L.A. Mushrooms with Ryan Williams
I am Ryan Williams. My life is divided into two life spans: Before Mushrooms (BM), and After Mushrooms (AM).
Ryan welcomes comedians, actors, directors, writers, musicians to discuss their relationship with mushrooms. Ryan’s conversational interview style gives guests a place to discuss how they are connected to mushrooms, which will be completely new to listeners.
You can follow the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 127
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
87: Podcaster MasterClass w/ Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician, story-teller, and podcast host who hosts Song Exploder, a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, telling the story of how they were made.…
86: Vlogbrothers Backstory, Crafting Your Geek Vision, Just Starting Your Ideas with Hank Green
Hank Green is one half the YouTube creators The Vlog Brothers, who he co-creates with his brother John Green. Hank is the entrepreneurial brother who has the leadership role on many of their co-ventu…
85: Going Viral, Doing What You Love & Putting in the Work with Franchesca Ramsey
Franchesca Ramsey went viral. Her video Stuff White Girls Say to Black Girls (I addd a euphemism with Stuff) took off like a rocket ship. She was an early adopter of YouTube and created regular video…
84: Battling Depression and Fighting Through Dark Times and Anxiety as a Creative Person w/ Rand Fishkin
83: Finding the Funny, Delivering Jokes and Adding Humor to Your Public Speaking with David Nihill
David Nihill like many people, was terrified of public speaking. But unlike most people, to conquer his fear of speaking in front of groups, David spent a year studying and performing stand-up. After…
82: Seizing Opportunity, Anticipating the Future & Disrupt You with Jay Samit
Jay Samit (@JaySamit) is an entrepreneur and the author of the bestselling book Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation.
The mod…
81: Netflix's Making a Murderer TV & Media Show with Jen Yamato of The Daily Beast
Netflix's Making a Murderer is a show that I have been obsessed about. Like many, including our guest Jen Yamato, I binged on the Netflix show during the holiday break. This emergency podcast on Maki…
Ep 80: Giving to Your Community, Meeting Fans In Real Life (IRL) & Cultivating Expertise with Veronica Belmont
Veronica Belmont is a renaissance woman who does it all. She's like the Jay-Z for the tech world, a true hyphenate. She's a producer/host/present for all things digital and television. Since 2006, sh…
Ep 79: Finding Your Voice, Breaking Bad Habits & Thriving with Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is writer, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, and student. He lived in NYC as a musician before creating and founding CD Baby in 1998. CD Baby eventually went onto be a leading seller o…
Ep. 78: Creativity Mastered & Kicking Yourself in the Butt to Harness Talent with Paul Jarvis
Paul Jarvis is a writer, podcast host, author of multiple best-selling books, creator of online courses that have made hundreds of thousands of dollars and a master of empowering people to kick thems…
Ep. 77: Failing in Business, Succeeding in Life & Choosing Yourself with James Altucher
James Altucher is an entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and blogger. He is the author of the best-selling book: Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream. He also hosts two successf…
Ep. 76: Building Alliances, Starting a Startup and Acting as Your Personal CEO with Chris Yeh
Chris Yeh is an entrepreneur, investor, blogger and author of the best-selling book: The Alliance. He wrote the book with Founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman and Ben Cassanova.
The connected technology…
Ep. 75: 2 Billion YouTube Views Later- How Cenk Uygur Built an Online News Jaugernaut
Ep. 75: Billions of YouTube Views & Bigger Than Fox News and MSNBC with Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks News network.
Cenk Uygur is the main host and co-founder of the American liberal political and …
Ep. 74: How to Embrace Failure, Find Success and Take Risks with Troy Carter
Ep. 73: Loud Speakers Network's Chris Morrow on Hip-Hop and Podcasting
The Loud Speakers Network is an awesome podcast network, featuring prominent voices of the hip-hip generation, and Chris Morrow is the CEO and co-founder. This week he joins me on Stories from The In…
Ep. 72: The Pivot From Investment Banking to Startup CEO with Farbod Shoraka of Bloomnation
In this episode of The Pivot: A series documenting the stories of tech startup founders who pivot their careers from another industry, I speak with Farbod Shoraka, founder of BloomNation a technology…
Ep: 71: Brad Feld on Doing More Faster and Giving Value to Entrepreneurs
Brad Feld is an author, blogger and he invests in early stage technology companies. In fact he has invested in over 1,000 companies between his Techstars accelerator, his Foundry Ground investment fi…
Ep. 70: Nerdist Industries Adam Rymer on Building a Media Company for Nerds
Ep. 69: $100 MBA on the Art of Entrepreneurship and Science of Teaching with Omar Zenhom
Ep. 68: VidCon, YouTubers, and Geeking Out with Jim Louderback former CEO of Revision3
Jim Louderback stopped by The Influencer Economy this week. Jim a world-class CEO, and former Head of Revision3, a pioneering online video company. He currently runs the industry and track of VidCon,…