Behind The Frames Podcast

Tal Schwartz is the founder and author of the Canadian FinTech Newsletter, a platform for news and analysis for financial technology executives, investors and hobbyists. Tal began his career in policy & research at the Canadian Lender Association and later worked as a product manager at a Canadian fintech company Nomis Solutions. In my conversation with Tal, he shared his processes with crafti...

Matt Phillips is a realtor based in Toronto, who makes educational content about real estate on TikTok. Ronald is also a graduate of McMaster Degroote School of Business with experience working in the financial service industry. In this episode we talked about the how journey to becoming a Realtor, his creative process when it comes to making videos and the importance of prioritizing a personal br...

Laura Wilson is a creator entrepreneur on TikTok providing tax services for individuals, families and businesses. In this episode. We talked about her journey marketing her businesses on TikTok, how she engages her audience with TikTok Live, and her strategy to owning her audience via email lists. --- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wilsontaxsolutions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wilsontax...

Louis Shulman is a serial entrepreneur and podcast host for The Louis Kyle Show, a business podcast focused on interviewing top business leaders, entrepreneurs and athletes with over 200 episodes recorded. Louis is also the co-founder of Orbit Metrics and Inbox Ghosts.  In my conversation with Louis, he shares his perspectives on why you do not have to have a target audience for podcasting, how to...

Kate is the managing director of Youth and Profiting Media (YAP Media), media company that specializes in social channel branding and advertising services for creators in the professional, business and self-improvement niches.  In my conversation with Kate, we talked about why she left her job at Nielsen to work in YAP Media, we talked about the business structure of YAP Media, and we talked about...

Steve McAllister is a sports journalist who have led Toronto Maple Leafs, Globe and Mail as the sports editor, and led the Canadian Sports News at Yahoo, now he is the founder of Gaming News Canada, country's leading source for coverage of the gaming and sports betting industry.  In my episode with Steve, we talked about the evolution of media and our interactions with sports, we talked about...

Swish Goswami is the co-founder and cohost of the Track Limits podcast, and also the founder and CEO of Surf, a white-label loyalty and rewards platform that helps enterprises capture consumer behaviours. Track Limits is a global media platform with podcast episodes around post-race discussions and guest interviews with motorsports leaders and drivers. In my conversation with Swish, he shares his...

Ryan Carr is the founder for Tailwind Studio , an agency that helps brands and creators build, scale and monetize their newsletter. Previously, Ryan was an early member at TheHustle, which then was sold to Hubspot for $27 million.  In my conversation with Ryan, he shares his thesis about the importance of an owned audience (vs rented audience), his lessons learned from working at TheHustle, his jo...

CJ Gustafson is the writer and founder for Mostly Metrics, a newsletter media platform about finance and strategy for startup with over 44,000 subscribers. CJ also serves as the Chief Financial Officer for PartsTech, a growth stage software company that helps auto shops manage their supplies. In my conversation with CJ, he shares about the path he took to land content market fit, how content creat...

Hyunwoo Sun is the founder of Talk To Me In Korean (TTMIK), a foreign language brand to help people learn Korean. He founded TTMIK in 2009 and built one of the largest media brand where the company has sold over 1 million copies of their books. Today TTMIK operates with a team of 20+ people, educating 2 million individuals how to talk to people in korean. In my conversation with Hyunwoo, he shares...

Simon Owens is the founder of the Simon Owen’s Media Newsletter, a media platform that educates media and brand executives about the media industry. Simon Owens has worked as a corporate and freelance journalist for over a decade until 2020 when he decided to switch his focus to build his newsletter full-time. In my conversation with Simon, he shares the evolution of newsletter platforms, how he a...

Joyee Yang is a personal finance creator on TikTok and Instagram. She started her journey in early 2023, sharing her journey of working multiple jobs, managing investments and ways to develop habits to help you achieve financial freedom. In my conversation with Joyee, she shares her journey of how she started working three jobs at the age of 19 and worked her way to purchasing her first property a...

Stetson Stallworth is the director at Brandon Turner’s A Better Life podcast. Stetson is a entrepreneur who had sold a cleaning business and held an MBA from California Lutheran University, with experiences working at sponsorship at Las Vegas Events. In my conversation with Stetson, we spoke about how he went above and beyond to connect with Brandon Turner, his role in the organization as the dire...

Pete Judo is a Youtube video creator, focuses on investigative content around academia and behavioural science. Pete also works in NatWest Group, the largest UK bank as a behavioural scientist. In my conversation with Pete, he shares his experiences with creating content on Youtube since he was 16, he shares about how he managed imposter syndrome by learning from Gotham Chess, and we talked about...

Nathan Kennedy is a personal finance creator on Instagram and TikTok, and the host of New Money podcast. Nathan is a veteran creator who began creating short-form content since 2020, Nathan is known for his content around conversational skits around every day scenarios from salaries negotiation to parental conversation, with the goal to help people make better financial decision. In this episode,...

Ken Fung is a video creator on Instagram creating videos about immigration in Hong Kong. He immigrated from Hong Kong to Canada in 2021 and began making videos about living expectations and differences between Canada and Hong Kong and his life in Canada. In my conversation with Ken Fung, he shares his journey immigrating from Hong Kong to Canada as an adult, how he goes about planning his videos,...

Nic Conley is the founder and author of The Follow Up, a newsletter designed for B2B sales professionals with over 10,000 subscribers. Previously, Nic spent 6 years working in sales, and previously left Amazon as a business development manager to work on his newsletter full-time Today we sat down with Nic to talk about his early career in sales, his experiences with newsletter founding Three Money...

Welcome to the podcast, this is a podcast where we have conversations about creativity, content, and entrepreneurship. Today we are joined by Ronald Hae, Ronald is a high school teacher at Appleby College, standup comic and a podcast host of the Teachers Hotline. In today’s episode, we talked about the story of how Ronald started the Teachers Hotline podcast when Covid-19 hit, we talked about teac...

Welcome to the Behind The Frames podcast, today we are joined by James Klusaritz. James is the comedic video creator behind James Leonidas1, James Leonidas2, a poker and college comedy account with a community of over 150k people. Today we talked about how James got started with blogging from an entrepreneurship club event he ran, and how that evolved into the TikTok channel he is building today,...

Welcome to the podcast, this is a podcast where we have conversations about creativity, content, and entrepreneurship. Today we are joined by Vash, also known as Turbanografer, he is a professional portrait photography creator based in India, and now he is starting a tourism venture leveraging his photography skills.  In Today’s episode, we talked about the story of how Vansh came from working fro...

Julian is the creator behind Gundam Universe, a community page for Gundam fans. Julian started the page in 2013, with reposting screenshots of shows on Instagram, and now the page has grown to over 110k followers on Instagram and he also began posting anime commentaries on Youtube and livestream on Twitch. We talked about how his relationships with the content and the Gundam franchise has changed...

Jason Lai is a video creator and a full-time management consultant in London. He makes videos about personal development and a career in management consulting. He started his YouTube channel when he was studying Law at the University of Durham and his goal is to inspire and create positive impacts for people around him. In my conversation with Jason, he shared his perspectives about his upbringing...

Podcast  Frank Chen is the Head of Finance & Operations for a Restaurant Software company Captain AI , the podcast host for Ideas Can’t Wait and a founding member of the founder community Acesocial . Previously, Frank co-founded and led a startup Sumer, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery in Toronto.  In my conversation with Frank, he shared his perspectives on founding Sumer, his interv...

Danny Desatnik is the host of the ⁠Creator Culture Podcast⁠ and the head of partnership at ⁠Creator Camp⁠ . Previously Danny was leading #Paid as a creator initiative manager, a role he created at the company because of his passion for activating creator relationships. Meanwhile, Danny started an initiative called Playlist Stoytellers where he brings together artists/creatives to share stories aro...

Matt Parkin is an account executive at a software startup and a serial entrepreneur. Having founded organizations such as LEAP Canada, Paragon Consulting and Coble. Matt Parkin is known for his content with MorningswithMatt, which started as a career consulting platform which has now evolved to a B2B agency focusing on Linkedin content marketing. In my conversation with Matt, he shares his perspec...