Is this the end of creative focus?

June 27, 2013

How deleting social media apps and turning off notifications gave me my life back… It stemmed from a feeling of overwhelm. You know the days where work starts to pile up, you keep getting interrupted, and every task you try to do take three times longer than you thought? The last thing you need to be doing on days like this is scrolling through or responding to social media or email.

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PC 021: Josh Kaufman on Learning Any Skill in the First 20 Hours

June 13, 2013

On today’s session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I’m joined by Josh Kaufman, the International Best-Selling author of The Personal MBA and The First 20 Hours (which comes out this week). We talk rapid learning, whether or not you should get a traditional MBA, and how many years he blogged before he actually earned anything [...]

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PC 020: How Andy Traub Earned $21,000 in 90 Days Self-Publishing to Amazon

June 6, 2013

On today’s session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I’m joined by Andy Traub, the host of the Unofficial Linchpin Podcast and author of The Early To Rise Experience: Learn to Rise Early in 30 Days. We talk self-publishing, why you should give away your book for free to anyone that wants it before you launch, how [...]

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PC 019: How Blogging Can Lead to a Full-Time Gig with Alan Perlman [Podcast]

May 29, 2013

In today’s session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I chat with Alan Perlman, a former cost-of-living analyst in over 60+ countries, who now works at Hubspot as a certification program manager and runs Nerve Rush. We chat about everything from what content marketing really comes down to, what his favorite business books are, and what it [...]

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PC 018: How Nathan Barry Earned $150,000+ Selling eBooks in 9 Months With No Audience [Podcast]

May 24, 2013

Last July at the World Domination Summit conference in Portland I met Nathan Barry, who at the time was an iOS app developer. Little did I know that over the next 9 months he would go on to release three books and a web app that would earn him over $150,000. In this session I chat [...]

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Why I Took a $50,000 Pay Cut to Work for Myself

May 21, 2013

This post is by my good friend and previous guest on my podcast, Barrett Brooks, the founder of Living For Monday and creator of Career Kickstarter. I’ll always remember the phone call. I was in the office in downtown Atlanta working on an awesome proposal team to try to win a new consulting contract at [...]

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PC 017: How to Hack College to Graduate Debt Free with Thomas Frank [Podcast]

May 15, 2013

Thomas Frank is the founder of CollegeInfoGeek.com, a recent graduate from Iowa State University, and paid off over $15,000 of student loans before he graduated through earning money on his blog. In this session we talk about how he built a presence online while still in college, how he landed an internship through Twitter, tips [...]

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PC 016: Steve Kamb on Staying Fit as a Busy Entrepreneur [Podcast]

May 9, 2013

Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness, a website and community that helps people “level up” their lives through fitness, health, diet, and endless geeky references. Steve creates some of the most epic content on the web, not just in his niche. He has self-published fitness, strength, and running guides, has a highly successful [...]

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PC 015: Gary Vaynerchuk on Hustling, Work Life Balance & How It Is Never Too Late to Start [Podcast]

April 26, 2013

In this podcast session I chat with Gary Vaynerchuk about the difference between hustling and just working a lot of hours, work life balance, scaling authenticity and engagement as your audience grows online, why it is never too late to get started, and more.

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PC 014: WTF Should I Do With My Life with Jacob Sokol [Podcast]

April 23, 2013

Jacob Sokol is the founder of Sensophy.com and creator of the online conference at entheos (that is taking place this week) called WTF Should I Do With My Life?! In this session we chat about how Jacob went from graffiti being his sole focus for a decade to coaching people on following their passion and earning a [...]

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