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Welcome to Help Me podcast, a show designed to help

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you launch and grow your podcast. I am your host, Gino. And

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twice a week, I will release a new episode with different tips and

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trick for launching and growing your podcast. From audio engineering

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to planning intentionally to growth tactics, each episode will be a bite

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sized tip to help you podcast.

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Hey. Good morning. Welcome back to Help Me Podcast. This is episode

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78. And in today's episode, we're gonna talk about

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starting a podcast with other people who are also starting a podcast.

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So this kinda concept or episode idea came

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from something that I've been accepted into

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recently and a new thing that I'm starting. So

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back a while ago, I applied to be part of this, groundwork

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pre accelerator program that's through this

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organization in New Haven called Collab. They do a lot of different sort of,

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like, cohorts for entrepreneurs and for business owners and for food

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business owners. And and recently, I got accepted into their

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groundwork program, which is kind of the pre accelerator

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program to their normal business accelerator program.

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And it's kinda aimed at, like, new businesses and new ideas.

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And it's a 5 week workshop series, where you work

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with I think it's, like, 20 people, all led

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by somebody from Collab and kinda works you through this

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program, and you all kinda get to go through it together. And so

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I applied for it for kind of this new business idea that I have, and

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I got accepted, which I was really excited about. And on Monday, I

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actually had my 1st session, and it was just it

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was really cool. It was a lot different than what I thought it was gonna

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be in a in a good way. Like, I I thought it was gonna be

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more so, like, you know, here's some basic business

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principles. Here's what you should be doing, business plan, blah blah blah, and kinda just,

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like, run you through some PowerPoints. But it ended up being, like, way more

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collaborative than I thought. And that got me

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really excited about, like, being able to build something

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or grow something together with the other people that were also in the cohort.

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And I think that's kinda like the strength of the cohort. It's not necessarily

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like the principles that they're talking about or I mean, you know, of course, I've

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only been to 1, but It wasn't necessarily like them just telling us

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important information. It was like, hey. Here's some information. Now here's some

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prompts, and, like go think about them and go think

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about them in a group of people. So what they did was,

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like, they broke us out. I think there was, like, 20 or so of us.

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And then they broke us out into these groups of 4 people to

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where you then discussed, like, the topic between each other.

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And It was really interesting, the people that I got matched up with and,

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like, how much we had in common and, like, how much we learned from each

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other. And, like, you can. I don't know. There's something interesting, like, when you're doing

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something with somebody who's kinda, like, at the same stage as you. Like, you can

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see for at at least for me, like, there was points where, like, I

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saw people's, like, shyness or, like, their

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non confidence in themselves. And, like, me seeing that in them

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could be like, no. You have nothing to worry about. Like, that's awesome idea. Or,

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like, you know, you gotta give it time. Like, it's a new thing. Like, think

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about it in this way or, like you know, to to basically not to be,

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like, as hard on yourself. Because when you're seeing somebody else, like, struggling through

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something, you're like, oh, like, you you know, it's not that serious. You don't have

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to be that hard on yourself. Like, maybe think of it in a different way.

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And when you do that, it, like, also makes you reflect on

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yourself and and then makes you judge yourself less with

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your own ideas. So there's this weird, like, new perspective that

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you get from working with people who are kinda at a similar

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stage than you. Maybe they're not doing the exact same thing, but, you know, they're

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not doing the same exact business as me, but they're doing a new

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idea or a new business. And I I guess what I'm trying to say is,

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like, I was surprised at how much I took away from that.

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Not necessarily somebody teaching me something, but, like,

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us kinda teaching each other. And, that kinda

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got me thinking. You know, I've always, like, kicked around this idea of, like, having

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some sort of, like, online cohort for podcasting. I have

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a lot of people that, like, come to me that wanna start a podcast.

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And, you know, if they wanna work with me 1 on 1, it usually ends

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up being pretty expensive. And most people don't have that budget, which I totally

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understand. So in problem solving now, I always thought about,

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like, you know, how can I make this more affordable for people or how

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can I How can I help people in a way that

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also works for me and for them? So, you know, the

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online cohort thing came to mind, but but I think I wasn't really thinking about

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it in this way. I think I was thinking of it more so, like, I'm

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gonna be teaching somebody something every week, and then they'll go home and have homework.

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And, You know, at the end of it, they'll have a podcast. And that

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puts a lot of it on me, I guess, to to make sure

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everybody's, like, following along and everybody understands and, you

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and I never, you know, pursued that idea,

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partially because it maybe it seemed like a lot of work upfront on

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my end. And I don't know. It kinda just, like, fell out of focus, I

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guess. But now, you know, after doing this accelerator program,

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this Groundwork accelerator program. It's given me, like, an example

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of, like, how you could do that. And And and what excited

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me about it was that, like, it wasn't about the

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teaching aspect of it, although that was part of it. It was more so about,

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like, people learning from each other. And, that kinda got me, like,

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reexcited about the idea. So something that I'll be thinking about in the

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future, Basically, what I'm envisioning is, like, a group of, like,

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10 or 15, maybe 20 new podcasters who haven't

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started a podcast yet. And it's sort of a, like, 10 week

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program. And I can sort of facilitate the

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learning and, like, give some basic principles about podcasting and, like, you

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know, answer questions if if I have the answer and I'm able to

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provide some sort of help, but more so so people can, like,

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together create something and kinda bounce off of each other. And, like I

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mean, I I I can envision even, like, you know, 2 people who have a

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similar idea joining and being a cohost. And, like, you know,

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now they go and start off their podcast together. And, I really like the idea

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of being able to, like, facilitate that and having

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people go out on their own, learn, and then go out on their own and

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be able to be self sufficient and not have to pay for podcast, you

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know, recording or to a studio or anything like that, they can go and they

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can make their own show. And yeah. I don't know.

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It just I I kinda really like that idea again and coming back to

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it. So, yeah. If any if that sounds interesting to any of you,

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definitely send me an email. My email is always in the show notes. Maybe

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that's something I'll be pursuing. Maybe it won't be. But I'd

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love to know if anybody would be interested in, like, participating in a program like

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that. But, yeah, I'd I'd be thinking about it some more.

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And, also, you know, any anybody can can go and do

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this. You know, you don't need to wait for me to, like, go start a

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program like this. But I'll you know, I'll have more to come if if I

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end up pursuing the idea and starting it. You all will be the 1st to

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know, if I ever do launch that. But, for

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now, stay tuned. Hopefully, this episode was

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inspiring and give you some more ideas about how you can start a podcast

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with community and you not have to do it alone. And I

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think that that is a a huge help in anything that

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you're doing in life. Being able to have people around you to support you

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can help you be more successful than you can on your

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own sometimes. And yeah. So thank you for tuning in and I

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will see you on the next episode. We've reached the end of the

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