The Louis Shulman Podcast

Steph Smith is a lifestyle designer, a growth marketer, a writer, an indie hacker, and an entrepreneur.  She graduated from Queen's University with a degree in chemical engineering before embarking on a brief stint in management consulting.  Steph went on to lead Publications at Toptal remotely while traveling to 52 countries and learning to code. Steph now leads Trends.co , an amazing paid newsle...

Akaash Pardesi is a bodybuilder turned entrepreneur and coach, focusing specifically on taking plateaued entrepreneurs to the next level by equipping them with frameworks driven from a place of happiness. In this episode, we dive into his process, his journey to where he is at today, quantum states, how to use the brain like a database, meditation, how he read 500 books, and why you should avoid l...

AJ Osborne is an entrepreneur, businessman, and investor who owns and manages a self-storage portfolio worth over $150 million at Cedar Creek Wealth, while being the principal at Bitterroot  Holdings, and Clearwater Benefits. He is the host of the largest self-storage podcast, Self Storage Income, and regularly keynotes national conferences about self-storage investing.  AJ is an articulate, clear...

Mona started her career as an 18-year-old trader at Goldman Sachs. While there, she worked her way up to Vice President of Equities Trading and eventually launched her own $30 million hedge fund.   Early into her first fund, Mona was overwhelmed by the difficulty and expenses necessary to maintain regulatory compliance. In search of a solution to this problem, she discovered decentralized finance....

After climbing the corporate ladder for 20 years in the radio advertising industry, Heather reached the position of Chief Revenue Officer. In 2017 she was suddenly fired and decided to go all-in on her personal brand as a content creator and thought leader.   Today,  she is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, faculty at Harvard University, top 100 business podcaster, and founder...

Andy started his entrepreneurial journey by running online businesses including digital marketing consulting, copywriting, dropshipping, affiliate marketing, and other e-commerce ventures. After finding success in that space, he transitioned to the world of DeFi where he produces and publishes content on DeFi Slate. DeFi Slate is teaching people how to participate in what they call V2 of the globa...

Khe Hy was a financial wizard on Wall Street earning a 7 figure salary when he decided that what he thought he wanted wasn't what he actually wanted. He went on a two year journey of finding himself through the pursuit of fun.  He followed different rabbit holes that eventually culminated in Rad Reads, a blog that transforms readers' relationships with time, work, money, and meaning. The blog clev...

On March 24th, 2020, we released the first episode of The Louis and Kyle Show. Since then, we have published at least once a week, every week for one year. We have learned a ton about ourselves, business, life, and, of course, podcasting through the process.  Today, we sat down and discussed how we stayed consistent, what improvements we made over the year, and  other tactical lessons the show has...

In 2019, Jake quit his job as an investment banking analyst and has been writing online ever since. Recently, he started a podcast where he interviews thought leaders and change-makers in crypto, longevity, and city-building. We talk about the exciting future of those topics, and what Jake has learned from his conversations with experts like Vitalik Buterin, Balaji Srinivasan, Pomp, Patri Friedman...

Dr. John Jaquish is an entrepreneur whose life has been driven by an intense interest in bone health and growth spurred by his mother's diagnosis of osteoporosis.   Combining this interest with bone health and his background in biomedical engineering, Dr. Jaquish invented OsteoStrong an internationally renowned bone strength machine used by over 30,000 people, the X3 a piece of variable resistance...

Scott Young  started his blog when he was 17 and has been writing there for his entire adult life. That blog, where he shares ideas for learning, living, and working better served as the stepping stone to where he is today: a bestselling author, respected thinker, and accomplished entrepreneur. To test out his theories of learning how to learn, Scott completed challenges like: Completing MIT's und...

In the past decade, Nicolas Cole has been an elite performer in many distinct areas. As a teenager, he was a top ranked World of Warcraft player and popular gaming blogger.  In college, he gained over 60 pounds of muscle from bodybuilding and became an authority on gluten-free fitness.  Later, he started writing on Quora and quickly became the number one, most read writer on the entire platform. S...

Robbie Crabtree is a trial lawyer by trade having tried 102 jury trials over the last decade. Throughout that time, he learned how to craft narratives that delivers his message to the audience in a clear, concise, and powerful way. After completing Write of Passage and beginning to build an audience, Robbie leveraged that specific storytelling knowledge into a cohort based course, Performative Spe...

Tal Gur is a serial entrepreneur, impact investor, and multi-disciplinary professional with over 20 years of experience founding and managing businesses around the world. He is also a speaker, coach, mentor, and the author of The Art of Fully Living – 1 Man, 10 Years, 100 Life Goals Around The World. In pursuit of living fully Tal did A TON of things worth talking about like: building a school for...

Throughout the interview, we discuss how Geoff went from medical sales to co-founding ProduKtive, how he personally practices The ONE Thing, ProduKtive's mission,  and what he learned from running The Mentee Podcast. Looking at life through the investing vs spending time framework has changed Geoff's life. Through ProduKtive, Geoff aims to deliver that same change to the as many people as possible...

Dickie Bush is a portfolio manager,  a Princeton football alumni, online writer and founder of the Ship 30 for 30 online writing community. He is committed to studying a variety of systems and understanding their growth. Ship 30 for 30 is an online writing challenge where each participant commits to write thirty short "atomic" essays every day for 30 days. It serves as a forcing function for peopl...

John Sherwin joins us to discuss how he got started on his journey to innovate hydration.  He walks us through the major steps on his path from Oxford to Silicon Valley to NYC.  We cover: Hydration and why it is important How he grew the Hydrant team and found his co-founder How he got Hydrant into Whole Foods and Walmart Bringing on venture funding and the benefits of it His advice for others sta...

During the episode, we each share three of our biggest personal lessons that we learned from producing 50 podcast episodes over the past year. Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast, which in only 4 months crossed 20,000 downloads. He has hosted awesome guests like Gary Vaynerchuk, Jack Butcher, and Ed Latimore. This episode was a really fun opportunity to think back on our past 50...

David Oakley is Alabama's most productive multifamily real estate broker of the last decade, having transacted over 6 billion dollars in deals. In this interview, he shares the wisdom he's acquired from that experience. David has a way of seeing things years before the rest of the pack, and we got into what he sees for the next decade during this interview. This includes modular housing, apps for...

Guy Swann is host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast. His show was featured in Forbes Magazine’s Top Crypto Podcasts of 2020. Guy is also CEO of One Eleven Productions.  He found himself engrossed in the economic experiment and technological breakthrough of Bitcoin in 2011, and hasn’t been able to pull himself away since. He has a background in networking and system administration, film & media produc...

After years of writing and publishing online, Taylor has developed an incredible skill for communicating complicated concepts with helpful examples. In this interview, Taylor demonstrates that skill over and over again as he thoughtfully answers our questions.  We cover Taylor's thoughts around ergodicity, blockchain adoption, decentralization, and marketing. We hope you enjoy this conversation as...

Dee is the Co-CEO and founder of Young and Reckless and Five Four Group, a Los Angeles based holding company that owns a portfolio of major fashion brands including Menlo House, New Republic, Five Four, Oshenta, and Grand Running Club. We talk with Dee about his experience and advice for building a network that opens doors to any opportunity. Dee also hosts a popular business comedy podcast, Group...

Frederic Stutzman is the Founder and CEO of Freedom, an application that allows users to strategically block access to internet distractions in the pursuit of increasing productivity and digital well-being. In addition to founding Freedom, Fred earned his Ph. D. in informations sciences and was a researcher and faculty member at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Carnegie Mel...

Evan Carmichael #Believes in entrepreneurs. Gary Vaynerchuck called him the DJ who inspires people and Ed Mylett called him the modern day Napoleon Hill.  At 19, he built and then sold a biotech software company.  At 22, he was a venture capitalist raising $500k to $15M.  He now runs a YouTube channel for entrepreneurs with over 2 million subscribers and 400 million views, wrote 4 books, and speak...

Pierre walks us through landing a job in quantitative finance, growing a surfboard company, and transitioning into a lucrative career in performance marketing.  Pierre has founded Sweet P Social, SP creative, Female Startup Club, and is now a partner at Amplifyr, a leading digital marketing firm. Pierre specializes in using data to scale brands' revenue through performance marketing. Links: Amplif...