Quick facts about me:
Empirical evidence of my obsession and experience in the podcast space:
- U.S. and global podcasting knowledge: years of experience collaborating with and interviewing people using online media to grow their project globally. Some spaces I've been a part of are: International Podcast Day, Podfest, The Podcast Show London. Interviewed folks in these project: AI and Podcasting, Podcast To Connect, Geopats, Global Podcast Editors, Podcast Review Day.
- Speaker at various podcasting events such as Podfest AI Summit (April 2024), International Podcast Day and Indie PodCon
- Industry expertise: Steph has been interviewed for the book Podcasting in a Platform Age, has been interviewed on numerous podcasts such as Podbean's Podcasting Smarter, Castos' Audience, Podcasting People, Adventures in Podcasting and more.
- Always up to date on the podcasting industry: knowledge about who’s doing what, what’s changing, opportunities you should tap into, future proofing. This includes deep knowledge of podcasting on YouTube, growing expertise on ChatGPT, etc.
- Perspective as an independent podcaster and enthusiastic, engaged podcast listener
- Podcast editing experience: Have used multiple DAWs (editing software) and even helped Hindenburg create some videos about podcast editing.
- Organic marketing: have accumulated an extensive toolbox of non gross promotional methods over the past 7+ years
- Community experience: created and grew the Global Podcast Editors community from 2021-2023 as well as an two year online podcast sharing event on Twitter/X called Podcast Review Day. Additionally, was a Podcraft Community Moderator for The Podcast Host from 2021 to 2023.
- Virtual Producer for Podcast Movement, August 2021
- Personal production experience: I've created and deleted more podcast episodes than most podcasters create in their enire podcast experience.
(mostly) NOT related to podcasting:
I...
- am addicted to coffee as a drink, experience and marketing strategy
- am a long term serial expat. I've lived in a number of countries throughout the past 20 years. I've been in Copenhagen, Denmark since Spring 2023.
- am from the U.S., born and raised in New York (above picture is from Long Island. I'm on the far left) and Pennsylvania and then I lived in California for about a decade before moving abroad.
- studied Industrial Engineering (that's code for Business Engineering, middle manager training basically) at Cal Poly SLO. Class of '01!
- taught English language/writing skills to teens/adults for about 20 years (above: me & 2 of my two troublemaking students in Taiwan @2003. No, seriously, they were so much fun!)
My Podcast Origin Story
- started my own podcast in 2017 as a decompression activity after leaving (not finishing) a PhD program
- transitioned careers from English teaching to podcasting in early 2020
- LOVE doing live online events like these (above) Global Podcast Editors panels that I produced and hosted 2x a month in 2021-2023.
- am an avid podcast listener and will likely never reveal how many podcasts I'm following at any given time. But it’s a lot.
- have written about podcasting quite a bit over the years.
- am very passionate about building community globally. One of her first podcast communities was an online event that she created and managed for 2 years called Podcast Review Day.
Past podcasts/podcast projects:
You can read more about the event and our impact here.
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