The third episode of the Michael Figured Conversations podcast.

In this one my guest is Strategic Planner and Online Marketeer Renze Vuye.

Timestamps below:

00:00:22 - Who is Renze and what does he do?

00:02:07 - Growing up without television

00:04:11 - What motivated Renze to go into advertising

00:06:00 - How Renze landed into communication and strategic planning

00:09:51 - How they created an online platform to connect brands with customers

00:10:51 - What advertising should be about

00:13:00 - Was our original study proficient to get into advertising?

00:17:38 - What was missing in our education

00:19:00 - The value of practical teachings

00:21:07 - Why Renze eventually got in to university

00:22:58 - The importance of a good professor

00:26:13 - Why applying knowledge is more important than gathering more

00:32:05 - The three main neuroscientific insights to improve advertising

00:37:23 - Brand recognition and findings on Coca-Cola

00:39:39 - Why Renze tried to go vegan (Gamechangers)

00:46:03 - Renze is not worried about the numbers in a vegan diet

00:46:59 - The main reason why Renze is interested in veganism

00:49:27 - Why Renze keeps eating meat

00:50:50 - How our brains are not adapted to current reality

00:53:35 - Why TikTok is so addictive

00:54:47 - Renze deleted TikTok, for a little while...

00:56:02 - TikTok is not only 15 year olds doing silly dances

00:56:48 - Is Renze in the cryptomarket?

00:57:14 - A strange response from the banks to crypto

00:59:52 - My positions in crypto

01:00:53 - Talking financial literacy and investing

01:09:59 - Talking family into investing and overcoming scepticism

01:13:21 - Running into people with the same interests

01:14:55 - Why Renze wants more money

01:15:51 - How Renze almost got into a life-coaching program

01:17:32 - Renze wants to go back to school to get 15 more degrees

01:19:04 - The tool that renze would pay millions for

01:22:24 - Why Renze wants shorter books and how to read one

01:26:25 - 2 books you should read according to Michael

01:29:59 - Why Renze doesn't read fiction

01:31:41 - Why Renze prefers reading on a screen

01:34:23 - What makes our life fulfilling?

01:38:42 - Is it necessary to focus on one shortcoming at a time?

01:39:48 - How Think And Grow Rich shapes our way of thinking

01:44:05 - Saying goodbye

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