E632 - Does Your Podcast Impact Others or Are You Just Hoping For A Download Number

Hey welcome back to the How to Podcast series. It's Dave with you. I hope you're doing well.

You want to talk about the fact that us podcasters have this unique thing, us podcasters, I guess that's

a term. We get to feature other people, other podcasts and celebrate those in the podcasting

space that we admire. We appreciate we love. And there's this thing we build over time as a

podcaster. We build this community. We build a platform. And from this platform, we can either

choose to elevate our own voice, which is fine. If you have a business and you're trying to grow

your business, then podcasting would be great for you. There's other people who come to podcasting

because they want to elevate other people's voices. They want to give and share the spotlight

with other people. For my living the next chapter podcast, it's an author podcast and the whole

idea of that show is I want to feature my guest. It's not about me. I'm not an author and I'm the

host of the show. I want to create a platform where I can bring amazing people on, give them a great

experience as a guest, encourage them to keep writing and celebrate the win of them publishing

their very first book or their 60th book. And that podcast I find to be such a great

fun experiment of shining the light on someone else other than myself. Yes, it's my show. Yes,

I do all the work. Yes, I build the community. Yes, I invest my time, my money into creating the

content. But every episode is about my guest. It's not about me. And that's my intent for that show.

It's shine the light on great authors. If you love reading, if you want to meet great authors,

living the next chapter calm, shameless, plug. Now complete. Let's talk about this show

in the fact that I get to leverage this platform that I've been building for years now

just celebrated four years on YouTube apparently. Thank you, YouTube. And if you haven't subscribed

and followed the show on YouTube, come on. Come on. Don't make me come to your house and do it for you.

Please go there, grab your phone, subscribe to the how to podcast series on YouTube. Let's grow

this thing. Come on, people. Yeah, so I get to take this platform and shine the light on other

podcasters that I admire. And I'm going to continue doing that. And recently I heard back from

my podcast friend, Ally, uh, fellow, uh, co-conspirator in podcasting. We might say Dimitriya Zingha

from Soul Podcasting. You're like, Dave, you keep talking about Dimitria. I'm like, why would I

stop? She is amazing. And she's got a great heart for podcasters. And to all of the male podcasters

that they're, can I have your attention for a second? You know, all you gurus been around here

since day one of podcasting. Can I just, can I just have a moment with you? I hear guys talking a

lot about how men created podcasting. Men were the first to embrace the nerdy side of podcasting.

Men were the first to, to create shows. And women came later, like they just showed up later

after we built all this stuff. That sounds quite arrogant. That sounds quite untrue because I know

that Dimitriya Zingha has been around forever in podcasting. And I don't think it's just men

who built this amazing thing called podcasting. I think women were just as equally involved

giving and building and growing this medium, this beautiful thing called podcasting. And Dimitriya

is in the fine example as a human being, as a creator of someone who has been here from the

beginning of podcasting, serving an audience, building, growing, creating new content, building

communities around her podcast, whether it is homeschooling or podcasting or on and on and on.

This person just keeps showing up. And I love following her journey. I love following her as a

listener of her show. I might not be her ideal audience member, but you could not keep me away

from her because I just love following her journey. And it's great. So she was very kind in a

recent episode and mentioned this very show. And I'm like, my heart got all warm and fuzzy,

like it does at times. And I'm like, I just wanted to share with you, I'm working with Dimitriya

on having an entire episode of her show here featured on the How to Podcast series because

I want you to experience that there's more than just Dave when it comes to podcasting. There's

a lot of great podcasts about podcasting. And Dimitriya is like at the top of the list for me,

as a listener, as a fellow creator of podcasts. And you would say, she's my competition.

You would say that. I know you would say that. You might say that. I don't see her as competition.

I see her as inspiration for me and that we get to share our audiences. We get to build something

together. Yet separately, yet together, it's beautiful. And that's what podcasting is meant to be.

So I'm encouraging you to take my idea, this what I'm doing right now and do this on an upcoming

episode of your show, divert from your typical conversation, divert from your typical interviews,

divert from your typical scheduled interview, content, solo episode. And I want you to do this.

I want you to go out and highlight a creator that you admire. You might know them. They might not

know you. It doesn't matter. You're going to shine the light of your audience and your show

away from yourself for an episode. And you're going to feature someone else that you look up to

in the podcasting space. It might be, as you're going to say, it might be your competition. It might be

another show, just like yours. Dimitriya talks about podcasting. I talk about podcasting. Am I nervous

that I'm going to lose you to Dimitriya? I think that's a graduation to move from me to Dimitriya.

So I'm not worried in the slightest. Because if you fall in love with her and you leave me to go

to her show, then we've both served you well. Then I want you to do this for your show. Find somebody

that you admire and celebrate them. Bring in a clip of their show. Reach out to them and let them

know you're doing this. And feature someone that you that inspires you. Feature someone who

feeds your soul. And is someone that you look up to in the podcasting space. And let your audience

know who inspires you. Who lights you up? Right. I think we're so careful to not share our audience

with anybody because there's a there's a fear that we're going to lose listeners. I think that

podcasting grows and expands, multiplies by bringing more people into podcasting, sharing more

voices other than our own and leveraging this beautiful platform that we've created over time.

We built relationships with our listeners. I know that there are people listening to this right now

who are the kindest, most wonderful people in the world who will immediately go to Dimitriya's

podcast and listen. I know that for a fact because I've talked to you on my screen, one on one,

I've had conversations through DMs, through speak pipes. You've sponsored the show through my

buy me a coffee. You've shown up for me. And I know that the moment I ask you to do something like

go support Dimitriya Zingha at Soul Podcasting, you're going to do it without a hesitation. Because

the value that we've created together over this period of time, you and I, has significant

payoff when we can take that community aspect of what we do here and shine a light on someone

else who does great things. So I'm asking you, a favor to me and a favor to the show, a favor to

all of the things we've built together here on the How to Podcast series is to go and support

Dimitriya Zingha, the links in the show notes and go and listen to her show, follow the show.

Okay, that's a little follow button. You'll see on your phone, follow the show. And at the end of

the episode, you're going to leave a rating review for her show. You're going to send her a message.

If you're on Spotify as a listener like I am, you're going to jump into the comments for an episode

of her show and leave her a comment and tell her how much you love her, her show, her heart for

podcasters, whatever it is. And to all the women who listens to the show, I love you being here

and I love serving you. But I know that Dimitriya's heart is for the women in podcasting. Her heart is

for you. And I encourage you to either add her to your listening or replace me with listening to

her show because she is just that kind of person. And you will be in the best of hands with her.

I would not want to see anyone leave this show as a listener. That sounds like

counter to any type of growth hack. You'll ever hear it. Anybody say, please leave my show.

But if you find that Dimitriya, if you only have time for one podcast to listen to,

then you have to decide between mine and hers. Please listen to Dimitriya's. Just just go ahead.

I'll always be here. You can always come back and catch up anytime. But please go listen to her show.

I think you're going to find somebody who has a heart for you and can speak to your life

and into your world better than I ever could. So without any more of that, I'm just going to say,

thank you for listening to the show. Here is Dimitriya shouting this podcast out in the only

the way that she can. And look forward to having her back here. We're going to play an entire

episode of her show here on this podcast. So you get to hear the whole thing. And I'm excited

to do that and support someone that I find to be the heart and soul of podcasting Dimitriya Zingha.

Here's her message and her comment in her own episode about this podcast. And I'll again,

go check her out. I think you'll love her podcast. Here's Dimitriya.

So before we move on to some leaders and innovators, I want to take a moment to acknowledge

the men who podcasts and actively support women in this space. And I'm so grateful for thoughtful

podcasters such as Dave Campbell of How to Podcast. And several other shows that he hosts. His

respect for guests is beyond measure. He genuinely creates space for meaningful conversations.

And recently I was listening to his podcast and he mentioned this podcast soul podcasting

collective several times in support of my anniversary episodes celebrating the 100 episodes

in 21 years behind the mic. That kind of support, cross promoting, uplifting and encouraging

each other as podcasters is exactly what our community needs. It's a reminder that supporting

women in podcasting is an exclusive allies and advocates of any gender can make a huge difference

in helping voices be heard and celebrated. So there you go. That's Dimitriya Zingha. Soul podcasting,

links in the show notes. We love you to go check her out and let her know that we sent you there

to see her and hear her. And again, Dimitriya, thank you for your podcast. My challenge for you

this week. Coming up in the next few episodes this month, you're going to on-purpose

highlight and feature another show that inspires you. And shine a light, take your audience

and introduce them to somebody that you look up to. When I talk to authors, we talk about living

the next chapter and I talk to authors, I ask them, what other author inspires you? What do you

find inspiration from? And my guest will rattle off a whole list of names of authors who inspire them.

I'm a musician. I can list off for you bands that you've probably never heard of that have become

part of my musical fabric. They become things like seasonings to my recipe. And without these bands,

I wouldn't have the sound that I have as a musician. I wouldn't approach music the same way.

It all feeds into who we are. We all are creative people. It's okay to copy.

It's okay to take ideas from people who inspire us and make them our own. We are all doing that.

So I love being able to shine lights on other people. Their shows without fear of losing my audience.

And inspire and encourage other creators to keep going, keep doing what they're doing.

And my encouragement for you then this month, this week, next episode, as soon as possible,

pick a podcaster that inspires you. And instead of doing your normal thing for your audience,

tell your audience, hey, different episode today, I know we normally do A, B and C. But today,

we're going to do this. I'm going to share with you a podcast that inspires me. I listen to

this show. And here's the reasons why. And here's the person behind the show. And here's why you

should care. And I would love for you as a listener to go support this other podcast that I love

as a community member. I'm not only a podcaster, I'm also a listener. And this is who I find value

and I want to share a valuable podcast with you. So please create that episode. Let me know,

tag me in it, send it to me, send me a link to it. I want to hear it. And I'd love to hear who

inspires you, who gives you the inspiration to keep creating to show up in life. They encourage,

they build you up like Demetri Zingha from Soul Podcasting. Who is it for you? You know who it is

for me? I love to hear it is who it is for you. Reach out to me out of podcast. That's yeah,

Demetri Zingha. Keep going. Love what you do. Big fan. Everyone get out there and support

Demetri Zingha. Thank you. So here at the Out of Podcast series, we love to hear from you.

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You're still here. Awesome. This is the bonus bonus stuff at the end of the episode that most

people are never going to hear. And I want to just shout out somebody that's really been a great

leader in podcasting and took a break from teaching podcasting to focus on other things, but has now

returned to podcasting. Now this person has been in podcasting from day one. Like to meet you

using. We talked about earlier. His name is Cliff Ravenscraft. Cliff is a great human being.

He's passionate. He's so passionate about what he does. He shows up on the mic. He delivers. He's a

supporter of creators. He recently signed up for our meetups, which I'm like, what? So Cliff will be

coming by and saying hi in our meetups, which I'm thrilled. But Cliff has been out there serving

podcasters forever. He's great at building community, great at helping you to work through some

of the things that that you as a podcast creator struggle with. He's a great speaker at events. He's

a great contributor to all things podcasting and a great human. So I've had interactions with him

in the past and I'm happy and thrilled to know that the podcast answer man with Cliff Ravenscraft

is now back creating new episodes again. It's great to have him back. Love for you to go check

out his show as well. He's again just a wonderful human. So find the podcast that inspire you,

tell the world, don't be shy. There's a lot of space in podcasting. And even if a few people from

your show decide to go follow someone else because of your recommendation, it's not a bad thing.

It's a good thing. So don't be afraid to shout out the people that inspire you like Cliff

Ravenscraft and Dimitri Zingha, two of them original podcasters. Go do that. Go share your favorite

with your with your community. Let's make this thing bigger. All right. Take care.