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Super Quick Re-cap! Length: 54:01

  • Catching up about Thanksgiving with Elsie
  • Where in the world is Elsie? In a hallway and she has a new mic
  • Folks, get right on your mic!
  • Jess checks in with her Thanksgiving and how she can’t remember
  • Jess’s new work process and you guys, she’s open to answering all your questions from Podcast Websites
  • 12:18 Text Expander Promo!
  • Podcasters Gift Guide!
    • Auphonic, baby!
    • An editor (the most requested ‘gift’)
    • An incredibly insightful marketing and strategy team member
    • An SEO, copyrighter person
    • Someone to clean up and do your laundry
    • Trello Business
    • A boom arm
    • Acoustic foam
    • Quiet spaces
    • Microphone training
  • Elsie and Jess the random gifts
    • Narwhal Slippers
    • Comfy underwear
    • Corksicle drinking mugs and water bottles
    • Notebooks and pens
    • Luxe Acrylic
    • Silk sleep mask
    • Alpaca legwarmers
    • Space heater

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

Podcasters mentioned on the show!

  • Emily Prokop from The Story Behind & E Podcast Productions
  • Nutty Nuchtchas from Nutty Bites & Beyond the Wall
  • Sara- Mae Tucson from The Sugar Baby Confessionals
  • Sherry Eckert from Titanium Blond Talks
  • Stacey Simms from Diabetes Connections
  • Annie Sargent from the Join Us In France Travel Podcast
  • Lena Gothberg the Shipping Podcast
  • Jerri Williams from FBI Retired Case File Review
  • Anna Hithersay from The Post Party Podcast
  • Jen Hardy from The Sick Mom’s Guide
  • Espree Devora from Women in Tech
  • Traci DeForge from Journey To There and Produce Your Podcast
  • Joan Patrie from Strandgeist
  • Melissa Davis from The Mac Mommy
  • Becket Graham from The History Chicks
  • Liz Covart from Ben Franklin’s World
  • Gabby Tangassi from
  • Civilla Morgan from Childless Not By Choice
  • Carrie Arick from Ya Ya Podcasting
  • Jeni Stottrup from Gritty Birds

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

For $5 per month get exclusive access to coaching with Jess and Elsie

Get special time with Jess and Elsie weekly over in the She Podcasts Supersquad! All you need to do is to sign up to be a $5 per month Patreon. We are waaaaaay worth more than a cup of coffee.

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Direct download: sp215.mp3
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How many of you are sticking around past the first 20 min? Holla!

Do you wanna work with Jess and Elsie? Now is the time to pull the plug on our 1–2 Punch and jump start your podcast marketing and monetization!

Send us your feedback, email feedback@shepodcasts.com! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • When Elsie was writing an article she came into noticing some Apple Podcasts consumption stats and down the rabbit hole she went
  • How to read your own consumption stats and how they inform the way that you approach your content
  • What we think about the Apple Podcasts Podcasts app and how we use it
  • “They like the chit-chat” enough already
  • “The question is do you like turkey” that is the answer
  • Elsie challenges the listeners to share whether or not you listen to EVERYSINGLESECONDOFEVERYPODCAST you love - ever
  • Even when we have data we don’t know what exactly why the data really means
  • Editing can be a change maker for a show, and communicating that to an editor is also very important
  • 20:00 NEWS
  • Pandora has stepped into podcasting!
  • People, OG means original gangster
  • Folks that listen to music might stumble upon podcasting, that’s the magic of podcasting on Pandora
  • A bit of commentary on Pandora and Spotify and what it mean for getting new listeners
  • John broke up with Alexa
  • 36:56 GRATEFULLNESS
  • Jess shares her gratefulness of 2018
  • Elsie shares her gratefulness
  • And then we vier into chatting about vans and their makes and models
  • John shares his gratefulness

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

For $5 per month get exclusive access to coaching with Jess and Elsie

Get special time with Jess and Elsie weekly over in the She Podcasts Supersquad! All you need to do is to sign up to be a $5 per month Patreon. We are waaaaaay worth more than a cup of coffee.

Patreon


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review.

Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

Direct download: sp214.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

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Send us your feedback, email feedback@shepodcasts.com! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • Jess was at Harvard and she met “Elsie fans” #ILoveElsieToo #AskMeAboutMyCohost
  • Elsie really wants to be college professor
  • Discussing This Anthro Life and other things, crumpled and not
  • Jess has started to text in British
  • 12:05 NEWS
  • Apple has sent their yearly email giving you all kinds of information about their holiday hours
  • And Apple Podcasts data stuff
  • Data changes on Facebook and how it deals with direct media URL links shared on the platform
  • Offerings on what to share on social media to drive actual subscribers/listeners vs marketing/outreach
  • 32:23 TEXT EXPANDER!!! WE LOVE IT
  • Jess is having a hard time reading industry news because all of the news are looking exactly the same as other bits of news
  • Dynamo is not new, dude
  • Messy and a multilayered approach to keeping things free and making money
  • What it takes for people to give you money!
  • Women Podcasters in Solidarity and why Elsie is backing the crap out of it!
  • Jess is doing so much over at Podcast Websites! You guys need to go there and get all the incredible stuff she’s been doing! For FREE
  • Elsie shares what happened at the Libsyn Meet-up
  • 1:04:44 TOOL TIPS
  • Google Creator Program!
  • Elsie’s dream MacBook Air has finally arrived

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting gear!

The She Podcasts Shop


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review.

Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

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Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • Jess is going to Sound Education at Harvard!
  • And John and Elsie try to talk Jess out of getting eyelash extensions
  • How do you dress at Harvard? YOU DRESS LIKE YOURSELF!
  • 11:27 NEWS
  • Daniel Lewis from The Audacity To Podcast’s podcast was taken down! On purpose!
  • And YET AGAIN we discuss Apple Podcasts and podcast being taken down. When will it end.
  • Has podcasting become a mess?
  • Who’s to say what’s right or wrong in podcasting?
  • You guys, podcasting is hard
  • Is there an online business manager for podcasts? And cheap
  • When you do have someone else doing all the things and all you do is record then you don’t establish the dialogue
  • iHeartRadio has Podcast Awards. Yep. They totally do
  • iHeart is like the Christopher Columbus of podcasting
  • Elsie is on the board of directors for The Podcast Business Journal
  • 43:37 TOOL TIPS
  • Audioburst
  • Do you have a big podcast blunder story? Send it to us! feedback@shepodcasts.com

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting gear!

The She Podcasts Shop


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

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Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

Direct download: sp212.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

We love Mic Me for intros, outros and audio branding! Touch base with our awesome sponsor and get custom podcast intros, outros and editing from Micme.com. Get 10% off your first intro and outro with promo code SHEPODCASTS.

Do you guys know the difference between neck gaiters, dickies, infinity scarves and scarves? Well, the first 7 minutes of the show will clarify all things neck accoutrements but then, we are give you MUST KNOW INFORMATION about Google Play Music, Google Podcasts, why your podcast isn’t immediately updating in Apple Podcasts and Zig Zag!

Send us your feedback, email feedback@shepodcasts.com! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • Green Uggs are out and what Elsie considers to be cold
  • A special link to Super Squad members ONLY and it involves a pink and hairy scarf thingy
  • Dickies, infinity scarves and gaiters, say hello to “Later Gaiter!”
  • 8:35 NEWS
  • DC Podfest everyone! Attend! Use the code SHEPOD
  • John does not want to ride to DC Podfest with Jess
  • Lots of love and thank you to peeps that left She Podcast reviews on our Facebook Page!
  • You cannot join She Podcasts if you have a joint Facebook Profile with your male or male identifying partner/spouse
  • Do we want our spouses around us when we are doing our doing business thing?
  • Google Play Music is NOT Google Podcasts, they are different
  • Tell your audience to subscribe and listen to your show using Google Podcasts, not Google Play Music
  • Google Play Music will be phased out and it will DISAPPEAR, make sure that you prepare your audience!
  • Elsie wants the functionality to share podcast episode playlists, who’s gonna step up?
  • 34:37 TOOL TIPS
  • When you publish an episode and it does not IMMEDIATELY show up in Apple Podcasts there is nothing wrong
  • The Apple Podcasts storefront does NOT update right away
  • And we get podcasting frustrations off our chests about podcasters
  • Top tips for mental health to podcasters: 1. subscribe to your show 2. validate your feed. If all is well with those two, then all is well with your show
  • Our biggest podcast blunders!!!! How about it podcasters? Send yours in!!!!!
  • 49:43 WEIRD AND WILD SHOW OF THE WEEK
  • Zig Zag! Sooooo great!

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting gear!

The She Podcasts Shop


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review.

Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

Direct download: sp211_final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:03pm EDT

We love Mic Me for intros, outros and audio branding! Touch base with our awesome sponsor and get custom podcast intros, outros and editing from Micme.com. Get 10% off your first intro and outro with promo code SHEPODCASTS.

Send us your feedback, email feedback@shepodcasts.com! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • Fastest banter EVER! Elsie is giving it a go again at the library
  • 2:24 NEWS!
  • You guys, a wealth of articles are telling us that the Apple Podcasts charts are worthless, tun tun TUN
  • You should have stopped measuring yourself by these charts a long time ago!
  • These charts aren’t a reflection of general value
  • Stop using these charts as validation people! Not sure how else to say that
  • The way that we search for one thing is the way that we search for everything
  • The part that is newsworthy is that Apple Podcasts isn’t doing much about it, nor do they care to - and its their prerogative
  • WE value the charts. WE have given them power
  • There’s a new head of marketing for Podcast Websites! It’s Jessica! And what she’s doing over there
  • Elsie is trying to set the scene, delicately about what to do with your podcast when you have an impactful life change
  • When something happens in your life, what do you do with your podcast?
  • BE KIND TO YOURSELF
  • Create a plan to come back
  • It’s really hard to break up with a show
  • Are you ready to let go of an identity that no longer serves you? Elsie did and it was hard!
  • Who are you? Are you having an identity crisis? Should you keep doing the show?
  • Have you gone through a transition? Share it with us! Send us some feedback! feedback@shepodcasts.com
  • 51:16 TOOL TIPS
  • Time Buddy App for your smartphone
  • 55:04 WEIRD AND WILD SHOW OF THE WEEK
  • The Dirty John trailer is out!

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting education!

The She Podcasts Shop Get your FREE How To Podcast tutorial!


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review.

Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

Direct download: sp210_final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

We love Mic Me for intros, outros and audio branding! Touch base with our awesome sponsor and get custom podcast intros, outros and editing from Micme.com. Get 10% off your first intro and outro with promo code SHEPODCASTS.

Send us your feedback, email feedback@shepodcasts.com! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • How in the world did Jess used to do an interview show? We can barely schedule when WE can record
  • How Elsie got up at 6 am and she didn’t need to
  • And now we have Isaac going to dance class!
  • If you want The E-League, you need to apply TODAY. Doors close in 5 days! Fridays, October 12!
  • 12:40 NEWS
  • Chatting about all things iTunes feed tags, because it’s their birthday
  • Authoring best practices discussed because we had to, of course
  • Should you switch from MP3 to AAC? Elsie’s co-host Rob answers your question
  • John has some things to say loudness
  • We are interrupted by the Lego Land Club (THIS, HILARIOUS)
  • Spotify has opened the floodgates
  • Elsie is back and shares the sad, sad data of folks listening to the self destructing episode on Spotify
  • Oh man, folks need to focus on other things other than downloads
  • Jess shares that the standardization of download numbers is not for all the podcasters
  • So how DO YOU measure success? A heated discussion about downloads to measure success, or not
  • 51:40 TOOL TIPS
  • .#Podtober challenge by the WOC Podcasters community!
  • Jess is into Sticky
  • Jess criticizes Elsie’s Bitmoji and then we go off on noses
  • Women podcasters in solidarity! Such an awesome initiative

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting education!

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Help Us Spread The Word!

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Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

Direct download: sp209_final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:12am EDT

We love Mic Me for intros, outros and audio branding! Touch base with our awesome sponsor and get custom podcast intros, outros and editing from Micme.com. Get 10% off your first intro and outro with promo code SHEPODCASTS.

Yeah, TextExpander! Get 20% off of your first year! [Click here](https://textexpander.com/podcast?utm_source=shepodcasts&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=textexpa nder-oct–2018) and choose She Podcasts!

Elsie is recording at the public library! One of the most jammed packed news heavy, straight to the point shows that we’ve had in a long time! Woah. Buzzfeed, audioBoom, Vox Media, Instagram, cops using podcasting to catch a fugitive and course a lot more!

If you have any feedback, email feedback@shepodcasts.com! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • New sponsor! And Elsie is recording in a new space - the library 😌
  • Jess went to a super mini-workshop with some super star powerhouses!
  • And how Elsie doesn’t remember people because #introvertproblems
  • Jess does not want to stay in NY city because: no space, broken things, old stuff and feeling dirty
  • Oh, no! Jess wants food that sticks to the ribs, yo, not rabbit food
  • 13:05 TextExpander! We love it!
  • 15:24 NEWS
  • Buzzfeed cuts their whole podcast team!
  • Guess what folks, podcasting is not going to make you millions of dollars
  • Audioboom has a billboard! And other interesting ways to market your podcast! Will they work 🤔
  • SiriusXM acquired Pandora, how about them apples!
  • John is officially an old man and he needs something like podcasts on SiriusXM
  • Vox Media expands, so it’s not all destruction
  • IG founders going bye bye because Facebook is putting their nose in it too much
  • 31:21 WEIRD AND WILD
  • Karen and Ellen Letters! (via Daniel)
  • Some cops are trying to catch a criminal via podcast
  • If you’ve been wanting to do The E-League apply STAT! It begins October 15
  • What happened for International Podcast Day? Elsie lost her past and present
  • Women Podcasters in Solidarity

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting education!

The She Podcasts Shop Get your FREE How To Podcast tutorial!


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review.

Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

Direct download: sp208_final.mp3
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FULL ON SHOWNOTES ARE COMING!!!

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Support our Patreon page! Jess and Elsie, each, have a Q&A just for Super Squad Members! And our swag here! You know you wanna have a cute She Podcasts t-shirt😜

 

Super Quick Re-cap! Length:

  • Catching up with Jess on the vacation that was not really a vacation
  • Bugs, ugh
  • Candy, yum
  • 8:16 NEWS
  • All right folks, what is a podcast producer?
  • Can a VA do what an audio editor does?
  • Breaking down what an audio producer does
  • John gives us a much needed tip on how to align audio tracks
  • Elsie’s new set-up and why she’s using it
  • 3 women are launching a new women’s network!
  • What does it mean? Why does it matter? Bottom line, more women at the executive level
  • 31:11 WEIRD AND WILD SHOW OF THE WEEK
  • Dr. Death GAH!
  • 36:19 TOOL TIPS
  • Plann
  • And what is Jess doing in Instagram
  • Jess’s complete Twitter catastrophe in real time
  • John gives us the scoop on Twitter shadow banning, and Elsie didn’t know it was a thing
  • The scoop on the She Podcasts Supersquad!

Links mentioned by Elsie and Jess!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Our editor John from Audio Editing Solutions. He is so good you need to hire him STAT!

Shop for your podcasting education!

The She Podcasts Shop Get your FREE How To Podcast tutorial!


Help Us Spread The Word!

It would be stellar if you shared She Podcasts with your fellow women podcasters on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!

If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review.

Ways to subscribe to She Podcasts!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions, comment below, go to the She Podcasts Facebook group and even share your promos for your podcast! Let your voice be heard. Send it all to feedback@shepodcasts.com

 

Direct download: sp206_final.mp3
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