Josh Gonsalves hosts in-depth conversations with some of the brightest people in the known universe. Guests include entrepreneurs, artists, creators, innovators, scientists, and more. The aim is to spark deep conversations around interesting topics to find the tools, tactics, and philosophies that listeners can use in their personal and creative lives.
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#52: The Conscious Psychedelic Explorer — John Robertson
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Psychedelic Explorer and Guide John Robertson shares his framework for how to prepare for, set up and integrate meaningful psychedelic experiences so you can harness its power for personal insights and accelerate your personal growth. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-52 About John Robertson John R…
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#51: Thomas Frank — $100k/month selling Notion Templates & Decade Worth of Advice for Creators
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Thomas Frank shares an inside look at his side business making over $100K per month selling Notion templates, as well as advice from over a decades' worth of experience as a YouTuber with over 2.5 million subscribers. ——————————————— For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-51 ——————————————— About Thomas…
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#50: Addiction Recovery Expert Dr. Robb Kelly
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Robb Kelly, PhD is an addiction recovery expert who successfully recovered from alcoholism. During his early twenties, he worked at the elite and influential Abbey Roads Studio as a session musician in London and has worked with thousands of people including celebrities of film, music, and sports. Based on his own experiences working with addicts a…
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#49: Supercharge Your Productivity with Khe Hy
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An in-depth conversation on creating an impactful career without sacrificing your lifestyle. We talk about transitioning careers from a well-paying job to starting your own lifestyle business on your own terms. We also dig into Khe's 10K Work concept, identity, productivity, as well as copywriting, marketing and branding secrets that Khe has learne…
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#48: Intentional Life Design and How to Overcome the Four Horsemen of Fear with Dr. Corey Wilks
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Dr. Corey Wilks is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach. He writes about the psychology of business, performance, creativity, and fulfillment. His mission is to help entrepreneurs build an Intentional Life by doing meaningful, purpose-driven work that fulfills them. In this conversation with Josh they discuss Corey’s transition from…
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#47: Influencer Marketing Masterclass with Taylor Lagace
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This is an influencer marketing masterclass with Taylor Lagace, the co-founder of Kynship, an influencer marketing company that has helped some of the world’s largest brands leverage influencer marketing to grow their revenues. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm/ep-47 About half way through this episod…
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#46: Compounding Your Knowledge and Credibility with Dickie Bush
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Dickie Bush joins Josh to talk about the intersection of creativity and productivity, compounding your knowledge and credibility, how writing online changed his life, and how he teaches people how to start writing online with his online course Ship 30 for 30. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Di…
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#45: Transform Your Body, Transform Your Life with Dan Go (@FitFounder)
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Dan Go reveals the method he uses to get high-achieving people into their ideal body and stay fit for the rest of their lives. Dan shares his simple four-step process that he takes all of his clients through to get amazing results. We also go deep into how Dan has grown his business using Twitter in the past two years. He shares some of his biggest…
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#44: Microdosing Psilocybin to Improve Your Life with MindfulMeds Founder Keegan Downer
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Josh is joined by MindfulMeds founder Keegan Downer to discuss microdosing psilocybin as both a means to help with mental health issues like anxiety and depression, as well as using it as a nootropic to improve your cognition, creativity and problem-solving abilities. Keegan also shares his story of battling depression and alcoholism, and the journ…
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#43: Career Hyperdrive with David Elikwu
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This is a masterclass in accelerated career development with David Elikwu on how to build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business or personal brand. This podcast is an overview of David's new course 'Career Hyperdrive' where I asked David about his career journe…
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#42: Get Paid to Surf the Web with Swish Goswami
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Swish has built a multi-hyphenate career at just the age of 24. He's built multiple successful ventures including Trufan and Surf, advises and invests in startups, and is a professional speaker and podcaster. Swish talks in-depth about his new product, Surf and how it will change the way we surf the web. He's done so much in such a short amount of …
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#41: World Class Chef Doug McNish on Veganism, Creativity and Cancel Culture
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World famous vegan chef Doug McNish joins Josh to talk about his experience with veganism for the past 15 years and how he creates his award-winning vegan recipes. Doug also shares his wisdom and advice for entrepreneurs or any creative person who wants to get more out of life, and Doug opens up about his experience with burnout and cancel culture.…
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#40: New Age Consulting & Building a Unified Field Theory with Mitch Gonsalves
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Mitch shares his sales & marketing strategies that has grown his consulting company to over $2.5 million dollars per year, how to cultivate a winner's mindset, building a Unified Field Theory of interconnected ideas, and a lot more. For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://mindmeld.fm About Mitch Gonsalves Mitch Gonsalv…
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#39: Mark Metry — Social Anxiety and Reprogramming Your Mind for Success
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Mark Metry joins Josh to talk about his book Screw Being Shy, social anxiety, mental health and reprogramming your mind for success. We also get into topics like podcasting, and how to use it for personal development, we talk about how virtual reality and psychedelics will have an impact on mental health, and we touch on mystical experiences during…
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#38: Building in Public & Making Twitter Friends with Kevon Cheung
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Josh and Kevon Cheung to talk in depth about the building in public movement happening in the indie creator community. They explore the opportunities that creators have to build in public and make friends on Twitter to accelerate growth and make a bigger impact.Whether you're building a company or your personal brand, this episode is PACKED with ac…
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#37: Multi-Hyphenate Creative Entrepreneurship with PB+J Co-founders Tom Collver & Kyle Dutka
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Tom & Kyle, the co-founders of award-winning creative agency PB+J, bring their decades worth of experience as creative entrepreneurs to share their strategies and philosophies on multi-hyphenate creative entrepreneurship and building enduring ecommerce brands. They discuss everything from exploring and finding your niche, fighting perfectionism, re…
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#36: Corey Haines — Mental Models for Effective Marketing
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Corey Haines joins Josh for a wide-ranging conversation on effective marketing strategies and mental models, personal knowledge management for marketers, and his philosophies on stair-stepping entrepreneurship. About Corey Haines Corey is the founder of Swipe Files, a membership community and resource hub for cutting-edge, comprehensive, and someti…
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#35: Danny Miranda — Spirituality, Self Development & Content Creation
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Danny Miranda joins Josh to talk about their experiences with spirituality, personal development and content creation. Danny goes in-depth about the art of consistent content creation, how he gets world-class people on his podcast, including Gary Vee and Kamal Ravikant, and his mission to put out 1000 clips on YouTube by the end of the year in 2021…
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#34: Creative Entrepreneurship, Working with Beyoncé, and Creating VR/AR in Unreal Engine with Andre Elijah
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Andre Elijah joins Josh for a wide-ranging conversation on creative entrepreneurship, mixing technology and art, big opportunities in the virtual and augmented reality industry, and working in Unreal Engine to create multi-platform interactive products. About Andre Elijah Andre is an award-winning Immersive Director, Creative Technologist, and New …
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#33: Arvid Kahl — How to Build and Sell an Audience-First Business
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Arvid Kahl and Josh go deep on the process and strategies of bootstrapping a profitable software business, what it means to build an audience-first product, and building in public. Arvid has years of experience with building and selling online businesses, and he gives us some really helpful strategies on how we can build and sell a sustainable busi…
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#32: Marie Poulin — Master your Life and Business
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Josh is joined by Marie Poulin to talk about the online education business, digital systems, mindset training & self-development, and how Marie decided to go from a generalist designer to finding her niche and going all-in with Notion. We also get into building up self-confidence and creating content online. One of Marie's biggest growth channels i…
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#31: Play to Win with Top 20 Pro Poker Player Chris Sparks
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Josh is joined by Chris Sparks to talk about his latest Article 'Play to Win: Meta-Skills in High-Stakes Poker' where he breaks down his strategies and meta-skills that enabled him to become an elite poker player, and turns them into actionable strategies and productivity hacks that you can use to level-up your game in life and business. About Chri…
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#30: Best of Season 1 (2020)
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BEST OF Mind Meld Season 1 This is a compilation of highlights from all 29 episodes of Mind Meld published in 2020. Enjoy & have a Happy New Year! *********** Get my FREE annual reflection & goal planner template here: http://bit.ly/annualreview-notion *********** Subscribe to Mind Meld on your favourite podcast app: https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod ***…
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#29: Mixing Love and Business with Marisa Tassone
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Josh is joined by his partner in life and business, Marisa Tassone, to talk about their businesses Contraverse and Longboi, and how they make their romantic-business partnership work. Marisa Tassone is the Co-founder of virtual reality start-up Contraverse and Longboi, a dachshund-inspired apparel company. She is a graduate of Ryerson University's …
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#28: VR Architecture & Tools for Thought with Andreea Ion Cojocaru
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Andreea and Josh talk about the creative and philosophical implications of designing spaces in virtual reality, as well as philosophies around tools for thought and software that can completely change the way we think creatively. About Andreea Ion Cojocaru Andreea is a software developer and a licensed architect. She’s the co-founder & CEO of NUMEN…
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#27: Building Generational Wealth Selling on Amazon and Owning Real Estate with Melisa Vong
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Melisa Vong shares her philosophies on building generational wealth through building and selling e-commerce companies, then buying real estate with the proceeds. Melisa also shares her experience with branding, marketing and selling products on Amazon, and how to stand out on one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the world. About Melisa Vong: …
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#26: Media & Psychedelics with Casey Blustein
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Josh is joined by Casey Blustein to talk about the state of the media industry in a post-COVID world, as well as psychedelics and how its medicinal use will be one of the biggest revolutions in our lifetime. About Casey Blustein: Casey Blustein is a Toronto-based producer, strategist and company builder currently helping accelerate and democratize …
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#25: No-code, Fatherhood and Ultrarunning with Tom Osman
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Tom Osman from Makerpad joins Josh to talk about the growing no-code community, automation tools, and software innovation. Tom also shares his best parenting and work-from-home advice, as well as his strategies and mindset for running an ultramarathon. About Tom: Tom Osman is currently working at Makerpad where he teaches people how to build softwa…
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#24: Product Design, Biotech and Restaurant Franchising with Sarkis Buniatyan
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Sarkis joins Josh to talk about his experience designing complex digital products without code, investing in start-ups, creating a biotechnology company, and scaling a successful restaurant franchise. Sarkis also showcases his complex Webflow prototypes including a full rebuild of the Playstation 4 interface, MacOS, and Civilization 6, all natively…
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#23: Nat Eliason on Starting a Life-Changing Blog
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Nat Eliason joins Josh to share his experience building a successful 6-figure personal blog with multiple viral articles and passive income projects. Nat also shares his digital marketing and SEO insights, content creation strategies and productivity hacks. ********** For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://bit.ly/mind…
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#22: Building Wealth with Software - Bart Macdonald
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Josh is joined by Bart Macdonald, the managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners to talk about building wealth by building and selling software companies as well as through acquisition entrepreneurship. Bart Macdonald buys, builds & invests in amazing SaaS companies. As managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners, Bart has been operating, investing …
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#21: The Dealflow Blueprint with Avi Grondin
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Avi Grondin, the CEO of Variance Marketing, shares his insights and philosophies on scaling and automating businesses and explains his marketing and sales tactics for entrepreneurs. Avi Grondin is a Canadian entrepreneur, digital marketer, and speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Variance Marketing, a Toronto based full-service marketing agency. A…
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#20: The Hero's Journey For Creative Entrepreneurs with Sam Marfleet
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Josh is joined by Sam Marfleet to discuss storytelling for creators and entrepreneurs based on Sam's research on writing a study guide for The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Sam Marfleet is a writer and marketing consultant helping businesses tell more profitable stories. He has worked with DTC brands and CPG manufacturers helping s…
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#19: Robert Scoble on Tesla, Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision & Spatial Computing
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Josh is joined by Robert Scoble in his Tesla over Zoom to talk about the future of Tesla and autonomous vehicles, computer vision and augmented & virtual reality. Robert Scoble is a silicon valley pioneer and tech blogger who grew up in Cupertino, California and studied with Apple's co-founder in college. He wrote for Fast Company Magazine, and was…
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#18: Fashion Entrepreneurship with Namastetics Co-founders Micha Saade and Shane Peterson
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Josh is joined by Micha Saade and Shane Peterson, the cofounders of Namastetics, to learn about their journey in fashion entrepreneurship and creating a successful direct-to-consumer apparel company. Namastetics is a direct-to-consumer yoga wear brand that focused on sustainability and boho fashion. learn more at https://www.namastetics.com/ Connec…
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#17: Building Something that Outlives Yourself with Zach Murray
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This is part 2 of 2 of this conversation with Zachary Murray. Josh and Zach discuss passion projects, having many obscure / niche interests, accumulating wealth, scaling businesses, the endless pursuit of learning new skills, building things that outlive your own life, productivity hacks, building a "horizontal to-do app", and much more. Zachary Mu…
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#16: Running 11 Marathons and Multiple Businesses with Zachary Murray
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This is part 1 of 2 with Zachary Murray. Josh and Zach discuss a wide range of topics including running and scaling multiple businesses at once, business in the time of COVID-19, design tools, creative processes, tools and systems for capturing ideas, and things good and bad about Apple products and the App Store ecosystem. Zachary Murray is the Fo…
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#15: Social Media Marketing with Shopify Performance Marketer Brent Stirling
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Brent Stirling runs social media performance marketing at Shopify. He's experienced in all forms of paid and organic social, as well as multi-channel strategy building for a number of verticals and industries that include SaaS (Software as a Service), tech startups, direct to consumer brands, hospitality and politics. Connect with Brent on Twitter:…
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#14: Tools for Better Thinking with Google Engineer Juvoni Beckford
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Josh and Juvoni talk about the bleeding edge of productivity and knowledge management tools and how to use these tools more effectively, ideas around combining multiple skills, better thinking & tools for thought, personal development ideas and habits, entrepreneurship and nocode tools, and discovering how systems in the world affect us during COVI…
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#13: How to Hack Your Business Finances and Investing in the Creator Economy with Jay Vasantharajah
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Jay Vasantharajah shares his philosophies around starting and growing a "phase 1" business, then evolving it from a service-based or consulting business into a thriving e-commerce or scalable software company. Jay is a trained accountant, so he shares some tools and hacks on how to better manage and hack your business finances to save money and be …
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#12: Losing it all in a Crypto Scam, Billionaires and Monopolies, and Selling on Amazon with John Marzo (Part 2/2)
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Part 2 of 2 with John Marzo. In this episode, we discuss John's experience being an Amazon FBA seller and John gives us tools and hacks on how to successfully rank on Amazon's search engine. We talk a bout Billionaires and monopolies, and how they ultimately drive society forward, and we talk about how John lost a lot of money in a cryptocurrency s…
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#11: Asteroid Mining, Design Patents and How to Reach Your Goals Faster with John Marzo (Part 1/2)
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Part 1 of 2 with John Marzo. John describes his bold 40-year vision of creating an asteroid mining company, his lessons learned from past failed ventures and how one of them was killed by Bumble. We also talk about his experience of getting a patent for his revolutionary dust pan design and John explains his mental model for how he views life and h…
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#10: Going Viral on YouTube and Exposing Fake Business Gurus with James Jani
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James Jani creates documentary-style YouTube videos on topics surrounding entrepreneurship, money, and business. Within 4 short months of launching his YouTube channel, he went from a few hundred subscribers, to now over 317K subscribers (at the time of this podcast). Some of his videos got picked up by the YouTube algorithm and within a few weeks,…
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#09: How to Validate Your Startup Idea with Bram Kanstein
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Dive into Bram's philosophies on validating your startup idea and learn about the methodology of how to validate a business idea before sinking too much time, money or effort into it and having it fail later on. As an added bonus, we talk about how you can do this for a software idea without evening knowing how to code. Bram Kanstein is an early-st…
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#08: How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast with Stephanie Andrews
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Stephanie Andrews is the CEO of Origins Media Haus a full-service podcast production agency that helps brands bring their shows to life. OMH has worked closely with a number of brands including RBC, Diva Cup, SaaS North, and Axway For full show notes and links discussed in the episode, go to https://bit.ly/mindmeld-pod In this episode, Stephanie sh…
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#07: How Ubiquitous Computing will Change the World with Mike Dopsa
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In this episode, Josh and Mike talk about immersive technologies and ubiquitous computing. We explore how how they can be used to better our lives, teach us new things, and ultimately drive humanity forward. Mike Dopsa (@mcdopsa on Twitter) explores cutting edge technologies, how they can be used to better our lives, teach us new things or bring us…
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#06: VR, Investing Philosophies, and Advice from a Media Legend with Josh Maldonado
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Josh Maldonado is a virtual reality Producer at Secret Location, a Toronto-based VR studio owned by Entertainment One and Hasbro. He previously founded a venture-backed VR education startup called Discovr. In this episode we discuss how we got into the VR industry, current and next-gen VR headsets, location-based VR, Josh's two greatest pieces of a…
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#05: Finding Your Path as an Entrepreneur with Michael Aubry
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Michael Aubry is the creator and founder of Story Creator (https://storycreatorapp.com/), an app that lets you turn your content into short form videos for social media. He also uses Story Creator himself to create a weekly newsletter called Podbytes (https://podbytes.co/) where he turns his favorite parts from each podcast into short videos. In th…
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#04: The Scientific Method for Gaining Wisdom with Anthony Morgan
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Josh sat down with Anthony Morgan to discuss his research on how to gain wisdom from a scientific perspective. In this episode Anthony gives us some actionable tools and a scientific method for gaining and building wisdom in our lives. Anthony Morgan is the founder of Science Everywhere, where he develops, creates and hosts engaging live experience…
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#03: Creating Authentic Content on Social Media with Matt Lionetti
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Matt Lionetti is a content creator and realtor with Century 21. Previous to getting in to real estate, Matt was a touring musician playing stages from Dundas Square in Toronto to The Viper Room in Hollywood. His outgoing personality and passion for entertaining led him to his unique style of marketing and sharing comedic videos on social media to p…
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