Solopreneur Deep Dive: Recent Episodes
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Deep, thought-provoking, long-form interviews with solopreneurs exploring career transitions, learning new skills, building habits, breaking barriers of growth, being resilient, to create businesses from scratch. On the Solopreneur Deep Dive Podcast, the host Karthik Vijayakumar speaks to musicians, standup comic, dancers, techies, filmmakers, designers, photographers, artists, writers, podcasters, business coaches, and investors. This podcast is for solopreneurs, freelancers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and people who are aspiring to become solopreneurs one day. On the show, you will learn how solopreneurs built businesses from scratch. Sometimes they created a business from a passion, and some other times they did it because they saw an opportunity. You will not just learn how these solopreneurs overcame their biggest roadblocks, but also understand the evolution of their thinking over time. Apart from all of this, you will find some solopreneurs sharing experience-based tips on overcoming depression, eating good food, and even managing relationships. The podcast is produced by Design Your Thinking Labs and is available at www.designyourthinking.com/podcasts.
Raghav Aggarwal, the co-founder of Fluid AI talks about his journey from starting a tech business at 20 along with his younger brother Abhinav Aggarwal, how they pivoted the business and how they grew the business from one niche to another.
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Reece Chowdhry is the Founder of RLC Ventures where he is actively redefining Venture Capital with a Profit with Purpose model, talks about trends, the importance of personal branding and more.
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In this episode, Joshua Lisec, a Certified Professional Ghostwriter talks about his journey to becoming a ghostwriter and how you can build trust and boost your authority writing books.
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In this episode Rupa Ganatra Popat talks about her journey from quitting a full-time career as an investment banker to starting an events business and becoming a serial entrepreneur in 6 short years. She today runs one of the most successful conferences across three continents!
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In this episode Mike Michalowicz shares what led him to believing in the Profit First model of thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset. Mike also talks about the mission he's on, to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty.
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In this episode, Molly Currey talks about why you should follow your passion full-time or as a side-gig, and build your book of stories. She shares her story from racing cars to becoming a world champion, fighting cancer, and now helping big brands as a PR executive to tell their stories. Who is Molly Currey? […]
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In this episode Nafissa Shireen, an solopreneur, speaker and income growth expert, talks about the entrepreneurial mindset and how she helps entrepreneurs uncover their limiting beliefs, uses equestrian-assisted coaching and more.
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Robin Waite, the Founder of Fearless Business, talks about how you can go from identifying business ideas from your interests, and developing them to a viable business by identifying the unique value proposition in a live coaching role play.
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Samanth Vinil talks about his journey from a college dropout from an Ivy League school like the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to pursuing his dream of being a dancer, to working with Cirque du Soleil and performing over 1500 shows.
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In this episode, Jody Steinhauer, the Chief Bargains Officer at the Bargains Group, talks about why you should build a business centered around happiness.
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In this episode Katie King talks about her journey from being a marketer to becoming an entrepreneur in her 40's, and how continuous learning and starting with a small team helped her build a successful digital agency and a speaking career.
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In this episode Jim Jacoby speaks about how his interest in user-centered design and master craftsmanship led him to building multiple businesses, quitting the business he started and commissioning the world's most expensive motorcycle.
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In this episode Lee Holmes, the founder of Supercharged Food, shares her story of overcoming an autoimmune disorder that led her to starting her company. She shares plenty of insights and tips to help you eat the right kind of food and live a healthy lifestyle.
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In this episode I interview Ramon Mañas Corbinos, an entrepreneur who's building the world's smallest and lightest electronic saxophone at Odisei Music.
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Wiebe Wakker drove his electric car from Amsterdam to Sydney, without any money in his wallet and no definite route! His route depended on who offered to host him with food, shelter or charge his electric car.
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In this episode Spencer Lum helps you learn copywriting and the fine art of using your writing to influence customers and readers.
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Walid Azāmi dives deep on why you must follow your instincts and why that's been the biggest reason why he landed some of his career's biggest opportunities.
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Just being you always seems easy, but turns out that it's hard. Simply because we've lost so much of ourselves in our pursuit of being someone else. In this episode I share 10 ways to become an overachiever by just being yourself.
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Mike Barrow is disrupting the wine industry by using Open Source technologies like Blockchain, IoT to disrupt the way one of the world's oldest industries operate and do business.
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In this episode Deepak Kamath talks about travel and money, and how he's managed to be efficient with money. He also talks about landing his Bajaj Dominar motorcycle on an iceberg in Antarctica.
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In this episode Deepak Kamath, a world record holder and overland adventurer talks about finding sponsorships, his adventures and so much more.
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Astrid Scholz is redefining the way innovations and money are distributed with technology. She switched careers to become a tech entrepreneur, and in this episode she talks about design innovation, venture capital and more.
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John Lee Dumas talks about scaling down the frequency of the EOFire Podcast and the metrics he now uses to measure as he is building his business.
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Joanna Penn talks about her experience starting a creative business after working a full-time job for 13 years, how her business model has changed, and more.
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Angela Luna is the founder and Creative Director of ADIFF, is building a socially conscious business, discovering newer business models to make an impact while making profit
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Manu (Swish) Goswami is the cofounder and CEO of Trufan, talks about social media presence, entrepreneurship and dig deeper into how he grew his personal brand from being just another 8-year old kid in Singapore to becoming a LinkedIn influencer.
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Michael DiTullo, a designer and entrepreneur, talks about how he went from drawing stuff from the future, to working with Nike and starting his own design studio.
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In this episode I speak with Sam Feller, cofounder of Popcorn Shed, about the art of making popcorn and how they built a popcorn business from scratch in the UK.
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Andrea Lisbona, the CEO and founder of Touchland, talks about how she went from distributing hand sanitizers to manufacturing it and using tech to create disrupt the industry.
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Sophia Banks, a filmmaker and director, breaks down her journey from being turned down an opportunity to moving to America to become a filmmaker.
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John Sanei shares his techniques in trendspotting that can help you futureproof your business or even start and grow a new one. John also talks about a little known secret about the movie Avatar, and how it led to his transformation.
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Jasmin Pannu, a multi-disciplinary artist talks about marketing art. She discusses marketing and routines in-depth, specifically getting down into how books like Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Work Week helped her in boosting her business of art.
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In conversation with Conor Lynch and how his passion for woodworking projects and how being inside Junior Dragons Den UK made him a better entrepreneur.
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Emil Aite and Cassy Aite have been working on rethinking happiness at work using healthy snacks. But why? Listen in, to this conversation about childhood, parenting, business, relationships, and of course how healthy snacks can lead to happiness at work!
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Josh Rossi talks about taking risks, building his career in commercial photography through connecting with influencers and changing lives with what he creates.
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Bhushan Bagadia talks about underwater photography and his stories diving with the sharks. He also shares his approach to teaching underwater photography in 4 weeks.
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Nayantara Jain is a SCUBA diver, Marine Biologist, and Marine Conservationist who throws some light on the impact of plastics on marine life, how we measure the economy, and how designers can design better products by a focus on the earth experience instead of just user experience. Who is Nayantara Jain? Nayantara Jain is the Executive […]
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In this episode, I speak with Ram Devineni, an award-winning documentary filmmaker about gender equality, gender violence, Priya’s Shakti comic, storytelling, and creating art that rises above fake news and social media chatter. Who is Ram Devineni? Ram Devineni is a documentary filmmaker who has created a handful of renowned works of art. He produced The […]
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In this episode of The Design Your Thinking Podcast I sit down with one of India’s top comedians, Atul Khatri to talk about the serious business of Stand Up Comedy, his learnings from transitioning from being a businessman to a stand-up comedian, and the backstories that make him unique (including his training approach for a […]
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In this episode of The Design Your Thinking Podcast I speak with Akanksha Chhabra and Neha from Pastels and Pop about the dying art of Juttis, why, and how they are focused on saving this ancient 400-year old handicraft. Who are Akanksha Chhabra and Neha? Akanksha, Neha, and Aarti are three sisters who founded an […]
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In this episode of The Design Your Thinking Podcast, I speak with Shwetambari Shetty, who talks about her journey as a woman from working in a bank to entrepreneurship in the fitness niche. Who is Shwetambari Shetty? Shwetambari Shetty is today, a fitness expert at CureFit. She co-founded Tribe Fitness Club, one of India’s largest fitness […]
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In this episode of The Design Your Thinking Podcast, I talk to Shreya Thakkar who is an entrepreneur and bag designer who runs StruT, a fashion brand that designs bags and footwear. This was one of the first episodes I recorded for Season 2. Who is Shreya Thakkar? Here’s how Shreya Thakkar introduces herself: “I […]
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In this episode of The Design Your Thinking Podcast, I talk to a true multipotentiality. Dinesh Gopalan Nair is an Indian-Malaysian Bharatha Natyam dancer, makeup artist, and dentist. He started his career as a professional Bharatanatyam dancer at the age of 7, grew up to become a dentist. But somewhere in between, he took interest […]
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No matter what you are or what you do, it’s about finding purpose in what you do, and knowing WHY you are doing it. In this episode of The Design Your Thinking Podcast, I sit down with Robin Singh, Co-founder of Peepal Farm to talk about his journey from being an online hacker and techie […]
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Discover your passion. In this episode of Season 2 of The Design Your Thinking Podcast I sit down with Vithya Hair and Makeup artist to listen to her story from fighting depression, to discovering her passion to how she became one of the UK’s top Makeup Artists and a Youtube and Instagram star. Who is […]
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Welcome to Design Your Thinking Podcast Season 2! In this first episode, I introduce you to Season 2, WHY I’m doing this, WHAT you’ll get to hear and WHERE you can find the episodes in the interwebs! First things first – who are hosting this series. That’s not changing – I’m your host Karthik and […]
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