Josh Gonsalves hosts in-depth conversations with some of the brightest people in the known universe. Guests include entrepreneurs, artists, creators, innovators, scientists, and more. The aim is to spark deep conversations around interesting topics to find the tools, tactics, and philosophies that listeners can use in their personal and creative lives.
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Welcome to My City My Health, a podcast presented by The Healthy Project. This podcast is about health equity and how social determinants of health can impact our communities. Join us as we speak with local community leaders who are making a difference in the health of their cities. Each episode will delve into culture, healthcare, prevention, community, and how these factors can impact health outcomes. We'll hear from experts in the field, as well as individuals who are on the ground workin ...
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Improving Health Equity through Community Health Collaborative: Interview with Dr. Lucas Carr
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In this episode, host Elizabeth Dix interviews Dr. Lucas Carr about his work with the Community Health Collaborative and the Vitalis study, as well as the importance of addressing physical inactivity in primary care settings. They also discuss the role of equity in their mission and ways for students and community members to get involved. Show note…
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Addressing Health Equity with Aloha Wilks
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"When these communities allow you in their spaces, please be humble and allow the trust to build so that you can get the work done. If you don't have the trust, then there's no basis to build up on, no foundation at all." - Aloha Wilks In this episode, host Olivia Machaccio talks with Aloha Wilks, a passionate advocate for health equity and communi…
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Understanding Mental Health & Immigrant Communities with Dr. Rima Afifi
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"I think probably to really think deeply about the amount of othering that we all do every day in our lives and how to start reversing that, how to understand where it comes from, and how we start to keep ourselves to account in that process because we really need to change the way that we interact with people if we are going to ever get to health …
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Telemedicine, Cultural Competency, and Job Retention in Healthcare
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"I would like to see more effort being put into job creation for retaining local talent. Iowa is great at attracting the best from all over the world, but I cannot see the same for retaining them." - Onyeche Oche Join host Caleb as he talks with Onyeche Oche, a healthcare researcher and advocate, about her work in telemedicine, cultural competency …
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In Dermatology, Health Disparities Can Be Skin Deep with Dr. Marta Van Beek
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In this episode of the My City My Health Podcast, host Brooklyn talks with Dr. Marta Van Beek, a dermatologist and executive medical director at the University of Iowa. They discuss the importance of health equity and the work being done to improve it in dermatology and medicine overall. Dr. Van Beek also shares her experience in addressing health …
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Creating Social Spaces for Health Equity: Connecting People with LaTasha DeLoach
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In this episode of the My City My Health podcast, host Natalie Rutledge talks with LaTasha DeLoach about her work in community outreach and connecting people, particularly women of color and older adults, with resources and social spaces for health equity. LaTasha shares her insights on the importance of taking the pressure off of black women, eras…
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Achieving Health Equity Through Community Empowerment with Dr. Ebonee Johnson
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Join host Lauren Whiteman as she discusses achieving health equity through community empowerment with Dr. Ebonee Johnson, an expert in health equity research and the project director of PEER, a community-based organization focused on HIV and substance abuse prevention. In this episode, Dr. Johnson shares her insights on the importance of community …
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Promoting Community Well-Being and Health Equity
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In this episode of the My City, My Health podcast, host Sophie Woodley, discusses health equity and community well-being with Cady Gerlach, executive director of Better Together 2030. They delve into the social determinants of health, such as housing, access to healthy food, and education, and how these factors impact access to healthcare. They als…
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Exploring Health Equity and Mental Health Stigma
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In this episode, host Norielle Blanco speaks with Krisha Karen, a junior at the University of Iowa majoring in psychology and minoring in gender, health, and healthcare equity on the pre-med track. Krisha is also the founder of Club Kids for a Cause, an organization that raises funds for cancer patients through tennis tournaments. In this conversat…
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Lighthouse in the Library: Shining a Light on Community Health
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In this episode of the My City My Health Podcast, host Maddie Kerr talks with Kellee Forkenbrock, Public Services Librarian at the North Liberty Community Library, about the Lighthouse in the Library series and the importance of digital access in the community. Kellee discusses how the Libraries Transforming Communities grant has allowed them to cr…
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Advancing Health Equity for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities with Dr. Jodi Tate, MD
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In this episode of the My City My Health podcast, host Jillian Reedy speaks with Dr. Jodi Tate, MD, a psychiatrist and leader in the field of healthcare for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Dr. Tate discusses her work in promoting health equity for this unique population and shares insights on the importance of building rapport and trust…
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Public Health and the Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities
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"I think sometimes like you have to acknowledge where those privileges are so that you can kind of work on dismantling that because we can't put that work on folks who have been oppressed." In this episode of the My City My Health podcast, host Alison interviews public health professional Danielle Pettit-Majewski, Director for Johnson County Public…
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Inspiring Action for Healthier Communities with Corey Dion Lewis
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Join Maya for a conversation with Corey Dion Lewis, founder of The Healthy Project, and My City My Health, a company that aims to improve health equity in communities. In this episode, Corey shares his journey and motivation behind starting My City My Health, his biggest takeaways from the Des Moines conference, and tangible ways for people to get …
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Community Matters: Improving Youth Wellbeing and Diversity in Today's Society
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In this episode, Katherine speaks with Caleb Thomas, a licensed mental health counselor and the founder of Thomas & Associates. Caleb shares his journey into holistic counseling and his passion for supporting at-risk youth in his community. He also discusses the importance of self-care for health professionals and shares valuable advice for those l…
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Creating a Unified Community: Insights from Fredrick Newell
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Against the odds and amidst inequalities, Fredrick Newell, a pastor, social worker, and executive director of a nonprofit, is determined to create a thriving, equitable community in Iowa City by advocating for father rights, providing access to arts, and promoting wellness. In this episode, you will be able to: Appreciate the role of health equity …
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Prioritizing Self-Care and Mental Health in Underserved Communities
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In this episode of the My City My Health podcast, host Caroline Carlson speaks with Dr. Candyce Briggs, a licensed clinical psychologist and mental health advocate based in Iowa City, about the importance of prioritizing self-care and mental health in underserved communities. Dr. Briggs shares her experiences working with community organizations an…
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Health Equity & Diverse Workforce: Dr. Nicole Del Castillo's Vision
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"It's really important that we try and engage folks again from different cultures, different identities, different backgrounds in order to make that rich workforce and learning environment for our learners and our employees." Driven by her passion for health equity, Dr. Nicole Del Castillo embarks on a mission to create a welcoming and inclusive en…
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#52: The Conscious Psychedelic Explorer — John Robertson
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Psychedelic Explorer and Guide John Robertson shares his framework for how to prepare for, set up and integrate meaningful psychedelic experiences so you can harness its power for personal insights and accelerate your personal growth. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-52 About John Robertson John R…
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#51: Thomas Frank — $100k/month selling Notion Templates & Decade Worth of Advice for Creators
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Thomas Frank shares an inside look at his side business making over $100K per month selling Notion templates, as well as advice from over a decades' worth of experience as a YouTuber with over 2.5 million subscribers. ——————————————— For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-51 ——————————————— About Thomas…
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#50: Addiction Recovery Expert Dr. Robb Kelly
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Robb Kelly, PhD is an addiction recovery expert who successfully recovered from alcoholism. During his early twenties, he worked at the elite and influential Abbey Roads Studio as a session musician in London and has worked with thousands of people including celebrities of film, music, and sports. Based on his own experiences working with addicts a…
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#49: Supercharge Your Productivity with Khe Hy
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An in-depth conversation on creating an impactful career without sacrificing your lifestyle. We talk about transitioning careers from a well-paying job to starting your own lifestyle business on your own terms. We also dig into Khe's 10K Work concept, identity, productivity, as well as copywriting, marketing and branding secrets that Khe has learne…
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#48: Intentional Life Design and How to Overcome the Four Horsemen of Fear with Dr. Corey Wilks
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Dr. Corey Wilks is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach. He writes about the psychology of business, performance, creativity, and fulfillment. His mission is to help entrepreneurs build an Intentional Life by doing meaningful, purpose-driven work that fulfills them. In this conversation with Josh they discuss Corey’s transition from…
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#47: Influencer Marketing Masterclass with Taylor Lagace
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This is an influencer marketing masterclass with Taylor Lagace, the co-founder of Kynship, an influencer marketing company that has helped some of the world’s largest brands leverage influencer marketing to grow their revenues. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-47 About half way through this episod…
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#46: Compounding Your Knowledge and Credibility with Dickie Bush
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Dickie Bush joins Josh to talk about the intersection of creativity and productivity, compounding your knowledge and credibility, how writing online changed his life, and how he teaches people how to start writing online with his online course Ship 30 for 30. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Di…
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#45: Transform Your Body, Transform Your Life with Dan Go (@FitFounder)
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Dan Go reveals the method he uses to get high-achieving people into their ideal body and stay fit for the rest of their lives. Dan shares his simple four-step process that he takes all of his clients through to get amazing results. We also go deep into how Dan has grown his business using Twitter in the past two years. He shares some of his biggest…
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#44: Microdosing Psilocybin to Improve Your Life with MindfulMeds Founder Keegan Downer
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Josh is joined by MindfulMeds founder Keegan Downer to discuss microdosing psilocybin as both a means to help with mental health issues like anxiety and depression, as well as using it as a nootropic to improve your cognition, creativity and problem-solving abilities. Keegan also shares his story of battling depression and alcoholism, and the journ…
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#43: Career Hyperdrive with David Elikwu
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This is a masterclass in accelerated career development with David Elikwu on how to build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business or personal brand. This podcast is an overview of David's new course 'Career Hyperdrive' where I asked David about his career journe…
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#42: Get Paid to Surf the Web with Swish Goswami
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Swish has built a multi-hyphenate career at just the age of 24. He's built multiple successful ventures including Trufan and Surf, advises and invests in startups, and is a professional speaker and podcaster. Swish talks in-depth about his new product, Surf and how it will change the way we surf the web. He's done so much in such a short amount of …
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#41: World Class Chef Doug McNish on Veganism, Creativity and Cancel Culture
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World famous vegan chef Doug McNish joins Josh to talk about his experience with veganism for the past 15 years and how he creates his award-winning vegan recipes. Doug also shares his wisdom and advice for entrepreneurs or any creative person who wants to get more out of life, and Doug opens up about his experience with burnout and cancel culture.…
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#40: New Age Consulting & Building a Unified Field Theory with Mitch Gonsalves
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Mitch shares his sales & marketing strategies that has grown his consulting company to over $2.5 million dollars per year, how to cultivate a winner's mindset, building a Unified Field Theory of interconnected ideas, and a lot more. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Mitch Gonsalves Mitch Gonsalv…
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#39: Mark Metry — Social Anxiety and Reprogramming Your Mind for Success
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Mark Metry joins Josh to talk about his book Screw Being Shy, social anxiety, mental health and reprogramming your mind for success. We also get into topics like podcasting, and how to use it for personal development, we talk about how virtual reality and psychedelics will have an impact on mental health, and we touch on mystical experiences during…
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#38: Building in Public & Making Twitter Friends with Kevon Cheung
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Josh and Kevon Cheung to talk in depth about the building in public movement happening in the indie creator community. They explore the opportunities that creators have to build in public and make friends on Twitter to accelerate growth and make a bigger impact.Whether you're building a company or your personal brand, this episode is PACKED with ac…
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#37: Multi-Hyphenate Creative Entrepreneurship with PB+J Co-founders Tom Collver & Kyle Dutka
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Tom & Kyle, the co-founders of award-winning creative agency PB+J, bring their decades worth of experience as creative entrepreneurs to share their strategies and philosophies on multi-hyphenate creative entrepreneurship and building enduring ecommerce brands. They discuss everything from exploring and finding your niche, fighting perfectionism, re…
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#36: Corey Haines — Mental Models for Effective Marketing
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Corey Haines joins Josh for a wide-ranging conversation on effective marketing strategies and mental models, personal knowledge management for marketers, and his philosophies on stair-stepping entrepreneurship. About Corey Haines Corey is the founder of Swipe Files, a membership community and resource hub for cutting-edge, comprehensive, and someti…
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#35: Danny Miranda — Spirituality, Self Development & Content Creation
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Danny Miranda joins Josh to talk about their experiences with spirituality, personal development and content creation. Danny goes in-depth about the art of consistent content creation, how he gets world-class people on his podcast, including Gary Vee and Kamal Ravikant, and his mission to put out 1000 clips on YouTube by the end of the year in 2021…
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#34: Creative Entrepreneurship, Working with Beyoncé, and Creating VR/AR in Unreal Engine with Andre Elijah
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Andre Elijah joins Josh for a wide-ranging conversation on creative entrepreneurship, mixing technology and art, big opportunities in the virtual and augmented reality industry, and working in Unreal Engine to create multi-platform interactive products. About Andre Elijah Andre is an award-winning Immersive Director, Creative Technologist, and New …
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#33: Arvid Kahl — How to Build and Sell an Audience-First Business
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Arvid Kahl and Josh go deep on the process and strategies of bootstrapping a profitable software business, what it means to build an audience-first product, and building in public. Arvid has years of experience with building and selling online businesses, and he gives us some really helpful strategies on how we can build and sell a sustainable busi…
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#32: Marie Poulin — Master your Life and Business
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Josh is joined by Marie Poulin to talk about the online education business, digital systems, mindset training & self-development, and how Marie decided to go from a generalist designer to finding her niche and going all-in with Notion. We also get into building up self-confidence and creating content online. One of Marie's biggest growth channels i…
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#31: Play to Win with Top 20 Pro Poker Player Chris Sparks
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Josh is joined by Chris Sparks to talk about his latest Article 'Play to Win: Meta-Skills in High-Stakes Poker' where he breaks down his strategies and meta-skills that enabled him to become an elite poker player, and turns them into actionable strategies and productivity hacks that you can use to level-up your game in life and business. About Chri…
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BEST OF Mind Meld Season 1 This is a compilation of highlights from all 29 episodes of Mind Meld published in 2020. Enjoy & have a Happy New Year! *********** Get my FREE annual reflection & goal planner template here: http://bit.ly/annualreview-notion *********** Subscribe to Mind Meld on your favourite podcast app: https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod ***…
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#29: Mixing Love and Business with Marisa Tassone
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Josh is joined by his partner in life and business, Marisa Tassone, to talk about their businesses Contraverse and Longboi, and how they make their romantic-business partnership work. Marisa Tassone is the Co-founder of virtual reality start-up Contraverse and Longboi, a dachshund-inspired apparel company. She is a graduate of Ryerson University's …
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#28: VR Architecture & Tools for Thought with Andreea Ion Cojocaru
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Andreea and Josh talk about the creative and philosophical implications of designing spaces in virtual reality, as well as philosophies around tools for thought and software that can completely change the way we think creatively. About Andreea Ion Cojocaru Andreea is a software developer and a licensed architect. She’s the co-founder & CEO of NUMEN…
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#27: Building Generational Wealth Selling on Amazon and Owning Real Estate with Melisa Vong
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Melisa Vong shares her philosophies on building generational wealth through building and selling e-commerce companies, then buying real estate with the proceeds. Melisa also shares her experience with branding, marketing and selling products on Amazon, and how to stand out on one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the world. About Melisa Vong: …
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#26: Media & Psychedelics with Casey Blustein
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Josh is joined by Casey Blustein to talk about the state of the media industry in a post-COVID world, as well as psychedelics and how its medicinal use will be one of the biggest revolutions in our lifetime. About Casey Blustein: Casey Blustein is a Toronto-based producer, strategist and company builder currently helping accelerate and democratize …
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#25: No-code, Fatherhood and Ultrarunning with Tom Osman
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Tom Osman from Makerpad joins Josh to talk about the growing no-code community, automation tools, and software innovation. Tom also shares his best parenting and work-from-home advice, as well as his strategies and mindset for running an ultramarathon. About Tom: Tom Osman is currently working at Makerpad where he teaches people how to build softwa…
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#24: Product Design, Biotech and Restaurant Franchising with Sarkis Buniatyan
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Sarkis joins Josh to talk about his experience designing complex digital products without code, investing in start-ups, creating a biotechnology company, and scaling a successful restaurant franchise. Sarkis also showcases his complex Webflow prototypes including a full rebuild of the Playstation 4 interface, MacOS, and Civilization 6, all natively…
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#23: Nat Eliason on Starting a Life-Changing Blog
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Nat Eliason joins Josh to share his experience building a successful 6-figure personal blog with multiple viral articles and passive income projects. Nat also shares his digital marketing and SEO insights, content creation strategies and productivity hacks. ********** For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://bit.ly/mind…
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#22: Building Wealth with Software - Bart Macdonald
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Josh is joined by Bart Macdonald, the managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners to talk about building wealth by building and selling software companies as well as through acquisition entrepreneurship. Bart Macdonald buys, builds & invests in amazing SaaS companies. As managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners, Bart has been operating, investing …
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#21: The Dealflow Blueprint with Avi Grondin
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Avi Grondin, the CEO of Variance Marketing, shares his insights and philosophies on scaling and automating businesses and explains his marketing and sales tactics for entrepreneurs. Avi Grondin is a Canadian entrepreneur, digital marketer, and speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Variance Marketing, a Toronto based full-service marketing agency. A…
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#20: The Hero's Journey For Creative Entrepreneurs with Sam Marfleet
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Josh is joined by Sam Marfleet to discuss storytelling for creators and entrepreneurs based on Sam's research on writing a study guide for The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Sam Marfleet is a writer and marketing consultant helping businesses tell more profitable stories. He has worked with DTC brands and CPG manufacturers helping s…
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