The Darius Mora Show

Ever thought of your attention as a spotlight? It's always on, shining on your thoughts, fears, and hopes. Sometimes, it's lighting up old memories or future worries without you even noticing. In this episode, we chat about how our mind's spotlight can drift into the past or future, often led by our sneaky subconscious. Yet, the cool part is, we can grab hold of it and point it where we want, like the good stuff happening right now. Tune in and discover simple ways to take control of where your mind shines its light, making the here and now the star of your show.

David Alison is an Intuitive Coach, Trusted Advisor & Thinking Partner for High Performing Business Owners & Corporate Leaders. He is also a Mental Health Advocate, Author & Speaker.

His typical clients are "successful" according to societies norms. In addition, they want more from life, whether that's in business, their corporate career or personal life. They are looking for “the edge”, to get to the next levels in life & business, and to eradicate the mental barriers that hold them back from creating and achieving the outcomes they desire.

In his role he acts as trusted advisor and guide to his clients as they transform their mindset, beliefs, and personal psychology. Opening their minds to a world of possibilities, he helps them create and achieve the legacy and greatness they strive for.

Burnout is just an overachiever word for depression (usually induced by work). I have had symptoms, obvious ones, for months. People even told me what it might be, but depression wasn’t in my dictionary, it wasn’t in my universe. I ignored the symptoms until my mind clearly said “no, we are going to address these issues.”

If this sounds familiar or you know someone who might be going through a similar situation, I recorded this for you. In the following sections I will share my journey, what I did to get back on track and most importantly my epiphany about what I call the Micros and Macros of life

Cliff is the Founder and CEO of Speechify which turns text into audio and is mostly used by auditory learners. Today, Speechify is the #1 iOS app in its category, above the New York Times. Cliff launched Speechify only 2 years ago to help himself because he is dyslexic. He's one of the youngest people on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Originally from Israel, Cliff moved to the US with his family when he was 13 years old. In college, he built 36 different products and won the MIT and Stanford hackathons twice. He studied renewable energy engineering and used this knowledge to optimize his workouts as a parkour athlete. Thanks to Speechify, he now listens to over 100 books a year. 

Ryan is in charge of running growth at Revolut, he has worked on a ton of fun campaigns, focusing a lot on influencer and viral marketing. This is a great chat if you're interested in growth hacking. Ryan has used a lot of great hacks to scale the banking product across Europe. Before Revolut, Ryan paid off his college debt by growing and selling off Instagram accounts from Bali, that's what I call a true growth hacker! 

Mik is the founder of Tattoodo, world's biggest tattoo community. I visited their Copenhagen office and had a great chat about the process of creating and building Tattoodo. I've know Mik for a few years but this was the first time we had the opportunity to diver deeper into the early stories of how they got off the ground. Mik is a great story teller so this episode was a lot of fun for me to record. Mik is very straight forward in his communication, no bs. In college his studies philosophy and we also discuss how that influenced him as a founder of a startup and how he uses philosophy in his every-day life. 

We sit down with Matt who's the Head of Product at Zero fasting (previously Fitbit). We have a great discussion about building habit forming products. Both Zero and Reflectly are focusing on building new habits. We discuss common mistakes companies make with trying to form new habits and Matt shares some of his experience and explains what works best, when you try to change someone's behavior. 

Hello and welcome to the Darius Mora Show.

My name is Darius Mora and I will be your host.

In this podcast I will interview top performers from around the world and try to find out what are their beliefs, thoughts patterns and mental frameworks we can all learn from.

In the first season, most of the guests will be from the business world, more specifically from the mobile app space.

I myself am the Chief Marketing Officer at Reflectly which is the world’s most popular journaling app.

Before that I’ve basically tried building app companies my whole life. In my last company which was in language learning, we took the Silicon Valley route, moved to San Francisco, raised capital but that didn’t work.

Now Reflectly is on fire, we’re at about 10mil users, acquiring 10 - 30k users a day and we started to acquire other companies, building a mental fitness empire.

If you want to know, you can check out my YouTube channel Darius Mora where I share practical tutorials about app marketing

And I have a couple of courses on Udemy which are best sellers and highest rated in the app marketing and general marketing categories.

Here are a couple of highlights of what you can expect in the next couple of episodes.

Mik Thobo-Carlsen, founder and chairman of Tattoodo talks about how he convinced Ami James from Miami Ink to become a co-founder.

Andreas Kambanis, founder and CEO of Nibble Apps shares the story of launching his apps while backpack.

Ryan Holiday, senior growth at Revolut explains how he paid off his college debt by using his growth hacking skills.

Matt Silva, Head of Product at Zero Fasting explains what insights learned by building habit-forming products.

Andreas Kambanis is the founder and CEO of Nibble Apps. In this episode Andreas talks about his beginnings and how he started building companies and app right after collage. Nibble Apps is an app studio with lots of cool projects, but Meal Prep Pro is their most popular app. Andreas shares some very important metrics like their CPI (Cost Per Install) which is otherwise very difficult to find. Of course we discuss the beliefs and mental frameworks of Andreas as an entrepreneur and what he does to stay on top of his game.