The Undefeated Underdogs

👉🏼 About the Guest: Ana Lorena Fábrega is an edupreneur, writer, and Chief Evangelist at Synthesis. Growing up, she attended ten schools in seven different countries. She then earned her BS in Childhood Education and Special Education from New York University and taught elementary school in New York, Boston, and Panama. Today, Ana Lorena writes online to over 200,000 readers about the promise of...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Schlaf is a Professional Transition Coach based in New York. He helps high performers in midlife manifest their next calling. He is also the creator of Where the Road Bends , a newsletter and podcast exploring personal evolutions and life transitions. In addition to being a girl dad, this is his life’s work. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community bu...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Erica shares lessons on content writing & editing leading B2C and B2B companies towards engagement & conversions. She's edited 3M+ words and is an amazing thought leader on Twitter and Linkedin with 70K+ followers. She's currently a Head of Content at @getgrizzle and founder at Power Your Platform . 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community bui...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Jared Kleinert is the Founder/CEO of Offsite, the author of NETWORKING, a TED speaker, a 3-time award-winning author, and USA Today's "Most Connected Millennial". He was also a delegate to President Obama's 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Malaysia, author of multiple books including the "#1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015", 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials are Breakin...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Michelle Marceline is a co-founder at Typedream (W20), a no-code site, blog, and form builder, and a previous cofounder at Cotter. She's been featured on Forbes 30U30 2022, Build In Public with KP, and more! 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS prod...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Abhishek Kankani is the founder of Dyte (YC W21), building the future of real-time communication. He is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 and has been featured on GQ, Cup Noodles To Career, and Sequoia! Listen to his founder and career journey here. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Adam Draper (Managing Director at Boost VC, Board Member at SkyBound) is a legacy in the venture capital world. One of the first VCs to jump into the world of crypto, he has a front-view seat into the future of tech. He's also the author of "Breakfast With Pops", the guide to venture capital for beginners. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community buil...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Dan Westgarth (COO at Deel, ex-Revolut, Expansion Capital) is the COO of Deel, building everything you need to scale a global team. Dan has been building businesses since he was 10 and is now breaking down international borders, allowing companies and workers across the world to come together. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is al...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Julie Gurner (seen in WSJ, Forbes, Vox, and more) is a doctor of psychology and executive performance coach with nearly a decade of experience working with some of the nation's top tech and finance executives and teams. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. H...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Aprilynne Alter (ex-Wall Street, published in Business Insider, FounderStory, The Tilt) is a content creator and YouTuber with 19K+ Twitter followers and 23K+ Youtube followers. She's an NFT maker and course maker, with courses teaching people how to create and popularize their YouTube channels according to their expertise. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator,...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Brian Swartz (ex-Startup Chile, NeighborSchools) is a 2x venture-backed founder who sold his last company NeighborSchools. He is currently working on a stealth startup improving remote work and the way we show up as teams. They are on a mission to improve connectivity & real-time collaboration among remote teams. Brian is all about building startups, teams, and software p...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Mindaugas Petrutis (ex-InVision, ex-On Deck) is the founder of Coho, leading community-based cohorts in learning data science, design, marketing, and more. He founded On Deck's Design Fellowship and was the Head of EMEA Community at InVision. He loves building relationships, connecting the dots between humans, systems, and problems and simplifying complex ideas. Mindaugus is...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Justin Welsh is the writer of the Saturday Solopreneur, a weekly newsletter with 90K+ subscribers, as well as the founder of a boutique advisory firm for entrepreneurs and creator of digital products for creators. He is also an angel investor, a mentor to entrepreneurs in LATAM with 500 Startups, and an LP at GTM Fund, a rolling fund investing $4 million per year into early-s...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Ben Putano is a CEO and book publisher for entrepreneurs and innovators at damngravity.com and a writing coach at Great Founders Write - a 5-week, cohort-based course that helps entrepreneurs build a consistent and confident writing habit. He is also the author of  'Great Founders Write' and merchant of big ideas. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and commun...

👉🏼 About the Guests: Tibo and Tom are the cofounders of Tweethunter.io , a product that helps you up your Twitter game. After meeting at graduate school, they went on to team up across several startups (Taplio, Tweethunter.io, PonyExpress), finally creating Tweethunter.io and scaling it from $0 to a $1M exit. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of SparkToro , makers of fine audience research software. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos , speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder . When Rand’s not working, he’s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldine DeRuiter . If you bribe him with gre...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Peter Yang (Roblox, ex-Reddit, ex-Credit Karma, ex-Twitter, ex-Twitch, ex-Facebook, ex-Microsoft) is the creator of several product management courses, from Odyssey in Web3 to Launching Your Product Management Career with Maven. He is also the author of two awesome books The Art of Writing and Principles of Product Management, where he shares learnings on communication, leade...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Zehra Naqvi is a Senior Investment Associate at Republic and the co-founder of GLO, a clothing brand that's all about staying fresh. She is a financial economics major with a concentration in art history and is all about investing in new founders through the power of community. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial make...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Arvid Kahl is the founder of FeedbackPanda.com , an online teacher productivity SaaS company. He is also the author of two awesome books Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur , where he shares how to build a business, an audience, and a path to financial independence. He is also creating the Bootstrapper’s Bookshelf , the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast , the YouTube  chann...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Dickie Bush is the founder of the writing-centered cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30 (5600+ students) and Typeshare (30K+ MRR), after life as a portfolio manager. He provides writing frameworks at Digital Writing Compass , as well as providing guidance to over 300K+ Twitter followers. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a se...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Amanda Natividad is the VP of Marketing at audience research startup, SparkToro (100K+ ARR), after being a tech journalist and a test kitchen cook. While pioneering the concept of Zero-Click Content , she teaches an intermediate-level content marketing course and writes at The Menu , a weekly newsletter with 8000+ subscribers on marketing and food recipes! 👉🏼 About the Host...

About the Guest: 👉🏼 Jay Clouse is a creator and entrepreneur, producing the popular newsletter, Creator Science , and the podcast Creative Elements (1M+ downloads!), exploring all the ways you can make a living with your art and creativity. He has sold two companies he has co-founded and has led the Community Experience team for Pat Flynn and Smart Passive Income, designing their paid membership...

Show Notes 👉🏼 About the Guest: Justin Jackson is a veteran entrepreneur, founder, podcaster, writer, and community builder. He is the co-founder of Transistor.fm , a platform that helps you distribute your podcast to multiple platforms seamlessly. He runs a private community for bootstrappers called MegaMaker , hosts a podcast Build your SaaS , and writes at bootstrap a SaaS. Some of Justin's po...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Warren Shaeffer is a seasoned entrepreneur, 3x founder, dad, writer, and 1st gen immigrant. He built three companies in the past and sold them to giants like Giphy. Notably, his latest startup Knowably was sold to Medium . Overall he raised more than $12M from some of the world's best investors, including Andreesen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and First Round Capital. He pr...

👉🏼 About the Guest: Anne-Laure is a writer, founder, serial maker, and neuroeducation Ph. D. researcher. She founded Ness Labs , a collective that provides content, coaching, courses, and community to help makers put their minds to work. She also runs Maker Mind a weekly newsletter packed with neuroscience-based insights to be more productive and more creative. Currently, it serves around 30k su...