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We all live in this world sharing life with various sentient beings; think humans, animals, reptiles, insects…and the list goes on. Yet, why is it that we appear separate from one another? What if we looked at all life as different species, but one in unity? Would that not change up our relationships together? Marybeth Haines, The GAL Who Speaks With Animals sure thinks so! As an animal communication specialist, psychic medium, author, and coach/facilitator, she invites you to join her as sh ...
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Indie Bites

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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.
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Today I’m joined by Jijo Sunny, who is the co-founder of Buy Me A Coffee, one of the most popular donation and membership platforms on the internet. They’ve processed 10’s of millions for creators and have built a 26 strong team. Since founding Buy Me A Coffee, Jijo has dabbled in all sorts of projects, including a stint in YC with a podcasting app…
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Hey everyone! It’s Marybeth Haines here, Animal Communicator and proud Egg Guardian of Misty, the Harmonic Egg at my Wellness Center in Niagara Falls. As of August 1st, I’ve expanded my services to offer sound and light therapy for both people and pets! This change is exciting, but I want to take a moment to chat about something deeply personal tod…
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Marybeth Alexander is the founder and Chief Executive Owl of KnowledgeOwl, a bootstrapped knowledge base software founded in 2015. Started as an idea within SurveyGizmo, where Marybeth was working at the time, the company has since flourished into a small, profitable, sustainable business ultimately being built to improve the lives of the founders,…
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Welcome to a special episode of Awaken with Animals, where I take you on a journey through my evolving path of communication with animals and beyond. Since December 2020, I've been sharing insights and stories through this podcast, but today marks a new chapter. For the first time, Awaken with Animals is not just in audio but also in video format, …
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Firstly, it's so nice to connect with you! It's been a long time! I'm here to share some exciting updates and a new episode of the Awaken With Animals podcast! :) This episode is a special one that will give you some updates as to what's been happening! It also shares a touching story about a school girl's view of things when it came to a special e…
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Kyle Roof is the co-founder of High Voltage SEO, PageOptimizer Pro and Internet Marketing Gold. An agency, software and course business respectively which all focus on mastering SEO. I’ve spoken at length on the podcast before about how SEO can be such an effective tool for indie hackers to use, so Kyle is the perfect guest to talk to today. Timest…
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Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Hovercode, a QR code generator he’s working on full time. Previously, Ramy founded Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers that he sold last November. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:56 Email Octopus Sponsor 02:30 Page Flows Acquisition 05:03 What did Ramy buy after he sold his company 05:56 Start…
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Tibo Louis-Lucas is a serial founder, most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for 8 figures. Since then, Tibo has gone on to acquire an AI video creation tool, Typeframes, which he spun Revid.ai recently. He actually announced after recording this that he has left Tweethunter and is back to f…
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Amar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur, having started ZenMaid back in 2013. Amar’s story shows the power of sticking with something through the hard times, and having an unsexy niche (aka not selling to other indie hackers) can lead to a phenomenal ind…
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Matt Medeiros is the founder of WP Minute, a weekly podcast highlighting WordPress news in less than 5 minutes. He’s a podcasting expert, having previously worked as Director of Podcasting success at Castos and now hosts & produces Breakdown, a podcast by Gravity forms. This episode talks about how you can make a sustainable 5-figure side project, …
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Paw prints of love, joy, and celebration come into our lives in magnificent ways! From the large equine family, to the cats and dogs, and even down to the smallest insect, there is a blessing to receive from every species. Of course all of these different species don’t have paw prints per se, but they sure do have sentience! For each one is a senti…
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Animals bring us messages all the time! Did you know this?There are many reasons why animals show up in our lives and why we connect together with them in such unique ways. This includes domesticated animals and also those in the wild.When we are not aware of their messages, we miss a lot of the symbolisms and energy medicine an animal provides. An…
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Max Haining is the founder of 100DaysofNoCode and 100DaysofAI, which are bootcamps designed to help non-techies gain tech skills. Max wanted to be an entrepreneur from a young age and started 100DaysofNoCode as a challenge for himself to learn NoCode tools during covid, but as more people joined in, he realised he could bootstrap the challenge into…
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Max Serrano is the founder of IGotAnOffer, a bootstrapped coaching platform focused on helping people get jobs and progress their career. Initially starting out in consulting, Max started IGotAnOffer on the side, creating digital products to help people land consulting jobs, but pivoted to coaching after they lost 70% of their revenue in the tech h…
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When I was younger, I would always remember my dreams. Some dreams were fun, and others scary. I remember waking up confused as a child because of the feelings I would have upon awakening from a dream. Fast forward to early adulthood, and after my dad passed away, my dreams became so vivid, and I would have visitations from dad in my dreams. I reme…
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What happens when you speak of someone often in your podcast? What do you do when you are talking and they keep coming up as part of your conversation? What might be best when you’ve talked about them enough times, that maybe your guests are getting to know them more than you think? What do you do? You invite them to be a guest on your podcast! Tha…
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About 10 years ago, from the date of this recording, I was introduced to a tool of vibrational support. It was something that I never used before, nor did I truly understand its effects. What is this tool of vibrational support that I’m talking about? I’m talking about the energetic frequency from flowers and how they can be placed into an essence …
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Did you know how many studies and the research that has been done on the healing power of pets? Just go online and search! I dare you! :) Living in a busy world, with busy schedules, and busy commitments is enough for our autonomic nervous system to go on overload. Right now, our world is built upon technology, speed, and so much more. This isn’t t…
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Today I’m joined by Randall Kanna Franson. Randall is a senior software engineer who has written 3 books, including one published by O’Reilly and a self published one which made over $70k. She also created a course called Hack the Tech interview which made $20k in the first 24 hours and $50k in the first month. All of this has been through Randall’…
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Welcome to an opportunity to shift into a new vibration of transmutation with animals! During our time together, we’ll connect with some beautiful energies that have come forward to assist and support the framework for where we are at, and for what’s to come. We’ll journey into a space where non beneficial and interfering energies can collapse… but…
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Kieran Ball is the founder of NoCodeLife, a selection of case studies of those making successful businesses using NoCode. Kieran also has courses on how to become a NoCode SaaS founder, specifically using the Bubble platform. I wanted to get Kieran on the pod to discuss and challenge the NoCode movement and if you can actually create a scalable pro…
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Happy New Year and welcome to the very first episode of 2024! :)As we get into this time together, I invite you to think about the animals in your life…in your home, in the wild, or maybe even an animal that has a direct impact on your life, even though they may live with someone else. All animals are unique and so are their relationships with us! …
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Today I’m joined by Val Sopi, the founder of Blogstatic, a lightweight blogging platform built to take on the likes of Ghost. Currently Val is sitting around $1k a month, but with a low-priced annual plans approach, he’s relying on new sign ups and plan upgrades instead of recurring subscriptions. So he’s at a crossroads of needing to pour fuel on …
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Today I'm revisiting one of my favourite episodes, from 2020, with Sabba Keynejad, co-founder and CEO of VEED.io, an online video editing platform. When I interviewed Sabba, VEED were at around $2m ARR, fully bootstrapped. Since this interview, they’ve gone on to bootstrap to about $7m ARR before raising a whopping $35m series A from Sequoia. And w…
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It’s that time of year again! How fast it arrives! Every year I say the same thing…how quickly time passes. Do you feel that way too? Christmas time and the ending of a calendar year invokes various emotions within me, and I embrace that we all move through the holidays in our own unique ways. For some folks I know, it’s a magical time, and for oth…
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Gilbert Pellegrom, is co-founder and CTO of Lemon Squeezy, a platform for selling software and digital products online. Previously Gilbert created the Nivo Slider all in 2010, which grew to millions of users before selling it. He then went on to work with Orman Clark at ThemeZilla and Dunked, who he’s teamed up with again to build Lemon Squeezy. Wh…
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Today I’m joined by Jeffrey Bunn, who is the co-founder of Clearful, a digital journal app he built with his wife, Maria. Previously they co-founded Mealime, a meal planning app which grew to a whopping $65k MRR before they exited in 2018. In this episode we cover the story of founding both apps, how they utilised the app stores for growth and why …
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Guess what? The Awaken With Animals podcast turned 3 years old on December 1st, 2023! Yayyyy! It’s amazing to look back and reflect on the past 3 years, and to observe how far things have come, the many learnings, the multitude of joys, the sadness of emotion, and the tears of release. Through it all, I’m truly grateful to be here at this very mome…
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Today I’m joined by Michael Christofides, who is the founder of PgMustard, a product which helps people speed up Postgres queries. Michael started out working for a Devtools company as a product manager and went on to run customer success at London based unicorn, GoCardless. Now, Michael might not be as well known and successful as other popular in…
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Arvid Kahl runs The Bootstrapped Founder, a podcast, newsletter and educational resource to help founders grow successful bootstrapped businesses. He’s also written two books, Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entreprenuer. Arvid is a returning guest, having previously been on the show almost 3 years ago, to talk about his exit from FeedbackPanda, whic…
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Harvey Carpenter is the founder of Growform, a form builder which is now around 7K MRR. It's a mixture of enterprise and some other clients, and he's tackling a product in a market that is extremely competitive and crowded, but he's trying to carve out his own little slice of that market. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:21 Harvey's life before Growform 0…
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Animal Frequency, have you heard of it? How about energy and how everything is made up of vibration? Working with this concept of vibration and energy, using science, and learning that matter or molecules exist, and form into what we have come to know as solid, liquid or gas, I've recently come to understand that we really only have knowledge of a …
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Today is a special episode, because it marks 100 episodes of Indie Bites. And to mark the occasion, I’m bringing back my guest from episode 1, Charlie Ward, founder of Ramen Club to talk about how he’s grown to community into the core of the London indie scene while scaling to £7k MRR in the process. Charlie has also been a long time supporter of t…
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Today I’m joined by Tom Evans and Jonathan Bull from EmailOctopus, an email platform who have bootstrapped to over $3m ARR since they were founded in 2014. They’ve been battling in a crowded and competitive market, with some huge funded companies to contend with, but they’ve made it work in an indie way. In this episode we talk about how they lost …
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I will keep this description short and sweet and welcome you to an opportunity to shift your vibration using Animal Frequency! Come hear a powerful message that’s packed full of wisdom! Listen to a story that contains the vibrational codings for transformative change. Come be a part of something amazing! Are you with me? Let’s do this now! :) With …
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In this episode I have a returning guest, someone who is a keystone of the bootstrapping community, it’s Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor, MegaMaker and more. Today we have an unstructured but very useful chat about building a financial engine for your business. This is a topic that has come up countless times in my indie journey and I thin…
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I am really excited to share with you some direct wisdom from a beautiful, furry soul!You see, I used to belong to a mentored group where fellow animal communicators and I connected together to learn, grow and expand our skills. Each month, we had an animal teacher in which we could talk with, learn from, and share communication with.There is one a…
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Rob Walling is an absolute legend in the bootstrapping and indie scene. He’s a veteran entrepreneur with his most notable exit being Drip in 2016. Rob also founded MicroConf, started TinySeed and is the host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, which has over 680 episodes having started in 2010. It doesn’t stop there for Rob, he’s also writt…
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Here's part 2 of 2 in our 3rd Q & A episode where your questions about animals are answered! If you haven't already, head on back to the previous episode (EP 65), so you can receive the best experience! Here's a direct link to access that episode: https://www.thegalspeaks.com/podcast This episode is dedicated to you and the animals in your life (wh…
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Hey friends! Here we are again! I’m so happy to share with you our 3rd Q & A episode where your questions about animals are answered! It’s dedicated to you and the animals in your life (whether in spirit or on earth)! Whether it be about animal communication, experiences you have had with them, or whatever it is you wish to ask, this time is for yo…
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Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com, a cour…
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Today I’m joined by a returning guest, Andy Cloke, who runs Data Fetcher. Data Fetcher is an API plugin for Airtable that he’s grown to 20k MRR. In our previous episode Andy was only at around £3k MRR, so in this conversation we talk about what he’s done to grow so rapidly, including investing in new marketing channels such as YouTube. Timestamps 0…
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Moving through transitions are interesting aren’t they? Lately, I’ve been moving through some things, and they feel absolutely huge. It reminds me of when I was younger and would watch television. There was a show once with a storyline where an author needed to make a deadline for his book. However, every time he sat down to type (on his typewriter…
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Today I’m joined by Andrew Kamphey, who is the founder of Better Sheets, a platform of tools and tutorials to get better at using Google Sheets, that has done well over $200k in revenue since he launched in 2020. He started out working as a tech on cruise ships, before moving to LA to work in the film industry, which is where he gained all of his G…
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As a communicator with animals and interspecies beings since a very early age, I have found my relationship with them becoming stronger and stronger. The more they teach me, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I grow. It’s really amazing and I thank the animals for their blessed wisdom they share with me. A few years ago, I had an inspired…
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Jonny White is the founder of Ticket Tailor, a platform for selling tickets online doing over £6m ARR and growing. Jonny founded Ticket Tailor in 2011, grew it to £2k MRR and then sold it to a company called TimeOut a short while later. After a few stagnant years at TimeOut, Jonny then bought the company back to make the lifestyle business he’d alw…
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I’m really excited about this time together as it’s the second Q & A episode where your questions about animals are answered! It’s dedicated to you and the animals in your life (whether in spirit or on earth)! Whether it be about animal communication, experiences you have had with them, or whatever it is you wish to ask, this time is for you! I’ve …
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When two people come together with the sole intention of heart to heart interaction, to discuss animals, animal communication, and the soul messages that animals come to share with us, remarkable things happen! And that’s what this episode is all about! I’ve had the pleasure of uniting together in conversation with Alison Martin of Animal Soul Conn…
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Ryan Gilbert is the creator of the Workspaces newsletter, which showcases the best workspaces in tech and beyond. He grew it to 6,000 subscribers and $2k per month with sponsors + affiliates, before being acquired by Loops (Founder Chris Frantz was on episode 61) and going on to be their first employee. In this episode we talk about how simplicity …
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