Growth Manifesto Podcast

This episode is with Aleksandr (‘Shurick’) Agapitov, the founder, CEO, and the man behind the multibillion-dollar gaming payment enterprise Xsolla which is used by Epic Games, Ubisoft, Twitch and hundreds more. We talk about the future of gaming, the metaverse, Facebook, Web3 and what changes we can expect to see in the next 5-8 years.

Michael Mandell - the #1 lawyer on social media with more than 6.5 million followers on TikTok, 1.25 million followers on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Instagram. In this episode we talk about how he was able to build up such a big following on YouTube and TikTok for what is considered a more traditional, legacy (and boring) industry.

This episode is with Julie Winkle Giulioni - author of the international bestseller - Help Them Grow or Watch them Go, and one of Inc Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. In this episode we talk about her latest book - Promotions Are So Yesterday - Redefine Career Development and Help Employees Thrive.

This episode is with Bob Wiesner - Managing Partner at The Artemis Partnership, author of 'Winning is Better' and known as the ‘pitch doctor’ because of his approach to winning pitches. He’s advised on over 400 transactions in the last 25 years and his clients include companies like KPMG, Deloitte and JP Morgan Chase, and top firms in advertising, accounting, architecture, engineering, consulting, law and investment banking...

This episode is with Oren Klaff - one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation. He’s the bestselling author of Pitch Anything and Flip The Script, and he’s the Director of Capital Markets at Intersection Capital, where they advise companies seeking to raise capital, with more than $1B in recent transaction volume. In this episode we talk about how to get more meetings, win more pitches and close more deals.

This episode is with Whitney Johnson - CEO of Disruption Advisors and one of the 10 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She’s an award-winning author, a world-class keynote speaker, and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. In this episode we talk about the concepts in her latest book - Smart Growth: How to grow your people to grow your company...

This episode is with Niki Scevak - co-founder and partner at Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s leading VC funds, turning $1.2B invested since 2013 into a portfolio valued at $10B with investments including Canva, SafetyCulture and Eucalyptus...

This episode is with Julie Pacino - photographer, filmmaker, and who recently funded her new film ‘I Live Here Now’ through NFTs, with primary sales coming in at $1m and generating an additional $480k through secondary sales so far. In this episode we talk about how to use NFTs to fund creative projects, talking through the process that Julie went through to raise money for her new film.

This episode is with John Gray - best selling author, relationship expert and author of the #1 selling book - Men Are from Mars, Women are from Venus. In this episode we talk about how to build a great relationship with your partner at home so you can perform at your optimum when you're at work, even if you're working from home.

This episode is with Dave Asprey - Founder at Bulletproof, four-time New York Times bestselling author, and known as the father of biohacking. In this episode we talk about how to use biohacking to achieve peak performance.