Backstage Careers

In today's episode I talk to Nejc (@heynejc on Twitter) who's currently working behind the scenes with Dave Nemetz the founder of  Bleacher Report  (a media company that sold for $175M in 2012). Nejc is Dave's right hand man when it comes to producing and growing his personal brand -and we'll go into detail about what that means exactly. SHOW NOTES:  03:32 How Nejc's desir...

In this episode I talk to Chris Hladczuk ( @chrishlad on Twitter ) who popped on my radar last year when he became Shaan Puri's apprentice. Shaan is the founder of Bebo (acquired by Twitch for $25,000,000 in 2019). Chris was still a senior at Yale when he landed the job and throughout his apprenticeship he worked with Shaan to research and ghostwrite twitter threads and newsletters to grow Sh...

Tam Pham is pretty much the perfect guest for this podcast.. He dropped out of college and instead of pursuing a traditional path he decided that he wanted to go learn business from the entrepreneurs he looked up to. He's apprenticed under 3 world class entrepreneurs that you might have heard of: 1) Sam Parr founder of the Hustle 2) Andrew Warner who's the host and founder of Mixergy 3)...

In this episode I talk to David Draey who's the head of sales a Consulting.com a $30M/year educational business helping experts start and scale their business. David joined consulting.com in 2018 and he's since become so valuable to the business that he was made a co-owner. Here are a couple of things you might enjoy from this episode: 1) How David ended up in sales and why it might be a...

Gabe Saldarriaga is the Chief Revenue Officer and Director of Media & Marketing for the Dan Lok organization. He's been a key asset behind the growth of Dan Lok's business and social media presence over the last 4 years.  He helped grow the business to 8 figures in revenue, and he's largely responsible for growing Dan Lok's YouTube channel from a couple thousand subscribers...

Tom Boyd has a fascinating background working in the music industry. He was Asher Roth's collaborative partner and he played a key role in his rise to fame. In the process he worked with big names like Pharrell Williams, Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun to name just a few. Today Tom is the head of content production at Jimmy Buffett's billion dollar brand Margaritaville and on the side he...

Anton started his career in social media working with Logan Paul's team and then went on to start his own social media agency working with clients like Dr. Joe Dispenza in the spiritual space helping them reach millions of people on social media. As he's scaled his agency, he's also been able to spend more time on his second passion which is teaching people how to use breath work to...

Usually I'm in the interviewer seat, but for this episode of Backstage Careers my good friend Tom Boyd is taking over to ask me a couple questions about working behind the scenes with Tom Bilyeu and Noah Kagan. I got a job as Tom Bilyeu's social media manager in 2018 and worked with him at Impact Theory for 2 year. After that I joined  @Noah Kagan 's team to help him produce and gro...

In today's episode I talk to Nick Fisher who was employee #1 at Consulting.com -one of the most successful courses for entrepreneurs online with over 20,000 active students. Before that he was the marketing director at  Clever Investor  which he helped grow from $5 to $16M/year. A couple fun facts about Nick: 1) He's spent over $15M in Ads on Facebook and YouTube throughout his career, a...

In today's episode I talk to Drew Birnie whose the content manager, book marketer and research assistant for Mark Manson, the best selling author of The Subtle Art of not giving a fuck. Together they've sold over 11 Million Books! SHOW NOTES: 0:00 How Drew got to know Mark Manson 05:00 What Drew was doing before he met Mark  8:24 On living in Warren Buffett's neighborhood 11:37 How...

Josh Ordonez is a social media marketer who worked behind the scenes with people like Gary Vaynerchuk & Lonzo Ball while he was still in college. Today he runs his own social media marketing agency. SHOW NOTES: 01:45 How Josh's social media marketing career got started? 03:40 How he started working with Big Baller Brand and what that was like? 15:38 The Instagram DM strategy that Josh use...

In this episode of Backstage Careers I talk to Richard Reis, whose the founder of a fast growing website called MostRecommendedBooks.com He's also one of the most connected people I know: He's good friends with Jamie Foxx, regularly plays soccer with Ronaldo, and he's been invited to Drake's house parties. Here are the show notes: 01:23 - Why Richard decided to drop out of coll...

In today's episode I talk to Amanda McCreight who's the Creative Director for Jesse Itzler and his brands. She's also worked with Yes Theory on a clothing collaboration that dropped at the end of last year. Amanda and I talk about: How she got introduced to Jesse Itzler (03:05), How Amanda landed a job with with Jesse (06:05), How to develop the skills to help you land your first jo...

In today's episode I talk to David Kelly who's the General Manage of AppSumo Originals -which is kind of AppSumo's version of a Google X division. He basically gets paid to start companies! In today's episode you'll hear: How David's first job was managing a $50k ad budget for Fox News (3:42), How he got a job working as a copywriter for Ramit Sethi (6:27), How to lan...

Jason Sanderson is the producer behind podcasts such as The Naval Podcast, The Jordan Harbinger Show, Noah Kagan Presents to name just a few. In this conversation we talk about: *How he started his career as a "tea boy" for a punk rock music studio *The story of how he bought a church and turned it into a music studio *How he got his first big podcast client by offering to help for free...

In episode #3 of backstage careers I talk to my good friend Gerald Xavier who worked as Tom Bilyeu's copywriter. Bookmarks: 1:52 How Gerald Got His Foot in the Door at Impact Theory with a Tweet to Tom Bilyeu 13:15 Why Gerald worked for free for 6 months 30:11 How Gerald finally got a full time position at Impact Theory 36:40 The biggest lessons Gerald learned from working with Tom Bilyeu  55...

In this episode of Backstage Career I talk to David Kim who’s the junior art director at Impact Theory. He works directly with co-founder and CEO Tom Bilyeu to create intellectual property (stories, characters, worlds) that will eventually be turned into movies and shows for Hollywood. David joined Impact Theory as an intern back in 2018, and today he's a junior art director leading the digit...

Tony is a self-taught video editor who's currently the producer behind Thomas Frank 's YouTube channel -one of the biggest YouTubers in the productivity niche. Here are 3 big things you'll enjoy from this conversation: 1) The "stairstep strategy" you can use if you want to work with big creators 2) What it's like working with big YouTubers like Thomas Frank 3) A bunch...