Jennifer Cohen says Oprah Winfrey turned down her request to appear on her podcast.
“A lot of people said no to me. I like, asked Oprah Winfrey to be on my podcast, she said no.”
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Jennifer Cohen says a sound mistake ruined the audio of her first big interview, which she identified as the one with Jack Dorsey.
“My first interview that was an extraordinarily big one because I was so amateur at that time. The person that was doing the sound of that podcast screwed it up”
At about 17 or 18, Jennifer Cohen wanted to be a video jockey at MuchMusic, which she described as the Canadian equivalent of MTV.
“and I really wanted to be a VJ for, uh, much music, right? Much music is like the equivalent of, like, MTV for Americans.”
Jennifer Cohen says Keanu Reeves came to her hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, to perform in a Shakespeare production of Hamlet.
“he wanted to be in my hometown, which is Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. Uh, to do Hamlet for Shakespeare”
Jennifer Cohen did not get the MuchMusic VJ job but finished as first runner-up.
“I did not get the job, but I was, I was f- I was, uh, I got, um, first runner-up.”
Jennifer Cohen says Weight Watchers bought a fitness app she created called Hot Five.
“I had a fitness app that was called Hot Five that Weight Watchers, uh, uh, uh, bought.”
Jennifer Cohen says her podcast began because a planned NBC television show called Game Changers stalled.
“the podcast came because I actually had a TV deal with NBC to do that. That podcast was supposed to be a TV show and it was called Game Changers.”
Jennifer Cohen says the original show concept was a version of MTV Cribs for entrepreneurs, visiting their homes to see their daily habits.
“it was supposed to be cribs for entrepreneurs. Remember the show cribs where you go into someone's house?”
Jennifer Cohen says she reached Twitter creator Jack Dorsey through an investor friend in San Francisco who knew him.
“Jack Dorsey because I had a friend from San Francisco, an investor I knew from my one of my businesses who was very close with him.”
Jennifer Cohen says that in her early podcast days she received about 500 refusals for every acceptance.
“I had more no's than yeses. So for every yes I had, I had 500 no's, but it didn't deter me”
Jennifer Cohen says her podcast is at about a thousand episodes.
“I'm at about a thousand episodes now, but I would say a lot of episodes.”
Jennifer Cohen says she is considering a podcast network structured like a record label, with imprints under a larger umbrella.
“You know how you have, like, BMG, starting, and then you have like imprints underneath them, so that's kind of like the idea.”
Jennifer Cohen says Tony Robbins holds equity in more than 110 companies.
“And it's funny because he has equity. It like in over 110 companies”