My name is Shan Hanif and today I am the founder & CEO of a $100M company called Genflow - I help some of the biggest social media creators grow their audiences, start their own businesses and work with the best brands. This podcast is where I share the complete journey with you. Expect the following content: -BTS of everything I am going through running a massive business -Lessons from scaling a business to 9 figures in 6 years -Marketing tactics -How to build a high-performance team -Conte ...
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EP 41: The GENFLOW Story ( How I built my business and raised money)
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This is a repost of episode 1 where I tell you how I started the business and raised $11M. I am reposting this as it's been 2 years since I have been doing this podcast, even though consistency has been something I have struggled with in the past I am super proud of myself. Also, there are so many new listeners that would love for you to know more …
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EP 40: My strategy to sign the best clients
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One of the main skills you must have as a CEO is the ability to sell. In this episode, I take you through my exact strategy and tactics on how I don't actually sell but sign the best creators and brands in the world.
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EP 39: How to build a high performance team
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For any startup founder and entrepreneur building your team is one of the most important things you will do. After a 1000 interviews and hiring 250+ people globally, its become quite clear what type of people do well in startups / new companies. In this weeks episode I breakdown: -What you need to look for when interviewing -What skills are the one…
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EP 38 - How I help creators get millions of followers
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Over the past 7 years I have helped some of the biggest creators in the world build their audiences. Today I manage an audience of 200M people. I break it all down in this episode.
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EP 37 - Advice To 20-year-olds Who Want To Start A Business (What I Would Given To Myself When I Started)
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As you get older, you get wiser and realise there's a lot of things I would have changed when I was 20 year old. In this week's episode, I give real advice to someone who is looking to start their own business. If you're in your 20s, this episode is for you.
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This episode is for for anyone who runs an agency or has their own brand. If you sell products or services, I give tips on what you can do to increase your sales and grow your business.
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It's time to shift focus and talk about what I'm really good at -- making money! I run a client-facing business called Genflow, and in this episode, I give a proper and raw update on what we're focussing on as a business in 2023, and where my focus will be the most as a CEO.
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EP 34 - The Secret To Having More Time And Money
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I'm currently working 12-hour days, and in this episode I share how I maximise my time to make some life-changing money.
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EP 33 - How To Scale Your Agency From $10K A Month To $1 Million+ A Month
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I've been building Genflow since 2016, and have personally gone through all the highs and lows of the company. This episode is for fellow business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking to grow their agency. I share real, direct tips and advice that will work. No bullsh*t about reading books or hiring a mentor here. It's real actionable stuff to …
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EP 32 - 3 Habits That Will Help You Become More Successful
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The single biggest difference between you and somebody else is how you carry yourself every single day and your daily habits. In this episode, I will be talking about the three habits you need to make a significant impact to your day-to-day, and ultimately become more successful.
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EP 31 - How To Make Money In 2023 + My Personal Strategy
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In this episode I take you through my goals for 2023, mindset and what you need to do to be successful.
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OK - so it's the end of 2022. It feels different this time. As for me personally, we delivered everything we set out to as a business, but at the same time, I feel like we could have done better. Mainly as I know myself, what I am capable of doing, and how much more I can give to this game of entrepreneurship. In this episode I take you through my …
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EP 29 - Why Most People Are Not Successful
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Are you ready for some plain and simple truth? This episode is breaking through all the bullsh*t of being 'successful'. I have employed 200+ people in my entire career and most people go through the same thing - they put themselves in boxes. In this episode, I share my approach on how you can be more confident and stop thinking you're not good enou…
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EP 28 - The Only Black Friday Strategy You Need For Consumer Brands
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It's my favourite time of the year - Black Friday season! This is the time for real entrepreneurs to make money and reach their goals. for the past 10 years, I've used this weekend as the ultimate test of the health of my business, and once again this year we have set big goals for my business Genflow. In this episode, I share very strategic insigh…
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This episode is for everyone who thinks they need a mentor to progress in their career... when in fact, they do not. In the early days of my entrepreneurial journey, I thought I needed mentorship and someone to guide me, but very quickly I realised that mentorship sucks. Press play for my reasons.
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EP 26 - My Step-By-Step Guide To Raising Money For Your Business
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Founders and entrepreneurs, listen up. In this week's podcast episode, I cover the nitty gritty details of how you need to prepare your deck and pitch to get investment for your business. I talk about what you need to cover? What investors care about? What your numbers need to say? And how to sell to investors? Let's get into it.…
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EP 25 - 6 Years At Genflow | My Favorite Moments That Transformed The Business
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It's been six years since I started my creator company Genflow. This week, we're celebrating. I'm highlighting 6 of my favourite moments, lessons learnt and thoughts. Happy Birthday to Genflow!
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EP 24 - 5 Lessons Of Being An Entrepreneur | Growth Mindset
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It's been 6 years since I launched Genflow, and in this episode i give you the no-nonsense of being an entrepreneur and everything I have learnt as a startup CEO. Most books or gurus won’t tell you this. The cashflow of the business, the growth mindset and getting the most of your team, I cover it all. Sit back and let me know your thoughts.…
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EP 23 - How To Find Investors For Your Business
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In this week's episode, I give an update on my new fundraise for my company Genflow. I also answer some hot questions on what investors are looking for? What type of investor you need for your business? And what are the red flags
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EP 22 - 5 Lessons From Scaling A Business To A Team Of 100+
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I'm back! In this week's episode, I talk about the 5 biggest lessons I've learnt in the last few months of scaling this business. In the early days of Genflow, we were a very small team of 11 people and we signed some of our biggest creators who we still work with. Now with a team of 100+ around the world, things have evolved and we've got more pro…
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EP 21 - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Me
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I talk a lot on here about how I'm growing my business and working with creators as an entrepreneur. But in this week's episode, I want to share a little bit more about me... that's unrelated to work. Listen in for 10 things you didn't know about me... yes, I used to be a professional dancer.
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EP 20 - What are NFTs, Understanding The Blockchain & Why You Should Be Paying Attention
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Let's talk NFTs as April is turning out to be the biggest month in the NFT world with huge record-breaking projects and even bigger volume trade numbers. In this week's episode, I share my plans for how I'm venturing into NFTs, the difference between cryptocurrency and NFT, and why you need to start caring about it. It's still not too late...…
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EP 19 - An Entrepreneur's Guide To Work/Life Balance
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I've been getting asked about this a lot lately... what is work/life balance? Especially when you're an entrepreneur. In this week's episode, I dig into what work/life balance means for me and my business. For some, it's working 9-6. For others, it's making sure you're doing all the things you love and balancing that out throughout the day. This on…
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EP 18 - Q1 2022 Review - Money, Hiring, Issues, Stress and more.
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In this episode, I talk about my biggest lessons and wins from the first quarter of the year. I think this will provide value to any founder or senior team member who works at a startup. Let's get into it.
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EP 17 - How My Bad Hiring Nearly Destroyed My Business
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Now, let me tell you all about it so you don't make the same mistakes... In this week of the realest entrepreneurship podcast, I take you through real-life examples of hiring a team, what I did wrong, what I learned, and how you can spot the same trends that ultimately led me to build a 100+ team.
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EP 16 - Business Operations Is Everything
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I'm back! After a very busy start to the year, Life of an Entrepreneur is back! In this week's episode, I talk about why it's important to lay down the operations of your business and make sure you're doing things that get the job done... and not how the management books tell you how to do it.
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EP 15 - Unlimited Money, What Would You Do?
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I’m back with another podcast after a few weeks of settling into LA life, and I’m letting you in on everything that’s been going down since I moved here. I’m sharing the challenges of running the business on another continent, the big goals we have set for our Acquisition team, and the company-wide strategy for 2022.…
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EP 14 - Lessons From 33 Years Of Hustling
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I turn 33 today. In this episode, I share a little perspective of what we learned from this past weekend of Black Friday mayhem. The positives and the negatives (too commercial? Do people even care?) of how agile every business needs to be. I talk about what our creators did, and why PrettyLittleThing did 100% off this Black Friday. Plus, it's my b…
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EP 13 - My Million Dollar Black Friday Strategy
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It's my favourite week of the year and in this episode I am taking you through how I have planned black friday for over 30 brands and creators which will generate millions in revenue.
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EP 12 - My USA Genflow Strategy and progress update
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I am now in LA and this week talking about my plans here in USA, what I am trying to do with Genflow, what are my targets, how I am going to do it etc. I also talk about how hard its been just moving from UK to LA and managing the HQ! As always - let me know what you think!
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EP11 - My $1B Opportunity & what I am doing in Dubai
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In this weeks podcast I break down what I am truly building with my company Genflow and how big the opportunity is. I also introduce the idea of the next funding round and what my plan is. I then break down what I have been doing in Dubai. New episode every week. Real behind the scenes of running a business.…
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EP10 - My personal brand strategy (step by step)
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This week its something different, a real breakdown of why I am investing in building my personal brand, my actual strategy and execution. For anyone wanting to build their own brand, an audience and their profile as a whole you will find this useful.
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EP 9 - The ups and downs of being an entrepreneur - THE TRUTH
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In this week episode I take you through my last week as it had some amazing high points but then some real stressful moments. This is what it is like and I know many of you go through this too. It felt good to share this openly so let me know what you think by tagging or messaging me on IG @shan.hanif New episode every Monday! Make sure you subscri…
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EP8 - Launching a new service (Genflow Drops), dealing with issues and key business lessons
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New episodes each week. Follow my journey of running a business in real time. This week was good and bad: The Good: Launched a new service - Genflow Drops - I talk about some of the things I had to do to get this done and live. Planning 2022 with our chairman and what I learnt from it and how you can apply it too in your business The Bad: Had an in…
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EP7 - What I have learnt scaling the business to a team of 90+
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In this episode I talk about whats changed about me and the business as we have grown to team of 90+. Key learning in the way I work, think and have the team execute and how you can use some if it in your businesses. I also give you a general update on the business and what’s the plan from here. I then highlight some key personal learnings and how …
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EP6 - How we signed Logan Paul as a client
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After a 2 month break I am back! New episodes coming every Sunday so make sure you are subscribed and lets get to some real business talk. In this episode I cover: -How we signed Logan Paul - the actual true story -Last 2 months update - Back in London now -Scaling my team to 80+ and how that has changed everything -Struggling to do my new job as C…
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EP5 - My struggles, failures and stress as an entrepreneur
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This episode is a real reflection of what you feel at times as an entrepreneur. The stress of trying to do so many things at once, feeling paralysed as you can't solve everything, being in-charge of people and their careers, struggling with time and the constant battle between ambition/energy. Everyone feels lost and overwhelmed but I how you push …
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EP4 - Spending $11M (My Genflow Strategy)
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In this episode I take you through my actual strategy with Genflow. I recently raised $11M and so how will I spend it? How do I make sure we hit our targets and grow the business? How do we not get complacent? How do we remain fast, agile and not lose quality? The pressure of the insanely fast growing creator economy we operate it. Key things I tal…
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EP3 - Creating systems, hiring a team and my work life balance
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This is probably the most talked about things today. On one side its the Hustle Culture of working non-stop and the other is about self-care and focusing on "you" so in this episode I go through what I think of work life balance and how I personally manage it. I have to warn you my thoughts are not for everyone and you may disagree but I fundamenta…
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Both of these words are thrown around a lot but only a few truly understand what it means to have ambition. In this episode I talk about what's changed from me and some interns trying to build something, getting our first few clients, to building a business where I have 60+ employees and generate multi million in revenue yearly. The truth is people…
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This is a real, step by step breakdown of how I raised $11M for my business Genflow. In my experience people never share how they actually did something, they give you the sales pitch, here I go through why I decided to raise, what my business plan included, how I approached investors, prepared for pitches, dealt with rejection, worked on deal poin…
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