Best Stacking The Bricks Podcasts (2025)

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AI Tools That Should Be Your Instagram, TikTok and Facebook: The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|EII 15:22

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8d ago15:22

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Stop “catching up.” Start compounding. In Episode 2 of The Great Equalizer, Cedric Nwafor breaks down 7+ FREE tools to build your brand, ship projects, and find opportunities—with just a phone and internet. What you’ll learn • ChatGPT: ask smarter, get better outputs (use a prompt optimizer to refine your asks) • Canva (free): studio-level designs …

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Head Start in the AI Race: 7 Entry Paths (Tech & Non-Tech) — The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E4 10:45

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Episode 5: Head Start in the AI Race You don’t need a computer science degree to participate in the AI economy. In this episode, host Cedric Nwafor lays out 12 practical entry paths, from prompt workflows and no-code creation to developer stacks and remote work funnels so both non-technical and technical listeners can move from curiosity to action.…

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Build 5 Apps in 20 Minutes (No Code, Free) - Replit for Africa! The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E3 25:14

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Ep. 1 — Build 5 Apps in 20 Minutes (No Code, Free) — Replit for Africa This episode is not for senior coders. It’s for the student, the farmer’s son or daughter, the young builder in a remote town who wants to ship something real today. Cedric walks you through signing up for Replit and building five practical apps a Local Skills Directory, Event F…

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7+ FREE AI Tools African Youth Must Use Today (No Code); The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E2 12:48

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Ep. 2 — 7+ FREE AI Tools African Youth Must Use Today (No Code) We turn tech & AI into actions you can take today. Cedric shares a practical stack for builders: ChatGPT (with better prompts), Canva, CapCut, Notion, Lovable/Replit for quick websites, Gemini/Copilot/Claude/Perplexity for research & office tasks, and LoopCV/Rezi for global job hunts. …

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Every generation faces a turning point! This is ours!! This is our Moment!! The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E1 4:23

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Episode 1: This Is Our Moment The Great Equalizer launches with a clear thesis: stop “catching up” start compounding. Host Cedric Nwafor connects the dots between AI, technology, agriculture, and community to show how young Africans can learn, lead, and earn in today’s new era. You’ll hear why this moment matters, how access now lives in our phones…

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Welcome to The Great Equalizer (Teaser) — Why Now, Why Africa 1:27

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I’m Cedric Nwafor: Welcome to The Great Equalizer. This show is where we turn the noise of technology and AIinto practical moves for real life in Africa and across the diaspora. We’re living through a turning point. Instead of “catching up,” we’re building forward blending tech with agriculture, social enterprise, community service, business, and p…

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EP44 - What's Coming Next 2:59

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We're going on a quick break, but this episode includes a sneak peek at what's coming up next. Thanks for a great season, and for all of the positive comments. If you love the show, consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://lovethepodcast.com/stackingbricks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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EP43 - Jonathan Stark has Questions About Self Publishing 45:44

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I recently joined friend Jonathan Stark on his podcast "Ditching Hourly" where he typically talks about business strategies and best practices for helping freelancers and consultants escape hourly billing. And we talked about that world of business quite a bit, including how people often copy the wrong parts of the successes they've seen. But as a …

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EP42 - What is Sales Safari? with Eteinne Garbugli 18:58

5y ago18:58

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This week I'm talking customer research with Eteinne Garbugli. Eteinne is the author of a book called Lean B2B, and after learning that his book included our Sales Safari customer research framework, I offered to talk with him and answer some of his remaining questions about the methodology. In the next 30 minutes, you'll hear Eteinne and I talk ab…

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EP41 - Questioning Our Assumptions with David Dylan Thomas 38:59

5y ago38:59

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This week I'm stopping by The Cognitive Bias Podcast with David Dylan Thomas to riff on a topic we're both very passionate about: the intersection of ethics and capitalism. Dave is one of the best people I can think of to talk to about this because as a designer and a strategist, He spent a lot of his career thinking about the implications of bias …

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EP40 - Worst Boss, Best Boss with Lauren Williams 14:38

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This week I've got a quick brick for you today, on the topic of bosses. One of the things I don't think we talk about enough is how the bosses we've had inform the bosses we become, and that includes becoming our own bosses too. A few weeks back I had the chance to sit down with Lauren Williams from Workplace Harmony and the host of a very fun show…

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EP39 - Grow your Audience with Kevin Chemidlin 26:36

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This week The Tiny MBA podcast tour comes with a twist! Isn't there always a twist? Is it still a twist if you know a twist is coming? I guess M Night Shyamalan would say so.... ANYWAY. I'm bringing you an episode from a brand new show called "Grow the Show" by my friend Kevin Chemidlin and his podcast company, Cue 9 productions. As you might imagi…

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EP38 - Don't Pee in the Pool with Nilofer Merchant 47:46

5y ago47:46

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This week we're taking a break from the Tiny MBA podcast tour to bring you a very special conversation with a very special guest: Nilofer Merchant. Nilofer comes with some serious credentials: She's worked as an executive and strategic consultant at massive companies like Apple, Adobe, Autodesk, Nokia, and many more She's shipped 18 Billion (with a…

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EP37 - The stuff they don't teach you in school, with Mayur and Shahzada 26:01

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Over the last few weeks, I have been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people, just like you. And this time, I took a virtual trip to India to visit to my friends Mayur and Shai-zada on the Remote Explorers Podcast where they talk about remote work and more generally, the culture of work. In the full…

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EP36 - Building Trust at Scale with Will Toms and REC Philly 38:57

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Over the last few weeks, I have been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people, just like you. And this time, I paid a visit to Will Toms and the REC Philly community here in Philadelphia. REC - which stands for "resources for every creator" - is a pretty incredible community and resource center geare…

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EP35 - Debugging Humans with Michele Hansen and Colleen Schnettler 30:34

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Over the last few weeks, I have been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people, just like you. We'll not necessarily JUST like you, because you might have noticed that these last few conversations have been visits to podcasts hosted by dudes! Thankfully, I was able to end this white-male-podcast-host …

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EP34 - "Is this really gonna help people?" with Tony Lopes 25:47

5y ago25:47

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Over the last few episodes, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. In THIS episode I visited with Tony Lopes on the Self Made Strategies Podcast, where he explores modern collaboration, craft, and …

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EP33 - Agency Talk on The Iowa Idea 23:15

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Over the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. In THIS episode I visited with Matthew Arnold on the Iowa Idea podcast, where he explores modern collaboration, craft, and persistenc…

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EP32 - An (Overly) Honest Review of The Tiny MBA with Brendan Hufford 35:16

5y ago35:16

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Over the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. In today's episode, I visit with Brendan Hufford from the SEO for the Rest of Us podcast to talk about some of his favorite lessons f…

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EP31 - The Zen Koans of Business with Chariot Solutions 37:28

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Over the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. And today I'm sharing an episode from a live stream that I did with Ken Rimple and Becca Refford at Chariot Solutions, an enterprise …

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EP30 - Sales for Founders & The Tiny MBA 56:31

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Hope you're safe, hope you're well, hope your loved ones are well, hope you're finding ways to stay sane and of course, finding ways to keep stacking the bricks to build your own product business. Over the coming weeks I'm going to be adding new episodes to the Stacking the Bricks feed to highlight conversations that I've been having across the int…

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EP29 - What are you optimizing for? 38:42

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Nathan Johnson left a corporate gig to bootstrap an affiliate business to 100,000 users. But to get it any bigger - and profitable - he would have to give up the very thing he left his corporate gig for: freedom. Ouch. Find out how he changed course to build a different business that DOES let him travel and spend more time with his family, while he…

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EP28 - Double your Conversion Rate with Brennan Dunn 33:26

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I've been wanting to do an episode with Brennan Dunn for a LONG time. He's one of our most successful students, having built an empire of resources and products for freelancers at doubleyourfreelancing.com. But freelancing rates aren't the only thing Brennan has figured out how to double...now he's mastered the art of personalizing on-page content …

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EP27 - You can ship. But will anybody buy? 19:19

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Dave Ceddia knew how to ship, but none of his projects had ever made a sale. Today, $15,000 in sales of his book "Pure React" later, he knows how to create new, bigger products for his loyal and growing audience. In this episode, you'll find out how he stopped thinking of himself as a "lifer" at a cushy job to being in control of his professional f…

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EP26 - Don't wait 18 months 26:01

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Donovan picked up JFS in December. Read it over Christmas. By the end of February, he'd grown his mailing list to 1,500 people. He created a landing page and JFS'd an email course on CSS animation, with a price tag of $49. In the first 7 days, he made 50 sales — for a total of over $2,000. NICE. To learn more about how Donovan did it — including sp…

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EP25 - Features, or marketing? (Part 3 of a series) 24:51

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Here is the double-edged sword of the software business: All the “features” in the world will not matter if you don’t have the customer pipeline. It is better to lose many customers over a missing feature than spend a month on a feature that people say will make them sign up. Yet there really are features you’ll require in order to get and retain y…

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EP24 - Teamwork is harder than you think (Part 2 of a series) 37:25

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In this episode we talk about the second of five things I wish I’d known when I started Freckle, things that would have made my life so much more profitable and pleasurable. Missed Part 1? Listen here. Adding people - partners, employees, contract staff - is one of the hardest parts of growing a business. It doesn't get talked about enough, and par…

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EP23 - "Everything will get easier if..." (Part 1 of a series) 30:22

9+ y ago30:22

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2015 was the best ever for Amy's SaaS business Freckle, with $625k of gross receipts, and so far we’re on track to hit close to $800k annual run rate (ARR) before this year is out. Those are some big numbers, but we didn’t start out there, and it hasn’t been all smooth sailing. In this episode we talk about the first of Five things I wish I’d known…

Stacking The Bricks Podcasts

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Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To

Alex Hillman, Amy Hoy

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The Great Equalizer

Cedric Nwafor

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AI Tools That Should Be Your Instagram, TikTok and Facebook: The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|EII 15:22

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Head Start in the AI Race: 7 Entry Paths (Tech & Non-Tech) — The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E4 10:45

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Build 5 Apps in 20 Minutes (No Code, Free) - Replit for Africa! The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E3 25:14

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7+ FREE AI Tools African Youth Must Use Today (No Code); The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E2 12:48

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Every generation faces a turning point! This is ours!! This is our Moment!! The Great Equalizer Podcast TGEP S1|E1 4:23

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Welcome to The Great Equalizer (Teaser) — Why Now, Why Africa 1:27

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EP44 - What's Coming Next 2:59

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EP43 - Jonathan Stark has Questions About Self Publishing 45:44

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EP42 - What is Sales Safari? with Eteinne Garbugli 18:58

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EP41 - Questioning Our Assumptions with David Dylan Thomas 38:59

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EP40 - Worst Boss, Best Boss with Lauren Williams 14:38

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EP39 - Grow your Audience with Kevin Chemidlin 26:36

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EP38 - Don't Pee in the Pool with Nilofer Merchant 47:46

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EP37 - The stuff they don't teach you in school, with Mayur and Shahzada 26:01

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EP36 - Building Trust at Scale with Will Toms and REC Philly 38:57

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EP35 - Debugging Humans with Michele Hansen and Colleen Schnettler 30:34

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EP34 - "Is this really gonna help people?" with Tony Lopes 25:47

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EP33 - Agency Talk on The Iowa Idea 23:15

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EP32 - An (Overly) Honest Review of The Tiny MBA with Brendan Hufford 35:16

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EP31 - The Zen Koans of Business with Chariot Solutions 37:28

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EP30 - Sales for Founders & The Tiny MBA 56:31

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EP29 - What are you optimizing for? 38:42

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EP28 - Double your Conversion Rate with Brennan Dunn 33:26

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EP27 - You can ship. But will anybody buy? 19:19

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EP26 - Don't wait 18 months 26:01

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EP25 - Features, or marketing? (Part 3 of a series) 24:51

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EP24 - Teamwork is harder than you think (Part 2 of a series) 37:25

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EP23 - "Everything will get easier if..." (Part 1 of a series) 30:22