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3 Reasons Why a Podcast Is Exactly The Supertool Your Business Needs Right Now
What if I told you that a single “supertool” could empower you and your business with each of the following accomplishments in the next 12 months?
Fifty friendly meetings with the exact people you need to meet to propel your business, and a strategically curated community of several dozen game-changing industry leaders, innovators, and decision-makers with you as its founder An efficiently deployed strategic internal communication asset with critical messaging, training, and compliance directly from top leadership to all of your company, employees, investors, or partners anywhere with empathy and context.
Succeed with Internal Communication in Business: Are You Really Using Your Inside Voice?
Do you have a real strategy for internal communication?
The research is clear. Companies with thoughtful, effective internal communication strategies achieve more — and generate much higher returns — than organizations with poor communication. If that doesn’t surprise you, this might:
One of the most effective strategies for internal communication being deployed by more and more large brands is — Podcasts.
Hope City: Teens Find Extraordinary Common Ground with Images of Hope
Traumatized teens and centers of influence find extraordinary common ground with images of hope. Behind a wolf mask. In an empty theater. On the roof of a stadium.
These are places from which three very different people, all participants in a collaborative initiative, found evidence of hope. In each of these, the choice to reach for a glimpse of this intangible yet undeniably necessary power was instrumental in transforming an obstacle into an opportunity.
From Pioneer to Patient: Discovering Hope in the Teaching of Caring
“He told me the diagnosis, and I started crying. I put my sunglasses on, got into a taxi, went home, and opened the door. And started screaming.”
This is her story…that Thursday was her worst day.
Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks has had four significant shocks in her life. And the “Ortiz” part of the name? It’s important. The Puerto Rican-born, Catholic-educated Dean of a leading graduate school of social work at a prolific Jewish university is a pioneer and true leader in the field, a professor, a self-taught trailblazer for Hispanic social workers, author, and supportive wife of an entertainer. For almost a year, though, she has primarily been a woman. A woman fighting to stay alive. She has seen her priorities suddenly smashed, transformed into a mortal battle with ovarian cancer.
This Business Podcast Filled a Famous Arena 96 Times Over on a $5 Marketing Budget
If someone told you that they could fill Madison Square Garden ten times on a marketing budget of just a hundred bucks, how fast would you dismiss them? What about a hundred times?
Well, don’t be too hasty. That pretty much sizes up what we’ve done.
Part Art/Part Bold Experiment: Uncloaking Hope For People With Compelling Stories of Adversity
Let’s start with this…Hope is…One of the most powerful forces in the Universe.
Google search results deliver the word “hope” twenty percent more than it does the word “God”. Translation: In the one place on Earth where everyone is connected, this word actually appears more often than His name. While both words are virtually universal, this must point to how much of life is connected to this concept.
Why Your Podcast Should Have a Ritual
Does your podcast have a ritual? It should.
Rituals are moments, touchstones, mile-markers, or just plain old familiar territory that your listener can look forward to in each episode. A certain music sting that happens around the same point in each episode. A game you play, a series of pop culture sound bites to welcome the listener each show, or even an expression they know you’ll say in certain situations. It can also be as simple as very enjoyable, carefully selected theme music.
Camp Kid Warrior: Fighting for Hope with Health
“I want to be stronger because I want to stand up to the world. A girl who’s strong and isn’t scared of the people, that can sing loud, and that just lets it go.”
Eight year old Diana expresses one of her hopes, as she trots purposefully around a park in the town of Hempstead, Long Island. She and her seven-year-old sister Ashley take turns with a Holga camera, capturing frame after frame of sights they feel inspire the notion of hope, all while shadowed by the founder of The Hope Is Project, Sarah Takako Skinner. Skinner watchfully documents their experience on her own digital camera, and coaches their progress.