She Podcasts

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Show 031 Quick-Guide Featuring 37 She Podcasters!

  1. Anne Samoilov from The Fearless Launching Show
  2. Jule Foucht from Ms. Kickass Biz
  3. Dr. Nancy Berk from Celebrity Podcast Whine At 9
  4. Marie Segares from The Creative Yarn Entrepreneur Show & NY College Chat
  5. Maggie Patterson from The Marketing Moxie Show
  6. Kelly Connor from Sunrose Yoga
  7. Donna Papacosta from The Trafcom News Podcast
  8. Pilar Orti from 21st Century Worklife
  9. Vickie Maris from Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris
  10. Krystal O’Connor from Libsyn Live
  11. Donna Fitch from Beautiful Blog Tips and Trips
  12. Kim Trumbo from Generosity Philosophy and It’s OK To Be LGBT Podcast
  13. Michelle Matthews Calloway from The Swirl World Podcast
  14. Laura McClellan from The Productive Woman
  15. Amy Scott from Nomadtopia Radio
  16. Melissa Marks from The Blended Family Podcast
  17. Reeger Cortell from Weightloss Surgery Podcast
  18. Kelly Long from Inspiration 4 Teachers
  19. Jen Edds from The Brassy Broadcast
  20. Espree Devora from We Are LA Tech
  21. Natalie Eckdahl from The BizChix Podcast
  22. Shelia Butler from To The Trade Radio and Successful Women Talk
  23. Meredith Eisenber from Paycheck To Passion
  24. Michelle Talbert from They Met Online and the upcoming Her Power Hustle
  25. Kelly Covert and Maggie Quinn from Strong Body Whole Heart
  26. Liz Covart from Ben Franklin’s World
  27. Marianna Du Bosq from the Bilingual Avenue Podcast
  28. Lane Kennedy from The Entrepreneur Experience
  29. Heather Rampolla from Fresh Eats Radio
  30. Erika Vieira from Beauty and the Vlog
  31. Jeanne Tiberio from Healing Outside The Box
  32. Kdj from Love & Life Lessons With Kdj
  33. Rachel Dewell from Preventing HG Podcast
  34. Dvorah Lansky from Expand Your Reach And Readership Podcast
  35. Dr. Ginger Campbell from The Brain Science Podcast
  36. Kathryn Bryant from the Changeability Podcast
  37. Heather Ordover from Craftlit

FEEDBACK TO YOU!

THANK YOU. You have all made this year so incredible. Jess and I had no idea our community could be so smart, supportive, funny and just plain ’ol BRILLIANT.

We hope to bring women’s voices to an even more powerful place in the world of podcasting next year!

Links of ALL the hardware and software mentioned!

I really took on the challenge! And in the midst of of the awesome resources below, some of them are in fact Amazon affiliate links, in case you decide y’all wanna do some shoppin’. :D


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Be part of our end of the year show! Scroll down our shownotes to get details of what you need to do! 

Show 030 Quick-Guide

  • The mighty Heather Ordover is our last guest co-host for She Podcasts for 2014.
  • Remember when we did the Hollywood thing? Ya, that did happen.
  • Be part of She Podcasts! Take action ASAP send in your feedback.
  • We give you the scoop on what went down with the public hearing by the EFF on 12/17/2014 that presented to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) a key claim to invalidate of a patent used by notorious patent troll Personal Audio to shake down podcasters.
  • We have an idea of what season 2 for Serial should be…hmmmmmm.
  • We do in fact have a conversation about patent law. Ya.
  • Diving deep into a massively popular genre in podcasting Education.
  • Why does a teacher decide to podcast about literature?
  • The incredible culture of “being read to.”
  • When children ask to read Shakespeare and redesigning a curriculum to teach to the joke.
  • A Tale of Two Cities. It’s awesome.
  • The audio brain vs the reading brain.
  • And we do chat about the bias of reading-reading and “reading” and audio book.
  • How Elsie reads now.
  • Cognative Anchoring is revealed! Amazing stuff people.
  • The room to expand your mind in all of the different podcast is there.
  • Why and how what you listen to dictates how you move and grow in the world.
  • It’s time to find a podcast that will help you break patterns. Go do it.
  • And then there is Chop Bard and how it expands your brain. Or at least we geek out about it.
  • A bit of Twelfth Night discussion.
  • What is the distinction between podcasts and procasts?
  • Audio quality may or may not deter new podcast listeners from stepping into more podcasts.
  • There really are podcast seasons, not for your podcast, but for podcasters.
  • Podcast numbers can be many things and only one aspect needs to be a commodity aka selling sponsorship
  • A devoted fanbase does not signify money/sponsorship - if we subscribe to the existing media models.
  • A devoted fanbase does not mean that they WILL buy when you have something to sell.
  • Choose to go where your audience is - agree?
  • Where are the women from She Podcasts Facebook group coming from?
  • Community feedback can be super terrifying.
  • Sometimes feedback can very much teach you exactly what matters to your audience.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Participate in our end of the year episode!!!! This is what you need to do:

  1. Record a piece of audio
  2. Start your recording with: Hi, I’m < insert your name > from < your podcast name > over at < your website >
  3. Answer these 3 questions:
    1. What is your hardware and software
    2. What are the biggest lessons that you learned this year about podcasting?
    3. What is one piece of advice that you would give a newbie podcaster, just starting out?
  4. Email your audio piece to feedback@shepodcasts.com OR use WeTransfer by December 24, 2014!!!

Don’t think about it to much! Record your piece and send it in STAT! Let’s make this a She Podcasts LOVE-fest!

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Show 029 Quick-Guide

  • Baby chat and why he isn’t on the show this time
  • What is the reality of having a new baby - 4 weeks post partum
  • Anxiety, planning and hormones, we totally go there
  • How do you deal with producing your content when life gets hard?
  • We will check back in with Jess in another 4 weeks to see how she’s doing
  • Are conferences about podcasting addressing women’s needs?
  • Touching base on Jess and Elsie’s experience attending the podcast conferences
  • Dr. Ginger Campbell sends us some feedback about podcasting for the holidays!
  • We hear the baby and he is hangry
  • Hear what Kate Sitka does to differenciate herself from the norm, more audio feedback
  • Elsie is “pissed off” about a podcasting article on Variety
  • FYI the geeks will inherit the earth
  • Can NPR translate to television?
  • Irky is Elsie’s color - anybody up for making a t-shirt for her?
  • Elsie really doesn’t feel that volume = success in podcasting AT ALL.
  • And then there is the 3 yr old daughter interruption
  • Is Serial really that good? Jessica is sick of it
  • Elsie start to stutter uncontrollably about her feelings about a big name in the space experiment with his show Start-Up style.
  • A fired up conversation about people adopting huge aspects of somebody else’s very successful brand
  • Have we helped anyone today? We certainly hope so!

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Have you ever hit a massive wall because LIFE hot totally hard all of a sudden? Did you keep podcasting? Or did you simply say ‘screw it.’

What do you do when you have an idea and you can’t follow through?

Is podcasting an immature category? Discuss amongst yourselves.

How do you feel if someone in your industry starts to experiment with a style/format that is exactly like someone else?

Links mentioned by Jess and Elsie!


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Show 028 Quick-Guide

  • Helen Saltzman is in the house!
  • We dive right into the discussion about women in broadcasting fueled by her cool podcast Sound Women.
  • Helen’s workflow for Sound Women.
  • Serial breaks records! Woah.
  • What does it really take monetarily to run a highly produced top notch podcast.
  • What’s the team behind producing a podcast.
  • What are the ethics of Serial? And the ethics of listeners? What’s the line between entertainment vs information?
  • What are OUR ethical responsibilities to our audience? They look up to us. We have chosen to take the seat of the expert.
  • Helen shares a crazy piece of feedback she got for the Answer Me This Podcast.
  • WE are, whether we want to or not, guiding the narrative of our culture via our podcast.
  • The discoverability problem. Helen and Elsie try to hash it out.
  • Niche podcast directories and how they (should) serve the community.
  • We need to make sure that these directories are able to provide relevant results that are not based on iTunes ratings and reviews.
  • We get the behind the scenes of Radiotopia AND how Helen will be podcasting full time!
  • Radiotopia is cultivating new voices in audio, something no one else is doing right now.
  • Helen reveals exactly how she is now part of the Radiotopia team getting paid to produce her new podcast FULL TIME! Gah!
  • Why Elsie choose to fund the Kickstarter Campaign for Radiotopia - and it’s because of something that Alex Blumberg and Gimlet Media are NOT doing.
  • How has the podcasting scene changed in the past few years and where it’s headed.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Do you feel a responsibility to your listeners? Is there a boundary as to how much?

Do you have an idea of solving this ‘possible’ discoverability problem OUTSIDE of iTunes algorithms?

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Show 027 Quick-Guide

  • Jessica is BACK! - ish… ;) So how does it feel to be back after baby?
  • Babus-interruptus - how cute is that word?
  • It is not as easy to podfade without a co-host
  • Some stats on conversion rates for CTAs within podcasts
  • Case Study on conversions for the Podcast Growth For The Holidays course
  • Elsie breaks down a way to guestimate your subscriber numbers
  • Jessica apologizes! Why? It has something to do with the She Podcasts directory
  • What is a great tactic to get hired - from a podcast via Jessica
  • Every category of podcasts has an influx of ONE type of podcast - A podcast intervention
  • Elsie says to do it, even if your podcast is exactly the same as somebody else!
  • Mini Jess rant on lifestyle entrepreneurs
  • The fire and confidence necessary to disrupt your niche
  • Elsie goes off on her own geeky RSS crazyness
  • Jess reveales she has not listened to Serial - gasp
  • Elsie reveals her download numbers for Elsie’s Yoga Class (which she hasn’t updated in over a year)
  • And a ginormous conversation about download numbers ensues

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Do you have the crazy confidence necessary to dive into a niche that is packed?

Do you have stats to share on conversions that come directly from your podcast?

How do you do your interviews with a baby? Tactics please!

Do you hate Elsie? ;)

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Show 026 Quick-Guide

  • Welcome Espree Devora!
  • The story of a beginner podcaster who finds out podcasting is IT.
  • Does podcasting have a reputation that you cannot make money directly from podcasting?
  • What does it really take to build a business where your podcast IS the business?
  • LOVE as a key factor in podcasting as a business.
  • A conversation about the crazy-ness of what’s going on with the podcast “Serial” and the crazy phenomenon.
  • Society is ready for podcasting now - and it manifested itself via Serial.
  • A bit of wisdom from a new podcast trendsetter via Donna Papacosta.
  • What are the factors that have driven podcasting into the main stream media.
  • We need to teach our audience how to subscribe and/or listen to our podcasts - all the different ways that you can do it.
  • Espree’s podcast distribution strategy, which includes Stitcher, Soundcloud and iTunes, and how she uses each.
  • The theory of engagement in a podcast: plot, authentic emotion, companionship.
  • Espree got Alex Blumberg to introduce her podcast!!!
  • There are no rules for podcasting, peeps. You make the rules.
  • Espree has a challenge! Who do you want to meet? Why? And why it would be mutually beneficial for BOTH of you.
  • Alex Blumberg is on the show - by proxy ;)
  • @hunterwalk’s tweet about “Tech industry discovers podcasting!”
  • “Is podcasting going to be a hits-driven business, or can you make a business out of having moderate successes?”
  • Community is SO important. And whether it’s financially viable is yet to be proven.
  • Elsie does not want the definition of success in podcasting to be tied to download numbers - a paradigm needs to be changed.
  • Elsie found Espree on Medium and stalked her and now she’s here and part of the community.
  • The scoop on the awesomeness of WeAreLATech.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Go in for THE ask! Make a list of people that you wanna meet and/or connect with. Why

Report back on the She Podcasts FB Group a week from TODAY!

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Show 025 Quick-Guide

  • The baby’s here!!!
  • Oh yes. The Podfading definition.
  • We discuss Cliff Ravenscraft’s post on how many newpodcasts had already podfaded.
  • Elsie’s dream: to interview podcasters that have podfaded.
  • Pretty hardcore numbers on how many podcasters ‘podfade,’ provided by Elsie.
  • Jessica breaks out iTunes again!
  • Conclusion: podcasting is HARD. Ya.
  • Podcasting is never ever. You are always launching.
  • In order for you to get your podcast together it needs to align with your precise lifestyle.
  • Jess’s confession about her dreams of podcast episodes in the can - not so much.
  • Bottom line: you either have it in you to do the hard work or you do not.
  • Elsie has in fact podfaded. She knows what’s up.
  • Your podcast workflow with yourself OR with a co-host is a key to not podfading, in addition to making sure your are clear of what you can commit to.
  • What you expect as a payoff and what you get as a payoff might be different.
  • Downloads and PEOPLE are different. Just FYI.
  • You don’t seep into your listeners life if you fade.
  • One of the biggest pay-offs for Jessica is being "noticed’ a lot more.
  • When you first start it feels super awkard regardless of how many courses you take and how many tutorials you do!
  • OMG. A Jessica rant. Delicious. (listen at your own risk if you have stock questions for your podcast)
  • When having the same questions for an interview format really works.
  • Hints of how to get the answers that you’re looking for from an interview.
  • We do a little chatting about how to interview Chris Brogan.
  • What’s the answer that you are really looking for?

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

If you are considering podfading, what’s the scoop on why?

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Show 024 Quick-Guide

  • Elsie’s a mountain mama! and she got two homemade tables.
  • Taking responsibility for the messages that you put out in the world.
  • Diving into our responsibility as podcasters & as journalists.
  • Discussion of NYmag.com article on podcasting.
  • Cars ARE NOT the cause for the “Rennaissance” of podcasting.
  • Where are podcast download numbers coming from - Elsie breaks out the stats!
  • Jess feels the NYmag.com article is negative.
  • Will mainstream media podcasters push us out?
  • You don’t have any more of a shot “making it” in podcasting if you are not already doing something remarkable.
  • High quality podcasts have been available for YEARS - it’s not a new thing.
  • If you are going to cover something, please dive a little bit deeper into the niche/ecosystem that you are covering.
  • When big media covers podcasting it’s always a good thing.
  • Entertainment Weekly is covering podcasting!
  • A bit of conversation about a new type of podcasting software that has come into the space.
  • One of Jessica’s favorite things: when people make up technology that doesn’t exist. #not
  • Think of your podcast as a product NOT as a platform.
  • “Stop building your platform before you’ve opened your face and said something interesting” - Jess
  • More truthbombs from Jess.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

When you hear or see podcast news and information do you do your due diligence?

Can you discern between opinion about your industry and trends rooted in fact about your industry?

What types of media in your industry are covering podcasting?

How can you make your stuff more awesome?

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Show 023 Quick-Guide

  • Oranges and OJ - Jessica’s downfall.
  • Elsie’s baked goods issue.
  • Not rules - we are talking best practices for podcasting.
  • Jessica’s take on what you cannot ignore:
    • Decent audio - there are tricks to this - like monitoring yourself and making adjustments.
    • Learn to optimize the tools that you have. Hint: it’s not about the microphone that you have.
    • Consistency people! - YOU call the shots. YOU set your schedule.
    • Tangent alert: using social media scheduling systems to get your stuff out!
    • Prep before you record.
    • Branding.
    • You need a podcast host - a place to host your media files.
  • Jessica’s take on what you can ignore.
    • Mixers - for some people it’s totally necesary, for others not so much.
    • A fancy pants microphone.
    • Crazy pants shownotes.
    • Transcription.
    • Monetization.
    • Specific format for your show.
    • A specific amount of downloads for success.
    • A website.
    • Asking for ratings and reviews.
    • You don’t HAVE to publish if your life gets in the way. #ohwellski
    • Tangent alert: unexpected birthing stories
  • Bottom line: you make the rules.
  • Big announcement!!! We have an event coming up in late Winter/early Spring!!!
    • Helping you with you show!!! Wahooooo!!!!
    • Second week of February, yo!

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Do you have questions about “the rules?”

What have you heard about podcasting that has caused you crazy anxiety?

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Show 022 Quick-Guide

  • Jessica has a cool idea for a Halloween costume
  • Who would want to inhale?
  • Elsie does not like Halloween. FYI.
  • Holiday themed shows and the like. It’s time.
  • Jess shares her holiday production schedule.
  • What can you do to prepare for the year.
  • Elsie shares last year’s end of the year production schedule.
  • How to plan for your end of the year production schedule.
  • Making sure that you end the year even more focused than when you started it.
  • You CAN make really great holiday shows for any kind of podcast.
  • Jess & Elsie do a little She Podcaster Directory impromptu brain-storm for holiday episodes - random shows are chosen! Was yours one?
  • Pivotal advice from Jessica about the holidays and it involves shiny things.
  • A hands on workshop from Elsie for the holidays!!!

Elsie’s Tips for The Holidays (condensed)

  1. Reconnect with your why
  2. Podcast growth = foundation = connection
  3. Gratitude fuels

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

What’s up for the holidays for you? Have you planned?

Why are you podcast?

What is your definition of podcast success?

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Show 021 Quick-Guide

  • Peanuts are angry. Almonds are happy nuts.
  • Discussion of learning to love criticism.
  • And Chelsea Handler comes into the conversation.
  • Being nice keeps criticism at bay? But what’s the pay-off?
  • The problem with giving feedback on someone’s personality…
  • We have a small commercial break without a commercial so Jess can answer the door.
  • People don’t listen to podcasts because they could not own property - wait - what?
  • Does psychology and cultural mind-set play in women stepping into new technologies?
  • Sons of Anarchy and women’s podcasting power.
  • Breaking through cutural mindsets and psychological obstacles as women dealing with tech.
  • It’s our responsibility to start to shift perpectives through the conversations that have.

WHY WOMEN DON’T LISTEN TO PODCASTS

  1. Education - people still don’t know what it is.
  2. Tech adverse/ignorance.
  3. Love routine - they stick to what they know - can’t be bothered.
  4. Value people’s opinions - we tend to do what our friends tell us more - and our friends don’t really share too many podcasts

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Why do YOU think there aren’t more women listening to podcasts?

What’s prevented you from listening to a podcast? Ladies, ask other women.

Why DO you listen to podcasts ladies?

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Show 020 Quick-Guide

  • Our first audio feedback from Annise from the Back to Us Radio Network!
  • Creative way of doing a podcast network: having many different shows under one feed.
  • Jessica discusses Howard Stern - again - and how heis actually business minded.
  • The wonderful way Sunny Gault is running her New Mommy Media Network
  • Jess changes her format for her Lady Business Radio from interview to solo - once in a while.
  • When you have a podcast with an advertising they are paying for expectation/exposure, so you need to make sure you deliver.
  • We discuss the negative impact of having advertisers and sponsors for you show.
  • And we have a rant from Jessica…a kind of preview of what her solo shows are about.
  • How do you know if your podcast experiment is working?
  • Experimenting for Jess is about seeing a trend and jumping on it.
  • The listener guilt does exist.
  • Your first experience of media: music, movies, T.V. shows, games, etc. is HUGE. Imprinted in your consciousness. You have so much power over younger audiences.
  • Are teenagers listening to podcasts?
  • What if your experiment became the show? How would you know?
  • If you can take as much friction from the capturing of ideas, that’s the easiest way to follow through on what you want to create - wisdom via Elsie
  • Every body has their own workflow - do what works for you in conjuction with those that you work with.
  • Do you have a back-up plan set up for when life gets in the way and you cannot publish.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

How are you preparing when things don’t work out?

Do you have a workflow that you’ve been loving?

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Show 019 Quick-Guide

  • The Apple Event in September in how those millions of iPhones & iOS 8 will affect podcasting
  • If you are using a Feedburner feed as your feed for iTunes, does your podcast work? Are there any errors?
  • Shout out to @traceymarksmd who tweeted out some love via the Podcasts App.
  • We discuss a question from Tracey about Podcasts
  • You need to learn how to use The Podcasts App from Apple!
  • Optimize your show notes for easy action taking in podcasts apps.
  • We should do a tutorial on how to optimize your podcast in the different podcast apps!!!
  • Why having a separate feed for your podcast and your website can be an asset.
  • Elsie’s interested in doing voice over work.
  • Jessica breaks down what Hidden Valley Ranch Voice is.
  • We get into the podcast patent troll WIN - 1.3 million dollars in damages awarded to this guy.
  • We go off topic - about our friend Hillary
  • iTunes podcast art specs have changed! Get the scoop!
  • Who will be affected by this change in the iTunes artworks specs?
  • Off topic again - where we listen to music.
  • Who in the world is Chalene Johnson? And why is she a hot tamale?
  • Turning podcast advertising on it’s head & re-inventing! And why Howard Stern will get totally pissed off.
  • Jess starts the conversation about the difference between sponsorship and advertisers.
  • Advertising in podcasts is a long tail commitment.
  • Breaking down the different types of ads for podcasts.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Your homework: start a conversation with someone that just bought a new iPhone and doesn’t listen to podcasts. What do they think about the Podcasts App?

Is your show working in the podcasts app?

Do you guys want a screencast on how to use and optimize for the podcasts apps?

Do you have a new interesting way to advertise in your podcast? Let us know!

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Show 018 Quick-Guide

  • The low-down of the Start-Up Podcast - award winning audio producer turns entrepreneur and wants to create a podcast network.
  • “It’s all business, none of it has to do with talent” said Jess - oh yes she did!
  • Don’t be shy if you’re good and SELL IT!
  • Is long form content risky? (30+ minute podcast)
  • It is our responsibility to make sure those that we are pitching to get our business - time to educate people.
  • Have your counter-arguements ready - what are th e buts that you get to your pitch?
  • Explore. Test. Play.
  • Is your podcast solely relyant on iTunes and Google?
  • Jess preaches a bit on the history of advertising.
  • For profit vs non-profit and making money.
  • Jess has supersonic spontanous arguementativeness, which is why we love her.
  • Build your skills to think on your feet and why it’s so important.
  • You not only need to break through mindset issues but mouth issues - you’re gonna have to listen to know what that is.
  • When is an idea only good in your head? Like threesomes….Jess shares her insight. OMG.
  • In order for a network to be successful there needs to be EXCLUSIVITY - if not it’s more like affiliation.
  • Breaking down what makes podcast networks WORK.
  • What style of network should you avoid at all costs.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

How is your podcast breaking new ground? Back it up yo!

Have you considered doing a podcast network? What has stopped you?

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Show 017 Quick-Guide

  • Elsie shares how the inspiration for this podcast while listening to Balanced Bites
  • How honest should you be when somebody asks about a product?
  • How big does the brand have to be before you can fully trash it?
  • There’s a huge responsibility in recommending or denying a service.
  • You need to make sure that when you make suggestions about podcasting, you know the circumstances and resources of the producer/production.
  • What are the boundaries behind reviewing a podcast episode on the show?
  • Elsie got some not so positive feedback on her yoga podcast - she talks too much - in her podcast.
  • Do not judge a book by it’s cover.
  • Watch out! Lady with a podcast! And a Facebook Page and Instagram and…and she’s letting it all go.
  • When do you choose to censor yourself and when do you speak out? Elsie breaks it down.
  • So…profanity…is it ever ok? We go deep people. Deep.
  • “I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking” - Joan Rivers
  • Speak your mind. Be straight up.
  • If you do speak your mind get your facts straight - someone might call you out because of what you said.
  • How can you be objective when you belong to an specific industry and you’re buddy buddy with everyone?

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Are you 100% honest about product recommendations?

What are the boundaries of you reviewing a product, service or show?

What phrase did you use BESIDES a curse word if you have stubbed or broken a toe? Anybody, anybody?

What is our responsibility as NEW media, new ‘journalists?’

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Show 016 Quick-Guide

  • Jessica admits her naiveté about the friction between hobby podcasters and business podcasters (we chat about a discussion that took place in an FB podcasters group that has since been deleted.)
  • Why people have created podcasting courses - Jessica gets pretty darn heated!
  • Elsie breaks down a bit of how the podcasting industry has evolved.
  • Should the conversation about podcasting and money take a back seat? or is there a larger issue?
  • Bottom line: podcasters don’t know how to market themselves.
  • Bottom line: self promoters make it bad for everybody.
  • The community needs a positive way to promote themselves, where they learn to do it in a positive way.
  • Our She Podcast group is very good at promoting themselves well - and we offer a possible reason why.
  • When are you being too nice? REVEALED: the last time Jessica was too nice.
  • We discuss fellow podcast teacher Ellen Britt’s question about our guests using our podcast content - and a butt is wiped in the process.
  • Jess describes how some of her interviewees get the coveted MP3.
  • You have to have firm boundaries in your podcast whether business or hobby.
  • Elsie reveals her ex A-lister yoga client.
  • When do you reschedule and not reschedule?
  • Making decisions on what shows to be on and making decisions for yourself on what serves you best.
  • The different guidelines between a podcast guest and a podcast host. OMG someone embarrasses Jessica!
  • Elsie shares how she preps her guests when they come onto The Feed.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Are you a BRILLIANT hobby podcaster that wants to share your opinion about the podcasting industry? How do you discern what’s the best use of your time when being a podcast guest? Are you being too nice?

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Show 015 Quick-Guide

  • Lovely chit-chat from Jess & Elsie - all fun - not really podcasting related - for 12 MINUTES!
  • Facebook etiquette and what angers Elsie. Take notes people!
  • Asking for reviews - we open a HUGE can of worms
  • Leave a review if you like it, if you don’t like ti don’t!
  • Who in the world has time to LISTEN to so many podcasts to review them?
  • Elsie has a problem asking
  • “Rooster’s are your thing! I’m glad you went with what you want!” Guess - who said that - and why did she say that?
  • Elsie reveals what she stands for regarding podcast review swaps
  • What SHOULD you share on social media? Jess preaches.
  • STOP FOCUSING ON ITUNES PEOPLE!!!
  • Jess and Elsie are partner weight loss coaches. Now you have to find out what that’s all about.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Does your online interaction reflect what you stand for?

How do you feel about review exchanges? Yeay? Nay? And why?

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Show 014 Quick-Guide

  • Podcast Movement re-dux
  • A little catch-up of the sessions via Jessica -
  • The women in podcasting session ended up being more about women than business which was nice
  • Lou Mongello’s was great at bringing information about getting more off-line engagement and he’s a nice guy
  • Elsie’s thoughts on the Women in Podcasting panel as well
  • Tracks in the Podcast Movement…? Beginner, intermediate and advanced? A women in podcasting track?
  • Media buyers panel was more aimed at the usual CPM model and Jess feels that there are other opportunities than that.
  • Jess shares her experience with possible advertisers
  • Elsie’s experience with working with advertisers via CPM
  • I wish there were more people that were not focused on business podcasts…other types of podcasters
  • Elsie’s ideas for keynote speakers: Tim Ferriss, Dan Carlin, Molly Wood, Mignon Fogarty, Joe Rogan, Cali Lewis and Tom Merritt
  • There were a lot of people that hadn’t even started a podcasts showing up! That was super surprising.
  • We should have prepared better for our ShePodcasters meet-up! We need more!
  • Is there a difference between a podcaster and people who podcast.
  • Chatting about the podcast patent troll!!! EXPLICIT response from Jess
  • Jessica goes into Podcaster’s Paradise and posts all about how little money there is in podcasting…. :D
  • A rundown of other podcasting conferences and digital media conferences to note via Elsie
  • A bit of sad news about a fellow podcaster
  • Book your hotel room for NMX! NOW!

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

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Are there any conferences that She Podcasters should attend

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Show 013 Quick-Guide

  • The New & Noteworthy discovery wasn’t really the discovery we thought - clarifying for all those who wanna know!
  • New & Noteworthy is like investing your money and obsessing over the lottery consistently.
  • Marketing your podcast tactics above and beyond New & Noteworthy and iTunes
  • Katie Krimitzos cool Shark Tank campaign
  • After New & Noteworthy it’s time for you to send people somewhere else - like - your WEBSITE!
  • It’s not enough to Tweet - You tweet and then you grow your twitter
  • Jessica reveals her crazy pants social media twitter tactics.
  • Jessica reveals her super Facebook strategy, which includes some Facebook Ads!
  • Jessica takes over the show - LOL!
  • Friends on your show? Ya - that’s not gonna work to grow your show
  • Great Grannies of the Northwest - you HAVE to listen to what the heck that is.
  • Have standards, don’t just interview anyone who asks.
  • What makes Elsie (as a podcast junkie) listen to a podcast
  • Part of your interview style show should include a Big guest once in a while.
  • Boundary setting PSA! You don’t have to appease everyone
  • Part of your marketing strategy needs to be your filtering system.
  • When you highlight the community they help you grow.
  • More Jess community growing tactics - BAM
  • In order to grow your audience you have to become your listener.
  • Getting your Libsyn stats emailed to you to fuel your stats habit!
  • Podcast listeners are not going to take action with you right away - sometimes they will - but usually they won’t.
  • Podcasters make the best intervieews - go check out the She Podcasts Directory!

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Where do you listen to the podcasts that you listen to?

Call out to Katie Krimitsos to let us know how the Shark Week went!

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Show 012 Quick-Guide

  • What is the role of the admin for a community?
  • When you should NOT start a group/community.
  • Building a community from the yogic perspective
  • Does attracting people like you the way to go? What are the most important similarities that matter?
  • The history behind the She Podcasts group
  • How to quickly build your community - in collaboration - booyah
  • The gift of mining the hive mind
  • Self-regulating groups, can they be a reality? We think so
  • Why we are not interested in what’s going on this weekend
  • How feelings play a part in running a successful Facebook group
  • Instigating conversation that aligns with your group - what works and what doesn’t?
  • is there a dissonance between hobby podcasters &. entrepreneur podcasters
  • elsie feels like she’s from the wrong side of the tracks
  • “cheesy” marketing tactics vs the “art” of podcasting
  • it happens in all industries: when it gets popular people just want to make money.
  • there is no turnkey solution for making money - especially in podcasting

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Have you experienced the dissonance between hobby and business podcasters?

Does your podcast have a community? What’s worked for you and what hasn’t?


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Show 010 Quick-Guide

  • Find the She Podcasts group - great conversation people!
  • Why it’s important to speak from the women’s perspective
  • The awesome Heather Ordover from CraftLit sends us killer feedback
  • We have a twitter account!!! and we share our twitter strategy.
  • Why are we crying? Oh emotions…
  • How do you hone in on content your listeners want? We respond to email feedback
  • Should we create content that is gender specific
  • Our show prep work flow discussion
  • Going into the women podcasting stats - who would it benefit to know
  • The benefit of knowing how many women LISTEN to podcasts
  • Slow growth is the way to go
  • Using iTunes like Google - the ultimate search engine for learning
  • Facebook Ads for podcasting….ooooooh!
  • Start thinking outside of the iTunes box and into education and work
  • Little shout-out to Daniel Lewis - thanks!
  • Educate your audience! Take responsibility - yo

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Do you care about how many women are podcasting? Is that an incentive?

Do you feel you have to create content that is gender inclusive?

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Show 009 Quick-Guide

  • Do you wanna lollipop - how a Mama can podcast
  • The story of the first time Jess met Elsie in real life
  • Elsie’s online habits
  • The scoop on the She Podcasts t-shirts!
  • The story of the possible unqualified guest - when the guest is not compatible with your audience - what to do! #holycow
  • Jess might just change her workflow…
  • Is following your gut a good way to know yes or no?
  • Be honest and keep it real.
  • Elsie’s Catholic guilt comes out - yes I know - issue 29:10 bleep
  • Jessica’s breakdown of types of interviews - so boring you can’t see straight interview, the all you do is sell interview, trying to read pre-written answers interview
  • When Elsie has not published episodes for Elsie’s yoga class
  • What do you tell the person when you are not going to use their show? Natalie what’s your perspective?
  • Your interviewee wants to re-record - what to do?
  • When you are doing interviews you open yourself up to the opportunists
  • Upholding your reputation
  • If the story doesn’t match the reader you don’t print!

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

  • What are your standards for interviews?
  • What do you do when you record a crappy show or a crappy episode? Publish or no publish?
  • What do you do when an interview sucks?
  • How do you tell them you’re not going to air the show?

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Show 008 Quick-Guide

  • We begin with a discussion of Ramit Sethi’s article on charging for your podcast.
  • Is your content automatically an investment?
  • Does Ramit know what a podcast is? Audio files vs podcasts
  • Who are the best negotiators?
  • Let’s chat (again) about the type of models to charge for your podcast.
  • What is the point of the Ramit article and how Elsie went out and followed his advice.
  • “You can’t charge a dollar for every thought that you have” - Jessica
  • Super fans and their tattoos!
  • How are we like Jimmy Fallon and how did Howard Stern #fail?
  • The discussion begins on the Forbes article on John Lee Dumas - get ready for your two million dollars she podcasters!
  • A little bit of the Dumas background
  • How does one “succeed” in podcasting? We break it down AGAIN - new podcasters wonder when they’re going to be bringing in the dough!
  • Jess super duper ninja tip on paying attention in podcast interviews. Hint - it involves nail polish
  • Interview with Esther Kiss on Biz Women Rock about marketing your podcast being a full-time job! - if you can’t automate marketing and scheduling = drowning
  • clarity for women that his success set it up in a way that women and families and businesses may not be able to do
  • Jess had download shame - find out why!
  • Elsie lost a 5k download a day opportunity
  • Stephen Daubner quote: “most of the people that are very successful are anomalous for one reason or another”
  • Following a podcasting system inhibits your creativity.
  • Why Elsie and Jess are great co-hosts
  • Podcasting is a gold mine and relatively easy to make money - #NOT!
  • Once again we go down the ethnic rabbit hole…

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Is podcasting a goldmine?

What do you think about charging for your podcast right out of the gate?

Are you in podcasting to make money?

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Show 007 Quick-Guide

  • iOS 8 beta release and how that affects podcasting possibilities - it’s the start of podcasting as a ubiquitous medium
  • Start optimizing your descriptions in the Podcasts App yo!
  • Super cool updates coming to the Mac via the latest upcoming OS release Yosemite. hint: you might not need Skype. Wowza.
  • Elsie and Jess go off on discussing possible workflows recording the cell phone calls on the Mac
  • How much Ummms and Aaaaaahs should you edit out of your podcast aka Elsie freaks Jessica out.
  • How in the heck do you get better at doing interviews? Many tactics are revealed.
  • The “Hello? Hellooooo? Are you there?” issue
  • People who are really fussy about listening…maybe should lighten up a little bit…we totally went there.
  • We are essentially the audio version of the Blair Witch Project. Listen for wha that means :)
  • Whoever you interview will influence the way that you respond to the conversation
  • How do you warm up your interviewee before you get on the show? Jessica shares her super secret sauce
  • How much interview show prep is TOO MUCH!
  • When questions really help your interviewee
  • Interview workflows - what works for you?
  • Why Jessica chose Schedule One and how to choose the best scheduling tool for you?
  • Elsie goes on a dual rant about somethings that makes her crazy about podcasters and promotion
  • How to help your guests promote YOU!
  • Two key take aways: take responsibility for your promotion and get clear on what’s mandatory for your guest to fill out
  • Elsie’s first introduction to marketing and the first product she ever bought about doing the best interviews you can.

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

What is your interview workflow for your guests?

What are the things that you dislike about being on other people’s podcast?

What are some challenges that you’ve come across when setting up your systems for your interviews?

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In this episode of She Podcasts we dive into all the different kinds of donation models or monetization models.

We look into what’s being done in the podosphere at the moment as well as ponder about what would be best for us to do…or if we should have a way to receive donations.

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Show 006 Quick-Guide

  • Hot topic - donations? Whaddaya think?
  • The No Agenda donation break down - coolest thing ever - the listeners are the producers
  • Daily Tech News Show - The Patreon model
  • The subscription model: Marc Maron + Keith and the Girl
  • The kickstarted model - with some examples
  • The subscription + magazine model - Screencasts Online
  • The issues that arise when you ‘run your own thing’
  • How do you get over the something for nothing
  • The extra bonus content model - GTR
  • Let’s pontificate on what we want to do with the She Podcasts podcast? Donations? Yeah or nay?
  • The traveling yogini money maker - Tranquility Du Jour and Kimberly Wilson

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Show 005 Quick-Guide

  • Elsie’s rookie audio mistakes on She Podcast episodes 1 to 4
  • When is audio good enough and when is content king?
  • How much do you listen to your audience and how much do they influence your podcast content for the better?
  • Starting a Facebook Group for your podcast - this is a super conversation
  • When you DON’T do what your audience requests of you, and why doing what works for you at times is more important.
  • Having your audience be a huge part of your content.
  • How putting yourself in the position of your audience can help you develop your community

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Have you done what your audience says? Have you NOT listened to your audience? Have you mined the wisdom of the your audience’s hive mind.


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If this episode got you all fired up, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe!

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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Show 004 Quick-Guide

  • What we’ve seen has been the most effective for marketing a podcast
  • When you promote, do you know where your listeners are coming from?
  • Jessica’s promotion workflow for Lady Business Radio
  • Elsie’s promotion workflow for Libsyn’s The Feed
  • Promoting your podcast BEYOND social media
  • Is a dedicated podcast app worth it?
  • Being interviewed on podcasts is a great way to promote the show - easier point of entry!
  • Promoting other people’s podcast - do you do it?
  • Elsie’s super stellar ways of getting feedback and growing your audience
  • What exactly do you want from your marketing? engagement or growth or???

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

What was your most effective means of marketing your podcast? What has worked or hasn’t worked? What causes you to take action with a podcaster? What drives you to leave a comment, respond in a group, or leave us feedback?

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Show 003 Quick-Guide

  • What if your podcast was removed from iTunes do to copyright infringement?
  • Should have podcasters known better than to use other people’s logos?
  • The unrealistic expectations of podcasting
  • What does it take for your podcast to live up to expectations
  • You cannot boss your podcast listeners around
  • The way people listen to your podcasts matter in how they take action with you
  • What exactly are the time expectations in producing a podcast
  • Breaking down podcasting resources: time vs money
  • Options to outsourcing - should you outsource?

FEEDBACK REQUEST!

Do you think they should have known better?

What takes you the longest to do for your podcast? shownotes, editing, promotion, etc?

Are you willing to invest time and/or money?

Is podcasting an experiment for you? OR is it your thing?

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