Digital Investors
The Digital Investors Podcast is your guide to achieving financial independence through online businesses, showcasing stories and strategies of real people who have transitioned to online income and built high cash-flow portfolios in the new digital economy.Discover how you can: quit your job with online businesses, buy websites, build and grow websites for significant income, build alternative digital assets to traditional real estate, create the perfect side hustle or additional income streams.Hosted by Matt Raad and Liz Raad – successful website investors, angel investors, and digital educators who have trained thousands of entrepreneurs the digital skills to generate income on...
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Ep 132: Millennials Do THIS to Start an Online Side Hustle for Lifestyle and Freedom
<p>You don't need more time or more money to start a business. In this episode, Steph (a former teacher who went from burned out, time-poor, and stuck in a 9–5… to replacing her full-time income in just 12 months using digital skills) interviews Matt Raad, co-founder of eBusiness Institute.</p><p>They break down exactly what most millennials are getting wrong right now and what to do instead.</p><p>You’ll learn:</p>The first skill you should learn to start making money onlineHow to “earn while you learn” without quitting your jobWhy AI is forcing everyone to rethink their careerThe...
Ep 131: Millennials Were Sold a Lie… Here’s the New Path to Wealth
<p>What if everything you were told about building wealth… was wrong?</p><p>In this episode, Matt Raad breaks down why the traditional path, go to university, get a stable job, buy property, is no longer working for most millennials.</p><p>After coaching thousands of students and sitting down with Steph, a former high school teacher turned digital entrepreneur, Matt shares a hard truth: high income doesn’t equal financial freedom anymore. Rising costs, massive mortgages, and capped salaries are leaving even successful professionals stuck with no real path forward.</p><p>Instead, he makes the case for buil...
Ep 130: How This Single Mum Turned Divorce Into Financial Independence
<p>What would you do if your world fell apart overnight? If you suddenly became a single parent with two young kids, no family nearby, and no financial safety net?</p><p>That's exactly what happened to Audrey Hills in the middle of building her digital agency.</p><p>In this episode, Audrey shares one of the most powerful transformation stories I've ever witnessed. From part-time account manager earning modest money to running Surf Stoked Creative — a thriving digital agency pulling in $15,000/month and scaling to $30,000/month.</p><p>But this isn't just a business success story. It's about what ha...
Ep 129: How This Professor Replaced Their Corporate Incomes in 1-3 Years
<p>Mark was a chemistry professor. Silvia was a manager at a nonprofit. Both were well-paid professionals... and both were completely burnt out. The office politics. The endless meetings. The asking permission for holidays. The commute. All while trying to raise a family.</p><p>Mark jumped first. Quit his professor job and joined our course. Replaced his academic income in year one by buying and renovating websites.</p><p>Silvia watched from the sidelines... then gradually reduced her corporate days from 5 to 3. A few years later, she quit and joined him full-time.</p><p>Here's what makes their story...
Ep 128: Why Your Personal Brand Will Be Worth Nothing (Unless You Fix This)
<p>Everyone's building personal brands right now. But here's the problem nobody talks about: they're almost impossible to sell.</p><p>In this episode, I sit down with Greg Elfrink from Empire Flippers, a company that's sold over 2,500 online businesses and helped create 93 millionaires through exits.</p><p>Greg drops a shocking stat: out of all those deals, only FIVE were personally branded businesses.</p><p>Why? Because when YOU are the business, buyers can't replicate you. That fitness influencer with six-pack abs making $150K/month? Nearly impossible to sell to someone who doesn't look like that.</p><p>The...
Ep 127: Kmart desk to digital media empire (the Owen Rask story)
<p>He had no experience, no audience, and no roadmap. Today, Owen Rask runs one of Australia’s largest financial education businesses, with 750,000 podcast listens a month, over 35,000 students, and $50 million in funds under management.</p><p>In this episode of the Digital Investor Podcast, Owen shares how he went from working in corporate and starting with zero experience to building a multi-million-dollar digital empire in one of the most competitive niches online.</p><p>We dive into what really worked, what failed early on, and how identifying a broken system became the foundation for long-term scale and impact.</p><p>...
Ep 126: Why this is the hottest 2-person business to start in 2026 (it's not an AI business)
<p>Everyone is talking about starting an AI business - zero code, zero employees, and a $1M outcome. And while that can be true, it usually assumes you have 40+ hours a week to learn AI from the ground up. But what if you don’t? What if you’re working a full-time job, have kids and family commitments, and only have 8-12 hours a week to work on a side hustle?</p><p>In this episode, we talk about why a digital agency may be a far better option in that situation, but not in the way most people think abou...
Ep 125: Listen to this if you want to sell your digital agency or online business one day
<p>If you want to sell your online business or digital agency one day, you have to understand 3 things:</p><p>1) How big buyers actually think</p><p>2) What buyers look for in a digital agency </p><p>And 3) how to increase your agency valuation </p><p>... so it's not just an asset that brings in cash flow but one that pay you 2-3x your annual profit if you do decide to exit in the future.</p><p>That's why in this episode of the Digital Investor Podcast, I'm sitting down with Dom Wells, founder and CEO of Onfolio, a...
Ep 124: The 42-Minute Workday Outsourcing for Beginners System
<p>How do you run an entire business in 42 minutes a day? By using international Virtual Assistants. But not in the way you think. In fact, everything you know about hiring and working with VAs is wrong. In this episode, Matt Raad interviews Josh Thomas, who built four seven-figure businesses using a simple VA system.</p><p></p><p>Want To Learn How To Buy Websites for Income and Financial Independence?</p><p>You don’t need tech skills or prior experience, just the right strategy and a proven plan. Learn how 6-figure earners are buying profitable online businesses (the sm...
Ep 123: How to Turn Your Passion Blog Into Millions (Most People Miss This...)
<p>What if your hobby or passion blog could sell for seven figures?</p><p>Most people laugh at that idea. "Passion blogs don't scale," they say. "They're just hobbies."</p><p>What if they're wrong?</p><p>I've brought in someone who's proven it over and over again. Fiona Laidlaw, Regional Director for Asia Pacific at Flippa, senior M&A broker, and absolute legend at selling seven-figure online businesses.</p><p>She's been in the trenches for years.</p><p>She's seen promising sites die on the vine.</p><p>She's also watched passion projects transform into multimillion-dollar exits.<...
