Just Go Grind

Gary Arndt is an awarding winning blogger and travel photographer who has been traveling around the world since 2007. His travels have taken him to 200 countries and territories in the Traveler's Century Club and 128 United Nations countries. He has also visited over 380 UNESCO World Heritage sites and all 50 US states. His blog Everything Everywhere is considered one of the best travel blogs in t...

Tim Ferriss is a marketing genius, author of 5 best-selling books, podcaster, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He built a successful blog with over 1 million monthly visitors, a podcast with more than 400 million downloads, and has helped thousands of people through his content. I first heard about Tim Ferriss in 2011 when I read his first book, The 4-Hour Workweek , and preceded to have my life...

Todd Marks, a 40 under 40 and 2x EY Entrepreneur of the Year Nominee, is the teacher-turned-technologist founder of Mindgrub Technologies . Mindgrub, voted CRTC's Tech Company of the Year and placing #520 on the Inc 500/5000, is a mobile, social and web app consultancy, working with companies and organizations in a variety of industries to bring their brand to digital. MY FREE COURSE ON HOW TO STA...

There are a million things you could do in your business, but ruthlessly prioritizing, choosing the right things to do, at the right time, will help you make more progress. In this episode I share a few thoughts on ruthless prioritization and how I manage my own schedule and all the things I'm trying to get done each day. MY FREE COURSE ON HOW TO START A PODCAST: https://just-go-grind.teachable.co...

Lisa Atia is a social entrepreneur, creative strategist, and storyteller at heart. She's had over 10 years' experience scaling rapid-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She's served as the Creative Brand Strategist for Blavity and Chief Revenue Officer for Backstage Capital . At the intersection of culture, media, and tech, her work builds ecosystems and creates access to opportunities for...

As the son of a military doctor, Sasha Strauss spent much of his youth with US Navy SEALS. The mix of international affairs and world travel stirred in him a sense of duty and adventure that carries him daily through his ceaseless travel as a global brand consultant. In 2006, Sasha founded Innovation Protocol to consult using a specialized, rigorous, protocol-driven brand development practice for...

Devin Person is a humble 21st-century incarnation of the wizard archetype, playfully blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Wizards are helpful guides who bring magic, mystery, wisdom, and hope to the societies in which they serve. As a modern wizard, Devin's life's work is to help you—yes, specifically you! —create a slightly better reality. Using thought to change reality is nothing new....

In the words of Christine Hunsicker who sold her first company to Yahoo for $850 million, "Alex will eat through a wall." Born in shopping paradise, Los Angeles, to a long line of sustainability entrepreneurs, Alex has always been passionate about conscious fashion. While in college at Boston University, Alex created a hobby-website called UNItiques to be a fun way for girls on campus to share clo...

Robert Luo graduated from USC Marshall School of Business with a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration. Robert started his first company when he was 20. It was during the time when he decided to take a gap year after my sophomore year in college. Robert's company developed a mobile application called Ubi, which allowed users to send messages and videos with Bluetooth. It was a unique and s...

I released the first episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast on June 9th, 2018 and after a year I've learned a ton, made a bunch of mistakes, and today I'm sharing with you all the details. This is my first solo podcast episode and in it I share with you the results from my first year of podcasting, why I podcast and how I got started in the first place, the logistics behind running a podcast, gettin...

Matt is Managing Director of The Fort . He is a Los Angeles based serial entrepreneur and consultant who has launched over 5 companies. He has been actively involved with The Fort since its inception to ensure that Mammoth's initiative is executed properly and well resourced enough to deliver long term results. Matt works directly with the mountain leadership, Mammoth COO Mark Brownlie, and Alterr...

Marc-Lloyd Ramniceanu is a co-founder of NetCloak and is an alumni of the Techstars LA 2018 class. He currently is the Head of Growth and most recently led the customer discovery and closing for the company's first LOIs with national cyber insurance providers. Prior to founding NetCloak in 2017, he spent 3 years as a senior Cyber Threat Intelligence consultant at Ernst & Young. While at EY, Ma...

Elissa Grossman is an entrepreneurship educator with particular interests in experiential learning, technology-enhanced instruction, and serious educational games. Dr. Grossman's research interests include these topics and, more broadly, the topic of social network construction and use in new venturing – encompassing traditional network development for startup resource acquisition and crowd-fundin...

Sami is Co-Founder and CEO of Cerberus Interactive and a digital marketer specializing in consumer-facing startups. In the last 48 months, Sami has helped create and execute growth strategies for multiple businesses now worth over $3B. Sami was the first marketing hire for the micro-investing app Acorns , where he led the strategy that generated the company's first 2 million investment accounts. S...

Kareem Taylor inspires clients to do the best work of their lives. As a strategist & writer, he brings together words & story to help clients express themselves. Recent projects include helping an organization engage supporters using email marketing, developing a mission statement to energize executives and creating speech topics for leaders. A leading speaker and workshop facilitator, Kar...

Austin Rief is a co-founder and COO of Morning Brew , a new media company bringing you informative and digestible business news. They educate 1 million+ readers on the latest news from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, daily. On this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast Austin talks about how Morning Brew got started, the challenges of growing the business, where they find great writers, and the ambi...

Eddie Lin is a Co-founder of NexusEdge (Techstars class of 2017) an AI-driven lifelong career navigation platform helping students discover and build their career paths. Eddie started NexusEdge out of his lifelong pursuit for job fulfillment. His career path began at Goldman Sachs and UBS Investment Bank in New York, where he met his co-founder, Shanti , in their analyst class. He is a big propone...

Madeline Mann is a Human Resources leader in the Technology industry with expertise in building purpose-driven, dynamic company cultures and bringing the people element to every business decision. She leads Talent Development at Inspire, a Los Angeles based clean energy company, where she crafts learning and development programs to further company initiatives. Prior to Inspire, she was on the Huma...

Rand Fishkin is the founder of SparkToro and was previously cofounder of Moz and Inbound.org. He's dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through the Whiteboard Friday video series, his blog, and his book, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World . When Rand's not working, he's most likely to be in the company of his partner in marriage a...

Andy Bilinsky is the CEO and Co-founder of Lensabl , a convenient and affordable online prescription lens service where you can get the lenses you need, in your own frames, without leaving home. Prior to Lensabl, Andy worked in business development roles for Live Nation, HauteLook, Beachmint, PlayHaven and Co-founded ChirpAds. On this episode, Andy tells us how he got into entrepreneurship at such...

David Gertler is the CEO and Co-founder of Treble , a platform that empowers you to efficiently engage and grow your network to generate new business opportunities and advance your career. On this episode, David talks about how he came up with the idea for Treble, doing market research, fundraising, building a team, making meaningful connections, gathering feedback and testing, utilizing an intern...

John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire , an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE. With over 2000 episodes, 1 million+ listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started. Show Notes: https://www.justgogrind.com/john-lee-dumas-podcast The Just Go Grind Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgo...

Khaled Elmasri is the founder of the R ISE Event , a fun packed 3 day business conference that brings together hundreds of gym owners, studio founders, and independent trainers to learn and grow with the leading entrepreneurs in their industry. In just 3 days the conference can take you from knowing absolutely nothing about growing a business in the fitness world to understanding the exact marketi...

Justine Reichman is the founder of NextGenChef , a San Francisco based culinary platform that allows Foodpreneurs to sandbox their ideas and connect with advisors who provide expert advice and support, enabling these Foodpreneurs to take their idea from concept to product. NextGenChef specifically targets aspiring chefs & Foodpreneurs who want to create local, affordable and regenerative food...

Avi Flombaum is a Co-Founder, Dean, and Chief Product Officer at the Flatiron School which provides technical education on coding and programming and was eventually acquired by WeWork to further their mission of enabling the pursuit of a better life through education. Avi has changed thousands of lives by teaching students - with little to no experience - to code and actually launch careers as dev...