Best storyteller on the internet*

*according to one guy on Instagram.

I’m what my therapist calls “good money…”

I’m a pessimist who’s dumb enough to be optimistic.

I started this whole internet thing before I knew what it would become then it became my entire life. To borrow a term from Wall Street, I was bullish on social media from the start.

I had built my empire selling Jolly Rancher Suckers and Caramel Apple Pops to my seventh grade class, and I was looking for a way to take on the world. That’s when someone showed me MySpace. The seed of my obsession was planted. I spent the better part of my late teens blogging until the early morning hours, building websites with HTML, and praying to God that I would be famous.

After a whirlwind of a childhood, I took my newly developed design and creative skills and started going door-to-door to find a client. I found a few. My pitch? I can do anything online to get your business attention. That meant copywriting, design, content creation, blogging, social media management, and whatever else people would pay me to do.

This turned me into a bespoke multi-tool of creativity (one of those good ones, too, you get from the cool websites).

Over time, I realized my real value wasn’t just making things look good or sound sharp. It was building the systems behind attention. The messaging, the content engine, the workflows, the structure, the pieces that made marketing actually work instead of constantly needing to be rescued.

By 22, I had established myself as a marketing operations consultant, helping brands build strategies and operations that worked harder than they did. Around this time I had this idea rolling around in my head: CRTVCHURCH.

CRTVCHURCH was something the world was screaming for, but nobody was listening until I came along.

Over the past 10 years, I’ve taken the brand from a small, unknown account to one recognized all over the US and parts of Canada (eh).

CRTVCHURCH builds the confidence of creatives to imagine more for their cities and develop a healthy relationship with church work while placing thousands of creatives a year into jobs in and around the church space.

When I turned 30, I started getting itchy. My business had found its rhythm, and CRTVCHURCH had become a brilliant success. I had been creating content online for a decade, but the space seemed devoid of creativity.

Every up-and-coming creator seemed to be using the same reheated leftover thought leadership advice from voices like Chris Do, Gary Vee, and Rory Sutherland (love those guys). The space felt stale. Everyone’s personal brand looked the same. Education dominated the creative marketing space.

So, I borrowed a quote from Walt Disney that said:

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”

And it worked. I have grown my online presence from ~9k to 200k+ followers with storytelling at the center.

And now, I’m doubling down on what matters to me from all that I’ve learned: turn good people and good brands into forces big enough to take over the world. It’s really that simple.

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Armchair Walt Disney Company historian

Dean the bean

A flare for the theatrics

Who is Nik Goodner?

    • I’ve taken my personal brand from 9k to over 200k in a year.

    • Coached over 250 people to make sense of their purpose and focus on what makes them irreplaceable.

    • Consulted on creative marketing strategy with companies like Stream Monkey, Boxcast, Keller Williams, and VerdictSimulator.

    • Built a community of 100k creatives called CRTVCHURCH, and I’ve helped over 5,000 of them find jobs they love.

  • This question comes up a lot.

    Mainly because I have not followed the traditional creator path. I’m not working to land brand deals and sponsorships for my content and I like it that way. Highly recommend. Will keep doing that for as long as I can.

    That said, I have three main revenue streams:

    1) I work as a Marketing Operations Architect. My clients hire me to fix the operational gaps slowing down their marketing.

    2) I host events, workshops, and conferences to help people tell their story better. While leading talks on creativity, marketing, and storytelling for other conferences around the world.

    3) I lead the team of the company I built called CRTVCHURCH: a job board platform helping creatives in and around the church find jobs they love.

    This work keeps me busy and I love it.

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