Creative Entrepreneur Podcast

Julie Lokun and Dominick Domasky leave the studio for the road, recapping Cre8tive Con OTR Boston — a live entrepreneur event built around their signature "Own Your Ecosystem" framework. From optics and AI to automation, mindset, and trust-building, they break down every blind spot covered on the Boston stage and preview what's coming next in Orlando.

Dr. Robert Epstein returns for Part 2 with special co-host Jen Fontanilla filling in for Dom Domasky, going deeper into the personal fallout of exposing the Search Engine Manipulation Effect — including the warning he says he received and the loss of his wife, Misti, months later. Julie Lokun and Jen sit with the weight of what it costs to speak truth to a trillion-dollar company, and what every entrepreneur should take from it.

Dr. Robert Epstein — Harvard-trained psychologist and former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today — joins Julie Lokun and guest co-host Jen Fontanilla to break down the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) and how algorithms quietly shape decisions without people noticing. The conversation reframes "the algorithm" as something entrepreneurs can understand and protect against by owning their ecosystem instead of renting their audience.

Jonah Lantto, true crime writer and co-host of the hit podcast Midwest Murder, joins Julie Lokun and Dominick Domasky to reveal how he turned a basement side project into a full-time media business built on live shows, sponsorships, and relentless consistency. The conversation breaks down exactly how creative entrepreneurs can monetize a podcast, find their niche, and build a business "vertical" out of their voice — no celebrity status required..

Justin's Peanut Butter founder Justin Gold joins The Creative Entrepreneur Podcast to reveal how a food processor, a Boulder, Colorado kitchen, and a $281 million exit to a Fortune 500 company all started with one mountain bike ride. Hosts Julie Lokun and Dominick Domasky dig into risk-taking, raising investor capital, letting go as a founder, and why "no" just means "not now." Episode Overview In this episode of The Creative Entrepreneur Podcast, co-hosts Julie Lokun and Dominick Domasky sit d

Julie Lokun, JD — top 0.01% globally ranked podcast host and entrepreneurship strategist with Dom Domasky who is on assignment— goes one-on-one with Gary Vaynerchuk at VeeCon Indianapolis, delivering an unscripted, unfiltered conversation about building empires, embracing failure, and why self-awareness is the ultimate entrepreneurial superpower. This is the episode every creative entrepreneur, business builder, and Gary Vee fan needs to hear — because when the notes disappear, the real magic be