Creator Educators

If you want to grow a creator business, how do you do it? Creating is hard enough; turning creative work into a business can be even harder. These award winners teach creators how to grow.
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Award Winners

Roberto Blake

Roberto is a multi-talented YouTuber, podcaster, speaker, and mentor who helps creators develop their brands and grow their businesses.

Roberto Blake is a Creative Entrepreneur and Founder of Awesome Creator Academy; a coaching program that helps influencers and entrepreneurs build their brands online.


In 2013 Roberto launched a YouTube channel helping creatives with career development and personal branding. He has created over 1500 videos on YouTube and has an audience of over 500K subscribers.

He is a Keynote Speaker and host of the popular Create Something Awesome Today Podcast. On the podcast he interviews guests and dives into deeper topics around the growing Creator Economy.

Website | Twitter | YouTube

Latasha James

Latasha is a video creator, podcaster, and coach who inspires others to grow meaningful businesses.

Latasha James is a marketing strategist, digital content creator, and business coach empowering entrepreneurs to create intentional and profitable businesses by helping them uncover their innate superpowers.

She launched her now six-figure digital marketing company back in 2015, and documented the entire journey on YouTube. Since then, she's helped thousands of students gain the confidence and tools they needed to start and scale businesses of their own.

Website | YouTube | Instagram

Ramit Sethi

Ramit has helped over 42,000 students systematically take control of their money, find fulfilling careers, and live richer lives.

Ramit Sethi is a New York Times Bestselling Author and CEO of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. He’s been writing about money and psychology at Iwillteachyoutoberich.com for nearly 20 years, and now hosts a podcast which features real stories of real couples talking about their finances from behind closed doors.

The best place to keep up with Ramit is on his newsletter. Go to http://iwt.com/podia to sign up.

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Khe Hy

Khe Hy helps people change their relationship with time, money, and productivity by focusing on their most important, most fulfilling work.

Khe Hy is the founder of RadReads.co, where he also runs his cohort-based course Supercharge Your Productivity.

Khe has been called "Oprah for Millenials" by CNN and “Wall Street Guru” by Bloomberg, and RadReads has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, TedX, Time, Quartz and LifeHacker.

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Vanessa Lau

Vanessa teaches new and aspiring creators how to build and scale their businesses through social media.

Vanessa is an online entrepreneur, content creator, and Founder of The BOSSGRAM Academy.

She teaches content creators and new entrepreneurs how to build their influence and scale their businesses using the power of social media. After quitting her 9-5, she started a YouTube channel and amassed a digital reach of 500k subscribers on YouTube and over 200k+ followers on Instagram, all while building a multi-million dollar digital education business.

Today she's passionate about helping creators and entrepreneurs tap into the social media space so they can monetize their expertise and create global impact.

Website | Instagram | YouTube

Jeff Goins

Through his award-winning blog content, best-selling books, and thought-provoking podcast, Jeff helps people write better and approach the world with more curiosity.

Jeff Goins is a writer, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur with a reputation for challenging the status quo. He is the best-selling author of five books including The Art of Work and Real Artists Don’t Starve.

His award-winning blog, Goinswriter.com, is visited by millions of people every year, and his work has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Psychology Today, Business Insider, Time, and many others.

He is the creative force behind the ghostwriting agency, Fresh Complaint.

A father of two and a guacamole aficionado, Jeff lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Website | Twitter | Facebook

Ana Lorena Fabrega

Ana is an "EDUpreneur" who is helping to shape the future of online education.

Ana Lorena Fabrega is Chief Evangelist at Synthesis, a new online learning experience for curious and ambitious kids who want to learn how to build the future.

Ana shares her latest ideas on education through her popular "Fab Fridays" newsletter as well as on her New School of Thought YouTube channel.

Website | Twitter | YouTube

Ali Abdaal

Through his popular Youtube channel, podcast, courses, and newsletter, Ali helps his audience improve their productivity, study better, and maybe even start a YouTube channel along the way.

Ali is a YouTuber, Podcaster, and course creator who teaches people strategies and tools to help live happier, healthier, more productive lives.

Ali also has a popular weekly newsletter Sunday Snippets, where he shares productivity tips and life advice.

Website | Twitter | YouTube

David Perell

Through his course, podcast, and newsletter, David helps creators leverage good writing to grow their careers and businesses.

David Perell is a writer, podcaster, and educator through his popular weekly newsletters Monday Musings and Friday Finds.

David also helps creators improve their writing through his Write of Passage Course, which teaches people how to accelerate their careers by writing online.

Website | Twitter

Danielle Leslie

Danielle uses her decade of experience in course creation, marketing, and five-figure launches to help new and experienced creators build unique, profitable online courses.

Danielle Leslie has been a Silicon Valley marketer for 10+ years, and has helped thousands of creators launch digital products.

Danielle helps creators identify and package their own uniqueness so they can share it with the world through her Culture Lab Adds program.

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Steph Taylor

Steph helps business owners start podcasts, build their audiences, and launch exciting new products through her podcast, courses, and 1:1 coaching.

Steph Taylor is a digital product launch strategist for business owners who are tired of selling services, and want to scale with their first digital offer. Whether it’s starting a podcast or selling a digital course, Steph helps her students reach more people, grow their audience and become the go-to in their industry.

She’s host of the Socialette podcast, with over 1.4 million downloads to date, and has taught more than 100,000 entrepreneurs how to launch their own podcasts and digital products.

In her spare time, Steph enjoys adding new plants to her indoor jungle, and making wine, peanut butter and coffee disappear.

Website | Podcast | Instagram

Marie Poulin

Through her innovative Notion training course, Marie helps driven business owners establish systems so they can grow in life and in their businesses.

Marie teaches business owners to level up their digital systems, workflow, and knowledge management processes using Notion.

She’s the co-founder of Oki Doki, and creator of Notion Mastery, an online program and community that helps creators, entrepreneurs and small teams tame their work + life chaos by building life and business management systems with Notion.

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Rosie Sherry

Rosie is a powerhouse community builder, writer, and educator who offers services, courses, and content to help others build communities with impact.

Rosie is a writer, teacher and educator of community building.

She helps other launch and build their own communities on her Rosie.land, as well as through her Rosieland newsletter.

Website | Twitter

Josh Spector

Through his 18,000-person newsletter, skills sessions, and courses, Josh helps creative entrepreneurs improve their writing, grow their audiences, and brainstorm exciting new business ideas.

As a consultant, writer, and publisher of the popular For The Interested newsletter, Josh Spector helps people develop and implement strategies to better produce, promote, and profit from their creations.

His writing has been read by millions of people online and Medium named him a Top Writer on the topics of social media, creativity, productivity, and writing.

He also founded and runs the Newsletter Creators Facebook group which contains a community of 4,000+ creators from all over the world connecting and sharing advice about how to grow a successful newsletter.

Website | Twitter | Newsletter

Tina Roth Eisenberg

Through CreativeMornings, Tina has built the world's largest face-to-face creative community and is making the world a more connected and creative place.

Tina Roth Eisenberg started CreativeMornings in 2008, which has now become a global network to foster connections, community, and opportunities.

CreativeMornings was built on the beliefs that we are all creatives, and it brings together people from all over the world to connect and support each other in their creative journies.

Website | Twitter

Adam Enfroy

Through courses, masterclasses, and expert blog articles, Adam teaches 500,000 monthly readers how to strategically monetize their creative passions.

Adam has taught thousands of people how to start profitable blogs and YouTube channels.

His website is filled with information for creators, including blogging tips, how-to guides, and business software reviews.

Website | YouTube

Jeff Walker

Jeff has spent over 15 years helping people launch their online courses, memberships, and coaching programs. He's taught thousands of students who have earned over $1 billion launching their own programs.

Jeff is the creator of the Product Launch Formula and author of the New York Times Best Seller, Launch: How To Sell Almost Anything Online, Build a Business You Love, and Live the Life of Your Dreams.

Through his book and trainings, Jeff has helped thousands of creators become successful with their own launches and online businesses.

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Marie Forleo

Marie helps creators and entrepreneurs grow their businesses, tap into their creative potential, and build lives they love.

Marie Forleo was named as a thought leader for the next generation by Oprah and hosts the award-winning online show MarieTV.

Website | Instagram

Antoine BM

Over 30,000 students have taken one of Antoine's 100+ courses, and he continues to help students learn ways to make a living online.

Antoine is a creator teaching others how to make a living from their passions through his newsletter, YouTube channel, and courses.

He also runs the MakerCast podcast, aimed at helping other creators become successful.

Website | YouTube

Anastasia Blogger

Through her blog and Pinterest training resources, Anastasia helps bloggers and small business owners harness the power of Pinterest to get more traffic, launch new products, and increase sales.

Anastasia offers free resources alongside her courses, including her Pinterest SEO Traffic Secrets Course, to help creators learn how to drive traffic to their blog, as well as tips for course creators to have a stress-free launch.

Website | YouTube

Bobby Hoyt

Bobby's in-depth content helps over a million yearly readers take control of their financial future.

Bobby is the founder of Milennial Money Man, where he teaches creators how to make more money, save more money, and pay off debt so that they can live their best financial lives.

As a personal finance expert, he has been featured on Forbes, Reuters, MarketWatch, CNBC, International Business Times, Business Insider, US News, Yahoo Finance, and many other personal finance and entrepreneurship media outlets.

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