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Good Eye Podcast Ep57 Jane M Powers – Podcast Speaks Event

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.

 

 

Audacity Update

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

Good Eye Podcast Ep56 – James Burk – The Mars Society

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

The Mars Society

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Good Eye Podcast Ep55 – Laurie Hedges – Filmmaker, Conservationist, Biologist

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.

Laurie Hedges’ website

Laurie on Instagram

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Good Eye Podcast Ep54 – Ryan Kent – Poet, Writer, Vocalist

Ryan Kent is a published poet, writer and former vocalist for the band Gritter.  His poetry collections include “Hit Me When I’m Pretty”, “This Is Why I Am Insane” and “Poems For Dead People” and “Tomorrow Ruined Today” – a collaboration with his Dead Books Publishing co-owner Brett Lloyd.  Gritter releases on which he is lead vocalist include “Welcome To The Sinkhole”, “Nobody Cares”  and a self-titled EP when they were known as “Rube”.  He’s currently working on several projects performing spoken word readings of his work with musical accompaniment.

Ryan Kent on Instagram

Gritter on Bandcamp

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Good Eye Podcast Ep53 Tom Leahy – Beacon Tree Foundation

Tom Leahy started the Beacon Tree Foundation as a result of his own family’s challenges presented by mental illness in the form of clinical depression. Beacon Tree’s mission is to be an advocate for families who have children struggling with mental illness by focusing on education, access to services, and the ability to pay for those services.

The 9th Annual Trees of Hope event is Beacon Tree Foundation’s annual children’s mental health awareness event, and the foundation’s major awareness event each year. This program of youth musical performances and reflections on the issue of mental illness, will be held virtually on Thursday, May 6th, 2021, 6:30 pm via FaceBook Live.

The program will feature local youth musicians and a variety of speakers, bringing together young people, professionals and parents of children struggling with mental illness. Designed to nurture support, marshal resources and provide fellowship, partner organizations and supporting members of the community are encouraged to attend.

 

Good Eye Podcast Ep51 Shannon Ross and Ramiah Whiteside – Anti-Mass Incarceration

Shannon Ross is the president of The Community, which he started as a personal development newsletter to provide information to the incarcerated community in 2014 while serving a seventeen year prison sentence in Wisconsin. He was released in September, when he began (the first day out) a graduate degree program at UW-Milwaukee for which he had been offered a scholarship. He is also a community fellow for a new partnership between UWM, Marquette, and the Milwaukee School of Engineering to facilitate collaboration among and access to all of the anti-mass incarceration efforts and resources in Wisconsin.

Ramiah Whiteside was also incarcerated for over 2 decades.  Now free, he has dedicated himself to raising awareness about the cause of anti-mass incarceration and promoting personal development and education among the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated.

The Community

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Joel Morgan’s “Dropping Keys” Podcast

Joel Morgan has been a guest on my Good Eye Podcast.  So when he asked me to join him for a conversation on his Dropping Keys podcast I jumped at the chance.  Joel is a life coach, an author, a pastor, and podcaster, and he, like many of us (ALL of us), has been through his share of challenges.

Joel makes sense for a living.  He might fight you on that because that’s the kind of guy he is.  But every conversation with Joel is thoughtful, insightful, honest and fun.

Learn more about Joel here.

His podcast is available everywhere.

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