Stop Believing These Myths About Podcasting

0:05 Good morning podcasting morning chat. Today is Friday, Halloween, and today we're spinning the wheel of topics from what's working to what's not, podcasting to reviewing lessons that can we shape how you grow and show up as a player. So if you're listening live on Court House, hit the share button, bottom left hand side of the screen and share it. However, Court House lets you. And if you're listening to your podcast, please share this with the fellow podcaster. And now give me about 30 seconds and we'll get things rolling. Good morning again, podcasting, Morning Chat. Thank you so much for being here. I am your host, Mark Ronick, and currently on stage with me we have producer Ashley Feller, Jonathan Howard, Nick Naulback, Dr. Faye, Sid Meadows and Rich

1:35 Perry has joined us as well. And happy Halloween to you. It is that day. And it really kind of snuck up on me. I mean, I knew all week Halloween was coming, but when I woke up this morning, I was just going about my day. You know, when you don't have kids around the house anymore, it's a holiday you often forget. And I'm traveling today. I'm going to be heading to Indiana University to spend some time with my stepson for the weekend. And yeah, so I just, Halloween wasn't on my radar, but here we are. And I figured let's let's have a little fun on this Friday before we spin that wheel of topics. And it's been a minute since we've done the wheel of topics. This is what we do.

2:18 It's a virtual wheel. Think Wheel of Fortune that we spin it lands on a wedge and that wedge has a question, a topic that will present either to an individual here on stage or maybe just for the whole group to answer together. DRI, See, you're off. Mike, did you want to say anything? Good morning. I'm sorry, you were talking about if you don't have kids, then you're kind of discombobulated with when holidays come up. But you know, it's like everything. I don't know when school starts anymore. I don't know when school ends anymore. I don't know any of those things. Yeah, I hear you.

2:58 And I actually only know about schools because lately I've been researching Charlotte and the school when schools get in because we're trying to pick our date for Empowered Podcasting 3. I'm trying to make sure we do it where it's not happening right around school time to to not be an inconvenience to people. Yeah. So here we are. Let's talk a little Halloween, shall we? Now, I think I've revealed in the past I haven't always been a big fan as an adult of Halloween. I think it's because as a kid I always had super high expectations about my costumes and it was rare for me to ever get the costume that I really wanted.

3:43 Usually because it would just cost a fortune and my parents would be like, no, sorry, not spending that kind of money on a outfit you'll wear once. So I am curious though, I think as an adult I'm coming around to it. Although I really, I think the last time I dressed up for Halloween was probably 7-8 years ago when I was TV producer at my TV producing job and I was Doc Brown from Back to the Future. But my question to everybody, my little ice breaker for you. Oh, and yes, one year Dr. just said no lightsabers for you, young man. I was Darth Vader also, I think one year at that same job. So my question to you is, what's your favorite Halloween, Halloween costume that you've worn ever in your life, whether you were a kid, whether you're an adult, whenever it was your favorite costume.

4:35 One of mine as a kid was one that my dad actually made for me and my brother. No. Yeah. I think for both of us, we were Ghostbusters, and he made the entire outfit other than the clothing. I think we just found some clothing that matched the uniform of a Ghostbuster, but we decorated it appropriately. He made this whole Proton pack out of cardboard boxes. He bought some tubing for the, what do you call it, the shooter attached to the proton packs. I was very proud of it. So I'm curious, tell me a favorite costume or maybe it's just one you've seen recently that you thought was very clever.

5:17 Go ahead, Nick. Mine was actually Ghostbusters as well and I put it in this in the chat, but my dad also made my costume. I think he had put like the little name tag, whatever, but no lock on the name tag that I just thought that was. Me too, and cool to know that that Ghostbusters spreads across many generations because I know I am, I'll say, significantly older than Nick. I don't know enough where we're two different generations. Go ahead, DRI. Don't know if I can remember an outfit that I wore. I've done everything from a witch to a fairy to a butterfly to a gypsy or anything.

5:57 Anything that I could put makeup on, I was in. But my mom was a professional. She was an entertainer. She was a piano player, singer and a comedian. And there was always a large group that would follow her from club to club, from job to job, and she would have these come as your favorite song parties. So there. And these are all adults. They're all drinking. And one year my uncle came with a hard hat and a slicker like a fireman, but he sewed on to the fly of his pants some flames.

6:40 He took some construction and, and he drew some flames. And it was, you know, great balls of fire. So little things like that, and the game was that you had to guess the song and there was prizes and things like that. So that's my fondest Halloween memory is My Mom's come as your favorite song parties. I love that great balls of fire. I like those creative costumes. I just saw a video, I think on Instagram and it was, I don't know who, but some random person was going around interviewing these people that live in a senior citizen's home and they were celebrating Halloween and all wearing creative costumes. Similarly to that.

7:23 For example, there was 1 gentleman with a bunch of coins taped all over his chest and he was a treasure chest. So there are things like that going on that I thought was very clever. Yeah, I like that, that type of costume. Let's check in with Ralph. I saw Ralph come off mic for a second. Ralph, good morning to you. You got a Halloween costume favorite for us? I do. Good morning. How are you, my friend? I'm, well, I'm having, I'm having flashbacks to that ridiculous vinyl costume we used to get in the box with the plastic mask. Yeah. That's the only thing I can remember at this point. I just came across a picture in my Photo Memories app of me and my brother when we were kids wearing those, those masks that you slide over your face with the little elastic cord in the back of it. And I think it would.

8:12 Yeah, it was Smurfs. And again, another mostly handmade costume. The mask itself was one of those that you buy. But then the rest of the outfit my mom had us in, like long blue sleeve, blue, blue long sleeve turtleneck shirts, white pants and white shoes. I think we were probably proud of it, but I think in the back of my mind, I'm like, this is really kind of a lame costume. But she made it work. We made it work. We got candy. That's all that mattered. As I have become older, shut up everyone. I have come to not like this particular holiday. I live in an area that's from year to year.

8:55 I never know how many kids are in this area that I live in. And we have in the past we have bought, you know, 30, forty, $50.00 worth of candy and not a single knock at the door. In the past couple years, we have not bought a single piece of candy. And I'm always so scared that there's going to be a knock at that door with one tiny little kid. And I'm like, Oh my God, let's just, can we get out the bread? Let's maybe give him a slice of bread. I don't know what else I could do. So I'm not really fond of this because there's some years that I just hide in my office and just work throughout the whole thing and I ignore any kind of knocks on the door. It's a weird holiday for me.

9:42 I hear you. We definitely, I think I've shared this before, we have, we don't really do the candy giving any more more. And I don't think it matters because I think where we live right now, we're a little too isolated to expect to have trick or treaters. Of course, we won't be here either this year. But yeah, I think the last several years we haven't really done a lot of trick or treating things. I'm going to go to Jonathan. I saw he flashed his red pepper and I also saw Jonathan in the chat that Pam, that's Amanda, yo, as Pam, if you follow her on social media, you know who we're talking about has also joined over on chatter. We yes, we are live on chatter today. Jonathan, good morning. Good morning.

10:24 Good morning. Yes, Pam is here. Maybe Pamela say hi in a second. But I also wanted to share that I am very jealous of you people that don't have trick or treaters because my street is AU and it's just in the city. And yeah, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. I spent $200 on candy this this year and I will probably probably be out of it halfway through. Trick or treaters 15 bags. Don't you think in the past several years that Halloween has become really more of a holiday for adults than kids? I think. Something I don't know. Because people are so, you know, they have church thing. What is it Trigger trunk or something like that. All the church groups will organize something in their church and they'll go from little, you know, booth to booth.

11:18 But this has really become a super big thing for adults. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I know several parties that I can't go to because I'm going to visit my stepson. But yeah, go ahead, Jonathan. Nope, Pam has her hand up. So I'm going to I'm going to let Pam talk. Hello Pam, welcome to the podcasting morning chat. I think it's your first time ever here. Oh my God. Good morning, Mark. Good morning, everybody. How's everyone doing? Happy Halloween trick or treat. I can even hear the cigarette in your mouth. Yes, that's correct. I have to have my morning cig as far as candy's concerned. What I do, Mark, is it's a strategy which I call. I have one bucket for kids that I know and then I got another bucket for kids that I don't know. And that consists of all the things that we normally don't like, such as, you know, candy corn, black licorice, you know, things like that.

12:11 Cause some of these kids around here and they don't deserve it. You know what I'm saying, Mark? Yes, they don't deserve it. That's what I do on, on Halloween. But happy Halloween, everybody. To you, yeah, I saw you did a video about that recently. It was somebody was recording you, I guess, giving out candy. And I, yeah, I could tell that some of the kids were driving me a little crazy in that video. And Pam, it's really cool that, you know, I saw recently you did the local late night show and now you're doing the Internet morning show. You're really making your rounds. Yeah, you know what? I was on that there at Fox 29 News with Mike Jerrick. You know, he did ask me if I was married. So, you know, I think I think he's got the hots for me.

12:53 You know what I'm saying? I'm not trying to spread any rumors, but I'm just saying, you know, but that was a fun experience. It was really fun. I brought on my potato salad and, and what else did I bring them? They'll put his socks # cake. If you're from the neighborhood, you know, it's, it's, it's the bakery of the neighborhood. So he really enjoyed having me on and it was a good time. Very cool. Well, we're glad you're here, Pam, and maybe one day you'll start a podcast. We're here for you if you ever need any help with that. And good to have you here. Happy Halloween and feel free to hang out this morning. Hey, Rich, good morning. And that. Oh, and Ashley's been waiting as well. Let me go to Ashley because I know she's flashed her hot pepper a few times. And if you're wondering why I keep saying that, that's how we get each other's attention here on Clubhouse. Good morning, Ashley.

13:39 Happy Halloween. Good morning. Happy Halloween. I wanted to say to Dr. If you're scared about the candy thing, I saw a news story where they give out potatoes is kind of a joke for the kids, so that might be an alternative. I've got my sack of potatoes because I don't have any candy either, But I remember a costume my mom made me when I was a kid. I was a bag of Red Hots. I was wearing a red sweater and red pants, and she took red balloons and she blew them up and she put a garbage bag, a clear one, around me and filled it with the red balloons and made a sign that said Red Hots. That was my favorite costume. But I remember trying to ride in the car with balloons.

14:23 Oh my gosh, it was fun. That's cute. Have you ever been really super scared that you remember it? Like even now, even many, many, many years later, do you remember being super scared on a Halloween run? For me, it was knocking on someone's door. It was it was wide open, but there was a screen door there. And inside there was a man who was in a wheelchair and he had a blanket over his knees. And as we knocked on the door, he leaned forward towards us and fell out of his wheelchair and kept crawling towards us. Oh, my God.

15:04 And kept like, reaching. I remember I was six years old. And I remember that, you know, 60 years later, that's how scared I was. Dr. You just revealed your age. That is terrifying. As a kid, I would be completely freaked out by that. I don't have anything quite like that. I I just remember there was a house that people used to talk about that you really should avoid at all costs. And it was probably just a bunch of BS, but I believed it. And I was terrified to ever go up to that house. I don't think I ever did in my history growing up in that neighborhood. All right, let's go one more. Let's go to Rich.

15:45 Rich, Good morning. You have a favorite costume. I will preface it by saying Halloween just isn't my hollow isn't just isn't my my holiday. So I don't really get too excited about it. But the one year a couple years ago, this was about over 10 years ago, I went as a Jedi knight and my then girlfriend, we did like one of those partners thing. She went as Natalie Portman's character from from attack of the attack of the clones. So she was Queen Amidala in the in the white outfit when they were like held prisoner on what was the planet? You know what I'm talking about. Which it was at the end. It was at the end. Yeah. Yeah. During the big battle scene.

16:25 I know. Yeah. It was kind of Princess Leia esque. Correct that. Yeah. But it was a little sexier than Princess Leia's white outfit. Very much so, yeah. Yeah. And then real quick in my town I don't know if they do trick or treating anymore. I know they do like what Dr. was saying, the trunk or treat, like that's pretty big around my area. The trunk or treat. Yeah, especially for like the younger kids just to keep them safe and all that stuff. So that's in my area. Yeah. I mean, I do see more and more of that. You see that malls, at least the ones that are still around and other areas, shopping areas, you see that kind of stuff too. Yeah, absolutely.

17:06 And Tim in the chat says they keep their Halloween decorations up all year. I mean, you hear about some people saying this for like Christmas time. There are people that put up decorations and leave them up way too long or maybe just leave them up all year. He said that they have a zombie Flamingo at the front door. I love that. Oh, and Nick says same with him. It's less Halloween decorations and more just decorations. Yes, Nick and his wife are big Halloween people, so that doesn't surprise me. OK, looking at the clock here, we will spin the wheel. Only because I said we were going to spin the wheel of topics this week.

17:46 But I was feeling like, you know what, we've spent a good amount of time having some fun, which you know what, we don't have enough of. So I don't mind that once in a blue moon, we go off script and don't talk a ton of podcasting. So that's OK with me. But I do want to spin this wheel and the way that this works again, I shared already, so I guess I don't have to go too far, but I will spin this virtual wheel. We use it. We use picker wheel.com. You can use it for free. You don't have to pay for it and you can create your own. If you ever want to do something like this, whether it's for your show or for a party or whatever, this works really well. I also use this sometimes to pick winners. If you guys remember, it's been a long time. I need to maybe do some prizes, some giveaway things again.

18:29 But sometimes I use this when we do some kind of random drawing. I put everyone's names on the wheel and spin it and whoever it lands on, that's the winner. But today we have a bunch of random podcasting topics, questions, topics for podcasters like you to get your answers and hopefully offer some insight to others who might be questioning the same thing. So let me spin the wheel, see what the first one. I will open this to the room. What's a podcasting habit that you're proud of or one that you want to improve?

19:09 And I'll tell you what, I'll go first to help you think about your answer. A podcasting habit for me, I think that I'm really proud of. I think it's my consistency. I think it's the fact that I make a five day a week podcast go round. Of course, I do that with your help, with the people you see here on stage, with you in the audience, You all help me do that. But I think it's my consistency that really that I'm really proud of. And yes, I know, granted, I've had some mishaps along the way lately with my insomnia issues, but overall it's I'm really proud of the fact that we do a show for podcasters and content creators five days a week.

19:55 It shows a commitment to community. And I'm really proud of that. I'll think about one that I'm not that I'm still working on, one that I want to improve. I think it's probably if anything. It's monetizing this podcast, which I've talked about even recently, but it's not a habit I practice. I don't, I haven't gotten out or I should say I haven't gotten into the mindset of really wanting to monetize the show. And I think it's time. I think I need to do that. Aside from the fact that yes, it does bring me some business here and there and that is a way to monetize, but I think I need, I want to monetize the show in other ways as well.

20:36 I think there are opportunities there. Who else would like to share? I'll share, yeah. And by the way, Pam is really excited that there's a wheel for gambling. But I will share that I'm proud of the fact that I can record as many episodes in advance as I do. It makes my life a lot easier. And the one that I need help on, the one that I need to do much better, is show notes. My show notes are terrible, terrible. So. And I forgot to put a link in the other day. What do you do for your show notes right now? Nothing really. I take what Buzz Sprout gives me, I take out the things that sound really weird, and I leave it. I see. OK. So I need to be better. Do you have an idea of one thing you'd want to do differently with the show notes? Besides, you know, maybe not using Buzz Sprout if that's not working for you.

21:22 Yeah, just at least write them myself and come up with, you know, the topics I want and then have AI optimize it and make sure I put the links in there and stuff like that. OK, because I missed that too. Yeah, I think show notes in different ways would will probably come up for other podcasters as well wanting to improve that or maybe just wanting to feel differently about show notes. It does seem relatively common that show notes are a thorn in our sides as podcasters. Yvonne's on stage. Good morning, Yvonne. I want to go to you next. I saw you flash your mic. What say you? What's a habit podcasting habit you're really proud of? I'm really proud of the research that I do that brings me awesome guests. I have somebody I'm interviewing today who's been on my guest wish list for quite some time.

22:15 I got her book. It finally came in the mail yesterday, and I've been up for a couple of hours already this morning and prepping for the interview with her. I actually went to New York to an event just to meet her and that's what I had like a 2030 minute conversation with her at the event that was amazing and I'm so excited to talk to her today. Oh, so there you go, there's my win for the week. Congratulations. And yeah, that's that's really cool. I like that. Do you have any habit or thing in podcasting that you really think needs improvement? I think a number of things, gosh, when you said you know the monetizing thing, that is something that I am working on, you know how to monetize in a way that feels on point for me.

23:06 I think that is that is an area where I need improvement and I'm working on that. It's coming along OK. All right, that's fair. Yeah. And Yvonne, I know I owe you a scheduled session. I know you said you invited me to your podcast to be a guest and I know I haven't done that yet, so that is on my list of things to do. Get on it, man, Get on it. I will. I was thinking by the way of another angle for us, if we wanted to explore it is improv. You know, I think yes, yeah, that's. Some I. Feel like. Fits well, yeah. Cool, Yeah. Cool. So we'll we'll talk a little bit about that too. All right.

23:47 I saw Sid had something. Good morning to you, Sid. What's a habit in podcasting that you're proud of? Good morning, everybody. I'm going to actually say organization. We are extremely organized with the way that we use the Click Up app, with the way that we use our Google folder and we're just family organizing. It makes everything really easy to make sure that the next step in the process is getting done. And then I don't have to worry about the timelines because they're all there and everything's done when it's needs to be done and we can send it over to our guests for them to listen to. So organization for me. Sid, is that something that, what took time for you to develop that organizational structure or was that something that you just you like to stay on top of right away? Do you know what I'm?

24:37 Do you know what I'm getting at? It was a journey to get to where we are today for sure. Just like understanding what we needed to do and writing out all the steps and then learning the software and how to use the software and create a checklist was a pain in my butt and took me forever to figure out how to add the checklist to the app. I mean, so, but yeah, it was a journey. But once we got there, we got everything, you know, organized and mapped out the way we wanted to do it and we started using it. Then it just became this amazing tool to help keep us on track. Very cool. Thank you for expanding on that, Sid. By the way, gang, those of you listening live, I recognize that you can't hear the sound. Thank you, Nick, for sharing that, me sharing that with me.

25:19 Our podcast audience will hear it and I'm not sure why. I actually was streaming live this morning and I stopped the stream because I noticed you all weren't being heard on YouTube and Facebook. I'm not sure why my settings all of a sudden aren't playing what's coming from my computer. So I'll have to figure that out at some point. So bear with me and just pretend that you're hearing a wheel spinning and you're hearing the fancy music when it lands on one of the wedges. I promise you our podcast audience hears it. Did anyone else want to answer something they're proud of regarding their podcasting? Go ahead, Ralph. I'm proud of doing a Daily Show, and bigger than that, though, I'm proud that I always keep my episodes at no more than 10 minutes to honor my listeners.

26:07 Very cool. I like that. And I how did you figure that out? How did you figure out that 10 minutes was the sweet spot? I have a talent coach that I work with that has been 40 years in radio, Christian radio specifically, and we kind of arrived at that just based on what most people's limited amount of time that they can handle something. I talk about a typical a financial topic each time. So I don't want to burden them with a list of 10 different things. My goal is to give them one pain .1 solution, say a prayer and let them move on with their day. So that's my whole focus of that particular show. I, I do 4 shows, so this is my Daily Show, but that's the one I really try to hem down to just 10 minutes. I figure people can grab it when they have time, and I just really make that honor, that commitment to them.

26:52 I love that. Thank you, Ralph. Yeah, And I mean that you do have to consider that when you're doing multiple shows like that. I'm sure Dave Campbell in the audience can relate. I know he has like 3000 shows all going at the same time. That's an important thing too, is thinking about what's what's enough that we can handle. I know we talk a lot about our audience, but I think it's also important to think about what's going to work well for us too. And I really believe we're going to see over the next year or two years, we're going to see more of those, I'll call them bite sized episodes, those shorter 1015 minute episodes. I think that's going to be more and more popular in the near future.

27:36 OK, I'm going to spin the wheel again. All right. Now, this one is actually a question that Doctor submitted and added to the wheel this morning. Which podcast inspired you to start one of your own? I think a lot of us, and I think a while back we may have talked about this, but it's been a minute. A lot of us started a podcast because we would listen to other podcasts and sometimes there is one in particular that really just pushed us over the edge. And we said, yeah, we want to do something like that. So what say you? What's the podcast that Maybe it's not the only one, but what's a podcast that inspired you to get started? I was not listening to a lot of podcasts because of social audio.

28:28 I would say the podcasting, Morning Chat, Podcasting Morning Chat and Coffee Social is the ones that actually made me start my own podcast 'cause I was, you know, I was here doing this stuff with Coffee Social. It was great. I loved it. But yeah, doing my own was a scary jump. So I made that scary jump and thanks to you guys here because I knew I would not be able to fall too far and coffee social, very cool. But now I'm actually doing a whole lot more listening to podcasts because I'm doing that whole series of stuff. Yeah, it's, you know, what I was thinking about that just the other day, that one of the things I'm appreciating about doing these evaluation episodes is that it's actually forcing me to listen to other podcasts besides my clients.

29:17 I think a lot of podcast producers, those of you in the room and elsewhere, I think you can relate to that. I think a lot of us get so tied up and listening to our own clients stuff that we then run out of time to listen to new stuff. I've been appreciating that. Go ahead, Ashley. I've shared this before, but that would be S Town, which is a NPR production. I believe the guy's name is Brian Johnson. It's a narrative podcast. And while I've had a couple of narrative experiments on my podcast, I wouldn't call it that now, but just the sheer storytelling, you go in thinking that it's true crime, it turns out to be something completely different. It's brilliant.

29:59 It was the only thing I had to listen to while recovering from Hurricane Michael and. That's what got me started. Very cool. Thank you Ashley. And I see here in the chat, Tim said that there were two podcasts that he listened to back in 20 O 6/1 was a poetry podcast that published his work and the other was a coffee barista podcast from Canada. Both of them have since pod faded. It's been almost 20 years since since then, so I don't blame them. I'm not doing the same podcasts I was doing 20 years ago. And that was that fantasy football podcast that I did. And I think the one that inspired me to start that podcast was actually something that is still around to this day, 20 years later. Football guys, if you go to football that got sorry footballguys.com, they are a fantasy football advice website and they were podcasting from the get go and when I heard them doing it after a little while, I said I could do that too. So that was my inspiration.

31:08 I'm going to spin the wheel once more and then we're going to go to wins from the week. I want to leave us a little bit of time to share some wins today because we missed it last Friday. And in general, I was saying to Dr. this morning, I feel like we've just been breezing through when we share wins on Fridays and I'd like to give us a little more time to do that. So I am spinning the wheel. For those of you that can't hear, here's the last one. What's a big myth in podcasting that you don't agree with? It's over saturated. Yeah, that's a big one because again, I know I've maybe said this before too, but yet for some reason, a lot of people are quick to start a social media account, yet there are 10s of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands more of those than podcasts.

32:05 But I do feel like more people are resistant to starting a podcast. And I think maybe also that has to do with, and this is my maybe one of my myths is that it goes back to something that Ralph was talking about. People think it has to be a certain length. Well, I can't commit to doing a podcast because it's going to take it's, I got to spend at least an hour recording it. But that's just not true. You can do 10 minute podcasts if you want to, just like Ralph said, pick one thing, talk about that for 10 minutes and move on. It doesn't have to be a time suck. It can be whatever you want it to be. So yeah, I, I'm piggybacking off of that Jonathan I and I appreciate your answer.

32:47 Anyone else want to share a myth around podcasting? I will. And then Dr. had her hand up too. Go for it. Podcasting is easy. Please elaborate. Each Uncle Oh podcast is easy. That's easy to do. Podcasting is a job. Podcasting takes work. It takes research. Like Yvonne talked about, it takes time. It takes strategy. You need a plan. I mean, people say, oh, podcasting is easy. Yeah, the grabbing the mic and hitting record is easy. But all the stuff that actually makes up a successful show. Podcasting is a lot of work. Can't really argue with you there if you're taking it seriously. If you're doing it more than just a hobby, you have to treat it like work. There's no way around it. If it's just a hobby for you, sure, then I would say maybe it is easy or easier because there are no big expectations I don't think in most cases.

33:38 By the way, coming back to Dave Campbell, when I was joking about his 3000 shows, he corrected me and I'm quoting him. Only 9 ongoing shows, 9 shows. Dave, when are we going to get you on stage so we can talk to you more about this? I appreciate that you're often here in participating in the chat, but I think one of these days it's about time to get you up here on stage. And I know I've said that before too. We got to talk to you Dave, so. And I know you've done Alex's show, Alex Sanfilippo. So you can come do hours driving home from working overnight. That's OK. There's something called speakerphone you can use. I know he's commuting. I. It can't sound any worse than Nick's audio, that's exactly.

34:18 Right, Nick's not here to defend himself, but I don't think he would anyway. Now let's jump into it. Let's celebrate some wins from our past week. Sid, if you don't mind, I'm going to come to you to ask you why do we do this? What makes it so important to celebrate wins from the week? And I'm coming to you because I just saw recently you posted a video a little bit about stopping to celebrate the wins. It was a little bit different, I think, but around along those lines. So if if you're open to it, would you share what makes this so important? Yeah, absolutely. That video was about team building and marketing and sales coming together and sharing their wins.

35:01 So I think the biggest aspect about wins is it has the opportunity to change your mindset about things and get you into a into a better place. Also, I think that, you know, do what we do, especially those of us that are entrepreneurs slash solopreneurs. This is not for the faint of heart doing what we do. And it's just so important to acknowledge all the good things you're doing and the things that you're winning at because it's super easy to get hung up on something really negative or something bad happened. It's really easy to get, you know, brought down and just acknowledging how you're winning because you have a win every day, you're doing something good every day. And just acknowledging that really can put you on the path to continue to push forward, to continue to go change your mindset. I mean, there's so many positive things about why you want to say out loud what your wins are.

35:50 Thank you, Sid. I am totally with you there. And maybe some of you will think to piggyback on this, maybe some of you will think that this is a little woo, but there is actually science behind this too. What we focus on grows. If we're not stopping and focusing on the accomplishments, big or small, then we're not going to see more of that. And I've shared before, you know, how when sometimes you're talking to somebody and they tell you maybe like, oh, I just got a new dog. I got a French poodle. And then the next thing, you know, after talking all about that dog with them, the next thing you know, everywhere you look, you feel like you, you're seeing French poodles more so than you normally would.

36:34 You're like, that's so weird. You know, so and so just got a poodle. Now I'm seeing your brain gravitates to the things you focus on. And if you're focusing, if you're not focusing on your your wins, if you're not celebrating and there's not a lot left to focus on, but maybe the things that aren't going so well. And if we're focusing on the things that aren't going so well, we're just going to see more things that aren't going well for us. So let's do it. It's like a natural algorithm, isn't it? It's like a natural. 100% it's our own built in algorithms and it's genuinely, I know it's funny, but it's really true. Our brain works like that. Yes, Jonathan, thank you. I was grasping. I was trying to find the words and they slipped my mind. Your reticular activating system, that is what what gets pinged in these situations that I'm describing. Let's go to some of our audience who have joined us on stage. Ralph, I'm coming to you first and if you want to add on to what we're saying, feel free and then please share any wins from your week.

37:35 Thank you and I appreciate that because my win with my show being a Christian podcast is to, to reach one person and something happened this week on my I do a weekly show called Truth on Veil with rabbits, basically a weekly sermon show where I compare what's going on in culture to biblical truth. And this week now I've only done this show for like 2 months. I hit 1 million views on YouTube. So for me, that was massive and I have one particular short that is up to almost 700,000 views. So for me that was just massive because that tells me that. And my subscriber list is almost at 50,000. It just tells me that people are hearing a message of positivity, they're hearing a message of hope. And if I can reach one person today, then I feel like I've done my job.

38:19 So thank you for letting me share that because that was just huge for me. Yeah, congratulations. Million total views. Can you tell me real quick what was the the one video, the short that's doing so well that's got that 700,000 views? So it was actually kind of funny. It was just a view about Jesus is the real king. I was doing a a little bit of a political satire on the whole, you know, Kings March. And I just said I made a simple video. And like I said, I'm not trying to get political with everybody. Don't get the wrong idea. But I just said, look, if you're a Christian, Jesus is the only king. And let me tell you right now, I posted that Mark and like within 15 minutes I had like 50,000 views and I was like, wow.

39:01 And so to me, that was just huge because it wasn't negative. It wasn't anything like calling anybody out against it, just saying, hey here, as a Christian, this is what we believe. And obviously that resonates with people. Ralph, was it the type? Thank you for sharing that. Was it the type of video that you put out there and didn't have any expectation for, or did you put it out there and think, yeah, I I bet you this one's going to really do well? I honestly wasn't sure and the other problem that I'm kind of battling and I'm going to get into a whole discussion, but you know, YouTube kind of restricts the stuff that I put out there because of it being Christian based, believe it or not. Because I've actually spent some money trying to promote videos on YouTube and they actually give me what's called active limited status where they're only show up to so many people. So I really wasn't sure what to expect when it kind of took off and the channels taken off.

39:48 It was just amazing to me that like, even in spite of, you know, people not wanting to promote it, it's going on. It's on its own. So it has kind of has its own energy, which has just been amazing. Yeah, Thank you, Ralph. Thank you for sharing that. And congratulations again on 1 million views on YouTube. That is awesome. And where can we find you on YouTube, Ralph? That was called Truth Unveiled with Ralph. So if you just search Truth Unveiled with Ralph, I'd love it if you subscribe to that. I would like to hit 50,000 subscribers in the next day or two. That would be really cool. So Truth Unveiled with Ralph. There you go. We. Oh, I said. There you go again. Janae, you wrote. There you go. Were you? I saw you wrote that in the chat a few moments ago. Did I say it earlier and you're calling me out?

40:29 Or did you happen to use the same term that I have deemed as one of my worst crutch words that I constantly say? I'm curious, Janae. Let me know. Thank you again, Ralph. Yvonne, did you have any other wins? I know your wins slipped out there earlier. Did you have anything else you wanted to share? My episode this week is an episode that I have been wanting to do for probably at least two years, and it's very funny. I talked about the reticular activating system, and my example was that if you know somebody who drives like a blue Honda something and that person's important in your life, you're going to find them.

41:14 The episode is about asking good questions, asking questions that allow for possibility, that allow for you to have a creative response to what you need in your life. Instead of asking questions like what am I doing wrong? Why does this always happen to me? I got this idea from another podcast and I didn't want to steal her content, which is what kept me from doing it for so long. But I've been using this practice for for years now and I finally felt like I could speak to it on my own terms. And so it's out in the world now and I'm, I'm real proud of it. Awesome. Congratulations. We will check that out.

41:57 And it reminded me of a book that I read not too long ago that I thought I'd share since I think it's along the same lines as what you were sharing about asking questions, how to ask the right questions, good questions, etcetera. There. The book I read was Stop Asking Questions by Andrew Warner, a podcaster who shared from lots of different personal podcast interviews that he's hosted. What made the interviews go well, what maybe didn't make them go well, and all about really the art of questions and how to ask questions or how to say things in a way to get the most out of your guests. I read it because quite frankly, I was thinking of writing a similar book and I found it, so I wanted to read it and surprisingly, it's actually very similar to what I was thinking I would do.

42:50 So I if and when I'm ready to write a book, I just have to kind of tweak how I would do it because I would don't want to do it exactly the same way. But it's a great book. Stop asking questions. Andrew Warner, if anybody is interested, I'll keep it moving. Tim, Brian, welcome to the stage. Please share any wins with us. Hey Mark, thanks for having me on here. Today is the 30. 1st, I'm a federal employee, so it's been an interesting month for me. But last night I decided to, you know, go ahead and do an episode just to get out of my funk and all that kind of good stuff. And it's funny because the episode that I'm doing for my Create Art podcast is measuring growth as an artist. I will be coming out on a Sunday, but it felt really good to do that episode because next year I celebrate 20 years, and I did it 10 years horribly.

43:47 And then since 2016, I've been doing it pretty good. Congratulations, Tim. That's very cool. And yeah, congratulations on almost 20 years of podcasting. Let me go to Jeff. Jeff Dwoskin, good morning to you, Sir. Good to have you back on stage. You want to share some wins with us? Hey, what's up? It's. More like a just a personal win. Do I sound OK? You sound fine. Well, it's just the guest that I have on this week was one that I tried to get for years and it was just somebody who I really liked. And so anyway, that was it was nothing a big deal, but just that, hey, keep trying. You know, anyway, I was excited about that. Congratulations, Jeff.

44:30 Yeah, thank you and thanks for being here this morning. Appreciate it. And Jonathan, I see you made a comment that Leah and Amanda are on stage. Did they want to share any wins with us, or did you for that matter, since we're going to you? I will share a win, but Lee and Amanda if you got wins to share, please open your mic. Am I win for this week? So I had a show last week at a a venue in Philly and I, you know what? I think I was scouted I think, I think there are people there watching me without my knowledge. Because after that I coincidentally got a message in my DM from a pretty big comic in Philly asking me to open for him at the punchline.

45:13 Which one is 1 of Philly's biggest comedy venues. So that is my win for this week and and actually I have two wins if I want to share, if I can share too. My Harper girl, for those of you who who may follow me, I've been having some issues with my dog and we found a mass in her mouth, the roof of her mouth. So we took her to a specialist because we got really bad news from her primary. But her specialist said that he thinks that it may be benign. So keep my girl in your thoughts and prayers and send her good energy. But that's a win for me this week. Absolutely. We'll send you lots of good energy and see that. Amanda, Amanda and I talked a little bit yesterday morning and she was telling me about her dog and I said my dog Harley A2 year about two years ago, a year and a half ago he had this.

45:59 We found this huge tumor growing out from his paw. And our the the primary vet was concerned and said they were pretty sure it was cancer. And then we went to a specialist. They weren't as convinced. But once they removed it and tested it, it was not cancer. And so I'm glad that gave you a little hope. And then you got a little bit of good news after that, Amanda. So congratulations there too. Thanks. Very cool about the opening is being an opener at a huge club in Philly. That's really, really cool. Now, did they ask you, or did they ask Pam? A little bit of both. It's a package deal. You get me and you get Pam. So I actually said, if you don't mind, would you care if I just did myself because I'm only getting 10 minutes? To which they said absolutely.

46:49 So it was nice to see that Amanda's appreciated as well. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Amanda, have you ever thought about in those situations where you have limited time and you feel like you can't bring out Pam, that you could still do a bit about Pam or about Philly moms? Because, I mean, that's really what Pam is, right? Yep, so that's funny that you said that cuz I just wrote something for those instances. Just explaining the character and where she comes from and throwing a joke in there about her. Yep, cool, just did that. Awesome. Awesome. Congratulations, Amanda. Excited for you. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, let's keep it moving. We do have some time left. See, I like what's the word resonating with these different winds. Jonathan, did I think I heard you? I didn't give mine about 3 weeks ago I joined a mastermind with Jasmine Star, been doing been working a lot on that and I finished my offer that I'm putting together and it will be coming out into the world on Monday. I'm actually doing doing the things that need to be done in the mastermind.

47:54 So I'm proud I'm at least getting that done. So yeah, congratulations Jonathan. And Jonathan, do you want to share a pre win about Monday's episode of PMC? I've also been doing over on on Chatter where I am right now a series of obsession worthy podcasts. And they are different podcasts that are they have something about them that, you know, create their special, their special sauce. And I've been kind of breaking that down for users over there. And I'm going to be sharing one of them over here on Monday and hopefully everybody will be able to participate. Very cool. Yeah. So. And that will be an episode of Smart Lists, right? Yes, an episode of Smartless, the episode with Julia Roberts. I think it was on two or three weeks ago. Yeah, I saw that.

48:39 OK, cool, cool. Awesome. So, yeah, you know, now we're doing these weekly evaluations of independent podcasters and what they're doing and giving our advice. This is a little bit of a different spin. Now we're going to look at some of the most popular podcasts that are out there and break those down as to why they're doing so well, what makes them obsession worthy. Looking forward to that, Jonathan. On Monday, 7:00 AM. Eastern, live on Clubhouse and Chatter. And then of course, available as a podcast episode a few hours later. Janae is on stage. Good morning, Janae, it's been a minute since we've had you on stage. I know you've been active in our chat regularly, but it's been a minute since we had you up here. Good morning. Welcome and please share any wins with us. Good morning, everyone.

49:23 So one quick win, I've been working with a friend of mine defining and building my impound podcast blueprint is and refining that three phase framework, which is again, something that helps you figure out what all of the things that you need to be doing to have a successful podcast. So it's something coming along or some comprehensive training. So that's something I've been working on as well as, you know, record podcast recording has been paused. So that gives me a lot of time to focus on working on these things. So that's been a great win for this week. Thanks. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for sharing, Janae, congratulations.

50:04 And yeah, I get it with the with the kids and all that. You can't always make it up here on stage. And that's a win for me. I'm glad that you're still able to make it when you can and participate in the chat or participate. However, you can always appreciate your contributions. And especially, I do want to shout out, shout you out again for your help yesterday with Matt Bliss, the two of you creating some really nice looking cover art on the spot for Magdalena and her podcast that we evaluated yesterday. That picture you found I thought was perfect worked really well. So thank you for pouring into our community as you normally do. Janae, we appreciate you. All right, I'm going to keep it moving and let's go down the line.

50:48 Ashley, do you want to share any wins from your week? My win for this week is that we had a great wrap up session with My Happy Ass Life. We needed to start filming the first few episodes for season 7. We got that done and yesterday was particularly special because my host name is Karen. She interviewed the mayor. Yeah, We were concerned because he was running late. He said. I don't know if I'm going to make it. It's a little bit longer of a drive than I originally thought. I've got a ribbon cutting right after how mayoral, but he made it just on time. I had everything ready to go. All I had to do is hit the buttons. We did the show and he was out just in time.

51:28 Very cool. Congratulations, Ashley. Let's go to DRDR. Any wins for us? You know, for the past three weeks we've kind of been roughing it here in the house and today here it. Comes it's another appliance, go ahead. Have a brand new dishwasher arriving today. I'm telling you, for the past three weeks it's been like living like a little house on the Prairie. We're very, very close to churning our own but. Congratulations Dr. Let me know how it all goes and I do relate. I know when we've once or twice had a issues with our dishwasher and days or weeks go by it you realize how much you appreciate appliances like a dishwasher. But I've lost the ability to wash dishes. I mean, there are times when I'm getting out a dish that I've washed and I'm like, what in the I can't believe it. I watched this.

52:25 I know I did. So yeah, I've lost that ability, I guess. Yeah. Congratulations, Dr. Sid. You want to share any wins with us? Please do. Last week I worked with Mark and Nick on something that was trying to figure out how to do with Notebook LM and it was a lot of fun in the process to figure it out. And I got it figured out and got it slated for my episode to come out a week from Monday. It'll be the wrap UPS episode of season 6 of my podcast and using the voices and all from Notebook LM deep dive. And so earlier this week while I was at the trade show that I was at, I shared it with a listener and I also, he's a guest on my show and he was just blown away by what that was able to do and how it sounded and the content that it produced. It just underscored the fact that it was the right decision. So that was a win.

53:17 Just letting somebody like preview it that like, wow, this is a really cool thing because I want to show my community what's possible with AI. And so I really enjoyed getting that kind of feedback and that excitement. So that's definitely one for me to this. Congratulations Sid. I can't wait to hear that. If I can get even a sneak peek, I would love to hear it before it's officially released. I don't think you said it was released yet. I would love to hear. That yeah no, it comes out on November the 10th yeah. I'll send it to you when it's done. It's not finished yet. I still have to record the intro and outro to it so it's. Awesome. Congratulations, Sid. All right, we're going to go to Rich and then I'll wrap things up from there and share a couple of my wins as well. Richie, any wins you got to share with us? Hey, good morning.

53:58 Yeah, two quick wins. I signed 2 new clients yesterday on two in one day so it was a good day and that's that. Yeah, awesome. Congratulations, you Rich. Real quick, what what do you do for these clients so people can get a better idea of what that's all about? South, the one client is going to be a LinkedIn coaching client. So I'm going to it's going to be a private coaching all about LinkedIn marketing strategy. The other one is actually something that I'm not fulfilling with someone on my team is, but it's going to be graphic designs, thumbnail images for the podcast and stuff like that, so my graphics guy will fulfill it.

54:38 Awesome. Congratulations, Rich. Again, Rich Perry. Is it just richperry.com or Rich Perry coaching? Rich Perry dot. Comrichperry.com Go check out what Rich is up to for me, my wins. I think yesterday's episode, another podcast evaluation episode, our second in the series, went off really well. And it was particularly nice having the podcaster there so that we could really get some deeper insight on what she's up to, why she's doing what she's doing, and be able to respond to some of the feedback we gave her. I think those episodes are really strong. And I have this feeling, I told Dr. yesterday, I have this feeling if we can continue to improve upon them, continue to do those, I think that it's going to become one of those must see, must hear episodes, that appointment listening for a lot of podcasters.

55:31 I think it's going to be something big for us and I'm really excited about it. Yesterday, I had a wonderful phone call with one of my newest clients, Renee, who you all know, if you've been a part of this for any period of time, Renee and her business partner Mark, and he even spells it the same way I do, Marc. They are awesome people to work with. It's really fun working with new podcasters that have a ton of marketing experience. It just makes it a way more interesting conversation when we do these sessions. So big win for me for sure. Also, I've been making a variety of content this past week or two that I'm really proud of. I've continued to do those short blog style posts that I put up on in our Facebook group Empowered Podcasting. And also I put up on my LinkedIn page almost daily my short form content.

56:28 I'm trying out some different things than I've been doing lately that I think are working. I mean, it's a slow burn, it seems, but they do feel like they're working. But more importantly, I'm I'm proud of them. And also I'm starting to experiment with some longer form content. In other words, still stuff that qualifies as Tik Toks in Reels. So like 2 minute, 2 1/2 minute videos. I'm working on those because I do know that TikTok loves it. If you can create something like that that keeps people attention for that long of a period of time, I've seen it first hand do really well for others. So I am experimenting and I'm proud of myself for allowing myself to experiment and not feel so confined to the usual rules I've set for myself. And then the last thing I'll just say briefly, I'm really excited behind the scenes.

57:21 We're building a new system for ironic media from behind the scenes to make everything not only run more smoothly, consolidate it all, but also it will ultimately save me a lot of money because it has a lot of the built in tools that I pay for separately. As an example, Calendly being one of them. I pay something for Calendly all the time every month. Well, this is it has its own calendly system built in and will save me money each and every month. And there are multiple tools like that this applies to. So I'm I'm super excited about that and looking forward to it launching for me in 2026. All right gang, we've gone overtime.

58:02 Thank you. Thanks for another awesome week of shows. Appreciate it. Looking forward to another great week of shows next week. As I said Monday, Jonathan Howard will be leading the charge, sharing what makes Smartless so obsession worthy, and we'll want you to chime in and share your thoughts on it as well. So like he said, just go look up Smartless and look up the Julia Roberts interview. It's only a couple of episodes from the most recent, so you should find it pretty quickly close to the top until Monday.