210 Amira Valliani - Unlocking the Value of Your Podcast
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01/09/20 • 55 min
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01:05 – Harry wishes the audience a Happy New Year and his resolution to simplify his work and life
02:16 – Harry thanks today’s sponsor, Focusrite 2i2
02:50 – Harry welcomes to the podcast, Amira Valliani
04:04 – Harry thanks the second sponsor of today’s podcast, FullCast
05:03 – Amira’s first recollections and experiences growing up immersed in technology
10:26 – Major Influences in Amira’s worldview and life
18:25 – How Amira and her family were impacted as Muslim Americans post-9/11
24:12 – Amira’s early career and co-founding Glow
32:46 – Early challenges and obstacles with Glow and how Glow works
37:13 – How Glow’s technology works, and technical obstacles Amira encountered along the way
41:56 – What excites Amira the most about the future of Glow
47:15 – What is something that Amira has changed her mind about recently
49:47 – What is the most misunderstood thing about Amira
51:11 – Harry thanks Amira for joining the show
51:45 – Where listeners can follow Amira
TWEETABLES
“I think it’s why I gravitate so much towards storytelling. I think so much of the world is about being able to tell a story and take someone else’s experiences and communicate them in a way that is easy for other people to internalize.” (13:07)
“What we [the Muslim community] should have been doing, I think proactively, is going out and telling our story and talking about the values that we preach that I think are very American values and finding ways to engage with the community more and more.” (20:08)
“What I realized is, one of the things I really excel at is going out to find scrappy ways to get it done, seeing a problem, coming up with different solutions, experimenting.” (28:33)
“For the podcasters out there, or for anyone, Glow is designed to be the best way for podcasters to be able to let listeners pay them directly. And, it can either be for listener support or to actually charge for content.” (34:36)
“I’m just really excited to help give podcasters a new way to make money. My personal goal is I want to be able to create a thousand new podcasting entrepreneurs.” (42:12)
THANK YOU SPONSORS!
Focusrite - Makers of my go-to sound card, the Scarlett 2i2
Aweber - Hosts of the Beyond the Podcast Summit
LINKS MENTIONED
Amira’s Twitter – @amiravalliani
01:05 – Harry wishes the audience a Happy New Year and his resolution to simplify his work and life
02:16 – Harry thanks today’s sponsor, Focusrite 2i2
02:50 – Harry welcomes to the podcast, Amira Valliani
04:04 – Harry thanks the second sponsor of today’s podcast, FullCast
05:03 – Amira’s first recollections and experiences growing up immersed in technology
10:26 – Major Influences in Amira’s worldview and life
18:25 – How Amira and her family were impacted as Muslim Americans post-9/11
24:12 – Amira’s early career and co-founding Glow
32:46 – Early challenges and obstacles with Glow and how Glow works
37:13 – How Glow’s technology works, and technical obstacles Amira encountered along the way
41:56 – What excites Amira the most about the future of Glow
47:15 – What is something that Amira has changed her mind about recently
49:47 – What is the most misunderstood thing about Amira
51:11 – Harry thanks Amira for joining the show
51:45 – Where listeners can follow Amira
TWEETABLES
“I think it’s why I gravitate so much towards storytelling. I think so much of the world is about being able to tell a story and take someone else’s experiences and communicate them in a way that is easy for other people to internalize.” (13:07)
“What we [the Muslim community] should have been doing, I think proactively, is going out and telling our story and talking about the values that we preach that I think are very American values and finding ways to engage with the community more and more.” (20:08)
“What I realized is, one of the things I really excel at is going out to find scrappy ways to get it done, seeing a problem, coming up with different solutions, experimenting.” (28:33)
“For the podcasters out there, or for anyone, Glow is designed to be the best way for podcasters to be able to let listeners pay them directly. And, it can either be for listener support or to actually charge for content.” (34:36)
“I’m just really excited to help give podcasters a new way to make money. My personal goal is I want to be able to create a thousand new podcasting entrepreneurs.” (42:12)
THANK YOU SPONSORS!
Focusrite - Makers of my go-to sound card, the Scarlett 2i2
Aweber - Hosts of the Beyond the Podcast Summit
LINKS MENTIONED
Amira’s Twitter – @amiravalliani
Previous Episode
209 Scott Gurian - The Road Well Traveled
02:11 – Harry welcomes to the podcast, Scott Gurian
04:32 – Scott’s education and background in radio
11:28 – Scott recounts his travels that brought him from New Jersey to Oklahoma and back to New Jersey again
16:12 – What Scott learned by reporting on Superstorm Sandy
25:00 – How Scott started his Far From Home Podcast
35:45 – Concerns Scott had with podcasting in foreign countries
41:50 – Scott talks about editing and reediting the footage from his trip to produce his podcast
48:54 – The initial response to Scott’s podcast
50:21 – Scott speaks to a second season of his podcast and what he’s learned about the differences between radio and podcasting
55:11 – What is something Scott has changed his mind about recently
57:23 – What is the most misunderstood thing about Scott
1:01:57 – Harry thanks Scott for joining the show
1:02:13 – Where listeners can follow Scott
TWEETABLES
“I think the goal should be to just sound like a normal human being talking, and not to sound like you’re performing.” (07:19)
“It [Superstorm Sandy] was the most amazing reporting experiences I’ve ever had. I feel bad saying that, but it was really cool to be thrown in the middle of something like that.” (17:52)
“I don’t think I ever really felt in danger. As you mentioned, it was just bad timing in the summer of 2016. We ended up at the border to enter to Turkey six days after the attempted coup.” (36:13)
“I try to be as visual as possible. They talk about radio or podcasting being a visual medium, which sounds weird, but in some ways it really is. It’s way more intimate than television or video.” (44:08)
“People who’ve told me just like over the course of a weekend or whatever I listened to all twelve hours of your first season, it just warms my heart. I love hearing that kinda thing cause that’s why I made it.” (49:52)
“I think audio’s important. You can have the most interesting content in the world, but if it’s recorded poorly I just can’t listen.” (54:46)
“So, I’m just trying to let people know, I think, through all of my stories that yes the world isn’t a big bad scary place, and that wherever I go people are people and people are generally good.” (1:01:33)
THANK YOU SPONSORS!
Focusrite - Makers of my go-to sound card, the Scarlett 2i2
Aweber - Hosts of the Beyond the Podcast Summit
LINKS MENTIONED
Scott’s Instagram – @farfromhomepodcast
Scott’s Twitter – @scottgurian
Next Episode
211 Mark Sullivan - From Snowboarder to Kaizen Philosopher
01:01 – Harry thanks today’s sponsor, Focusrite 2i2
01:43 – Harry welcomes to the podcast, Mark Sullivan
02:37 – Harry thanks the second sponsor of today’s podcast, FullCast
04:56 – Mark talks about his affinity for snowboarding
10:42 – The concept of ‘Kaizen’
14:44 – Mark discusses the current state of print and his experience running a magazine
19:59 – Mark’s professional career as a commentator
21:16 – Mark’s experience at the last Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang
27:19 – What it takes, in Mark’s opinion, to become an Olympic-caliber athlete
31:24 – How Mark honed and refined his interviewing skills
37:53 – Mark recalls how he got into podcasting and what surprised him about the medium
48:28 – How Mark decided on the format of The Snowboard Project Podcast and feedback he gets from his Tip Line
52:04 – What excites Mark the most about trends in the snowboarding industry
54:51 – What is something that Mark has changed her mind about recently
55:58 – What is the most misunderstood thing about Mark
56:50 – Harry thanks Mark for joining the show
57:07 – Where listeners can follow Mark
59:37 – Harry reveals this episode’s retention hashtag
TWEETABLES
“I’ve always had this kind of thread of entrepreneurship as well as trying to also push myself – always kind of use that idea of constant progression.” (10:33)
“Certainly, I’ve always had some kind of relationship with the [Olympic] athletes. And I think that’s reflected, ya know, in the people that are in the podcast too.” (26:51)
“I would say that the guys who actually excel as athletes are guys who are about the process of learning and less about the reward. They’re not about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; they’re about the rainbow.” (27:50)
“A print interview in a magazine is essentially a transcription of a twenty-minute conversation. And so, what I realized is even an hour interview that’s three times as long as a major interview in a magazine. So, it’s [podcasting] a different kind of format.” (39:11)
“Right now, I feel like we’re at a point, at least with podcasting, where you can literally just go in all different directions and see what works. And that, to me, is exciting.” (50:40)
THANK YOU SPONSORS!
LINKS MENTIONED
Podcast Junkies Junkies Facebook Group
The Snowboard Project Facebook
The Snowboard Project Email - [email protected]
The Tip Line for The Snowboarding Project – (208) 471-8007
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