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Wanna know how to move from solopreneur to actual business? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Ryan Read (Entrepreneur & Founder of Thrive Specialized Training) and they go all in on the hard work no one sees, moving from being solo to hiring to build a team, what playing pro basketball overseas taught him, taking care of your customers’ needs first, forming community around your customers’ needs,...

Wanna find more alignment in life? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Taylor Stone (Entrepreneur & Founder of Inner Goddess Health) and they go all in on living out loud, growing through your truth, how others might perceive your growth, the journey of self-love, self-worth and value, real manifestation coming from you being in alignment and doing the work, soul contracts, embracing change, refrai...

Wanna know how to manage your art and music career like a business? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Kato (Music Producer, Entrepreneur, Influencer & Founder of Sound Advice Tour) and they go all in on managing your craft like a business, bringing some structure to it, the realities of building an audience, making sure to build community, why content cannot only be about the highlights but educa...

Wanna know how to create your own opportunities? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Cole Cameron (Entrepreneur, Founder & Acclaimed Photographer) and they go all in on what he learned from being open to opportunities, being prepared for when opportunities come, the process of reaching out to well-established industry veterans, building a reputation from those opportunities, what it means to be ada...

Wanna know how to create a business with a loved one? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Jay McPhaul & Jessica Wenger (Co-Founders of Heywood & Ringo & Naked Rebellion) and they go all in on creating a business around innate market needs, coming together to create a business, fulfilling needs instead of entering the market blindly and without knowing your customer, leveraging each others’ strength...

Want to know how to rebuild yourself? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Zach Skow (Founder of Marley’s Mutts & Pawsitive Change) and they go all in on the process of looking ourselves in the mirror, rebuilding one step at a time, saving ourselves to save others, serving others, how pets can truly create a healthy change within ourselves, founding a business on serving others, remembering to build...

Want to know what really builds a long-term, sustainable, thriving and memorable brand? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Olivia Giuntini (Chief Brand Officer Audemars Piguet) and they do a deep dive conversation on authenticity and it’s impact throughout the brand, the team and the message worldwide, being true to who you really are, making sure craftsmanship, a real story and authenticity are e...

Wanna know how to balance to have it all? Work, a life and a family? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Kelly Helfman (President of WWD Magic & Project Womens) and they go all in on making the decision to go corporate instead of entrepreneurship, having clear expectations of her corporate route and how to get there, having a family and making sure to be present with them, the balance of being a mo...

Wanna know how to work your passion into a side hustle and your side hustle into a full blown company? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Isaac Gonzales & Donne Hall (Entrepreneurs, Co-Founders of Streamline Custom Designs) and they go all in on returning to childhood passions, using experience from your other work in your and embedding it into your passion, having the right complimentary partners...

Wanna know how to build quality relationships that help build your art, creativity, busniess and life? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Armen Keleshian (Entrepreneur, Owner of Armen Keleshian Photography and Complex Top 30 Music Photographer) and they go all in on building a solid reputation within one of the hardest industries, treating everyone with respect, respecting your art and creativity,...

Wanna know how to build a long lasting sustainable business partnership? Or in life? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Thomas Rimbach & Nadeem Al-Hasan (Founders of BakedBros Edibles) and they go all in on what it really means to form an effective partnership, how to learn and understand your partner, how to communicate with your partner, deciding on who gets what responsibilities, having flexibi...

Wanna know how to find your flow state? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Tommy Baker (Author, Speaker, Coach & Host of the Resist Average Academy Podcast) and they go all in on managing your internal world, optimizing for peak performance, increasing your flow state, identifying why people get stuck and overwhelmed, how to make daily moves that increase your output exponentially, the differences...

Wanna know how to turn your vision into reality? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Brett Johnson (Founder & Partner of Fortuitous Partners, Co-Chairman of the Rising Phoenix Football Club) and Berke Bakay (Serial Entrepreneur), and they go all in on how to create movement for what you believe in, the most important keys to turning your vision into reality, how to build the right team, how to find...

Wanna know how to get more results? What about more unusual, amazing results? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with George Zeng (Co-Founder & CEO of MoonFish) and they go all in on how to think more unusual in a usual world, how to approach ideas differently, why the “unusual” works, taking saturated markets such as travel and applying new ways of thinking to them, why people get stuck in their ways,...

Wanna know how to forgive more? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Amy Newmark (Publisher, Editor-in-Chief & Author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Book Series) and they go all in on how forgiveness helps propel you much further in life, why people hold on to things when they need to let go, what happens if we don’t forgive and the effects on us, why forgiveness is hard for so many people, taking...

Wanna know how to execute your creative vision? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with David “DZ” Zimmerman (Entrepreneur, Award Winning Creative Director & Founder of The Family Vibe Agency) along with Ryan Sandler (Art Director and Partner) and Justin Gurian (Founder of Feelgood's) and they go all in on how to take an idea and actually develop it from scratch, managing the creative process internall...

Wanna know how to change the world? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Brandin Cohen @brandin_cohen (Founder of Liquid IV @liquidiv) and they go all in on how to think bigger than where you currently are, when does relentlessness come in and what it means to change the world and with community at scale, tying yourself to a large vision and working towards it, getting others involved on your journe...

Wanna know how to be a bigger risk taker and more relentless in pursuit of your dreams? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Berke Bakay @berkebakay @phxrisingfc (Principal Owner, Governor and Co-Chairman of Phoenix Rising Football Club, Investor & Serial Entrepreneur) along with past guest, Ryan Hibbert @_ryanhibbert_ @riothospitalitygroup (CEO & Founder of Riot Hositallity Group) and they go all i...

Wanna know how to tap in more to your creativity? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Angela Ferrari (National Recording Artist & Entrepreneur) and they go all in on how being more vulnerable makes you more honest with your creativity, what it really takes to produce your most authentic work, not looking at things as good or bad but simply experiences, how to channel our creativity more, how to sta...

Wanna know how the surest way to be successful? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Jennifer Prince (Entrepreneur & Founder of Institute of Aesthetics) and they go all in on the years it takes to fine tune your craft, being committed to the education of your industry so you can serve people better, consistently investing in your knowledge, shadowing people you admire, not taking on more but improvi...

Wanna know how go create what you want if it doesn’t already exist? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Samantha Gutstadt & Haely White (Co-Founders of Don’t Call Me Mommy Studios, Writers, Content Creators, Comedians and Directors) and they go all in on pivoting from unsatisfied pursuits, the importance freedom plays in the content we create and the direction we take, gaining knowledge and experie...

Wanna know how go into a completely new industry? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Warner Siebert (CEO of Good Day) and they go deep on the process from transitioning from one industry into a completely different industry, taking learned experiences and leveraging them in your new ventures, the similarities one will encounter no matter what industry they’re in as well as the differences you don’...

Wanna know how to hack your entire mindset and approach to life? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with John Assaraf (CEO & Founder of NeuroGym & World Leading Mindset & Behavioral Expert) and they go deep on how to break free from mental and emotional obstacles, understanding why people keep repeating the same patterns, working through the messy middle of transformation, understanding how far the bra...

Wanna know how to be more awesome at your life? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with Neil Pasricha (Best Selling Author of 7 Books and International Speaker) and they talk about the single word that keeps your options open after failure, how the spotlight effect fools your brain into thinking poorly of yourself, eliminating worry, how to create an untouchable day, how to remove distractions, how to...

Podcast Episode Notes:   Wanna know what the hustle really looks like behind the scenes? Matt @mattgottesman sits down with London Brown @reallondonbrown (Actor & Comedian) and they talk about what really goes into mastering your craft, doing the work that no one wants to consistently do, building a reputation from your work, being prepared for big moments, being multifaceted and building yourself...