Growth Manifesto Podcast

In this episode, we talk with Jason Daniel— Founder and CEO at LSKD— about how they went from $0 to $80M revenue in 5 years in the apparel industry.

In this episode we talk with Neil Sahota - IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor and author of the book Own the AI Revolution - about how A.I. tools like ChatGPT and Bard will affect the future of business.

In this episode we talk with with Murray - Founder and CEO at waterdrop - about how they went from $0 to $100M in revenue in 13 countries in 6 years, with DTC marketing.

In this episode we talk with Andy Fallshaw - Co-Founder and CEO at Bellroy, a company that specialises in producing high quality, wallets, bags and accessories - about how they leveraged DTC marketing to build a global accessory brand that's generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.

In this episode we talk with Peter Brennan - Co-Founder and Head of Brand at Heaps Normal - about how they launched their non-alcoholic beer brand in 2020 and in less than 3 years grew to a $57M business.

In this episode we talk with Ezra Firestone - Founder of Smart Marketer, Zipify Apps, and Boom! by Cindy Joseph, and one of the leading ecommerce marketers in the world - about how to scale up an ecommerce brand in 2023.

In this episode we speak with Jim Kalbach - author, speaker, chief evangelist at MUURAL, and author of 3 books including The Jobs To Be Done Playbook - about how to use the Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework to drive better marketing performance and growth.

In this episode we talk with Roger Martin - one of the leading strategy thinkers in the world, consulting with companies like Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford, and author of 12 books including Playing To Win - about the concepts from his latest book, A New Way To Think.

In this episode we talk with Ed Mylett - seasoned entrepreneur, best-selling author, global speaker, host of the Maxout podcast, and with a following of more than 3 million people on social media - about his latest book ‘The Power of One More’, which outlines his approach to reaching excellence in every part of your life.

In this episode we talk with Mike Michalowicz - author of the book Profit First - about how to build a profitable business using his Profit First Formula.

In this episode we talk with Dr Alan Barnard - one of the leading decision scientists and ‘theory of constraints’ experts in the world. His clients include companies like Microsoft, Nike, BHP, Cisco, SAP, Intel, Penguin Random House, and Fujitsu - about how to make better, faster decisions in business.

In this episode with talk with Jim Harter - Chief Scientist of Workplace Management and Wellbeing at Gallup, and author of 3 bestselling books - about how to build resilient and thriving teams, which is the focus of his latest book, Wellbeing at Work.

In this episode we talk with Perry Marshall - best selling author of 8 books including The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads, The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Ads, the Definitive Guide to TikTok ads, and 80/20 sales and marketing - about his revolutionary new approach to business thinking called New Renaissance.

This episode is with Assaf Resnick - Founder and CEO at BigPanda, an AI Ops SaaS platform that recently raised $190M valuing the company at $1.2B. In this episode we talk about Assaf Resnick's journey from startup to billion dollar unicorn.

This episode is with Alex Osterwalder - Author of best-selling books Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, and his latest book, The Invincible Company. He’s been ranked No.4 of the top 50 management thinkers globally, and he’s the co-founder of Strategyzer, which helps companies expand existing business lines, build new growth enginges, de-risk innovation ideas, and up-skill teams. In this episode we talk about how to build an invincible company through business model innovation.

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. In this episode we talk about his approach to pitching less and winning more deals, and how to out-pitch your competition.

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. Find out how the S-Curve applied to the people in your team can help keep them fully engaged, improve employee retention, and ultimately drive company growth.

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. In this episode we talk about how to raise money from a VC fund with discussions around the VC industry in Australia, Blackbird Ventures' investment strategy, what they look for in a startup opportunity, how to pitch a VC, and what founders should focus on after they get funded.

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 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.

This episode is with Scott Goodson - CEO & Founder at Strawberry Frog and co-author of the book Activate Brand Purpose - How to Harness the Power of Movements to Transform Your Company. In this episode we talk about how to use Movement Thinking to become a purpose-driven company.

This episode is with Alex Salnikov - Co-Founder and Head of Product at Rarible, one of the biggest NFT marketplaces on the planet. In this episode we go deep with NFTs including what they are, how they work, their different applications, and where they are going in the future.

This episode is with Kim Scott - author of bestselling books Just Work and Radical Candour. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and other tech companies, and has led the AdSense, YouTube and DoubleClick teams at Google. In this episode we talk about how to be a better leader, discussing concepts from her books Radical Candour and Just Work.

This episode is with Liz Wiseman - author of the best-selling books Multipliers, The Multiplier Effect, Rookie Smarts, with her new book being released in October - Impact Players. Liz is the CEO of the Wiseman Group - a leadership and development firm based out of Silicon Valley with clients like Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Tesla and Twitter. In this episode we talk about how to build a team of impact players.