Doin' The Thing w/ Dillan Taylor

About Doin' The Thing w/ Dillan Taylor

Doin' The Thing is a show for creators who want to build their content business better and faster. It's hosted by Dillan Taylor—certified life coach, writer, and CEO of Grindstone. He interviews top creators to share their biggest mistakes and lessons and tells stories from Grindstone, a coaching company for video creators.

Publisher

Dillan Taylor

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Aug 2022

Latest episode

23 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Aug 2025

   Pro Bono Clients & Messy Beginnings - Behind Grindstone #1 | 059

   Episode 1 of "Behind Grindstone." Dillan (CEO of Grindstone) and Colby (Head Coach of Grindstone) sit down and have their first-ever recorded debriefing of how they started the company. The goal is to track their journey, remember the hard times, and share all the mistakes and lessons as they try to scale Grindstone. They discuss: the origin story of Grindstone, why accountability coaching works, starting with pro bono clients, learning to work as a team, celebrating small wins, handling prob...

2. 

   4 Aug 2025

   Interviewing the CEO of the Stoke Twins (w/ Mario Joos) | 058

   Dillan interviews Mario Joos. Mario is the CEO of the Stokes Twins and founder of Brightrock, a research and consulting company helping creators grow strategically. He previously worked on the MrBeast team and now helps creators scale through data, systems, and hiring. They discuss: the controversy around the Stokes Twins, how creators should think about copying versus inspiration, building a team to scale faster, how the YouTube algorithm actually works, outsourcing and hiring globally, the ...

3. 

   27 Jul 2025

   How He Turned a Layoff Into a Full-Time Creator Career (w/ Josh Cirre) | 057

   Dillan interviews Josh Cirre. Josh is a software developer, content creator, and former actor who blends his creative background with his technical skills to help others navigate web development and creator life. His YouTube channel shares developer insights, Laravel tutorials, and his journey balancing creativity, fatherhood, and a full-time job. They discuss: combining creativity with tech, getting fired and starting a YouTube channel, building an audience around Laravel, how to balance amb...

Who has been a guest on Doin' The Thing w/ Dillan Taylor

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jon Barr
• Chris Orzechowski
• Michelle Varghese
• CPreds
• Jack Bly

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

79,736

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

71

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Books guests

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