Creator Empires Podcast
Jan van der Aa
The Creator Empires podcast is all about helping you turn your successful brand into a strong, future-proof online business so you can reclaim your time, build wealth, and grow your impact in the world. Join our community!
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Jul 10, 2020 • 1h 2min
34. Langpreneur Phil interviews Jan van der Aa on Becoming a Langpreneur (Flipped Interview)
What you will learn in this episode:
- My personal journey
- How to turn your passion for languages into an online business
- The advantages of collaborations and partnerships
- The parallels of learning languages and building an online language business
Grow your Language Business with our Personalized Group Coaching program.
We're starting on July 20th, 2020!
Only 12 spots available!
Sign up here:
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Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

Jul 3, 2020 • 51min
33. Starting a Winning YouTube Channel & Building an Online School with ‘Deutsch mit Marija’
Marija runs a YouTube channel called ‘Deutsch mit Marija’ and has built an audience of 250,000 subscribers over the last four years. Together with her team, she helps German learners from all over the world to pass their exams and offers a variety of German courses.
This means that ‘Deutsch mit Marija’ is much more than a YouTube channel. Rather, it’s an online language school!
In this interview you will learn:
– Why and how Marija got started on YouTube
– The keys to building a big YouTube channel
– Tricks to be better on camera
– How the underlying teaching business works
– How to hire people and build a team
For the full article go to:
https://langpreneur.com/deutsch-mit-marija/
Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

Jun 26, 2020 • 52min
32. From Blogger to Bestselling Author with Scott Young
Today we’re talking to Scott Young, the author of The Wall Street Journal and National best selling book, "Ultralearning". He’s also the founder of the blog, scotthyoung.com.
Scott mainly writes about learning, productivity, career, habits, and living well, and he also covers language learning. One of the projects he completed for his blog was the ‘MIT challenge’, which involved learning MIT’s four-year computer science curriculum in only twelve months. Instead of going to MIT, he used the free resources that it provides online.
He also completed ‘the year without English’ challenge, where he stayed in four different countries in one year to learn four different languages.
In this interview you’ll learn:
- How Scott made blogging his full-time job
- Should you focus on blogging in 2020?
- Why your content doesn’t get picked up and what to do about it
- Why you should, or should not become an author
For the full article go to:
https://langpreneur.com/scottyoung/
Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

Jun 19, 2020 • 43min
31. Selling Digital Language Courses in a Niche Market with Pierre from Holamigo
For the full article go to:
https://langpreneur.com/
Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

Jun 12, 2020 • 1h 2min
30. From Podcast to a Language Learning Empire with Peter Galante from Innovative Language
Peter Galante, originally from New York, started a podcast for Japanese learners in 2004 called JapanesePod101. In this exclusive interview, you will learn how Peter turned his podcast into a massive language learning empire that now employs 60 to 70 full-time workers and serves millions of people from all over the world.
Innovate Language offers free content and paid courses for 34 languages and boasts over 10 million subscribers across its YouTube channels. They’ve built the largest library of digital language learning content
Some of the topics we discuss in this interview:
- Peter’s story
- How to overcome the fear of selling
- The key to innovative language’s massive growth
- How and when Innovate Language decides to add new languages
- Should we build traffic organically or should we buy ads?
- Should we go for high volume and low prices, or high prices with low volume?
- The importance of having a mentor
- Some of the most important lessons that Peter has learned building the company
For the full article go to:
https://langpreneur.com/peter-galante-innovative-language
Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business:
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

Jun 5, 2020 • 1h 4min
29. Beating YouTube’s Algorithm with Language Videos – Ikenna Obi
Ikenna Obi is a 23-year old YouTuber who’s channel has grown from zero to 500K subscribers in only three years. He creates language videos that are fun, educational, and sometimes inspirational.
In this interview you will learn:
– How Ikenna got started on YouTube
– How his YouTube channel turned into a business
– How he went from 250 to 500K subscribers in less than a year
– The power of YouTube retargeting Ads
For the full article go to:
https://langpreneur.com/ikenna-youtube/
Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

May 29, 2020 • 1h 1min
28. The Joy of Building an Online Language Business with John Fotheringham from Language Mastery
This week’s guest on the podcast is John Fotheringham from Language Mastery. He runs a blog, a podcast, and sells guides in which he shows you how you can learn Mandarin and Japanese by yourself, no matter where you are.
John has been in the game on and off for over ten years, and in this interview you’ll learn:
- John’s background and his personal motivation to start a blog and a podcast
- How to get people in your podcast if you're just getting started
- Why you should consider selling ‘bundles’ instead of books
- Benefits and challenges of being a Langpreneur
- How to become comfortable in front of the camera or mic
For the full article:
https://langpreneur.com/john-language-mastery/
Learn more about our Langpreneur 1:1 coaching program:
https://langpreneur.com/coaching
Learn to build your own successful online language business
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Join our annual Mastermind Retreat with other like-minded entrepreneurs:
https://langpreneur.com/mastermind

May 22, 2020 • 46min
27. Teaching Italian on YouTube with Lucrezia from 'Learn Italian with Lucrezia'
Lucrezia is the creator of the popular YouTube channel ‘Learn Italian with Lucrezia’.
In this interview you’re going to learn:
- What inspired Lucrezia to start her YouTube channel
- What the actual business is behind her brand
- Tips for building an online audience
Join Langpreneur Business Breakthrough take your Online Language Business to the next level:
https://langpreneur.com/
Join one of our LIVE events:
https://langpreneur.com/
For 1:1 coaching:
Mail us at info@langpreneur.com

May 15, 2020 • 60min
26. Changing the Language Learning Industry with Stylish Books - Hyunwoo Sun from TTMIK
Hyunwoo Sun is the founder of the popular website ‘Talk to me in Korean’. Together with his team, he helps Korean learners from all over the world to reach a high level of fluency in Korean, without them having to visit Korea.
He started as a content creator but he now runs a company with what is soon to employ over twenty people. The business’ study materials have become some of the most popular books in the Korean learning market and are now even used at some universities!
In this interview you’ll learn:
How Hyunwoo grew a huge audience in a niche market
The importance of building life-long relationships with your audience
Why your books should be ‘Instagrammable’
For the full article, go to:
https://langpreneur.com/hyunwoo-sun-ttmik/
Our Langpreneur Business Breakthrough:
https://langpreneur.com/lbb
Let us help you grow your language business through one-on-one coaching.
Email us at: info@langpreneur.com

May 8, 2020 • 40min
25. SPECIAL: Listen to These 8 Case Studies and Grow your Language Business Today
Eight case studies…
Over the last few years, we have been organizing multiple mastermind events for Langpreneurs. At these events we take a close look at our participants’ businesses and see how we can help them become more profitable and make a bigger impact in the world.
These events usually take place in exotic places in Europe, but recently I’ve also been consulting dozens of Langpreneurs over Skype.
In this episode, I’m going to share with you eight case studies of people we have worked with. If you are an (aspiring) Langpreneur, you will most likely relate to at least one of the following case studies so that you can implement similar strategies to the ones we’re going to share with you, and take your own language business to the next level as well.
Let’s start with a few case studies of Langpreneurs who are just getting started or who are running a language business on the side. Later, we will also share case studies of people who were already very successful but were still leaving money on the table without even knowing it.
For the full article:
https://langpreneur.com/8-case-studies/
Join one of our Mastermind events:
https://langpreneur.com/8-case-studies/
Let us help you grow your online language business in our six-month coaching program:
Email us at info@langpreneur.com


