Impactful Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/impactful A conversation with someone about 3-5 things that have positively impacted their life to inspire others. This could be a book, film, article, podcast, too, product, activity. © 2021 James McKinven e44be75b-0006-5988-8023-2b5f4f9a4e21 no Impactful Trailer - how you'll be inspired by what impacts others en Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:35:10 +0100 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:17:13 +0000 https://img.transistor.fm/PgOioXtLlZoDtdaDpEyGoww6-BfetmWdSgCvL_QXOuk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI1NTE3LzE2MzUx/MDc0NjYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg Impactful episodic James McKinven A conversation with someone about 3-5 things that have positively impacted their life to inspire others. This could be a book, film, article, podcast, too, product, activity. A conversation with someone about 3-5 things that have positively impacted their life to inspire others. inspiration, motivation, entrepreneurship, productivity, business James McKinven No No Teslas, Tennis and self-heating mugs - Brian Casel 3 3 Teslas, Tennis and self-heating mugs - Brian Casel full 8792651b-84f4-411d-9810-8c9e55b8cbdd https://share.transistor.fm/s/4819957a Welcome to Impactful, the show where I speak to one of my friends about what has impacted them most in their life. This could be a book that changed your perspective, a tool that made your life better or just a small thing that brings you joy. Hopefully, you'll come away from this conversation feeling inspired or with new things to explore.

What impacted Brian Casel:

  1. Tennis & Producing Music
  2. ZipMessage, an async communication tool
  3. Ember Mug & Tesla Model Y

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What impacted Brian Casel:

  1. Tennis & Producing Music
  2. ZipMessage, an async communication tool
  3. Ember Mug & Tesla Model Y

Follow Brian

Sponsor - PodPanda

This episode is brought to you by my company PodPanda, the podcast production service for high-quality audio shows. So if you have a podcast and want to up your production value and gain some of your time of your time back to focus on the content, head to podpanda.co and drop me a message.

]]> Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:54:03 +0100 James McKinven James McKinven 815 In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Brian Casel, the founder of ZipMessage and host of two brilliant podcasts, Open Threads and Bootstrapped Web. In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Brian Casel, the founder of ZipMessage and host of two brilliant podcasts, Open Threads and Bootstrapped Web. inspiration, motivation, entrepreneurship, productivity, business No Learning to play music and taking a different approach to work - Michael Christofides 2 2 Learning to play music and taking a different approach to work - Michael Christofides full a908c080-960f-4158-afe9-13114a4155ae https://share.transistor.fm/s/d7a5eabb Welcome to Impactful, the show where I speak to one of my friends about what has impacted them most in their life. This could be a book that changed your perspective, a tool that made your life better or just a small thing that brings you joy. Hopefully, you'll come away from this conversation feeling inspired or with new things to explore.

What impacted Michael Christofides:

  1. Learning to play music
    1. (met life partner, travelled, performing, admiring mastery in others eg Pavarotti o sole mio and sax subway duet)
  2. Reading the book Small Giants (software examples Balsamiq/Panic/Less Annoying CRM/Fathom Analytics)
  3. Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design

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This episode is brought to you by my company PodPanda, the podcast production service for high-quality audio shows. So if you have a podcast and want to up your production value and gain some of your time of your time back to focus on the content, head to podpanda.co and drop me a message.

]]> Welcome to Impactful, the show where I speak to one of my friends about what has impacted them most in their life. This could be a book that changed your perspective, a tool that made your life better or just a small thing that brings you joy. Hopefully, you'll come away from this conversation feeling inspired or with new things to explore.

What impacted Michael Christofides:

  1. Learning to play music
    1. (met life partner, travelled, performing, admiring mastery in others eg Pavarotti o sole mio and sax subway duet)
  2. Reading the book Small Giants (software examples Balsamiq/Panic/Less Annoying CRM/Fathom Analytics)
  3. Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design

Follow Michael

Sponsor - PodPanda

This episode is brought to you by my company PodPanda, the podcast production service for high-quality audio shows. So if you have a podcast and want to up your production value and gain some of your time of your time back to focus on the content, head to podpanda.co and drop me a message.

]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:51:07 +0100 James McKinven James McKinven 670 In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Michael Christofides (Mickey C), co-founder of PgMustard, previously Head of Customer Success at GoCardless and largest collector of handmade wallets made by me. Michael is thoughtful, creative and wise, so let’s find out what’s impacted him. In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Michael Christofides (Mickey C), co-founder of PgMustard, previously Head of Customer Success at GoCardless and largest collector of handmade wallets made by me. Michael is thoughtful, creative and wise, so let’s f inspiration, motivation, entrepreneurship, productivity, business No How learning to is fail impacted Arvid Kahl - The Bootstrapped Founder 1 1 How learning to is fail impacted Arvid Kahl - The Bootstrapped Founder full f2f26277-386b-4de7-b9cb-16ccc88a7a2d https://share.transistor.fm/s/ca8f8f34 Welcome to Impactful, the show where I speak to one of my friends about what has impacted them most in their life. This could be a book that changed your perspective, a tool that made your life better or just a small thing that brings you joy. Hopefully, you'll come away from this conversation feeling inspired or with new things to explore.

What impacted Arvid Kahl:

  1. Learning to fail is fine
  2. Financial literacy
  3. Learning how to cook
  4. Understanding what freedom is

References from this episode

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]]> Welcome to Impactful, the show where I speak to one of my friends about what has impacted them most in their life. This could be a book that changed your perspective, a tool that made your life better or just a small thing that brings you joy. Hopefully, you'll come away from this conversation feeling inspired or with new things to explore.

What impacted Arvid Kahl:

  1. Learning to fail is fine
  2. Financial literacy
  3. Learning how to cook
  4. Understanding what freedom is

References from this episode

Follow Arvid


Thank you to ilo for sponsoring this episode of Impactful.

ilo is a Twitter analytics tool that give you the metrics that actually help you understand your tweet performance and grow your audience. With one glance, ilo helps you easily see which kind of tweets get more impressions, likes, profile clicks and more so you can get grow your Twitter audience. ilo's beautiful graphs and useful metrics have helped me double my Twitter audience in less than 4 months.

Head to ilo.so and use the code IMPACT to get 25% off your ilo subscription for life.

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:36:50 +0100 James McKinven James McKinven 709 In this episode, we have Arvid Kahl, who is one of the loveliest people I know. You might know him from selling his company, Feedback Panda, and writing for his blog and podcast, The Bootstrapped Founder. Arvid is super thoughtful and has been developing those thoughts in his books, Zero to Sold and the Embedded Entrepreneur. In this episode, we have Arvid Kahl, who is one of the loveliest people I know. You might know him from selling his company, Feedback Panda, and writing for his blog and podcast, The Bootstrapped Founder. Arvid is super thoughtful and has been developing inspiration, motivation, entrepreneurship, productivity, business No Impactful Trailer - how you'll be inspired by what impacts others Impactful Trailer - how you'll be inspired by what impacts others trailer 2338aaf1-97b8-40df-82b7-0ed2991ab3eb https://share.transistor.fm/s/547234e3 You can expect a short, 10-15 minute show every week that you can digest over your lunch break, your morning walk, or even when you're doing the dishes.

I'll be talking to entrepreneurs, indie hackers, well-known founders, and other interesting people that I bump into throughout my life. I want to hear the things that have really changed people's lives and find out why.

I'm James McKinven, a podcast producer and host of the indie bites show. I'm finding inspiration in the conversations I have off-air with others when talking about the most impactful things in their lives and I want to share that with you.

I hope you find this show useful, entertaining and thought-provoking. See you in the first episode.

]]> You can expect a short, 10-15 minute show every week that you can digest over your lunch break, your morning walk, or even when you're doing the dishes.

I'll be talking to entrepreneurs, indie hackers, well-known founders, and other interesting people that I bump into throughout my life. I want to hear the things that have really changed people's lives and find out why.

I'm James McKinven, a podcast producer and host of the indie bites show. I'm finding inspiration in the conversations I have off-air with others when talking about the most impactful things in their lives and I want to share that with you.

I hope you find this show useful, entertaining and thought-provoking. See you in the first episode.

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