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Starting to Know
by Ishu Singh - Entrepreneur, youtuber and a podcaster.
This podcast is about staying curious.It's about that journey. The never-ending pursuit of understanding.Not just in business, or science, or any one domain—but across everything that shapes how we think, build, and evolve.If you believe there's always more to learn, this is where your curiosity belongs.
Episodes
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You're allowed to walk away from someone you love
How do you support someone you love without losing yourself in the process? Psychotherapist and author Yvette Murray joins Ishu Singh for an honest conversation about the side of mental health we rarely discuss: what happens to the person trying to hold everything together. They explore support...
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You've Already Been Hacked, You Just Don't Know It Yet
You think you'd know if you got hacked. You wouldn't. The average company takes 260 days to even notice someone's been living inside their systems, and most never see it coming. In this episode, cybersecurity and security architecture expert Evgeniy Kharam breaks down what really happens when you...
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BBC Journalist: Why The Most Prepared Person In The Room Breaks First
In a world of constant flux, preparation can sometimes be a liability when circumstances shift unexpectedly. This discussion highlights the importance of adaptability, especially during challenging times, as we explore why even the most prepared individuals might falter. We also touch upon…
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Why Your Business Will Die With You
This video explores the critical concept of the "founder bottleneck" and how it limits your organization's potential. We discuss building robust "business systems" and effective "business operations" to ensure "business growth" beyond your direct involvement, allowing for genuine "scaling a...
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Why Expertise Keeps You Invisible
Most experts think the formula is simple: Get better. Work harder. Build more credentials. Then opportunity will come. But that is not how the market works. In this episode, I sit down with Cam Beaudoin to unpack why highly qualified people often stay invisible while less qualified people get...
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Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Most bad decisions don't happen because you don't know better. They happen because something interferes, and it feels like you. In this episode of Starting to Know, we break down why smart people make bad decisions: why people make choices that cost them money, relationships, and years… even when...
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Why Followers Don't Pay You (And What Does)
Followers don't pay you. A _xxxxxx_ does. This episode is for anyone who's posting consistently, getting likes, building an audience… and still seeing $0. We go deep on the uncomfortable truth: attention is cheap, commitment is expensive. So what actually makes people buy? Inside: The biggest lie...
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From Welfare Kid to $20M Offers: The Dark Side of his 'Success' Story. Ft. Mr. Wraptors
From Welfare Housing to $20M Empire: The Mr. Wraptors Story No One Tells. Russian immigrant. Welfare housing. 21 failed businesses. Now running 15+ locations across multiple countries with over 100 employees. Stas (Mr. Wraptors) reveals what it actually took to build a multi-million dollar...
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He Helped 10,000+ People Move to Canada — Here's What No One Understands (With Sumit Jain)
What if everything you know about Canadian immigration is only half the truth? In this explosive episode, I sit down with Sumit Jain, one of Canada's most trusted immigration professionals, to uncover the real game behind PR, study visas, work permits, and why most people fail—not because of...
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Leading with Mindfulness
Catherine Bell is a successful entrepreneur, business leader, and best-selling business author. Catherine founded BluEra, a Profit 500 executive search and team transformation company. As a top 200 growing company in Canada, top 10 in Alberta, and best workplace, BluEra was a shining example of…
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How & When To Raise Money
Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder at Massdriver, a company that helps to improve the developer experience of cloud operations, offering self-service capabilities along with governance and guardrails to developers. A seasoned expert in DevTools, SRE, and platform engineering, Cory has built...
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From Clicks to Conversions: Understanding Your Customer Journey
Chris "Mercer" Mercer is an esteemed measurement marketing expert and the co-founder of MeasurementMarketing.io. With an unwavering dedication to helping marketers, marketing teams, and agencies understand and leverage data, Mercer has become a trusted name in the industry. Mercer's approach to...
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A Bold Data Journey
Nick Jordan is the Founder of Narrative, a company dedicated to transforming data commerce and guiding businesses in systematically creating and selling data. Helping them use transformative technology to remove roadblocks has been Nick's focus ever since. Before founding Narrative, Nick also...
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The Secret to Creating Content That's Interesting, Memorable, and Emotional
Jill Dow is the CEO at York and Chapel, a digital house which grew into a full-service marketing and branding agency in the past twenty years. In 2018, Jill became Executive Vice President at York & Chapel. She is in charge of developing brand strategies, running business operations, and growing...
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Defying Norms, Building Tech
Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help bootstrapped entrepreneurs avoid burnout. Having hit the bottom before, he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs get the insights they need to recalibrate their work/life balance so they have the energy and motivation to keep going. He is a 3x SaaS…
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The Branding Blackhole: Why Some Brands Disappear
Parker Nash is a brand messaging and marketing expert and an 11-year veteran of Nike where he grew lines of business to more than half a billion in annual revenue. While at Nike, he realized the process they used to build their brand was something all businesses could do which inspired him to…
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The pull of Branding
Nelson Ho is the CMO at York & Chapel, a digital house that evolved into a full-service marketing and branding agency in the past twenty years. Y&C aims to provide strategically-oriented innovative solutions and ideas in the realms of branding and design, marketing communications, internet...
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The Secret to On-Camera Success
Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell. Her mission is to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and corporations tell those stories better on video and become known as experts in their space. She is a speaker, a media trainer, and the host of the STANDOUT podcast. Prior to…
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Insiders Look at B2B Videos
Chris Weiher is a video producer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Chris's company, CLEAVER Creative has created B2B animations, videos for events and sales presentations, and commercials seen by millions and now works with business owners to help them create their own videos and...
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Complexity, Clarity, and the Customer Experience
Nick Foy is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Evangelist of Silverdale Technology, which provides access to world-class processes, systems, and change management methods regardless of their size or budget. Going against the grain of the ERP industry, Nick and his team are 'democratizing ERP' with their...
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Web3 Connected to the Real World
Jim is the Founder and CEO of Untapped Global, an investment company that finances high-growth businesses in emerging markets. Their technology-driven approach reduces risk and increases profitability. Smart Asset Financing has already financed 9,000 productive assets in 13 African countries with...
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The Price of the Name - Brand Equity
Maria Popova is an Agora-trained copywriter turned brand equity builder. Seasoned in digital marketing and entrepreneurship, Maria is currently the Head Of Growth at WLG Agency, a global digital advertising agency. Maria and her team help overachievers create generational wealth with profitable...
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Working With A Suspended Amazon Account
Lesley oversees Riverbend's client services team. She has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their suspended Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running. Lesley leverages two decades as a small business consultant to solve the underlying business issues in online retail...
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Conversion Content - The Hidden Story Behind Your Marketing
Carly J. Cais started in Marketing before she even knew it was Marketing: building websites for businesses back in 2001 (her first website was a My Little Pony flipping shop). She later founded a niche blog and grew it over 12 years to a monthly readership of over 120K visits, partnering with...
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Why Facebook Ad Campaigns Don't Work
Jennifer Spivak is the CEO of The AdGirls Agency, an all-female Facebook Ads agency. She has helped hundreds of businesses generate millions of dollars on Facebook & Instagram, with many seeing a 1000%+ return on their ad campaigns. Her all-female team enjoys crunching data, helping women-owned...
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The $1M Process
Craig Swanson is an entrepreneur, business coach, and co-founder of the online learning platform CreativeLive. Craig thrives being the secret weapon partnering with online businesses such as KaisaFit, Sue Bryce Education, and The Wedding School by helping them into the multi-million-dollar mark…
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What you don't understand about Corporate Spying
Robert Kerbeck is the founder of the Malibu Writers Circle and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His true crime memoir about his career as a corporate spy, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street, has received praise from Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)…
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Mindset: Micro or Macro Habits?
Tony is the Founder and Owner of Elevated Worldwide, which focuses on improving how executives, founders, and business owners see and think about life to create success on purpose. They have been enhancing their clients' knowledge base, providing them with processes that will build up their...
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Customer Experience: The Difference Between Amazement and Annoyance
Jonathan Shroyer is the Chief Customer Experience Innovation Officer of Arise Virtual Solutions, a customer service outsourcing, and offshoring consulting firm. Arise acquired Officium Labs, a company he co-founded, last November 2021 and is now known as Arise Gaming. Jonathan has been involved...
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The Case For Purpose-Driven Marketing
Colt Briner, as chief communications officer for Ensemble Health Partners, witnessed first-hand the power of purpose in business – helping that company to grow from a $60m valuation to $2B, in 2 years. Colt has deconstructed and streamlined the model he used at Ensemble and developed a clear and...
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Why the customer experience of today is unified communication
Ostojic comes to Infobip following a decade with leading global consulting company McKinsey & Co., where as a partner he co-founded and co-led McKinsey's global Technology Council and its innovation and new business building (Leap) practices. He holds a doctorate in natural sciences from the...
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How to build a Product People Want with Oren
Oren Schauble is a serial entrepreneur and product builder. He most recently served as President of public cannabis CPG company Unrivaled. He is currently a partner at high-tech product development and contract engineering firm Guinn Partners, and runs the popular Product People newsletter about...
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Apps are not dead. He can prove it.- Boon Chew
"Boon Chew is the Founder of Tappollo Media, a leading mobile app studio, that creates apps that stand out from all the noise. The company has built apps for Discovery Channel, iHeartRadio, WeWork, Timehop, and Walmart. Tappollo Media also created the open-source framework Booster, which startup...
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How do leaders develop in their lives? with Beate Chelette
Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect and founder of The Women's Code and designs processes, best practices, and systems for leaders who want to grow, build and scale their business, and achieve measurable results and profits they can count on. Recent clients include Chevron, Merck, the Women's...
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What The Real Definition Of Business Is
Kevin Browett is the Chief Executive Officer of The Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders. Browett has extensive operations and business development experience with a wide range of industry knowledge. He has led startups, and Fortune 500s, and has been a change agent when it comes to the...
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How To Find Customers And Keep Them Forever- Swire Ho
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Swire immigrated to Los Angeles in 1996. He is a proud Chinese American who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. He trained as a sound engineer, working at recording studios and entertainment agencies before starting his own firm, Hellman Production, Inc, in 2003...
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Data into Dollars, this way.
Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed. Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data...
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Mergers and Acquisition science with Kison Patel
Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created...
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How to win a customer is crucial for your business. Learn Why! with Chris
Chris is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing. While Chris specializes in dental marketing, other medical professionals, marketers, entrepreneurs, and businesses can learn from his digital marketing experience of over 15 years. Chris has worked with countless local business owners in all...
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The how to grow your Instagram account that wins customers
Derren is a serial entrepreneur with over 14+ years of experience working with hundreds of startups and businesses to help them thrive. He's worn every hat in the closet with the exception of being a developer and has achieved mastery in the art of delegation. Under his leadership as CEO, he took...
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How to run a local business remotely with Neel Parekh
Neel runs a fully remote local business and teaches others how to do the same. Five years ago Neel had an idea: local businesses don't need to be managed locally! He turned this idea into reality with MaidThis® & MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts (Airbnb…
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How to scale with the scalable sales team- Joseph
Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it. Graduate of the University of Waterloo's Computer Engineering program, Joseph's a repeat Founder & CEO, and...
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Master your entrepreneurial craft with Henry Daas
Henry started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing, and financing computers to large corporations. Since then he has founded a succession of firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate, and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, he has taken his experience as an...
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The way to be healthy, wealthy and wise by Edward Shehab
Edward J. Shehab is co-founder and managing partner of Birmingham, Michigan-based Memory Health. A serial entrepreneur, in 2019, Shehab invested in a new, groundbreaking product scientifically proven to treat neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in patients suffering from the onset of...
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How to get your company acquired with John Warrillow
John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the…
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Your company acquisition is possible with Alex Poon
Alex is a 3X entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of NorthShore.ai, a knowledge network that enables companies to manage curated information. He was the co-founder of x.ai, an AI-powered personal assistant, and Visual Revenue, a real-time predictive analytics platform for editorial teams.…
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How to use email for marketing strategy- Emily McGuire
Emily McGuire is the Owner and Chief Email Marketer at Flourish & Grit: an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing a business' unique customer journey and high-converting copywriting. With lessons learned over a decade in...
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Strategic marketing is better than marketing with Wayne Mullins
Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has scaled multiple companies and helped hundreds of entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. Ugly Mug Marketing has won the praises of some of the leading influencers in the business world, such as…
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How to Start Writing with AI- Handy Metellus
Handy believes you should never let your fears keep you from fulfilling your purpose and living your dreams. That's why he co-founded Bramework to help digital marketing agencies take back their time, make more money and grow their business. He is a husband, father, coder, blogger, and musician.…
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what is storytelling marketing with Dennis
Dennis Morrison is an entrepreneurial creative who originated as a filmmaker. He's a business storyteller, marketing story strategist, and founder of Audience Magnet, which helps businesses and professionals to communicate authentically and effectively. He's helping business owners and digital...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is about staying curious.It's about that journey. The never-ending pursuit of understanding.Not just in business, or science, or any one domain—but across everything that shapes how we think, build, and evolve.If you believe there's always more to learn, this is where your curiosity belongs.
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Ishu Singh - Entrepreneur, youtuber and a podcaster.
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