314 - Share-Worthy Podcasts & Celebrating Our Weekly Wins

0:04 Good morning podcasting Morning Chat. Today is Friday, May 30th, 2025, and today we're talking new to you podcasts. It shows that you wish you could hear again for the first time and what they've taught you about storytelling formats and keeping listeners hooked. So if you're listening live on Clubhouse, hit the share button, bottom left hand side of the screen and share it. However, Clubhouse lets you. And if you're listening to be a podcast, please share this episode with a fellow podcaster. And now give us about 30 seconds and we'll get things rolling. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being.

1:22 Good morning again podcasting morning chat. Thank you for being here. I am your host Mark Ronik and currently on stage with me. We have my Co hosts Nick Naul, back, Sid Meadows, Amanda Sharp, producer Ashley Feller, Alex Baelish and Dr. Faye. I was going to make a joke because Dr. is usually not the last one in the room and I was going to call it out and say let's see how long it takes Dr. to realize it's Showtime. Oh. Man, sorry. Because I knew she was coming because we, as we usually do the hour leading up to the Showtime, she's usually right here in the room and, and she's usually helping me, I should say, in that first hour leading up to Showtime. So anyway, today it's Friday.

2:09 So that means we are sharing our wins from the week. And first, since it's a Friday, I want to loosen things up a little bit, have a little bit of fun. And so one way I think we can do that is talk about some of the podcasts that we're listening to may be new to us, and also what we can learn from those podcasts we're enjoying. And we'll also talk about some of your favorite podcasts that you wish you could go back and listen to again for the first time. So with that, why don't we open the floor? I have one, but I want to 1st see if anybody else wants to share, willing to share. What is a podcast that you're listening to right now?

2:49 It doesn't have to be a brand new one to the world. It could simply be new to you. By the way, Dominic Lawson has joined us as well. And Dominic, I was just setting things up for the room. So we're first asking what's a podcast that's new to you right now that you're really enjoying? Sid, we'll start with you. Good morning. Thank you for playing along. What say you? What's that new to you podcast? Good morning everybody. I have to admit I'm a bit of a junkie when it comes to podcast. We knew that already about you, Sid I. You always are talking about a different podcast you're listening to. I love. It yesterday based on Dr. recommendation I did listen to life after corporate, though I don't think I'm the ideal listener for that one. I did listen to it because I'm building a community and I'm looking for community tools and so that was a recommendation from yesterday.

3:41 I really enjoyed the one episode that I listened to yesterday, but one of the newest ones I just found accidentally was a new show called Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson. It's a really great, very informative. He's really easy to listen to. And so that's one of the newest ones because I'm very interested in real estate investing and trying to buy a couple of properties now and then. My favorite, I should have so many favorites, but one of my favorites is finding mastery. I just it's a it can be a bit of a deep podcast because he's a psychologist, but Dang, this is a really good show. I really enjoyed Doctor Michael Gervais and finding master. He was a sports or is a sports psychologist and he worked for the Seattle Seahawks when they won the Super Bowl. So he talks a lot about high performance and growth and what you need to do.

4:29 And he asked him really, like, really deep questions. Very cool and have you listened to more than one episode? Of finding mastery. Yeah. Oh, that's you said one of your favorites. Yeah, that, that's on my weekly playlist, that one. Is there an is there an episode 1 particular one that you would recommend to us if we wanted to jump into it? So I did a video about this one. It's the one from this week, and it's about Taylor Swift. And I almost didn't listen to it because it's about Taylor Swift. And I thought was when I saw the title was, oh, he's jumping on the bandwagon or they're jumping on the bandwagon of Taylor Swift. And I don't know whether it's gonna be good or bad.

5:10 And because of the title, I prejudged it, which is wrong. Let's be clear. That's wrong. But I hit play and Dang, it was a really good episode because it didn't really, I like Taylor Swift, right? But it didn't really talk about necessarily her music or things of that nature. But though it did, what it really talked about was the parallels to how she created her success and how that can create how that parallels to your life and to your business. And it was just real, so powerful. Literally, if you haven't seen the video on LinkedIn, I'm sweaty. I've got my sunglasses on as I'm talking because there were three points I wanted to make and I just like grabbed my phone and turned on record and in one take recorded that video begins.

5:56 Like during the video, I got sweat dripping down my face. And like damn said that was awful video, but it did it did really well. But I was just hit with the takeaways that how important they were to me and how important they are to other business leaders. And there's so much that his purpose was there. So much you can learn from her and what she's been through and you can apply into your business. And it was his guest was a guy who wrote a book about Taylor Swift, who never interviewed her, but he wrote a book about her experiences. And it's all about what you can learn from her. I love that. Thank you, Sid. And I did see that video and I did see you were sweaty and it didn't bother me at all. And it's just, it's funny how when we're creating a video, we think, oh, this is terrible because of X because I just finished a workout and I was sweaty.

6:46 But those do tend to be the ones that do particularly well. And I don't think anybody really cares. Like I don't think, and I'm not saying this to you directly, Sid. I think I'm saying this to anybody who feels that way at times. It does. Nobody cares that you're a sweaty mess. And if anything, it might help stop the scroll because they're going to be like, what's wrong with this guy? Why is he sweating so much? But then they're going to stop when they stop. Then if you're saying if you've got a good hook, if you've got good information, good insights, if it's entertaining, that sweatiness, for example, goes away, they don't care about it anymore. I think it's really an important lesson. I agree with you and part of the reason why I posted it on LinkedIn is simply way it's a business video. But also I'm on this mission to let's normalize video on LinkedIn.

7:36 It doesn't have to be so curated. It doesn't have to be so professional and having my sunglasses, my business coach picks on me about doing videos of my sunglasses. He goes lose the sunglasses, Sid because we want to see your face. And so I actually called him out in the video. I'm like, no hate Rex. Oh, I heard that. Yes. I was wondering who that was. OK, cool. Well, thank you, Sid. I appreciate you sharing all of that, and I'm going to go back and, well, you know what? I'm going to ask you one more question, Sid, since you are such a connoisseur these days of podcasts. Is there a podcast that you enjoy that you wish you could go back and experience it for the first time? That's a really good question.

8:19 And my first thought in my my brain is the Serial podcast because that's what got me into podcasting that right? That was the hook for me that got me listening. And so I would love to go listen to that story again one more time. But in current times, I would say the one that I would like to go back to listen to again is it's called How Leaders Lead with David Novak. I've mentioned this podcast before. It's also my weekly playlist. There's an episode that he did with, I don't remember her name, but she's the CEO of Enterprise Mobility, which is what we know is Enterprise rent a rent a car. And she's a third generation CEO. Her grandfather started the business and then her father took over and then she's taking over.

9:04 And it's just a really powerful store of family of a family business because they're still a private company, just gives a lot of lessons in leadership and in life. And it was just a really powerful episode. And I tell a lot of people about that particular episode because it was so good. And, you know, I finished listening to it and I'm not looking for a job. My first thought was, damn, I would go work for that Lady. Like she was just that good, right? And who she is as a person. There's things about like building a culture and hide. And she doesn't necessarily talk about this, but you can hear like how they built the culture enterprise rent a car, why they hire college students or college athletes right out of college, what it is about being a family business and how she, you know, stays connected to the business of, what, 10,000 employees. I mean, it just was really great to hear a very successful leader talk about what she's doing and how she's building because all of us are building something.

10:00 And there is a lesson that we can take away from successful leaders, regardless of the size of their company. Thank you, Sid. Love that and I want to keep it going now. So who else would like to share? What's a podcast that's new to you? We got a couple people wanting to go. Let's go to Dr. Good morning, Dr. Yeah. What's a new to you podcast? Well, it's not new to me, but I do listen to it and it's actually not even publishing anymore. It's kind of been pod fade, but it's called history of Stand up and it's just a history of stand up comedians and how they got started and where they got, you know, started from. So I listened to that one.

10:45 Normally I listen to podcasts about podcasting because I feel like it's my classroom and I go to class every day, you know, that kind of thing. But I am a SNL freakazoid. I love, I love SNL even the bad years. I love the bad years. And so anyone who has a podcast that's connected with SNL, I'm kind of crazy about flying on the wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade. I love that. You know, it's an interesting thing. I found that Seth, what's his name, Seth Meyers has a podcast. It's called The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast and I tuned into it and I left it a couple, but it's just about, it's just like 4 Bros sitting around talking, laughing at each other's jokes.

11:36 And I kept listening because I thought surely it's going to get better. It's going to get better. It's come on, it's going to. And I wound up it's going to get bettering probably for about an hour. No, it's not going to get better. Wow, I'm surprised because you know, Seth Meyers is a funny guy. I know he's, he's very funny. I didn't connect with it. I don't know. I don't know why I didn't connect with it, but I was really disappointed. You know, when's the last time you had expectations of a show and you listen to it and you're kind of a little bit crushed, A little bit crushed. And so I had that feeling yesterday.

12:19 So my first question to you, Dr., is do you think that's because maybe, and I don't know this, but perhaps you're not their target audience, right? Because the first thing you said was it's like 4 Bros sitting around making each other laugh. And to me, that's probably a more male oriented audience. Yeah. The only reason why I turned tuned into it is because all four from SNL, yeah. And I thought, OK, I'll be able to relate to this and Nope. Nope. All right, let's. Well, Dominic looks like he wants to chime in. Let's check in with Dominic. Go ahead, Dominic.

13:00 Good morning. Good morning, everybody. I hope everybody is well. I just had a quick question. You say it's called the Lonely Guys and Self Myers is that's what it's called. It's called The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. Is that The Lonely Island crew? That's yes. OK. Oh, that's highly unfortunate 'cause I love The Lonely Island crew. What is that? I don't even know what that is. The Lonely Island crew. And it was short, right? Yeah, it's it's this crew pretty much led by Andy Samberg. And remember those. He's one of the four. Right. And so remember those skits where they did a whole bunch of music stuff like blanking up, blanking a box? And yeah, that that was The Lonely Island crew's brainchild.

13:43 And I love all those shorts. So if you telling me that. They, they talk about all of them, but in fragments. So it's like, do you remember the car that I drove in? And they he mentioned something. Got you. Oh yeah. So now I'm conflicted. Well, see, Dominic, I again, I go back to maybe it's more for guys than it is for women. Fair enough, fair enough. Who knows? And I think that's a lesson too, right? It's like you just because somebody recommends a podcast or says a podcast isn't a good one, it might just be because they aren't the right audience for it. That's true 'cause like, like I said, I am a massive lonely eye the crew fan, like I've seen their movie with like the Jose Canseco Mark McGwire thing they did a few years ago. Yeah, So I'll check it out.

14:32 I'll check it out, thanks. I'm sorry about that. No, not. At all. I appreciate the question and Dominic, I'm going to keep you here for a moment and ask you a little bit about mental health Rewritten 'cause I know there's a new episode coming, but really my question is more about are there any lessons so far that you've learned from doing this new podcast? So new episode came out today. OK, Just dropped it about an hour ago. Two hours, no hour ago. I don't know if there's any big lessons as far as like creating the content. I think I'm just learning more and more about our our industry and behavioral health and how things are treated and things of that nature. I think one of the things I talked about today is about EMDR therapy. Yeah, I'm doing that right now actually. Exactly.

15:18 So I learned a little bit more about that is kind of mentioned in the episode. So I, I think it's just the overall, which I know is a lazy answer, but just the overall acquire more knowledge about the industry that I have kind of come to love over the past couple of years. OK, I'm going to rephrase the question. How What have you learned about promoting this new show? Because I know that it's different. It's different from the last show. It's a whole job, like just promoting it is just a whole job. And this is with me hiring a marketing firm to help campaign in the launch and stuff like that. It's been stressful, but also a great learning experience, right, to understand just how much promotion of your show is super important, right?

16:09 Because you know, and I am super grateful and then shout out to the people at T Media who have been astronomically helpful in the launch of getting the word out and stuff like that. But it's been stressful, but also a learning experience and there's just how important it is. And so I'm super, super excited, but it's been nerve wrecking. It's been nerve wrecking. Like there's days where it's like, you know, guys, I really just kind of want to work on the actual podcast they're promoting. I don't want to promote it, but I understand their their thing. But yeah, it's. Been a learning process. Thank you. And that's so relatable. I think there are a lot of us out there that will say, you know, I just want to work on the podcast.

16:51 I don't want to do all the other things after I'm done with the podcast, The promotion, whatever it is we're like in, it just feels like a heavier lift and then have to do all the extra things afterwards. But it all counts. It's just as important. The production of your podcast is just as important as the promotion is. Yeah, it's just one of those those tough ones that we just have to face. Sid, did you want to ask a follow up or did you have anything else? You have a question for Dominic if that's OK Sure. So Donna got really enjoyed the first episode. Look forward to listening to this episode, man, that, that that show makes you really think about your life. And I know that's the point, right? So thank you for encouraging deep thought.

17:31 I noticed in the first episode that you used AI in voice generation, which honestly was a little unexpected for me because of your other show and how you're using people voices, right? But So what was it like incorporating that component of AI into the show because of this was I think new for you, right? It was and thank you for pointing that out. And Nick may not remember this, but me and him had a conversation kind of offline kind of talking about this usage. It's been helpful and challenging, right, because I think AI doesn't always give me the emotional tone I'm looking for, right, You know, and it and it and it's gotten better, right? But I found myself as the creator having to make up for their lack of emotional tone.

18:21 So I had to frame my script around that part that I'm going to use AI in a certain way, and I have to use the correct sound design during that part as well. So it's actually kind of challenged me in a good way as a creative to work a little bit harder and a little bit deeper in order to correctly convey the emotional tone of the moment that I'm trying to relate to the audience. And so I was a bit hesitant to use it, but I knew that I wanted to make sure that I framed the content in a proper way. And what we're talking about, you know, sex, not everybody wants to openly talk about that.

19:07 So it's hard to get people on a podcast sometimes, not all the time. Sometimes you talk about the particular nature of sex or aspect of sex that I want to talk about, right? Especially when you slap an addiction or something shameful or something stigmat stigmatizing about it. So AI doesn't have that emotional connection. So I kind of have to lean on that, if that makes any sense. Oh, absolutely it does. But I will tell you, I don't know that the average listener would realize that that was AI. I'd heard those voices before because of this room. So I think you did a great job in masking them as you were talking about with your sound design and other things and setting them up because I don't know that the average person to realize those were AI generated voices. I appreciate that.

19:53 So clearly it's coming across nicely and there's times where I'm using AI as a clinical type of voice to relate something clinical. So sometimes that emotional stalemate, I guess it's perfect, right, Because I want to keep it unbiased and kind of clinical. But yeah, there are times where, and that challenge came up in today's episode where it's like, I really need to frame this a little bit more than normal. So that way we can understand just how serious, but also how human a particular disorder is. So I appreciate that said, I appreciate that question. Thank you. And. What AI tool are you using specifically Dominic? 11 labs that that I think it was Nick who shared that with me. So I played around with it a little bit that particularly the tech speech function, right?

20:40 And what I did notice is that when I put things like an ellipses or a comma or something like that, that definitely does help with some of the pauses. I'm looking for some of that emotional tone I'm looking for. So that steep climb of the sound design or my script before and after the usage of the AI allows kind of makes it a little bit helpful when I can put those ellipses and commas and, and other type of punctuations in there because clearly AI can understand, oh, I can't just read this. I need to frame it in a way where it's kind of an emotionally resonant, if that makes sense. Yeah, absolutely. And we have people on stage who want to chime in and I want to go to Nick first because, well, you called him out.

21:25 So Nick, good morning. Did you want to add anything? I was just going to say. Dominic, if you haven't looked at this for anybody, too, if you're. Wanting to play with 11 labs if you haven't. Looked at the. Studio option instead of just doing straight text to speech. Studio has a few. More. Options something crazy, but one in particular that might be useful to you is you can actually put in pauses. You can like insert a pause and you can determine I want that pause to be 1/2 a second or two seconds or three seconds, whatever it is, and it'll actually embed that pause into the audio for you and then continue on with whatever the AI is saying so that.

22:05 That could be something helpful to you if you're walking a little bit more of a dramatic. No, no, that is that is that is massively helpful. It it really is. I, I appreciate that because I saw that like they've added even new voices and stuff like that. But even something as simple as that for what I do is massively helpful. So thank you. Thank you, Nick. That's really cool. I have not tried that studio feature, so thank you for bringing that up. And I yeah, I know somebody who just wrote a book. She's a former client, good friend. Her name is Amy Stark. And yes, she's in the woo business, if you will. But what what's cool is her book is actually about bridging. It's called Bridging the Divide and it's really about the science side of the woo.

22:51 So it's really helping. I think it will help people who may be either on the fence, skeptical, don't believe in the woo. This book scientifically kind of explains how the woo actually does work. It does other things too with this book. But the reason why I'm sharing it is, is that it was a big book, a long book. And even with her podcasting experience, doing an audio version felt really daunting to her. So she went ahead and used 11 labs and paid the premium so that it really sounds like her and it works amazing. And you would really wouldn't know it if I didn't tell you. Also really quickly, if I may just want to point out, you know, I know we're talking about AI and stuff like that, but one person who is not AAI voice Dan, well, Heidi will make his mental health rewritten debut in about two weeks. Is just wanted to make sure I pointed that out in the room. Yes, very cool.

23:47 Yeah. And Dan's here in the room right now. Yeah, very cool. I've seen the the teasers with him. So I've been looking forward to hearing more about that episode. Can can you tell us a little bit about the episode? You don't have to tell us details as to what Dan shared, but what is that episode about? So that's probably one of the more difficult episodes, and I'm super glad that Dan was kind of there to kind of walk me through it a little bit as well, because we're talking about sexual assault. It's extremely problematic. It's a problematic as we see survivors for, you know, both women and men. And Dan really helped me kind of frame a lot of the context as it relates to being an advocate for survivors. And so that's the general premise of that episode.

24:30 It's a tough one, but an important one. Very cool. I'm going to go to Janae and then I'm going to go to Matt Bliss, who's joined us on stage as well. I think Matt wants to comment on the Seth Meyers podcast. So and I have a feeling Janae wants to comment on the AI talk knowing Janae as well as I do. Janae, what did you want to add? Good morning. As I'm listening. This is yes, but pull me in, right, because it's it's so powerful of a topic. I use AI for my production, my post production as well, especially my team. Look, going in and creating those AI hooks at the beginning of the episode and 11 Labs has grown so much in the past two years. It's amazing to see all the features that are in there and it's just. Really powerful, thanks.

25:15 Thank you Janae and Matt Bliss. Did you want to comment on the Seth Meyers Podcast? No, I don't think that. I think what what you guys said was pretty spot on. I listened to it as well. Huge Lonely Island fan. They actually did a film too. Don't Stop Never Stopping was like a Justin Bieber like, you know, take kind of thing. Very funny. But that show is very reminiscent of them sharing their own stories with each other. So it's a bit hard to latch onto. No, I wanted to share a podcast that that kind of changed things a little bit for me. Not personally, but the void that's really hard to fill is when video games are adapted into television and film.

26:01 And often people that either come on board and find one better than the other, or it completely reimagines what it is and misses the mark for certain groups of people, or it just fails miserably. Some of you might be familiar with The Last of Us that came out I think 2023 for season 1 and last week it just wrapped up the end of season 2. Brilliant show. But part of the reason that it's brilliant is not only because the director of the game is also on as a Co director and writer for the show. But the way that they create the fascia that connects the game with the television show is largely addressed through the official The Last of Us HBO podcast that is hosted by Troy Baker, who is the voice of Joel in the game and also appears in the show in season 1. Not as Joel.

26:58 That's Pedro, our our best pal from all the shows you can imagine. They unpack every episode together. And the thing about The Last of Us, if you've ever looked at it and thought, I'm not up for a zombie TV show, there's too many of them. It's the game and the TV show are a story about love and relationships, and all of it is the zombie stuff being a backdrop to the relationships that get created in the post apocalypse of of America. And the way that they explained the changes between the game and the TV show and the way that they give the TV show its own message, its own personality that arrives at something different but just as valuable to anyone who's up for finding those things is just unbelievable. So if you've watched The Last of Us and you weren't aware of the HBO the Last of Us official podcast, I would suggest even doing a watch along or if you remember enough just listening to them all.

27:57 There's one for every episode that got released. But the way they unpack it and the personal stories that went into the game that they share as part of the TV show as well and even the little things like the music selection is all just it's an amazing set of stories. So while firstly, it doesn't change much for me, it does show the power of podcasting to be the connective tissue for other parts of life. And I think it's a really good example of that. I'd suggest anyone check it out. Thanks, Matt. I appreciate that. And yeah, I'm with you. I'm hearing what you're saying and what I'm also hearing the lesson in there is that, OK, so zombies, it is probably the draw for a lot of people right when they heard this was coming out and the fact that it's the video game, you know, it's based off the video game as well. Those are the two factors that are the draw or maybe it's even kind of like the hook, if you will. It gets the audience there, but it's the storytelling that really makes it successful.

29:00 Like you said, it's the development of the relationships. It's a love story. It's other things as well it, but ultimately that's what's keeping people there. And that to me is the big lesson for any of us as content creators. You can have your underlying theme, right? Like in my case, it's about podcasting, but I don't believe we have built the community that we have without the storytelling, without the personal stories, the personal touches. That's what really gets this show to where it is right now and where it will continue to go. Thank you for that, Matt. Yeah, just because I was just going to say too, that for for this context, there are always going to be people who play the game who are coming up to the to the mic to point out all the things that are wrong with the TV show adaptation.

29:45 And the podcast addresses that. But it's like you said, it's the stories that interconnect absolutely everything. A couple, the main actor who plays Joel and Ellie in the game, the way that they emotionally connect with each other and the director and the game kind of emerges through the story and the TV. Yeah, but basically what you said, storytelling, huge thing. And the biggest part is it's the little things that you don't realize are valuable that you could share that creates that story connection for people listening or watching. It's like a little industry secret, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Thank you, Matt. Great example. I'm so proud of the example I wanted to share.

30:26 As far as new to me podcasts go, I'm proud because, well, I am going to share. Screw it. This. I was connected to this guy who I believe he's in college or maybe recent graduate. I think maybe a recent graduate. It's been a minute since we talked and I just heard from him, I think it was yesterday or the day before. I just came across the e-mail yesterday. He might have sent it, might have sent it actually while I was away on vacation. He originally, I was connected to him through somebody I know in the Asheville area and he was looking to start a podcast and she thought I'd be a good person for him to talk to. And we talked and I gave him a bunch of advice and with the understanding, and he did confirm it that he wasn't in any position to work with me full time or, you know, work hire me to help him with the podcast. But that's OK.

31:22 I mean, I do offer those free calls and those are not surface level calls. It's, it's, it's a free consultation coaching producer call. And you know, he wanted to know cuz he had no idea about how to put on a podcast and what that looks like. He had a vision of his own, but wanted to see, you know, if that vision jives. And I gave him a lot of advice and it's, it's really, well, I'll tell you the description here. It's basically he left his home, he left his job. So yeah, he had just finished college and was working at that point and he wanted to learn life with first hand experience. So he set out hitchhiking across the world, embracing, as it says here, the unexpected and let go one step at a time. So this is his journey.

32:15 And the cool thing is, is that similarly Tao Dominic does a lot of his podcasts. It's not a an interview, just like with him and the people that are part of his life or that became a part of his life through his travels. He is storytelling and I think it's something that I just want to play a little piece of it because here's why I'm so proud. It's because he didn't know a thing about how to podcast. He educated himself. He found resources like me and found other resources online and he put together something really I'm really impressed with. The audio quality is good. The sound design is really impressive.

32:56 I'm going to just play like 2 minutes of it for you and it's called Go and Find out and the podcaster is Johnny Wright. Here it is. Leaving it all most of my life has been a series of experiments. Not the kind in labs with white coats and microscopes, but experiments with my body, my mind, and the world around me. I blindfolded myself for 24 hours in a basement on a piece of frayed cardboard. I painted blueberry jam and Oreo pie onto my T-shirt. For months. I tried to touch the back of my head to my heel.

33:37 I was my own lab rat. What would happen if I dropped out of school to study the history of cinema? What would happen at this meal if I were to only speak with my eyes? What would happen if I broke with the tiny assumptions of normal life to see what lived outside them? But somewhere along the way. I stopped asking at some point, without realizing it. I'd let myself settle the experiment stopped. The questions got quieter and life once. Full of unpredictable edges. Started feeling manageable, comfortable. And that was starting to terrify me. Because the world isn't flat.

34:26 It isn't shallow, it has depth, it has layers. And if I stayed here, if I stayed comfortable, uncurious, afraid I might never reach below the surface, I'm going to stop right there. I don't know about you, but I'm really impressed for somebody who's never podcasted before, this is really such great storytelling. And you know, he, he does interview people, He interviews his mom. But again, it's not just AQ and a back and forth typical interview. I say he interviews his mom because that was the first interview I heard when I started listening to his episode. And he'll tell the story and then all of a sudden you'll hear his mom adding to that story. And then when she's done adding to it, he'll be like, oh, by the way, that's my mom, you know, And then it'll he'll continue it on.

35:15 But he's he's telling the story from the sound bites of the different interviews. That is a beautiful thing. In my opinion. It makes it different than what are what so many podcasts are out there. I think extremely impressive, massively well done, and I think it just goes to show the power of ambient sound design. Like it doesn't have to be extremely detailed, but all of those tones, all of those, all of that Foley extremely it it really does a great job of pointing out the moment that we're in with him, right. So it's that was really cool. I just wanted to say that. Yeah, thank you.

35:56 I'll definitely share this episode with him so he can hear the positive feedback. And if he doesn't know Dominic, that's a big compliment coming from a 20 plus time award-winning podcaster who does a very similar style of podcasting. Janae, did you want to add something? Absolutely. That was beautifully done. And as I'm listening to it, you know, I'm drawing into his conversation through through the music. And one thing that I noticed, he took a whole year off to learn filmmaking and was filmmaking, it's storytelling, right? So him having that experience already, I think would have massively helped them do podcasting the same way. I love that.

36:37 Yeah. Thank you, Janae. Appreciate that. So yeah, that's called go and find out. And he's already got, he reached out to me to say, hey, Mark, I'm really excited. I want you to hear what I've done. Thanks for all the help you gave me. And yeah, now he's 6 episodes in. And if you want to check it out again, go and find out Johnny Wright and we'll put that in our show notes as well. Does anybody want to add anything, share a podcast? I know we've got Kate on stage. Kate, did you want to play along, share a podcast that maybe is new to you? Or did you have something else entirely you wanted to ask or share? Hi, good morning, everyone. Yeah, two things, Two things. One at what a beautiful podcast.

37:21 Oh my gosh. It felt very like almost like This American Life S, which is amazing for someone who's never done it before. Of course, guess what? I have a question. Go. Ahead OK, so I have found a couple of podcasts that I really like, and one of the things that I started recognizing was, you know how some people do those and this is more like YouTube videos, but I think they're podcasts as well. They have reaction videos of things. Like there's this. One guy that does a lot of reaction videos to like a song and he has like 1,000,000 of subscribers. He's a, he's a musician. And what I'm curious is I wanted to take pieces.

38:03 I don't want to do a reaction video, but I wanted to take pieces of songs and play them and talk about the just how it relates to creativity and poetry. But being able to take those songs, and I don't know how these reaction videos take, take musician songs and then play them on their channel. Like isn't that a copyright thing? Like what can you use and not use? Yeah, good question. And so first, I could actually speak a little bit to this because it's coincidentally, my daughter works for a music publisher. And one of the main things she does is So what happens, she works with YouTube a lot.

38:45 And what happens is, is that the music that's under their company's label publishing, if a podcast, if a YouTube video is using one of their songs, what my daughter's doing is basically saying, yeah, that's one of our songs. And she's making sure that their company gets properly compensated for it. They're not going after the YouTube for using it, but they are making sure that, you know, they're basically ads get added into that video because then YouTube collects the money from the ads and the publisher collects that money. So in some ways there are companies publishing big name music out there that you can use on YouTube videos, but I think it's it's unclear as to all the time as to which ones to use. So honestly, I think it's a slippery slope to do something like that without knowing the rights to that music, without having the rights to that music.

39:49 I think it's a slippery slope because YouTube may just mark it as a copyright issue that happens with this very show all the time because of our theme music. Because it is licensed, I have the rights to it, but. They see it as music that's officially published by a musician and so they mark it as a copyright issue. I could go and say tell them I have it, I have rights to play it. I just don't care because just because it's marked as a copyright issue doesn't mean I'm going to get in trouble from the musician or from YouTube. It just means that it's not going to play in certain countries because of that copyright issue.

40:29 So I would personally avoid doing it. Otherwise you could try to get away with it by playing 5 to 10 seconds of the song. But I I'm sure Amanda can speak a little bit to this too because they're playing music all the time on their show and I know Chris has has to work hard for that. Go ahead, Amanda. So it kind of varies how YouTube or how, I guess artists in the publisher companies handle it. So on YouTube, YouTube's pretty good at grasping even the smallest amount of music as a copyright thing. And so we at least want the Chris has this form, he has to appeal it all the time. So we get the rights restored. It just can't be monetized essentially. So it kind of goes with the strategy you want behind putting the music in there and do you want that video to be monetized and, and whatnot.

41:19 But on the other social channels like Facebook and Instagram, if we're monetizing on those, we just have to share ad revenue with them. So we'll get a notice like an alert that says, you know, we have a copyright infringement or something like that, however it says it. And then we just have to go in and say I accept like revenue share. So that way they're getting proper money for it, but we're also getting our shares. So especially on Facebook, it's very generous that it can be used. The artist just wants a little money to you know as well, and that seems super fair. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Thank you for that, Amanda. Kate, does that answer your question?

42:00 Yeah. Look, it's basically one of two things. It's really either don't use it or be prepared to do some work to be allowed to use it. And Ashley, by the way, it looks like she wants to chime in. Go ahead, Ashley. I just wanted to say everything you said, Mark, but there is also a service that you can subscribe to Kate. It's called Licked and I will put the link in the chat. And it is a subscription service in which you can use License Music. And apparently it's supposed to be cleared so that you don't get flagged when you upload it. I don't know how vast their catalog is, but I was talking to somebody the other day who uses it. And they do have like, I guess you could say, for lack of a better word, right of the mill commercial music widely known available.

42:48 So maybe that'll help you. That's a great tip. Thank you, Ashley. And that's called Licked. And yeah, we'll put that in the show notes as well for our podcast audience. OK. So listen, we have about 15 minutes ish and I it's Friday, so I want to do wins from this past week. And I think we'll try to do it rapid fire. I will invite anybody listening in the audience live right now to come on up. If you want to share a win from your week. I don't care if you think it's big, if you think it's small, whatever it is, come on up and let's celebrate it. And bonus points if it's something podcast related and we'll do this popcorn style or actually, no, we will do it rapid entire style where we'll just go straight down the line. I will do my best not to comment like I always do. It's just so that everybody has a moment to be able to share. So what we'll do is Amanda will start and then she'll pass it to Dr. and Dr. will pass it on to Sid. Pull down your screen here on Clubhouse to refresh and see the proper order.

43:54 And let's kick it off because now I just pulled to refresh and it's Sid who is appearing first. So Sid, good morning again. Please share a win and then pass it on to Amanda. Dude, I'm like pulling the screen down, Pulling the screen down. Like Amanda is not in front of me, she's behind me. Yeah, My God. My win for the week is just the success of our new venture and how well it's going. We've got about 20 customers already got our contracts worked out yesterday. I'll be sending out the contracts for people to sign. We've had great sign ups on our e-mail newsletter, great follows on our LinkedIn page and we've had people reach out to the contact us to learn more about our program.

44:35 So I'm just really excited about how well that new business is going. So that's my win for the week. Amanda, take it away. The win for me this week was I have been working with an older gentleman that's been coming into my store to drop off some items that he makes and it's just beautiful craftsmanship, woodworking. And I did a video yesterday for my Facebook page for the store. And then I also put it on my personal on TikTok. And the country has just accepted the story of this gentleman and it's on track to get 20,000 views, which for me, I've had more, but for some reason this particular video just seems so important. He's going to be 90 in July.

45:17 And he had said yesterday he's like, well, the goal was to travel country and sell these. And that's just not going to happen. And I said, but it will you happen to know somebody who has people all over the country looking to support people that I know and want to like support. So the country has just checked in and said seeing this from Alabama, said seeing it from Texas, and people are just wanting to buy these beautiful pieces of woodworking. And it's just so, so special. I can't wait to call him and say, listen, maybe you didn't physically make it over the country, but your products have. And I just think that's so special. So I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be able to do that for him this week.

45:59 Congratulations, I'm going to share the link and pass the mic to Ashley. Not so cool Amanda. My win for this week is I got to perform my original music at the 73rd annual Florida Folk Fest. It is the oldest and longest running festival of its kind. I air United States. I got to see so much music. My music was very well received. I got to play my song there about river right in front of the Suwannee River. And that's my win for the week. OK, my win for the week is that today is onboarding for a new client, a launch client. And the topic is very sexy.

46:47 Here we go. Industrial automation. Oh, doesn't it just get you? So yeah, that's my that is my win for the day. And Dominic, what you got? Dr. You know how much industrial automation really gets my gears going? Baby come. Up and. Get my gears. Gears. I got it, absolutely. Sorry, bad joke. Really quickly. I'll share a quick tip about promotion and then also I'll share with if you can get your podcast featured in pod news, do it because I definitely received a bump when that happened. So you do with that information what you will when for the week.

47:29 I can't share all detail, but there may be a big feature for Mental Health Rewritten here coming soon. And just to give you a clue, if you go to the Apple podcast feed and look at Mental Health Rewritten, the pod art shows up a little differently than normal pod art. So I'll leave it at that. Very interesting. Congratulations. Go ahead Janae, when the week. I have recorded podcasts that really inspired me this week and just received a trailer for the podcast releasing next week. For past Lens episode, so super excited to share that on LinkedIn and other platforms. And I got to upload about 18 different videos that I recorded last year so I can start pushing them out as well. So just a tiny bit of little ones. We record so much content.

48:23 We forget to share it, so moving the needle on that one. And I can't wait to use what Dominic just shared about pod news. Maybe they'll pick Pat Flynn's episode. Now. That's a great one. I would say to submit or get get on their radar. Yeah, absolutely. All right. We're going to go to Kate. Then we're going to go to Yvonne. And I will wrap it up with my wins. Go ahead, Kate. My win was yesterday was actually my podcast recording day and my one of my guests did not show up and I was so disappointed. So instead of doing an interview, I did the most random episode that I was like, I'm actually kind of nervous to put out. But you know what? I'm going to put it out because it was fun to do and hopefully it will be valuable to other people.

49:09 Feels on point for a show called Create for no reason. It's OK that it's random. I love that. Thank you, Kate. And by the way, Kate, check your inbox. Our friend Tyler sent you something a day or two ago. I just want to make sure you know it's on your radar. All right, Yvonne, let's hear it. Share a win or two with us. My win is completely a mom when we are continuing with the end of year for my kiddo that's graduating high school on all kinds of lasts and celebrations around that. And yeah, that's that's, that's my win. Congratulations, Yvonne and congratulations to all of you for your wins. Appreciate you sharing and I will share mine before I let you go.

49:53 So this week I'd say a win for me is that I made a ton of personal one-on-one requests to people that I know personally in this space that I want speaking at the empowered podcasting conference. And I have more people I'm on my list to ask as well. But I what the reason why that's a win is AI feel like we, we don't have as many speaker applications as we did last year at this point in the process. And it's a win for me because I took the time to do it to reach out because a lot of us, I think when we're told, you know, a greater effective way to do to get more people interested in say, your podcast, I, I tell people one-on-one is really powerful to have to reach out to.

50:43 Actually, in my case, I left voice messages and it resonates with the person on the other end. It means something to them. It's not just a, hey, listen to my podcast or in this case, hey, I want you to speak. I shared my heartfelt reasons for why I was asking people to speak. And I don't think I've gotten 1 rejection since then. I've seen those people now submit those applications and I'm really excited about, for lack of a better term, the talent that we're going to have at the conference this year. Another win for the Empowered Podcasting Conference is that Chris Baglio, Amanda's good friend and Co host, he is now on board with the Empowered Podcasting Conference. Helping me and Dan were Heidi who's here with us today on sales, finding sponsors for the event. And it looks like we've got a local podcast company in, I say local in the Charlotte, NC area who's interested. And I actually told them I would be happy to drive a couple hours out just to go sit down and talk with them about it. But they are interested.

51:53 So I'm excited that we're seeing progress, we're getting interest and things continue to come together for the Empowered Podcasting Conference. So those are some of my yes. What's that link again if people want to apply to be a speaker? Thank you for asking. That is empoweredpodcasting.com/speakers at poweredpodcasting.com/speakers. If you want to apply, by all means apply. And if you're not sure you, you know, if you've got the itch but you're not sure what you want to talk about, reach out to me, DM me, e-mail me markmarc@ironicmedia.com and I'll be happy to talk it through with you. Really, I will say this, it's just about anything that you believe that you know, your knowledge, your expertise that could help a content creator.

52:46 It could be something on mental health. It doesn't necessarily have to be directly related to creating content, but our mental health is just as important as anyone else's is. And I think that if we don't keep our mental health in check, if we are not taking care of ourselves mentally, that's the recipe for burnout. That's a recipe for failure. And sure, you learn a lot of lessons from failure and I believe you learn a lot, even more by actually pushing through learning about your personal challenges and learning how to work with them, learning in some cases how to get rid of them all, depending on what those challenges are. So yeah, empoweredpodcasting.com/speakers, if you want to come and share with a really close, tight knit, intimate community, I'd love to have you there. And if you haven't gotten your ticket yet, just go to empoweredpodcasting.com and please purchase it at your earliest convenience.

53:42 Don't wait till the last minute. It really throws us for a loop, right? We don't know exactly how many people are coming if you wait, If everyone's waiting till the last minute, we don't know really the full attendance until closer to the event. And that just makes it a lot more challenging for us. So if you're planning on going, please go ahead and get your ticket and at the very least put it in your calendar so you don't forget about it and then get double booked later. OK, so we are back Monday 7:00 AM Eastern Time as we are every Monday through Friday live here on Clubhouse, live here on YouTube as well. And if you can't make any of the lives, no problem, just catch the podcast on your favorite podcast platform just a couple hours after we go live. So until Monday, make it a great weekend everybody, take care.