488. What Your Podcast Reveals About You

0:05 Good morning podcasting Morning Chat. Today is Friday, April 3rd, 2026, and today we're trying something new with Finish the Sentence. A simple but revealing way to reflect on why we podcast, reconnect with our purpose, and spark some honest conversations. So if you're listening live on Clubhouse, hit the share button, bottom left hand side of the screen and share it. However, Clubhouse lets you. And if you're catching us via podcast, YouTube, LinkedIn, etcetera, please share this with a fellow podcaster. And now give us about 30 seconds and we'll get things rolling. Thanks for being here.

0:52 Podcasting Morning Chat is powered by Ironic Media, helping podcasters launch, Polish and grow great shows, and by content Creators Accountant, helping creators build real business behind their content. Good morning again Podcasting Morning chat. Thank you so much for being here. I am your host Mark Ronik and currently on stage with me we have BC Babbles, Jonathan Howard, Sid Meadows, Dr. Faye, Ralph Estep and also Tide AKA Nikki has joined us on stage. Good morning to all of you.

1:39 If you want to learn more about my Co host, just go to podcastingmorningchat.com/people. And today before we get into the main topic, before we celebrate and share and celebrate our wins from the week, I want to get through a couple of quick notes for the community. First, this Monday, we are back with our Money Mondays episodes and we're also going to announce a giveaway on Monday when I'm calling it Win, Ralph's Roadcaster Duo. And I'll let Ralph share what we're discussing on Monday and a little more about that giveaway. Go for it, Ralph. Well, good morning everybody.

2:20 It sounds like win Ralph's money maybe. No, that's all right. But on Monday I want to talk about why creators lose thousands and I'm going to propose a 10 minute fix to that. So you definitely want to join us for that on Monday. It's going to be a great discussion, but we're also going to announce the road caster duo giveaway. And I'm going to sweeten the pot a little bit here. I'm going to give an hour free consultation with that as well. So not only can you win the road caster duo now it's slightly used about six months ago, but you'll also get an hour consultation with me. So if you find value in that, make sure you come Monday we'll be talking about how to get involved in that free giveaway. Thank you, Mark. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you, Ralph. That's going to be fun.

3:01 We did this several years ago with my original Rd. caster when I upgraded to the Road Caster Pro 2 and it went really well and we got a lot of new listeners from that too, so you never know. We may end up building up the community a bit while we do this, but it'll be a lot of fun. We use King sumo.com to organize the giveaway and I'm sharing this with you because you may consider doing a giveaway on your show sometime and I find that King Sumo does a great job of managing it. And no, this is not a paid plug, a sponsorship. This is just me sharing a tool that I use that has worked really well for us in the past. So thank you, Ralph. Looking forward to that discussion, looking forward to learning more about that.

3:44 We even had some inquiries in our Facebook group about when we're giving away Ralph's road caster duo. So now you all know and more details on Monday. And if you're curious, if you listen to yesterday's show, I shared that I was going to have a talk with a Class, A digital marketing class at Vanderbilt University went really well, was a class of about a dozen students. I was going to say kids. And that just makes me feel old. So it doesn't students. And they're currently the idea of right now as they are, I guess, in the final legs of their classes, they're currently working on a starting a podcast project where they develop a podcast.

4:28 And then I believe if I have this right, they do a mock pitch to a company or a brand to use that podcast for their company or brand. So they're and they're actually using real companies, real brands. Like sure, microphone happens to be one of them. And another one is Hoka the sneakers, right? So these students are coming up with concepts and ideas for a podcast that these brands could adopt and use with for their company to help their marketing efforts. Really cool concept. And so I I gave them first some best practices based on a lot of the stuff we talked about yesterday on the show. I answered some questions about some podcasting myths and then we did AQ and a where they asked me a bunch of questions to help them along with their projects.

5:15 It was really fun and it's something I really want to do more of. Unfortunately, the professor I believe, is leaving the university and going to another one, so maybe I'll be doing this with another university down the road or hopefully she'll put in a good word for me over at Vanderbilt. I I appreciate that invite. And also Speaking of events from yesterday, the EPC Empowered Podcasting Conference community call went really well yesterday, except for the fact that I forgot to record the video. That was just a complete failure on my part. But we did capture all the audio, so we'll be able to provide that to our community for anyone who missed it.

5:56 But we did talk about our creator partner program. I'm not going to go into it now because I don't want to take up too much of your time and I want to get to the the meat of the show. But more to come. I'll share more about the creator partner program, a program that we believe is very affordable for the content creator, the DIY content creator that maybe doesn't have a big budget, but wants to get the word out there about their podcast, their business, etcetera. So we'll share more about that. And if you're interested, just shoot me an e-mail mark@ironicmedia.com and I'm happy to get you more info in the meantime. OK, so it's Friday before we get to our wins from the week like we do every Friday, I want to do a quick exercise that I mean, I'm not that I'm coining this phrase by any stretch, but we'll call finish the sentence. Yesterday we discussed podcasting best practices. So I want to hear more about your podcast journey. And the reason why I like this kind of prompt is because sometimes the fastest way to get something meaningful is to stop overlooking or overthinking and just respond. So these kinds of sentence starters, I think, can reveal a lot about your podcast, about your purpose, about your growth, and even the stuff you may not be saying out loud enough. I want to help all of us continue to connect with our podcasts and why we're doing it.

7:22 I mean, because like I said yesterday, it's important, I believe, for you to be interested in this podcast as much as your audience, right? Like I, yes, we do this for our audience, but I want you to also do this for yourself. So I think that exercises like this help us reconnect with that very thing. I'm pausing here for a moment because Ralph got cut off of the video. There he is. He's back now. But yeah, so these kinds of sentences, I think can help you reconnect with why you started, notice how far you've come, and maybe even uncover an idea you need to talk about more. And I mean that for you too, as the listener, even though maybe if you're not listening live and can't participate, I encourage you to participate at least in your head, play along with us because I think that this really does reveal a lot.

8:13 So I'm going to start with a sentence. I'd love for you all to finish. Ideally, I'm going to start the sentence and then I'm going to see everybody's emojis flashing because you're all going to participate. And I'm going to remind you in the audience, if you're on Clubhouse, come join us up on stage and share. And if you're on one of the video streams, put it in the chat. And thank you, Tim. Appreciate you heating that call. So let's go with a pretty standard one. I would say I started my podcast because dot dot dot why did you start your podcast? BC is going to go first BC live from a parking garage in the basement of a parking garage. BC go for it and you can explain why.

8:59 I started my podcast because I realized there's so much that lies ahead of young professionals, and that's whether or not their plan is to be traditionally employed or to go the entrepreneur route. There's so much happening in the business world that affects the world, but also each of us independently. And there are a lot of conversations within that world that I feel are not provided to students or young professionals before they leave the classroom. And so they enter this world where they've learned a little some about about it a little bit, but there's so much nuances and so much so many unique experiences that they are are going to have that they should know how to navigate.

9:43 So I wanted to provide this kind of like virtual Co working space where young professionals can sit down, have a powwow, discuss what's going on, how do you navigate this versus that? And ideally help them leave the conversation with some kind of actionable, OK, if this happens, I can do this. If I hear about this, I can pivot this way and provide them as many tools as possible just to kind of make more sense of this crazy business world that we all live in and try to make sense of on a day-to-day basis. I love that. Thank you BC very cool. So you're creating the space, but with the podcast, I'm curious are, are what other ways are you doing it within the podcast?

10:28 Like how are you providing this guidance to them? Like is this a solo show? Are you bringing guests on as well? I'm just a little curious to hear more about how you're doing that. Yeah, for sure. The show is definitely taking a few different turning points since I initially kicked it off in 2020, which at the time was intended to be an interview based show. Great timing of course. So that didn't really pan out at the time. So I did do a a soft relaunch in 2022. It was heavily interview based at the time, had a good run, pretty good consistency. That year I did shifted to attempt to see maybe like a morning show format could be better. I realized not so much, at least not in the way that I was doing at the time.

11:13 But coming into 2026, I've decided, well, I reflected and kind of realized, you know what, I'm kind of allowing the guests to determine what the topic should be and kind of regardless of if the topic they come with is timely or not. And I kind of realized, you know what, there's a lot happening every single day. There are kind of main themes happening in the business world. So I need to take the reins a bit more and be a lot more purposeful in determining what each next episode will be about. So I now have a conflux of information coming at me every single day. I have systems in place to help consolidate, make it more palpable. And so I am now in 2026, deciding, OK, here's the what's happening right now actionable topic. If someone has reached out to me who can fit into it, cool. If not, it's a solo episode.

12:09 You know, I should be. And I think this is for every podcaster too. I think every podcaster should be establishing their own thought leadership as well. Don't just let your guests do it because you want to be able to let the audience know you come with your own expertise. You come with your own background. You know they should be able to look at you for some kind of authority or coordination based regardless of what your background is. Thank you BC and well, I'll first comment then I'm going to ask you one last question. I just, I, we talked, we talked yesterday about being able to pivot or be flexible with your podcast, because often times what we go in thinking it's going to be, it ends up being something a lot different. And I appreciate how you don't keep banging your head against the wall wondering why it's not working. And instead, I mean, look, maybe you are a little bit I was. I know I I'll bang my head against. The Wall A.

13:07 Little bit for a while, but eventually you recognize, OK, it's not working. I have to try something different. And I appreciate that about you. And then the question was, was really more, I know why, but I, I, I introduced you by saying you're in the bottom of a garage right now and that, that might sound a little strange. So you wanted to share what are you doing in the in a garage right now? Yeah, so my big thing is I love networking and I love, you know, building a community not only online but also in person. So I learned there's a lot of great stuff happening in Charlotte, which is near where I live. So I'm currently sitting at the bottom level of a parking garage waiting for a networking event called Creative Mornings to kick off at 8:00 US.

13:53 I'm going to spend today meeting new people, getting my neighbor around, and seeing if there are any awesome people I've yet to meet yet in Charlotte. That's cool. And are these regular events by this particular group? Creative mornings is there are going to be a couple of other one offs today that I'll say, but creative mornings I think happens once a month if I'm not mistaken. Keep me posted. I might want to drive into Charlotte and participate in one of those with you one of these days. That's cool. Yeah, that would be really cool. Awesome. Thank you for sharing BC I appreciate it. I'm going to keep things moving and check in. Let's see here with Tim. Tim, good morning to you. Great having you at the Empowered Podcasting Community call last night. And yeah, I'll give you the same sentence. I started my podcast because dot dot dot. Well, which podcast are you talking about? Because I run a few.

14:48 Well, you maybe. How about your very first one? Well, my very first one, which morphed into the one I'm running right now, which is Create our podcast. So back in, oh gosh, 2016, I started working for the Army and one of the things that we were using with our soldiers there was art therapy. And, you know, being in the military, artists are kind of, you know, poo pooed as, you know, I don't understand this. It's not going to make me any money. You know, artists are weak, blah, blah, blah. And I was really amazed at some of the things that these guys and gals were creating.

15:35 And I'm like, no, you can do a career in this. So I rebranded my old podcast, thanks to Dave Jackson to call it now create our podcast. And a interesting thing with that is a lot of people talk about, you know, developing your avatar. And I fortunately or unfortunately have the privilege of having a picture of a soldier that unfortunately took his life. But I have a picture of that sitting by my computer desk and so I I always am talking to him whenever I do an episode.

16:15 And I know it helps out folks and it demystifies being a creative type person. And to kind of piggyback on what BC was saying about the creative mornings thing, that's a national program. They have one down in Richmond, they have one in DC. They do monthly things like that. So unfortunately they don't have one in Fredericksburg yet because I haven't started it yet, but I'm a little bit busy these days. I get their emails all the time and they do great programming all the time. So I highly recommend if they have it where you're at or down in Charlotte.

16:56 If if they're having one in August I'll probably do a both EPC 3 and that. Very cool. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. And yeah, I didn't realize it was a a national thing that they're that they do that and I guess it's just, it's just a bunch of creatives. Is that. Yeah. OK, Yeah, different, different artistic disciplines, digital creators, I'm sure some podcasters show up to it, painters, all that kind of good stuff. They have the theme every months and they bring somebody in that talks on that theme and it's a great networking opportunity. Awesome, and thank you for sharing, Tim. Thank you for sharing your story of how you got into this as well. And always cool to hear Dave Jackson's name getting thrown around here.

17:38 I think yesterday maybe it was Ralph that was bringing up how much Dave helped him as well. Yeah, cool. Thank you, Tim. Appreciate you. And feel free to stay on stage and keep playing along. And then that's actually a good invite to anyone listening. You are welcome to join us like Janae, who's joined us as well up here on stage. Good to have you. I'm going to, I have a new question. I'm going to so throw out the question, but I'm going to let me just say I'll 1st, I'm going to give Ralph the question that we're currently sharing. And then I'm going to give you ahead of time the next question so you can think about this while Ralph is sharing. The episode that I'm most proud of was dot dot dot. So think about your favorite episode that you put out your podcast.

18:23 And in the meantime, Ralph, I started my podcast because. Well, I started my podcast because, and this is my daily financially confident Christian show. I started because so many people live in this cycle of financial shame because they've made bad decisions, they've had things happen in their lives. And I said, you know what, I can help people. So that's the reason I started because my whole mantra of my show is helping you break the cycle of financial shame and actually find confidence in your decisions. And I've been doing this for 30 years and I know what works. I know the battles that people have gone through because I've gone through them too. And I really felt like this was an area where I could help people. And it's been great.

19:04 Like this past week, I'll share this later, but I have a win about the amount of growth I've seen in that show now since since you posed the second question, if it's OK, I'll throw an answer out for that one too. Sure, go for it. So it's in a bit of a story. So when I was about 12 years old, my mother and dad split up when I was about 8, but when I was 12 years old, my mom had this old Honda hatchback and it was time for her to get a new car. And she went to the car dealership. And these folks at the car dealership treated my mother like she was from another planet. And I will never forget that because it made such a lasting impact. They tried to scam her. They tried to tell her that what they were saying wasn't hers. And I was like, anyway, it ended up in the finance manager's office. They had agreed to a monthly payment. Now, this is back in in the early 80s, they'd agreed to a certain payment, went into the finance manager's office, and all of a sudden that payment number jumped by $100 a month. And my mother, you could see she just got really upset. I mean, she was struggling as a single mom. She got really upset.

20:04 And she looks at me now, I'm 12 years old and says she called me Ralphie. So there's a little secret about what people have called me Ralphie. She said, Ralphie, what am I supposed to do here? And here I'm 12 years old. And I looked across the desk and I said to the finance manager, I said, don't disrespect my mother. And then he says. IE down little boy, this isn't for you. O my my best eisode I've ever done was I shared that experience and I showed people how to beat the car dealer at their own game. It has been my most downloaded eisode because I've bought a few cars in my day and I know how to play that game. But it impacted me because of the way that they try to take advantage of my mother. So and that's one of the most episodes I'm most proud of because I saw how she was taken advantage of it.

20:48 And that's what I do on my show. I want to be the guy that doesn't criticize you, that doesn't say, well, you should have done this and you should have done that. No, I want to come across, put my arm around you and tell you, hey, it's going to be OK. I've made those same decisions. So thank you for letting me share that story. It's it's one of those stories you remember as a kid that you know, I'm never going to let another person get taken advantage of like that. Oh, and to finish the story, she ended up getting the car for what they told her she was going to get it for. And I ended up getting my Burger King afterwards because that's the only reason I went to the car dealership in the first place. So. Anyway, now you know, and don't call me Ralphie unless your mom or dad or somebody like that. Darn it, I was ready to just start calling you Ralphie.

21:32 Maybe can I call you Ralphie on the days that you're wearing your cowboy hat every Thursday? We'll think about. That he doesn't like that. OK, that's fair. And I think they call those core memories that as far as what you're sharing right now, it's that's definitely sounds like a core memory locked in for sure. Very cool story. And very cool to hear that that such a core memory ended up being a one of your most popular, if not, you may have said the most popularly downloaded episode of your podcast. Very cool. Thank you for sharing that. Ralph, thank you. Thank you, Mark. Appreciate that. OK, so that next question that I just threw out there, the episode I'm most proud of was now come on, there's no way that you guys are have no episodes that you're proud of.

22:19 OK, thank you. OK. And there now everybody's raising their hand. I'm going to go to Sid. We haven't talked to Sid yet this morning. Go for it, Sid. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. And Mark, it's in the defense of the crew on stage, your pattern this morning had been asking the question and then directly calling on someone. So we were all just waiting. Got it. Got it. OK, fair. So I have two that fit in this category. I've talked about them both before. One of them is episode number 76, Mind you, Monday, we'll launch episode #180 And it's with the young man who I met. And it's the transition of the family business. And when I met him, he wanted to have his dad on the show to talk about being a Cuban immigrant and starting a business and blah blah blah.

23:06 We did a pre interview and before we could actually record the actual session, his father died. And so we did an episode honoring. The first part of that episode was honoring his dad's legacy and what he built and why he built it and how the business was being transitioned to him. Though it was in the works to transition to my guest, but unexpectedly you had to take over a lot faster. And so we talked about that and some of those challenges. It was really one of the most powerful episodes to be able to honor someone's life and the legacy that they left in in our industry. The other one is episode #90 I'm looking for it real quick, 97, I think I was right, 97. And it's called a little table company with a big mission. And I met Brandon Rayburn, who's my guest at an event, and he started to share his story how one day his wife said get sober and get clean or get out.

24:09 And so he checked himself into a rehab facility because he had a drug and alcohol problem and he's coming out of the rehab facility. You know, a year or so later, he needed a job and this little table company offered him a job in their factory because the this company does that. They reach out to people that have been incarcerated, people that are having drug and alcohol issues. They have a factory overseas in a country that really could use the economic boost of having a factory in Europe. And they hired him. And that was, I forget 15 years ago. Today he is the president of that company. And the journey of being basically kicked out of your house, being hired to work in the factory and then 1015 years later you're the president of the of the company. It just shows you what's possible if you really focus on you and your recovery and your commitment to your family. And it just, it's one of the most powerful episodes I've ever done.

25:08 So those are my two favorite. I have a lot of favorites, but those two stick out when you ask the question mark. I was like, I can't choose between these two because they're both so good. That's really cool that that second story episode 97 with Brandon, it reminds I just saw this. I don't know TikTok or reel or what whatever it was about a woman. It was a news story about a woman who for, like, maybe around the same amount of time, something like 10 years, was a janitor at a hospital. And the video they were sharing was a viral video of this woman who was opening up an envelope revealing that she just got accepted to become an anesthesiologist at the same hospital.

25:54 So she had gone through medical school after being a janitor, and she had just gotten the acceptance that she was going to actually now be working there as a doctor. I thought that it was really cool. So those kinds of stories I could imagine or would be a favorite of mine too, if I had an episode like that. And yeah, I'm sure I can see an audience gravitate to something like that too. Very cool stories. I know. So that one that was this most recent one was episode 97. The first one was what episode? 76 I believe. OK, I'm going to. I'm going to scroll real quick and look and see 70. That's with. Yeah, 76 Evan Evan Lagarillo, the transition of a family business. And you know, what's really cool about that story is his grandfather was on the last plane and his grandfather and his dad, which was a little boy, like 6 or 8 years old, were on the last plane to leave Cuba before Castro shut down the country. And it just like what they did when they landed in Miami with the businesses they started, how they got to North Carolina and those kinds of things.

26:56 So it's a, it's a very powerful story. And literally, it's a story of the American Dream. Yeah, it sounds like it. And again, I know we have talked about, it's been a long time since we have, but we've talked about that episode and it's just so powerful. Just thinking about how the expectation was you were going to sit down with this man and interview him and do more or less a typical kind of episode, but then, you know, unfortunately he passes. But then to be able to honor him, still learn about him and his legacy through his son, it's there's just nothing like that. It's such a special type of opportunity to be able to do something like that. So thank you for sharing that Sid and. So here's the thing, Mark, about that, is that that that recording is there, right? And Evan, who's now a good friend and a client, his children, we'll be able to listen to that episode and they'll be able to hear the story, to hear their dad tell the story of their grandfather and not missing anything. So that mean that just goes to show you the power of podcasting, the power of Evergreen material that just it's there and that story can be told over and over and over again.

28:03 Love that. Yeah. Thank you, Sid. OK. Would anyone else? I know we saw several people. All right, I'll just look at who raised their hand. Let's go to Janaid, who's joined us on stage. Good morning, Janaid. Yeah. Please tell us what was your favorite episode that you've done? Good morning, everyone. Mark after Sid, I don't know if anyone want to follow after that. And I was like, OK, I can't remember anything that would be so good, but something that I remember that's that was a dream of mine of to be able to do was to be able to interview our our good friend Pat Flynn. So I got to interview him as well as his mentor, Cliff Ravenscraft on the podcast and learn so much about their journey from, you know, a one-on-one perspective.

28:55 So those are some of my memorable episodes on the podcast. There was another one which again, remembering a really dear person in our community, in the LinkedIn community that we've grown up with. I interviewed him twice on my podcast and then later discovered that he passed away due to cancer. So I did another episode just to remember him because he was such a powerful person in the community, encouraging everybody to, you know, create content, do videos and whatnot. And that was that was when that was a memorable 1 to do.

29:35 Yeah. So Janae, the Pat Flynn episode. I mean, I, I know why. I have some ideas why it was your favorite, being that we're both huge fans of Pat's and I know you've gotten to know Pat even on a more personal level, but it was there anything specific other than that? And it's OK if that's your answer, but it was there anything specific about that episode that made it your favorite? The one thing that made this even the most highlight was it was a round circle moment because I discovered about Pat Flynn reading Gary Vaynerchuk's book and he was promoting his book Lean Learning where I was mentioned in his book. So kind of like a round circle moment. Like I could see the growth in myself and the impact that I was able to make in that community and be be able to be mentioned in his new book.

30:31 So that was what made it so remarkable, like wow, you, you discover about somebody and then you you put so much time in growing that you are then being noticed by them. So that was what was powerful about that. Episode very cool. That is so cool. And that is episode 725, and you can go to hacksandhobbies.com to get that, and we'll put a link in the show notes as we will SIDS episodes. So yeah, we'll do that. And then, all right, I'm going to do one more. Let's go to Is Alex still here? Yeah, Alex is here. Alex, did you want to share your favorite episode?

31:13 Sure. I guess my two favorite episodes, one with Lucy is I forget what number it is, it's like 6 or 7. And the reason why it, there's nothing really special about the episode and it kind of goes to the reason why we did the podcast. You know, she came to me wanting to podcast. We had to figure out a topic and what it just really clicked. I mean, that's the one that we we submitted for the Communicator award. We won. And it's not because we won the communicator award on it. It's because it just flows really well And and it was it's just a fun episode. She loves the book.

31:53 And I think that's the that was the nice thing about it. What? Was the book again. It was called Act AACT and the writer just talks about school problems and what to do. It was a fun episode and it it really was more about her comfortability on the mic. And we should also remind people who may not know anyway, we should tell people. And how old was Lucy at the time you did this? She was 8, so, yeah. So I mean, she was 8 or 9 and it it was just like I said, you know, trying to get comfortable on the mic is one thing, but I've said this all along, you know, podcasting is really an easy thing for kids. And it's not for the reasons you may think. I mean, they already understand the outline because of YouTube and because of all the social media that they see. And it just works really well.

32:56 So on the other one that I did what is from we our first celebrity interview and the only reason it was it it it's my favorite is it was our first and we I contacted her on Facebook. She answered and you know, I was talking to Dr. yesterday and it's funny because she had a problem with the time. You know, she she always messes up the time because she's in Tennessee. We had the same problem with this actress because she's in Nova Scotia and they're an hour ahead. So she's like emailing us, where are you guys? And we're an hour behind because we're like, we didn't even realize that there was a time change. But the interview itself was great. It was just fun to do something like that because after we recorded, like, Oh my God, we actually did that kind of thing. That's why it's my favorite.

33:42 It's not because of anything like what Sid had or what Janae had. You know, it wasn't this awesome moment or whatever. No, it was just because it was our first. Yeah. So. Cool. Thank you, Alex. And yeah, that episode, the first one was episode 10. I found it on your your website and I'm sharing it here and in the show notes as well if anybody's interested. Cool, I haven't heard that little hello voice come on lately from Lucy. Yeah, well, you know, we, we, you guys have polished it up, so I didn't want to interrupt. No, we anytime we're it's always nice to hear Lucy's voice in the morning especially. Yeah, OK, cool. Sid, I saw when Alex was sharing you wanted you raised your hand. Did you want to add in anything? Oh, you remembered me. Thank you, I did.

34:24 So I actually have a question for you in Dr. OK. So as producers on the show, what are what's a favorite episode of your favorite episode that you've produced? So in specific, well, I guess specific to podcasting, morning chat. No, you, you're a producer. You produce multiple shows, right? Yeah. They're like, what's your favorite episode that you've ever produced that you walked away from going? Wow, that was really good. I've got one. Yeah. You go ahead, Dr. OK, so I had a client that was a a pediatric, a retired pediatrician who also has a seat on the board of the American Pediatrics Association. And she just loved her show.

35:11 She has since sundown because she had to do, you know, a care person for her husband. But one of the shows that we did was all about palliative care, and that is when you're caring for someone who you know is dying. And she's a pediatrician. So it was about children who are dying who are in this palliative care stage. And it was such a heavy, heavy show, I bet to to edit that I for the first time, and only time, as far as I know so far, I just had to get up from my desk and, and get out of the house.

35:59 I had to get out. So I went, I went to Target and in our Target, they have a Starbucks. And so I went into Starbucks, and I was sitting down at a table, and I was just kind of decompressing, you know, everything that I had heard and this emotional ride that the episode takes you on. And this woman gestured towards the seat next to me. Is this taken? I said, oh, no, go ahead, go ahead. And I looked over to her at it after a time, and it looked like she was, like, in the same state that I was. And I said, tough day. She goes, oh, man, tough day. You wouldn't believe it. She and I got into a conversation and it turns out that her husband's son, who was 13, was in palliative care at that moment.

36:54 Now, I had never even heard of the word until this episode. Wow. She had never even heard, yeah, heard of it until her stepson, I guess you could call him, was in that stage. And both of us just sat there. We held hands, we cried. And it was just so amazing. And I came back with, you know, to the house, to the editing Bay and with kind of a renewed, OK, I can do this, I can do this. And yeah, it was, it was just an amazing because the interview was with the parents and it was just a really an amazing episode. I love when there's a story behind the story, right like this one.

37:48 The story itself could be compelling enough to be a favorite episode as as the producer, but then to have that moment outside of the show that reconnects you with that episode in such short period of time, like happening right around the same time. You know that that's in my opinion, not a coincidence. That is there is something working at a higher force working that's making something like that happen, putting that together. Fascinating. And maybe it was just the fact that you were that episode came to you so you would learn about it and then be in the right moment with that person at the right time to be there to console and to support another fellow human being. We both.

38:30 Acknowledged. We both acknowledged, you know, this isn't this someone else is working this for us as to why we even met this, This was not just coincidence. Someone there's something working for us. Yeah. So cool, thank you for sharing that Dr. Mine look it it. Some of you may say that it's a cop out, but because I often reference one of my favorite episodes, but it is true. It's it's an episode with Heather parody. And I believe that is episode. Well, I have it right here. It is episode 79, I believe. Of course, now I've just totally forgotten. But yeah, 79 and it was an audio and a video episode.

39:11 And I was particularly happy with the video episode because, look, we don't do a lot of heavily produced episodes. And I'm not maybe heavily produced isn't the best word to use. But usually when we put the videos out, we're not doing a whole lot of production on them. A lot of times it's just our live video that we just let just speak for itself. But this one we put in time with one of my editors, David, to really make this thing special because the content was so good. I really wanted to make sure that the production value was just as good. And I think we executed that really well just with, you know, proper use of things like B roll and lower thirds.

39:53 And it just felt really like an interview to me. It felt like what you would see more like you would see on TV, for example. So I'm really proud of that one. The titles going viral means nothing with Heather parody. And again, and if you want to check it out, podcasting morning chat.com/seven 9 for the episode number. So that is mine. Thank you said great question for sure. I appreciate you putting us on the spot. It's time for wins from the week. So this is where every Friday we all take a moment and pause and stop and smell the roses.

40:34 Recognize what's gone on over the past week that deserves a moment to celebrate and share with the community. Interesting. I'm going to have to call Alex out after. Right when I announced wins from the week, Alex disappeared. So I'm going to have to find out where he went and if that was a cop out or not. All right, so let's do this. Tim was raising his hand. So we're going to start with you, Tim. Please share a win from your week. Well, Ralph is really going to like this one. So April is Financial Literacy Month and we kicked off with a webinar on Medicare, talking about Medicare for federal employees. And we had about 500 people register, 200 people showed up. And as I'm talking to you right now, I'm sitting here at my desk, I'm getting emails left and right, people saying thank you so much for doing this.

41:39 So, and This is why I do the job that I do for the federal government is to turn on that light bulb. And you know, I translate that into my podcasting practice. So turning on light bulbs for people is what I do. So that's my win for the week. Thank you for sharing that, Tim. And that actually leads to there's, it's a tie in to one of my wins, which is, well, first I want to say I, I feel you. I feel that when you get those, those emails with positive feedback, people thanking you for doing what you do, I, I feel that wholeheartedly. And you did that for me just last night after the EPC community call, you reached out and really shared some kind words about how proud you are of this community and, and what we're doing with the community.

42:26 You said a lot of nice stuff and I'm not going to sit here and share it all with everyone, but thank you because that that was a huge win from my week. Getting that kind of feedback really fuels me and keeps me going. So thank you for that. Glad to do it, Sir. Thank you. Yep, you're welcome. All right, I'm going to keep it going and I'm let's go with our friends from the audience that have joined us on stage. So Nikki, do you have a moment to share a win from your week with us? Yes, I'm trying to think of a win from the week my affiliate link for kind of the first thing that comes to mind. I had posted it in a few places and made a made, you know, made a little Commission on that. I thought that was really cool. And then as far as my wins of the week, I did have a person tell me that they cried listening to one of the episodes because the guest of the and their story, similar to what you guys were saying, resonated with them so much. And it just feels really good to feel like I'm really moving forward.

43:23 I also did meet a lady at the school. Where I work, we had a career day and I walked up to her. She was an employee of the SPCA and I spoke to her and I said, hey, well, I have a podcast I'd love to kind of promote. What you guys are doing? And she, her eyes lit up. She seemed really excited about it. I sent her an e-mail yesterday. But there may be a potential collaboration there or maybe I could just support what they do because I do love animals. And so yeah, it was the, the podcasting thing really has pulled me into a lot of different directions and helped me to achieve a lot of goals and just grow as a person. So I would definitely count that as a win. Thank you for sharing both of those wins, Nikki. I appreciate it.

44:05 And I, I appreciate it because especially how you wrapped that up, right? Just the way that our podcasts surprise us. And I think it's, This is why we share things like this with the community, because sometimes I'll even question like, you know, why is the general audience going to care about us sharing our wins? And my answer is always yes. I, when I come back to it, yes, because this is showing people what's possible. This is these, these crazy things that happened that we've shared today, Dr. stuff and what tide is sharing here with us. You never know what to expect from your podcast. And there's so many wonderful things that come from it, wonderful surprises that come from it.

44:48 So I'm, I hope that these kinds of shares inspire people, empower people to keep going, especially if they're in a maybe a season right now where they're feeling a little low about their podcast. There is always something magical around the corner with our podcast. That's in my experience anyway, that's the case. So thank you for sharing that. Nikki Janade coming to you, please share a win with us. I have launched prmbook.com and I am looking for people to jump in and to do a review so they can get a free copy. So that's what I'm working on this month. And then the full launch on Apple Podcasts are always in your mouth on Amazon will be next month. So then, you know, I want to get to 150 reviews before I launch it on KDP or Amazon Kindle platform. Right now it's available as a paperback book. So that is something that I'm working on. So if anyone's interested to get a free copy of PRM book, reach out to me.

45:52 I can share a link here or Yeah, yeah. And we're sharing it right here, live right now. It's can you tell? Us what it's about a little bit because I didn't get anything from the title is just initials. Yeah, well, the the actual book is podcast Relationship Management is the full title. But go ahead, go ahead, Janae. Thank you. Yeah. So the book is about building these connections. I mean, what we've been hearing right now did building that relationship with the gentleman and his his dad who passed away, you know, Dr. making that connection because of podcasting. How are you building these relationships when you're bringing guests on your show?

46:32 Because a lot of us think about, Oh my God, the episode is done. That's the product. But if you really think about it, it's the relationship that we get to build with podcasting. So that's some of the things that I boil down in inside of it. And how do you manage that relationship, right? We have contacts, we have calendars, we have so many different places, emails. And it's, it's really interesting. Like how do you keep that relationship alive? And I've been so fortunate enough to be in a podcasting morning chat room. I'm building relationships on an ongoing basis, right? So there's so many different ways. So that's what the book talks about. It goes deeper into it.

47:14 And what are some of the things that we should be looking at when building this relationships? I can share the link in here. Thank you so much. Yeah, prmbook.com. Check out Janae's book and get a free copy if you're willing to leave him a review. That's awesome. Yeah, Thank you, Janae. And I know, is pod glue coming around the corner too. Yes, Pod Glue is launching next week. I've got some final plumbing to make sure that it's it's end to end working that is coming out next week and I'll be sending out emails to the 46 people that are on the wait list. So super excited for that as well. Thank you. You're welcome.

47:55 Congratulations on that. That is a podcast management system for lack of a better word or term and more to come on that when it launches. I'm sure we will. We, I know we will give Janae another opportunity to share about that. Congratulations on your wins, Janae. And now I'm going to go down the line and let's try to do this rapid fire team. So let's start with Jonathan. Jonathan, please share a win from your week and pass it all. Right, so if God needs a moment, which is something I said on Monday's episode, and apparently it caught on and I appreciate when. When something I say is something I say makes an impact.

48:36 Because we got to somebody actually create a real that with that little. With that little comment from Monday. So I'm going to count that as the win. I think that's a great win. Yeah. That's really. I was really excited for you. And and that what a powerful moment to have like something that you say quoted and then somebody going as far as making multiple social media pieces about that term that you coined for. Yeah, I will say you coined it. But yeah, thank you, Jonathan, I missed. It what was what did he coin I? Jonathan, will you say it again because he did kind of cut out a little bit every. Episode needs a moment, which was just one of the takeaways from Obsession Worthy podcasts. Yep, Yep. So and Jonathan was talking about the fact that really, if you're trying to design A podcast that's obsession worthy, you got to make sure that every episode has at least a moment in there to really hook that listener and get them to want more.

49:30 Yeah. Thank you. Jonathan. Sid coming to you. Thank you, Mark. So I have two wins. So yesterday I was not yesterday Dave Forrest, I was catching up with a friend also somebody that I is a fellow podcaster, somebody that I had on my show a couple of times. We're just, we have an occasional like every other month to catch up, just to chat about things. And of that conversation, I got a new coaching client because he was not the intent of the call, but he asked me to coach one of his young sales people. So pretty excited about that. It's always fun when an accidental client comes your way. And then I got, I looked at my analytics for the month of March and our listens were up 49% / 2025 in the month of March. And then because it's the end of the quarter, I looked at the quarter over quarter, so from 2025 in the first quarter to 2026 in the first quarter and our listens are up 65.39%. So some of the things we're doing are working. And yeah, we went from in the first quarter of 2025, we had 857 total downloads.

50:38 This is all shows my back catalog is getting listens like crazy. And this this quarter we have 20, four 2476 downloads in the quarter. So super proud of how this show is growing and the recognition that it's getting. And so it's fun to track those numbers. Thank you for sharing that, Sid. I'm, I'm proud of you as well. And I'm also grateful that you're willing to share those inside numbers with everybody like that, because I know sometimes some people aren't comfortable. And it's really exciting to see how your show's growing and all the effort you put into it ahead of time. And now to get that pay off, it's really exciting. We we celebrate this win with you, Sir. Well, thank you, Sir.

51:21 Mark, I have a cue for you. If you got your little soundboard ready, could you cue the timpani? Because I think that might help Dr. with her win. You cue the timpani. We're so bad. You're so such a bad, bad boy. OK, I do have one. So my sister is thinking about doing a podcast. And you know what? I know from past experience that I don't think I work well with family members or or opinionated family members. Before I even got my very first client, my nephew, I was talking to my nephew about doing a podcast. He's like this master gardener or something. And he no, no, we're going to stick with the name. No, we're going to stick with the artwork. No, we're going to.

52:15 I'm like, you know what? Maybe producing is not for me because he is like squashing everything I say. So I decided I'll never work with family again. Ever But then my sister said, you know, I'm kind of thinking about doing something for widows and widowers and, you know, going on to the next chapter of your life. And I said, you know what, I will be happy to be like a consultant, but I'm not going to work with you as producing it. So I'm happy that I know that about myself and that, you know, I can move. On Yeah, You know what? I really appreciate that win. Thank you.

52:56 Yeah. It's basically you're celebrating the fact that you recognized your boundaries and you stuck to it. Yes. Yeah, that that. And that can be really challenging for some people. So yeah, kudos to you, Dr. Yeah. And my wins. I shared one already that came from Tim and I also celebrate a successful empowered podcasting call yesterday. I think that we received several inquiries after we shared about the Creator Partnership program, several people saying they want to take advantage of that. So that is absolutely a win. And just getting together with the community itself, that's a win in itself.

53:39 And of course, yesterday's Vanderbilt University talk that I did with that class of digital marketing students, I, I love connecting with people and connecting with people in those specific ways. So I am absolutely celebrating that this week and proud of myself for doing all of that with a migraine yesterday on top of it all. So that that is huge for me because I, it's hard for me to even operate, even talk when I'm getting a migraine. So yeah, I'll, I'll take that extra win as well. All right, listen, we are back on. Monday. Oh, Ralph. I'm so sorry, Ralph. I'm so sorry, Ralph. Totally forgot You totally forgot.

54:19 You go for it, my friend. No, totally good. So two big wins win #1 my Daily Show. I hit 8000 downloads last month, which is my second best month ever, so I'm very happy about that. Second win is I mentioned on this show that I'm now doing free monetization audits of your content. Had a couple people reach out to me and I just want to plug that one more time. We revamped we, we had put together a Google request form. It was 6 pages long. I got a little feedback that says that's a lot. So we've narrowed it down to one page. You can get to it by going to contentcreatorsaccountant.com/audit. And what I'm offering there is a free audit of your content to help you find ways to find money to help you support your content. Again, Content creatorsaccountant.com/audit. No, no, no strings attached.

55:12 Just I want to reach out. I want to give back and help anybody who's interested in doing that. So Mark, thank you for letting me share those two. Didn't mean to cut you off there, but I didn't want to. The wrong thing and. I'll throw one more thing out there. Yeah, I want to mention this today. If you want to support the Podcasting morning chat, you can do that. You can buy us a virtual coffee. You can make a donation by going to podcastingmorningchat.com/support. We'll put that in the show notes. But I just want to end the week out with, and we really want to build community here, but it would be great if people could support the show as well by going to podcastingmorningchat.com/support. Thank you, Mark. Yeah, the only currently the only direct way you can support this show financially right now. So if this show has done you any good, if you're interested in supporting us to keep us going, that would be a wonderful way to do that.

56:02 So, yeah, thank you for mentioning that. And congratulations to you, Ralph, on the big month your show has had and yeah, and on this new offer that you're putting out there as well. And kudos to you for hearing the feedback and actually taking action on the feedback. I noticed that too. I felt like, oh, that's a lot of pages. So thank you for for consoling this ADHD brain and making it a little easier for those of us who might have been intimidated by that. OK, so we are back. Speaking of Ralph, we are back Monday with Ralph leading us on a discussion for Money Mondays. You heard all about that. So I won't go into that again right now. But also come back on Monday to learn how you can win his Rd. Caster Duo, which is only a few months old really, so you're practically getting a new device out of it. You'll find all the details on Monday, so come join us then. And until then, make it a great weekend. Everybody take care.