The HeyCreator Show

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠ @timforkindotcom ⁠ ) take on four Creator Advice questions from X and the HeyCreator community. Thank you to George, Jay, Nausheena and Michael for your questions! (0:00) — Intro (0:38) — George asks, “Now what?” (7:13) — Jay has a cre...

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, we’re running an expert session from the HeyCreator community with Corey Wilks, Psy. D — a psychologist and executive coach.  Corey gives an excellent presentation on The Four Horsemen of Fear before Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) joins him on the call to talk creator mindset, switchi...

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) is joined by John Meese to walk through his Serve Call framework from his new book, Serve to Sell. Selling high-ticket offers (like 1-1 coaching, cohort courses or mastermind memberships) can feel like a numbers game — hopping on one sales call after ano...

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today’s episode, we’re running a stellar presentation Cam Houser ( @cahouser ) gave in our HeyCreator community about all things video.  You’ll learn about what it takes to get comfortable on video, small ways you can improve production, how to come up with better video ideas, and even joins Matt ( ⁠ @mattragland ⁠ ) for ano...

In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) walk through the fastest ways to make $10,000/month as a creator. The episode is split into three different sections — Newsletters, Coaching, and Courses. (0:00) — Intro (1:15) — What’s the fastest way to make $10,000/month with a newsletter? (9:15) — What’s the fastest way to make $10,...

In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) talks through the 10 books every creator must read, split up into three categories — Mindset, Business, and Process. Later, Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) joins for the first edition of Creator Advice — our new segment where we answer questions from our community, place ourselves in their situations, and work to solve th...

In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) interviewed Gina Bianchini (Co-founder and CEO of Mighty Networks) and Jordan Mix (Partner at Late Checkout) LIVE in-person for a conversation about community design. How do the most successful community builders do it? What makes their communities thrive without their direct involvement? Those questions & more answered...

How do you create content for your favorite brands and make the big bucks? You already can — but not in the ways you think.  You’re probably leaving money on the table. After today’s episode you’ll ask yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Don’t worry, it’s not too late. Terry Rice, our Director of Growth & Partnerships at HeyCreator, is here to talk through two income streams creators often...

How do you build a life you don’t need a vacation from? That’s why we become creators, right? To skip the 9-5, work for ourselves, help others, and live our dream? To answer the question, Matt interviewed long-time friend and HeyCreator Summit speaker Khe Hy — the perfect person to answer this question, because he walked away from a $2 million salary on Wall Street for a life of surfing, family, e...

You want to sell more courses. Billy Broas is an expert in course launch marketing.  If you watch today’s episode with Billy, you’ll be able to sell more courses. Therefore, you NEED to watch this episode. Today’s conversation is all about marketing arguments, and how you can use them (like we did above) to write killer copy for your landing pages and use psychology to sell more courses. Matt inte...

“What should I charge?” Every creator asks this question. Don’t worry, we’ve got you! In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) walk through the Value Ladder framework, discussing how you can scale the same offer up and down the ladder to different price points and levels of involvement. (0:00) — Intro (1:00) — How should we th...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) interviews Amanda Goetz ( @AmandaMGoetz ) LIVE and in-person about her role as a fractional CMO, along with how she thinks about her content, community, and creator habits. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ Everything you need to know about launching, writing and growing an email newsletter is in today’s episode. Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) go through the step-by-step process of launching a profitable newsletter. No fluff. From opening up a C...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Alexis Teichmiller jam on leaving the corporate world to become a creator, along with the move forward into a corporate role again.  Alexis is the Senior Brand Partnerships Manager at Circle — the platf...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ You know you need to be writing an email newsletter. It’s the hot thing to do. But most creators still don’t understand WHY email newsletters are such an incredible channel for your business. There’s so many aspects of a newsletter that creators simply get wrong about their newsle...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) interview Cody ( @Cody_Hock ) & Cole Hock ( @UpNorthCole ). These two brothers manage entertainment creators, but we wanted to talk about Enjoy Basketball — the med...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) give out their best advice for new creators. Tim lays out the lessons young creators need to learn in order to grow, while Matt speaks to established professionals look...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Nat Eliason ( @nateliason ) jam about what it actually takes to be a creator. Topics include Nat’s take on niching down, the main ways creators become replaceable, choosing between money and passion, wh...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) discuss equity for creators — more specifically, how and why creators should think about owning pieces of others’ businesses. Stories include MKBHD’s deal with Ridge, t...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) push through initial feelings of not wanting to record. The conversation evolves into how creators can make the most of their limited time — both in what they spend thei...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) talk about the value of niching down as a creator and what it can do for your business.  After, we’re sharing the highlights from Justin Welsh’s ( @thejustinwelsh )...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠@mattragland⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠@timforkindotcom⁠ ) center in on the common ways creators overthink their work — highlighting a clip from Darrell Vesterfelt ( @dvest ) in which he talked about the importance of picking...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠⁠ In the first official episode of the HeyCreator show, Matt Ragland ( ⁠⁠@mattragland⁠⁠ ) and Tim Forkin ( ⁠⁠@timforkindotcom⁠⁠ ) talk about facing the challenges of starting a new creative project. Then, the team goes deep into their past, revealing their Mount Rushmore of Crea...

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout. On this week’s episode, Tim Stoddart ( ⁠@timstodz⁠) talks about the changes coming to The Copyblogger Podcast and introduces Matt Ragland ( @mattragland ) and Tim Forkin ( @timforkindotcom ) as the new hosts of The HeyCreator Show. The group discuss the change, touch base on upco...

On this week’s episode, Tim Stoddart ( ⁠@timstodz⁠ ) and Ethan Brooks ( ⁠@damn_ethan⁠ ) talk about John Milius, the writer behind many of the most famous action movies of our generation. They explore the ideas of fame, cancel culture, and writing for the masses. Cool Stuff Mentioned In The Show The pro’s and con’s of watching your own content as a creator ⁠Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, To...