle you can’t read the label. So what you need is perspective to break through and that often means working with experts and skill sets you don’t have on the payroll. Lauren Woolf is the CEO of Mrs Woolf, a strategic consultancy that helps creative companies identify their blind spots and helps them to unleash and direct their creativity toward building their own brand. Oh, and pay attention to a new segment on the show called the Justice League where Lauren gets busy with a baseball bat in the studio. 

Taken From MBS (Episode 113): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUS0pUxUURw&t=1486s

 So just yesterday I was catching up on the Joe Rogan show and Jo was chatting to Gary V about podcasting. Jo shares my sentiments about podcasting exactly and to quote him exactly he said “Radio is fucked”. Allow me to explain. With podcasting you don’t have to listen to adverts, traffic reports, or miss your favourite shows. A podcast you can be streaming it on your TV, then in your car and then while you run later that day. It’s always on demand and most importantly on your terms. But how big is the podcast market in South Africa and what is the big opportunity for entrepreneurs in this space? Well, towards the end of last year, my team and I undertook the largest independent research initiative into SA podcasting. It was supported by online and mainstream media across the country over a period of six months and resulted in capturing the podcast media consumption data of over 15,000 respondents. Here are some of the headlines and key findings. The addressable market for podcasting is 16 million people, approximately 6 million South African's listen to podcasts on a weekly basis and further 9 million listen to podcasts on a monthly basis. Approximately 80% of South African's listen to the majority of a podcast and perhaps the biggest indicator of growth is that Podcast consumption has grown by 50% in the past 12 months alone. This then represents a massive opportunity for entrepreneurs to go out there and build their personal brands through the medium of podcasting. To find out how to do this I reached out to Jeff Large the CEO of Come Alive Creative to explore what is happening in America in terms of podcasting and what he has learnt producing podcasts his clients. One more thing, if you’d like to get the rest of the data on SA podcasting you can do that by heading over to my blog at mattbrownmedia.com). 

Taken From MBS (Episode 112):

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKW2VoBEsLo

 Journalism. Journalism is in fact history on the run and the courage of journalism has to be respected because journalism is the protection between people and any totalitarian rule. The story of South Africa’s possible state capture by Zuma and the Gupta’s is very well known but what you may not know is how one small team of journalists were largely responsible for shining a light on the on happenings inside the presidency, which ultimately lead to the avoidance of state capture. Alec Hogg is one of those journalists. In this episode of the Matt Brown Show, we explore how the world of misinformation, fake news and social media can influence the business community of South Africa and affect the economic fabric of an entire country. As entrepreneurs, it is vital to understand that information and knowledge are two currencies that will never go out of style. 

Taken From MBS (Episode 121): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-1ndAbKFQ&t=8s

 Some say that startups go to corporates to die. But is that the full story? I reached out to arguably two of the biggest players in Africa’s startup ecosystem to get their views on exactly where we are at in terms of our startup ecosystem and it’s development and we explore how corporates are dating the world of startups to solve some of their biggest innovation and disruption challenges. Our panelists are non-other than Zach George, the co-founder and MD of Startupbootcamp Africa and Stuart Van Der Veen, the head of Disruption and Innovation for Nedbank Corporate Investment Banking. They also smash the shit out of our Rainbow Dash mascot in the studio with a baseball bat. 

Taken From MBS(Episode 119): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YAd3S6Ge0I&t=2295s

 Whats up hustlers, so trying to define media is a very difficult thing to do because in todays world media is evolving so quickly. For context, as of April 2018, total worldwide population is 7.6 billion The internet has 4.2 billion users There are 3.03 billion active social media users. That works out at a new social media user every 15 seconds. Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day. This is just a quick snap shot of the media driven world we are living in. But as much as the world changes, some things stay the same. Like making sure you, the entrepreneur, have a great story to tell on the plethora of media channels that you have at your disposal. One entrepreneur has seemingly survived all of this change in media and today is responsible for household entertainment shows like Shark Tank, Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine With Me and many, many others. Duncan Irvine runs the biggest TV production studio in Africa and by all accounts is a living legend in the media space. In this episode, we’ll explore his very personal and quite frankly unbelievable journey in producing content for the some of the biggest shows in the world today. Strap yourselves in for a cliffhanger.  

Taken From MBS (Episode 117): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiJnUQPs-g&t=35s

 Hey guys, so entrepreneurs must deal with pain more than most. You know, the pain of cash flow, the pain of failure, and the pain of just well, having to make it on your own. And so, when the proverbial shit hits the fan, it’s easy to think we’re suffering more than most – but that’s just not the truth or reality. You see, regardless of how bad things get in your life, there is always someone who is worse off than you are. In today’s episode, I chat to Cathy Davies, an entrepreneur who the transforms the lives of ordinary people and celebrities. In her new reality TV show called Outpatients on FOX Life she shares the real stories of ordinary people who are dealt some really unbelievably bad blows and yet despite everything have the strength inside of them to push through incredible pain and despair to achieve their dreams. This particular episode of the Matt Brown Show is really one about perspective – because sometimes the right perspective makes things possible. 

Taken From MBS(Episode116): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozMbXqENWD8&t=1s

 Much in the world of entrepreneurship is relative. For example, when you are a startup and a solopreneur you’ll most likely have cashflow problems and you’ll battle to pay yourself a salary. Then you have Robbi Brozen, the founder of Nando’s who had 38 stores across the country and couldn’t pay his staff. It’s all relative. Let’s take Silicon Valley for example, there are so many headlines about startups raising hundreds of millions of dollars from VC’s that it’s easy to think that you’ll raise the same kind of money from VC’s in Africa. But you won’t. The markets are chalk and cheese. But the one thing that isn’t relative is that entrepreneurship is very much about pain and regardless of whether you are a startup, Robbie Brozen, a startup in Silicon Valley or just an ordinary entrepreneur trying to make a living – we all have to push through the challenges that lie before us as we look to achieve personal and business success – whatever success might mean to you it is stories like Tim Ohlsen’s, the CEO of Eldo Energy, that gives us the perspective and inspiration we need to go out there and make it rain. 

Taken From MBS (Episode 115): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpL0SB1HoDg&t=27s

 Grit. The difference between entrepreneurs who make it and those who don’t. This theme has been a consistent one of the last three years of doing this show and yet stories about entrepreneurs who do whatever it takes to break through the obstacles that lie in their way just never get old. The story of Jonathan Kohler is no different and it is a story that truly brings to life what it takes to build a monster of a business. As the saying goes, only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. 

Taken From MBS (Episode 114):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPEnOUCM0Us&t=1631s 

 It is said that to live a creative life we just lose our fear of being wrong. As an entrepreneur it is about knowing where your blind spots are and this is easier said than done. Let’s take creative companies and agencies for example. They are so busy building the brands of other companies they very rarely build their own brand which is one of the greatest paradoxes in the business world today. Yet most creative agencies do not acknowledge this blind spot even exists because as the saying goes, when you are stuck inside the bottle you can’t read the label. So what you need is perspective to break through and that often means working with experts and skill sets you don’t have on the payroll. Lauren Woolf is the CEO of Mrs Woolf, a strategic consultancy that helps creative companies identify their blind spots and helps them to unleash and direct their creativity toward building their own brand. Oh, and pay attention to a new segment on the show called the Justice League where Lauren gets busy with a baseball bat in the studio. 

Taken From MBS (Episode 113): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUS0pUxUURw&t=1486s