Hacks and Hobbies - Passion to Profit Stories
Hosted by Junaid Ahmed · Junaid Ahmed
4.9from 115 ratings
- 798
- Episodes
- 141
- Transcribed
- 115
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Hacks and Hobbies - Passion to Profit Stories
Hacks & Hobbies is where passions turn into profit stories. Host Junaid Ahmed interviews entrepreneurs, creators, and builders who are turning what they love into real momentum—income, confidence, community, and impact. Expect practical takeaways on podcasting, video content, home studios, personal branding, systems, and mindset—so your next idea doesn’t stay “someday.” If you’re building something (a show, a brand, a business, a better version of yourself), you’ll feel at home here.
- Publisher
- Junaid Ahmed
- Category
- business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Apr 2018
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
141 of 798 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How to Scale a Business Without Losing Your Values
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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How to Scale a Business Without Losing Your Values
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If you ask me what the biggest challenge is, the systems around us are the things that pull at each individual founder or manager or leader to not work against our values, but to prioritize certain things above the values that we originally might've had as we got started. And so thinking about those protections from a systematic perspective, But then I also think that, you know, this is where movements start. And so for us collectively to start thinking about, well, what could an alternative system look like that is more aligned with just our fundamental ethos as humans, you know, where we're prioritizing not shareholder maximizing shareholder value, but maximizing human flourishing. […]
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- Awais Sheikh
- Paul Pape
- Emily Atlantis
- Renee Wynn
- Ana Gil
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 66 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 49 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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