Swipe Right on My Creative Crushes: All my fave podcasts, books & creators

👇 Get ready to slam down that follow finger, add some credits to your audible account and blow up your podcast subscriptions🎤 
Dive into this week’s email if you want exclusive access to my juicy, curated list of my current “inspiration content stack.”

🦄 FAVES: When I make a recommendation to you, you can count on the fact that I have spent HOURS researching this shit. I only share with you the things that I’m truly, madly, deeply in love with cause I know that we have super similar taste…and you’re you’re probs gonna love the shit outta all this stuff too. So always know that you full permission to just copy the hell outta me.

EVERYTHING THAT’S BEEN KEEPING ME INSPIRED, BRAINSTORMING, THINKING BIG AND ENTERTAINED LATELY

Everyone always seems to love to share their “tech stacks”—i.e. the undercover tools and apps they use in their businesses to make things run smoothly and make stacks of cash. I always love those lists too [and sidenote: that would make a fun future email], but this week I wanted to share my “inspo stack” with you instead.

You know I love to share lessons & mini trainings [in case you missed last week’s email, it was a mini-training on exactly how you could be running your biz like a tech startup. You can read it HERE], but one of the things that’s front and center for me RN is figuring out ways to help you and my clients get better at the practice of innovation.

Cause yeah: this needs to be a daily PRACTICE in your life.

And as I’ve mentioned before, this innovation thang isn’t really anything that I ever see anyone else talk about orrrrrr teach…espesh in the online coaching & service based world.

One of the best ways I think I can help you become an innovation ninja in your own biz is to share a curated list of all of the things I’ve been relying on lately to inspire the hell outta me.

Cause this isn’t about me giving you a checklist of items 1-47 that I want you to run through in order to become an industry disruptor…that’s not how this shit works.

I want to empower you to come up with your OWN brilliant shower ideas…connect the dots on things that have been bugging you for months…or finally taking action on that thing that you just can’t let go of.

So get ready for my big ass list of faves. Believe it or not, this isn’t even close to everything that I consume…but I wanted to at least get you started with the best of the best.

**PRO TIP: you don’t need to follow and consume ALL of these content suggestions below in order to become that CEO Millionaire version of you. Pick and choose the ones that really resonate with you and leave the rest.

🎤 PODCASTS YOU NEED TO BE LISTENING TO 🎤

Podcasts definitely represent the medium that I consume the most these days. Not too long ago I discovered I could even play them through my smart TV, which is now a fave way for me to listen [via the Spotify app]. Anyway, I cannot tell you how much I’ve learned from, been inspired by and also been entertained by all of my fave podcasts.

🫡 SIDENOTE: If you need me to yell at you cause you need to get your shit together with your dick brain, come up with some genius ideas or start taking some action, go listen to all of my recent podcast interviews on one playlist HERE. 

⭐️ BONUS TIP: In the last 6 mos I’ve made the full switch over to Spotify as my podcast listening app [before that I was using Overcast…for the record: I haaate Apple’s podcast app and haven’t used that in eons]. I’m actually really digging Spotify…espesh because of the easy breezy “playlist” options. I like to group podcast eps and make myself playlists to go back to for diff topics I’m interested in for my biz [i.e. my new glasses chain product line] or for diff mindset things I’m working on [i.e. money mindset].

🤐 MY NEW PODCAST: A few weeks ago I connected the dots on a podcast concept for myself that got me SO damn excited, I immediately made this graphic on Canva [which was more action than I had taken in 5+ years of saying out loud that I wanna start my own show]. I’m sharing the podcast description with you below cause: 1. I want you to yell at me until you’ve seen that I launched it and 2. Because as per uzsh, your opinion means everything to me and in case you have any genius. ideas I wanna hear about them.

GAHHHHH! OK, here’s the description I wrote of the show:

A podcast that takes a deep dive look at business, marketing and personal branding through the lens of bad reality TV, pop culture and juicy TikTok trends. If you’re a business owner who wants to learn how to brand yourself like a Real Housewife, connect with your audience like Emma Chamberlain, set the trends like Tube Girl and document your life like Gary Vee so that you can truly become a “category of one,” put your headphones on, grab your Amazon Skims dupe “hot girl walk” matching set and strap in.

🎤 My next step is going to be recording a trailer and then recording the first episode [which will be a solo one about my category of one concept]. I have a bunch more ideas for show topics as well as a long list of guests so stay tuned, yo…this baby is coming s-o-o-n.

📔 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READING 📔

Pull out your kindle or fire up an audio book…that’s up to you. But these are some faves that I recently read [all within the biz realm]

⭐️ As part of the membership we’re gonna be launching soon, I want to do a monthly book club. So get a head start if you want by grabbing these books now cause they’re all on my list of book club picks.

🎬 CREATORS YOU NEED TO FOLLOW 🎬

Here’s the truth: following other coaches is officially boring AF for me. In fact, I’m so damn over it, I’m actually UNFOLLOWING as many as I can every day on Instagram while desperately trying not to get flagged by the algo.

So because I wanna keep you-n-me in this realm of innovation, I’m gonna share with you creators who are currently inspiring the hell outta me, have unique POVs and are getting me to think differently.

⭐️ I’m linking to all of these peeps are on TikTok but you can probs also find them on Insta.

📺 @KIRAMACKENZ: Like Maggie Sellers, who I highlighted in last week’s email, Kira is another tech investor who also happens to be a marketing and branding genius.

START HERE: Her breakdown of Kylie Cosmetics brand evolution

📺 @ITSNEETIE: I honestly have no idea who this chick is cause her bio is super vague, but I seriously love her hot takes on branding and trends.

START HERE: Is Gap doing another rebrand?

📺 @THENATEBROWN: This dude has been a creative director for Beyoncé, Drake, and Jay-Z…he’s a friggin genius and I could listen to him talk all day about creativity, fashion and his hot takes on products.

START HERE: Paul Graham’s essay on how to do great work

📺 @ORENMEETSWORLD: He calls himself “the internet’s creative director” which, hello, I think deserves it’s own standing O for the sheer brilliance of that one liner. But he talks a ton about product based business stuff [branding, trends, factories in China roundups, etc].

START HERE: The everything aesthetic [which is basically a variation of my “merch your life concept]

📺 @KATARINATERENTIEVA: Ok, I just checked her bio and she ALSO calls herself the “internet’s creative director,” so not sure if she or Oren pioneered this title. But also I don’t really care because I love all of her hot takes on branding and packaging.

START HERE: Packaging ideas that don’t suck

📺 @COCOMOCOE: This creator used to work at Buzzfeed, but now has a podcast and a TikTok account [which is almost at a million followers!]. She covers internet culture and trends, and is always talking about stuff WAY before I’ve heard about it or even identified the thing as a trend I should be paying attention to.

START HERE: Kylie Jenner’s subliminal marketing strategy [Kylie is killing it lately]

⭐️ So these are all my favorite-y faves RN. ⬆️ 

Let me know if you end up subscribing, reading or following any of my recommendations cause I wanna know which things end up being your fave too. Also! Hit reply and let me know if you have a fave that I missed and need to know about ASAP.