In this quick episode, I provide an update on both this podcast and my business. I also explain the shady reason behind why I'm specifically posting this update when I am. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club for just $5/month ! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram ! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that! One-on-one podcast launch packages Self-paced online course for launching your podcast Podcast auditing (Ideal if you'...
Jul 12, 2022•3 min
"If you want your podcast and your business to work hand-in-hand, you have to start thinking about them as the same thing and not separate things." As you wrap up one year and plan your goals for the next one, don't forget about your podcast. I see far too many podcasters who aren't intentional with the content they're putting our and the products or services they're promoting on their show. In this episode, I'm explaining exactly how you can prep your podcast for new year so that you always kno...
Dec 01, 2021•14 min
Margy Feldhuhn is a podcast host and the co-owner and CEO of Interview Connections, the first and leading podcast booking agency. She and her business partner lead an in-house staff of over 25 full-time employees in their (now virtual) Rhode Island office, and have successfully scaled the agency to multiple 7 figures. Since 2013, Interview Connections has been booking successful entrepreneurs as guests on podcasts and providing them strategy and coaching to monetize their guest appearances. They...
Nov 17, 2021•20 min•Ep. 117
Emily K Thomas is an energetic advisor and founder of Aligned Energetics. In her work, she advises high-performance entrepreneurs to lead with conviction & hire, launch, and scale with complete confidence. She’s passionate about helping her clients harness the power of their unique energetic framework to mitigate risk and achieve their financial intentions. She is the host of the Live Your Light Podcast and the founder and designer of Sundari Swim, an eco-conscious, body-love swimwear brand ...
Nov 03, 2021•22 min•Ep. 116
Years Podcasting: Nearly six Total Podcasts Hosted: Four Total Episodes Released: Over 400 If you think in all that time I’ve never hit a content idea block, you’re very wrong. But one good thing to come from all that podcasting, and helping podcasters like you with their shows for the past 5+ years, is that I’ve picked up a trick or two to help get past those blocks. In this episode, I’m sharing some of my go-to podcast episode topics and ideas so you can have them ready the next time you’re fe...
Oct 20, 2021•13 min•Ep. 115
Over the past several years of helping coaches and consultants just like you with their podcast launches, I've noticed some common blocks, anxieties, and fears that come up frequently during that process. It's those fears that I want to discuss today to hopefully help you overcome if you're experiencing any of them yourself. The fears/anxieties mentioned in this episode: Feeling overwhelmed or intimidated by the process and/or technology to the point where it stops you from getting started Think...
Oct 06, 2021•17 min•Ep. 114
Finka Jerkovic is an author, international speaker, workshop leader and coach. As President of FINKA Communications Inc., she consults with clients in areas of personal branding, leadership, sales, client experience and employee engagement. She brings over two decades of experience in corporate Canada in the financial services industry, with an expertise in sales, leadership, communication, and coaching. Finka believes when you bring authentic leadership and a mission-based mindset to business, ...
Sep 10, 2021•25 min•Ep. 113
Special Note: Effectively immediately, new episodes of the podcast will be published every other Friday instead of every Friday. Diann Wingert is a business mindset coach for female entrepreneurs. During her previous 20+ year career as a licensed psychotherapist, she worked with hundreds of ambitious women who struggled to achieve the success they desired. After realizing that psychotherapy was not the answer, Diann trained and certified as a coach to shift the conversation from problems to poss...
Aug 27, 2021•26 min•Ep. 112
Jason Cercone is a podcast consultant, podcast communications pro, chicken wing connoisseur, and all-around well-adjusted bon vivant making his residence in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the Founder of Cercone Consulting, through which he helps brands and professionals leverage the authority-building power of podcasting. When he isn't glued to a mic or screen producing words to live by, you'll find him consuming a good beer, obsessing over his fantasy football lineups, and doing everything in his power ...
Aug 13, 2021•28 min•Ep. 111
In this first episode back from my summer hiatus, I do a quick recap of the latest podcast industry updates from the past two months that you should be aware of to help stay on top of the podcasting game and help alleviate some potential frustrations; including the reason your podcast downloads may have dropped this summer, the extremely popular platform that’s finally giving podcasts the attention they deserve (and what you need to do to make sure you can take advantage of it), the easy way you...
Aug 06, 2021•13 min•Ep. 110
This brief bonus episode explains the exciting reason I'll be taking June and July off from the podcast. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club ! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram ! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that! One-on-one podcast launch packages Self-paced online course for launching your podcast Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've...
May 28, 2021•2 min
With both Apple and Spotify announcing private/paid podcast subscriptions on their platforms recently, you might be wondering if this is the right move for your podcast. In this quick episode, I answer that question, give multiple examples of how your business can utilize private podcasts, and announce a brand course I launched TODAY using a private podcast feed that will help you audit your own podcast. To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes . Is your ...
May 28, 2021•11 min•Ep. 109
Dr. Lindsay Padilla is an ex-community college professor who accidentally started a business while on the tenure track. Now, as the CEO and co-founder of the Hello Audio software, which takes your content and creates private audio feeds to make learning on the go much easier for your people, Lindsay challenges online industry norms of unfinished courses and unconsumed content with her product. All of Lindsay’s business ideas were born out of her tenure-track years teaching adults online at a com...
May 21, 2021•32 min•Ep. 108
Elsie Escobar is a ten-year-plus veteran in the podcast industry and an inductee to the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame. She is also Libsyn’s Community Expert; running the community via social media and producing The Feed: The Official Libsyn podcast. She also co-founded She Podcasts, a podcast, a podcasting community for women and non-binary people that has over 20 thousand members, a woman-centered podcasting conference She Podcasts Live, and a membership community called The She Podcasts S...
May 14, 2021•34 min•Ep. 107
Shelby Fowler is a Facebook and Instagram ads expert, creator of Fempire Ads Academy, lover of reality tv, and the founder and CEO of Fempire Media. She started Fempire Media, an ads agency, in 2019 after freelancing as a digital marketer for years. She has grown the company to multiple six figures in the first 2 years and is passionate about serving clients, teaching ads, and encouraging her team. In late 2020, Shelby launched Fempire Ads Academy to empower female entrepreneurs to run their own...
Apr 16, 2021•24 min•Ep. 106
Today's my birthday! For the past two years, I've done an Ask Me Anything (AMA)-style episode where you were able to ask me any question you wanted and I answered it in the episode. Well, it's that time of the year again. In this AMA episode, I answer the following questions from listeners just like you: How do I grow my show? (Also phrased as how do I grow my audience, increase visibility, or increase my downloads) How do I record an interview with someone who's not there with me in person? Is ...
Apr 09, 2021•25 min•Ep. 105
Lee Chaix McDonough is the CEO and Founder of Coach With Clarity, a training and education company for life and business coaches. She is also the host of the Coach with Clarity podcast and author of the #1 Amazon book, ACT On Your Business: Braving the storms of entrepreneurship and creating success through meaning, mindset, and mindfulness. After over a decade as a clinical social worker and public health professional, Lee became credentialed as a coach through the International Coach Federatio...
Apr 02, 2021•28 min•Ep. 104
Amy Dempster helps in understanding the healing power of the earth. What began as openly sharing her spiritual journey on her popular blog Following Hawks, has become a resource for others wanting to learn how to communicate with nature and share their own unique healing gifts with the earth. Together with the Spirits of the Land in the mountains of northwest Montana, she tends seven portals on the land where she lives, along with any grid keeping work she is assigned. She also leads the Earth T...
Mar 26, 2021•21 min•Ep. 103
Jeremy Enns is the CEO & Storyteller In Chief of Counterweight Creative a podcast production and marketing agency helping optimistic rebels create podcasts that market & grow themselves. He loves all things outdoors, is borderline religious on walking 10,000 steps per day, and will always look back on the day he finally saved up enough money to buy the Millennium Falcon Lego set as one of his proudest achievements. In this episode, he gives us a peek behind the curtain of a recent experi...
Mar 19, 2021•25 min•Ep. 102
How many people are actually listening to podcasts? Is the number of podcast listeners still growing or has it finally leveled off? What's the gender breakdown of podcast listeners? What's the age breakdown of podcast listeners? Every year Edison Research and Triton Digital releases a report called The Infinite Dial where they breakdown the latest data on a variety of digital media and platforms; including podcasting. The Infinite Dial 2021 was released yesterday and now I'm breaking down the mo...
Mar 12, 2021•11 min•Ep. 101
We've officially reached 100 episodes and it's time to celebrate! How are we celebrating, you ask? By giving away over $1,000 in products and services! Take a listen to this quick celebratory episode to find out about the free cheat-sheet I have that will help you use this podcast to launch one of your own and get all the giveaway details! But, hurry! The giveaway ends on Wednesday, March 10th at midnight EST. To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes . Wa...
Mar 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 100
Sasha Huff is a 10-year radio veteran turned professional podcast producer. She ditched corporate America after building her career in Los Angeles to work with small, mostly women-run businesses to help them spread their messages authentically online through podcasting, content marketing, and storytelling. She now runs the free community 'Women Who Podcast' and offers professional podcasting services to clients around the globe! In this episode, we chat about the main struggle she sees new podca...
Feb 26, 2021•24 min•Ep. 99
Whenever people find out I sold my first podcast, they always have the same questions. What?! How?! I didn't even know that was possible. Could I sell mine? How many downloads were you getting? How much did you sell it for? After it happened again recently with an upcoming guest, I figured it was time to put the information in a nice, neat little podcast episode so I don't have to keep explaining it. ;) Now, to be perfectly clear ... this is NOT an episode about how to sell a podcast. It's just ...
Feb 19, 2021•15 min•Ep. 98
"I don't edit my podcast because I want it to sound natural." Every time I see or hear a statement like the one above, I can't help but roll my eyes. And, no, it's not just because I'm a podcast editor who thinks people don't appreciate what they do. I mean, that's true ... but that's not really the point here. ;) As someone who's been in the podcasting industry for over five years, I can promise you that not editing your podcast is doing FAR more harm than good. Take a listen to this quick solo...
Feb 12, 2021•15 min•Ep. 97
Andrea Sager is a small business attorney shaking up the legal industry with her Legalpreneur plan that provides affordable all-access to legal advice for small businesses. After working for a large law firm with big businesses, Andrea realized her true passion was helping small businesses embrace and protect their assets and intellectual property. In just a few years, Andrea has become the go-to attorney for entrepreneurs, protecting everything from their brand names and Instagram handles to th...
Feb 05, 2021•28 min•Ep. 96
Is it too late to start a podcast? Is the market too saturated? Is a podcast even an effective marketing tool for a coaching or consulting business? Don’t people just skip past podcast ads anyway? In this episode, I use the latest podcasting industry data to answer all of those questions and more. So, whether you’re thinking about starting a podcast or you’re wondering if you should keep your existing podcast going, this episode will give you the information you need to make a decision. To learn...
Jan 22, 2021•19 min•Ep. 95
I’m officially back from hiatus and we’re kicking things off with Clubhouse! If you’ve spent any time in any entrepreneurial or podcasting communities in the past month, I’m just going to assume you’ve heard or seen the word “Clubhouse” 18,001 times already. (Just in case you haven’t, it’s an audio-only app that lets people host chats or discussions about pretty much anything and it’s taken off like crazy.) In this quick episode, I share why you might have to wait to join the Clubhouse craze, wh...
Jan 15, 2021•12 min•Ep. 94
In this quick announcement, I explain why I’m taking a brief hiatus from the podcast and provide you with a list of previous episodes to check out if you’re interested in starting a podcast, want to get to know me better, or are curious about my most popular episodes. I also explain why you should stay subscribed to the show during the hiatus. I’ll see you soon! NOTE: I accidentally said "episode 4" instead of "episode 74" when referencing the Podcast Quick-Start Guide episode. To learn more abo...
Sep 12, 2020•3 min
When you first start the process of creating a launch a new podcast of your own, it can be learning a foreign language. There are a lot of terms thrown around that don't mean anything to you yet and it can make it difficult to ask for help when you need it (and to understand the advice when you get it). In this episode, I'm going some of the more common beginner podcasting terms. This isn't a comprehensive list by any means (although I explain in the episode where find one that is fairly compreh...
Sep 04, 2020•22 min•Ep. 93
I know it's tempting to want to launch right into the fun parts of starting a new podcast like creating the cover art or picking out your music, but you're putting the cart before the horse at that point. Before making ANY decisions for your podcast, you need to have a solid foundation to build off of. In this episode, I explain the three key parts to a great podcast foundation that will be the guide for every decision you make about your showing; during and after your launch. To learn mo...
Aug 28, 2020•10 min•Ep. 92
