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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Hear the stories, learn the proven methods, and accelerate your growth and future through entrepreneurship. Welcome to The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan.

About the show:

For over a decade, The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan has been a leading entrepreneurship podcast for open-book conversations with, by, and for founders. Whether you’re starting, building, or dreaming about your business, The Foundr Podcast is where you can access experienced founders who’ve been in your shoes to learn their proven methods, lessons from failure, and inspirational stories.

Past guests include Emma Grede, Mark Cuban, Neil Patel, Kendra Scott, Alex Hormozi, Trinny Woodall, Tim Ferriss, Sophia Amoruso, Simon Sinek, Tony Robbins, Amy Porterfield, Ed Mylett, Michelle Zatlyn, Reid Hoffman, Scooter Braun, Dany Garcia, Marc Lore, Ariana Huffington, Pat Flynn, Lewis Howes, Jordan Harbinger, and many more.

About the host:

Nathan Chan is the CEO of Foundr and the creator of The Foundr Podcast. Chan literally started from knowing nothing. He was just an average guy working in a 9-5 job he utterly hated. He knew nothing about entrepreneurship, nothing about startups, nothing about marketing, and nothing about online or how to build a business. In the past decade, Chan’s built Foundr into a global leader in entrepreneurial education, helping tens of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs start and scale their businesses.

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Latest Episodes:

491: Build Better Ads Using AI with Nick Schakelford of Structured Social Dec 22, 2023

Show notes

Listener favorite Nick Shackelford returns to the podcast to share the current state of paid ads and how to incorporate AI in building them. Shackelford is the co-founder and managing partner at Structured Social, co-founder of Brez, and co-founder of Constant Creative. He’s spent the last ten years immersed in the performance marketing world. After working with legacy brands Pepsico and Apple, he quickly found his groove, going direct consumer with viral products like Fidget Spinners and Magnetic Eyelashes.

Listen to Nick and Nathan discuss:

Nick’s origin story as a professional goalkeeper
Why Nick’s How to Run Facebook Ads course stands the test of time
How Nick is walking the walk with his CDB beverage company, Brez
The state of paid advertising
How Nick uses AI for his clients and business
The four core areas of AI implementation
Using Canva and ChatGPT’s integration
What’s looming in 2024 for advertising
The challenges of transitioning from click to brick
How AI can help with customer service
And more AI tools for ad creation…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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490: Why Trinny Woodall Still Replies to DMs Dec 15, 2023

Show notes

Trinny Woodall returns to the podcast for a deep dive into AI and how she’s evolving Trinny London in a changing DTC landscape. Woodall is confident, direct, ambitious, and fabulous before fabulous was cool. She knows what she’s doing because she knows her customers. After a 20-year career in television and styling, she established Trinny London as a brand that gives everyone the tools they need to feel their best. Since launching in 2017, Trinny London has had 120% year-over-year growth, sells in 180 countries, and has a team of 200 employees. Woodall’s long-term goal is to eventually exit as one of the largest beauty brands in the world.

Listen to Nathan and Trinny discuss

Why she built a brand targeting women over 35
The origin of Trinny Tribes and encouraging an organic community
Why customer retention is such an essential building block
The changing landscape of retail and D2C brands
Tapping into TikTok to reach future customers
The pros and cons of being a celebrity founder
Why she still personally responds to DMs and comments
Using AI to help customers make choices
How to start a beauty brand today
And much more on DTC…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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489: Creating Humanized Automations Using AI with Nat Choprasert of Future AI Lab Dec 08, 2023

Show notes

Nat Choprasert, founder of Brand Nat and Future AI Lab, is an AI and automation specialist for businesses on a mission to demystify AI. After starting and exiting her successful ecommerce tea business, she's now helping companies implement "Humanized Automation" to save time and grow revenue. Nat has 400,000 followers across her platforms.

Listen to Nathan and Nat discuss:

Starting her tea business and the loneliness of solopreneurship
Gaining organic momentum by sharing business advice on TikTok
How one of her videos on ChatGPT gained a million views
Growing to 400,000 followers across social platforms
Using a 60/40 percentage mindset with using AI
How to add the human touch to AI work
Implementing AI and automation for beginners
How to use ChatGPT as a business coach
Using Claude for marketing hooks and ad creative
The common challenges of using AI for business
And more AI tool recs for ecommerce…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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488: Crafting Virality on TikTok with Talia Datt of The Social CliQ Dec 01, 2023

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Talia Datt returns to the podcast to share how her agency uses AI to produce viral content on TikTok. Talia Datt is the CEO and founder of The Social CliQ, a full-service digital marketing agency with a social media-first approach to online platforms. They leverage their group of 3,000 TikTok creators worldwide via their sister agency, The Content CliQ, to help plan, create, and execute so founders can easily harness the fastest-growing social media platform in the world. She’s also the instructor of a new Foundr course on creating a content marketing engine.

Listen to Nathan and Talia discuss:

The TikTok algorithm’s AI foundation
Starting your strategy by consuming
Proactive vs reactive content
The importance of using the native editor
Quality over quantity for content
Using AI for hooks and captions
Feeding ChatGPT for better outputs
What tools her agency uses
Principles of a viral product video on TikTok
ChatGPT email hacks
And more TikTok and AI strategies…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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487: Why Ambassadors are Better Than Ads with Brittany Stewart of BURST Oral Care Nov 24, 2023

Show notes

Brittany Stewart returns to the podcast to share how she’s building one of the fastest-growing ecommerce businesses in the United States using a stalwart ambassador program. Stewart co-founded BURST Oral Care, which sells double-digit millions on Amazon, has 30,000 ambassadors, and 800,000 members to their subscription program. Burst is currently stocked in 2,000 Walmarts and is launching in CVS this year.

Listen to Nathan and Brittany discuss:

How Brittany teamed up with her co-founder Hamish
Why their ambassador program is an R&D and acquisition channel
Launching their business at a dental convention
The ins and outs of building an authentic ambassador program
How do you define the success of an ambassador
The difference between brand and financial results
Low-cost tools to get an ambassador program up and running
Why AI is turning A players into A+ players
What AI tools BURST is using
And much more ambassador advice…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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486: What AI Will NOT Replace in Business with Michael Fenech of SKUdrop Nov 17, 2023

Show notes

Michael Fenech is ready to give back. After decades of building ecommerce businesses and getting mentorship from top executives, he’s passing on his wisdom to people like you. Fenech is an Australian entrepreneur, writer, startup advisor, and ecommerce expert. Fenech is the co-founder of SKUdrop, and VoiceByte, and an official member of the Fast Company executive board and Entrepreneur.com, where he writes about ecommerce and tech startups and shares his insights and experience for entrepreneurial success.

Listen to Nathan and Michael discuss:

How SKUdrop helps founders save on supply chain costs
Improving bullet points and product descriptions with AI
Using ChatGPT to turn negative reviews into positive reviews
Using the Merlin extension to create formulas for efficient spreadsheets
Generative AI tools to edit, improve, and describe product images
Why you need to be inquisitive as an entrepreneur
Using AI to start an ecomm business from scratch
What AI will not replace in business
The danger of launching a product based on taste
Why ecomm is like going through the gates of hell
And much more ecomm advice…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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485: How to Use AI to Source Products Faster and Better with Kian Golzari Nov 10, 2023

Show notes

Sourcing specialist Kian Golzari returns to the podcast to share how to use AI tools when sourcing and developing products. Golzari has sourced over 3,000 products, and his global clients include the NBA, Olympics, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Tesco, Argos, and Aldi. He’s also an instructor on our foundr+ platform, teaching courses on product sourcing and product development.

Listen to Nathan and Kian discuss:

The difference between innovating and imitating products
Sourcing products for the NBA, Steph Curry, and Neymar Jr.
How to use AI to scrape and summarize product reviews and pain points
The necessary human element of product sourcing
How to verify the top factories on Alibaba
How not to get overwhelmed with the amount of AI tools
Why relationships will always matter
When to use and not use chatbots
Why the Canton Fair is Disneyland for Kian
And much more product sourcing advice...

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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484: Replicating Ecommerce Success Using AI with Tony Matusiak of Velocity Nov 03, 2023

Show notes

Why start from scratch when you replicate what’s already working? Tony Matusiak is the founder of Velocity, an AI ecommerce savant with over a million followers on social media. Since dropping out of college in 2019, he’s built nearly a dozen ecommerce brands selling everything from TikTok lighting to eco-friendly straws. He’s also developed a method for using AI to quickly adapt, launch, and scale ecommerce businesses using AI.

Listen to Nathan and Tony discuss:

Dropping out of school to pursue entrepreneurship
Building his first ecommerce business
How to spot trends using AI tools
His adoption method with TiKTok creators
How to use short-form video to grow your business
Replicating and combining ideas that have already worked
Validating and researching products through TikTok
How to start a business using AI
Why AI won’t replace creativity
And much more ecommerce advice…

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit from October 2023.

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483: How to Interrupt an Audience with Shark Tank’s Sabri Suby Oct 27, 2023

Show notes

Sabri Suby returns to the podcast to share what’s working in digital marketing right now and his advice for early-stage ecommerce founders taking the first steps in digital marketing. Suby is the founder of Australia’s fastest-growing digital marketing agency, King Kong, and a featured Shark on Australia’s Shark Tank. In 10 years, King Kong has generated over $7.8 Billion in sales for its clients in 136 different countries.

Listen to Nathan and Sabri discuss:

How his humble upbringing gave him the entrepreneur bug
The number one problem that all businesses face
Why all marketing starts with storytelling
Why content marketing is like cold calling
Why founder-led content is fundamental
What’s working in paid advertising for ecommerce
King Kong’s most successful ads
Interruption based marketing
The power of native content video
AI tools and the future of AI
And much more ecommerce marketing advice...

*This interview was part of the Foundr Ecomm-AI Summit that took place October 23 - 25, 2023.

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482: TikTok’s Royal Family: The D’Amelios Oct 20, 2023

Show notes

The D’Amelio family—Marc, Heidi, Dixie, and Charli — have taken their social media fame and passion for content creation and parlayed it into a lifestyle media empire. The family members have a combined Instagram following of 72.1 million and 228.7 million on TikTok (and counting). They recently launched their own venture and cross-platform company, D’Amelio Brands, with their first brand launch, D’Amelio Footwear, debuting in May with plans to launch a skincare line ZitsAllright soon.

Listen to Nathan and the D’Amelios discuss:

Charli and Dixie’s rise to fame through TikTok
Why their family was primed for success on the platform
The virality of being authentic
How to build a community on TikTok
Being family and business partners
Partnering with the right brands
Building their product business
What's next for the family
And much more...

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