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Portfolio Career Podcast
by David Nebinski
Are you struggling to create a career and life vision that you love? Portfolio Career Podcast is here to provide proven success stories, actionable tips, and key skills to do this for you. David Nebinski talks with people who have designed their Portfolio Career that allows for growth, resiliency, and happiness. Tune in to build and grow your Portfolio Career. Let's have some fun!
Episodes
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Betting on myself for more than one year
For more than one year, I have been betting on myself with my work. I have worked on many interesting projects and learned a lot. There have been some distinct chapters in the year as well. Recently, I have been enjoying building the A Chief of Staff community and platform and how that has been...
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CLG2 Debrief: What Worked and What's Next
The Community Led Growth "CLG" Conference on October 2nd 2026 was a big success. We had an over 95%+ attendance rate and got lots of great feedback. In this episode, we share our reflections right after the conference while it is fresh. You will learn about how CLG2 compared to CLG1 earlier this...
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Behind The Scenes on Cohosting CLG2 conference
Where you host an event matters. The people who attend are very important, but where you host matters too. Zach, Ruthie and David talk about venue selection for events and how they decided to pick Fabrik as the venue for The Community Led Growth conference on Friday October 2nd. They all are...
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Building A Chief of Staff with David Nebinski: A Podcast, Newsletter, and NYC Community
David Nebinski, Founder of A Chief of Staff, is interviewed by Kriti and Andrew who have attended his A Chief of Staff Mixers about starting and building A Chief of Staff. In this episode, you will learn about David’s prior Chief of Staff-like roles, his solopreneurship journey, and the starting...
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On Compounding: Building CLG2 with Zach and Ruthie
David reflects on how Community-Led Growth Conference 2 (CLG2) came together — from a spontaneous catch-up call with Ruthie Berber to Zach Hawtoff's immediate "let's do it" — and why he keeps coming back to the idea of compounding: building on projects, relationships, and momentum instead of...
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Year Two: Scaling a Community-First Business with Cristina Ciaravalli
Cristina Ciaravalli, Founder and CEO of Valli Ventures, shares about building a community-first business — from fitness-focused Founder events to a growing recruiting and advisory practice. She shares how her recruiting arm grew out of casual favors for friends, what it took to scale from a solo...
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The Fluid Career: Thriving in the Multi-Hyphenate Era with Melissa Wong
Melissa Wong returns five years after her first appearance to talk about her new book, The Fluid Career. She and David dig into why multi-hyphenates and portfolio careerists are best positioned to weather AI-driven job anxiety. They also reflect on David's own career transition over the past…
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Provide an Audit as a Conversation Starter
An audit can be much more than an assessment, it can be the beginning of a great conversation. This episode explores how providing business owners with an audit creates something tangible to discuss, encourages collaboration, and helps uncover opportunities together. I did this last summer when I...
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Take The Chance
Taking chances can change the direction of our lives. In this episode, multiple voices share their perspectives on taking risks, embracing uncertainty, and saying yes to opportunities, even when you don’t know exactly where they’ll lead.
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Why You Need A Now Page
When I use social media, I am often projecting something. A story. A message. An event. Something. And at the same time, there is a lot more going on in my life that I often do not post about, or know where or how to do so. Insert: a Now page. It is a page on my website that I can communicate…
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She Deleted Her Website. Here Is What Olivia Leavengood Uses Instead
Olivia Leavengood shares her journey from full-time Chief of Staff to bootstrapped Founder to fractional chief of staff, and she's now niched down into helping B2B founders master founder-led sales. She breaks down why niching down is key to building a fractional or consulting practice, why warm...
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The Fractional Chapter Ends: Nkem Oghedo on Knowing When to Go Full-Time
In this episode, Nkem Oghedo and David Nebinski talk Chief of Staff transitions, the "identity economy," and why leaning into the unknown beats chasing certainty. Nkem shares the news that she's stepping away from fractional work to go full-time with one of her clients, and what that means for…
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Building A Fractional and Consulting Business Post-Chief of Staff Role with Natalie Trotta
Natalie Trotta used to be a Chief of Staff. Now she is building her own consulting business. She started off calling it fractional work and now it has grown. You will learn about how she positions herself, how she has found clients, the importance of conversation, and much more. If you are a…
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What My Portfolio Career Looks Like In 2Q26
In this episode, you will learn about how I am building my portfolio career, how it compares to the prior quarter and what I have learned through this. You will learn about what has been energizing me in my work and how I enjoy work that is compounding and growing. I also talk about a new project...
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Neil Yeoh on Community-Led Growth for 6+ Years
Neil Yeoh, Founder and CEO of OnePointFive, shares lessons on bootstrapping his company through six brutal years to build a 20-person team and and his community-led growth playbook of flywheels, LinkedIn, and building a minimum viable audience along the way. Enjoy!
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Lessons From Builders
Are you building a company, community, or a movement? What have you learned? In this Hot Pod podcast mixer episode, you will hear from a handful Founders and Community Builders about lessons from building their project, movement and /or company. You will learn about tactical approaches and…
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Community-Led Growth Trends with Olivia O'Sullivan
Olivia O'Sullivan, Partner & COO at Forum Ventures, joins David Nebinski to talk community-led growth: why community roles are so hard to get buy-in for, how to translate "soft" community metrics into the numbers leaders actually care about, and how Founders are thinking about community-led…
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The Challenges of Modern Friendship with Carly Cassidy
Carly Cassidy thinks a lot about friendship. She has a podcast called Core Friends and wants to have a group of core friends herself and cultivate close friendships. In New York and maybe other cities, this is hard. She wrote a Substack post about this topic. While being a soloprenuer, I have…
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Why You Should Be Terminally IRL with Ben Winn
Ben Winn, VP Community and Content, makes the case for going "terminally IRL." As AI floods the internet with slop and bots overtake human traffic, he argues the real edge is showing up in person. He breaks down how to spot quality events, why brevity wins in outreach, and why he wants to get on…
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Being Seen and Building a Business with Annie Riley
Annie Riley, CEO of Fort Light and Host of the Best Manager Ever podcast, talks about the vulnerability of putting yourself out there while building a business tied to your identity. You will also learn about a breakthrough blizzard video to rehabbing the word "manager" and choosing real over...
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AI for Normal People with Grace Clarke
Grace Clarke went viral for her annual planning template, then left her job, moved, and became a teacher running AI for Normal People classes in NYC. She and David talk about why your plan should go off the rails, building your own AI "board of directors," and the messy open questions about...
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Charlie O'Donnell on Building Trust and Relationships
Charlie O'Donnell, a 20+ year NYC tech venture veteran and author of Founder Unfriendly, joins David to talk about the art of staying genuinely connected. They dig into "heartbeat emails," why trust is really just information, and how showing up as a three-dimensional person (not just a LinkedIn...
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Succeeding Slow with Brian Helfman
What if you took your time and built a business at your own pace? That's what Brian Helfman, the Founder of Third Nature has been doing. He has been building his Adult Summer Camp business for 10+ years. He is building this in addition to working on other things. He is also a recent father as…
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Community Building like a Product with Tarlon Khoubyari
Tarlon Khoubyari, San Francisco Events & Community Lead at Rho, shares how she approaches events as a product — iterating on formats, curating rooms intentionally, and turning in-person gatherings into a real revenue driver for her company. If you are a community builder or want to build…
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Building A Business On The Side with Hannah Zhang
Hannah Zhang is building a “5-to-9” business alongside her day job at a startup. In two years, she has built a six-figure business as a creator. She has over 170,000 followers on Instagram and writes a newsletter. In this episode, you learn about why nonlinear careers are the future, structuring...
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Building and Scaling Reading Rhythms with Ben Bradbury
Ben Bradbury, Co-founder and CEO of Reading Rhythms, returns to share how a rooftop book reading event with 10 friends became a thriving community business with nearly 700 reading parties around the world. We cover brand partnerships, community building strategy, and their new app, and much more!...
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From Virtual to IRL: How Clare Purvis Brought Her Community Together
Clare Purvis, the Founder of WELL, a community for women in digital health, joins the show to discuss how she pulled off her first-ever ticketed Summit. The conference had 70+ women and was focused on peer-to-peer learning. She built the conference similar to the programming in her online...
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How To Use LinkedIn To Grow Your Business and Brand with Molly Godfrey
LinkedIn strategist and community builder Molly Godfrey shares how she's generated $5M for clients using LinkedIn. She shares what types of posts actually work, how to think about top vs. bottom of funnel content, and why consistency (not perfection) is the key to building a business and brand on...
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Taking Action on Creative Ideas with Nicole Kelner
Nicole Kelner shares how a Substack post about finding quiet in NYC became a Rizzoli book deal called Quietest Places in New York City. You will learn more about the book and the ideas in it, in this episode. You will also learn about Nicole built a habit-tracking app called Free Time recently…
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Personal Reflection On Being "Independent" For 6 Months
Are you looking to be more self-employed or self-funded? Listen to this episode where I talk about how my portfolio career has evolved over the last six months of working on my own. I am currently kind of paralell pathing two similar work streams. You will learn about the two, three month…
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No Speakers, No Problem: Hosting The Community-Led Growth Conference
I cohosted the first-ever Community Led Growth Conference (CLG) with Zach Hawtof on Friday March 13th. On Monday March 16th, we chatted about it in this podcast episode. We talked about how the conference came together in two months, how it was sold-out, our programming choices, and how a few...
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The Golden Age of Community Building with Avital Knoller
Avital Knoller is the Head of Ecosystem at Orchid Security. In this episode, she shares her 10 years of hard-won community building wisdom. You will learn about growing Wiz's community to a Google-acquisition exit, B2B community building, and why she believes we're in the golden age of community...
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Gen Z's Pinterest to Extra: Community-Led Growth with Miri Buckland
Miri Buckland never planned to be a Founder, until a Stanford class project turned into Landing, a social app that grew to over a million downloads without spending a dollar on marketing. After six years of pivots, community building, and ultimately shutting it down, she's back at zero-to-one…
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How to Land Brand Deals and Actually Get Paid with Justin Moore
In this episode, I talk with Justin Moore, the author of Sponsor Magnet, about how creators can successfully land and manage brand sponsorships. Justin shares insights from his experience running sponsorship challenges and coaching creators, emphasizing that mindset, particularly overcoming...
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What does community-led growth look like?
What does community-led growth look like? A group of founders, marketers, and community builders unpack community-led growth from every angle: why human connection beats performance marketing, how communities create multiple business entry points, and why earning organic growth is slow but worth...
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Simi Shah on Podcasting, Personal Branding, and the Chief of Staff role
Simi Shah, the Founder of South Asian Trailblazers, shares how she turned a pandemic-era podcast into a thriving community with live podcast events. Simi shares how she also discovered her "reverse product-market fit” with her agency when people asked her for media strategy advice. You will also...
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Alex Chung on Relationship Building, Being Relentless, and Growing Goodword
Alex Chung, Founding Head of Growth at Goodword, shares her approach to building meaningful professional relationships. She discusses the power of follow-up and follow-through, how she connected with entrepreneur Andy Dunn by offering value first, and why being "a little unhinged" is sometimes...
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Structured Networking and Community Building with Lisa Skye
Lisa Skye is the Founder of SkyeCo and is a prolific community builder. In this episode, she shares her unconventional path from BNI chapter President, to WeWork early employee, to launching SkyeCo, a structured networking community for mostly for business owners. Lisa discusses the outsized…
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Intentional Life Design and Fractional Leadership with Rebekah Rombom
Rebekah Rombom shares how she transitioned from a nearly decade-long role at Flatiron School to building a fractional executive practice—not by design, but by staying busy with consulting until she realized she didn't need a traditional job. Rebekah emphasizes two powerful principles: clearly...
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Focus = Growth as a Soloprenuer with Chris Schembra
Chris Schembra, the Founder of 7:47 Club, reveals how he's built a thriving solopreneur business over 10+ years by doing less, not more. Learn why focus equals growth, how asking one simple gratitude question to 808 founders led to a new podcast and eventually new business, and why thoughtful...
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Book Notes: Sponsor Magnet by Justin Moore
In this episode, David breaks down the key insights from Justin Moore's book Sponsor Magnet: How to Attract, Price, and Execute Your Dream Brand Partnerships. You will learn practical frameworks for securing brand partnerships and sponsorships, including the ROPE method for crafting compelling...
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Internet Serendipity World Tour: Lessons from 13 Events in 37 Days with Will Mannon
Will Mannon and David Nebinski reflect on their whirlwind tour bringing the online community magic to in-person events across 13 events in 13 cities in late 2025 during the Internet Serendipity World Tour powered by Circle. They share what worked (local co-hosts, creator marketing partnerships…
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Celebrating Change: Finding Confidence in Career Transitions and Life's Uncertainties
Host David Nebinski gathers friends around a table to reflect on recent changes and transformations. What begins as a celebration of David's recent career leap, leaving his job and building confidence through action, the episode evolves into a deeper conversation about navigating life's biggest...
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Paul Millerd on Dream Projects, Creative Persistence, and Taking The Leap
Are you looking to know what is like to find work you want to do? Paul Millerd is the author of The Pathless Path and Good Work. In this episode, he talks about the art of staying in the game without chasing metrics, how to think about work without letting it define your identity, and a framework...
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Taking Agency Over Who's In Your Life with Carly Valancy
Carly Valancy, the Founder of The Reach Out Party, believes that you should take more agency over the people who are in your life. In this episode, she shares practical strategies for reaching out to people you admire and building sustainable connection habits. She thinks that networking doesn't...
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What is your definition of leadership? with Stephen Shedletzky
What is your definition of leadership? In this episode, Stephen Shedletzky also known as "Shed" shared his definition of leadership and asked for feedback from other people attending this Podcast Mixer event. You will hear about whether leaders are necessary, challenge conventional definitions of...
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The First 90 Days as CEO with Ashwini Anburajan
Ashwini Anburajan shares her journey from Chief Revenue Officer to CEO at Obi, a rideshare aggregator app. In this live episode recorded in New York City, Ashwini discusses the critical first 90 days of her new role, why the company pivoted before, and the challenges of scaling a startup. She…
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Navigating Work Transitions and Evolutions Together: Rina Patel and David Nebinski
Rina and David candidly discuss their parallel career transitions and the unexpected ways they've supported each other through the uncertainty. Rina shares her journey from leaving her first 9-to-5 role to launching a daily TikTok practice that unexpectedly built community and income. Together,...
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Finding and Excelling in the Chief of Staff role with Erica Akitani-Bob
Erica Akitani-Bob is currently the Chief of Staff at All Places. This is not her first Chief of Staff role. In this episode, you will learn about how she got her current role, advice for job seekers, how she adds value in the role, and how she tries to understand the scope of projects. This…
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The Power of In-Person Events with Will Mannon
Will Mannon and I have a shared passion for bringing like-minded people together in-person. The conversations can be incredible and wildly generative. Will was the Cofounder of Write of Passage, a popular online writing school. Through the course, he hosted a bunch of in-person meetups. In 2025…
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Are you struggling to create a career and life vision that you love? Portfolio Career Podcast is here to provide proven success stories, actionable tips, and key skills to do this for you. David Nebinski talks with people who have designed their Portfolio Career that allows for growth, resiliency, and happiness. Tune in to build and grow your Portfolio Career. Let's have some fun!
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