Growth Manifesto Podcast

A podcast from Webprofits

Conversations on how businesses grow

Long-form interviews with the founders, marketers, authors and investors who've done it. Hosted by Alex Cleanthous.

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The conversations we point people to first. Each one changed how we think about growth.

Seth Godin discusses his book The Practice, arguing that shipping creative work consistently to a small audience beats chasing mass reach or authenticity.

Shipping Creative Work with Seth Godin
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Shipping Creative Work with Seth Godin

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Dan Ariely explains why consumers make irrational but predictable choices, and how defaults, anchoring and branding shape what people pay.

How Consumers Really Make Decisions with Dan Ariely
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How Consumers Really Make Decisions with Dan Ariely

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Byron Sharp on why the double jeopardy law means big brands win through more customers, not more loyalty, and why loyalty programs barely work.

How Brands Actually Grow with Byron Sharp
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How Brands Actually Grow with Byron Sharp

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Jordan Belfort breaks down the straight line sales system, how to take control of a sale, shorten long enterprise cycles and build a high-performing sales team.

How to use Jordan Belfort’s sales system to close big deals
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Tyler Winklevoss explains why Bitcoin's fixed supply makes it digital gold, how Gemini won regulatory approval first, and his hiring philosophy.

How the Winklevoss twins are building a crypto empire with Tyler Winklevoss
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Kevin Kelly on why AI's reasoning leap surprised him, why robots are limited by power not intelligence, and why Bitcoin isn't a currency.

AI, Robots and the Future of Tech with Kevin Kelly
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AI, Robots and the Future of Tech Kevin Kelly

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Jack Schwager

How to be a winning traderwith Jack Schwager

Jack Schwager, author of the Market Wizards series, explains why the best traders share flexibility, discipline and a strategy that is truly their own.

Patrick Gilbert

How AI is changing the marketing landscapewith Patrick Gilbert

Patrick Gilbert on how AI has commoditised execution in marketing, and why strategy, sharper prompts and real data still create value.

Robert Bly

How to write copy that sellswith Robert Bly

Veteran direct response copywriter Robert Bly on researching a market before writing, matching copy to a reader's awareness of their problem, and why testing beats debate.

Anthony Scaramucci

Bitcoin and the Future of Moneywith Anthony Scaramucci

SkyBridge Capital's Anthony Scaramucci on why Bitcoin's 2025 price surge was two years overdue, and his case for holding through volatility.

Gino Wickman

The 10 Disciplines to Maximise Impact and Inner Peacewith Gino Wickman

Gino Wickman outlines the ten disciplines from his book Shine that let driven entrepreneurs grow their impact and their inner peace at once.

Marcus Sheridan

How to get more customers through disruptive contentwith Marcus Sheridan

Marcus Sheridan explains why publishing pricing online, building a pricing estimator and using assignment selling wins more sales in the AI search era.

Paul Waddy

How to scale an eCommerce brand to $1M/mowith Paul Waddy

Paul Waddy on the cash flow, inventory and margin discipline that takes an ecommerce brand from $100,000 to $1 million a month.

Eric O’Neill

How to protect yourself against the next generation of cybersecurity threatswith Eric O’Neill

Eric O'Neill, the FBI operative who caught spy Robert Hanssen, explains today's cyber threats - from 2FA and patching to pig butchering and deepfake scams.

What makes a business grow?

There's no single answer, so we ask the people who've done it. The Growth Manifesto Podcast sits down with founders, marketers, authors and investors, from Seth Godin and Dan Ariely to the people building Canva, Koala and Aussie Broadband, to pull apart how growth actually happened.

Every episode is on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Every episode page here carries the video, the key takeaways, chapters and the full transcript.

Alex Cleanthous
Your hostAlex Cleanthous

Co-founder of Webprofits, the growth consultancy behind the show. 20 years growing brands, so he asks the questions a practitioner would ask.

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