The Creator's Adventure - Course Creation, Entrepreneurship & Mindset tips for Creators

In this special episode of The Creator's Adventure, Bryan McAnulty shares insights from the past year, reflecting on trends in AI, building communities, and the impact of 90+ interviews on the podcast. Bryan also dives into the business side, discussing the release of the AI Elevate course and the growth of Creator Climb. Looking ahead to 2024, he shares his goals and offers valuable advice to creators. Listen to this episode as we dive into a year-end review and explore what's in store for the future.

Do you want to level up your podcasting game and learn how to automate and start monetizing your podcast? In this episode, Joe Casabona uncovers the secrets behind his success, including how automation saved him 12 hours per week and allowed him to achieve the freedom to pursue his passions. Learn how he launched and monetized multiple successful podcasts, including "How I Built It," and hear his tips for new podcasters seeking to make money and grow their audience. Joe Casabona is a podcast systems coach who helps busy solopreneurs "take back their time". Joe's strategies come from his many years of experience: over 10 years creating podcasts, more than 15 years teaching, and over 20 years as a web developer. Learn more about Joe: https://casabona.org/

Justin Moore is a Sponsorship Coach & the founder of Creator Wizard, a school & community that teaches you how to find & negotiate your dream brand deals so that you stop leaving thousands on the table. Along with his wife April, he has been a full-time creator for over 7 years and has personally made over $3M working with brands. Justin's mission is to enable creators big and small, to land a million paid brand partnerships by 2032. Learn more about Justin: https://www.creatorwizard.com/

Today's guest, Coach Tony Blauer, will teach you how to leverage fear as an entrepreneur and how to change your relationship with fear to your advantage. Coach Tony Blauer is a world-renowned self-defense & fear management expert, who has been a visible force in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for over four decades. As the CEO of Blauer Tactical Systems, his organization has grown into one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of performance psychology, personal safety, and close-quarter tactics & scenario-based training for defensive tactics, combatives, and professional self-defense instructors. Learn more about Tony Blauer: https://blauerspear.com/

In today's episode, our host, Bryan McAnulty, sits down with renowned entrepreneur Alex Charfen, co-founder of the coaching company Sharfen. Listen until the end of the episode to get Alex Charfen's new book for free! Together, they tackle the challenges and triumphs of being an entrepreneur, discussing the importance of structure, boundaries, and self-care. Watch this episode to learn about your entrepreneurial personality and what are the keys to achieving sustainable success and fulfillment as a business owner. Alex Charfen is a renowned entrepreneur who co-founded CHARFEN, a coaching company that helps other entrepreneurs scale and optimize their businesses and achieve new levels of sustainable growth.

In this discussion, Sigrun Gudjonsdottir, an acclaimed business coach and advocate for female entrepreneurship, shares her journey from individual coaching to creating scalable online courses. She emphasizes the financial benefits of transitioning to digital products and highlights the importance of empowering women in business. Sigrun provides insights on crafting successful courses by validating ideas and engaging with audiences. She also unveils advanced promotion strategies and encourages listeners to envision their financial success with creative budgeting ideas.

Our guest today - Leah McCloud - is a human design expert, spiritual coach, and wellness guru dedicated to demystifying spirituality and bringing people close to their authentic selves through Human Design. Over the past three years, Leah has had experience leading retreats, working one-on-one with clients, and couples, and assisting world wellness leaders. Leah's spiritual philosophy bridges the gap between woo-woo and science, making spirituality digestible, practical, and fun! Learn more about Leah: https://www.thedesignofyou.com/

Our guest today is Olly Richards, a former jazz musician turned English teacher who transformed his passion for language learning into a $10 million business called StoryLearning. He now shares his expertise through a newsletter, guiding online entrepreneurs to scale their businesses while serving as a living case study of success. His mission is to provide mentorship and strategic insights to help 6-figure business owners reach 7+ figures and beyond. Throughout the episode, Olly shares his insights on various topics, including the importance of building a traffic source and an audience before launching a product, the balance between living in the present and planning for the future as an entrepreneur, and the role of mentors in the creative journey. Learn more about Olly Richards: http://ollyrichards.co

Learn how to make better decisions in your business, and how to play offense (not only in sports, but also in business!) and taking calculated risks to achieve success. Paul Epstein is a leadership and sales keynote speaker, bestselling author, and expert on coaching others to play offense in defensive environments by making better decisions faster.  Paul has spent nearly 15 years as a professional sports executive for multiple NFL and NBA teams, a global sports agency, and the NFL league office. He then transitioned into coaching for clients like Amazon, Disney and NASA, and became a best-selling author and world-renowned keynote speaker. Learn more about Paul: https://www.paulepsteinspeaks.com/ 

In this special episode, Bryan interviews Kevon Cheung, creator of Public Lab. They discuss the power of building in public, being authentic online and offline, learning from mistakes, building a long-term career, and finding balance in scaling a business.