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On the Bones of the Bay podcasts, get unique insights and perspectives from one of the nation’s leading institutions about everything orthopaedic. Episodes feature world-class physicians from Florida Orthopaedic Institute. Check back here for the newest episodes!
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Welcome to the UCLA BrainSPORT Podcast, UCLA Health's foremost podcast, an award-winning platform where we explore the intricate realm of brain health and human performance. I'm your host, Adel, a Sports Neurologist, and together, we embark on a captivating journey through the depths of science and personal stories. Our mission at the UCLA BrainSPORT Podcast is simple yet profound: to enrich the human experience. We do this by combining the latest evidence-based practices with the power of v ...
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How Alex Halperin built WeedWeek, a B2B outlet that covers California's cannabis industry
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Alex Halperin launched WeedWeek in 2015, he was entering an industry that had nothing but growth ahead of it. But what he didn’t expect was that the fragmented legalization across states meant that it’d be difficult to build a national audience. So a few years ago he pivoted to just covering Cali…
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How Mission Local spun off from UC Berkeley and became a self-sustaining news outlet
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ One of the great things about being a college journalism major today is that it’s incredibly easy for professors to build their own news sites and allow students to experience every aspect of the publishing process. Not that long ago, journalism students had few avenues for publication outside their c…
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How Colossus built one of the largest investing-focused podcast networks
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Patrick O’Shaughnessy launched his podcast Invest Like the Best in 2016, he had no intention of building it into a media company. He just wanted to use it to interview the world’s best investing minds so that he could deepen his own understanding of the industry. But the show proved to be a huge …
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How Gary Arndt built Everything Everywhere, a podcast with 1.5 million monthly downloads
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ What does a professional travel photographer do when all international flights are shut down due to a global pandemic? That’s a question Gary Arndt found himself asking in the early months of 2020. By that point, he had built up millions of social media followers and an entire career from snapping pho…
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Neurogenetics: Genetics of Neuropsychiatric Illness and Genetic - Based Treatments l Daniel Geschwind, MD
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On this episode, we are honored to have Dr. Daniel Geschwind, a renowned expert in neurogenetics, join us for a compelling conversation. Dr. Geschwind holds the prestigious titles of Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry at UCLA. He is also the Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chan…
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How Jared Newman built Cord Cutter Weekly, a TV streaming newsletter with 32,000 subscribers
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Jared Newman launched his Cord Cutter Weekly newsletter back in 2016, the streaming TV market was much smaller than it is today, with most TV networks either not having their own streaming app or requiring a cable subscription to access it. But as it turned out, he timed his launch perfectly, as …
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How Philip Taylor built FinCon, the leading conference for personal finance creators
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Today, the personal finance content niche is absolutely ginormous. You can’t open up YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram without encountering an influencer who gives advice on how to make and save money. Today’s guest Philip Taylor anticipated this content explosion all the way back in 2011. That’s when he …
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ I’m sure just about everybody has had the experience of looking at a celebrity memoir and wondering: did they actually write that? In many cases, they didn’t, at least not by themselves. There’s actually an entire shadow economy of ghost writers who do the bulk of the work on these books – not just fo…
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How Ben McCarthy built a Salesforce-focused media company with 400,000 monthly readers
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Ben McCarthy didn’t set out to create a media company focused on Salesforce, he just began blogging about his use of the product as a way to document the various use cases he encountered. As it turned out, there were thousands of other people who were encountering those same use cases, and via Google …
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How Joe Pulizzi built and sold The Tilt, a newsletter and conference business geared toward creators
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Get $100 your CEX tickets by entering the discount code OWENS100 My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Joe Pulizzi launched The Tilt in 2021, he already had a pretty good idea of how to build a successful media company. Back in 2017, he had sold his previous media startup, The Content Marketing Institute, to one of the world’s larges…
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How Brad Hargreaves built Thesis Driven, a newsletter and data product focused on real estate
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When it comes to knowing all the intricacies of real estate investment, few are more knowledgeable than Brad Hargreaves. In 2015 he founded Common, a company that manages rental properties and consults with real estate investors on building design. And then in 2022 Brad decided to begin sharing his kn…
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How Andreas Sator built one of the most popular podcasts in Austria
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ I spend most of my time on this show interviewing entrepreneurs who founded English-language media outlets – mostly because that’s the only language I speak – but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in the media ecosystems from other regions in the world. That’s why I was super excited to talk to And…
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Extreme Sports, Overcoming Fear, and the Flow State l Owen Fox
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Join Dr. Daniel Rafie, Sports Neurologist and host of the UCLA BrainSPORT podcast, in an exhilarating conversation with professional downhill skateboarder, Owen Fox. In this episode, they delve into the world of extreme sports, exploring the psychology behind overcoming fear and achieving the elusive flow state. Owen shares his firsthand experience…
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How to grow your audience in a post-Facebook world
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: “Ask me a question.” Basically I told everyone to jump into the comments section of the post and ask me any questions they have about the media industry or creator economy. Several of you did pipe in with some amazing questi…
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How William Knight built Early Morning Media, a B2B newsletter company
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Before William Knight launched Early Morning Media, he had worked for years at a company that specialized in sending press clippings to corporate clients. While these services were mostly utilized by a client’s internal communications team, William realized at some point that these same news curation practices would be appreciated by an external au…
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How Tom Arbuthnot built Empowering Cloud, a media comapany focused on Microsoft cloud products
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ The rise of cloud computing introduced all sorts of benefits for the enterprise software space. Not only could license holders access their accounts from virtually anywhere, but it also allowed the software companies to issue updates on a more regular basis. But this also made the sector a lot more co…
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How CJ Gustafson built Mostly Metrics, a newsletter for CFOs
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ I think everyone likes to think of themselves as being financially savvy, especially if, like me, you write about business topics, but how many of us truly understand finance terms that are bandied about like gross profit and lifetime value. Like we may know that the term EBITDA stands for “earnings b…
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How Sam Koslowski helped build The Daily Aus, a social first media outlet in Australia
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ For most of Instagram’s existence, it wasn’t thought of as a platform for distributing news, but a growing number of media entrepreneurs have figured out ways to leverage its photo and video features to deliver engaging news digests. One of those entrepreneurs is Sam Koslowski. Back in 2017, he and hi…
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The state of newsletter advertising in 2024
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Subscribe to my newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Ask about just any media executive, and they’ll tell you that the year 2023 was not a good one for the advertising business. A combination of high interest rates and an uncertain economy made companies extremely skittish, and that caused them to pull back on their marketing spend. There’s…
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How Riad Chikhani built GAMURS Group, one of the largest gaming media companies in the world
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ By the time Riad Chikhani was 16 years old, he had already built a hugely successful online community for gamers and then sold it for a healthy sum. Two years later, he founded the company that would eventually become GAMURS Group, and while it took far longer to gain traction, it eventually grew into…
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How to monetize newsletters on LinkedIn
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Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: “Ask me a question.” Basically I told everyone to jump in the comments section of the post and ask me any questions they have about the media industry or creator economy. Several of you did pipe in with some amazing questions. I then invited on Alexis Grant, the founder o…
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How Jack Kramer and Nick Martell sold their media company to Robinhood and then bought it back
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Jack Karmer and Nick Martell launched their daily newsletter Market Snacks in 2011, they kept their names off the publication so that it wouldn’t jeopardize their finance day jobs. But once the newsletter started to attract readers and sponsorship revenue, they decided to come clean. Luckily, the…
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How Cityside built a sustainable model for local news
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ It’s no secret that local journalism has struggled since the Great Recessions, with hundreds of newspapers shuttering and thousands of reporters losing their jobs. Over the past few years, entrepreneurs have launched dozens of local news startups to help fill in the gap, but there’s still an ongoing d…
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Resiliency & Overcoming Adversity: A Miraculous Recovery from a Spinal Cord Injury | Ryan Shazier
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Join host Daniel Rafie and NFL veteran and former Pittsburg Steelers All-Pro defensive linebacker, Ryan Shazier, on this episode of the UCLA BrainSport Podcast. Ryan’s stellar career and his road to the NFL Hall of Fame was suddenly cut short by an on-field spinal cord injury. Ryan was given less than a 20% chance of walking again, but despite thes…
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How Lucas Grindley helped Next City grow to 1,000 paying members
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Subscribe to my newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Lucas Grindley knows something about building sustainable revenue streams for media companies. When he was hired to Here Media, a network of LGBT news outlets, it was losing money, but over a period of six years he nurtured it back to profitability. Now he’s the executive director of Next…
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Will Spotify's audiobook streaming be good for authors?
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Sign up for my newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ It’s been nearly five years since Spotify announced it would diversify its audio offerings beyond music streaming, and while it spent most of that time building its podcast capabilities, it made no secret that it eventually wanted to get into audiobooks. Then in 2022 it made its first move…
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How Gabe Fleisher built Wake Up To Politics, a daily newsletter with over 50,000 subscribers
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Subscribe to my newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ There are plenty of popular politics newsletters out there, but none with the kind of unique origin story of Wake Up to Politics. It was started by Gabe Fleisher when he was only 9 years old. While the early editions were sent out by a Gmail account and only read by his mom, Gabe kept at …
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