Guests
Nov. 4, 2024
Steve Goldstein: Unlocking the Power of the Audio Promo
We dive deep into the importance of audio promos for podcasts. Steve Goldstein, returns to make a compelling case for why every podcast needs a well-crafted audio promo.
Oct. 31, 2024
Feed Drop: Podcast Perspectives
Our Quarterly Feed Drop. This is where we play an episode from another awesome podcast. You might remember a few week's back we had Jeff Umbro on the show. His show is called Podcast Perspectives and you should give it follow.
The podcast world is growing rapidly, and podcasters can fall behind …
Oct. 22, 2024
Mary Anne Ivison: Three Years Later
Mary Anne Ivison is candid about the mental toll of the freelance lifestyle and the need to manage expectations, and that entering these creative fields requires a realistic understanding of the hard work and persistence required for long-term success.
Oct. 15, 2024
Donna Reed: Talk, Play Music, Have Fun
Donna Reed, a former radio host, podcast creator, and voiceover talent discusses her dcareer in radio, including her times at WQDR and WRDU in Raleigh, NC; then to KLOL and KODA in Houston, Texas and WCXR in Washington, DC. where she enjoyed the freedom of night shifts.
Oct. 8, 2024
Tony Garcia: Work Smarter, Sound Better, Make Money
Tony Garcia is the co-owner of Now! Media which syndicates the Bob & Sheri show, and owner of Global Media.
Oct. 1, 2024
Steve Pratt: Earn It
You likely know Steve Pratt's name from his days as founder of Pacific Content. The company that created stories about brands set the bar for branded podcasts in the late 2010's. The company was later sold to Rogers in 2019 and just recently sold to Lower Street in the UK. Unlike our interview with…
Sept. 25, 2024
Leslie Scott: Building Teams, Reshaping Radio
After 7 and a half years, the longest gap between appearances in Sound Off Podcast history, Leslie Scott finally returns. And to say things have changed is a massive understatement.
Sept. 17, 2024
Jordan Heath-Rawlings: The Big Story 6 Years In
Jordan Heath Rawlings, host of the Big Story Podcast, returns to discuss the evolution of daily news podcasts over the past five years. We first had Jordan on the show in 2019 after year one on the show. Since then, he noted the increased competition and the shift to virtual interviews post-pandemi…
Sept. 11, 2024
Another Summer of Radio Discontent
Over a year after Matt recorded a Summer of Discontent - he looks back on a second summer of discontent which feature more radio stations closures on AM, small FM size stations and one FM station in Canada's #4 market. Also layoffs in Kingston and London, and across iHeart in the USA. Matt also won…
Sept. 3, 2024
Jeff Umbro: The Podglomerate Approach
Jeff Umbro, is the founder of The Podglomerate, an award-winning podcast services firm specialized in production, marketing, and monetization of outstanding content.
Aug. 27, 2024
Sharon Taylor: High Performance Podcasting
Sharon Taylor, Senior Vice President of Podcast Strategy and Product Operations at Triton, discusses her career journey from hospitality management to podcasting. She joined Omny Studio in 2016, initially on a contract basis, and later becoming CEO.
Aug. 19, 2024
Todd Cochrane: Podcasting in the Age of AI
Todd Cochrane, the CEO of Blubrry, returns to discuss the state of AI in podcasting, and how Blubrry's new Thrive bundle is leveraging AI to provide podcasters with efficient production tools within an integrated platform.
Aug. 13, 2024
Dan Misener: The Art & Science of Podcasting
Dan Misener and Jonas Woost from Bumper have released a brand new tool for their clients to help solve a number of analytic pain points for podcasters. Dan will tell us about that but we also wanted to ask him about everything else in podcasting.
Aug. 6, 2024
Carlota G: Radio Ressurxtion
Carlota G is the midday host at 107.5 XTreme Radio in Vegas. We discussed her early career path in radio, starting as a vinyl collector in high school and later transitioning from a medical billing job and then into broadcast...
July 30, 2024
Mac Prichard: Find Your Dream Job
At least once a year I get the urge to do an episode about career management and what to do when there are mass layoffs from the impactful culprits like Bell, Audacy, iHeart, Corus, Rogers, or Cumulus. Yes these aren't the only companies that lay off staff but it feels worse when public companies d…
July 23, 2024
Rob Grant: Kickin' It On Air
This week, I speak with Rob Grant from 101.5 Today Radio in Calgary. Back in 2022 I went to Spain and landed in Seville for the Copa Del Rey final between Real Betis and Valencia. On my Instagram I wondered why there were so many firecrackers going off. It was Rob who explained that it is the Valen…
July 16, 2024
Jeff Woods: Bi The Book
Jeff Woods returns to the show. He was a guest way way back in 2016 in Episode 2. Back then we spoke about his (then) new book, Radio, Records and Rockstars. Shortly after came the creation of a successful radio show and podcast. In this episode you will hear his process of creating an episode, the…
July 9, 2024
Alan Cross: Music is Back
Back in August of 2020, I had Alan Cross on the show to talk about the issues facing the music industry in the wake of the pandemic. In 2022, we could have declared that music was back but we still didn't have any real numbers with so many people trying to make up for lost time, missed shows, and t…
July 2, 2024
Jeremy Baker: The Wanderer
It appears that Jeremy Baker has come full circle. After starting the commercial part of his career at the Zone in Victoria, Jeremy has returned. We discuss his early years buying 90's CD's, listening to 99.3 the Fox, X, and other alternative formated radio. We talked about his time working univers…
June 25, 2024
Jeremy Sinon: Radio's Digital OG
Meet Jeremy Sinon, VP of Digital Products & Strategy at Hubbard Radio.
June 18, 2024
Scot Turner: Airwaves and Soundwaves
Another episode years in the making. Scot Turner recently retired from Evanov Radio in Brantford, Ontario. Scot discussed his experiences in radio programming, sharing insights on how to navigate challenges and create successful radio stations, including CFNY, 94.5 The Beat, Dave-FM in Kitchener, a…
June 11, 2024
Heather Furr: Getting Digital Direction
Heather Furr is the Director of Digital for the Bob & Sheri Show. They have 70 radio affiliates that they work with. Inside the walls of one radio station, digital strategy is an ongoing discussion and debate over best practi...
June 4, 2024
Sue Haas: Fast Forward To Video
Last time Sue Haas was on the show, she had just moved over from Blue Ant Media to start as the President and COO of NLogic. Well, almost a year has gone by since then, and Sue's back to let us know how it's going.
If you're listening in Canada, you're probably aware that NLogic has been a stead…
May 28, 2024
Roz Weston: It Almost Never Happened
I reached out to Roz Weston when he was releasing his book, A Little Bit Broken in September of 2022. So that is not completely true - I sent an email to the publisher requesting an interview and you know how that can go. Publisher prefers TV over a podcast so on and so forth.