🎙Deep Dives

Once a week, I have conversations with a guest on my YouTube channel. Guests have included authors such as Derek Sivers, John Zeratsky and Ryan Holiday, entrepreneurs John O'Nolan and Noah Kagan as well as fellow YouTubers such as Shelby Church and Sara Dietschy.

Please turn on notifications and subscribe to the channel to tune in live. If you can't catch the discussion when it goes out, you can catch the interview later by visiting my page on Nebula.

Videos

All of my Deep Dives are streamed live on YouTube. I schedule them in as Premieres, so you'll be able to see who I'm talking to in advance.

Here's an example of one of my Deep Dives, which was with my good friend Molly.

All Episodes

And if you wanted a list of who I've spoken to and everything we discussed - you're in luck!

Deep Dive #1 - Noah Kagan on Careers Advice, Books and Productivity

Deep Dive #1 - Noah Kagan on Careers Advice, Books and Productivity

In my first Deep Dive conversation, I talked to Noah Kagan who has gone from being employee #30 at Facebook to now owning the Sumo Group of apps, and works to help entrepreneurs start, market and grow their business.

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Deep Dive #2 - John Zeratsky on How To Make Time For What Matters

Deep Dive #2 John Zeratsky on How To Make Time For What Matters

John Zeratsky is the co-author of the book Make Time. In this conversation, he shares the philosophies behind his book, Make Time, as well as some key insights into goals, habit formation and why we should actively inconvenience ourselves on a regular basis.

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Deep Dive #3 - Deep Dive #3 Valentin Perez on Organising His Life in Notion

Deep Dive #3 Valentin Perez on Organising His Life in Notion

Valentin is the co-founder of Monthly – an online course platform designed around hands-on one-month courses with creators from around the world – as well as a prodigious user and expert of Notion which we talk about extensively in this discussion.

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Deep Dive #4 - Bobby Seagull on Television Success, Mindset and Trivia

Deep Dive #4 Bobby Seagull on Television Success, Mindset and Trivia

Bobby Seagull rose to prominence through his appearance on University Challenge and is now not only a school maths teacher and Cambridge University Doctorate student, but appears regularly on television and radio programmes and is a columnist for the Financial Times.

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Deep Dive #5 Derek Sivers on How To Do What Makes You Happy

Deep Dive #5 Derek Sivers on How To Do What Makes You Happy

Derek Sivers is an American writer, musician and entrepreneur who founded CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians, back in 1997. He has since embarked on other ventures writing 4 books including Anything You Want.

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Deep Dive #6 Tynan on Becoming Superhuman and Living The Nomadic Life

Deep Dive #6 Tynan on Becoming Superhuman and Living The Nomadic Life

Tynan is an author and adventurer who has written four books including Superhuman Social Skills and Superhuman by Habit. In our conversation, we covered a range of topics including social skills, storytelling, the value of travel and dating and relationships.

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Deep Dive #7 Nelson Dellis on Becoming a Memory Champion

Deep Dive #7 Nelson Dellis on Becoming a Memory Champion

Nelson Dellis is a 4x USA Memory Champion and one of the leading memory experts in the world, traveling around the world as a competitive memory athlete and a highly sought-after keynote speaker.

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Deep Dive #8 Cliff Weitzman - Life Advice from Forbes' 30 Under 30

Deep Dive #8 Cliff Weitzman - Life Advice from Forbes’ 30 Under 30

Cliff Weitzman is the founder of Speechify, a text-to-speech-audiobooks app and in 2017 was named in Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 list.

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Deep Dive #9 Sara Dietschy on Building Your Own Path as a Creator

Deep Dive #9 Sara Dietschy on Building Your Own Path as a Creator

After 3 years of an Electrical Engineering / Computer Science degree, Sara Dietschy dropped out of college to pursue filmmaking full time. She is driven by showing the creative process and has brought the rawness & fun of vlogs into her videos and now has over 650,000 subscribers on YouTube.

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Deep Dive #10 Ruby Granger on Life Lessons from Books, Studying & YouTube

Deep Dive #10 Ruby Granger on Life Lessons from Books, Studying & YouTube

Ruby Granger is a YouTuber and content creator whose channel was inspired by the Harry Potter character Hermione Granger. Her videos teach study techniques and offer insight into leading a productive life. In our discussion we talk about all things books, studying and our experiences on YouTube.

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Deep Dive #11 UnJaded Jade on YouTube, Gap Years and Odyssey Plans

Deep Dive #11 UnJaded Jade on YouTube, Gap Years and Odyssey Plans

Jade is a YouTuber and content creator whose channel discusses academia, veganism, self-confidence and positivity. In our conversation we discussed a variety of topics from starting out on YouTube to the value of gap years to dealing with imposter syndrome.

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Deep Dive #12 Khe Hy on Quitting Wall St., Self-Worth and Leisure

Deep Dive #12 Khe Hy on Quitting Wall St., Self-Worth and Leisure

Khe is a teacher, coach, and speaker who has been called the “Oprah for Millennials” by CNN and blogs about transforming our relationship with time, work, money – and ultimately ourselves

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Deep Dive #13 Shelby Church on Growing a Successful YouTube Channel, Podcasting & The Value of Blogging

Deep Dive #13 Shelby Church on Growing a Successful YouTube Channel, Podcasting & The Value of Blogging

Shelby is an American YouTuber who makes lifestyle and technology-related content.

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Deep Dive #14 Tiago Forte on Productivity and Building a Second Brain

Deep Dive #14 Tiago Forte on Productivity and Building a Second Brain

Tiago is one of the world’s foremost experts on productivity. This was perhaps the most in-depth discussion on productivity that I’ve had during this Deep Dive series and is well worth watching.

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Deep Dive #15 Benjamin Hardy on Willpower, Personality and Goals

Deep Dive #15 Benjamin Hardy on Willpower, Personality and Goals

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work and Personality Isn’t Permanent.

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Deep Dive #16 Khe Hy on Coaching, Finding Purpose and Enjoying the Process

Deep Dive #16 Khe Hy on Coaching, Finding Purpose and Enjoying the Process

Khe is a teacher, coach, and speaker. In his second appearance, we dive into topics such as the value of coaching, finding purpose in life and the importance of enjoying the process.

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Deep Dive #17 August Bradley on Systems Thinking, Notion and Goals

Deep Dive #17 August Bradley on Systems Thinking, Notion and Goals

August Bradley is a business performance coach, strategist, entrepreneur and Notion expert. In our conversation, August shares insights from his career as a systems thinker, walks through his Notion workflow and shares his thoughts on the value of goals.

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Deep Dive #18 John O'Nolan on Life as a Nomad, Ghost and Optimising for Happiness

Deep Dive #18 John O’Nolan on Life as a Nomad, Ghost and Optimising for Happiness

John O’Nolan is the developer, founder and CEO at Ghost which he has grown to a $2.7m/year business. He shares the lessons he’s learnt over the past decade, from setting up Ghost to successfully living the nomad life to why we should optimise for happiness rather than revenue.

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Deep Dive #19 Nat Eliason on Building Life Changing Blogs, Optimising SEO and Developing a Systems Mindset

Deep Dive #19 Nat Eliason on Building Life Changing Blogs, Optimising SEO and Developing a Systems Mindset

Nat Eliason is a blogger, entrepreneur and founder of the marketing agency Growth Machine.

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Deep Dive #20 Ryan Holiday on Writing, Measuring Success and Stoicism

Deep Dive #20 Ryan Holiday on Writing, Measuring Success and Stoicism

Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, Conspiracy and other books on Stoicism, culture, marketing and the human condition.

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Deep Dive #21 David Perell on the Power of Writing Online, Building an Audience and Originality

Deep Dive #21 David Perell on the Power of Writing Online, Building an Audience and Overcoming the Fear of Originality

David Perell is a writer, podcaster and founder of the course Write of Passage. In our conversation, we dive deeper into the writing process, how to write good content for the internet and how to build an audience successfully.

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Deep Dive #22 Alex Banayan on the Third Door, Storytelling and Sending Cold Emails

Deep Dive #22 Alex Banayan on the Third Door, Storytelling and Sending Cold Emails

Alex Banayan is the author of best-selling book The Third Door which documents his seven-year search to uncover the definitive mindset of exponential growth and success.

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Deep Dive #23 Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Deep Dive #23 Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Austin Kleon is the bestselling author of a trilogy of books about creativity and originality in the digital age.

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Deep Dive #24 James Schramko on Working Less, Making More and Other Key Business Insights

Deep Dive #24 James Schramko on Working Less, Making More and Other Key Business Insights

James Schramko is a writer, podcaster and business coach with years of experience in marketing, coaching and growing a business while working less.

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Deep Dive #25 Cam Houser on the Power of Video for Our Personal and Professional Lives

Deep Dive #25 Cam Houser on the Power of Video for Our Personal and Professional Lives

Cam Houser is an award-winning facilitator of online workshops, entrepreneurship curriculum designer and educator who teaches video.

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And if you like my Deep Dives, I'd recommend checking out my podcast - Not Overthinking which has a similar vibe.