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Debi Saltzberg – Just Forking Around
Debi Saltzberg, A Big Forking Fan of All Things Food
Debi’s passion for food, fun, and adventure have taken her across the country from her hometown of Boston to the sunny shores of Southern California, where she’s managed some of the area’s top restaurants, and further still to the hills of Tuscany exploring biodynamic farming.
When not serving up delicious audio snacks on Just Forking Around, Debi can be found volunteering at local farms, walking her dog down the Venice Boardwalk, and searching out the next big thing in the food and beverage industry.
Kayla Knight – That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It
Jenn and Kayla get together weekly to share their opinions and perspectives on a variety of literary and media-related topics and themes.
Scott Janz – Trust The Trail
Scott & Ariane have been guiding outdoor hiking treks for years. Follow their funny yet educational stories and experiences as they share “everything outdoors.” From backpacking the Appalachian Trail to the Pacific Crest Trail. You never know who they will meet along the way. If you embrace Mother Nature, this show is for you. Trust The Trail will inspire you to connect with the outdoors in a whole new way.
Becky Lavarn – Unspoken Words
She is outgoing but shy at first and won’t say much. She likes to observe the scene, but once you start talking to her, she is very memorable.
Shoniqua Alleyne – Beauty & Soul Podcast
Shoniqua is singer and entrepreneur with a passion for art awareness and support. With her life experiences, Shoniqua learned the power of self-love and eventually inspired other women to do the same. She uses her Beauty & Soul movement as a platform for young and aspiring creative entrepreneurs to get together and discuss the “B-Side” of life, love, and business.
Tom Drake – The MapleMoney Show
Tom Drake has been the blogger behind the award-winning MapleMoney for nearly a decade but has recently launched The MapleMoney Show in July. This new personal finance podcast helps Canadians learn how to make money, save money, invest money, and spend money in ways that help create lasting financial freedom.
Michael and Natalie Peachey – The Family Travel Podcast
Michael and Natalie, and their three children sold the bulk of their possessions, vacated their house, and set out to live life traveling full-time.
They had many questions about this new lifestyle.
“I wish there was a podcast about this”
“Why don’t we make our own?”
This conversation led to The Family Travel Podcast. Now, they’re still traveling full-time around Australia, and from their caravan/travel trailer interview other families, as well as subject matter experts on travel.
Their goal – to help show other families that traveling for a week, indefinitely, or anywhere in between is not just possible, it’s easier than you’d think. They want to help families get the most out of their time together.
Adam Silverstein – Marriage & Martinis
Danielle and Adam have been married for 16 years and are just beginning to figure it all out. They hope that this podcast will present a real, raw, and authentic relationship and show everyone that we all deal with the same issues. Also, they hope that everyone will see that it’s ok to laugh at it all and to admit that sometimes we really would like to murder one another.
Sabra Robinson – Black Women Widows Empowered – All things empowerment and beyond
Sabra is the founder of Black Women Widows Empowered, a safe, online and in-person group for women of color who can identify with the unique circumstances and challenges faced in a world of bigotry and intolerance while being black and widowed. She is the host of All Things Empowerment & author of Widowed, But Not Wounded: The Hustle & Flow of 13 Resilient Black Widowed Women. A Baltimore native, she currently resides in Charlotte with her children.
Liz Carlile – Motherhood Unstressed
Liz is a blogger and certified health coach turned podcast host. She’s helped hundreds of women all over the world stop living half-lives and through the show helps them realize the power they already have to create a truly beautiful life. In the next few months, Liz will release her line of CBD supplements to further help individuals seeking to let go of stress and anxiety and live life to the fullest.
Sharmane Johnson – Militantly Mixed
Sharmane Johnson is your average Black, Japanese, Caucasian-British, Scots-Irish, Scandanavian, Bisexual, Polyamorous, Atheist, American woman. She is the owner of ManeHustle Media, a podcast network for POC created content and the host of Militantly Mixed and Militantly Mixed: The Black AF Edition. Her interests include science fiction, comic books, Xbox, knitting, and she is also MOTHER OF CATS (5 cats named for Star Wars EU dark side of course).
Loni Swain – The Loni Swain Show
A New Orleans native and media veteran, Loni Swain, has been talking since before she could walk! She has interviewed everyone from Nicki Minaj to President Obama. Loni is passionate about travel, food, off-the-beaten-path adventures, self-care, genuine connections, açaí bowls, onesies, and is a self-proclaimed music aficionado.
Joshua Barbour – How tho
Josh is a new podcaster. After hearing so many incredible shows, he started a network of podcasts and podcasters. A creative by trade, podcasting is just the next step for him.
Jayson Harrigan – Sin Filtro Show
A very creative person, aspiring to be a stand-up comedian. Overall friendly guy.
Martin Moller – Anxiety Free Life Podcast
Martin Moller suffered from anxiety from the time he was a kid until young adulthood. Now his mission is to help others live an Anxiety-Free Life. He is the author of the upcoming book “Escape from Anxiety” and host and producer of The Anxiety-Free Life Podcast and the Calming, Relaxing Music Podcast.
Frank De Graeve – Kurkentracker
A former journalist and experienced communications specialist who has become a wine enthusiast in the last ten years or so, member of the wine guild Commanderij Osiris and now a podcaster.
Emily Akins – The Beginning of Your Life Book Club
Emily is an editorial director at Hallmark and is the 2018 recipient of Hallmark’s prestigious Barbara Marshall Award granting her a six-month sabbatical to pursue a personal project. She is exploring children’s literature and creating a podcast about the magic of picture books.
Shruti Khaitan – Mind The Gap by Freshchat
Shruti is a Product Marketer at Freshworks. She has experience in lead generation, product messaging, and field marketing. Shruti and her team at Freshworks started Mind The Gap to start conversations with experts and hustlers on growth, marketing, and customer experience.
Amira Valliani – Backyard Media
Amira’s the founder of Backyard Media, a startup that strives to make it easy for every podcast to monetize. Right now, they’re matching over 50 podcasts and brands like Warby Parker and Everlane. They’re growing and set out to find creative ways to put money into the hands of podcast creators with large and small audiences alike.
Jen McLellan – Plus Mommy Podcast
Jen McLellan is a published author and founder of Plus Size Birth and the Plus Mommy Podcast. She helps people navigate the world of plus size pregnancy, shares tips for embracing your body and laughs her way through the adventures of parenthood. Jen has grown a community of over 177,000 via the Plus Mommy Facebook page. Significant publications featured her work such as Yahoo Shine, Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, and International Doula. Jen is a certified childbirth educator, professional speaker, wife, and mother to a charismatic 7-year-old.
Travis Macklem – The Better Savage Podcast
The Better Savage created his podcast with the hopes of inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs and content creators. His ultimate goal has always been to get people to see a different path than the one laid out by schools or parents who are stuck in an old way of thinking. Through guests and personal stories, The Better Savage aims to keep innovation alive and well for generations to come.
Ivan Theriault – The Awesome Hour
THE AWESOME HOUR is
Voted #1 in Vue weekly Magazine, Winners Of Metro News Community Choice Award, Winners of the Monkeys Fighting Robots Peoples Choice Award in The Amateur Podcast Awards & Nominated 8th in the world in The Podcast Awards against Adam Corolla, Artie Lange & Dan Savage in the mature category
The Awesome Hour is a SOCAN licensed podcast on all things awesome from pop culture to strange news to lousy life choices with a music bed of tasty tunes. From top40 to heavy metal and everything in between.
Aleysha Proctor – Inspiration for Life
Aleysha Proctor is an author of 5 faith-based, non-fiction books, a blogger and speaker. She’s hosted her radio show for four years and is now moving over to podcasting. Aleysha has spoken at business, authors and faith-based conferences and events throughout the country for over a decade, and featured on a billboard in Times Square, New York City.
She resides in the Washington, DC area.
Heather Warburton – Wine, Women, and Revolution
Heather’s podcast Wine, Women, and Revolution appears weekly on New Jersey Revolution Radio, which she co-owns with her business partner and fellow podcaster Brain Powers. The goal of New Jersey Revolution Radio is to create a completely independent media source far from the influence of corporate ownership. They focus on covering stories that don’t get mainstream coverage and feature inspiring activists, writers, artists, and independent political candidates. They cover revolutionary and anti-capitalist activity centering on the great nation of New Jersey, but branching out into other states on occasion. Their mixture of humor, activist backgrounds, and a tiny smattering of Jersey attitude make a dynamic combo. Heather focuses on bringing a women’s perspective to the revolution on her show as well as more than a few glasses of wine. Check out her show every Monday morning and Brian’s Livestream every Wednesday evening.
Jennifer Moss – JAR Audio (Well Now, )
Jen comes from a background of radio and interactive storytelling. She has worked for CBC Radio, Roundhouse Radio, and the National Film Board of Canada. Jen now teaches podcasting and creative writing for new media at the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Department. She is 1/3 of the brains behind new branded podcasting outfit JAR Audio, from Vancouver.
Mamie Kanfer Stewart – The Modern Manager
Mamie Kanfer Stewart is the host of The Modern Manager podcast and author of Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging, and Enjoyable Meetings. Her company, Meeteor, helps teams and organizations build healthy meeting culture. As a coach, speaker, writer, and trainer, Mamie helped thousands of people improve their meetings and how they collaborate. She is passionate about assisting people to build teams in which people thrive, and achieve goals.
Mamie has been featured as a keynote speaker at Lean Startup Week and had articles in Forbes, Inc, and Fast Company. She is a regular contributor on The Price of Business. Maimie appeared on numerous podcasts including Coaching for Leaders, How to be Awesome at Your Job, and The Productivityist.
Mamie graduated from New York University Stern School of Business and the Kansas City Art Institute. Mamie has served on numerous non-profit boards and is currently Board Chair of Bend the Arc. In 2016, she was honored by Auburn Seminary with their prestigious Lives of Commitment Award. Mamie enjoys rock climbing, trapezing, knitting, karaoke, and playing piano for group sing-alongs. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Jared Sanders – Run With Tobe
The Run With Tobe Podcast, hosted by expert marketer Andrew Hong & creative head Jared Sanders. They are just two guys running a startup agency (Tobe Agency) while sharing the inside scoop on creative content marketing, branding, entrepreneurship and more! Join Jared, Andrew, and the occasional guest, as they talk about the good, the bad and the ugly.
James Wodarcyk – The James Wodarcyk Experimental Podcast
The James Wodarcyk Experimental Podcast is a curious man chatting with interesting people. Mostly, but not limited to people of the Wheeling West Virginia area. The tone is fun and confident with the aim of highlighting the talented and interesting people that live in the community. Sometimes funny other times are inspiring and always informative. The more extended format and informal style allow time to not only learn what people are doing but also get to know the person as well. The podcast launched on April 1st, 2017 and had posted over 60 episodes covering topics from falconry to yoga to crab fishing in Alaska. Recently the podcast started releasing “Coffee and Conversation” episodes which focus less on a specific issue and more on current events.
Christopher Swinney – That One Time On Tour
Christopher Swinney has played in and toured professionally with many bands such as The Ataris(Columbia Records), Brazil(Fearless Records), Underminded(King Fu Records), The Reason(Warner Bros. Records), and The Widow Jenkins. His podcast, “That One Time On Tour,” is a must listen for musicians and music fans alike. He and his guests discuss life on the road, the music industry, etc.
Travis Ford – Endurance Town USA
Travis is a lifetime marketing & social media professional who has always been passionate about broadcast mediums (especially radio, and now podcasting). The fresh new perspective and excitement around the podcast world inspired me to get off my butt and try something myself finally. It has been an extremely satisfying and exhilarating ride!
Brady Anderson – NextGen INgineering business name is PodcApps LLC
Brady is the host of NextGen INgineering. He is passionate about the stem fields and wants to showcase what engineers do, while also sharing the importance of other skills such as communication human connection and collaboration.
KT Miller – Sizable Sex Podcast
Sizable Sex is a podcast powered by 2 Sizable Black women who have a niche for conversation. They discuss everything that is sex. From fetishes, positions, contraceptives/education, and the taboo. They believe in having an open discussion free of judgment or ridicule.
Michael Troy – American Revolution Podcast
Mike is a long time historian and expert in US history. He also specializes in Constitutional Law. For his day job, he manages computer networks.
Nikki Eisenhauer – Emotional Badass: Where Moxie Meets Mindful
Nikki Eisenhauer, International Life Coach, Psychotherapist, Meditation & Yoga Teacher, and HSP/Empath Emotional Badass podcaster is a passionate and relatable healer and advocate for survivors, thrivers, seekers, and healers. Nikki shares personal resiliency on her journey to wellness after surviving a chaotic, abusive, and neglectful childhood. She believes in her calling to help others realize the superpowers of high sensitivity to awaken to a higher purpose, be more present and authentic, find strength in spirituality, quiet the monkey mind with meditation, and connect deeply and intuitively to self and save others. Becoming the hero of our own stories makes us the hero in our own lives and gives subconscious permission for others to become the hero. Nikki shares generously with listeners and coaching clients so that Highly Sensitive People can become the healing agents in their own lives, the community, then the world. Together, we end stigma about needing, finding, asking, and receiving help–all of us are worthy and able to grow, shame-free.
Jojo Money & Ben Newton – Masters of Data Podcast
Ben is a veteran of the IT Operations market, with a two-decade career across large and small companies like Loudcloud, BladeLogic, Northrop Grumman, EDS, and BMC. Ben got to do DevOps before DevOps was cool, working with government agencies and essential commercial brands to be more agile and move faster. More recently, Ben spent five years in product management at Sumo Logic and is now running product marketing for Operations Analytics at Sumo Logic. His latest project, Masters of Data, has let him combine his love of podcasts and music with his love of good conversations.
Joshua Montmeny – Indomitable City
Joshua is a self-described introvert, audiophile, idiot-philosopher, and factotum. In case you were wondering (you weren’t), he relies heavily on coffee, pop-tarts and deep-seated existential rage to make it through each day. It is his ardent wish to create and maintain an interesting, thoughtful, beautifully produced and auditorily delightful podcast about Sacramento, CA. And he hopes you enjoy listening to it as much as he enjoys creating it.
Also, he loathes pineapple.
Pete Bush – The P.S. Be Creative Podcast
Pete is the owner of PSBcreative, a theatrical production company that supports arts programs in schools. He is a music teacher, chorus director, singer and writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Pete started the P.S. Be Creative Podcast to celebrate awesome people who are doing amazing things with their creativity. He believes that a creative life is a happier life, a healthier life, and ultimately, a more prosperous life. Support the arts!
John Suder – The eCommerce Minute
John Suder is a designer, illustrator and podcaster and co-host of the eCommerce Minute, a daily podcast focusing on eCommerce, tech and retail news and trends.
Sam Zerin – Social Media Music Theory
Sam Zerin is a music theorist, historian, and composer based in Providence, RI, and a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at New York University. His brand new project, Social Media Music Theory, promotes the amazingly vast world of music theory online. In July 2018, he published a free PDF guide to nearly 100 music theory podcasts, blogs, YouTube channels, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, Instagram pages, and Pinterest boards, which he has been proactively sending to music teachers, schools, and organizations around the country. His weekly “Inspiration Letters,” Facebook page, and Twitter feed feature specific resources while offering thought-provoking ways to think about the potential of social media to transform how we engage with music theory. He also runs a support group on Facebook specifically for music-related podcasters, bloggers, YouTubers, etc. Aside from promoting other people’s work, he is currently planning his series of YouTube videos analyzing Disney music, from the Silly Symphonies (the 1930s) to Frozen and Moana. 🙂
Eric Larson – Paradocs
Dr. Eric Larson is a practicing anesthesiologist in private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan specializing in acute perioperative pain. He is an assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and serves as the president of the Kent County Medical Society. Eric is married to a pediatrician, and they have three children and a refugee foster son from Guatemala.
He started the weekly Paradocs podcast in April to give non-physicians a window into the trenches of health care to better understand what physicians were dealing with in treating patients and navigating the industry. The podcast also serves as a way for physicians to gain a better awareness of these issues, as well.
So far, topics have included discussions about board certification, burnout, suicide, launching a product as a physician, drug shortages, how to pick your health insurance, why health insurance is so expensive, the FDA’s poor job as a regulator, the atrocity of forced organ harvesting in China, and much more.
Eric Thomure – Don’t Be An Asshole: A Spiritual Guide
Eric is married with three boys. All that means is that his house smells like pee 100% of the time. After nearly 20 years as a minister, his underlying message boiled down to Love God. Love People. And Don’t Be An Asshole. He struggles with number three a lot.
Adizah Eghan – Snap Judgment, You Had Me at Black
Adizah Eghan is a radio producer based in Oakland, CA. From 9-5 she works for the podcast and radio show Snap Judgment. She’s also part of the team for You Had Me at Black. She enjoys reporting stories on the ground level (documentary style). Outside of work, she loves to cook.
Karin Heimdahl – Det nya svarta
Karin has just launched her first podcast and is learning editing and production on the fly with some helpful hints from the Podcast Movement community. The podcast covers pop culture, literature and performing arts. It is, however, in Swedish, so, unfortunately, the majority of the PM members won’t be able to understand it. Karin trained as a theatre teacher and director and has always loved audio drama. She has done some voice acting and would like to do more. Karin hopes to start another podcast, focusing on fantasy books.
(Podcast submitted to Apple 2 months ago but still under review.)
Dawn Brown, MD – From ADHD to Amaze-Ability™
As one of the nation’s most acclaimed ADHD experts, double-board certified Child & Adult Psychiatrist, Dr. Dawn Brown is a 2x-bestselling author, speaker& media personality. She is also Founder & CEO of the ADHD Wellness Center and shares her medical expertise via her book series, “The ADHD Lifestyle Series” and Facebook Group Page, “ADHD Focus Builders.” From her own experiences of living with ADHD, she provides extensive knowledge of this common disorder with a comprehensive, yet personal touch.
Tony Destin – Ze-amer Social
Tony Destin is a 3rd-year college student attending Kutztown University. He wanted to create a platform where he could voice his thoughts about their his life honestly. He wanted to show people they are not alone with problems even the little ones because at the end of the day we are all the same, and he tried to inspire his peers to do things they wanted to do and achieve whether it be a skill, hobby, or even a lifetime goal. His podcast exploits the idea of being young and how we as a generation don’t use our time wisely and how we could succeed and fail so much at a young age and still be babies in the world eyes.
Kara Snyder – Le vital corps Salon
Kara Martin Snyder is the Owner/Strategist over at vital corps, a health + lifestyle studio located at the 3-way intersection of functional health, self-care, and strategic action. Kara’s not your run of the mill, wellness coach, though. Sure, she’s got the classroom and professional creds that many health coaches have but she’s also got an arsenal of badassery stemming from her experience in the boardroom, kitchen, and personal experience with the effects of chronic stress – namely Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Serving frazzled, Type-A women since 2009, Kara deconstructs the broken processes in her clients’ lives, investigates why they might feel not-so-great, and co-creates actionable steps towards a healthier life – a life spiked with passion and slathered with joy. Additionally, she’s the host of Le vital corps Salon podcast and the creator of 33K Task List Project. Prevention, the Wall Street Journal, and Fortune magazine featured Kara’s work.
Diana Sekhon – Crime Crazy
Diana Sekhon is one half of the Crime Crazy Podcast duo. Along with Eryn Pluim, she covers all sorts of crime stories: from the heavy hitters to crazy local crimes that catch their attention. They talk about the horrors of the world, encourage listeners to Call Your People, and not end up on next week’s episode.
While not a native of Minnesota, Diana has lived there long enough to pass as a local. She and her family live in Roseville, MN in an old house with a seriously creepy basement and a great backstory. When not reading about crime, listening to other podcasts about crime, talking about crime, and remembering not to commit any crime, Diana works for a software company, loves to read and craft, and has an extensive backlist of podcasts she’s trying to get through!
Ryan Sprague – Somewhere in the Skies
Ryan Sprague is a writer splitting time between New York City and Los Angeles. He is also an investigative journalist specializing in the topic of UFOs. He is the author of Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon.
He is the creator and host of the SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES podcast.
Speaking on the UFO topic, ABC News, Fox News, The Science Channel, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, and the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum feature Ryan’s work.
He is also a playwright and screenwriter with many projects in development and production.
Kevin Toliver-Lyons – The Art of Mental Health
Kevin Toliver-Lyons is the founder and executive director of the Susan D. Lyons Foundation for Hope which provides art therapy for people dealing with mental illness. He is also the host of the podcast “The Art of Mental Health and the “Welcome To The Good Life show on YouTube. Kevin’s mother Susan D. Lyons took her own life in 2014.
Brian Colburn – I’d Podcast That
Brian is coming out from behind the scenes of the podcast “EM Weekly” by launching “I’d Podcast That”. Working with small businesses over the last several years, he is working on sharing tips and tricks to streamline processes and workflows to maximize time and increase productivity.
Kevin Barthelemy – The Urban Collective Show
Kevin is the Founder, CEO, Managing Director & Host of The Urban Collective Show. The Urban Collective show is a podcast that addresses all topics related to the urban community. We bring the heat, soul, and truth while uplifting an empowering each other and you.
J.B. Stephen – Past Bedtime Studio
Past Bedtime Studio is an audio-drama/podcasting studio dedicated to providing our listeners with immersive and profound experiences through well-crafted stories. Our studio name, Past Bedtime, is meant to evoke the child within all of us, that kid who hides under their covers with a flashlight, reading books and comics until way past their bedtime, their imagination conjuring entire universes of stories and characters beyond the words on the page.
Lebogang Kotsi – On The Grind Podcast
Lebogang Kotsi is passionate about entrepreneurship and business. His podcast focuses on sharing stories of startup entrepreneurs. Having been in the radio industry for almost ten years, he realized the power of podcast and in 2017 started On The Grind Podcast.
Blake Moseley – Not Religious Podcast
Blake and Brian dive into the world of Modern Christianity, how the church is wrong on a lot of points, and the occasional conspiracy theory and how it’s relevant to Christianity
Sofia Ortega – Self Help Us
Sofia Ortega is the cohost of the self-help comedy podcast; Self Help Us with her best friend, Priya Bhikha. Self Help Us has Sofia and Priya try all things self-help to improve their lives hopefully. (Spoiler alert: It often doesn’t work.) Sofia hopes that her podcast encourages people to laugh about mental health. When she’s not podcasting, she enjoys reading, hiking, calligraphy, and trashy reality television (with the last two things often done simultaneously).
Kolin Hayes – Better U Podcast
Kolin is a student-athlete at the University of Kansas. Kolin is a junior studying business management. In the last ten months, he has fallen in love with books. Kolin reads non stop. He loves motivating people and showing them ways to live a life that is a better version of themselves. His mission in life is to serve others and show them how good life can be.
Scott Weaver – Arise2Live
Coming from an engineering background, Scott overcame an aversion to public speaking to launch the Arise 2 Live Podcast for business owners and freelancers who have a family. The motivation was born out of frustration due to the lack of information and guidance to run a business and a family at the same time, something he had to figure out mainly. Scott receives more pro-bono requests for advice than time allows. He owns a business consulting company and was CEO of a high-tech start-up.
Patrina Dixon – The Money Exchange
Patrina Dixon, CFEI, International Speaker and Award-Winning Author of the top-selling financial guided series, “It’$ My Money™ and a 100 Women of Color Honoree for 2018. Patrina is shaping the spending and saving behaviors of her clients with a goal of guiding them toward financial independence. The It’$ My Money™ journal, workshops, and book club allows her to educate and enlighten families on their finances. Patrina is a devoted wife and mother who resides in CT.
Steve Strangio – Steve’s Podcast
Steve is a professional producer/writer/filmmaker/on-air talent with over twenty years in the business. He’s worked as a screenwriter, live trivia show host, playwright, comedy writer for Cracked Magazine, screenwriter for interactive films, a writer for film, television, stage and has several shows on Roku, AppleTV, and other platforms.
Steve currently produces/hosts three podcasts: Steve’s Podcast, Trivia Uncut, & ZoneBall Sport (go to Anchor.fm and search the titles).
David Brodie – Travel in 10: 10 Minute Travel Podcast
David is a new media and travel expert based in Vancouver, Canada. David has traveled to 43 countries around the world and lived in various regions of Canada, Australia, the U.S., and Japan. He created one of the world’s first travel podcasts in 2006. The podcast is consistently rated one of the top 10 travel downloads on iTunes in Canada and the US. His travel content has also been featured on websites such as afar, Yahoo Travel, MSN Travel, and Canadian Living.
ElleB – Ok Girl! Podcast
ElleB is the creator of Ok Girl Podcast. Launched in 2016, Ok Girl was created to share some of the hilarious conversations she has with her friends about some crazy things that happen in their busy lives. Every week she sits down with friends and special guests to discuss children, family, relationships, and pop culture.
As a blogger, wife, mom of three, and educator this Detroiter hopes to use her podcast to connect with women who wear multiple hats just like her!!!
Zachary Nunn – Living Corporate
Zach is a technology consultant, creative, public speaker and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Living Corporate, a podcast focused on exploring the perspectives and experiences of people of color in Corporate America.
Michelle Lewis – The Visible Entrepreneur
Michelle Lewis is the founder of Visibility Vixen, a brand that specializes in helping established entrepreneurs enhance their online presence. She is the host of “The Visible Entrepreneur” Podcast and runs an online membership called “The Visibility Lounge”. Her background is in film and television, growing up on films sets and ultimately directing, acting and producing for over ten years.
Israel Vasquetelle – “Sounds from the Underground” from Insomniac Magazine
Israel’s experience in media spans twenty years. He’s produced music products, directed documentaries, and founded Insomniac Magazine, a Hip Hop publication with nearly ten years in print and two decades online. As host of a radio show that spanned the ’90s, a journalist and educator, he’s interviewed hundreds of prominent media players. From Ice Cube to Seth Godin, it’s a whos-who list. Rolling Stone and Spin covered his projects. He holds a BA in PR/Adv. and an MS in Ent. Bus.
Katy Oliveira – Collegehood Advice
Katy empowers college students to live an authentic, meaningful, and rewarding life even during college. For 15 years, she has worked as a professional college success coach, university administrator, and professor. In that time, Katy has guided thousands of students from around the world to find their purpose, improve their performance, and create balance. When she’s not helping college students, you can see her tending a garden, hiking a trail, on a yoga mat, or cooking in Austin, Texas.
Jen Stansbury Koenig – HSCT Warriors
An advocate and citizen for building community in education, “Zen” Jen founded the HSCT Warriors Podcast to illuminate the invisibilities of autoimmune disease, recognize the possibilities of a future free from disease progression, connect through our shared experiences, and advocate for an inclusive society. Outside the podcast, Jen is a mother and HSCT veteran, as well as director of her own consulting and coaching company which serves to further education and define community within systems.
Clara Glock – Ideias e Experiências (ideas and experiences): Vozes Plurais Radioweb and others
She is a Brazilian freelance journalist that produces and broadcasts programs on social movements, especially dealing with feminism, education, media literacy, human rights
Katie Eaker – Hustlenomics Podcast
Katie is a designer, photographer & videographer, writer and marketing specialist. She just moved with her fiancé to from Georgia to Utah where she is working as a teacher as well as growing her media company, Modern Darling Media. She loved old movies, treasure hunting at flea markets and thrift stores, traveling to unexpected places and of course, podcasts!
Roberto Hernandez – The Unstarving Musician’s Podcast
Roberto (aka Robonzo) is a longtime gigging musician for hire and fan of live performance. He’s committed himself to share best practices, tips, expertise, and secrets–including those he’s learning from fellow music creators.
Ashley Owens – The Successfully Screwed Podcast
It’s rare that anyone talks about the tough mistakes, the uphill battles, and the tears that it takes to get there, but those are the tough conversations that give struggling entrepreneurs (or those just having a bad day), the inspiration to keep going! Ashley Owens and Sara Rosenberg host successful, growing business owners and talk to them about their pivotal fuck ups and how they overcame them in this fun, motivational podcast.
Julie Duffy – The StoryADay Podcast
Julie is the host of the StoryADay May extreme writing challenge (write a story a day in May). The challenge helps people become more creative, more productive and understand their process. The site (storyaday.org) has grown to include a year-round accountability group, courses, workshops, the second challenge in September and, of course, a podcast, which Writer’s Digest selected as one of 26 best podcasts for writers in 2018.
Michael Kanfer – The Poncho Section
The Poncho Section is all about media; music, movies, TV, Internet shows, sports and much more! Hosted by Michael Kanfer and Ethan Feldstein
What you can hear by listening to The Poncho Section:
Reviews, Interviews, Opinions, Laughs, Rants, Hedley the Duck
Quanice Floyd – Art Accordingly
Quanice is the Founder of the Arts Administrators of Color Network. He is also a warrior for Justice and Equity.
Christina Antonyan – Relationships, Sexuality, SexEd, SexTech
Christina is the founder of ConfidentLovers.com. She created the website for the evolved minds who don’t want to learn about sex from porn. Instead, they want a real sex education that integrates science, pleasure, depth, and connection.
Morgan James – Two Wise Jawns
Morgan and Shannon host Two Wise Jawns. Hot taking, contemplating, but mostly laughing the world around them — each episode focuses on a theme (or TV series review!) where the jawns fairly analyze myriad perspectives as objectively and irreverently as millennially possible.
Jack Miller – Jack Miller, Down to Business
Jack is a middle-aged self-employed guy who has been self-employed for 30 years and likes to talk to people about what he is interested in. Sometimes serious and sometimes his middle school side comes out.
Stephanie Postles – The Mission Daily, The Story, IT Visionaries (We have three podcasts)
Most media and news today spreads fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The Mission was founded to fix that problem. The Mission is a new type of media company, they create podcasts and shows to provide their audience of millions with the best ways to upgrade their health, wealth, wisdom, tech, and careers. To date, they have launched three podcasts, The Story, The Mission Daily, and IT Visionaries.
Alan Santiago – Improviser’s Cut
Alan Santiago is a stand-up comedian, originally from Long Beach, California. Although he started listing to podcasts just to fit in with coworkers at his new job, he soon realized how much amazing content was being put online. Due to his background in improv, he decided to combine his love of movies and comedy to produce a podcast where guest improvisers perform their version of popular movies each week. He has enjoyed the journey immensely and loves meeting fellow podcasters.
Sarah Chase – Clear+Vivid™ with Alan Alda
Sarah is the associate producer for Alan Alda’s new podcast, Clear+Vivid™, conversations about connecting and communicating.
Joe Frio – SalesRoundup
The SalesRoundup Podcast launched in 2006 and had a successful five-year run. Roll Forward to 2018, the hosts Mike and Joe are “Rebooting” the show. Mike and Joe combined, have over 50 years of Sales and Sales Management experience. Each week they provide expert advice to up and coming sales professionals. Visit their website at www.SalesRoundup.com for up to date information on the podcast.
Heather MacArthur – Low Man on the Totem Pole
Heather MacArthur brings over 20 years’ experience in helping employees blaze fulfilling career paths in an ever-changing work landscape.
She hosts a bi-weekly podcast with her co-host, Kaytee MacDonald based on MacArthur’s new book, Low Man on the Totem Pole: Stop Begging for a Promotion, Start Selling Your Genius (2018).
Michael Walters – DucksNPucks
DucksNPucks is a podcast that covers the Anaheim Ducks and NHL. Mike Walters and Eddie Richard do a weekly show discussing the Ducks games, team news, and breaking news. The show also has a segment for fan questions.
Lori Tharps – My American Meltingpot
Lori L Tharps is an award-winning author, journalist and the blogger behind My American Meltingpot.com. In the fall of 2018 she will launch the My American Meltingpot podcast where she will discuss pop culture, parenting, and identity politics from a multicultural perspective. Podcast Movement 2018 was her first official podcast event and she is now obsessed with podcasting.
Dave Gorman – HighCast
Dave podcasts and he prevents catastrophe.
Scott Higgins – Scott Higgins Live Productions
Scott Higgins stepped out for his premier comedy spot at Groucho’s Comedy Club in CT in 1988. After a ten year hiatus, he returned. He knew that he was somewhere he belonged. Higgins everyman relaxed style draws an audience in then keeps them. His family based observational humor is fresh but familiar to us all! Scott also welcomes longtime comic Ace Aceto for the Behind The Funny podcast.
Jennifer Fink – Fading Memories
As a family member dealing with A Mother with late stage Alzheimer’s and a family history of the disease, Jennifer went searching for advice, insight & solutions. Loving podcasts, Jennifer searched for one that addressed her questions and came up empty. Knowing that people caring for their loved one’s full time don’t have time to do deep internet searches, so she started a podcast that she needed knowing that there are millions of others out there that need these answers too.
Michelle Purse – Explore Europe
Michelle is a British ex-pat that has been living in Germany and exploring Europe for over 15 years. Along with her co-host John, then explore a new location every episode providing travel tips & local Secrets for U.S. Military stationed In and around Germany, helping them to get the best out of their tour overseas.
Alia Bucciarelli – Biogen’s ScienceChats
Alia is an Associate Director with the Global Scientific Communications group at Biogen.
James Ingram – Fantastic Fools
James is a movie and tv geek who loves to share his opinions. An aspiring journalist, James uses the Fantastic Fools Podcast to gain industry experience and work on his broadcasting and writing skills. Hailing from Adelaide, this young podcaster is passionate and funny
Erin Taylor Young – Write from the Deep
Erin Taylor Young is a writing teacher, speaker, and co-host of the Write from the Deep podcast. She’s the co-creator of From the Deep, LLC, an inspirational resource for writers. Erin co-founded a successful independent publishing company. She was the co-managing editor before selling the company to another publisher. She’s also an award-winning humor writer.
Kate Jo – Beautifully Equipped
Stories of Masterminds, Leadership, Collaboration, and Action. The Beautifully Equipped Podcast is about telling the stories behind the people, the real stuff that connects us and helps us to remember we’re all human. Three professional women host and produce the podcast. They came together and thrived together, through the power of being in a mastermind group. Collaboration has taught them that multiple minds are better than one. Find your genius through collaboration™
Antje Desilets – Hurricanes in High Heels
Antje Desilets, Gulf Coast implant, a straight ally, and marketing professional is the creator and podcast host of Hurricanes in High Heels, the Bizzy podcast with pizzazz! Antje and her weekly guests are having fun together by exploring and discussing the unique workforce and lifestyle of the Gulf Coast have to offer. Hurricanes in High Heels serves as a fun and sassy, yet professional networking tool to encourage, educate, and foremost support one another as females and people in the LGTB community.
Christopher “Kory” Beale – No Midnight – A Disney & Theme Park Podcast
Created in 2017, The No Midnight Podcast Channel celebrates, reviews, and (let’s be honest) pokes fun at all things related to theme park culture – including coverage of Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios Hollywood, Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld and theme parks worldwide!
Dominic Cooper – ShedCast
ShedCast is a new podcast series brought to you by Shed Beats. The podcasts aim to discuss all things under the sun. With opinions and experiences in abundance from hosts Coopz & Vibez P and guests such as Dezzy’s Dishes and much more to come.
Kyle Yager – THE dadbod PODCAST
There are a lot of podcasts that talk about the same things, especially Conspiracy podcasts. The dadbod Podcast isn’t just a Conspiracy podcast, although we do spend our fair share of time discussing dark alleyways. On our podcast, you are going to hear more than just the serious and depressing side of life. You’re going to hear episodes on gaming consoles, stoner snacks, and music. We’re just random stoner dudes trying to quit our jobs. That’s really it.
Dennis Lewis – Harmonious Awakening: Breathing & Presence Practices From Dennis Lewis
A former businessman (co-founder and former president of Hi-Tech Public Relations*) and a long-time-student of Taoism, Advaita, and the Gurdjieff Work, today Dennis Lewis teaches the transformative power of presence through Authentic Breathing®, qigong, meditation, mindfulness, and self-inquiry. He has given talks and led workshops throughout the United States, at venues such as Esalen Institute (annually for 12 years), The New York Open Center, The Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and more.
Derrick Smith – CarChronicles313
Mogul D is the most driven person you’ll ever meet.
Aylin Baysan – Raising Awareness in Oral Health (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University, London, UK
I am a Clinical Academic working at the Institute of Dentistry, Queen Mary University, University of London, UK. My passion and ambition to raise the awareness of oral health. My research focuses on oral health and minimally invasive management strategies for dental decays. My podcasts intended for the general public, general medical practitioners, general dental practitioners, careers, dental and medical undergraduate/postgraduate students.
James Hanson – The Weekly DADCast
James Hanson is an online content creator utilizing his six years of video production experience to share humor and fresh news to his listeners. He and his fellow co-hosts are passionate about pop culture and want to spread awareness about the latest trends. James hosts the Weekly DADCast from his home in Mount Dora, Florida, where he currently attends the University of Central Florida for a Bachelor’s in Entertainment Management.
Kenn Delbridge – Splice Cast
An award-winning sound designer for television and radio for over 25 years, Kenn’s audio post studio in Singapore has started a new podcast production arm that will invest in launching new podcasts in Singapore. With a custom-built 4-microphone podcast station, Splice Cast is planning to launch as many as 6 podcasts before the end of 2018.
Ashley Rodabaugh – How are you still Single?
Ashley is a thirty-one-year-old single woman living in Columbus, Ohio. She has a law license and is currently working to create a more creative compliance program in the finance world. As a professional single woman, she finds many people (at work, home, the mall, etc) continue to ask her, “How are you still single?” She decided to publish a weekly podcast to explain how the modern dating world has changed through interviews with the public and fun co-hosts.
Jesse Dolan – Local SEO Tactics
Jesse Dolan is the CEO of Intrycks, a digital marketing and SEO agency located in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. Jesse has owned several successful local brick and mortar businesses for 20+ years, providing a unique blend of bootstrapping and digital marketing experience and insights. These insights are shared in his podcast “Local SEO Tactics”, helping many small businesses to increase their exposure online.
Matt Hudson – The What I Watched Tonight Show
Matt has been podcasting since early-2018 but has spent the best part of a decade listening. The What I Watched Tonight show covers all things movies – from history to horror, superheroes to Star Wars, guest interviews and everything in between. When Matt isn’t podcasting, he enjoys spending time with his beautiful young daughter, watching soccer and serenading the night son his acoustic guitar.
Good ol Boy Mike – Sips, Suds, & Smokes
Former lots of things and now having fun.
Julie Finn – the Working Mother’s Mentor
Julie Finn is a business coach and career strategist who helps professional women start and scale service-based businesses.
She hosts the Working Mother’s Mentor podcast where she interviews high-impact leaders who share concrete strategies for growing successful careers and businesses.
Julie honed her expertise at The Coca-Cola Company, The Walt Disney Company, the Boston Consulting Group, and Deloitte. She received her BA and MBA from Stanford and her Masters from Oxford.
Jason Juliette – The Jason Juliette Podcast
Jason is am a former musician, a semi-professional bartender, an amateur boxer, a student of science, the ‘tech guy’ of his friends and family, a healthy-lifestyle enthusiast, a part-time observer of civilization, the owner of a growth mindset, and a current nursing student living in Austin, Texas.
Sarah Baggett – Mostly Dead Podcast
Olive and Louise are south Georgians looking for an answer to the question: Do you believe in ghosts? Through weekly interviews with guests ranging from funeral home directors and pastors to psychics and historians, the conversations go in unexpectedly hilarious directions.
Jacob Foltz – Cinema Therapy
Jacob is a filmmaker and cinephile with goals of getting viewers more interested in divisive film.
Christine Pensa – Awakened Woman Self Care
The Awakened Woman Self Care podcast was created for awakened women everywhere searching for more profound self-care practice to feed ALL of her—body, soul and spirit. Emma Kupu Mitchell and Christine Pensa are the co-hosts of the Awakened Woman Self Care podcast. Each week they invite you the listeners to join the circle of co-created sacred space—to sit and listen as their guests share inspiring ideas—and divine stories unfold. Because self-care is an inside job that needs a community to flourish.
Kim Balstad – Holistically Curious
The Holistically Curious podcast is co-hosted by two beautifully flawed human beings on a quest to find optimal health, balance, inner peace, joy, understanding, and wisdom. Kim Balstad and Teresa York invite you to listen, learn, and laugh with them as they explore various topics within health, wellness, metaphysics, spirituality, science, and the unexplained.
Stuart Rice – Sketch Comedy Podcast Show
Stuart is the creator and host of “Sketch Comedy Podcast Show,” the show where exciting people have engaging conversations, then improvise a comedy sketch based on what the discussion. It is the only show like it on the internet.
Brent Bollmeier – Sports Trivia Face-Off
Brent is a 25-year IT professional who was raised on computers, sports, and game shows. So why not combine all three?
Robert Brus – Go All In
Robert has been lucky in his life to experience many different professions. It all started in the Australian Defence Force when he was just 17-years old.
Robert joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Combat Systems Operator and was responsible for the operation of the warships radars, sonar, and electronic warfare sensors. It was a great job where he traveled the world with his mates and loved every second of it.
But he longed for more and soon after his time was up Robert found himself in the Australian Army progressing through basic infantry training and onto Battalion 3RAR and the Parachute School.
Beyond the ADF he experienced many different jobs and ultimately found his feet outside the military as a digital marketer and entrepreneur.
Life is super busy for Robert with three beautiful children (2 teenage boys and an 11-year-old girl) a woman that he loves dearly and several businesses, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Robert created the “GO ALL IN” podcast to share the stories of all the amazing people that he knows and hopefully in the process add some value back to the world with the lessons learned and the heartache and triumph that they have created.
Clara Fei-Fei – Yutani
Fan of Alien, AI, Robotics, Scifi and Technology
Michelle Anne Olsen – Are You Afraid of the Bark?
Michelle Anne has often described her CV as “eclectic.” She has worked as a journalist and editor, a Walt Disney World cast member, a museum educator, an escape room host, a haunted tour guide, and most recently, as a veterinary technician. This podcast is the culmination of all her favorite things: storytelling, ghosts, animals and listing things. Her stance on ghosts is that of Madame de Staël, “I do not believe, but I’m afraid.”
Glenn Moyer – Under the Tartan Sky
Glen Moyer is a former radio/TV broadcaster now actively exploring his Scottish heritage. His podcast, is an expression of his interest in his ancestral home, its people, culture, and history. Since first visiting Scotland in 2014, Moyer has returned another three times and now makes annual visits there, each trip exploring a different region of the land. His ancestry dates to his 8th great-grandfather born in Glasgow in 1627.
Sara-May Tuson – The Sugar Baby Confessionals
The Sugar Baby Confessionals: a candid, sexy podcast
“One way or another, you always pay for sex.”
We’ve all read about it in the glossies – young girls becoming Sugar Babies, swapping cash and gifts for sex, to pay their way through university. Well, what if your best friend – your best, married friend – embraced the sugar baby lifestyle – not by necessity, but by choice? Sara’s best friend, Ruby, did just that. Sexy? Scary? Judge for yourself.
In the Sugar Baby Confessionals, the girl talk gets candid as Sara and Ruby talk about love, sex and life as a Sugar Baby – the pleasures and the pitfalls. You’ll meet Ruby, her friends, her Sugar Daddies and her husband. We reveal all in The Sugar Baby Confessionals.
Ted Willett – Trailer Junkies Podcast
Trailer Junkies Podcast (TJP) is where Jim and Ted discuss the movie and TV trailers, and the consumer-facing part of media marketing. They use Ted’s industry knowledge, Jim’s common sense, and their wit to break down movie marketing using trailers as their vehicle.
Jim and Ted have been buddies for more than a decade, and together they have attempted some startup and entrepreneurial endeavors. A regular Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton get rich quick duo.
Robert Yaniz Jr. – Crooked Table Podcast
A professional writer since 2003, Robert Yaniz Jr. has consistently covered business, marketing, and entertainment. But it wasn’t until 2014 that he started the Crooked Table Podcast as a way to share his love of film with the masses. The show has evolved a lot since it began and will enter a new era when it returns with a new concept in late 2018.
Ed Watters – FreeCircle Fireside
The thing you will find out about FreeCircle when you dig deeper is the concerns of a United world. FreeCircle sees things in a fresh new way. Nonpartisan in political views and strong in moral compass. When you look at FreeCircle moving for a cause, what you are looking at is a powerful unity program geared towards the empowerment of Personal growth in one’s self. The most inviting thing about this fresh new podcast is how he uses himself as a way to empower others. People helping People
Devon Wieters – Real Talk: All Things Inclusion
Devon Wieters is a college student, inclusion advocate, aspiring manager for artists and business social media, and podcaster who happens to have Cerebral Palsy, a neuromuscular condition. She was inspired to take action after reeling from an episode of Survivor where a contestant, Zeke was ousted as transgender at Tribal Council by a fellow contestant, Jeff Varner, and eventually started podcasting. You can listen to her podcast on most major platforms.
Anastas Duka – The Uncommonwealth Podcast
The Uncommonwealth Podcast takes an unfiltered, comedic look at the quirky history and culture of Pennsylvania.
Mandy Clark – Winning Mindset Consulting
Mandy co-created Winning Mindset Consulting after her business partner, Keith Smith, co-managed a membership-based massage studio. They discovered a significant gap within the franchise regarding entry level sales training and management training. They published their first book, The Top Ten: Lessons for Successful Business Leaders and Managers, in 2017. Now Mandy and Keith help business owners, training their staff in sales and supporting the managers as they deal with the logistics of handling their team.
Paul Lowe – Mastering The Game Of Life
As the founder of PaulLoweHEARTS, Paul has developed a brand that has certainly lived up to the HEARTS vision – and acronym – of ‘Helping Everyone Achieve Results Towards Success.’
Despite a horrific childhood that was underpinned by sickening abuse, cruelty, and violence, he has emerged from being a victim to a victor and now uses his real-life experiences – along with the influences of many world-class mentors – to positively inspire others to become the very best they can be.
Sasza Lohrey – BBXX
BBXX helps people live better relationships and a better life with the highest quality information about sexuality, intimacy, and communication.
Sasza founded BBXX in a Stanford entrepreneurship program in Santiago, Chile. She is a Google for Entrepreneurs scholar and just completed a residency program in Silicon Valley, and BBXX is now preparing to launch in the U.S.
Amit Shetty – IAB Tech Lab
Amit leads the Video and Audio initiatives at the IAB Tech Lab. His role included the Podcast Technical Working Group which defined the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines – an attempt to get the podcast industry to talk the same language when it comes to podcast content and advertising numbers, and help the industry scale!
Whitney Godi – Thank You For You
Whitney hosts the podcast Thank You For You with her friend Kay Ten. They are collecting personal stories of perseverance from regular people. Sometimes we feel like we’re all alone, we don’t know what to do, and we feel like we’ve already lost when going through difficult times. They want their listeners to receive ideas about how to handle their situation from hearing similar stories, motivation, and to know it’s possible to come out of it victorious.
Joe Moore – Psychedelics Today
Joe is a serial podcaster and creates a community around psychedelics as medicine. Psychedelics are a wildly promising field of medical and creativity research and may help many thousands of people when legally therapy is finally available.
Luke Menkes – I Love Kelowna
Luke is a long time realtor and podcasting host.
Arash Hashemi – Hashing Out the Law
Welcome to Hashing Out the Law, where legal topics/issues are discussed and analyzed by attorneys, judges, and experts from all across America.
Sabeena Karki – SABSCAST
Sabeena Karki is the country’s most loved voice in media with the highest number of followers in social media. Working in the leading radio station for 15 years she quit her job to start her podcast – Sabscast (Sabeena + Podcast) being the first ever in the country to begin podcasting professionally.
Jared Minor – The Untranslatable Podcast
Jared has lived abroad and traveled extensively. Jared and his co-host Chad are both fans of travel, culture, and language, and wanted an outlet to talk about that-hence the Untranslatable Podcast. Both Chad and Jared talk about their struggles learning languages, trips they’ve taken and are currently planning, and the beauty of different cultures.
Michael Respass – Apron Work Podcast
We are a semi-unconventional and uncensored podcast that aims to be different than just a weekly recap show by covering wrestling world topics that are intriguing, random and based on experience through the eyes of two substantial wrestling fans and one filthy casual.
Missy Sorg – Sorgatron Media
Missy Sorg is the number cruncher and data wrangler for Sorgatron Media. She assists with production of in-house podcasts such as AwesomeCast and Wrestling Mayhem Show and helps with marketing those shows as well as client podcasts.
Jason Sandman – Home Cooking
Jason is the Co-Founder of Climate Dads. Launched in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Fathers Day of 2018, Climate Dads is a community of fathers and male caretakers who are interested in understanding the role parents play in a changing climate.
Jeanine Wright – Simplecast
Jeanine is the new COO of Simplecast. Thousands of individual creators and companies trust Simplecast with their audio, including TechCrunch, Harvard, Medium, Fast Company, and many others. Capable of handling even the most confusing aspects of podcasting with the greatest speed and accuracy, Simplecast makes professional podcasting easier than ever with the helpful tools and resources you need to publish and share your stories, evolve your craft, and connect with a world of listeners.
Jerry Beeks – The Podcast For Your Punk Ass
The Podcast For Your Punk Ass presents History Professor David Canton and Spoken Word Artist Jerry Beeks. They combine Sports and Politics with Poetry and Rhythm to bring you a Podcast, unlike any other.
Jonathon Roberts – ComposerDad vs. Bible
Jonathon Roberts, aka ComposerDad, accepts intense compositional challenges from a talking Bible while out with his kids. He documents all of this on the family adventure podcast, ComposerDad vs. Bible. He lives in Beacon, New York, with wife, ProfessorMom, the kids, and a tangled box of electrical cords.
Ryan Esquivel – The ESQUIVELIO Show!
Ryan Is a retired military veteran. Originally from southern California, he relocated to Utah in 2012. Ryan has an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Ryan is started his podcast journey in May of 2018. Ryan has spent the last 16 in law enforcement. Ryan found podcasting listening to Leo Laporte on AM 640 KFI in Los Angeles.
Lauren Tickner – The Millennialaire Podcast
Lauren Tickner is a 21-year-old entrepreneur and personal branding expert. Her podcast, The Millennialaire Podcast, made it to 14th in the world in the business charts within 24 hours of launching. Lauren has created a six-figure income and following through helping others build and monetize their personal brand.
Sara Popovich – Safety Stop Scuba
Safety Stop Scuba is a community of divers telling stories and educating
& inspiring others to dive into the ocean and protect our waters. Sara is one of the co-hosts of the show as well as the content editor and designer. When Sara is not working on the podcast, she works as a creative manager for Mammoth Media in Los Angeles, Ca. She enjoys anything to do with the ocean, traveling, hanging out with her puppy Murphy, getting lost in a good book and hanging out with friends and family!
Josh Williams – Welldagum
Josh is a hillbilly from eastern Kentucky who over his years has met some interesting people from around the world. He has held many jobs from coal miner to Office Manager of a university, but currently has the privilege of being a stay at home dad.
Brad Linder – The Loving Project
Brad Linder is a freelance journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He’s worked in radio and audio production since 2000 and has filed stories for NPR, Marketplace, and WHYY.
He is also co-producer of the Loving Project, a podcast featuring stories of interracial married couples 50 years after the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage.
Brad is also the producer of the LPX podcast, editor of tech news site Liliputing, and he’s exploring editing podcasts professionally.
Brittain Jackson – VillageVibesPodcast
VillageVibesPodcast (VVP) is a podcast by Brittain & Kayla. We have set out to contribute to a conversation about social awareness & justice, pop culture & comedy. VVP looks to start new conversations & bring several voices that are traditionally silenced to the forefront. VVP is a platform for us to add to a dialogue that we feel is vital to the climate of our society & country at large. While processing our positions in the world & feelings about celebrities, television, film, art, & music.
Naomi Mellor – Smashing The Ceiling
Naomi is a veterinarian with a curiosity about other people’s lives and the experiences they have to share. She met a few interesting and inspiring women with unusual, ground-breaking or quirky careers and thought that if she was interested in their stories, then other people might be too. And so, Smashing The Ceiling was born. Some of Naomi’s guests have been ‘the first’ or ‘the only’ woman doing what they do, others have taken a big leap into the unknown, but all have a great tale to tell.
Bjorn Videkull – Aika
Bjorn is Head of Growth at Aika – a podcast app for listeners and creators.
Adam Davila – Stranger Than Fiction
Adam works in Corporate Finance and has always been interested in strange and odd information. He teamed up with his life long best friend, Chase, to start the podcast where they explore real things that sound totally made up.
Wray Dunn – First Down Sports Podcast
We are a team of individuals that love talking and writing about the CFL, Usports, and Local HS Football from our province in Canada. We also cover the NFL although with all the media and podcasts out in the marketplace we do not place a huge emphasis on this product. Wray Dunn started this project back in 2016 when his wife GiniB (Sound Girl) was diagnosed with cancer and this project because a coping tool for both of us to put our attention into and it has grown to unexpected levels.
Martinez Billingsley – Macchiatos Music and The Scriptures Podcast
Martinez was a Radio Board Operator, Commercial Writer, Voice Over Talent, Production Assistant and on Air Personality for 7 Years on Two Local Gospel And Christian Talk Radio Stations in St.Louis Missouri. Martinez is coming up on his 3rd Year on December 31st of doing his Podcast Macchiatos Music and The Scriptures which has a Growing Audience Around the World. He currently Resides in St.Louis Missouri with his Wife and Two Children
Alli Hoff Kosik – The SSR Podcast
Alli Hoff Kosik is a full-time freelance writer. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and (in her dreams, at least) three golden retriever puppies. She is the host of The SSR Podcast, which reexamines books from our tween and teen years from a (kind of) grown-up perspective.
Eddie Ravert – Rose Buds: The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever
Eddie Ravert was itching to get back behind the microphone, but how? He had a very successful PR career and wasn’t too sure about jumping back into the radio industry. Then one day, while watching his favorite guilty pleasure TV show, a light bulb went off. Why not start a podcast about the hit ABC reality TV shows “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.” And it made perfect sense to Eddie. Nearly 8 million people tune into “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” every Monday night, so the captive audience was built into his plan. Given the viewing audience of this reality dating show was about 90 percent female, Eddie knew he needed an influential female voice, and there was only one person for that job- his sister.
Eddie & Lynn started off with one USB microphone on her kitchen table simply doing recaps on recent episodes of “The Bachelor.” After five episodes and about 500 downloads, Eddie realized this could really take off. So they invested in more advanced podcasting equipment and software and really went for it. They started interviewing uber popular contestants from the show weekly. Word was starting to spread about this brother-sister duo from Philadelphia. Contestants started talking to each other saying how much fun they had on the Rose Buds podcast. But most importantly, these reality TV stars were sharing links to their episodes with their massive social media following (side note: the Instagram story “swipe up” function has been the biggest factor in the podcast’s growth). Now, Rose Buds was really starting to take off.
But Eddie & Lynn wanted more. They started uncovering and breaking news about “The Bachelor” franchise the show wasn’t airing. This lead to them being covered in numerous major media outlets for countless stories including People, E!, US Weekly, The Inquisitr, Refinery 29, and much more. After cracking the iTunes top 75 charts and garnering thousands of downloads per weekly episode, Rose Buds Nation was growing at an alarming rate. For a little, independent podcast competing with the major Bachelor Nation podcasts from all the major broadcast companies, you could say Rose Buds was disruptive.
Most recently, Eddie & Lynn organized and performed a live Bachelor-themed trivia night at Punch Line Comedy Club in Philadelphia in front of a packed and engaged crowd. They also record weekly Facebook Live recap shows with local Philadelphia radio station Today’s 96.5, reaching thousands of viewers. The future is bright for Rose Buds, as they continue to grow, interview top-tier contestants and uncover scoops no other Bachelor-themed podcast could even fathom. From fan-favorite segments like “One Word, One Answer” to “Date Card Dilemma” to listener voicemails and Instagram contests, the listeners are just as part of the show as Eddie & Lynn are. So, if you are a fan of The Bachelor (or know anyone how loves this show as much as Eddie & Lynn) then please tell them to subscribe, leave a review… (you know the deal :)).
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There’s no denying that Apple Podcasts is one of, if not, the biggest player in the game in terms of listening and discovery. Apple Podcast’s top 200 charts are an extremely important tool for discovery. Getting your show on the charts leads to boosts in listens and adds legitimacy to your show, but it’s also extremely competitive and this is where your fanbase comes in. Encourage your fans to help your show grow by reminding them to rate and review at the end of every episode. As those reviews come in your ranking continues to climb within the Apple Podcast ecosystem.
This week, we’re excited to officially announce the Google Podcasts featured session at PM18, which will include a conversation with Google Podcasts founding product manager 
