300th Episode Celebration!
Wow.
300. Episodes.
This episode is to say thank you to you - our listeners - and the people that have supported me on this magical journey of learning and surfacing best practices.
I also share two examples of where this podcast and the community around it are headed.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
300th Episode Celebration with Paul Zelizer
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Time Stamped Overview
[00:02:24] Conventional accelerators not suitable for social entrepreneurs. I wanted to create a resource to help impact focused entrepreneurs and leaders have more success.
[00:06:49] Generous guests drove successful podcast growth.
[00:11:17] Podcasting: guest strategy for building and growing.
[00:12:11] Growing number of guests from listeners, love it. Please keep sending your ideas.
Key Topics
Podcasting Milestone: "When I started my podcast, I didn't think about getting to this moment. 300 episodes."— Paul Zelizer
Why Conventional Accelerators Aren't a Good Fit for Social Entrepreneurs: "The failure rate actually goes up according to the most recent research for social entrepreneurs take part in more traditional business development accelerator type experiences."— Paul Zelizer
Overcoming Technical Challenges and Scheduling Issues: “There were challenges quite a few times, you know. It didn’t save or there was a problem electronically or somebody cut out in the middle of an episode, and we had to rerecord the second half.'"— Paul Zelizer
Creating a Win-Win-Win Situation for Guests, Listeners, and Myself: 'They share out of the goodness of their hearts and also a mentor of mine called the enlightened self interest.'"— Paul Zelizer
The Power of Podcasting: "Keith was the one who sat me down and said. let me help you understand why I'm seeing a real opportunity for you."— Paul Zelizer
More on The Power of Podcasting: “This is a long play. This is, like, compounding interest."— Paul Zelizer
Exciting News: "There's some exciting things in the works. You can go to the Awareprenerus website and see our rebooted, rebranded podcast accelerator, which is really exciting. I'll talk about that more some other time. We're in the process of launching an Impact podcast network. Again, so much to say about that. You'll be hearing more about that this fall. But just know that Awarepreneurs is not static."— Paul Zelizer
Podcast Guest Strategy: "If you're curious about podcasting either as starting your own podcast as a host or getting another people podcast. 1 of my favorite marketing strategies called a podcast guest strategy or podcast guesting."— Paul Zelizer
Growing Listener Engagement: 'More and more of our guests are coming from you, the listeners. And I love that.'"— Paul Zelizer