DC PodFest

November 9-10, 2018 at Spaces The Artosphere

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10 Way To Support Your Favorite Podcasts

10 Ways To Support Your Favorite Podcasts

September 30th is International Podcast Day. A day designed to raise awareness for podcasts and their creators. Podcasts have grown in popularity as technology has improved, and listeners discovered entertaining, and educational content in an amazingly flexible, on-demand format. Podcasts are as diverse as their creators–you can find podcasts on almost any subject. Passionate about guinea pigs? There is a show for that! Since most podcasters are creating content fueled by passion, and a dedication to their audience. It’s time to give back to these hardworking content creators that keep us company while we work, commute, clean the house, suffer from insomnia, or struggle through a workout. International Podcast Day seems like the most appropriate time to inspire us to give something back in exchange for all the hours of free entertainment and education that we too easily take for granted. [Read more…]

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How To Get Out Of Your Own Way & Launch Your Podcast

How To Get Out Of Your Own Way & Launch Your Podcast

I was standing at the edge of the wooden platform, some two stories about the yellow inflated mattress on the lake below. My objective? To jump off the platform onto the mattress ( a/k/a “the blob”), crawl to the end, and then have my friend jump on the other end to catapult me into the air before making a big splash in the lake. It was supposed to be awesome. The blob was one of the most popular features of the Young Life camp I was at. But I was struggling to commit to it. I was right where I needed to be, but was wavering about the actual jump. My heart and brain were not aligned. I was scared, nervous, worried about breaking an ankle (which I had heard had happened to some campers). Part of me was convinced it would be all that was promised—fun, wild, crazy, a thrill—and part of me was still scared spitless. [Read more…]