Hacks and Hobbies with Junaid Ahmed

In this episode, we get to speak with Courtney Harring . She's a co-founder at Med Snake Media, and she has been running this full-service growth and billing company with her co-founder Shaneé Moret . She's got a fantastic story. We had a chance to chat earlier in the green room, and I've known her for over a year. It has been amazing to watch her journey and growth come full circle. She's been wo...

On the Mindfulness Meditation Monday, I talk about the importance of time allocation. And a shout out to some awesome folks that I met on my drive in DC and VA over the weekend. 🎙 Wanna be a guest? Apply on PodMatch: https://www.podmatch.com/member/hacksandhobbies 📖 Home Studio resources: https://homestudiobook.com 🔗 LI: https://linkedin.com/in/superjunaid Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz compan...

In this episode, we get to speak with Amanda Parker. She is a business owner and abstract artist. She's been passionate about composition photography, game design, coding, lighting, UI, UX, video editing, and storyboarding. When I read her bio on LinkedIn, It felt like I was reading about myself. I got to connect with her through her artwork on Instagram. I was blown away by the level of creativit...

In this bonus episode I go over what's happening this coming week and talking about Gary Vee and his hour long talk in Australia this past August 2019. ——Sponsorship—— This podcast brought to you by our generous sponsors. It is hosted by Anchor and distributed to the many platforms available to you to listen on. If you’re interested in sponsoring this podcast please connect on the networks below....

In this episode, I get to speak with Matthew Gagnon. He's a mindset coach, keynote speaker and believes in comeback stories. After selling his soul to the corporate lifestyle for the past 15 years, he was basically selling his soul to the corporate lifestyle, missing birthday parties, family events. holidays. And he made a decision to get out of that and create something that would fulfill his lif...

I've been recording my thoughts and valuable insights that I've gathered after listening to books, speeches and content I've been consuming to help grow my business. And I finally figured there has to be a better way to share those insights. I introduce to you the Mindfulness Meditation Mondays or how I like to call them "Mindless Mondays" This is the first of many episodes publishing on Mondays....

In this episode, I get to speak with Michael Whitlow. He owns and operates vetbuilder.com He's a Veteran and a Marine. But what's really interesting is that he also studied culinary arts, meaning he cooked food for a living! I met Michael Whitlow through the Champions group on Facebook by Donnie Boivin, and we've been chatting back and forth open the importance of being present on the social media...

In this episode, I get to speak with an award-winning woman empowerment coach, a best selling author of a stage of their own, Altovise Pelzer. She was encouraged to write at the age of eight by her grandmother, and She later found that developing a love of writing would get her through many difficult situations.  She founded the World Voice League and has been the host to the speakeasy podcast for...

In this episode, I get to speak with Philip Morgan. Now I've been following Philip's story for over a year and I've been reading his PMC daily emails, and we had a chat last year. I was introduced to him by my good friend Fuad Kamal, who was also a guest on this podcast. On the PMC emails, I've been getting so much value. I like the way he thinks, and that's one of the reasons why I brought him on...

In this episode, we get to speak with Mario Castelli. He's a driven passionate individual that views the world through Kaleidoscope vision.  We're going to dig a little bit more on what that all means. He is a recent graduate with a degree in English and History. He has a ton of experience with children both in special needs child inclusion, mainstreaming with individual education programs, as wel...

I get to speak Emmy award-wining producer, best-selling author, and a marketing expert. He has written for Mashable, Fast Company, Inc.com , the Huffington Post, AOL, and others. He has co-authored some of the best-selling books with Jack Canfield, Dan Kennedy, Robert Allen, and many leading experts from around the world. Our Guest Greg Rollet Website: http://gregrollett.com Instagram: @gregrollet...

In this episode, I get to speak with Jake Jordan. He solves growth challenges for cause driven organizations. He's the founder and co-host for the unlearn show, an amazing show that started over a year ago and they are breaking bad habits and building new ones. He's been a hobbyist, consultant for strategy and has been helping solve organizational challenges around communications. Our Guest Jake J...

In this Episode, we get to speak with Marissa Cali. I met her through LinkedIn, and what really pulled me towards her was the fact that she's a font nerd. Being a font nerd just means that she has have a very keen eye and she can tell if the font being used is the correct way. I decided to bring her on the podcast and since she's also a social media strategist and us being entrepreneurs and hobbyi...

In this episode, I get to speak with Bo Wernick. He's the CEO and Chief Engineer at Theta Composites. How did I meet Bo? Well, I am part of Nova labs a maker space here in Reston, Virginia. And in the space of hacking things together and making the passion of their hobbies and building stuff. Bo stepped forward and said I'd love to chat about. And as I learned, and with the conversation with him l...

In this episode, I get to speak with Donnie Boivin. He does not need an introduction. He's got one of the top 200 podcasts on iTunes called Donnie's Success Champions. I've learned so much amazing stuff with him, through him through the podcast through the groups that I'm with him and it's like why am I not interviewing this guy? Donnie is full of amazing information, amazing knowledge and I'm so...

Welcome to another Monday Breakdown. Last week we got to hear from Candice Fathi she talks about how to access your limbic brain and utilize your genius,  Eleanor Brick speaks about her passion as an illustrator and following your dreams to open up opportunities.  Then Hani Mourra talks about the power of software and how to build applications to solve your own problems while helping others in the...

In this episode, I get to speak with Jordan gross. He's an executive coach at Cloud Nine living it two times author three times founder and a TEDx speaker. He reached out to me through LinkedIn saying that he's on an amazing journey to be on 90 podcasts this summer or 2019. I'm honored to bring him on the here and learn his journey on how he discovered this new found love for cloud nine living. Ou...

Our Guest Hani Mourra LinkedIn : linkedin.com/in/hanimourra Twitter : hanimourra Websites: repurpose.io   (Company Website), hanimourra.com   (Personal Website) Hacks to take Away Being a techies software guy. He started blogging about the video, because that was his passion. How he got into blogging, understanding SEO and the video market, and building a little bit of an audience. He had a passio...

In this episode, I get to speak with Eleanor Bick. She's a German freelance author and illustrator. And I got to follow some of her amazing illustrations on Twitter. She's been posting some really fantastic illustrations of Pokemon related comics. I was super fascinated with the level of detail and the level of clarity in these illustrations. And to top it all off she did a little short tv trailer...

Our Guest Candice Fathi LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/candice-fathi Website: marvelvillage.com   (Company Website) Email: themarvelvillage@gmail.com Hacks to take Away Talking about the mind and how it is so powerful, and we can make it do whatever we want The more that we are authentically ourselves, the more that we are just uniquely awkwardly weirdly, operating on our own vibration. An infant's bra...

Welcome to another Monday Breakdown. Last week we got to hear from Mark Metry - How to become an evolved version of yourself. Kris Macchiarola - How to create a humanized company and leaders. Holli Shan - How to talk with other beings Bonnie Marie William - How to follow your dreams and become a superhero! This Week we’ll be talking with a dynamic TEDx speaker, an illustrator and author with natur...

In this episode, I get to speak with Bonnie Marie Williams. She's a voice actor at vo superhero. She is the ultimate superhero, and voiceover superhero. And she's got an amazing journey that we're about to learn about. She's got a bachelor's degrees in theatre arts and acting concentration, and she's into a lot of cool things that I wish I had the opportunity to get into. Our Guest Bonnie Marie Wi...

In this episode, I get to speak with a TEDx speaker, Holli Shan. I had the opportunity to attend TEDx Ashburn my first attendance ever to such an event. It was also the very first TEDx in Ashburn with a growing community of speakers their first-ever and she was one of the first speakers to speak about her passion and what she's been doing with her life. She comes from a background of animal commun...

In this episode, we get to speak with Kris Macc. She's a speaker, author and consultant, with an upcoming book coming out hashtag no approval needed. She helps corporations and companies be better emotionally equipped to deal with or have a good way of a balance with employees and having that emotion because a lot of the times companies feel like they are robotic. They're just looking for that bot...

In this episode, we get to speak with Mark Metry host of humans 2.0 podcast, his podcast has been featured on Forbes, Huffington Posts, Inc, and listed in the top 20 and growing podcasts for 2019 on the NASDAQ. And I've had the privilege of connecting with him back in 2018. September, have been following his journey and engaging with him on LinkedIn and Facebook. And this dude is the genuine deal,...