She Podcasts

A rant from Jess, the latest research about the Super Listeners Report 2021 and insight from Elsie on Shure headphones!

Here's the scoop! Episode Length: 53:34

Jess was on a rant because someone called Isaac fat 😒. The discussion evolved into making healthy decisions; whether it’s changing your diet or becoming more active. One of our listeners suggested the podcast Maintenance Phase - “Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice”.

Super Listeners of 2021

A study from Edison Research and Ad Results Media shows that Super Listeners - those who listen to 5 or more hours of podcasts weekly are:

  • A crazy amount are white!
  • They are incredibly committed to listening, most of them listen to 12+ hours a week!
  • Most pay for other subscriptions (duh)
  • Most feel that podcast advertising is the key way to reach them
  • How Super Listeners FIND new podcasts? By searching on YouTube
  • 49% believe that the hosts ACTUALLY USE the products that they are advertising
  • 51% pay more attention to ads on podcasts!
  • 53% look at companies in a more positive way when they advertise on podcasts
  • Personalized discussions FTW!

Click here for more.

Elsie’s Tool Tips

Elsie reviewed two pairs of Shure headphones:

Shure Aonic 40 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones

Beautiful build, sturdy, feel high quality, paired seamlessly with iPad and iPhone, battery life is super!, noise cancelling was just ok

Shure SRH 440A Professional Studio Headphones

Very comfortable, light, solid build, long, detachable cord

Shoutout to our Sponsors

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Episode Length: 41:15

Jess and Elsie start off by responding to all kinds of feedback! Then on to, podcaster 💸  opportunities, some in the UK, some in Australia and some right here at home. And of course, a couple of quickie tool tips from Elsie!

JRE is NOT a Journalist

We were called out for calling JRE a journalist. He is not a journalist - Jess meant he’s part of the media. He’s a comedian who has a podcast. Period.

Podcaster Opportunities

[20:11] Danielle Desir will be sharing grants and paid opportunities on Substack to help podcasters take the next step in their business.

Click here for the link.

[16:30] gal-dem is teaming up with Acast to help promote the new Acast Amplifier program, offering financial grants of £2,500 and expertise in the industry to budding podcasters in the UK. If you have an idea for a podcast but need help getting it off the ground, Acast Amplifier is for you.

Click here for the link.

[19:30] Got a unique Australian story to tell? The Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship is back for a third year in a row, giving mid-career storytellers the opportunity to further their careers in audio. The fellowship is teaming up with Audiocraft once again to offer $15,000 in prize money for the winning applicant. The winner will also be offered a year-long professional development program, mentorship and networking opportunities, professional introductions and other various aspects of support relevant to their targeted niche.

Click here for the link.

Very Important Audio Feedback

[10:44] Patrick Keller would like Jess and Elsie to take on the #CelineDionChallenge on Tik Tok. Elsie said maybe, Jess said absolutely not. LOL.

Elsie’s Tool Tip

[37:40] Safari and Chrome have Tab Groups. Reduce the number of tabs you have open. With a simple right click, you can group your tabs together and label them with a custom name and color.

Shoutout to our Sponsors 

[21:59] Get your own Link Tree! Use code SHEPODCASTS

Become a podcast product manager! My Podcast Biz

Are you interested in learning more about the BUSINESS side of podcasting? Flint Stone Media is hiring - click here to see the job description!

Direct download: sp346_final.mp3
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All about getting used to seeing ourselves as we are with fancy cameras and gear, and Elsie shares all of her new video stuff! Feedback about Spotify, the independent creators manifesto, shout-outs, and so much gushing about the awesome Expand Your Reach virtual summit!

Have you opened up a Link Tree account yet? One link to your bio and so much more! You are missing out if you have not! Head over here!. Use the code SHEPODCASTS, and thank you so much for your sponsoring the show 🙏🏽

🔥 NEW WAY TO CONNECT! Elsie (and occasionally Jess) will be texting you directly! - Sign up here! 302–240–3425, text yes or my.community.com/shepodcasts

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

EPISODE LENGTH 49:14

Chit chat time! Elsie’s birthday redux

5:10 Elsie shares how she treated herself for her birthday! She breaks down what it takes to get used to looking at her actual face when using a fancy camera, up-leveling her entire tech set-up, including lights, and software!

If you want to see what she’s talking about here is the She Podcasts live stream!

Stacey Simms feedback on Podcast 2.0 and Spotify

11:14 It seems that Stacey, a long time podcaster has no idea what Podcast 2.0 is and she agrees with Elsie’s thoughts on Spotify.

That brings us to rehash the whole situation that went down in the last episode.

We had Stevie, who was in the chat bring up the problematic history of Spotify and musicians.

Elsie asks

When do you get big enough to be responsible for what you’re saying?

The independent creator manifesto

When does getting cash from a larger corporation create problems for independent creators?

Creators will start to gain more and more power. This is just the beginning.

26:19 We love our sponsor Link Tree!

Shout-outs!

⭐️ FOLLOW BERRY AT PODCASTS IN COLOR!

⭐️ CONGRATS TO THE BLACK PODCASTERS ASSOCIATION AND AFROS AND AUDIO! (become a member or invest in them!)

Our tool tip - Rephonic. Not what we thought it was

It seems to happen a lot, Elsie or Jess ads something thinking it’s one thing but then it ends up being something else.

They, live and on the air, find out things that confused them.

Elsie attended the best virtual event EVAH!

Elsie was enamored with Luria Petrucci’s virtual event called Expand Your Reach Summit!

There are not very many events that make Elsie jelly and this one event made her want to strive to be more and create the best membership experience for She Podcasts!

So.

Much.

Love.

John shares how he disappears while She Podcasts is being recorded

46:21 This one is for you Stevie!

In the Streamyard broadcast dashboard

  • Go into Settings
  • General
  • Uncheck “Audio avatar”

When you shut your camera off, it also removes your “avatar” from the screen.

LINKS!

Elsie’s new video gear (aff 🔗)

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Get your own Link Tree! Use code SHEPODCASTS

→ Become a podcast product manager! My Podcast Biz (aff)

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


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 SUBSCRIBE wherever you get your podcasts! ONE CLICK!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions by emailing feedback@shepodcasts.com. We love audio feedback! Let your voice be heard, record your voice via voice memo in your smartphone and send it over! You can also join the She Podcasts Facebook group!

Direct download: sp345_final.mp3
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Elsie didn’t wanna, but the She Podcasts community asked (more than once!) Here’s a different side of the Spotify, Joe Rogan thing focusing on how it impacts YOU, your listeners, sprinkled with a side of free speech. Shownotes in this case are Elsie’s notes and links (Episode recorded 1pm ET 1/31) And no, you have not heard this side of the convo, as it’s about you.

Have you added your show onto Amazon Music? You are missing out if you have not! Add your show to Amazon Music. Thank you so much for your sponsoring the show 🙏🏽

🔥 NEW WAY TO CONNECT! Elsie (and occasionally Jess) will be texting you directly! - Sign up here! 302–240–3425, text yes or my.community.com/shepodcasts

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

EPISODE LENGTH 52:22

  • Sponsor Ad! Thank you Link Tree!
  • Q about Riverside.FM vs Streamyard
  • Quickie free speech lesson

Elsie’s JRE/Neil Young redux (if we must)

⭐️ I’m not a fan of JRE, and never have been. I personally would love to not speak his name on this podcast at all. There are plenty of others that can do that. I also DON’T LISTEN TO HIS PODCAST. I listened one time and I found that I very much enjoyed it. —— also at the time of this recording JRE did respond and I think he did very well.

⭐️ I’m not a Spotify subscriber —- I only listen to Call Her Daddy

Let’s talk about it from the independent podcaster + the listener perspective with a heavy bias to Android users, outside of the U.S. and new podcast listeners.

  • There are many folks that have their largest audiences from Spotify.
  • There are also many people that do not listen to podcasts outside of Spotify - especially those that are outside of the U.S.
  • As we know (and it’s been covered SOOOOOOO MUCH) Spotify has gained a lot of ground in podcast listenership. It’s not about cutting into Apple Podcasts piece of the pie - Spotify has made the pie BIGGER.
  • The pressure that these podcasters feel is real —- what should the “everyday podcaster” do? Particularly for shows that are serving often excluded communities?
  • For many podcasters, they’ve been able to get into podcasting by starting with Anchor (however I might feel about it) and it’s given opportunities to people get into podcasting without having to right out of the gate pay for hosting —- Anchor is owned by Spotify. Should they move hosting platforms?
Not everyone can afford to quit Spotify

I have questions…

  1. How many of their 172 million subscribers will delete their accounts?
  2. How many of their 381 million monthly listeners will stop listening?
  3. What is a breaking point for Spotify?
20k podcast episodes have already been removed from Spotify during the pandemic that mention COVID–19
  • They were and continue to be very aggressive when it came to any COVID content on the platform (please reach out to the more prominent podcast platform SUPPORT TEAMS so that they can give you the scoop.)
  • I believe we had a past episode

When you become a media company, you are held responsible for the content on your platform

  • You are distributing
  • You are creating
  • You are promoting

There was a quote from the Washington Journal on the topic

“It’s a tech company looking to maximize profits”

Why does this matter to YOU?

PODCASTING IS A RESPONSIBILITY. What you say in your show - you are responsible for.

What I’m most concerned about is about podcasting.

Whatever happens with JRE and Spotify, it will set a precedent in podcasting - and it could fundamentally change the medium in ways that we were not prepared for - and possibly not for the better.

I’m especially concerned about WHO and HOW will content monitoring happen? HOW WILL THEY KNOW THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTENT?

LINKS!

She Podcasts thank-you to our Sponsors!

Get your show on Amazon Music!

Produce Your Podcast!

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


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 SUBSCRIBE wherever you get your podcasts! ONE CLICK!

Feedback + Promotion for Women Podcasters

You can ask your questions by emailing feedback@shepodcasts.com. We love audio feedback! Let your voice be heard, record your voice via voice memo in your smartphone and send it over! You can also join the She Podcasts Facebook group!

Direct download: sp344_final.mp3
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