Ink To Spill is what has been described as a “virtual band”, with songwriter Bob Sauer living in the Tidewater area of Virginia and the rest of the band spread out around the country including areas such as Seattle and Chicago. But they all come together to make music. And they work with the RVA-based Marketing Mixtape . Bob talks about getting the band together, dealing with the pandemic when they were already something of a virtual band separated by geography, inspiration and the creative process. Also hear Ink To Spill songs Hyd’n (latest single), Lenny and Chalk Lines
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Elizabeth Tollis is a business coach, entrepreneur and podcaster. As a business coach she helps entrepreneurs build the mission-based business of their dreams. On her podcast “Full Focus Entrepreneur” she talks to other entrepreneurs and mission-minded people about what makes them go. Some of the topics in this episode include guesting on podcasts as a means of promotion and networking, simplifying business for entrepreneurs, confidence – what it looks like and how to find it, unique challenges and opportunities faced by women in the world of entrepreneurism, starting a business during a pandemic, ratios of marketing to execution especially when starting out, purpose, broadness versus niche in small business, taking strategic risks and more.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/full-focus-entrepreneur/id1509743918
Business Coach Elizabeth Tollis was recently a guest on my Good Eye Podcast. I was also a guest on hers few months ago. Just click the image below to hear our conversation or listen directly from her website .
Full Focus Entrepreneur Podcast
This episode of the Good Eye Podcast is a joint episode with the Synapse Hubcast. It features Jay speaking with representatives for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Renee Fairchild of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude, and John Tyndall of the St. Jude Young Professionals of Richmond which unites with local leaders of tomorrow to help advance cures for pediatric cancer while providing young professionals an avenue to grow in their philanthropy and create the building blocks of a lifelong and diverse professional network.
The conversation revolves around St. Jude’s mission to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment, and also around the first St. Jude Cycle Challenge hosted by the Young Professionals of Richmond in which Jay is participating.
#StJudeYPRVA #ForStJude
Find out more about St. Jude and get involved.
PodcastSpeaks is almost here. I can’t wait for this exciting 2-day event with the amazing Jane M Powers.
I met Jane last year at a Synapse meeting. Our meeting was one of the serendipitous benefits to a new business culture full of online Zoom video meetings. I know, I felt Zoom fatigue as much as anyone. But after it had settled in, I started to wonder how we’d go back to the old normal. I was meeting people from all over the world every week!
When Jane and I got together we found we not only had a lot of interests in common (the outdoors, mountain biking, an insatiable desire to constantly learn, low tolerance for b.s.), but that we possessed skill sets that complimented each other. She was great a turning skills into money by jumping all-in and getting to the heart of people’s passions, and I was good at NONE of that. Well, truth be told, my background in audio and recording, radio, creative services in the ad world, and the aforementioned insatiable desire to constantly learn fueled my interest in podcasts and podcasting. I truly believe that podcasts are one of the greatest messaging, branding, self-discovery and lead generation tools available to businesses and non-profits. And Jane agreed. So we came together to offer PODCAST SPEAKS.
PodcastSpeaks is an online, virtual event being held April 29 and 30 to teach businesses how they can use podcasts to speak (literally!) directly to customers, potential customers, contemporaries, collaborators, sponsors and networkers.
If you’re a small business person, entrepreneur or anyone who wants to control the narrative surrounding their business, ask yourself a few questions:
Do you have a story, mission, movement, or message?
Are you passionate about growing a profitable business?
Would you like to effectively engage and connect with audiences?
Do you want to easily create lasting content?
Do you want to confidently convert 5 or 6-figures from every stage?
Do you want to successfully generate a stream of leads?
The answers are obvious. Click here to make a fully refundable deposit to hold your space and attend this free event.
To hear more about the event, listen to this episode of The Good Eye Podcast with Jane as my guest.
In this conversation, Jay Smack speaks with Jane M Powers about their Podcast Speaks event on April 29 and 30. They discuss Jane M Powers’ CORE Sales Program involving personality types and methods of communication, the need for what Jane calls your INTROmercial, the importance of listening, interview techniques, podcasting as a lead generation tool, podcasting as a means of deep-diving into what your business’ message and mission is in order to communicate that to customers, partners and collaborators, podcasting as a content generator, podcast as a super-powered SEO tool, what many podcasts for business are missing, deciding what subjects to address in podcasts, and much more. It’s a positive, energetic conversation that just scratches the surface of the potential that podcasts hold as a tool for business, especially small business and entrepreneurs.
I’m sort of old-school when it comes to equipment and software. I don’t like subscriptions. I rarely sell old gear. And I don’t really take advantage of “free trials”. That said, I learned Audacity, the free DAW for audio editing and mixing, because a number of my podcasting clients were using and I found it to be surprisingly able. (I’m a Pro Tools guy which brings its own special brand of heartache. But at least their support sucks! I digress.) There ARE some things about Audacity that I’m not keen on such as how when you want to record in multitrack mode you select the number of tracks you want then just hit record. I know. That sounds user-friendly and logical, but I like to set up my session and inspect it before rolling. Like I said, I’m old school. But there’s a new version of Audacity out and the reviews have been positive – good news for podcasters and project studio producers who are not as old-school and are just fine using a free program. Here’s Music Radar’s take on it. Give me a shout if you don’t want to deal with any of this when producing your podcast. Some folks understandably feel they have enough on their plate with the ideation, hosting, interviewing and promoting of their podcast.
Article link: https://www.musicradar.com/news/audacity-one-of-the-best-free-audio-editors-gets-updated-to-version-3
James Burk is a the IT Director for and a member of The Mars Society.
The website states: “The Mars Society is the world’s largest and most influential space advocacy organization dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars. Established by Dr. Robert Zubrin and others in 1998, the group works to educate the public, the media and the government on the benefits of exploring Mars and creating a permanent human presence on the Red Planet.”
We talk about a number of Mars and space-related subjects including:
-recent launches by and goals of Space X and other space travel and space tourism companies.
-Dr. Rubert Zubrin‘s book “The Case For Mars”
-some of the various goals and plans for getting to Mars, setting up infrastructure for human inhabitance and the possibility of terra-forming Mars and making it conducive to human survival in conditions similar to Earth.
-the effect the movie “The Martian” had on The Mars Society’s efforts and public opinion.
-how far in the future we should be looking to expect regular travel to Mars from Earth
Full playlist from last night on WRIR
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Click to listen to the audio archive of last night’s show
Laurie Hedges is a filmmaker, photographer, conservationist and biologist. He produces films for wildlife and environmental conservation causes, working with NGO’s, organizations, companies and practitioners across the globe. We talk about his travels, production gear and some of the causes, indigenous peoples and animals he works to defend.
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