The Louis Shulman Podcast

Doone has founded multiple E-Commerce DTC brands and previously ran social media at the Australian giant THE ICONIC. Now, she is working to bring the stories of female founders into the spotlight through her podcast and learning ecosystem, Female Startup Club. Doone has an impressive history of taking things by the reigns and not stopping until she has accomplished her goals. As the interview move...

Jeff has a diverse background in hospitality real estate. His company has owned and operated museums, restaurants, nightlife venues, and hotels. We brought Jeff on to talk about his experience building, acquiring, and operating these businesses and the personal habits he maintains that help him to be successful. Jeff is an ultra marathoner, an avid reader, a meditator, and a leader. He focuses on...

Throughout this interview we talk about Jordan's different strategies for landing big guests, how law-school informs his worldview, the power of warm introductions, and practical tips for influence. Some discussion topics include media windows, elicitation techniques, virtual conversation, and dealing with conflicting advice.  Links: Subscribe to The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://www.jordanharbin...

Gina is passionately, energetically, and optimistically in pursuit of helping her clients and students find and execute on their passion and full-potential. Over the course of her varied entrepreneurial career, Gina has accumulated and refined a collection of principles for success in entrepreneurship.  Realizing that those principles could help others find their way, Gina pivoted from building bu...

Starting at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brandon became intentional with his time and took three online courses: Write of Passage, Build Once Sell Twice, and How to Visualize Value. He used these courses as a launching pad for his own personal brand. Since then, he has amassed over 8000 twitter followers, 2000 newsletter subscribers, and has developed an incredible network of likeminded...

Eric Jorgenson is a product strategist at Zaarly, creator of the business blog Evergreen, and author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. In collaboration with Jack Butcher, Eric spent three years distilling over 1,000,000 collected words from Naval's writing and podcast interviews into a succinct, high impact book on wealth, happiness, and philosophy.  Throughout the interview we dive into some of...

Lee LeFever did not achieve the passive income lifestyle on accident. Through an intentional assessment of his family's goals, he determined the type of business they needed to live the life they wanted for themselves. Using positive constraints , Lee and his wife created Common Craft, a company Big Enough to support themselves. His inspiring story is evidence that bigger is not always better. Lin...

Nicholas shares how he grew the @bookthinkers instagram account to over 90k followers and how he leveraged this audience into a new podcast with an all star lineup of guests , a mobile application for smart retention, and a collection of merchandise (that he wore during our interview). In our conversation, we answer questions like what books to read in specific situations and why everyone should b...

Adriel's passion for helping the unemployed started during a 6-month period of unemployment he faced a few years ago. He saw the time as a gift and started a podcast , networked 30 hours a week, and focused on "doing things that didn't scale" in order to maximize his period for growth. Because of the opportunities he created for himself during that period, Adriel landed a job with a self driving d...

Copywriting! What is it? Why should you learn it? Is it an in demand skill? Why do people fail?  In this episode, Jacob McMillen joins us and shares the answers to all of these questions and more.  Over the last decade, Jacob has used his freelance writing skills to create multiple six figure income streams. For the past 12 months, he's been teaching others how to do the same in The Internet's Bes...

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The 75HARD is an internet challenge created by Andy Frisella, host of the MFCEO podcast and founder of 1stPhorm , branded as the "tactical guide to winning the war with yourself." In this episode, Louis, Kyle, and Stryker share what it was like putting that claim to the test.  From May to July, the three of us did these 6 things everyday without fail: Follow a diet. No Cheating! Do two 45 minute w...

After facing a bureaucratic wall with his startups in college, Will struck out on his own by wholesaling Real Estate. His education came from the Bigger Pockets Podcast, where after closing 75+ deals, he was featured as a guest. After making enough from Real Estate to sustain his lifestyle, Will started an Artificial Intelligence company with the goal of Achieving Intelligent Technologies.  We spe...

Mike shares stories about his time competing and coaching speech and debate. At the peak of his coaching career, his public forum students won the Harvard, Georgetown, and National Tournaments in the same season. As a competitor, he earned three First-Round bids to the National Debate Tournament.  After reaching the top of his game in coaching, Mike transitioned into a new career selling real esta...

Wes has a decorated background as an end-to-end marketer. She co-created the altMBA with Seth Godin and launched products at Flite, BareMinerals, L’Oreal, and Gap. Now, she's working with CEOs at companies like Poo~Pourri, Outlier.org , Shaftesbury, Professor Scott Galloway, Tandem Diabetes, and Morning Brew. In the interview she shares some of the wisdom she has acquired through her successful ca...

In this episode, Tomas Laurinavicius joins us to talk about his life as an entrepreneur, writer, lifestyle designer, and content marketer. Tomas tells us how he balanced making an online income with traveling and shares his lessons from running his business over a 5-year journey through 50 countries. Throughout the interview, we cover his personal background, the basics of content marketing, how h...

In this episode, Louis and Kyle discuss the key takeaways that they learned from each of the first 25 episodes of The Louis and Kyle Show. The friends, conversations, and motivation that have come from these episodes have been so fantastic and positively impactful for our lives. We are extremely excited for the next 25 episodes, and we hope you are too.  If you would like to reach out to us, the b...

In this episode, James Goldman shares his path from getting a job off of craigslist to selling a company for $75 million dollars. For the past few years, James has served as the CTO of Paintzen, building an innovative platform for on-demand paint services. Through the interview we talk about art, start-ups, the pursuit of perfection, and some of the role models that shaped him, including his entre...

In this episode, we walk through John Sharp's entrepreneurial journey. While building two real estate technology start-ups, John lived through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. That experience informs his unique perspective as a mentor and educator to students in the New Venture Development program at The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at The University of Arizona.  John currently splits...

In this episode, we talk to Chris Spags about his entrepreneurial journey. From being an employee to launching product after product, we cover his mindset and process that lead to the success of his one-person SaaS, Jetboost.io . We also discuss how to get "lucky" and the future of NoCode. In the interview, we cover where the idea for Jetboost.io came from and where he thinks it is going next. Chr...

In this episode we discuss what Mike learned in his 17 years as CEO of The Westervelt Company. He explains his unique methods for looking at the world and solving problems. Through decades of reflection and learning, Mike has developed effective approaches for living a meaningful life. Right now, Mike is engineering his retirement through learning, self improvement, and reflection. Throughout the...

Throughout the interview, we cover how he got to where he is, misconceptions about the life of YouTubers, the state of the content creation industry, and what he sees for his future. It was a really fun, casual conversation, and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we did. Some quick facts about Scrubby: He has three channels, "Scrubs", "Scrubby", and "Scrubae." He has a merchandise line called, "...

Howard is the general partner at Social Leverage, an angel investment firm that has invested in companies like Robinhood, Wag, Angel List and Rally Rd, and Life360.  Over the last 15 years, Howard has been publishing a blog to publicize and improve his thinking about his investing. His first five posts were predictive about the trends that defined the last 10 years, so being able to ask him what's...

In this episode, Louis' AP US History teacher, Matthew Aberman, joins us to discuss COVID-19, past pandemics and recessions in recent history, stimulus packages, US-China relations, and the uncertainty surrounding the coming months.  We cover a lot in the interview, and Matthew defended all major points with a relevant historical comparison. Matthew is an awesome teacher and it was really valuable...

In this episode, Jeremy Carter joins us to discuss founding Breakout Birmingham, creating the Bold Futures Podcast, and searching for a service business to acquire.  Through the interview, we cover a wide range of topics from the power of vulnerability to how to lead people toward a common goal. We dive into Jeremy's experience founding Breakout Birmingham, an escape room he started at the early s...