Podcast appearances and mentions of matt ragland

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) make their annual 2025 predictions for the creator economy — including content trends, the importance of relationships, hard work, and, of course, AI. Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's special episode, we're running through the best HeyCreator moments & advice from 2024 — featuring incredible creators such as Justin Welsh, Amanda Goetz, Jay Clouse, Justin Moore, Gina Bianchini, Corey Wilks Psy.D., Cam Houser, Jason Levin, Cody & Cole Hock, Nat Eliason, Khe Hy, Tim Stoddart, Darrell Vesterfelt, Tim Grahl, Bryan Harris, Rachel Rodgers, Clifton Sellers, Alexis Teichmiller, and our very own Matt Ragland & Tim Forkin. Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice

Join Dusty Porter in episode 424 of the YouTube Creators Hub Podcast as he interviews YouTube creator and productivity expert Matt Ragland. In this episode, they discuss Matt's journey from starting a YouTube channel focused on analog productivity methods to building a successful online presence with right at 100K subscribers. Learn about the importance of finding your niche, transitioning between content types, effective video production tools and processes, and monetizing YouTube content through various revenue streams. Matt also shares valuable insights on the significance of having an email list for creators. Tune in for actionable tips and inspiring stories from two experienced content creators. About Matt: I'm a creator-operator hybrid who's been able to build audiences for my own ideas and work behind the scenes with creators like Ryan Holiday, Sahil Bloom, and Justin Welsh. I was employee #5 at ConvertKit and now run a community for creators called HeyCreator. Elevate Your YouTube Success with TubeBuddy: Experience the Power of TubeBuddy with a Free 30-Day Trial. YouTube Creator Community Discord: Private Creator Discord, Mastermind Call, and Extra Podcast Episodes. Entrepreneurs Minute is my weekly newsletter. It's A behind-the-scenes look at what I'm thinking and experiencing each week, and I share anything I find valuable for creators. One-On-One YouTube Coaching With Dusty Delights AI - Check out and pre-register to be notified when this new excellent monetization method becomes available. Turn your videos into e-books in minutes! Connect With Matt Here: YouTube Channel /// Newsletter Dusty's Recommended YouTube Gear:

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) talk about content formats — specifically, why and how to choose the one kind of content you should focus on for the next few years, along with examples of creators succeeding with a signature format. Examples include Casey Neistat, Daniel Dalen, @bymaximise, Tyler Bruno, Seth Godin and more. Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice

In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) works with John Meese on finding his own 10X Promise framework — your one-sentence selling point to display the massive outcome you'll get for your customers. John isn't your typical modern creator — he has no social media, and sells his programs and books almost exclusively through email… so you might want to pay extra close attention to how he's able to clearly demonstrate his value.  Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) are joined by Clifton Sellers (@LegacyBuilder__) to discuss how to grow on social media, finding your unique positioning, the value of content for founders, and much more. (0:00) — Intro (3:26) — Finding your unique positioning (8:24) — Everything is content (22:34) — How to write like a founder (33:43) — The move into YouTube Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) interviews Josh Spector (@jspector) on how to grow your newsletter with social media — and vice versa. (0:00) — Intro (4:21) — Do you need more followers, or something else? (17:20) — Switching from a weekly to daily email (26:29) — Josh's presentation on growing your newsletter with social media Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) catches up with old teammate Charli Prangley (@charliprangley) to discuss the role of design and branding for creators, along with the process of rebranding ConvertKit to Kit and lessons from her journey as a YouTuber. (0:00) — Intro (1:48) — The #1 design mistake creators make (12:26) — Outside perspective on your design process (22:30) — Charli's creator journey Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) interviews old friend Bryan Harris (@Harris_Bryan).  Bryan is the founder of Growth Tools and has a vastly different perspective on content, audiences, and business than the majority of our guests. Listen in for his thoughts on which kinds of clients to serve first, why he believes you DON'T need an audience, and the one-word marketing strategy that beats everything else your business can offer. For HeyCreator listeners, Bryan put together an incredible resource of tools he referenced in the show here. (0:00) — Intro (1:01) — The Hershey Kiss/Tesla Strategy (8:23) — “You don't need to build an audience…” (17:50) — How to borrow someone else's audience (26:18) — What's the simplest path towards your business goal? (37:17) — The one-word marketing strategy Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) interview Jason Levin (@iamjasonlevin), a creator, entrepreneur, author of Memes Make Millions, and self-proclaimed memelord who currently serves as the Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Jason walks us through how to start thinking in memes, the reality of how memes can make millions for your company, and why being funny on the internet is the best long-term play for any brand. (0:00) — Intro (1:01) — How do I start thinking in memes? (7:07) — How do memes make millions? (14:56) — Someone sold their business for $100M by using memes (19:04) — “Dumb memes, smart threads” (25:15) — The secrets to growing company social Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) take on four Creator Advice questions from X and the HeyCreator community. Thank you to George, Jay, Nausheena and Michael for your questions! (0:00) — Intro (0:38) — George asks, “Now what?” (7:13) — Jay has a creator's dream job, but he's about to start college… (14:50) — Nausheena asks, “What can I do to make my videos more engaging?” (17:20) — Michael wants to start a conference, but is unsure how to use content to promote it. Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, we're running an expert session from the HeyCreator community with Corey Wilks, Psy.D — a psychologist and executive coach.  Corey gives an excellent presentation on The Four Horsemen of Fear before Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) joins him on the call to talk creator mindset, switching niches, and overcoming common creator fears. Grab Corey's Build an Intentional Life course and use code HEYCREATOR25 for 25% off! (0:00) — Intro (1:28) — The Four Horsemen of Fear (21:44) — Why fear comes to us (23:48) — What if I want to change my niche? (29:22) — How your values will shape your path Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Sign up for our free 7 day "Creator Blueprint" email course! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) is joined by John Meese to walk through his Serve Call framework from his new book, Serve to Sell. Selling high-ticket offers (like 1-1 coaching, cohort courses or mastermind memberships) can feel like a numbers game — hopping on one sales call after another in hopes of landing a yes. What John teaches is a reframe for these calls. You're not selling, you're serving. Grab a copy of Serve to Sell here (or click this link and get it for free!) (0:00) — Intro (2:45) — Real-life examples of the Serve To Sell framework (12:30) — What do you call a sales call where you don't get the sale? (19:54) — The Six R's of a Serve Call (40:50) — Creator Advice with John Meese Connect with us: Join the HeyCreator Community  Submit a question to Creator Advice Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) walk through the fastest ways to make $10,000/month as a creator. The episode is split into three different sections — Newsletters, Coaching, and Courses. (0:00) — Intro (1:15) — What's the fastest way to make $10,000/month with a newsletter? (9:15) — What's the fastest way to make $10,000/month with a coaching offer? (18:02) — What's the fastest way to make $10,000/month with online courses? Make $1,000 with your first launch using our Course Blueprint Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) talks through the 10 books every creator must read, split up into three categories — Mindset, Business, and Process. Later, Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) joins for the first edition of Creator Advice — our new segment where we answer questions from our community, place ourselves in their situations, and work to solve their problems.  (0:00) — Intro (1:30) — The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield (2:45) — The Pathless Path, by Paul Millerd (4:13) — Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott (5:48) — Perennial Seller, by Ryan Holiday (6:32) — Obviously Awesome, by April Dunford (7:11) — Dotcom Secrets, by Russell Brunson (8:18) — $100M Leads, by Alex Hormozi (9:20) — The Art and Business of Online Writing, by Nicolas Cole (10:09) — Free Time, by Jenny Blake (11:23) — Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte (14:42) — Creator Advice! Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) interviewed Gina Bianchini (Co-founder and CEO of Mighty Networks) and Jordan Mix (Partner at Late Checkout) LIVE in-person for a conversation about community design. How do the most successful community builders do it? What makes their communities thrive without their direct involvement? Those questions & more answered in today's episode! Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

“What should I charge?” Every creator asks this question. Don't worry, we've got you! In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) walk through the Value Ladder framework, discussing how you can scale the same offer up and down the ladder to different price points and levels of involvement. (0:00) — Intro (1:00) — How should we think about pricing? (2:55) — Where to start on the Value Ladder (VIP) (9:50) — Going down the ladder (High) (13:53) — The worst place to be (Mid) (20:03) — Do not price at this number (28:15) — The low-end of the Value Ladder (Impulse + Free) Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

In today's episode of Distribution First, we dive deep into effective strategies to turn your back catalog into a goldmine.You've got tons of valuable content, but the challenge is how to keep them relevant and engaging for your audience.The content world will often tell you to just keep creating more and more, but eventually, we all hit a wall. There's got to be a smarter way to keep things fresh without burning out your team—or yourself.The truth is, you don't have to be constantly on the content treadmill. In this episode, Justin Simon and Matt Ragland dive into strategies for maximizing your content's reach. Matt shares his insights on managing a wealth of content without all the headaches. Stay tuned as we dive into the best practices for structuring your podcast content into engaging segments and the benefits of adopting a seasonal model for efficient content creation and distribution.In this episode, you'll learn:Best practices for managing older and new podcast episodes on YouTubeRepurposing content from events for newsletters and sponsorshipsThe power of batching content creation for efficiencyStrategic distribution of content using a system and SOPsLeveraging YouTube for podcast content and audience engagement***If you like distribution and repurposing playbooks, you'll love my weekly newsletter (it's free). Join 2,500+ subscribers here: https://news.justinsimon.co/ ***CONNECT

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) interviews Amanda Goetz (@AmandaMGoetz) LIVE and in-person about her role as a fractional CMO, along with how she thinks about her content, community, and creator habits. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (1:14) — Why take a fractional CMO role? (9:49) — Are other creators your competitors? (15:21) — How do you think about community? (20:48) — What are the habits of successful creators? (26:54) — Parenting as a creator (32:09) — The differences between creating and public speaking Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ Everything you need to know about launching, writing and growing an email newsletter is in today's episode. Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) go through the step-by-step process of launching a profitable newsletter. No fluff. From opening up a ConvertKit account through making thousands of dollars per month, each step is outlined below. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (4:10) — How do you set up a landing page? Check out Matt and Tim's landing pages. (14:05) — How do you incentivize your audience to sign up? (23:36) — The 3 types of email newsletters to write (37:25) — How do you monetize your newsletter? Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

Matt Ragland is a 10-year email marketer, first at ConvertKit and now at Good People Digital, the Nashville-based agency he launched in early 2023. His approach to superior email performance is storytelling.He says, "Brands that excel at email marketing frequently tell a story to their ideal audience."In this episode, he addresses storytelling tactics, email design, automation strategies, and more. For an edited and condensed transcript with embedded audio, see: https://pec-ly.com/?6rUbFor all condensed transcripts with audio, see: https://www.practicalecommerce.com/tag/podcastsListener reviews of Ecommerce Conversations elevate visibility and help others experience the lessons of online entrepreneurs. We invite you to leave a review on this channel.   ******The mission of Practical Ecommerce is to help online merchants improve their businesses. We do this with expert articles, podcasts, and webinars. We are an independent publishing company founded in 2005 and unaffiliated with any ecommerce platform or provider. http://www.practicalecommerce.com 

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Alexis Teichmiller jam on leaving the corporate world to become a creator, along with the move forward into a corporate role again.  Alexis is the Senior Brand Partnerships Manager at Circle — the platform we use to run the HeyCreator Community — so they also discuss different community business models for creators, along with the best ways to create signature gatherings for your audience. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (4:08) — Matt & Alexis working together at ConvertKit (11:59) — Romanticizing the leap from W2 employee to full-time creator (16:18) — From full-time creator to W2 employee (26:07) — Different types of community business models (32:23) — How to create signature gatherings in your community (42:03) — How to set yourself up for sustainability as a creator (48:36) — Where each platform fits in the audience funnel Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) interview Cody (@Cody_Hock) & Cole Hock (@UpNorthCole). These two brothers manage entertainment creators, but we wanted to talk about Enjoy Basketball — the media and lifestyle company they founded with one of the biggest sports creators on the internet, Kenny Beecham. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (1:45) — About today's show (2:53) — “Cold emailing is my favorite thing to do.” (10:21) — What goes into a great cold email? (15:38) — Why choose Kenny as the face of Enjoy Basketball? (18:18) — The first channel that made sense for their business (24:29) — How EB pulls almost every lever a creator business can pull (28:29) — Why they partnered with ESPN & Omaha Productions (35:54) — How physical products create serendipity (38:48) — The value of in-person community building for creators Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) give out their best advice for new creators. Tim lays out the lessons young creators need to learn in order to grow, while Matt speaks to established professionals looking to become side-hustle creators. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (6:06) — Tim: Can you get past your immediate circle? (12:25) — Matt: Pick one topic, one platform, for one audience (16:40) — Tim: Don't be an expert or idol when you aren't (22:43) — Matt: Are you making content for fun, or are you building a business? (27:30) — Tim: Real artists don't starve (30:51) — Matt: What long-term project can you build alongside your content? Join the HeyCreator CommunityUse Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Nat Eliason (@nateliason) jam about what it actually takes to be a creator. Topics include Nat's take on niching down, the main ways creators become replaceable, choosing between money and passion, why consistency alone isn't enough, and much more. (3:18) — Nat's article Be Yourself, Not a Niche (7:23) — The #1 way creators fail (16:10) — Nat's article When the Money's Just Too Damn Good (25:28) — Do you care enough to make your content great? (32:25) — The illusion that success comes quickly as a creator (40:17) — Balancing ambition, productivity, and parenting Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) discuss equity for creators — more specifically, how and why creators should think about owning pieces of others' businesses. Stories include MKBHD's deal with Ridge, the launch of Authors Equity, Blenders X Coach Prime, Pop Daddy Snacks and more. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (1:45) — Rundown of today's show (2:40) — MKBHD's deal with Ridge (10:48) — Authors Equity, backed by Tim Ferriss, James Clear and Louise Penny (16:31) — James Clear's new app, Atoms (20:41) — The two ways creators can get equity in businesses (21:41) — How John Barchard negotiated a deal to own part of an English soccer club in exchange for content (25:45) — How Pop Daddy Snacks scaled their business by becoming a creator (29:19) — How Blenders landed Deion Sanders to be their flagship “creator” (36:33) — The creator skills you have are enough to own someone else's business Join the HeyCreator Community Use Automatic Evergreen to send profitable newsletters on autopilot

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside — get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) push through initial feelings of not wanting to record. The conversation evolves into how creators can make the most of their limited time — both in what they spend their time on and the quality of what they create. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside (1:43) — Rundown of today's show (2:45) — Doing the work when you don't feel like it (7:45) — Managing capacity when you have limited time to create (20:11) — Managing quality when you have limited time to create (26:48) — How consistent writers can succeed on YouTube with little time (30:32) — Are you prioritizing production value quality or message quality? (36:45) — The middle is not where you want to be Join the HeyCreator Community Send a profitable newsletter on autopilot with Automatic Evergreen

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) talk about the value of niching down as a creator and what it can do for your business.  After, we're sharing the highlights from Justin Welsh's (@thejustinwelsh) session at the HeyCreator Summit. Justin dives deep on why creators need to focus on outcomes, being unique, and defining their voice. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside.fm (1:43) — Rundown of today's show (4:39) — Become someone other people recommend (10:10) — Being specific allows you to be broad (19:30) — Justin Welsh from HeyCreator Summit 2024 Join the HeyCreator Community Send a profitable newsletter on autopilot with Automatic Evergreen

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — ⁠get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠⁠ In the first official episode of the HeyCreator show, Matt Ragland (⁠⁠@mattragland⁠⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠⁠@timforkindotcom⁠⁠) talk about facing the challenges of starting a new creative project. Then, the team goes deep into their past, revealing their Mount Rushmore of Creators Who Inspired Us. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside.fm (1:45) — Rundown of today's show (2:26) — Starting something new as a creator (10:22) — Why reps are so important early in a creative project (17:35) — Mount Rushmore of Creators Who Inspired Us ⁠Join the HeyCreator Community⁠ ⁠Make more from your content with Automatic Evergreen⁠

The HeyCreator Show is presented by Riverside.fm — get 15% off a new subscription by using code HEYCREATOR at checkout.⁠ In today's episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Tim Forkin (⁠@timforkindotcom⁠) center in on the common ways creators overthink their work — highlighting a clip from Darrell Vesterfelt (@dvest) in which he talked about the importance of picking one niche to build your content and business around. After, Matt & Tim reveal their Mount Rushmore of Content That Inspired Us — the books, movies, frameworks and pieces of content that has resonated on their creator journey. (0:00) — Presented by Riverside.fm (3:40) — Darrell Vesterfelt on picking a focused niche for your creator business (9:10) — Common ways creators overthink their work (32:40) — Mount Rushmore of Content That Inspired Us Join the HeyCreator Community Make more from your newsletter with Automatic Evergreen

On this week's episode, Tim Stoddart (⁠@timstodz⁠) talks about the changes coming to The Copyblogger Podcast and introduces Matt Ragland (@mattragland) and Tim Forkin (@timforkindotcom) as the new hosts of the HeyCreator show. The group discuss the change, touch base on upcoming creator trends, and paint a picture for how the show will sound moving forward. (00:00) — Intro (00:41) — Tim & Matt talk about the show changes (11:21) — Upcoming creator trends we're seeing (15:56) — Separating personal brand and business (22:58) — What will the HeyCreator show be?

Matt Ragland focuses on the intersection of productivity and the creator economy. He started an online community for creative Dads called Digital Dads. Matt was the 5th employee at ConvertKit, ran Creator Success at Podia, and has built an audience of over 100,000 fans across his newsletter, YouTube channel, and social media channels. He lives in Nashville with his wife of 17 years and 3 (almost 4) kids. In our conversation today we discussed: Matt's childhood as the son of a pastor The importance of community - and building community for fathers Homeschooling Outward expressions of love Taking your kids on adventures Helping your kids have a vision greater than themselves Pursuing self-employment as a means to better balance work, health and family — Where to find Matt Ragland - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattragland/ - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/mattragland - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattRagland/videos   Where to find Adam Fishman - Newsletter: https://startupdadpod.substack.com/ - Newsletter: https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/ - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/ — In this episode, we cover: [00:30] Intro [1:52] Welcome [2:15] Matt's professional background [8:06] Matt's childhood and parents [13:10] His partner and kids [16:34] Homeschooling [21:46] Outward expressions of love [25:34] The importance of community and Digital Dads [32:05] Taking kids on adventures [37:05] Most surprising thing as a dad [39:50] Demonstrating good habits [47:21] Vision greater than yourself [52:07] What don't you and your wife align on? [55:33] Mistakes made as a father [59:50] Where to follow along with Matt's journey [1:00:57] Rapid fire [1:09:18] Thank you — Show references: Matt's Website - https://mattragland.com/ Buffer - https://buffer.com/ Backcountry - https://www.backcountry.com/ APPSumo - https://appsumo.com/ ConvertKit - https://convertkit.com/ Nashville, TN - https://www.visitmusiccity.com/ Podia  - https://www.podia.com/ Jiu jitsu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu Nose Frida - https://frida.com/ Nintendo switch - https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/ Lululemon (joggers or ABC pants) - https://shop.lululemon.com/ 10,000 (shirts) - https://www.tenthousand.cc/ Smart wool (socks) - https://www.smartwool.com/ Duer (jeans) - https://shopduer.com/ Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five by John Medina - https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Rules-Baby-Updated-Expanded/dp/0983263388 Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature by Steven Rinella - https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Kids-Inside-World-Radically/dp/0593129660 Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff - https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Gather-Parent-Ancient-Cultures/dp/198214968X The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik - https://www.amazon.com/Gardener-Carpenter-Development-Relationship-Children/dp/1250132258 Inside Out - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/ — Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/ Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/  

Matt Ragland focuses on the intersection of productivity and the creator economy. He started an online community for creative Dads called Digital Dads. Matt was the 5th employee at ConvertKit, ran Creator Success at Podia, and has built an audience of over 100,000 fans across his newsletter, YouTube channel, and social media channels. He lives in Nashville with his wife of 17 years and 3 (almost 4) kids. In our conversation today we discussed:* Matt's childhood as the son of a pastor* The importance of community - and building community for fathers* Homeschooling* Outward expressions of love* Taking your kids on adventures* Helping your kids have a vision greater than themselves* Pursuing self-employment as a means to better balance work, health and familyListen, watch and subscribe: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Overcast.—Where to find Matt Ragland- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattragland/- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/mattragland- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattRagland/videosWhere to find Adam Fishman- Newsletter: www.startupdadpod.substack.com- Newsletter: www.FishmanAFNewsletter.com- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/—In this episode, we cover:[00:30] Intro[1:52] Welcome[2:15] Matt's professional background[8:06] Matt's childhood and parents[13:10] His partner and kids[16:34] Homeschooling[21:46] Outward expressions of love[25:34] The importance of community and Digital Dads[32:05] Taking kids on adventures[37:05] Most surprising thing as a dad[39:50] Demonstrating good habits[47:21] Vision greater than yourself[52:07] What don't you and your wife align on?[55:33] Mistakes made as a father[59:50] Where to follow along with Matt's journey[1:00:57] Rapid fire[1:09:18] Thank you—Show references:Matt's Website - https://mattragland.com/Buffer - https://buffer.com/Backcountry - https://www.backcountry.com/APPSumo - https://appsumo.com/ConvertKit - https://convertkit.com/Nashville, TN - https://www.visitmusiccity.com/Podia  - https://www.podia.com/Jiu jitsu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JujutsuNose Frida - https://frida.com/Nintendo switch - https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/Lululemon (joggers or ABC pants) - https://shop.lululemon.com/10,000 (shirts) - https://www.tenthousand.cc/Smart wool (socks) - https://www.smartwool.com/Duer (jeans) - https://shopduer.com/Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five - https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Rules-Baby-Updated-Expanded/dp/0983263388Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature - https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Kids-Inside-World-Radically/dp/0593129660Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans - https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Gather-Parent-Ancient-Cultures/dp/198214968XThe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children - https://www.amazon.com/Gardener-Carpenter-Development-Relationship-Children/dp/1250132258Inside Out - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/—For sponsorship inquiries email podcast@fishmana.com.Editing support by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit startupdadpod.substack.com

How do some companies churn out consistent, high-quality newsletters while others continue to sputter?The answer is remixing. If you want to move forward in business you have to embrace repurposing and remixing your best content. In fact, it's always been this way. But it's becoming more important than ever. In this episode, Matt Ragland shares his expertise on remixing content for newsletters and the strategies to successfully repurpose content to engage a wider audience. If you like distribution and repurposing playbooks, you'll love my weekly newsletter (it's free). Join 2,400+ subscribers here: https://news.justinsimon.co/ ***CONNECT

In this episode, George and Nick dive into Wave 2 2023 and what it's going to wash out for Power Pages. What's in store?  The integration of DocuSign  Bootstrap 5 and transition to it  The capabilities and future potential of the Power Pages Copilot Upcoming features for administration and governance  Enhanced collaboration features in the Power Pages Design Studio Introduction of managed environments New updates on user analytics Credits Cover image by Matt Ragland on Unsplash References Set up DocuSign integration | Microsoft Learn Overview of Power Pages 2023 release wave 2 | Microsoft Learn E-Signatures and Payments in Power Pages - ESPC Conference, 2023 (sharepointeurope.com) Get in touch voice@crm.audio Nick Hayduk @Engineered_Code George Doubinski @georgedude

Matt Ragland, Managing Director at Good People Digital, shares his 7-figure newsletter monetization strategy for content creators and marketers. Download the free powerups cheatsheet: https://marketingpowerups.com/039

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How can you achieve more by optimizing your use of time? In today's conversation with Matt Ragland we discuss how to boost productivity without burning the midnight oil. Launch Your Business is presented by Comcast Business. With Comcast Business it's not just possible, it's happening. Comcast Business - Powering Possibilities. Learn more at .

At you job, you may accumulate PTO: personal time off. But have you heard about the new PTO? Parenting time off?If you need time off to be effective at work, does the same follow for being a parent? Without getting some downtime, parents are at risk of crashing and burning. To read about warning signs and solutions, click this link: case of burnout.That's why Matt Ragland, an expert in productivity, agrees. Now he's taken his professional know-how and carried it over to his life as a father. In a viral tweet he sent on July 23, Ragland explains how he and his wife will start giving each other PTO or PARENTS time off.

In this episode of The LifeHack Show, we have Matt Ragland as our guest. Matt helps people do their best work, find balance, and reduce mental clutter. You might be familiar with Matt's work via his YouTube channel or podcast, Connect the Dots. Here, Matt is sharing with us the productive habits to start adopting in order to achieve more and stress less every day. Also, don't miss LifeHack All-Access Membership for custom tools: https://www.lifehack.org/g/get-all-access?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=spotify&utm_campaign=20230712&utm_term=video+description

Subscribe to the BonusFootage.co newsletter. This episode, we're kicking off a new series around newsletters. Most of the episodes will be focusing on short form video creators who've been able to successful move their audience and attention to a profitable newsletter. 7 Steps to Making 7 Figures With Your Newsletter // with Matt Ragland (matt@mattragland.com), make sure to tell him you friends with Tom of “Creators Are Brands”. In this episode, we discuss: Why you need a newsletter as a short form creator. What should be in your linktree to promote your newsletter? What's the copy you should put on your newsletter landing page? Should you give away a freebie when people sign up to your newsletter? What kinds of digital products should you sell to your newsletter? We also talk about Matt's agency that works with creators and entrepreneurs to turn your existing content into a high converting, profitable newsletter. Like, you don't have to do any extra work. It's basically a productize service that pays for itself, from minimal work from your end, if you've ready built your audience. I'm sold on it, I've been telling my friends about, and if you're a listener of this show, you're a friend. If you want to work with Matt or learn more about it as we're talking, go to yourweekly.email or email him directly at Matt@MattRagland.com and make sure to tell him you friends with Tom of “Creators Are Brands”.

If you like distribution and repurposing playbooks, you'll love my weekly newsletter (it's free). Join 1,800+ subscribers here: https://news.justinsimon.co/ In this episode, Matt Ragland shares his expertise on remixing content for newsletters and the strategies to successfully repurpose content to engage a wider audience. Discover the key takeaways for building an engaging newsletter and the benefits of remixing your content.Links mentioned in the episode:Comparison between AI and Human-written content: https://twitter.com/mattragland/status/1622625018067705857 Matt's newsletter remixing process:https://www.loom.com/share/77a9b761c71e44329c8d17424d27bc8d LinkedIn: @justincsimonTwitter @justincsimonEmail: hello@justinsimon.coThanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of my podcast production.They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your podcast.Get unlimited podcast editing and on-demand strategy for one low monthly cost. Just upload your episode, and they take care of the rest.Visit hatch.fm to learn more.

Getting started with email marketing, encouraging people to sign up for your list, and creating a strong email marketing strategy with Matt Ragland. ----- Welcome to episode 386 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Matt Ragland about getting the most out of your email marketing strategy. Getting the Most Out of Your Email Marketing Strategy If you're already creating content for your blog or social media, another great place to share that content is via email. And that's what we're chatting about today with Matt Ragland! Matt has years of experience in the world of email marketing, and in this interview, you'll hear what he learned working at ConvertKit, why email marketing is so powerful, his best tips for getting more people to sign up for your email list, and how he helps creators develop high-converting weekly email newsletters. Whether you're looking to get started with email marketing or take your current email marketing strategy to the next level, we know you'll have so many takeaways from this conversation! In this episode, you'll learn: What Matt learned working at ConvertKit Why he recommends leaning into a niche How he helps creators with email marketing Why email marketing is so powerful How to effectively share blog posts via email How to get more people to sign up for your email list Why he recommends creating a welcome series How broadcasts and newsletters differ from sequences His best tips for getting started with email marketing Resources: Matt's website Learn more about Matt's email marketing service, Automatic Evergreen Connect the Dots Podcast Story Signals Podcast Copyblogger ProBlogger Michael Hyatt's website Corbett Barr Chris Guillebeau ConvertKit Smart Passive Income Podia Teachable Kajabi Quora Medium Follow Matt on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter Join the Food Blogger Pro Podcast Facebook Group -----This episode is sponsored by Clariti. Learn how you can organize your blog content for maximum growth by going to clariti.com/food.If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com. Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership

In this season 1 round up we look back at some of the best lessons from our creators including Matt Ragland, Alice Lemée and Ali Abdaal. What was your favourite season 1 moment?Season 1 full episodes: https://www.passionfroot.xyz/creators-on-airS1 E1 Gabriel Nussbaum  S1 E2 Cora Harrison S1 E3 Matt Ragland  S1 E4 Tanvi Shah  S1 E5 Jamie Whiffen  S1 E6 Janis Ozolins  S1 E7 Andrew Barry  S1 E8 Bhav Sharma  S1 E9 Noah Brierley  S1 E10 Joe Gannon  S1 E11 Alice Lemée  S1 E12 Ali Abdaal  Hosted by Akta:

Highlights from the conversation:Matt's career journey (2:53)Getting started in podcasting (9:23)Daily vlogging while employed full-time (13:32)Matt's content flywheel (24:43)Providing for other creators (30:34)What's on the content horizon (35:47)Keep up with Matt:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/mattraglandTwitter: https://twitter.com/mattraglandAutomatic Evergreen Service: http://yourweekly.email/Content Is for Closers is a bi-weekly podcast powered by HEARD Media. Each episode we get into the nitty-gritty details with an entrepreneur, marketer, or business owner about how they literally use content to close more business, drive more sales, and grow their company.HEARD helps service-based businesses leverage digital content to close sales. Learn more about HEARD by visiting trustheard.com.* Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/content-is-for-closers/id1280589855* Support the pod by spreading the word. Use this link to share: www.contentisforclosers.com.

Matt Ragland was an early member of the Creator Economy with leadership roles at ConvertKit and Podia. Now, Matt runs a creator-centric agency focusing on course development and email newsletter growth, and is a full-time creator with over 60,000 YouTube subscribers and 12,000 email subscribers.In this conversation, Matt shares advice on balancing business and creativity, as well as how he was able to use his email list to become a full time creator.Follow Matt:

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Ryan Holiday's Notecard System Never Start from Scratch Again Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten How Note-Taking Improves Creativity Developing Ideas Sparks  Comparing Note-Taking Apps How I Use Notes in Content Creation Note-Taking from Capture to Communication Watch my YouTube videos on QUICK Notes Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Never Start from Scratch Again Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten How Note-Taking Improves Creativity Developing Ideas Sparks  Comparing Note-Taking Apps How I Use Notes in Content Creation Watch my YouTube videos on QUICK Notes Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Never Start from Scratch Again Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten How Note-Taking Improves Creativity Developing Ideas Sparks  Comparing Note-Taking Apps Watch my YouTube videos on QUICK Notes Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Never Start from Scratch Again Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten How Note-Taking Improves Creativity Developing Ideas Sparks  Watch my YouTube videos on QUICK Notes Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Never Start from Scratch Again Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten How Note-Taking Improves Creativity & Capture Strategies Watch my YouTube videos on QUICK Notes Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Never Start from Scratch Again Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application.Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application.Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email courseWatch me in training at Artista in Nashville, TN

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application.Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get $20 off my course The Most Productive Week Ever

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application.Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course 22 Books for 2022 - Bird by Bird The Gap of Life Changing Work Never Start from Scratch: The Magic of Smart Notes 

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application.Listen to E33 - A Poker Player's Advice for Goal SelectionThank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application. Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the Daily Dot please share it with a friend and rate + review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Get my FREE 5 day productivity email course

It is that time of year…everyone is setting 2022 goals. And I am here for it! Setting goals is a big love of mine. Why? Because goal setting inspires change and empowers people to achieve their biggest desires. When done right that is! With changes to lifestyle, nutrition and health habits, goal setting is really helpful. Quite important too. How can you get to where you want to go, if you don't know what or where that is? Or your reasons as to why you want to get there?In this episode, I share my  ‘12+1 goal setting method' which is a mix of a couple of approaches I have used over the years and have found to work well for me and my personality type.  I chat through the steps to set your goals, process vs. outcome goals and some common mistakes people make when goal setting.   Grab your FREE Plant Based Protein Guide here. Resources I mention in the episode:The 12 Week Year, Brian Moran and Michael Lennington (book).Matt Ragland, YouTube channel and Connect the Dots podcast.Come and say on insta! @melissaensink

In this episode, Matt Ragland, a productivity guide, creator coach, and sketchnoter, talks about how he integrates sketchnoting elements into his productivity practice.Learn how your abilities as a creative person can enhance your productivity practice, and why your bullet journal pages don't need to be Instagram-worthy to be valuable to you.Time to get productive!Sponsored by ConceptsThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts.An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.Concepts' infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Draw and take notes with liquid pens, markers and brushes in your favorite Copic designer colors.Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture.Drag and drop images onto the canvas, and use layers and grids to organize your creative space. When you're ready to share, export straight to your friends or team.SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.Learn more: Concepts AppRunning OrderIntro: Who is Matt?Matt's origin storyEmbellished and minimal productivity approachesMaking productivity systems work for youTransitioning to independent workTools3 tipsOutroLinksMatt's websiteMatt on YouTubeMatt's Daily EmailsMy 10 Year Overnight Success as a YouTuber & CreatorMost Productive Week Ever CourseConnect the Dots PodcastMatt on InstagramMatt on TwitterMatt's Simple 3 Step Habit Building System3 Keys of ProductivityFind an extra 30 minutes in your dayStory Signals Episode 4: Mike Rohde teaches us about creativity, conflict, and opportunityThe Daily Plan BarRyder CarrollFull Focus JournalBrad Dowdy and The Pen AddictToolsAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.Baron Fig Confidant NotebooksLeuchtturm 1917 Bullet Journal NotebookField NotesSquire PenBlackwing Palomino PenciliPad ProApple PencilProcreatePaper by WeTransferGoodNotesNotionRoam ResearchTipsStart small and get your first win!Be encouraged to create your own system.Bookend your week with a preview and a review.CreditsProducer: Alec PulianasTheme music: Jon SchiedermayerSubscribe to the Sketchnote Army PodcastYou can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or your favorite podcast listening source.Support the PodcastTo support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Si eres como la mayoría de las personas, probablemente sientas que nunca tienes suficiente tiempo. Los estudios demuestran que pasamos al menos una hora por día realizando en actividades improductivas y sin propósito. Eso es treinta horas al mes de tu tiempo. Además, puede que tu tiempo y tu atención con frecuencia giren alrededor de las necesidades de los demás. Entonces ¿cómo podemos aprovechar mejor nuestro tiempo? En Días de veinticinco horas, el bloguero y experto en gestión del tiempo Matt Ragland explica su "Método CCE" (Conciencia, Claridad y Ejecución) que te permitirá comprender cómo pasas tu tiempo y localizar una hora número 25 "oculta" en tu día. Además, este método te ayudará a establecer metas saludables y a mantenerte enfocado en tu trabajo al tomar medidas diarias consistentes. En resumen, lograrás controlar tu tiempo, cumplir tus objetivos y, sobre todo, hacer lo que realmente importa en la vida. Toma el control de tu tiempo. Con la ayuda de este curso, puedes convertirte en un experto en la administración del tiempo y lograr el milagro de encontrar tiempo extra en tu día.

Matt Ragland is a productivity expert and full-time content creator. He has worked for companies such as AppSumo.com, ConvertKit, and Podia. Matt graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in recreation & tourism management.Matt was one of the earliest members of the team at ConvertKit, where he was employee number five. Since leaving ConvertKit to start his own company, he now hosts a podcast, publishes a newsletter, has created several courses, and hosts his own YouTube channel.Matt prides himself on being a skilled manager and enjoys helping his clients and audience grow and develop their agencies. He is also the proud father of two boys and is a fitness enthusiast. Matt and his family live in Nashville, Tennessee.In this episode, you'll learn: Matt's biggest revenue drivers as a content creator How to know when it's time to take your side hustle full-time How to optimize your YouTube channel and content Links & Resources Podia Ryan Delk Bryan Harris James Clear Sean McCabe Sean McCabe Levi Allen Casey Neistat Tim Ferriss Jeff Goins Ali Abdaal Marques Brownlee Roberto Blake heycreator.com Matt Ragland's Links Follow Matt on Twitter Watch Matt on YouTube Matt's website Matt's newsletter Episode TranscriptMatt: [00:00:00]If you're not sure if you want to do something, try it 10 times, and really give it a good try. Write 10 newsletters. Make 10 videos on YouTube. Record 10 podcasts. I have found that going from 10 to a hundred is definitely a slog, and there are lots of mini milestones, but once you do something a hundred times, you're going to build momentum on it.And you're also going to build your own country.Nathan: [00:00:30]In this episode I talk to my long-time friend, Matt Ragland. So Matt joined ConvertKit really in the early days. He was employee number five, and he was here for the crazy ride. Then he started a YouTube channel. He led the customer experience team at another startup called Podia. He's now as a full-time independent creator earning a living on his own.We have a really fun conversation reminiscing about the early days talking about crazy rocket ship growth, and how we kept up. We get into earning a living as a creator. How he grew his YouTube channel to 60,000 subscribers. How to choose a niche, and when you should double down on that, and what's getting traction on YouTube.The last thing that we talk about is when, as a creator, you should quit your full-time job, and some of the nuances of that, so you can go full-time on your creative endeavor. So it's a longer episode today because Matt and I just can't help but tell stories.With that, let me get out of the way and dive in.Matt, thanks for joining me.Matt: [00:01:31]Oh, it's such a pleasure. I'm thrilled to be here.Nathan: [00:01:34]I want to go back to, what year would it even be?Matt: [00:01:40]2015.Nathan: [00:01:41]2015? Okay.Matt: [00:01:44]Right around this time. Maybe a couple months later, but it was like late summer.Nathan: [00:01:49]So, it's July, like yeah. And then July right now. Yeah, it would have been when we started talking, I'm thinking, what were you doing online around that time? Cause I started to come across you on Twitter.I think Brian Delk was a mutual friend.Is that right?Matt: [00:02:06]Yeah. Ryan Delk was a mutual friend. Brian Harris was a mutual friend. The way that we got actually directly connected is that I was on Brian's email list. And I saw that you were doing a webinar with him to promote ConvertKit. And I had just signed up for ConvertKit as a customer, always like a little notch in the cap that I, I feel like I have of having like the three-digit user ID.Nathan: [00:02:32]Do you remember what your user ID is?Matt: [00:02:33]I used to know.Nathan: [00:02:36]In the three digits is pretty impressive.Matt: [00:02:38]Yeah. A three digit. Yeah, definitely.Nathan: [00:02:41]Now they're well into the six digits.Matt: [00:02:43]Yeah, it's wild. And so, I was familiar with ConvertKit. Certainly at that time it was like, okay, let me watch Nathan talk about it. What are the things that he thinks are important with it? Like some email building strategies? Because what I was really doing a lot of my online work at that time is I was doing two things.I was doing some contract work with some other SaaS companies. In terms of an audience building creator standpoint, I was doing two things. One was that I was creating the sketch notes. And so like visual, visual art of like webinars, podcasts. And that's what I would use to teach people how to take better notes so they could remember more of what they're doing.And it was a way to connect with other influencers because it was an attention grabbing thing. And so that was the main thing in terms of audience building and some course creation.The other thing that I was doing that paid the bills a little bit better at that time was I was also helping people set up WordPress themes and websites.At the time I would be like, oh yeah, you know, I kind of do some web development and then like, not really knowing like what all that meant. And then as I started to work more and more with actual developers, I would set up a theme online for people. But you also look at it and see that there's still a pretty interesting intersection between like, how can you just do something relatively simple for people that either: A, they don't have time to do, or B, they just don't want to figure out because they just want to focus on their creative work.And so that's what I was doing summer 2015 at the time.Nathan: [00:04:27]Yeah. So then at the time we were, I think four people, five people on the, let me count,Matt: [00:04:37]I think it was four if I remember properly,Nathan: [00:04:39]Myself, mark, David, Dan.Four. Yeah. and we were at 15,000 a month in revenue. Let's see now I'm trying to think.Pat Flynn had just signed up in the month of July. We'd gone from 10,000 a month to 15,000 a month, 50% growth in a single month. And that's really when the slow grind turned into, like, I started turning the corner into how are we ever going to keep up, which is where you come in with the story.But, so basically in July, Pat Flynn and then Wellness Mama, and another popular blog all signed up at the same time. And so MRR jumped, you know, we had these bigger customers that were migrating and switching over, but then as it got into August, September, they all started talking about it.And then when we went from 15,000 a month to 22,000 to maybe 35, then 50, then 80, then a hundred, like it just, in six months it went completely wild.Matt: [00:05:46]Yeah. Certainly, you know, obviously remember that. And so I was, I was brought in to help with some support initially, just to help Dan out with some support and use, you were certainly doing a ton of that at the time. And I also, roofer, I think it was the first ended up being for the first two years I was at ConvertKit.I worked on migrations for the most part. So those, you know, bigger people that were coming in, I was helping them get set up. And the other thing that I did, so I kind of had like three phases. I would do like the migrations and then I would help out out support as much as I could. And then I would also do, because not just like migrations at that point were, you know, for the, for the larger customers that we still had, like so many people signing up every single day.And so I was doing like a weekly or every other week at the most like here's how to get started workshop and just like doing that. Really like, here's how you set up your account. Make sure you do this. Here's the form. How's how you get the form on your site. If you don't want to get the form on your side, you can actually still like, you know, we had a few landing pages at the time, nothing like, you know, the lovely, lovely template library that exists now,Nathan: [00:06:56]I think by a few, you literally mean for,Matt: [00:06:59]I really, yeah. Not just like a few dozen, like literally three or four. Yeah.Nathan: [00:07:05]So when you came on, right. Cause we brought you on part-time I remember being totally overwhelmed. you and I were talking later, about like starting part-time and then gradually increasing hours. I wonder if you would share like what that was like for you, because I think there was some confusion as to like why we were ramping up your hours gradually or other things likeMatt: [00:07:27]Yeah, I think, you know, I think I understood it initially. And is there was kind of like this, there was another, SAS company that I was contracting with at the time, and I was just more excited about convert kid. And so I don't know if it was confusion as much as like, I just wanted to like go all in on what convert kid was doing.And so like maybe not confusion, but just like, I was really chomping at the bit to just like, totally focus on it and not just like step away and be like, okay, I guess, you know, kind of hit my hourly. There's still things to do, obviously. But it became pretty clear after like, I think just three or four weeks that was like, okay.Yeah. It's it's time.Nathan: [00:08:09]Yeah. And we were increasing your hours directly in proportion to the MRR at the company.Like we wanted more time from Matt, but, like needed more MRR. And the nice thing, was that MRR was coming in like week over week in a meaningful way. Whereas the previous years it had been a slow journey.Matt: [00:08:31]I know you've talked about this, you know, certainly a lot since, and ConvertKits rolled out the free plan over the last 18 months, but, you know, it was a pretty controversial thing, like in terms of building a SAS company and one that was bootstrapped that I, you know, I felt that it was, there was always a paid plan.Like there is a bit of a free-trial, but it was always paid. And so like,Nathan: [00:08:53]I think Ben, it was actually just paid from day one.Matt: [00:08:55]Yeah, you're right. we didn't even do the free trial. And so, like, you just knew that like, you know, certainly people would kind of turn out after 30 days if they didn't like it, blah, blah, blah. But we knew that there was money coming in more reliably because when people sign up or like, okay, you know, we can kind of project that. Even people that tranquility quickly, like we're still gonna have like this expected amount of LTV for the person.And we can, you know, at least forecast a little bit better that way. And so, like I thought that was, again, again, in retrospect, like really nice and probably really helpful, even if you're like, you know, and again, at the time we, you know, being bootstrapped, like you still are, that there's a, like you almost, I don't know.I wonder how you would think about this. Like, there's almost like this veil of like, how much can we handle given the people that we have and like, where is that? I remember like, feeling like we were riding that line for, you know, not just months but years.Nathan: [00:09:54]Right. No, I, I think certainly, yeah, at least a year and a half of, just things moving so quickly and like at the times, so you joined in, I don't, I don't even know like an exact date, but call it that like August, July, August timeframe, something like, that.Matt: [00:10:17]Yeah, September, I think it was like September, October around that. I always, we were talking about this pre-show but I always remember that it was right around, this is my bin. This is my like timestamp that whenever pat released his I'm switching to ConvertKit. So you can go look at the timestamp on that post.It was right around that time. So whatever that is, it was like, that's when I started like, yeah. Yeah. Obviously things started taking off a lot of that.Nathan: [00:10:43]Yeah. That post was amazing. And the, and the title even, was it like a masterclass in positioning and all of that? Cause it was titled why switched from a Webber to infusion soft to convert it?Which the reason like you're like, okay, that's a long story in a title. but the reason that was so important is because everyone at the time, like a Weber and MailChimp were the most common, but in like the blogger space, people who've been around for awhile, a wherever was even like like just as common as, as MailChimp.Matt: [00:11:17]Oh Yeah, Yeah, definitely.Nathan: [00:11:19]Then when you graduated from one of those tools, you went to Infusionsoft, everybody did.And so if Pat had written the article of why I switched from a Webber to ConvertKit, people would be like, oh, but You never tried Infusionsoft.Like, and so there's a third act to this where you go like convert it, you know, you've outgrown ConvertKit and now you'll go to, if you just offer something.And so by having that in there, it was, you know, it just told the whole story and peopleMatt: [00:11:43]Right.Nathan: [00:11:44]Was like, wait, whatMatt: [00:11:45]You already tried Infusionsoft. That's what all the big names use pat, you're a big name. What are you doing?Nathan: [00:11:53]When I remember him being on mere cat Periscope, one of the two, like in live streams, like late at night, because pat likes to work at 10 or 11 at night And people would be like, wait, what email service are you using? Cause he'd like drop hints or, you know, something like that. And then there'd be like 50 or a hundred people commenting. like what are you using? I'm thinking about, switching to it or whatever. So it was a remarkable time.Matt: [00:12:16]It was his, Yeah,And I mean, who knows what the future holds, but like, that was definitely like the most like fast paced, interesting like seat of the pants, you know, like ride that I've been on.Nathan: [00:12:32]Yeah, we'll give a talk about rocket ship.It was that.So let's see. Maybe if we fast forward a little bit, actually maybe talking about that moment, right? Cause we went from, when you joined, we didn't even have, like an LLC. We didn't have payroll. We didn't have anything because that is cause Ashley joined in November. And the first thing that she did was set up like, a companyMatt: [00:12:57]You were paying me through PayPal.Nathan: [00:12:59]That's right. Yeah. And so then she went through and set up like the company and taxes and payroll and health benefits.Matt: [00:13:07]Yeah.Nathan: [00:13:08]What were some other things from the early days? Like, I dunno, favorite memories or, stories of, of, that.Matt: [00:13:13]There was, I've been wracking my brain trying to remember it, but there's something that now I, you know, I really wish that I had found it if I do, but there's something that happened like around. I want to say, like January of that year, there was something with an account That we just all found like unnecessarily hilarious.And it was like some kind of ponder play on words that I, I, again, it's a terrible story because I can't, this is a terrible story right now because I can't remember it, but there's something in my heart and in my subconscious that I just hold so dearly, but not like closely enough, apparently there is, there are just so many moments like that and, you know, having that first, well, I kind of cheated a little bit because a bunch of us went to WDS in summer 2016 and that was the first time we all got to hang out together.And that was like really awesome and special. And then like two or three months after that was when we had our first retreat and those retreats, you know, still like, I saw, you know, Haley Jane a sec, yesterday here in Nashville. And we were talking about like the Oceanside retreats and just being able.And I always like thought. ConvertKit was like at the forefront of a lot of things, but like really making the retreats meaningful and special. And, also doing them twice a year. The thought was, you know, still think is really cool. Obviously we're in an odd time for that right now. But to be able to like see the people and like work with them in person, those are all like some of my, some of my best memories from working at the company, like even outside of like the actual rocket ship of like growth that we all went on and just having those, having, I still, like one of the coolest things, like for me is still like having connections and strong relationships with people at the company.Even now that I haven't like worked there. Gosh, I guess a little over two years now, like to be on your podcast, to like, have Haley text me and say like, Hey, I'm in Nashville, let's meet up. Like those, like, it's, it sounds like kind of trite to say, but it's like, it's the people, it's the zoom calls. It's the stand-ups that were fun.And the other thing that like, all kind of ended on is something that I've always kind of taken away that I think is so fun is I remember like our Monday stand-ups or Monday meetings and just how out of control the zoom chat would get, like, it would completely derail meetings. you know, it probably still does, you know, you set a high, a high standard, but like, I've now been like, I've been at podium in it.Like I've been on like other, like companies, zoom calls and, or just like, you know, groups that I'm a part of and all like trying to get the chat start and people are like, what are you doing?Like you're ruining The meeting. I'm like,Nathan: [00:16:10]Yeah. The peopleMatt: [00:16:11]Nope. Yeah. I guess I am ruining the meeting. If you all, aren't going to play along and like, you know, talk trash inside of the chat.I guess I'm ruining the meeting, but those, I still like, obviously think about it and just can't help, but like laugh about it.Nathan: [00:16:28]There was a meeting.I'm trying to think who it was. We had Derek on the marketing team. I don't know if that's been three years or more ago, had brought in some like growth expert. It might've even been like Sean Ellis or someone who like really knows even just like pinnacle of growth marketing. And he's like talking to the group and I'm there and it's just like, it's, it's our crew, you know?And so I'm dropping like jokes and random things in the zoom chat.And of course he didn't see it in real time, you know? Cause he's like presenting and, he's like, just so confused because normal companies don't do that. So it's like, the most converted thing that no one on the outside would knowMatt: [00:17:16]Yeah.Nathan: [00:17:17]Troll our zoom chats constantly.And it's so fun.Matt: [00:17:20]Yeah, it was definitely Sean, because we had just signed up for the growth hacker software and we're using it to run our growth tests. And when you sign up for an annual plan, we had done like some little extra special thing and, or like, you can have an hour with Sean. We're like, yes.Like if you want, we're like, yes, we'll put it, you know, put it on our tab. We'll grab an hour with Sean. And I do remember that. He was like, oh, it looks like there's a question. Oh, there's not a question in the chat. What is going on? Do you, do you want to say something? We're all like, Nope, sorry, wait, nevermind. We'll do it anymore. I just, you know, of course couldn't help ourselves. Then he was like, oh, you're doing that in the chat again. Like, Okay.Yep.Right.Nathan: [00:17:59]Yeah. That's just, That's just, how we are. there was another time that I'm curious for your take on. So, cause we, like, if we fast forward a little bit, we were, you know, trying to keep up with the crazy growth. so w like go to January and we're like a hundred K MRR. I mean, at this point we've expanded the team quite a bit.Right. Nicole, Ashley,Matt: [00:18:25]Yeah. Darryl Blake, Danny.Nathan: [00:18:28]Danny and, and others were, were a bitMatt: [00:18:30]I get, yeah, thoseNathan: [00:18:31]But like Brad Knoll, you know, more on the engineering side, just across the board. So the team's gone from like, you know, four to 11, like really quickly, and just, we're trying to keep up, like, keep the servers on, keep the support ticket it's going and all of that.But we made this move to try to get profit. from, I think it was probably February until like that February til July, I think. And we went from 3% profit margins to 50% profit margins, all through growth. like, we didn't cut expenses.Be growing 15 to 25% a month, you know, but I'm curious what that was like from your side of what, you know, like, when I came in and said like Hey, we're gonna, we're going to do this and we're gonna try to pull it off.Is it like, oh, this is going to be a death March? Or is this like, oh, we're all in it together. like we'll see how it goes.Matt: [00:19:24]I think, that at that point, and I felt like me, especially, but at that point, like we were all like that kind of classic start-up line of like, we were all like young and dumb enough to think that we could pull it off. And because like I had had a front row seat of going from like 500 to 3000 users in a few months and like all that, all of that growth, cause especially like initially for me and part of this actually.A bigger interest in like understanding more of the financials behind like startups. And because like, when you first said that, I was like, okay, well, I don't really know how we're going to, how that all works, but that's not my job, you know, that's Ashley's job. And I trust her and, you know, Nathan will figure it out too.So, but cause I tended for a long time to think of our growth. It's funny, you know, you obviously keep mentioning the revenue growth. Like I would just think of it as like month over month user growth as well. Cause like I just saw them like in the chat forever. And so I remember like just that all of us had either op he said, we wouldn't, you went from four to 11 or 12 really quickly.And so all of us were like so fresh and Fired Up that we're like, great. I mean, look what just happened in the last three months. Of course, you know, we can do this in the next, in the next six. So. I remember being like, fired up about it because like, it was that kind of classic. I didn't know any better at theNathan: [00:20:55]Right. Yeah. If we were all, we were also, you know, I was looking back at like salaries from those days and like the 40, 50, $60,000 a year salary is that like, we can not like no one would take that today. but then it was just like, we're all doing this thing. And you know, it's pretty amazing to seesomeone who was like, started at Ken Birkin on to $40,000 a year salary, like five, five years ago is now making like one 20 plus a bunch of profit sharing or other things it's like, okay, there we go.Like the bet that they made did actually payMatt: [00:21:30]Yeah, absolutely.Nathan: [00:21:35]It was tough going for awhile.Matt: [00:21:36]Yeah, And it's been a really cool thing, like even, and this comes like from the transparency, like I've consulted with some other. Companies over the last six months and I've used ConvertKit as a, reference point so many times because of the transparency, I was like, well, I mean, you can go look at what, you know, they're like, what do you think the like, numbers are for somebody?This is like, I don't have to wonder you just go look at what, you know, ConvertKit's numbers.I can tell you that it's this, this, this, like, how do you know that it's like, just go to convert, get.parametric.com. So it's all right there. You can find your numbers. It's all right.And so, like, I, you know, remember thinking that like, again, like this is where, like my dormant, like love of again, statistics and financials and all of that.Can I came, came back to life for, for me. And it was just a, it was just amazing to see like that first. And it wasn't, it was more than just the first year also. Like it just kind of kept going and again, it's just a really, it's a really unique experience. Yeah. I'll obviously never forget.Nathan: [00:22:44]Yeah. Well, you mentioned retreats earlier, and I have a favorite moment at a retreat. I think it was, probably would have been our third retreat cause we were up in, up in McCall, outside of Boise.And it was you starting like making a first YouTube video with Charlie or did you do thatMatt: [00:23:03]That was an ocean side, actually. That was an ocean side.Nathan: [00:23:05]What was it that you were doing in McCall? When were you entirely just talking about YouTube?Matt: [00:23:10]Yeah, we were doing a collab at that point as the YouTubers say. Yeah, just talking about like productivity and planning. How she plans her day, how I plan mine. Cause she's, you know, Charlie, just as a quick aside, like just an amazing person, greater friend, like she helped me so much. They get my YouTube channel started. Like I, again, she's wonderful. But to like sit down the day that we're supposed to, this is an ocean side we're supposed to like leave and two hours, everybody's like trying to pack. I don't know how ready she was to leave. Maybe she was already, but she was like, Hey, you know, Matt let's do a video for your YouTube channel.I was like the one that I haven't started yet. And she's like, yes, we're doing a video. And it was just, you know, it was six, seven minutes. And for her to sit down, I think she was around like 70 K subscribers at that time to like, kind of, I was like, I had known Charlie for a while at that time. And we were pretty close, but I was like still nervous.And then like Mark's walking through the back of the frame. Picking stuff up gathering like, you know, paraphernalia it's I don't know if that's the right word to use. Just stuff was a terrible word, terrible word, choice thing. Trash we're good people we're picking up. Yeah. After ourselves. And so it was just like this really funny moment.And I try not to talk too much about YouTube cause I know we're going to get into it. But like that video still only has like maybe 500 views is people think that when your YouTube channel gets big, like all of your videos take off. And the majority of my first 50 videos are still like, well, under a thousand views. And it's it is this like kind of it's like compounding interest. It's like, you know, compounding, like, you know, user growth that it just kinda builds on top of itself. It creates this like self, you know, like when people come to your channel, even if it hasn't taken off yet and people see. Okay. This person is serious.He has 30 videos. It's not like he threw a couple up there, like people know that you're in it. And so I can tell you what I thought you were going to say.I think it was the second McCall retreat. And so we go up to this lodge and it's right by, you know, beautiful lake in, even in August, quite chilly and so swimming around.And, our coworker, Nicole has these like prescription sunglasses, fancy, expensive, nice. Just like Nicole. And they fell off in the lake, not super deep, but like, we swam around trying to find these things for like 20 minutes at the end of the day, we're like, okay, we got to go back.It's dinner time. It's getting. And so the next morning I'll say like, I like cold water, which is a whole nother like conversation, but I like cold water. I also like particularly cold mountain water in the morning, like so brisk, so nice. And so I was like, okay, well, am I do this anyway, I'm going to find those damn glasses. And so over there I swim around because my other theory was like, okay, we kicked up a lot of like gunk at the bottom.It's going to settle. No, one's out there yet. I'm going to find them.And INathan: [00:26:26]The other thing is you had this this time,Matt: [00:26:28]I did have goggles thisNathan: [00:26:29]Because I remember I was like first thing in the morning or, or maybe it was at night. I can't remember, but like,Matt: [00:26:37]In the morning.Definitely.Nathan: [00:26:38]Like all of this, stuff on the table randomly, can you come in And you're like, and see a pair of goggles sitting there. You're like did we have these Ulta?And was like, know,Matt: [00:26:47]We had goggles the whole time.Yeah.Nathan: [00:26:52]You find those. And then, I don't know, like minutes later, you're in the lake. Yeah.Matt: [00:26:56]Yeah.And so pull, pull those out and was a great, was a great moment. Like the, to return those.Nathan: [00:27:03]Nicole wakes up late hours later, you know? Cause you're up early swimming, like, and thenshe has her like hundreds of dollars prescription sunglasses back. That was actually the very first retreat That wasMatt: [00:27:14]For street.Yeah.Oh man. Good times.Nathan: [00:27:18]Like getting, I mean, we were 20 people at the time getting that group together for the first time was those are just special moments in a company.Matt: [00:27:27]Yeah. absolutely.Nathan: [00:27:29]Okay. So would it be the next retreat then? That was Oceanside. When you did the YouTube video with Charlie or was it a year? Four year.Matt: [00:27:36]Yeah. That would have been the next, that would have been the Oceanside retreat. That would have been probably the first ocean side retreat, because it was February, 2017 that I started my YouTube channel and DV a little background. Like I had done blogging for a little while. I had like tried some service work, like I already mentioned. I had done 30 interviews on a podcast back in like 2014 when we first moved to Nashville. And that was actually one of the ways that I met Ryan Delk because Brenda elk was on the podcast.Crazy looking back the, the two, the other person that I got on the show, I don't even know how, even then was James clear, a mutual friend, James clear was on the show and now he's like James clear in 2014. No big deal is like, he was still talking about passive Panda. That's right. Matt Ragland interview that now even Matt can't find anywhere. And so you're welcome James, if you're listening to this.And so I'd done a bunch of different things online, and I would say that while I did build my creative chops and confidence through all those things, I hadn't really stuck with one thing long enough to see. Like again, that compounding growth that comes from just being consistent and showing up. and again, mutual friend, Sean McCabe talks about showing up every day for two years. And, so what I did is I decided in February I was going to post a video every day. I was gonna do 28 videos and in February, so a little, little fun, cheating them,Nathan: [00:29:13]I liked thatMatt: [00:29:15]Yeah, that's right. That's right.Nathan: [00:29:19]10% easier.Matt: [00:29:20]That's right. And so I did that and I just, I got more used to it and I didn't take off, like, I've talked with Darryl, we've mentioned derelict at times, like Darryl and I have talked about this, but like the channel did not take off. And I ended up making after Daily is, is quite the grind.I just, you know, I couldn't keep that up, but I was doing still weekly videos through the rest of the year. Yeah. Then, it was the other thing that is just wonderful about creating a body of work is that then you have a, you know, a much clearer data set to look at, to understand the, these are the topics.These are the type of videos that took off more for me, you know, if you just make a handful of videos and you see one is a little bit better than another, that's not a good enough sample size, but at the end of the year in December, I'm looking back and I've created like 50, 60 videos at this point. And I pinpoint like, what is the most popular, like as I'm going into new year?What, how can I kind of maybe narrow down my niche a little bit more and be more focused? And I saw that my most popular video of the year is one that I had released in August where I talked about how I planned my week with the bullet journal. And I'd been using the bullet journal method for a couple of years at this point.And. So I was like, well, you know, new year's coming up, I'm going to like create this video. Here's how I'm playing my year and a bullet journal. And at the time, like, I felt good about it actually like, Levi Allen, who's great. You know, YouTube and creator, graphing commerce speaker, Casey Neistat friend.He helped me with the thumbnail. I like sent him a bunch of, and so we really dialed in the thumbnail and that video is like, I think it was at like 600 ish subscribers at the time. And I hadn't had a single video go over a thousand views as like, I hope this video is the one that goes over a thousand views and it would also be cool if eventually it helped me get to a thousand subscribers because you got to remember, I've been doing this 11 months and had 600 subscribers.So I'm like, you know, maybe in like another six months I can get there and I released the video and it started to take off. Like, especially for me, but then I was really like, oh, this is like taking off for like any kind of YouTube video.It has a thousand views in the first day.And then you're definitely within the first two days. And then I had a thousand subscribers by the end of the first week, I was like, oh, okay. Interesting. But again, I was able to see that like big picture data to like pinpoint that particular type of video too. And again, it was a good time time of the year, literally to be talking about productivity and planning.I've seen that like over and over again in the year, since, as I've narrowed down on this niche. and then the way that I create and I tell creators this all the time now, is that when you see something that hits like find the, like, especially if it's like a bigger video, like I had, this was like 20 minutes.It kind of like didn't fit the normal, like YouTube things. But I talked about a lot of different elements. Of productivity in that video. And so my next four videos were basically like taking these different, like components that I had crammed into a big overview video and said, like, here's how I blocked my time.Here's how I manage my tasks. Here's how I like plan out my week. So we take like something that's big on the macro side of saying like, here's how I plan a year. You start to plan a quarter here, the months they go into that. And then like the weeks they go into the months. So I spent like my next six videos, just basically breaking down the individual aspects of that first video.And then it was just like off to the races at that point.Nathan: [00:33:07]Yeah, that's fascinating to me. What have you found about LinkedIn videos Cause I'd be like, oh, it needs to be a shorter video. AndMatt: [00:33:14]Right?Nathan: [00:33:15]The truth of the matter is yeah, just get into an online.Matt: [00:33:19]For me, I have found that my, with one exception. My longer videos traditionally have performed better because there is this interesting, like there is this interesting dichotomy of like statistics on YouTube is that they want a high retention time. But if you can kind of like overrule that with a long view time, then it like still works the same way.So like a video that I create that's 20 minutes. If someone was like, you want to be over 50% video, like time retention. But if you're talking about it's a 20 minute video and someone watches for nine minutes, well, like I've seen and you do has been changing a lot, I think. But I've seen that if you keep someone on YouTube for nine minutes, they'd almost kind of rather you have.A lower like overall retention, if you can keep them on there longer than normal. So like for example, you know, the difference would be like, if I have a five minute video with 60% of it, you know, 60% view retention, but then that's only like three minutes watched versus 40% view retention, but it's eight or nine minutes watched.Like those, those have tended to perform better for me. However, I have been working on lately, like more this year, trying to be more concise with my video and with my takeaway and my talking points. And so I've been trying to be like under 10 minutes for most videos at this point, that's where I've kind of found a sweet spot and even experimenting with some sub five minute videos that is just like, literally.Here is one tip. I'm not stacking like additional concepts on top of each other. It's kind of the equivalent of like, just doing like that 500 words a day, like maybe a thousand words a day. You're just trying to get that. Like, you're trying to get that five minute, like blitz out without like trying to expend a bunch of time, like trying to like get the perfect 12 minute video or 3000 word blog post.Nathan: [00:35:36]Yeah, that makes sense. So in that journey from breaking the thousand subscribers to now, you're about to break 60,000 subscribers. what are some of the things like if you were, if I was like, and you know, Matt, I'm going to start a YouTube channel today, or I have one that has like you know, maybe I've shown that I can like show up consistently andMatt: [00:35:55]Right.Nathan: [00:35:56]That, that ability. but what are the things like the, the tips and lessons that you've learned along the way.Matt: [00:36:02]The biggest ones are to just continue being consistent. I think I could have like actually been, have grown even faster than I did if I had been even a little bit more consistent. Like I think two videos a week is really great, even though, you know, full disclosure and you can go look at my YouTube channel.I have struggled to do like two videos a week consistently, but that is also because like, I have a bunch of other creative interests that all fuel each other. And we'll talk about those, but if you're just talking about like growth on YouTube, then it really is the consistency that will help you win the day and grow your channel.The other thing is that as much as we want to as creators, let the work stand for itself and like be a great overall piece of content.On, you know, on YouTube, the title and the thumbnail are equivalent, like to your, like, for those of us that like kind of grew up blogging a little bit more like the headline, or like with email newsletter in the subject line, like that is the YouTube equivalent and it is so, so, so important.And so, you know, YouTube gets kind of a bad rap sometimes for like the clickbaiting this, and that's definitely a thing, but it's, again, people have said that about subject lines and blog headlines for years, but that is really, really important. And if you don't grab someone's interest in like these three phases of the title, the thumbnail, and then like, literally what is your opening line?Because YouTube will show that those are the biggest things. And I think that like the amount of time that you should spend on that kind of changes based on what phase of YouTube and just content creation in general.Because if you're talking about like, okay, I want to go from five to 10 or 10 to 20, I would still probably argue that you should like focus on.And depending on, you know, what your time is, like, you should focus more on the consistent output than like really worrying about trying to over-optimize every little piece. And there are good ways about that in there, like tough ways about this. But I would basically say like, I would rather use, I would rather see you put out four video, like a weekly video than just one monthly video that you feel like, oh, this is, this is the one, this is, this is it.I spent so much time on editing and the sound is perfect and all the transitions are smooth and all, you know, the, the thumbnail just looks so good and I got the title dial.Because you can believe all that, but like the market ultimately decides like the viewer ultimately decides how much they really care about that as well.And the other thing that is kind of tough, like I think mentally for creators is, and I've, I've done this a ton of times is when you feel like, oh, I, I made this as perfect as I can. I feel so good about this. And then it just bombs. And you're like, what the hell? Now? I feel less confident. I'm less excited about the next one.Cause if I put so much effort into this video and it didn't work or this newsletter, this course, and it didn't work out, what, like, what does that mean? And you get into all these like existential creator questions bouncing around in your head.Nathan: [00:39:18]I, yes, there's a lot of that.So it sounds like you're saying optimize for like number of shots on goal, rather than like the highest probability shot and optimize it, like yeah.Quantity over Quantity and continue optimization over likeMatt: [00:39:35]Right,Nathan: [00:39:36]The clinical of the perfect videoMatt: [00:39:38]Right.Nathan: [00:39:38]Putting. All of it. IMatt: [00:39:40]Yeah,Nathan: [00:39:40]Analogies never throw an eggs in that basket?IMatt: [00:39:42]That's right. yeah. Yeah. But I think it's a good one. And I would really continue to like play out through, I'm just getting into a point personally, where I want to spend more time editing, like doing All those more optimization things, but it's not even so much from an audience growth perspective is I just want to get better.Like I see other YouTubers, other creators that I like, I admire their work so much. And I really am wondering how close can I get to that? But I'm making a choice. I'm making a personal choice to focus more on like the quality and the craft. And I do have like, I've built myself to a good benchmark to work on that.But like for so long, literally for four years is like, I'm going to record my planner. I'm going to record, you know, like notion I'm gonna. I'm basically going to do some type of screencast, whether it's analog or digital, and then I'm going to do a talking head, like, you know, in and out of everything and that's all I'm going to do.And that was really good for me because it was allowing me to be consistent. I didn't over edit anything. I took a lot of inspiration from Powell. like Tim Ferris would describe his early days with the podcast and even still like, he does it pretty raw. He doesn't over edit. And like I was like, yeah, okay.You know, Tim is Tim, but if he's willing to do that, I can certainly be willing to let go of some of the, you know, the editing, like finer details that especially early on, don't matter as much as like just actually making the thing.Nathan: [00:41:18]Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. So maybe let's go back to your arc of the story, right? So when you pass the thousand subscribers, that was 11 months into the channel, is that that's right?Matt: [00:41:29]Correct?Nathan: [00:41:30]And so that would have been a year and a half into working at ConvertKitMatt: [00:41:34]Yeah. About that actually. Yeah.Nathan: [00:41:36]20 15, 20 16, 20 17, they allMatt: [00:41:38]Yeah. It's just a blur. Yeah.Nathan: [00:41:40]And so then, like where did the channel go from there? You really doubled down on Bullet journalMatt: [00:41:47]Bullet journaling productivity. And that's really like, pretty much all I did. I tried to do a like more bloggy blog kind ofNathan: [00:41:57]Yeah.Matt: [00:41:58]After one of the, after one of the retreats, But I actually ended up, it was from, it was from that ocean side. It was from the 2018Oceanside country. Yeah,Nathan: [00:42:09]Confusing me. We'd go to differentMatt: [00:42:10]Yeah,Nathan: [00:42:11]That would, be easier. But what she told me back call, it was just like you know,Matt: [00:42:13]Yeah.Nathan: [00:42:14]Is amazing, but also really difficult for our like, mentalMatt: [00:42:18]That's right. And so I did like, Hey, you know, I traveled, I did like a travel blog thing and at the time I was doing videos, like my videos would, were pretty commonly like hitting about 5k, you know, on average, if not more. And so it was like, cool, let's see how this, and then that travel one, just like, didn't get picked up by the algorithm. People who had joined my channel, where like I joined for productivity and bullet journaling, not like to see you go to the beach. And that was kind of like, okay, well, you know, and it's an interesting thing as a creator to think about like, well, I like to make this and people are like, so how does it help me?And, you know, there's an element of that, that I, I still like very much feel like a creative tension around, but at that time it was like, okay, well, I don't need to worry about my creative output on this particular thing at a time because the other, the other thing that, I'm only now like getting a little bit more used to controlling my time as like being a full-time creator, because at the time it was like, okay, well, if I only am committing like five to 10 hours a week to this as a side hustle, and as like a thing I'm doing, obviously on the side, am I going to use those five to 10 hours to create a video that not many people are going to watch or what I know at this point, people are interested in and it just became a matter of like prioritization as well.Nathan: [00:43:39]Right. So how did that feel? Like was, were you disappointed when the, the blog, you know, this is my wife kind of content didn't resonate with your audience.Matt: [00:43:49]Yeah a little bit, because there was this element. And I actually like in, I was talking to a client about this yesterday because he was asking me some of these same questions and I wish that I had protected one video a month, or even at the least like one video every couple of months to just be like, this is me, like just doing something that I'm interested in.Like, this is a story that I want to tell. This is like a part of me that I want to show to kind of prime the audience to like, just get to know me in that slightly different way, and just being okay with those videos, not doing as well, because I think I would have like worked in more of like a lot of my personality comes through even in just like the regular videos, but just more of my life, more of my interests, more of the things that I was thinking about. As I've now started to pivot, like in lean into that a little more than I'm going through that again, of like, oh, this isn't what really what I thought I was. And now I'm just more, more confident or just more secure most of the time and being like, yeah, well, I think I've said pretty much everything that I can say about how to make lists in your bullet journal.I have like literally a hundred videos. I don't know what else I can say. And I'll still say some things, but it's definitely flipping more for me of like, instead of doing like an occasional non bullet journal video, like every month or two, it's gonna like switch back, it's gonna flip the other way. And bullet journal will be like one, one, maybe two videos, every one to two months.Nathan: [00:45:27]Are you worried about, or like, have you seen trends of what that's going to do to have you countedMatt: [00:45:31]Oh, I'm terrified. terrified. and well, part of the other like tipping point, and this is like bringing it's like more, where I am on the arc right now and I've talked to some other YouTubers about this, you know, results, results may vary, of course, but after January ended and the productivity, you know, the productivity season of December, January was over.I still stayed on like productivity bullet journal videos, but they just started to fall off a cliff in terms of, in terms of views and the like subscribers were down also, like I had a 30 day straight, I had not a 30 day stretch, a 90 day stretch. So an entire quarter that used to be like that entire quarter used to be like, basically an okay.In terms of like month over month, like new subscriber growth, new views. I still have, again, like a whole like library of content, especially the bigger videos that generate like plenty of views every month. And in terms of new videos, new views, like new subscriber growth was just like steadily going down and I'm looking at and thinking like, I just started doing this full-time this is not what I signed up for.I'm doing the thing, which is like this whole other like, weird, like transition of a mindset between like, when you're more of an employee, I was talking to Jeff Goins about this, but when you're more, when you are an employee, even at a startup, and I know I can like say this in retrospect now you're still just kind of looking to either your manager or your founder be like, what would you like me to do that you believe will bring the most growth and like good startup operators, you know?And I felt like I started to do this more towards the end and we'll be more proactive and be like, this is the thing, you know, that's what a manager and director. Yeah. But there's still like this element of like, yeah, I'm the employee. And like, this is what I need to do. And if I continue to do my job in the way that it is expected, I will get my money.I will get my career advancement. I will do my thing. I will check the boxes and being an entrepreneur and especially being a full-time creator, none of that, none of that matters anymore because there've been multiple instances even in these first six months. And like what in the world? I like, I haven't really seen these videos.I'm doing it once a week. Like check, check, check, check, check. It didn't work. I created this course. It went good so I can make it great. I spend a lot of time on it. Didn't do the launch that I wanted to, and you're like, I'm doing things. I'm checking the boxes. Why is this work? What the heck? What am I supposed to do now?And it's this whole like new mindset that I'm kind of coming into. Like when you are an entrepreneur, you create opportunity and you, like, you have to like, have this, like to bring a Ted lasso reference in like the mind of a goldfish of like, oh, that didn't work. And I think about this in like, I've started doing jiu-jitsu in the last year as well.It's like, okay, well that didn't move. Didn't work. Oh, no, I'm on my back. Now all these say this is going terribly, but like, you have to like, forget these failures really quickly and just learn as much as you can. So that, and like have a really thick skin or just like a really forgetful mind to like, okay, well, even though I felt like I did all the right things, this didn't work because, to put a, put a bow on like this particular like loop last week, I don't know if you saw this, like I put a tweet up and said, Hey, if you haven't set up a course before you have an idea, I can help you do this.It's a thousand dollars. But if you don't make a thousand dollars, I'll just give you your money back and you'll have your cool. And I just, like, I literally thought of that in the shower and then I tweeted it and now I've signed up like seven clients in a week.Like, okay, if that's going to be the thing, because it's like this other thing, I worked really hard on this course and, you know, I spent like a month on it and I did, I'm like, but I, you know, God the shower and send a tweet and made like eight grand.And it'll probably be 10 grand by the end of next week, by the end of the month. And so like, okay, well, that's, you know, just kind of how being an entrepreneur and being a creator is, and then the next stage of it is, you know, what we were talking about, like early on, just swinging at Berkeley, like, okay, you've had the central growth, how do you systematize it?How do you like scale it? And how do you get it to like, be a thing that you can really rely on instead of just like, hoping that you send like a good tweet or the right email or make the right connection. Like it's creating that opportunity for yourself and then harnessing.Nathan: [00:50:04]Yeah. For sure. What you touched on it is interesting to me is the being responsible for inputs versus outputs at a lot of jobs. you're responsible for the inputs. Like you're talking about check the boxes.Matt: [00:50:16]Right,Nathan: [00:50:17]And we like to think that the inputs always result in the output. and often that's not true. And so as a creator, you're responsible for both sides of it. And, you know, you can't be like oh, the AI didn't get the outputs that I wanted. You know, what that's okay. Because you're like, Hey, one of the outputs is money for rent, you know? And, and so there's a lot more, a lot more pressure there.Matt: [00:50:43]Yeah. And it's interesting is that even in some of these like rough months, and so I haven't told this story like publicly, because it's still so fresh, but you know, like when I have like my, Stripe and Stripe payouts come weekly, it's a nice little nice little thing. Like, okay, we're doing pretty good.I was just about to go on this week long backpacking trip, and do like a mentoring backpacking trip, with some high school kids. And I was already like, feeling stressed about as like, I haven't had a good month. What the, Hey, you know, I shouldn't be doing this. I can't just go in the woods for eight days and like not work on the business is not at that point.I've made a huge mistake and I'm like, well, I'm still going to do it. I'm not going to leave these people high and dry. But as I'm like going to the woods, I like miss, you know, stupidly open my email and the Stripe payout thing. As soon as like your payout of $30 is on its way. I'm like, oh no, but because you are, you have that, that feeling of like, yeah, it's like, you know, the only thing that's coming in is what you create and what you build in what you, what you promote.It's like this idea. That I've been talking about a lot and heard a lot of people reference as well. It's like, you know, being this full stack creator, like it's not just that you make thing, but you market the thing, you build a team around the thing. And I have seen like more and more creators, like building more teams around like things that like, they either don't like doing or not as good at.And so that's a whole and that's, but that's a whole other piece of like building out your like personal stack of skills and responsibilities.Nathan: [00:52:14]Yeah. I was talking about the front end of the day and just explaining like all the business things and realizing, oh, running a business, being a creator is a uniquely assembled collection of a ton of individual skills, because we were like, God for this competition. And I realized like, oh, you don't have the, you know, knock on this. It's just a skill that you need to learn. But the like spreadsheets, forecasting skill, like the, I wonder how this is going to work. And so I opened up Google sheets and I like model it out and it's probably ridiculous. But it's better than holding it in my head. And then like you write down your assumptions and then you compare, you know, reality to those assumptions.And that's just one of like a thousand skills that you have to learn. and then like years after you've learned it, you're like forgetting that that's actually a distinct skill that had toMatt: [00:53:07]Right?Nathan: [00:53:07]Know, like yeah. I mean, everybody knows how to do that and do that a thousand times over and like, that's the creator experience,Matt: [00:53:13]Yeah. And it goes to this, like, people get really overwhelmed by that and something that I've been hammering the last, like several months, especially in fourth graders, is this, like, I think of it like the new 10 X rule of like output and effort of like, if you're not sure if you want to do something, like try it 10 times.And like really, you know, really give it a good try, but like write 10 newsletters, you know, get 10 subscribers, make 10 videos on YouTube, record 10 podcasts, just to see, like, you don't have to make this light. We tend to think of things as like making this lifetime commitment to a ship to a pod or whatever, but like do 10 and see how you feel about it like that.Even though I said I was going to do and did like 28 videos, it was kind of like just a slightly more expanded version of like, how do I feel after 28 YouTube videos, I enjoy it. And I'm getting used to it. I'm going to keep doing it. But I had like that really specific, like benchmark of this is the, this is the number that I'm going to get to.And then I'm going to see. And I found that like going from 10 to a hundred is definitely a slog and there are lots of mini milestones, but once you do, and this kind of goes even outside of creative output, but like once you do something a hundred times, you're going to like build momentum on it. And you're also going to like, build your own confidence and yeah.Not on ironic. And I've seen this across a few different creators. I think maybe Ali doll has like a similar experience, but for me, when I made my hundreds, it was right around my hundredth video on YouTube that I hit 10,000 subscribers and it's right around like the hundredth, like email newsletter when I started to like, see that, I just felt really comfortable writing those emails.Like, you know, the growth, the growth was good, but just like my personal confidence in it was like so high. That was like, yeah. I mean, it's time to read the newsletter. I'm going to read the newsletter. It's not like this weeping and gnashing of teeth, about like, will this work or not. And then you said like, you do it a thousand times because we look at some of our most prolific creators like MKBHD, you know, Casey Neistat, Roberto Blake, like from the YouTube space, all of those guys, like Amy Landino, all of those people have like over a thousand videos published on YouTube and.Oh, yeah. And like, yes, they have great audiences and huge numbers, but like, just look at the output, like their masters, because they have published a thousand videos. And when you think of it in that way, it's like, there's so many different things that you can do in terms of mastering and optimization.And like, there are like, you know, I guess you could say there are growth hacks that you could use, but like, look at anyone that you admire and just look at the sheer volume of their work.Nathan: [00:55:50]Yeah, it's, it's substantial. I want to talk about how that volume of work turns into, an income.And so could you break down, I guess yeah. How you earn an income now, where it comes from? I think people would expect that like a lot of it comes from YouTube ads. yeah. What are the different, like in your creative stack?What are the things that drive revenue?Matt: [00:56:15]Yeah. The two biggest things that drive revenue for me, that for, especially coming from a YouTube space for a main audience, the two biggest things, it's still driving revenue?For me are courses and then consulting or coaching that comes alongside or with those courses. And so I don't even do like a huge, like, you know, tiered course like program in terms of like, yeah, it's $400 for the course, or you can do like $800 to have like some coaching with me.A lot of the coaching comes naturally from people who have gone through the course. And then usually I'll do like a, an email once the course is over, say, Hey, if you want me and I'll drop hints, like throughout some of the, throughout some of the content, but it's like, Hey, if you want to work on this directly with me here, some of my like rates and different ways that we can work together.But I would say probably 60, 70% at least comes through courses and coaching. That can shift. because I, you know, I do, admittedly not have the best evergreen, course sales funnel that I could have. It's been a big, like focus for me because, and just take a quick aside, one of the reasons I decided to do full-time creators, cause there were so many things that I wanted to optimize and that I wanted to do that I was never going to be able to get around to on like 10 ish hours a week, never going to be able to do it and stay like even remotely consistent with actually it would have been like, Hey, I'm not gonna make any videos or send any emails for three months so that I can create the system.And then it's like, I'm back and it's up. But so from the revenue perspective, the like the percentages between my courses versus coaching kind of shit. But it's, I would say like pretty even between those, between those two. and then there are all these like smaller things. Like there are, there are affiliates, I would say YouTube revenue on average is a little higher than affiliate revenue.But I also like,Nathan: [00:58:22]Yeah.How much would you be earning? so, someone like I have 60,000 subscribers, what should I expect to be making a month off of YouTube revenue.Matt: [00:58:32]I can say that the most I have ever made in one month of YouTube is 800 and around $850.That's my best month ever. And, like I mentioned, declining views over the last few months, I will bring it. It's like 250 this month, which is like, great. You're like covering software expenses at that point. Which, you know, I do think is like a nice benchmark for people to kind of shoot for is I can, can I cover my costs, but so it's, it's pretty low. Like I've never made more than $10,000 in a year on YouTube ads and same thing, kind of same thing for affiliates. But because of the jobs that I've worked in, like, I haven't done a whole lot of like software affiliate, promo, and that's like, I've done like other like smaller affiliates, mostly like for books and like smaller things like Amazon affiliate kind of stuff.And those are all like 10% is good for that. But you like for software, like that's really bad, likeNathan: [00:59:42]Yeah.Matt: [00:59:44]10%. I'm not promoting your thing for 10%. You're talking about, but like for hard goods, that's more, that's a lot more common. And so like, affiliate revenue, especially from a software side is something that I'm focusing more.But even still like between affiliates and, YouTube ads, that's definitely, definitely less than 20 K and probably more around like 12 to 15 K. And so that's one thing. And then I do some brand deals and sponsorships, but, admittedly not going super hard after those right now, because again, it's something that it takes up a lot.Like it takes up a lot of time to like, do a good brand partnership and that there are lots of good reasons behind that, but I'm having to do all of that and it slows down my creative process so much. And it's such like, like emotionally, it's not something that I like getting into. Cause it's like this back and forth and it's like, well, you know, I'd be like, well, you know, we kind of scoped out this kind of budget.Like, well, it'd be nice to have known that before we got into this conversation. And of course, and I have. Never made more than 10,000, maybe around 10,000 a year on any kind of brand sponsorship deals. So between those three things, it's anywhere from 20 to 30 K and a year, depending on how, like how well everything went and the coaching consulting courses, like the, those three CS, thoseNathan: [01:01:20]Yep.Matt: [01:01:20]That bring in like 60 to 70% of the revenue.And that's what I spend my time on.Nathan: [01:01:26]Yeah, that makes sense. So I want to go back to a conversation that you and I had, I guess if we catch people up on the arch, because we don't have a ton of time left, but, There's something that happens in startups where first year, like try to figure out what you're doing. You know, all trying to figure it out at the same time.And the next round of startups is like, can we just hire the people who have already figured that out and had done it before?And so through a transition like that, right? Podia comes in like, Matt, you've done this whole thing before we're trying to do it can like, instead of all of us figuring it out, can we just bring you in And so you, you made the jump over to Podio yet. the thing that I want to talk about is a couple of years after that middle of the pandemic And, a conversation that you and I had as you're thinking about making this leap to a full-time creator, because I think so many people are like, okay, I did the side hustle thing.This is taking off. And now I'm trying to decide when is it time to quit the day job and go all in.Matt: [01:02:25]Right.Nathan: [01:02:26]Maybe take us through that. And, and some of your thoughts on it.Matt: [01:02:29]Yeah. It was something that I had been thinking about for a while. And certainly I've talked, I've talked about this on a couple of YouTube videos, but it had been in the back of my head for years. I mean, even.Pre ConvertKit that what would it be like to do this, to do this full-time? and so I had started to, again, to bring up Jeff Goins again, like he used kind of coaching me, mentoring me through some of this process.And he was like, you just need to get better and more consistent at launching products. You're going to launch a product or some kind of service or something. You're going to launch something for sale every month in 2020. And that was, and lo and behold, when you tell people like, you know, I'm not saying it's gonna like go awesome every month.Again, like we've talked about some of the ups and downs, but it's amazing what will happen to your sales when you just offer more things for sale.And so I had been doing that more and more, and it was taking, it was taking off. And what I had really wanted to do just from a mindset perspective is I had a lot of like, like kind of emotional, like money mindset, baggage that I was going to waiting through, at the, at the time.And. I was like, I need to be matching what my Podia salary is. Not just for one month, but like month over month, I needed to do that for three months. And then I had done that for three months. I was like, oh, well, this is nice. Like, should I do this now? And, you know, we got on, we got on a call and I was talki

So I'm scrolling through Twitter…. And I come across this atomic essay from Matt Ragland. This is what it reads…. 10 Lessons For Aspiring Creators… (https://twitter.com/mattragland/status/1399073914039459841?s=20) The intro reads… “I started creating content with my first blog in 2011. In the 10 years since, I've hosted two podcasts, built a YouTube channel, worked at creator-centric start-ups (ConvertKit then podia, and made the jump to full-time creator.” In my 10 year overnight success, I learned a lot of lessons. Here are the best for aspiring creators. I read the rest of the essay… and it's gold. I resonated with a lot of the points and said... I gotta' share this with my buddy. Which I normally do when I see fire content. But then I thought, it'd actually be fun to call him and record ourselves breaking down these ten lessons and share our hot takes. And this buddy, is a fellow creator. Here's worked with me on various projects through the years. He's created for multiple multi platinum artists, billion dollar brands, and he's built successful media platforms. Now, he's not really an in front of the camera kind of guy. He's more of a behind the scenes builder. As opposed to me, who puts myself out there, my name on everything, yells at the camera, he's in the cut, just cooking. But that's his style of being a creator. Neither is better than the other. You have to find what works for you and your personality. I thought it'd be awesome to share his perspective. Again, here's the original tweet if you want to follow along: https://twitter.com/mattragland/status/1399073914039459841?s=20

This week, YouTuber Matt Ragland joins us to discuss analog productivity, working remotely as a parent, and journaling. This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded in 2020 for Remotely Working. Shownotes GET the FREE Remote Work 101 Guide (https://effectiveremotework/remote101) Matt's YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/themattragland) Podia (http://podia.com) Bullet Journal (http://bulletjournal.com) Full Focus Planner (http://fullfocusplanner.com) Self Journal (https://bestself.co/) Matt's Video Working from Home with Kids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsp4ZyxXdYE) Remote (https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Required-David-Heinemeier-Hansson-ebook/dp/B00CZ7OC46) Rework (https://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried-ebook/dp/B002MUAJ2A/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rework&qid=1591906259&s=digital-text&sr=1-1) It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work (https://www.amazon.com/Doesnt-Have-Be-Crazy-Work-ebook/dp/B079WV79TK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3913VXPSU77GD&dchild=1&keywords=it+doesn%27t+have+to+be+crazy+at+work&qid=1591906277&s=digital-text&sprefix=it+doesn%27t+have%2Cdigital-text%2C167&sr=1-1) Make Time (https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every-ebook/dp/B078QSCM3V/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=make+time&qid=1590601158&s=books&sr=1-1) When (https://www.amazon.com/When-Scientific-Secrets-Perfect-Timing-ebook/dp/B072Q985YX/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=when+daniel+pink&qid=1591906316&s=digital-text&sr=1-2) Getting Results the Agile Way (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Results-Agile-Way-Personal-ebook/dp/B005X0MFD2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=getting+results+the+agile+way&qid=1591906329&s=digital-text&sr=1-2)

This week's guest is YouTuber, podcaster and bullet journal aficionado, Matt Ragland. Join us as we talk about how Matt initially found his niche, went on to build & grow his email list and launch his courses successfully. Matt also gave a lot of great advice on how and why to monetise, the need for different revenue streams and how you could go full time. Huge thanks to Matt for joining me on the podcast and for dropping so much knowledge in such a short amount of time!

Do you constantly find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? With multiple clients, deadlines and projects looming, life as a freelance motion designer can be stressful and overwhelming. But what if you could find a way to structure your days so that stress became a thing of the past instead of a regular occurrence? It might sound too good to be true, but this week's guest will teach you how. About Matt Ragland Matt had tried blogging and podcasting before he settled on YouTube as a final creative project. What he realised through his prior experiments with blogging and podcasting is that the reason he hadn't hit the goals he set himself was because he hadn't been consistent enough. YouTube was really his last attempt at growing an audience on a platform. He started out by posting one video a day for the entire month of February, then one new video a week for the rest of the year. Matt says that consistency truly is key when it comes to creating any form of content. You also have to let go of your perfectionism - just focus on creating something and sharing it consistently. It doesn't need to be perfect. Read the full shownotes here.

Matt Ragland is a productivity teacher, like myself. He has worked for ConvertKit, an email service provider I use and love and for Podia, an online course platform, which I used to launch my business. These days, he helps people—and particularly makers and creators—be more productive. He does that with courses, videos on YouTube, and on his own podcast, Connect the Dots. Matt is really big on bullet journaling, which is quite a different experience from using digital task managers, so I was keen to chat with him about that topic.Matt and I discuss: How he combines bullet journaling with digital task management How to protect your time to do high-leverage work Measuring productivity by how present you are And much more. Enjoy the show!Find Matt: Matt's Three Keys to Productivity Matt on YouTube MattRagland.com Also mentioned: Paul Graham's article Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule Gary Keller's book The One Thing The fancy Leuchtturm Bullet Journal Michael Hyatt's Full Focus Planner

If you're a side-hustling creator, you've probably fantasized about taking the plunge and quitting your 9-5. But despite our fantasies, it's always difficult to leave something good for something unknown. So what actually goes into pursuing a passion full-time? And is working for yourself really all it's cracked up to be? In this episode, Charli, Haley, and Miguel chat with a creator who's plunged into the unknown and lived to tell the tale — Matt Ragland. Matt's here to discuss the rarely talked about practical aspects of financing a freelance career. He also shares his reasoning for risking it all and how to keep pressure from stifling creativity.“I do encourage creators who are really early on in the process, that if you want to do this, then the most important thing that you can do is just start making things. And it doesn't have to be about a specific topic, it doesn't have to be about a specific niche. Often that will cause you to get stuck. ” ~ @mattraglandMain takeaways Before going full-time as a creator, start setting and achieving monthly revenue goals.  Make sure you've saved up enough money to protect yourself if things go awry. When you put in consistent work, you're bound to achieve something great, even if it's just the confidence of gaining a new skill set.  Part of being a successful creator is continuing to push yourself forward, even when it feels like you're not making any progress.  Find the convergence between what interests you, what interests other people, and what makes money. If you're waiting to start creating...stop waiting and just start!  Connect with our hosts Charli Prangley Miguel Pou Haley Janicek Matt Ragland Links Watch The Future Belongs to Creators on YouTube Matt Ragland on YouTube Join Matt's Email List! I Quit My Job For YouTube Ali Abdaal Craft & Commerce Conference Marques Brownlee Episode 101 - Choosing The Right Medium For Creating with Ben Schoeffler Got a story to tell on The Future Belongs to Creators podcast?We'd love to have you on the show to talk about successes or failures you've experienced on your creator journey. Submit your story here!Start building your audience for freeWith ConvertKit landing pages, you can build a beautiful page for your project in just a few minutes. Choose colors, add photos, build a custom opt-in form, and add your copy. All without writing any code! Check out landingpages.new to get started.Stay in touch Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter Facebook Instagram

Clarity and ConsistentIf you're not consistent and you haven't had a whole lot of experience with long-term planning, then it's really difficult to do because there's a good chance. You also struggle with short-term planning. And I don't really mean struggle with a daily plan. But say even in that mid-range of what am I going to, what are my goals in the next three to six months? And so I can give you some ideas and methods and structures for just getting into that, like short to mid-range planning so that you can build some confidence, build some momentum and really have something attainable and close by, but also is enough time for you to get some cool things done.Clarity makes it measurable. And then when it's measurable, it's achievable. a pretty good place is if you have 70 to 80% clarity on what the next steps are or could be, I think that's a really good place to start because a lot of people I've found that I've coached or have had on, just on my email list or will comment on my YouTube videos is they'll actually get stuck in the 80 to 100% of clarity that they're trying to achieve And that's just another way we can get stuck in our perfectionism, get stuck in thinking like I have to have all the boxes checked. I have to have everything figured out. And even if you could get to that and maybe you can get closer. What I've actually found is. You've been getting to what you might feel as a hundred percent clarity on something is not always as positive as you might think. Because then if something doesn't go to plan. So getting to even like that, 70, 80% of clarity is still a really good place to start, because what I have found is, and we'll break this down to, into a daily system in just a minute. But what I have found is once you get started and create that consistency and momentum towards your goals, It will either clarify that last 20% for you, or just have them the mental flexibility to understand that maybe everything you wrote down in your initial brainstorm isn't actually going to work out. And the momentum that you build early on will create additional clarity, not just for what your final goal can be, but like some of the steps that you need to actually take to get there. And I think that's really important and something that's often overlooked.The 3 Big RocksThe three big rocks, those three big projects that you can usually focus on it at any given time. And so I look at, what do I want to do? What are the projects and goals that I have for the year ahead. And then I assign them based on the quarter that I want to get things done and how the year might flow out. most of the goals that we come up with are completely made up. Like literally they have no basis in any reality besides the one that you create. And so if that is the case, Why not create a goal and a reality that does balance the tension between challenging you and something that you feel good about because you can just feel good about making videos. You can feel good about going for a run and making that a year legal or something that you do weekly on an annual basis.When you're consistent with something you control, it actually creates the strategies and tactics on something measurable. If you're going to follow the Lean Six Sigma model and using side-pocket like you control the input and the process and the output. But if I focus on the inputs and like running the race, then the target becomes as a result of what that is. when you are consistent with your creation, then you will start to better understand which systems and strategies work best for you. So then when you're even learning from other experts, other coaches, other mentors in your life that are like giving you systems and strategies, then you can hold them up to the light of this is something that I'm actually doing that I can apply it to rather than being like, okay I guess I'll just try this thing now for a little bit and see if this instead of running.Something I learned at ConvertKit ODS, something really big and SAS companies is. Run as many growth experiments as you can run as many experiments, in, as you can within your product, within your app that are obviously going to keep it up to understand what's working to understand what people are responding to. You may think that one color matters, but yeah, it could be a completely different color. The color may not matter at all, but if you put all of your, all of your eggs in the basket, then you're going to miss that  the way that you wrote this particular help document or the way that this help text pops up or doesn't pop up inside of the application itself makes a bigger difference. But because you ran 10 tests instead of one or two, or just ran one and it's  that's the strategy then you're missing what people's actual responses are.When you do something regularly, not only will you develop confidence in it, but you'll develop a better understanding of the time it actually takes to do something. And so a lot of this is like time tracking, time management, time blocking it's looking at it and saying okay, basically if I'm going to focus two full days, at least. And that's one of the reasons I started working for myself was that I could do things like that. And that's one of the reasons I started working for myself was that I could do things like that. nd that's a really big commitment like that will take up. I have to do is focus on actually running the program. So I'm breaking a larger goal. Into two separate quarters.System and Bench MarkSo take your time, go wild, and write everything down that you want to do. And once you to give yourself that space to list as many goals, habits, processes, systems, things that you want to implement in the New Year. Give yourself permission. Don't judge any of it at the beginning, just get everything down. And then once you have everything written down, draw a line down the paper or create a new column and put into that column. How long do you think that this is going to take to do? Is this something that'll take the whole year? Will it take a month? Will it take several weeks, maybe just a week, maybe it's just a little thing you want to do. Give yourself permission. Don't judge any of it at the beginning, just get everything down. And then once you have everything written down, draw a line down the paper or create a new column and put into that column. How long do you think that this is going to take to do? Is this something that'll take the whole year? Will it take a month? Will it take several weeks, maybe just a week, maybe it's just a little thing you want to do. Sometimes we overestimate, sometimes we underestimate when it comes to something like this but the more that you do it, the more that not just you'll usually get faster at what you're doingThen you can start looking at system and outcome goals. What kind of project do I need to give myself what kind of goal that I can reasonably do within those benchmark? This sounds much unmotivated funnel, but I always encourage people early on to do less than you like your aspirational mind thinks you can. Because you'll get much closer to actually doing them or you'll get them all done. And if you want to start something earlier, but what I'm super focused on at the beginning of each year and what I always encourage my clients and customers to do is, give yourself something reasonable, something achievable. So you can build that consistency, confidence. It’s like we're building these legacy businesses. Having real clarity on this thing, which makes it really crystal clear, like this is the race I'm running, this is how I'm going to get there. And then this is the result.There’s a simple ranking system it's called the VET score and the VET score stands for Value, ease and time. Now some priorities will naturally sort themselves out based on how, like a larger goal fits together. And what you're going to do on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most valuable is lists all of your projects that you're interested in doing maybe for the year, but even just say for the first three months list all your goals, and this does work better for outcome-based goals. And it does system based goals, though. It can still apply and think about. What is the value? So score number one is what is the value of this project, of this goal, of this system? And that can be monetarily. So especially if you're doing something like a course or a coaching program, which one will deliver more like monetary value, but it can also be like, This is valuable to my business. This is valuable to my personal happiness, so you can choose whatever like that value metric is.So let's say if we said coaching program or as launching a podcast, coaching program has a much higher value score. Let's say it's a nine out of 10. A podcast initially is something that's a mid it's more like something I want to do. It's not going to make as much money right now for any money. And, but it's like on a happiness scale, it's something that I want to do long-term and so let's just give it a six and I'm doing all these numbers in my head, but then the ease is okay is it easier for me to put together a coaching program or a podcast they're the same in terms of how easy it is for me to do. They're both like the same ease rank, but one is clearly more valuable. And the time score is a little inverted because it's like the more time something takes the lower score, you're going to give it. Outcome is something that has like a clear finishing point. You can give some of your goals to other people that work for you. And it may be that the the goals that you have, or the amount of work that. Is focused on just like the core business takes up a really takes up a lot of time.A good way to think about the time that you have in the goals that you have. Google has a really good has a really good rule for this. They call it the 70, 2010 rule. And that rule means that 70% of your time. The projects that you pick should be related to growing, sustaining and keeping momentum. one of the most interesting things that I've had people start doing is tracking their time, like in these. 15 to 30 minute increments if you track your time for even a week, but especially for two or three weeks doing your normal work, doing the kind of things that you want, that you commonly do, you will start to understand and build that competence around. And I promise you, if you track your time for a week or two, then you will gain such a better awareness of the time that you actually have available and what you're spending it on. But awareness and the accurate information is the key to everything. It's the key to doing deferring, delegating, and looking at your time and time blocking.

We're going to talk about stinky fish. Yes. Stinky fish. I don't remember what I said in the intro and, but I know I mentioned stinky fish somewhere. So let me explain the concept of the stinky fish for you. And so the stinky fish, can just picture this picture, this, imagine you own a car, right? Whether you own a car, you don't imagine you own a car. Somebody was in your car, there were sitting in your passenger seat and you bought a raw fish. For whatever reason you were going to cook it. They left it on the Florida slid under your seat, it's there. And you want to get it out as soon as possible, because if you don't get it out, it's not going to smell better at the time. But for whatever reason you forget, or you're just like, Oh, I'll get it later. And it starts to stink more and stink more and it's under the seat. And the easiest thing you can do is remove it. But for whatever reason you don't. And so it tends to stinks up the car, then it smells like fish. Then it becomes permanent. Eventually it ruins your entire car. And so we would never leave a stinky fish underneath the seat of our car, because the one thing we have learned about stinky fish is they never smell better with time. And so that gives us this concept of stinky fish.Now, what I'm about to share with you? I facilitated on almost every one of my events, my mastermind events, my consulting events. It is one of the most powerful tools for ourselves and for our teams. And for those people that support us, whether it's our coaches, teachers, or whatever, to help us all get to the equal playing field. And in theory, what you're doing is you're throwing your stinky fish on the table, but you're really removing it from underneath the seat of the car. So everything smells better with time. And so when we think about the stinky fish is that thing that you carry. But don't like to talk about, but the longer you hide it, the stinkier it gets, it's a metaphor. It could be fear, anxiety, something will only, that will only get worse if you don't acknowledge it and deal with it.And in entrepreneurship, I see this all the time. It's Oh, I have this pending bail. If I no more. And it'll somehow pay itself rather than picking up the phone and renegotiating the terms or I know my customers, aren't getting the emails they're supposed to, but I'll do it next week. I'll do it next week. But then as that continues, there's more and more customers not getting it. And the problem's getting worse. The fish is getting extinct here, or I have conflict with my team. And I don't know how to resolve it. So I'm just going to pretend it's not there. And then it eventually it'll go away, but it never does. Every one of those situations and circumstances ends up escalating to a point where it becomes a problem and it has stunk so bad that it ruins the entire inside of the car. Rather than the moment we realized there's a fish underneath the seat metaphorically, we bring it up to the surface. And we get rid of it.And so this podcast is being released a couple days before the new year leading into 2021. And you can use this for an entire year. You can use this for a week, a month, a new team hire a new business, a new goal. You can use it all the time. I'm talking about it specifically for leading into the new year, because there is an episode that follows this, that talks about literally how to plan your entire year.And here's what I'm going to tell you about stinky fish. Stinky fish end up driving our vehicle as entrepreneurs. And so we will know we'll have our team going, we'll know something's coming up for us. It could be fear could be anxiety, could be the unknown and we won't acknowledge it, but then it will end up driving our decisions, actually creating that fear. As a real result. And it gets in the way of everything because we can't be focused because have that stinky fish in the back of our mind pulling us back. So we're never fully into the goal setting. We're never fully into the planning. We're never fully into the marketing, into the team lead into anything because it's this nagging little thing in the back of our head, that's getting stinkier and stinkier until it's all consuming. And so no matter what we have to process it out.And so I'm going to walk you guys through how to do this exercise, and I'm going to tell you what my stinky fishes that I am letting go of leading into 2021. Now, I want you to understand that in my opinion, the secret to success in life, in relationships, in business, in any endeavor that you partake in the secret to success always boils down to awareness.That's it? That's it because if you know where you are, maybe why you're there, you can choose where you go. The enemy of success is unawareness. And I don't even know what that word is, but I'm just going to call it unawareness. And that's where these things like our stinky fish are driving our vehicles every day. We think we're making a decision based out of abundance and clarity and excitement and, goal setting and good sound business principles. But what we failed to miss is that there was this stinky fish underneath the seat being like, you can't really do that, or you don't have the money for that, or, Oh, don't trust your gut. Nobody's done that before and it's nagging and nagging us. And so we're never really fully aware of where we are, which means we can never fully take a confidence step in a different direction because there's that lack of clarity that ambiguity. And so I literally use this exercise all the time.And here's what I'll tell you. I think everybody needs to do a stinky fish exercise with themselves. And then I think every team and I don't care if you're a team of two, a team of 10 or a team of 100, need to do this together to level the playing field, get everybody on the same page to understand each other at a core visceral team level to normalize what a lot of us is, and to breed open communication, to breed authenticity, to breed relationships, which are the secret to all of this working. And so the stinky fish is the metaphor for that thing that you carry around that you don't like to talk about. And so the purpose of this exercise is to explore, become aware, or share our individual concerns or worries about anything. Our business, our life, anything in general that tables it into the present so we can see all the ingredients in front of us. And then we can make a decision on how to mitigate it.So to do this exercise, you just need a big piece of paper, like a blank piece of paper, eight and a half by 11, a notebook sheet, anything. And then I want you to draw. And I will say this I'll call myself. I can't draw. So stick figures are about the limit of my creativity, but I want you to draw the best stick figure fish ever. And so make it look like a goldfish, make it look like whatever you want, but just on a piece of paper, I want you to draw a fish. And make sure that the body of the fish is big enough that you can write it. And so I call this a stinky fish, so you can give it snaggle teeth. You can give it googly eyes, you can do whatever you want to it. You can make it permeate, little lines of smelling on top of it. But I just want you to understand that what you're drawing on this piece of paper is a visual representation of a stinky fish.And so the first thing I want you to do is I want you to draw that on a piece of paper. And then I want you to think about this. I want you to think about where you are currently right now in your life, in your business. You could have things in your business that aren't ideal, but they are affected or informed by your life, right? Like maybe you've been exhausted at work and you're afraid you'll never get out of it, but yet you still haven't changed anything to start working out or eat clean. And only, and so I'm going to give you an example. My stinky fish for 2021 is expectation. And so what I want you to do is I want you to start thinking about leading into 2021. What is that one conversation that you haven't been having? What is that one thing that you haven't talked about? What's that one thing that always gets moved down your to-do list? What's the one habit that you're scared to do, it's the path forward? What is that one conversation that, when you have it, you're going to have resolution, like you need to do an audit and check in with yourself and ask yourself. What is that stinky fish that I have? What is that thing hiding underneath my seat right now that if I don't remove it will end up ruining my entire car?And so what I want you to do is I want you to, when this podcast is done, I want you to sit down. I want you to ask yourself that question and I just want you to start a timer. And when you start that timer, I want you to write or think or reflect for five minutes and all I want you to put inside that stinky fish. All I want you to write down in that stinky fish is everything that you're committed to letting go of for everything that you're removing from underneath the seat. So it no longer stinks anymore. You can be as clear, precise detailed or ambiguous as possible, as long as you understand what it represents now. The more clarity you have, the better, because if you are crystal clear on it, it means you've done the diligence to understand it, and you can let it go. But if you just write, Oh, I'm letting go of fear. That doesn't help me. I need specificity. I'm letting go of fear of holding meetings with my team. Which then the inverse means when you let that go, you will then start planning meetings with your team, whether they're scheduled, weeks in advance or whatever, but you have to then let it go. And so what I want you to do is spend five minutes writing it down, and I want you to review it when you're done. And I want you to look at it. And I want you to agree with yourself that these are all the things that I'm letting go of these are all the things that I'm letting go of, and then you get to choose your modality for releasing it.And so when I do this at my event, I have everybody do this and then I have them share what their stinky fishes. And I ask them a simple question. Once they're done sharing their stinky fish, I asked them, I said, are you willing to leave it here? And let me throw it out. And they say yes. And if they say yes, then they go hanging on the wall and hanging it on the wall is a representation of them leaving it in the room with me. And I will discard it. I will trash it, but they have to leave it here. They have to leave that fear. They have to leave that stinky fish and they can't try to drag it with them and hide it in their luggage to bring it home. And so for you, you get to figure out how you do that. If you look at that and you're like, yes, I'm a hundred percent committed to leaving this because it doesn't belong in my life. It doesn't belong in my business. It doesn't belong anywhere. And it doesn't serve me to have you make that distinction. You figure out the best way to let it go. Personally, what I do is I write it and then I say, I'm letting this go by hanging this on my wall. I'm letting this go. So I put it on the board next to me and I can see it in everything that I do. I can see it when I'm working at my desk. And it's just a reminder that I let it go, that it let it go. And if that feeling comes up for me again, I simply look to my left and I see it. I'm like, Oh, I committed to letting that go. And I lean into the feeling. I lean into the fear and I do something different.Some of the other things you can do, if it's, you really want to visceral experience, I want you to treat it like a ceremony. I want you to write that thing. I want you to write it and wanting to honor it. I want to set time on your counter. I want you to go burn it. Or I want you to see it in an envelope and bury it, or I want you to do something that has you physically remove it and commit to removing that stinky fish from your life. You could crumple it up and step on it. You could do whatever you want to do, but I recommend that you do a stinky fish for yourself. And then you choose who you share with your team, share with your partner, share with your significant other, share with your coaches, and then do one together as a team, right? Whether you have a team of one team, a two team of five, can you imagine the level of depth and understanding and human connection that comes from everybody knowing that it's normal to feel this way. It's normal that these things come up and it's in a safe container that we can talk about them in process. That mean then can you imagine what clarity comes? What happens when you unlock your true potential of yourself and your team and all those different pieces? I want you to do this, thinking about it doesn't work. There's the reason like the amazing Benjamin Hardy and Nicola para the holistic psychologist. Talk about future self journaling, and they talk about writing. They talk about actually acting out and building our future self of releasing things. But you can't, out-think the thing that you're thinking about. You can't think of stinky fish out from under your seat, no matter what, unless you go physically move it, it's still going to be stuck underneath your seat.So I want you to physically do this. I want you to physically write in on a piece of paper and I want you to intentionally physically hang it on the wall or physically bury it or physically crumple it. And I want you to make sure it's something that serves a purpose and you might have to do this a few times.I've done 10 of these 20 of these. We've had people do them in the room. And then leave them on the wall. And then when we left, they came home and they sent me like four new pictures. Like I did when my team I did well, my spouse, I did one with my kids because the faster we can acknowledge the stinky fish, the faster we can table them, the faster we have aware, and we can move forward. And for example I'll, and I'll talk about Ben. I was just on Ben's podcast, but Ben is absolutely amazing. Ben connected Dorf and Ben. It was in my mastermind a couple of years ago and was in for a while. And I absolutely loved them, but I'll never forget Ben, the stinky fish cause Ben stinky fish was kissing the girl and Ben will probably listen to this, but I'll never forget it. And what Ben meant by kissing the girl was having the hard conversation, leaning in and trusting himself and being like, this is what I'm worth and I can do this and I can build this and I will never forget. Ben came into that room. He thought I was nuts because he's at a business event, is that our mastermind talking about business and marketing and building and scaling your business.But we have to remember that we're the ones in the driver's seat. And so if we aren't driving the car the right way, or something's in the way of us driving the car, we can't build our scale, our business. And so I'll never forget. After the first day he thought I was nuts and he's what am I doing? This is not what I signed up for. And then I'll remember, I always remember the sneaky fish exercise because he was one of the first ones to share and he shared emotionally and he's I'm letting go of kissing the girl. My fear of kissing the girl because of my childhood, because of things that have come that have prevented me from leaning into opportunities from growing this brand from doing what I'm good at from launching my podcast. And he literally left it on the wall and the year that followed, I watched Ben and it was so amazing to watch him. And he is absolutely catapulted and shined in every way possible. And it just takes that level of awareness because once you bring it to your awareness, it never goes away. And so Ben was a longer version of kissing the girl, not being afraid to act despite the thoughts inside, right? Not being afraid to pitch your service, even though you have doubt, not being afraid to launch the podcast, even if you're convincing yourself and your brain, nobody will listen or it won't be worth it, but choosing to do it anyways, because it. Is aligned to what you want. And so by kissing the girl, it's like kissing the frog or leaning in and having that hard conversation.So he wrote a couple sentences around it, but that's how it was summed up. And so for me, I'm saying this publicly is my declaration of way to do my stinky fish for 2021. Mine is letting go of expectation and I'm going to share this a little bit.  Yesterday was my birthday and it's really interesting at this point in my life, what I want and what I don't want. And I've made plenty of mistakes in the past. I used to tell my wife, like birthdays are special to me. And so you need to make it look a certain way and do it all. And then when she did it, I would be mean and tell her it wasn't enough. Oh, I'm going to get a little emotional talking about this because I was still wounded and unhealed. And so then it was unsafe for her to plan birthday parties for me, because then if she did, then I'd be like, Oh, it was wrong. Wasn't good enough. And always felt unsafe. And so yesterday I spent all day reflecting on my birthday and what I started reflecting on one's expectation. And I had this beautiful awareness that I shouldn't expect anything.It's really simple. If I want something, I need to communicate it. I need to communicate what I would love to do on my birthday or what I would expect out of a meeting with my team or what I would expect a result of a launch to be, or the outcome of that introduction or what we're covering on that podcast. But if I leave anything to chance or to unspoken expectations that sets everybody up to fail, and more importantly, it sets me up to fail because then I start this narrative that I'm not worthy. I don't get what I want, but really I didn't communicate clearly what I wanted. And the truth has says that.I don't expect anything from anybody anymore, and I never should, and I never should have. And so for me, going into 2021 is my stinky fish. I'm letting go of his expectation. And so if I look at my life and I look at a meeting and I was like, Oh man, I thought this was going to happen in the meeting. It's not, Oh, why didn't Jay or Tyler or anybody else do it? It's Oh yeah, Where could I have inserted myself to make sure that was clear that it came in the meeting, or if I have a birthday coming up and I told my wife this morning, all I want for my birthday from this point forward for the rest of our life is just a handwritten card. The way that my wife writes words to me on cards, I carry her cards around with me and I keep them because they just land in my soul.They like tattoo my soul. And I don't want any material, things like I want my wife happy, my kids happy and healthy and myself included. And that's what gives it to me. And so I just clearly was like, this is exactly what I want, which means that's it. It's crystal clear, it's there. And I said, and even if you don't write me one that's okay too. I don't expect it. I'm just telling you what would light me up, but I have zero expectation, but I also have this massive amount of clarity that if it's meant to be it's up to me. That's something we used to say in the personal development world all the time, if it's meant to be it's up to me, and this applies everywhere, this applies to my team.This applies to agencies that I hire .This applies to meetings. This applies to the waitress at a restaurant, right? Nobody can read our minds. And so the beautiful part about the stinky fish exercise is it presences this under. Lying conversation or this thing that needs to be talked about anyways.And so my stinky fish is expectation, which normally comes from unspoken, stinky fishes. So it's meta, it's like a little bit of inception, but for me going into 2021, the stinky fish that I'm letting go of is thatexpectation of others. And I say that because I'm not saying that people shouldn't do their job or shou ldn't deliver what they promise, but I've used this as a place to hide from my own power. I've used this as a place to, to mitigate my results to somebody else or to advocate my responsibility in something to somebody else and really. If I get rid of the stinky fish of expectation, then everything that shows up in my path, which I've spoken about this for years, but it's a practice is I'm responsible for, and what that eliminates is the resentment and the guilt and the shame and the fault.And so it's something that I'm choosing to practice going into 2021. So I, my stinky fish that I'm publicly letting go of on this podcast right now is the expectation of others or results. That I don't explicitly clearly state and explain in finances in launches, in meetings, in teams, in culture, in mastermind calls and sales processes and pages and podcasts that are recording everything.The way that I look at it is that everything that shows up in my path was created by how I showed up to create that. So the inputs that I put into the world, the inputs that I put into that meeting the inputs that I put into that program created the outcome. And so if I want a different outcome, I need to go back and look at the inputs. And have a peek at them. And so what I want to know from you, and I want you to tell me in our Facebook group, I want to know, and I want you to do this. I'll challenge you right now. I want you to draw. The stinky fish, whether it's a goldfish, a stinky fish or whatever. And I want you to write clearly what it is that you are letting go of what it is that you are taking out from under the seat and getting out of the car.And then I challenge you to post it publicly posted in our Facebook group or posted on Instagram and tag me. ItsGeogeBryant my Instagram, tag me. I want to see it. We want to see it. I want you to publicly do this because the faster you can bring this to the surface and clean it out, the faster you get to move forward.And so remember the purpose of the stinky fish is to go through the process of physically removing that nasty smelling fish from underneath your seat, cleaning it out so you can have a clean vehicle. And so stinky fish never smell better with time ever. If you put a fresh fish under that seat, two weeks later, you're not going to like how it smells three weeks later. You're definitely not four weeks later. Your car is going to rot from the inside out. And so it's one of those things that you have to presence and what it's going to help you with that helps me with. And helps me understand that there's always going to be times of change and uncertainty and ambiguity, because none of us can predict the future. But what we can predict is the inputs that go into our process that creates the future. And every moment that you work towards awareness and having a clear play and your speaking and clearing and letting go of these fears and this craziness that's made between those two ears of ours, the faster path you're on to putting in the right inputs into the present moment to create the future. And so what I invite you to do is I invite you to throw, slap, slam that stinky fish on the table. And I invite you to get rid of it because it is one of the most rewarding things that you can do. And it's not something that's done once it's done. It's something that's practiced, it's something that's practiced and we practice it all the time.And so the more you can bring awareness to this, the more you can practice it, the faster. Everything's going to feel and the better you're going to feel because to be Frank, I always feel 25, 30 pounds lighter. Every time I throw a stinky fish on the table, even when I didn't realize it was a stinky fish.And so my stinky fish going into 2021 is letting go. My stinky fish is expectation. That's how it's summarize my stinky fish. But the physical one that I wrote down was a lot longer. And it was the expectation that somebody else will solve my problems, that the expectation that somebody can save me.Even though I teach it thinking that some magical thing is going to happen. If I don't do anything it'll magically create itself. And I wrote all of those things down, I wrote them all down and that's what I'm committed to letting go of. So what I want to hear from you, and I would love to hear the set, send me a message, how to get ahold of me at this point.Send me a message and let me know what stinky Fisher letting go of, but I want everybody else to be inspired. So if you post on your personal tag Bay, If you posted it in our group, I'll see it. If you post on Instagram tag me, but I want you to understand that at this point, the faster you own these fish and acknowledge them that they're there, the faster they go away.And it's powerful to own this. It's powerful to embody this. It's powerful to lead through this. So do it for yourself. Then do it for your team. And then I have an ask of you because I don't ask that much stuff, but we're getting ready to wrap the first year of this podcast, in a calendar year.And I'm super stoked because this is coming at the second last, this actually is the last podcast of the year. The next one comes out on the first of the year. And I do have an ask. I would love it. If you could reach out personally to five friends and be like, Hey, if you listened to this podcast, like I'd recommend listening to this episode from George. This one, because I would love helping growing the reach of this, whether you send them this. You fish episode, whether you send them to our Facebook group, but I am going to ask you, and I'm going to ask you, please, at this point if this show has been a value to you, if you haven't reviewed it, review it please. On your favorite platform, iTunes is preferred. But then please send it to five friends like. Don't just be like, Oh, go check those podcasts. I give them a reason why I let them know if I can support them, let them know if we can help. And that would be in the absolute world to me. And so I just want to say thank you in advance for doing that.I want to say thank you for listening. It's been an amazing 2020. Thank you for listening. Thank you for letting me share my stuff. Thank you, fish, and get ready for the next episode. Just in case you haven't listened to it yet. If you are catching this, the moment it drops, you have to wait a couple of days. If you're catching this a couple of weeks later, it's already up, but you do this stinky fish exercise. And then you go listen to the podcast episode with Matt Ragland and it will blow your mind on the results that you'll be able to create. So have an absolutely beautiful day. I'm going to wrap this episode.

My name is Matt Ragland and welcome to the very first episode of the Connect the Dots podcast! I've been wanting to do this for a really long time. One of the things that we're going to tackle in this first episode, Is how do you get over the hump with something that you've wanted to do for a long time?Maybe you are a little scared about maybe you can't quite think about how you would put everything together and maybe you've made some initial plans, but especially you're probably going to be here in this. It's going to be coming out right around Christmas and the New Year. Habits are really a big part of how a lot of people like to start the new year. That's how we're going to kick off the show! Connect the Dots on YouTube + Free Training Watch this episode on the Connect the Dots YouTube channel Watch the best clips from Connect the Dots Get the 3 Keys of Productivity worksheet & training More ways to connect YouTube - youtube.com/mattragland Instagram - instagram.com/mattragland Twitter - twitter.com/mattragland

Matt Ragland is an independent creator. His YouTube channel showcases videos on the Bullet Journal process, productivity, and time management. Previous to going full time as a creator in 2020, Matt worked in customer success as employee #5 at ConvertKit and later as a Director of Customer Success at Podia. In this episode we talk about Matt’s journey starting with blogging in 2010, his time at ConvertKit and Podia, how to construct multiple products at different price points, breaking through on YouTube, and how his curiosity has helped him find a path to going all in as a full-time creator. Enroll in our referral program and earn money by sharing this show Join our community on Facebook Transcript and show notes can be found here Try Podia and save 15% for life as a Creative Elements listener Try Hostinger and use code JAYCLOUSE for a special discount Want to support this show? Click here to buy me a coffee. Brought to you by The Podglomerate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, YouTuber Matt Ragland joins us to discuss analog productivity, working remotely as a parent, and journaling. Shownotes Matt's Journaling Course (affiliate) (https://mattragland.podia.com/journaling/3e95g) Matt's YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/themattragland) Podia (http://podia.com) Bullet Journal (http://bulletjournal.com) Full Focus Planner (http://fullfocusplanner.com) Self Journal (https://bestself.co/) Matt's Video Working from Home with Kids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsp4ZyxXdYE) Remote (https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Required-David-Heinemeier-Hansson-ebook/dp/B00CZ7OC46) Rework (https://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried-ebook/dp/B002MUAJ2A/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rework&qid=1591906259&s=digital-text&sr=1-1) It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work (https://www.amazon.com/Doesnt-Have-Be-Crazy-Work-ebook/dp/B079WV79TK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3913VXPSU77GD&dchild=1&keywords=it+doesn%27t+have+to+be+crazy+at+work&qid=1591906277&s=digital-text&sprefix=it+doesn%27t+have%2Cdigital-text%2C167&sr=1-1) Make Time (https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every-ebook/dp/B078QSCM3V/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=make+time&qid=1590601158&s=books&sr=1-1) When (https://www.amazon.com/When-Scientific-Secrets-Perfect-Timing-ebook/dp/B072Q985YX/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=when+daniel+pink&qid=1591906316&s=digital-text&sr=1-2) Getting Results the Agile Way (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Results-Agile-Way-Personal-ebook/dp/B005X0MFD2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=getting+results+the+agile+way&qid=1591906329&s=digital-text&sr=1-2)

Thinking of creating your own online course? This podcast is for you! My guest today is Matt Ragland, also known as The Bullet Journal Guy. He's a YouTuber, writer, vlogger, productivity expert, and the Director of Creator Success at Podia, an online course platform made especially for freelancers, solopreneurs, and creators. This episode is all about how and why to build your first online course, plus overcoming procrastination while working from home. You'll learn: Is now a good time to create your first online course?  Is the online course market saturated? How to know if you should make an online course? Where to start if you want to create an online course? How do you pick an online course topic that people care about? What are the best platforms for online courses? Which platform is the cheapest? Podia, Udemy, Teachable, Skillshare, or Kajabi? Do you need an email list or audience to sell an online course? How much money can you make selling online courses? Then, we cover Matt's tips on productivity and procrastination:   How can you stay productive working from home with a spouse and kids? How to balance your full-time job with your side hustle, especially during a pandemic? How to motivate yourself to work when you don't feel like it? Who should start a YouTube channel in 2020? In the lightning round, we discuss what we miss from normal life, what we're looking forward to when the quarantine is over, and where we'll travel first. SHOW RESOURCES:  Create your first online course with Podia (FREE TRIAL) FOLLOW MATT:  Subscribe to Matt's YouTube Channel Matt's Website Disclosure: This post contains an affiliate link to try Podia, a platform I use, at no additional cost to you while helping to support the show!  ........................................................................................................ Support the Badass Digital Nomads Podcast: Become a Patron and access exclusive content Leave a 5* review of Badass Digital Nomads on iTunes Screenshot your favorite episode and share on social media! Leave a voice message Leave feedback, share who you are, or recommend a guest (survey) Connect With Me on Socials:  Follow on Instagram Watch Digital Nomad TV on YouTube Subscribe to Traveling with Kristin on YouTube  Join the Badass Digital Nomads Facebook Group

Rollo Tomassi is a renowned blogger in the ‘Manosphere’ and author of several books including ‘The Rational Male’ and ‘Preventive Medicine’. We discuss intersexual dynamics, male-female relationships, the motivation behind his work, and what it truly means to be ‘red pill’.Follow Zuby - twitter.com/zubymusic Follow Rollo - twitter.com/RationalMaleWant to build a journaling habit? My friend Matt Ragland has created an expert class. Get $20 off the course with the coupon code "ZUBY". First 10 buyers also get a FREE Baron Fig Confidant notebook, worth $25.  https://mattragland.podia.com/journaling?coupon=ZUBYSubscribe to the 'Real Talk With Zuby' podcast on iTunes, Spotify & Stitcher - fanlink.to/zubypodcastJoin us the Team Zuby Community on Locals - https://teamzuby.locals.comSupport Zuby on Patreon - https://patreon.com/zubymusicSpecial thanks to GOLD TIER Patreon members: Ebele Achor & Adam PattersonFollow Zuby on: Twitter - twitter.com/zubymusicFacebook - facebook.com/zubymusicInstagram - instagram.com/zubymusicWebsite - zubymusic.comBuy Team Zuby music and merchandise - teamzuby.com

In this episode, I'm joined by fellow productivity enthusiast/specialist/strategist, Matt Ragland. This is a conversation I've wanted to have for some time and I'm glad I'm able to deliver it as my 300th episode of The Productivityist Podcast. This episode is brought to you by Bambee. When running a business, Human Resources issues can kill you. There's so much to wrap your head around and hiring an HR Manager is going to cost you - they command an average of seventy-thousand dollars a year! That's where Bambee comes in. Created specifically for small business, Bambee provides you with a dedicated HR Manager that can craft your HR policy, and maintain your compliance, all for just one low monthly fee. You don't need to deal with HR issues - let Bambee do that for you. Go to https://bambee.com/timecrafting (bambee.com/timecrafting) now to schedule your FREE HR audit. You'll be glad you did.This episode is brought to you by TextExpander. With TextExpander, you can unlock your productivity with its many features. With TextExpander you can make everything you write repetitively available everywhere you type: text documents, spreadsheets, web forms, and more. Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Visit https://textexpander.com/podcast?utm_source=productivityist-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=textexpander-May-2020 (TextExpander.com/podcast) for 20% off your first year. This episode is brought to you by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Established in 1962, UCI offers education for adult learners in Orange County. But thanks to technology, their courses and certification programs in various fields are now available worldwide and online for just about anyone who's interested. You can get 15% off of one (1) course by visiting https://ce.uci.edu/about/trending/toolkits.aspx?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=paidsocial&ut%20m_campaign=productivityist&utm_term=20WI20SP (http://ce.uci.edu/productivityist) then enter the promo code timecrafting. Make sure you take advantage of this limited time offer as it is only valid until July 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm. (Please note that this discount is for almost all of the certificate programs. The exceptions only include coding boot camps, international programs, teacher credentialing programs, and test prep courses.)Matt is a YouTuber and productivity coach who shows you how to get your head out of your apps and focus on what matters. His ACE method has helped thousands of people create awareness, clarity, and execution on their goals and habits. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and two sons. We spend time talking about habits, the tools he uses, journaling, and much more. If you're really into productivity practices or simply want to hear two people really "nerd out" about that sort of stuff, then this episode of the podcast is for you. Talking Points What led Matt to that moment of realization that he needed to "get his head out of his apps?" This is how Matt got past the feeling of the idea that you must use online tools and apps Matt talks about his views on New Year's resolutions and annual events How does Matt keep the flow of his day moving in a paper planner? This is what journaling looks like for Matt Matt shares whether or not he uses a paper wall calendar Quote "If I see something that matters to me and I know it improves my life, my only goal is really just to be as consistent as I can with it." - Matt Ragland Helpful Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8TtN5Zy6Ck ("Get Your Head Out of Your Apps" - Why the Bullet Journal Method means so much to me) https://productivityist.com/podcast213/ (Episode 213: The Bullet Journal Method with Ryder Carroll) http://baronfig.refr.cc/mikevardy (Baronfig (Affiliate Link)) https://convertkit.com/?lmref=AEdOzA (ConvertKit (Affiliate Link))...

Matt Ragland explains how he uses his paper bullet journal to stay focused.

Bullet journals are super trendy right now, and for good reason--they're a useful way to stay on top of your priorities, stay focused, and be more productive!Today, Matt Ragland is back on the podcast to walk us through bullet journaling techniques and productivity strategies.Full post here: https://doyouevenblog.com/bullet-journaling-for-productivity-matt-ragland/******Special thanks to today's sponsor, Freshbooks!Freelancer?Online business?Blogger w/ expenses and revenues?Freshbooks is for you! It's an incredible tool, AND it's thanks to them the DYEB podcast is possible--so go show them some love!Head to Freshbooks.com/doyouevenblog and enter DO YOU EVEN BLOG in the "how did you hear about us" section.❤️❤️❤️

Matt Ragland (Podia, https://www.youtube.com/mattragland, formerly ConvertKit) is a master of productivity, bullet journaling, and planning--and he's here to help up plan for 2020!This is bonus episode w/ no show notes :)Enjoy, and happy holidays Blog Tribe!Pete

Matt Ragland is well-known for his offline productivity tips and tricks and Notion BuJo set-ups too! This episode his insights into how to balance the digital with the physical is super interesting! Follow Matt on YouTube here (https://www.youtube.com/mattragland)! We highly recommend that! You can learn more about Matt below! * Follow Matt Ragland on Twitter: here (https://twitter.com/mattragland?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor). * Learn mote about Podia (where Matt works): here (https://twitter.com/podia). Next week, we chat with Wade Foster, the founder of Zapier - and we chat automations galore! Special Guest: Matt Ragland.

Chris Dancy is called the most connected human in the world but in my opinion, one of the most organized people in the world too. This conversation was gold as Chris explores productivity, toolkits, daily routines, mortality, being connected and much more. You will learn so much for this podcast! Listen to our Airtable tour: here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUXpRhlTT4) **Get Chris's Book "Don't Unplug": here (https://amzn.to/2AUvVL9). *Follow Chris Dancy below! * * Chris on Twitter: here (https://twitter.com/chrisdancy) * Learn more about Chris's tasks & speaking: here (chrisdancy.com) Thanks so much for stopping by, stop by next week for a full interview with the legend of BuJo tours, Matt Ragland! Special Guest: Chris Dancy.

In this episode, Darrell talks with Matt Ragland, the Director of Customer Success for Podia. Darrell and Matt Ragland dive into more thoughts about online education, Matt shares his story of building an audience, and the time-tested secret that helped him get to more than 35,000 subscribers today. In this episode, Darrell and Matt talked... Listen to episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/copyblogger-podcast/message

In this episode, Darrell talks with Matt Ragland, the Director of Customer Success for Podia. Darrell and Matt Ragland dive into more thoughts about online education, Matt shares his story of building an audience, and the time-tested secret that helped him get to more than 35,000 subscribers today. In this episode, Darrell and Matt talked... Listen to episode

Matt Ragland teaches at MattRagland.com, a platform dedicated to sharing journaling and time-tracking techniques that help individuals focus on what matters.Matt says journaling helps him manage the tendency to overthink things in his life, as well as capture ideas he wants to explore and - perhaps - implement.Today, Matt's journaling practice is geared around helping him celebrate healthy patterns and identify the emergence of unhealthy behavioral patterns so he can correct them before they impact his life.Matt's favorite toolsPentel EnerJel .7mm (Amazon affiliate link)The Bullet Journal NotebookBaron Fig ConfidantAirtableTake small steps toward the person you want to be.EncouragementDon’t overthink your journaling practice.Get your thoughts and ideas onto paper and do it consistently.Make simple lists each morning about what you want to do or need to do & review at the end of the day (5 minutes)Write one line each morning and at the end of the day (5 minutes)Matt’s Journaling ChallengesSubscribe to just ONE first. :-D5-day time tracking challengeDaily journal promptsDon't miss out on new

Hey, hey! I am excited to have Matt Ragland on the show today. Matt is the creator of the Sketchnote Starter Course. He’s also a member of ConvertKit’s team. In this interview, Matt and I talk about his work, how he created his sketchnote course, and what it’s like being part of ConvertKit. I know you’ll love this episode! A quick note: Matt references the course platform Coach, which is now Podia Listen to the end to get access to the video walkthrough of Matt’s course! Ideas not art… It’s really about connecting with people and solving problems To start off with, Matt discusses how he got started with sketchnotes and the three books that helped him create his first sketchnotes. He also shares his vision of connecting people over big ideas, and solving problems. I want students to feel comfortable putting their ideas down on paper Matt and I talk about his launch of ‘Sketchnote Starter Course’ which helps people who think they can’t draw at all realize their potential. The course starts with simple lessons on basic concepts about shapes, then explores deeper topics like how to put your creation into production, social media, and visual libraries, etc. When asked “What is the goal of your course?”, Matt simply said, “I want the students to feel comfortable putting their ideas on paper.” He believes that his students are on a journey in doing sketchnotes. It’s about what makes the most sense to students, putting their creations down without shame or hindrance, remembering more ideas and, as a result, solving more problems. Want learn more about Matt’s course? Head over to zencourses.co/061 to read the full show notes and check out the video of this interview. Episode Quotes "Sketchnotes has been a great connector for me with different types of work." "Just give yourself some grace and stop comparing yourself" "The only person that you need to sketchnote for is yourself" Listen to Learn 00:19 Getting to know Matt 02:23 Rapid 5 Questions 05:13 How did Matt get into teaching Sketchnotes? 08:00 Balancing work, sketchnotes and family 12:14 Overview about the Sketchnote Starter Course 16:34 What were some things that happened that you didn't plan on? 22:00 Where did the idea for the course come from? 28:20 What is the goal for your learners after completing the course? 29:58 A peek inside the Sketchnote Starter Course 35:36 What are the things that you would do differently or adjust and tweak? 39:09 Coming up: Exciting things to look forward to from Matt, plus final announcements

We go behind the scenes as Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Framework completes a full interview with Matt Ragland of ConvertKit on why he attended INDUSTRY 2017. In part three we discuss what Mike Belsito learned from this interview and what they've changed because of it.  Whether you’re interested in JTBD or you’re already conducting JTBD interviews, learning from one of the masters is one of the best ways to improve your technique.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of our JTBD Bonus content. We go behind the scenes as Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Framework completes a full interview with Matt Ragland of ConvertKit on why he attended INDUSTRY 2017. Whether you’re interested in JTBD or you’re already conducting JTBD interviews, learning from one of the masters is one of the best ways to improve your technique.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go behind the scenes as Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Framework completes a full interview with Matt Ragland of ConvertKit on why he attended INDUSTRY 2017. Whether you’re interested in JTBD or you’re already conducting JTBD interviews, learning from one of the masters is one of the best ways to improve your technique.  Listen to part one of two of the completely uncut JTBD interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Pasha discusses his interview with Tim Erway, Dave Chesson and Matt Ragland. He also shares his takeways from a Tony Robbins interview with Internet Ballers John Reese and Frank Kern on having a mindset of success.

Matt Ragland discusses how he built a Sketchnotes business by creating valuable products for people he admired and then asking for referrals.