July 31, 2025 • 34 mins
This coaching session with Reiki Master Sharon explores how to organically promote your spiritual offers while staying in alignment. We dive into how to repurpose video content into an audio podcast, update your YouTube playlists for better visibility, and take soulful steps toward podcast growth, without tech overwhelm or burnout. Tune in for grounded guidance and inspiring clarity.
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Foreign.
Hey, hey, hey.
This is Kim Parkinson and youare listening to Podcasting for Spiritual
Women Today.
I have another coaching callrecording and I'm super excited because
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this one's a little bitdifferent and I think a lot of people
can associate with it.
So Sharon Hayes is the ownerof Reiki Master Sharon YouTube channel,
and she's creating basically avideo only podcast, which normally
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isn't in my wheelhouse as faras all the tips and tricks that I
can offer, but I do have someexperience as I've been around the
block a little bit.
And I've actually had severaldifferent YouTube channels along
the way.
And I thought, you know what,I'm going to just kind of work on
this to help her just kind ofgrow a little bit more with what
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I know and see if she'swilling to expand to maybe some audio.
So we kind of go over a bunchof different steps that she can do
right away, and then we alsogo right into a few things that she
might be able to do if shechooses to go the audio path as well.
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So one other thing to notehere is I chose to really keep this
at a cost minimum for Sharon.
So YouTube, as you know, is free.
And then I'm offering to her acouple of really economical free
options to create some audioand some content.
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So if you listen in reallyclosely, you'll get a couple of tips
and tricks that I have on howyou can make your audio sound better
and on how you can deliveryour audio to the world with minimal
costs.
So this also will go alongwith episode five, where I talk about
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how you can actually getstarted with a podcast for about
20 bucks or so.
I hope you enjoy this coachingepisode and I look forward to bringing
you another one in the future.
Let's dive in.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Sharon, can you tell me alittle bit about your podcast and
who you are and what you do?
Hello, I am Sharon and I havea page called Reiki master Sharon
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on YouTube.
I'm also available on Facebookand I'm not really on Instagram and
TikTok too much, but they arethere if you find me.
So I have a podcast stylesegment on my YouTube channel which
is called Meeting of the Minds.
And I meet with differentspiritual people in the spiritual
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community and we talk aboutcertain subjects that we feel are
important for people to kindof, you know, go over and think about
and things like that.
And then I also have apersonal segment where I'm just kind
of speaking in video aboutcertain topics, which I call that
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Saturday Sabbath, which, thatis a weekly thing.
The meeting the Vines is kindof just whenever they come up.
It's more of a fun thing for me.
But yeah, that's, that's who I am.
I, I'm also a Reiki master.
I'm a trauma informed coach,author of the book Transmute the
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Shadow.
I also did a book with mydaughter, which was the Twisted Carnival
through the Shadows Veil on Amazon.
And I am a licensed massagetherapist and I really enjoy learning
more about energy.
Awesome.
I love that.
I love that.
I love the spiritual niche.
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I love the spirituality of that.
And thank you for your hardwork as a massage therapist.
I have also partaking in that,that venue as well, so.
And I know it's hard work.
I absolutely do.
So kudos to you.
All right, if you were to waveyour magic wand in six months, what
would you like from your show?
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From my show, I would like tobe able to reach more people.
I would like to have moresteady people coming and actually
knowing that it's there, youknow, coming every week to check
it out and things like that.
I would like to see somemonetization from that since I'm
actually not able to do themassage therapy right now.
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So I am looking at otheravenues of, you know, making compensation
for my bills and things like that.
So.
Sure, yeah, that's theultimate goal.
Yeah.
Okay.
And.
And you have, you have acourse or something that you can
direct people to or do youhave some way to work with you that
you talk about in your show at all?
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So I do have different thingsthat I do offer.
Like I have a program calledthe Oracle program, which is a 30
day course.
But when you get into thecontainer, I am not taking you out
of it.
It's just, it's based around a30 day program.
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We have 30 days of journaling prompts.
We make four week or fourSundays on Zoom.
And we have certain thingsthat we go over.
We do limited beliefs, then wego into inner child healing and then
money mindsets and gratitudeand abundance.
But once you're in the group,then you basically can stay and go
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into other cohorts if you'd like.
And then I also do aindividual type coaching program
which is called transformativeenergetic coaching program.
And I don't really talk aboutwhat I offer so much on specific
videos that I'm doing in my podcast.
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I try to keep it more towardswhat the topic is, but I do have
those things listed and I domake videos on those every so often.
But I haven't really made aset spot in my videos where I'm actually
saying what my offers arebecause I also do, you know, remote
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Reiki sessions and I do divineguidance with Tarot and Oracle cards
and things like that too.
So I guess to answer yourquestion, I, I'm probably not using
that as much as I probablycould, but I want to also find a
balance where I don't feellike I'm trying to sell people or
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go off of topic of what I'mtalking about in the podcast too.
Absolutely.
I totally get it.
So my suggestion here is,remember the old adage that selling
is serving.
And so my suggestion here isto add it organically as you're talking
about whatever the topic is.
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So I did watch a couple ofyour videos earlier today and it
is, this is going to be alittle bit of a different audit because
usually I just do an audio.
So I'm going to kind of giveyou what I know about the audio,
but we're going to try to tryto also incorporate what I do know
also about YouTube videos and stuff.
Sue.
So it's going to be a littlebit of a different audit than I usually
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do, but we'll, we'll getthrough it so organically in a podcast,
you could talk about youroffer right away.
Like just be like, I know thatyou guys have been watching for a
while.
I have this wonderful offerfor a one month session and I'm going
to be talking a little bitabout how we do this and then you
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kind of organically then gointo that, kind of dropping those
seeds of oh, she's got something.
Oh, okay, let me now go and look.
Because if somebody iswatching a YouTube video on their
TV, which is, that's where Iwatch most of the YouTube videos.
They don't see those, so theydon't know that there was anything
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to go click on.
Unless you tell them in thevideo that there's something to click
on.
And you could do this at thebeginning of the episode or if you
don't, if it doesn't feelaligned, you could do it at the end
of the episode or evensomewhere in between.
You know, like if you'retalking about something very specific
and you know that that was ajournal prompt this week, how magical
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is that?
That you could just tie it inand just say, you could also join
this and you would have gottenthis as a journal prompt.
And we do this every month.
And here's the, the link is inthe show notes, but here's also some
information and maybe say thelink, if you have an easy link, you
know, in there.
Alternatively, if you edityour videos, you could, you know,
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maybe put like a little clickhere buttons or something in there.
I do know YouTube allows youto do that as well.
So.
Yeah, I haven't quite figuredthat out yet, but.
But it is something that Icould look into, you know, and I
do have a website and I don't.
I haven't quite updated it yetbecause the Oracle program is rather
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new.
So I haven't really placed itinto my website yet, but I definitely
can do that too that way.
Like, go toreikimastersharin.com and then you
can find it.
Yes.
Make it simple.
Make it super simple.
Don't throw a ton of links atthem in the episode.
Just the one link to whateverit is that you want to send them
to.
And then that would be a greatway to get them into your programs.
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Right.
Or get them interested in your programs.
Now, do you have a newsletterthat you offer?
I don't know.
I. I have been consideringmaybe doing like a substack.
Yeah.
But I haven't gotten that far yet.
Yeah, one step at a time.
So we won't.
If you ever decide to do that,that's also a great place to send
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them.
That's.
That was kind of where I wasgoing with that.
But not necessary if.
If it's too much on all piecesright now.
My goal here is like one stepat a time, and then when you're comfortable
with that step, then move onto the next step.
You know, move on to the nextstep type thing.
So I did take a look, and onyour YouTube channel, you have the
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home with an introduction.
I love the introduction.
And then you have the playlist.
Well, it is videos and shorts,but everybody's got those too.
And some playlists.
But the playlists specificallydon't say, say which.
Like, they say meeting of theminds, and then they say Saturn day,
Sabbath.
But they don't actually saythat either one of those is a podcast.
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So I struggled trying tofigure out which one of those was
like, your podcast.
My suggestion, they.
They do make a podcast link in YouTube.
Like, you can actually go tothe playlist and then say.
It says, like, start a podcast.
You could put them all in there.
Or you could say, like,meeting of the minds.
Like, you know, podcast orsomething like that.
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I. I don't know exactly whatthe ramifications are in YouTube
for this, but that's kind of like.
Like, I didn't realize thatthose were the podcasts.
I just thought, oh, they'renot other playlists, so I had to
kind of go through them all.
So you got some.
You got some views on a coupleof different things here.
All right, but as far as the name.
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So I'm going to start withMeeting of the Minds.
Meeting of the Minds couldmean a lot of things.
So Meeting of the Minds couldbe a corporate event, or it could
be, you know, just a bunch of,like, bros hanging out.
So maybe rename that playlistto Meeting of the Minds for somebody
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specific, you know, or something.
Something maybe more honed inon what it is or in who you're trying
to draw.
My goal here is like, keyword,keyword for keyword.
You know, who's that for?
So that when people go to yourplaylist, they're not like, meeting
of the Minds.
Is she having, like, a board meeting?
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I'm not watching that one.
You know, you want them to go and.
And you want it to say, like,you know, this is.
This is very.
We're talking to spiritualcommunity or something.
Yes, exactly.
This is for me.
I want.
I want to go watch that.
And then I totally understandthe Saturn day Sabbath.
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I don't know how you say thatwithout, like.
I almost said.
Every time I read it, maybebecause of my Boston accent, I was
like, Saturday.
I don't know how many timesyou do.
That's why I do it, because Ido it on Saturday, and Saturday is
Saturn Day.
But a lot of people don'trealize that the days of the week
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are named after the planets.
So because when I starteddoing Reiki, I seen a lot of things,
like, energetically, and Istarted to see, like, I see things
differently than other people.
Other people usually see,like, aura.
They see a color.
And I tend to see more symbols.
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Like, I will sometimes see,like, triangles, like, right side
up, upside down.
I'll see alchemic symbols forthe planets.
And I was.
When I first started, I waslike, what does it mean?
And what I came to find outwas, is that somebody's sun sign
I would see in a certainchakra, and then it would resonate
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with the ruling planet.
So then I would notice that itwent from the days of the week, so
Sunday through Saturday.
And then I was like, okay, soif, you know, Sunday is our highest
chakra, and then, you know,the root chakra is kind of like the
more dense of them, then itmakes sense that the Sabbath would
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be on your day of rest, whereyou have the most dense energy.
So I struggled with that a lotwhen I was, you know, growing up.
Why is the Sabbath Saturdayfor, you know, the Jewish community
and Sunday for Christians.
And I was like, why would theychange it?
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So once I seen that, I waslike, well, I'm going to honor it
on Saturday now because Iunderstand it energetically.
Perfect.
I love that.
I love that.
I love the name of it, honestly.
But like I said, I thoughtwhen I say it out loud, I do say
Saturday.
For some reason.
The brain just doesn't it.
Yeah, your brain goes there.
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So you've got 10 videos inthere, and you've got some great
content.
I know that your very firstone you talked about.
You talked about death.
You went right into it.
You went dove.
Right in.
Which I love it.
But you didn't have any description.
Yeah, there was no descriptionin there.
But the great thing aboutYouTube is you can go back and you
can add that.
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So you can add that at anytime and you can add your links.
There's no links in that one either.
So if somebody found.
If that was the only videothat somebody found, they would know
nothing else about you.
So my suggestion, easy, easything is at least just go in there
and just kind of tweak thoseat least with your link or some way
to reach you or anything likethat, just to get that.
And so here's my tidbit about you.
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You mentioned before the callhere that you didn't know exactly
how to get these up onto audio.
You've only done YouTube,because, of course YouTube's free,
which is nice, but you're notseeing maybe all of the numbers.
You do have a number ofsubscribers, so that's great.
285 subscribers.
That's the beauty of YouTubeis you can actually see those right
away.
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Right.
And you have 272 videos.
So congratulations.
That's amazing.
Thank you.
I would say out of those 272videos, you probably have enough
content to actually turn thisalso into another form of media,
which is audio.
Right.
So an audio podcast.
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You can start an audio podcastfor free on Spotify for podcasters.
And all that requires is that you.
What are you using now foryour editing software?
Do you use an editing softwareor you just upload it as is?
Sometimes it depends.
Mostly I just upload it andthen I do edit it.
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Sometimes if, like, I'mmeeting with somebody and say, you
know, we've been talking inthe beginning of the video, and I
just want to go straight towhere I started talking.
Sometimes I do that straightfrom my phone, like with the.
What's it called?
Like, the camera setting.
Yep.
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You can do it from the phonethat way.
Or sometimes I go into VideoMaker, I think is the one that I
have.
Yep.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I believe out of VideoMaker, anyway, I believe you can
actually download just theaudio, which is nice, right?
So after you do your editing,editing for your video, then.
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And this is like it.
This is an additional step,but I don't think it's going to be
a hard actual step.
And I also believe you'll beable to reach a ton more people too.
Because the thing about video,right, I do love video.
I do have a YouTube channel myself.
But I.
If I'm walking my dog in thearea that I'm in, I can't watch a
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video because I have no cellservice in this area.
And so I have a tendency tolisten to audio podcasts that are
downloaded onto my.
My device.
So this is not a. I need toadd more content.
This is.
Let me take that content andrepurpose it even further.
And.
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And the reach of who I can.
Who I can serve.
Right.
And who will listen.
So again, Spotify forpodcasters is free and you can upload
just the audio after you'veedited your video and uploaded that
to YouTube, take the audioonly and then upload that to Spotify
for Podcasters and release itas a podcast.
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Now, when you do that, you'llhave to start a podcast.
You'll probably want to get apiece of COVID art or something like
that.
Make that cover art.
Something that encompassesboth the meeting of the minds and
the Saturn day Sabbath, if youchoose to put them together, which
I think is a great ideabecause that gives you content continuously,
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maybe sometimes twice a week,right in your cover art and in your
title, I would name itsomething that is very keyword driven.
So manifestation on Saturn,Saturn day Sabbath, or for spiritual
women or something, orspiritual people or something like
that, you know, and there'slots of different choices.
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I would definitely look atyour keywords and who you're trying
to reach.
Who's that per.
That ideal client for you?
And then what?
Who are they?
You know, are they busy moms?
Are you actually speaking to moms?
Are you actually speaking tonature walkers?
Are you actually speaking to gardeners?
You know, who is it thatyou're speaking to?
And then really nail that down.
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And that is going to be your four.
So it's going to be, you know,keyword, keyword of those.
That's the content that youalready have for.
And then the keyword is likenature walkers or gardeners or moms
or Things like that.
Okay, now, in this particularkeywords, now, I do know also that
you may be like, I don't.
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I don't know.
Maybe this is a hard thing.
If you take the audio that youdo have and you put that into ChatGPT
and ask it to pull out thekeywords, it will do that for you.
So you can.
You can give that.
You can give that a try andsee how that works.
It's not always like, SEO Richor anything like that, but it will
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give you a start.
Right.
It will give you a start onwhere to go.
And that might actually alsohelp you rename Meeting of the Minds
to give you something a littlebit more pinpointed on who it's for.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because I use ChatGPT a lot.
Yeah, right.
And I usually do use it tomake my descriptions for my videos.
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But you're right, I wouldprobably benefit more from, you know,
putting my website link inthere so that it's not so hard for
people to get in contact with me.
I know that sometimes whenpeople have to take too many steps,
then they're just like, Iforget it.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
So.
And that is actually one ofthe other things that we do with
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audio podcasts specifically,is only drop one or two links in
there.
Don't drop all the links for, like.
And maybe even this is truefor your Facebook page as well.
I mean, your YouTube page aswell is.
Don't drop all of, like,follow me on Facebook, follow me
on Instagram.
I know you said you don't useit as much, but, you know, all of
that, don't make it confusingfor them.
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Just say, get my programs here.
Like, and maybe like a linktree, you know, I mean, you don't
have to do link tree, but, youknow, just one thing, and.
And then they get there andthey can make that decision.
You know, ultimately it wouldbe hopefully your.
Your.
Your website page, and thenthey can make that decision.
They can really get you.
If you have, like, a littlevideo right there on your homepage,
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that would be amazing becausethat would be like, hey, hey, this
is your.
You've reached the right spot.
And I just want to let youknow, if you're looking for my Oracle
program, it's here.
And if you're looking for thejournaling prompts, they're there.
And, you know, kind of make it fun.
Like, it could be a cool,like, little.
Little tidbit on your homepage too.
So.
Yeah.
So how does that feel?
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Adding that extra step for the audio?
Is that something that youthink you would try to do.
Do you want to dive more intothat or are you like.
No, not now.
I'm.
I'm thinking about it.
I'm considering it.
I just.
Do you know if Spotify hasspecific requirements for their audio
like audible?
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No.
So that's actually the goodpart about it.
So I'm also going to give you,I'm going to give you the name of
a website that allows you todo two hours of free audio a month
and make it to the levels thatyou need not only for your podcast
but also for Audible.
Now you do have to go to acx.com that's the audible like back
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of the house thing and they'llgive you the bit rate that you need.
So you might have to changethat in this program.
But basically what you need todo is go to a website called Auphonics.
So that's a U P H O N I c dotcom and I'll give you that afterwards
too so you don't have toremember it.
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And what you're going to do isyou're going to load in your, your
audio into that.
I think they do take video.
Now I don't, I don't know thatyou want to waste the two hours with
video.
It might be one hour forvideo, but two hours for audio every
month for free.
And realistically it's aminimal price if you choose like
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you can pay one time, it's notlike a monthly fee, it's like a one
time for like nine, nine hoursor something like that.
And then what you're going todo is put that in, put your audio
in there and then at thebottom it will give you bit rates
for podcasts and audiobooks.
And now you just have todouble check it and make sure that
it's the correct according toACX standards.
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But for the podcast it'salready done for you.
There you hit go.
And what it will do is it willlevel your audio to make it sound
louder so you'll always haveaudio that is in the same range rather
than having severe dips and,and really high notes and things
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like that.
I use it all the time forclient audio.
You can actually add yourintro to it and your outro to it
too if you wanted to.
You don't have to do intro andoutro how you're doing.
It's fine right now, but itwill help you put your, your audio
where you want it to be andwhere all of the players want it
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to be too.
So yeah, you can absolutely dothat, yeah.
If you chose another set,another area which is not free, but
Buzzsprout will actually dolike the leveling for you right inside
of there.
It's called Magic Mastering, Ithink is what it's called.
It is an additional fee for that.
But we're trying to.
We're kind of trying tobootstrap this today.
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So I'm giving you all the tipsand tricks on the, on the lower side
of the cost analysis here.
So how do you feel about that?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, I should definitely lookinto Spotify and see what happens.
So, like, do you think withSpotify that I could maybe go into
Video Maker and just get theaudio out and possibly just upload
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it to Spotify, like that?
Would that be.
Yeah, yeah, you probably could.
Absolutely.
My suggestion is give it atry, right?
You know, publish it and thenlisten to it yourself before you
tell anybody that you'veactually like released it or anything.
Just listen to it yourself andsee if you can hear it.
If you can hear it, then youknow that the audio is fine.
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And then just continue to release.
If you're like, you know what,it's really faint.
Give the phonic a try becausethe iphonic will just make it louder
for you, make it to the levels.
So, yeah, and I know it's anadditional step, but again, every
one of these steps that I'vegiven you is a free.
There is a free option.
So that's kind of the coolpart about it too, right?
You can get.
At least give it a try.
When you get a lot of audiolike I do, then you have to pay for
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some services, which is fine.
But it's a, it's a goodalternative for like two hours and
your Saturn day Sabbathsaren't very long.
It would only be like themeeting of the minds that maybe you
could only do one a month orsomething like that.
So that's one step, one way ofmaybe getting more listeners out
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there.
Because those people, you cantell them that your new podcast dropped
on their phone and then theycan go right to Apple or Spotify
or any of that and get yourpodcast through that.
So you'll want to be up on anykind of distribution platforms that
you, that you can get onto.
And Spotify for podcastershelps you with that too.
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So is, do you get monetizedwith Spotify?
I'm not sure how that works.
Yeah, no, not.
It doesn't monetize like aYouTube channel.
So you'll definitely.
If you want to try to get tothe monetization with the YouTube
channel, I would definitelystick with that.
As you know, it gets to be a lot.
Right.
There's a lot you need to.
You need to produce a lot ofcontent, you need to produce a lot
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of shorts and things like thatto get to the monetization stage.
And I think there's like,what, so many views in a 30 day period
or something like that.
Yeah.
So the podcast would be morefor more trust, more accountability,
more of you getting intopeople's ears and making sure that
those show notes always have a link.
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Right.
Directly to whatever you'reshowcasing in that episode.
So if you want to send them tothe Oracle or if you want to send
them to one of your programsor to your book even, you can do
that right there inside that.
And it's just for more deliverability.
It's a wider audience.
They say that YouTube is, it'sdefinitely growing.
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I'm not going to say it's notgrowing, but it's interesting.
YouTube sent out a thing nottoo long ago that said that.
I don't remember the numbersexactly, but I'll say that more people
listen to podcasts on YouTubethan any other platform, which was
actually them just saying thatmore people listen to it just on
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that one platform.
But the actual numbers are that.
Yes.
Okay, so maybe YouTube has 35%of the people on YouTube, but the
other, you know, 65% of peopleare listening on other podcasting
platforms.
It's just, you know, Apple'sgot maybe 25% of that and Spotify
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has got 10% of that.
And then all the other smallones have the other percentage.
So in order to get the full100%, why not expand to both video
and audio?
It just seems like a win winall the way around for everybody.
Great.
And I think YouTube does offera thing where you can download things.
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If you did want to listen tosomething that was on YouTube, you
could probably do that too.
I know that you were sayingthat you usually don't, but like,
I feel like with my videos youdon't necessarily have to watch me
to hear me.
You know what I mean?
Like so you could.
Like a lot of times I'll justlisten to like I listen to certain
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readers on YouTube and I don'talways watch the videos.
Like one of the ones that Ilisten to, she doesn't even have
a video.
She just has like a graphicand then she just speaks and talks
about her reading and Isometimes fall asleep to that because
her voice is so calming.
Yeah, you can actually do that.
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Right.
In the hosting platform.
So I use Captivate for mypodcast, and there's actually an
RSS feed.
So whenever a new podcastepisode comes out, I added that RSS
feed to my YouTube channel.
So if you go to my YouTubechannel and you click on my playlist,
you'll see podcasting forspiritual women there.
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And you.
You get the graphic, but thenall you get is my voice.
It.
Because the podcast isautomatically sent over to YouTube.
There's no video component toit, but there's.
It automatically gets sent over.
So if you wanted to only doone step, you could certainly do
it that way, too.
So totally up to you.
(30:09):
Yeah.
So what platform do you dothat from?
I do it from Captivate, but aslong as you.
You could even do it fromSpotify for podcasters.
As long as you get that, onceyou publish your first episode on
any platform, any of thedistribution platforms, you'll get
what they call an RSS feed, which.
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I know it sounds funny becauseI have a Boston accent.
It's.
Hold on.
R, R, S, S. Now I sound like apirate, you know.
You know the one that comesafter Q. Yeah.
Rsv.
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You'll get that link, andthat's the link that you put into
YouTube.
When you go back over toYouTube, you'll see in the back of
the house there, you'll see itsays playlist.
You click there and it says,start a podcast or add a new podcast.
And it will say, do you havean ISS feed?
And you'll just put that rightin there.
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And then it will automaticallypopulate every time you publish an
episode.
One step, One step and it's published.
I'm going to think of youevery time I see that now.
It's the rr.
Apparently, this.
I'm part pirate, too.
That's okay.
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All right.
Yeah.
I think that would beinteresting to, you know, be able
to reach more people, becauseobviously, that is the goal, is to
reach as many people with apositive message as I can.
And, you know, I thank you forthat, of course, because, you know,
(31:55):
I'm always open to new ways.
And, you know, with doing thiskind of work, it's like, there's
so many options, but it's just.
I feel like as soon as youstart, you kind of are like, okay,
well, I got that down.
Now I've, you know, built themuscle memory for it.
Now I can maybe take onsomething else.
(32:16):
And, you know, I'm just kindof always trying to expand, and I
think that's all part of thegame, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
And Like, I mentioned thebeginning, one step at a time.
If it's too much, no problem.
Just do those small, tiny tweaks.
As far as, like, changing thename in your YouTube playlist, you
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know, making sure that each ofthe episodes have some sort of, like,
link and some sort ofdescription in them.
Just little tweaks like that.
I noticed that you have thesame title screen for each one.
I know you can work on canvaon your phone and stuff like that.
If you had some really funtitle captions there, those would
(32:57):
be.
You know, those would beanother way to draw people in.
You know, like, a lot ofpeople, you'll see people, and they'll.
They'll, like, point to, like,some sort of, like, bubble in the
sky or something like that or,you know, something kind of cool.
So, you know, you could.
You could definitely playaround with that in YouTube if you
chose to just stay there andyou could see, like, oh, that.
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That title works really well.
You know, that caption title,that thumbnail really works really
well.
Or, no, that didn't work as well.
And go back to the old one.
They do allow you to do all ofthat, which is really, really nice
inside of you.
Awesome.
You're very welcome.
Is there anything else I canhelp you with today?
No, I think I. I guess that'sall I have for today.
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Awesome.
All right, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much forlistening to this episode of Podcasting
for Spiritual Women.
If you would like morestrategy and tips and sim tricks
on how to make your podcastbetter, how I recommend that you
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You can findthat@kpcreativemedia.com newsletter
until next time.
Foreign.
Hey, hey, hey.
This is Kim Parkinson and youare listening to Podcasting for Spiritual
Women Today.
I have another coaching callrecording and I'm super excited because
(00:20):
this one's a little bitdifferent and I think a lot of people
can associate with it.
So Sharon Hayes is the ownerof Reiki Master Sharon YouTube channel,
and she's creating basically avideo only podcast, which normally
(00:41):
isn't in my wheelhouse as faras all the tips and tricks that I
can offer, but I do have someexperience as I've been around the
block a little bit.
And I've actually had severaldifferent YouTube channels along
the way.
And I thought, you know what,I'm going to just kind of work on
this to help her just kind ofgrow a little bit more with what
(01:03):
I know and see if she'swilling to expand to maybe some audio.
So we kind of go over a bunchof different steps that she can do
right away, and then we alsogo right into a few things that she
might be able to do if shechooses to go the audio path as well.
(01:24):
So one other thing to notehere is I chose to really keep this
at a cost minimum for Sharon.
So YouTube, as you know, is free.
And then I'm offering to her acouple of really economical free
options to create some audioand some content.
(01:45):
So if you listen in reallyclosely, you'll get a couple of tips
and tricks that I have on howyou can make your audio sound better
and on how you can deliveryour audio to the world with minimal
costs.
So this also will go alongwith episode five, where I talk about
(02:06):
how you can actually getstarted with a podcast for about
20 bucks or so.
I hope you enjoy this coachingepisode and I look forward to bringing
you another one in the future.
Let's dive in.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Sharon, can you tell me alittle bit about your podcast and
who you are and what you do?
Hello, I am Sharon and I havea page called Reiki master Sharon
(02:31):
on YouTube.
I'm also available on Facebookand I'm not really on Instagram and
TikTok too much, but they arethere if you find me.
So I have a podcast stylesegment on my YouTube channel which
is called Meeting of the Minds.
And I meet with differentspiritual people in the spiritual
(02:56):
community and we talk aboutcertain subjects that we feel are
important for people to kindof, you know, go over and think about
and things like that.
And then I also have apersonal segment where I'm just kind
of speaking in video aboutcertain topics, which I call that
(03:16):
Saturday Sabbath, which, thatis a weekly thing.
The meeting the Vines is kindof just whenever they come up.
It's more of a fun thing for me.
But yeah, that's, that's who I am.
I, I'm also a Reiki master.
I'm a trauma informed coach,author of the book Transmute the
(03:37):
Shadow.
I also did a book with mydaughter, which was the Twisted Carnival
through the Shadows Veil on Amazon.
And I am a licensed massagetherapist and I really enjoy learning
more about energy.
Awesome.
I love that.
I love that.
I love the spiritual niche.
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I love the spirituality of that.
And thank you for your hardwork as a massage therapist.
I have also partaking in that,that venue as well, so.
And I know it's hard work.
I absolutely do.
So kudos to you.
All right, if you were to waveyour magic wand in six months, what
would you like from your show?
(04:20):
From my show, I would like tobe able to reach more people.
I would like to have moresteady people coming and actually
knowing that it's there, youknow, coming every week to check
it out and things like that.
I would like to see somemonetization from that since I'm
actually not able to do themassage therapy right now.
(04:42):
So I am looking at otheravenues of, you know, making compensation
for my bills and things like that.
So.
Sure, yeah, that's theultimate goal.
Yeah.
Okay.
And.
And you have, you have acourse or something that you can
direct people to or do youhave some way to work with you that
you talk about in your show at all?
(05:05):
So I do have different thingsthat I do offer.
Like I have a program calledthe Oracle program, which is a 30
day course.
But when you get into thecontainer, I am not taking you out
of it.
It's just, it's based around a30 day program.
(05:25):
We have 30 days of journaling prompts.
We make four week or fourSundays on Zoom.
And we have certain thingsthat we go over.
We do limited beliefs, then wego into inner child healing and then
money mindsets and gratitudeand abundance.
But once you're in the group,then you basically can stay and go
(05:47):
into other cohorts if you'd like.
And then I also do aindividual type coaching program
which is called transformativeenergetic coaching program.
And I don't really talk aboutwhat I offer so much on specific
videos that I'm doing in my podcast.
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I try to keep it more towardswhat the topic is, but I do have
those things listed and I domake videos on those every so often.
But I haven't really made aset spot in my videos where I'm actually
saying what my offers arebecause I also do, you know, remote
(06:30):
Reiki sessions and I do divineguidance with Tarot and Oracle cards
and things like that too.
So I guess to answer yourquestion, I, I'm probably not using
that as much as I probablycould, but I want to also find a
balance where I don't feellike I'm trying to sell people or
(06:52):
go off of topic of what I'mtalking about in the podcast too.
Absolutely.
I totally get it.
So my suggestion here is,remember the old adage that selling
is serving.
And so my suggestion here isto add it organically as you're talking
about whatever the topic is.
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So I did watch a couple ofyour videos earlier today and it
is, this is going to be alittle bit of a different audit because
usually I just do an audio.
So I'm going to kind of giveyou what I know about the audio,
but we're going to try to tryto also incorporate what I do know
also about YouTube videos and stuff.
Sue.
So it's going to be a littlebit of a different audit than I usually
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do, but we'll, we'll getthrough it so organically in a podcast,
you could talk about youroffer right away.
Like just be like, I know thatyou guys have been watching for a
while.
I have this wonderful offerfor a one month session and I'm going
to be talking a little bitabout how we do this and then you
(07:55):
kind of organically then gointo that, kind of dropping those
seeds of oh, she's got something.
Oh, okay, let me now go and look.
Because if somebody iswatching a YouTube video on their
TV, which is, that's where Iwatch most of the YouTube videos.
They don't see those, so theydon't know that there was anything
(08:15):
to go click on.
Unless you tell them in thevideo that there's something to click
on.
And you could do this at thebeginning of the episode or if you
don't, if it doesn't feelaligned, you could do it at the end
of the episode or evensomewhere in between.
You know, like if you'retalking about something very specific
and you know that that was ajournal prompt this week, how magical
(08:37):
is that?
That you could just tie it inand just say, you could also join
this and you would have gottenthis as a journal prompt.
And we do this every month.
And here's the, the link is inthe show notes, but here's also some
information and maybe say thelink, if you have an easy link, you
know, in there.
Alternatively, if you edityour videos, you could, you know,
(08:58):
maybe put like a little clickhere buttons or something in there.
I do know YouTube allows youto do that as well.
So.
Yeah, I haven't quite figuredthat out yet, but.
But it is something that Icould look into, you know, and I
do have a website and I don't.
I haven't quite updated it yetbecause the Oracle program is rather
(09:18):
new.
So I haven't really placed itinto my website yet, but I definitely
can do that too that way.
Like, go toreikimastersharin.com and then you
can find it.
Yes.
Make it simple.
Make it super simple.
Don't throw a ton of links atthem in the episode.
Just the one link to whateverit is that you want to send them
to.
And then that would be a greatway to get them into your programs.
(09:42):
Right.
Or get them interested in your programs.
Now, do you have a newsletterthat you offer?
I don't know.
I. I have been consideringmaybe doing like a substack.
Yeah.
But I haven't gotten that far yet.
Yeah, one step at a time.
So we won't.
If you ever decide to do that,that's also a great place to send
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them.
That's.
That was kind of where I wasgoing with that.
But not necessary if.
If it's too much on all piecesright now.
My goal here is like one stepat a time, and then when you're comfortable
with that step, then move onto the next step.
You know, move on to the nextstep type thing.
So I did take a look, and onyour YouTube channel, you have the
(10:23):
home with an introduction.
I love the introduction.
And then you have the playlist.
Well, it is videos and shorts,but everybody's got those too.
And some playlists.
But the playlists specificallydon't say, say which.
Like, they say meeting of theminds, and then they say Saturn day,
Sabbath.
But they don't actually saythat either one of those is a podcast.
(10:45):
So I struggled trying tofigure out which one of those was
like, your podcast.
My suggestion, they.
They do make a podcast link in YouTube.
Like, you can actually go tothe playlist and then say.
It says, like, start a podcast.
You could put them all in there.
Or you could say, like,meeting of the minds.
Like, you know, podcast orsomething like that.
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I. I don't know exactly whatthe ramifications are in YouTube
for this, but that's kind of like.
Like, I didn't realize thatthose were the podcasts.
I just thought, oh, they'renot other playlists, so I had to
kind of go through them all.
So you got some.
You got some views on a coupleof different things here.
All right, but as far as the name.
(11:26):
So I'm going to start withMeeting of the Minds.
Meeting of the Minds couldmean a lot of things.
So Meeting of the Minds couldbe a corporate event, or it could
be, you know, just a bunch of,like, bros hanging out.
So maybe rename that playlistto Meeting of the Minds for somebody
(11:49):
specific, you know, or something.
Something maybe more honed inon what it is or in who you're trying
to draw.
My goal here is like, keyword,keyword for keyword.
You know, who's that for?
So that when people go to yourplaylist, they're not like, meeting
of the Minds.
Is she having, like, a board meeting?
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I'm not watching that one.
You know, you want them to go and.
And you want it to say, like,you know, this is.
This is very.
We're talking to spiritualcommunity or something.
Yes, exactly.
This is for me.
I want.
I want to go watch that.
And then I totally understandthe Saturn day Sabbath.
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I don't know how you say thatwithout, like.
I almost said.
Every time I read it, maybebecause of my Boston accent, I was
like, Saturday.
I don't know how many timesyou do.
That's why I do it, because Ido it on Saturday, and Saturday is
Saturn Day.
But a lot of people don'trealize that the days of the week
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are named after the planets.
So because when I starteddoing Reiki, I seen a lot of things,
like, energetically, and Istarted to see, like, I see things
differently than other people.
Other people usually see,like, aura.
They see a color.
And I tend to see more symbols.
(13:13):
Like, I will sometimes see,like, triangles, like, right side
up, upside down.
I'll see alchemic symbols forthe planets.
And I was.
When I first started, I waslike, what does it mean?
And what I came to find outwas, is that somebody's sun sign
I would see in a certainchakra, and then it would resonate
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with the ruling planet.
So then I would notice that itwent from the days of the week, so
Sunday through Saturday.
And then I was like, okay, soif, you know, Sunday is our highest
chakra, and then, you know,the root chakra is kind of like the
more dense of them, then itmakes sense that the Sabbath would
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be on your day of rest, whereyou have the most dense energy.
So I struggled with that a lotwhen I was, you know, growing up.
Why is the Sabbath Saturdayfor, you know, the Jewish community
and Sunday for Christians.
And I was like, why would theychange it?
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So once I seen that, I waslike, well, I'm going to honor it
on Saturday now because Iunderstand it energetically.
Perfect.
I love that.
I love that.
I love the name of it, honestly.
But like I said, I thoughtwhen I say it out loud, I do say
Saturday.
For some reason.
The brain just doesn't it.
Yeah, your brain goes there.
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So you've got 10 videos inthere, and you've got some great
content.
I know that your very firstone you talked about.
You talked about death.
You went right into it.
You went dove.
Right in.
Which I love it.
But you didn't have any description.
Yeah, there was no descriptionin there.
But the great thing aboutYouTube is you can go back and you
can add that.
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So you can add that at anytime and you can add your links.
There's no links in that one either.
So if somebody found.
If that was the only videothat somebody found, they would know
nothing else about you.
So my suggestion, easy, easything is at least just go in there
and just kind of tweak thoseat least with your link or some way
to reach you or anything likethat, just to get that.
And so here's my tidbit about you.
(15:25):
You mentioned before the callhere that you didn't know exactly
how to get these up onto audio.
You've only done YouTube,because, of course YouTube's free,
which is nice, but you're notseeing maybe all of the numbers.
You do have a number ofsubscribers, so that's great.
285 subscribers.
That's the beauty of YouTubeis you can actually see those right
away.
(15:45):
Right.
And you have 272 videos.
So congratulations.
That's amazing.
Thank you.
I would say out of those 272videos, you probably have enough
content to actually turn thisalso into another form of media,
which is audio.
Right.
So an audio podcast.
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You can start an audio podcastfor free on Spotify for podcasters.
And all that requires is that you.
What are you using now foryour editing software?
Do you use an editing softwareor you just upload it as is?
Sometimes it depends.
Mostly I just upload it andthen I do edit it.
(16:29):
Sometimes if, like, I'mmeeting with somebody and say, you
know, we've been talking inthe beginning of the video, and I
just want to go straight towhere I started talking.
Sometimes I do that straightfrom my phone, like with the.
What's it called?
Like, the camera setting.
Yep.
(16:49):
You can do it from the phonethat way.
Or sometimes I go into VideoMaker, I think is the one that I
have.
Yep.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I believe out of VideoMaker, anyway, I believe you can
actually download just theaudio, which is nice, right?
So after you do your editing,editing for your video, then.
(17:11):
And this is like it.
This is an additional step,but I don't think it's going to be
a hard actual step.
And I also believe you'll beable to reach a ton more people too.
Because the thing about video,right, I do love video.
I do have a YouTube channel myself.
But I.
If I'm walking my dog in thearea that I'm in, I can't watch a
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video because I have no cellservice in this area.
And so I have a tendency tolisten to audio podcasts that are
downloaded onto my.
My device.
So this is not a. I need toadd more content.
This is.
Let me take that content andrepurpose it even further.
And.
(17:52):
And the reach of who I can.
Who I can serve.
Right.
And who will listen.
So again, Spotify forpodcasters is free and you can upload
just the audio after you'veedited your video and uploaded that
to YouTube, take the audioonly and then upload that to Spotify
for Podcasters and release itas a podcast.
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Now, when you do that, you'llhave to start a podcast.
You'll probably want to get apiece of COVID art or something like
that.
Make that cover art.
Something that encompassesboth the meeting of the minds and
the Saturn day Sabbath, if youchoose to put them together, which
I think is a great ideabecause that gives you content continuously,
(18:38):
maybe sometimes twice a week,right in your cover art and in your
title, I would name itsomething that is very keyword driven.
So manifestation on Saturn,Saturn day Sabbath, or for spiritual
women or something, orspiritual people or something like
that, you know, and there'slots of different choices.
(18:59):
I would definitely look atyour keywords and who you're trying
to reach.
Who's that per.
That ideal client for you?
And then what?
Who are they?
You know, are they busy moms?
Are you actually speaking to moms?
Are you actually speaking tonature walkers?
Are you actually speaking to gardeners?
You know, who is it thatyou're speaking to?
And then really nail that down.
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And that is going to be your four.
So it's going to be, you know,keyword, keyword of those.
That's the content that youalready have for.
And then the keyword is likenature walkers or gardeners or moms
or Things like that.
Okay, now, in this particularkeywords, now, I do know also that
you may be like, I don't.
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I don't know.
Maybe this is a hard thing.
If you take the audio that youdo have and you put that into ChatGPT
and ask it to pull out thekeywords, it will do that for you.
So you can.
You can give that.
You can give that a try andsee how that works.
It's not always like, SEO Richor anything like that, but it will
(20:03):
give you a start.
Right.
It will give you a start onwhere to go.
And that might actually alsohelp you rename Meeting of the Minds
to give you something a littlebit more pinpointed on who it's for.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because I use ChatGPT a lot.
Yeah, right.
And I usually do use it tomake my descriptions for my videos.
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But you're right, I wouldprobably benefit more from, you know,
putting my website link inthere so that it's not so hard for
people to get in contact with me.
I know that sometimes whenpeople have to take too many steps,
then they're just like, Iforget it.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
So.
And that is actually one ofthe other things that we do with
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audio podcasts specifically,is only drop one or two links in
there.
Don't drop all the links for, like.
And maybe even this is truefor your Facebook page as well.
I mean, your YouTube page aswell is.
Don't drop all of, like,follow me on Facebook, follow me
on Instagram.
I know you said you don't useit as much, but, you know, all of
that, don't make it confusingfor them.
(21:08):
Just say, get my programs here.
Like, and maybe like a linktree, you know, I mean, you don't
have to do link tree, but, youknow, just one thing, and.
And then they get there andthey can make that decision.
You know, ultimately it wouldbe hopefully your.
Your.
Your website page, and thenthey can make that decision.
They can really get you.
If you have, like, a littlevideo right there on your homepage,
(21:30):
that would be amazing becausethat would be like, hey, hey, this
is your.
You've reached the right spot.
And I just want to let youknow, if you're looking for my Oracle
program, it's here.
And if you're looking for thejournaling prompts, they're there.
And, you know, kind of make it fun.
Like, it could be a cool,like, little.
Little tidbit on your homepage too.
So.
Yeah.
So how does that feel?
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Adding that extra step for the audio?
Is that something that youthink you would try to do.
Do you want to dive more intothat or are you like.
No, not now.
I'm.
I'm thinking about it.
I'm considering it.
I just.
Do you know if Spotify hasspecific requirements for their audio
like audible?
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No.
So that's actually the goodpart about it.
So I'm also going to give you,I'm going to give you the name of
a website that allows you todo two hours of free audio a month
and make it to the levels thatyou need not only for your podcast
but also for Audible.
Now you do have to go to acx.com that's the audible like back
(22:37):
of the house thing and they'llgive you the bit rate that you need.
So you might have to changethat in this program.
But basically what you need todo is go to a website called Auphonics.
So that's a U P H O N I c dotcom and I'll give you that afterwards
too so you don't have toremember it.
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And what you're going to do isyou're going to load in your, your
audio into that.
I think they do take video.
Now I don't, I don't know thatyou want to waste the two hours with
video.
It might be one hour forvideo, but two hours for audio every
month for free.
And realistically it's aminimal price if you choose like
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you can pay one time, it's notlike a monthly fee, it's like a one
time for like nine, nine hoursor something like that.
And then what you're going todo is put that in, put your audio
in there and then at thebottom it will give you bit rates
for podcasts and audiobooks.
And now you just have todouble check it and make sure that
it's the correct according toACX standards.
(23:39):
But for the podcast it'salready done for you.
There you hit go.
And what it will do is it willlevel your audio to make it sound
louder so you'll always haveaudio that is in the same range rather
than having severe dips and,and really high notes and things
(24:00):
like that.
I use it all the time forclient audio.
You can actually add yourintro to it and your outro to it
too if you wanted to.
You don't have to do intro andoutro how you're doing.
It's fine right now, but itwill help you put your, your audio
where you want it to be andwhere all of the players want it
(24:20):
to be too.
So yeah, you can absolutely dothat, yeah.
If you chose another set,another area which is not free, but
Buzzsprout will actually dolike the leveling for you right inside
of there.
It's called Magic Mastering, Ithink is what it's called.
It is an additional fee for that.
But we're trying to.
We're kind of trying tobootstrap this today.
(24:42):
So I'm giving you all the tipsand tricks on the, on the lower side
of the cost analysis here.
So how do you feel about that?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, I should definitely lookinto Spotify and see what happens.
So, like, do you think withSpotify that I could maybe go into
Video Maker and just get theaudio out and possibly just upload
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it to Spotify, like that?
Would that be.
Yeah, yeah, you probably could.
Absolutely.
My suggestion is give it atry, right?
You know, publish it and thenlisten to it yourself before you
tell anybody that you'veactually like released it or anything.
Just listen to it yourself andsee if you can hear it.
If you can hear it, then youknow that the audio is fine.
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And then just continue to release.
If you're like, you know what,it's really faint.
Give the phonic a try becausethe iphonic will just make it louder
for you, make it to the levels.
So, yeah, and I know it's anadditional step, but again, every
one of these steps that I'vegiven you is a free.
There is a free option.
So that's kind of the coolpart about it too, right?
You can get.
At least give it a try.
When you get a lot of audiolike I do, then you have to pay for
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some services, which is fine.
But it's a, it's a goodalternative for like two hours and
your Saturn day Sabbathsaren't very long.
It would only be like themeeting of the minds that maybe you
could only do one a month orsomething like that.
So that's one step, one way ofmaybe getting more listeners out
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there.
Because those people, you cantell them that your new podcast dropped
on their phone and then theycan go right to Apple or Spotify
or any of that and get yourpodcast through that.
So you'll want to be up on anykind of distribution platforms that
you, that you can get onto.
And Spotify for podcastershelps you with that too.
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So is, do you get monetizedwith Spotify?
I'm not sure how that works.
Yeah, no, not.
It doesn't monetize like aYouTube channel.
So you'll definitely.
If you want to try to get tothe monetization with the YouTube
channel, I would definitelystick with that.
As you know, it gets to be a lot.
Right.
There's a lot you need to.
You need to produce a lot ofcontent, you need to produce a lot
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of shorts and things like thatto get to the monetization stage.
And I think there's like,what, so many views in a 30 day period
or something like that.
Yeah.
So the podcast would be morefor more trust, more accountability,
more of you getting intopeople's ears and making sure that
those show notes always have a link.
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Right.
Directly to whatever you'reshowcasing in that episode.
So if you want to send them tothe Oracle or if you want to send
them to one of your programsor to your book even, you can do
that right there inside that.
And it's just for more deliverability.
It's a wider audience.
They say that YouTube is, it'sdefinitely growing.
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I'm not going to say it's notgrowing, but it's interesting.
YouTube sent out a thing nottoo long ago that said that.
I don't remember the numbersexactly, but I'll say that more people
listen to podcasts on YouTubethan any other platform, which was
actually them just saying thatmore people listen to it just on
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that one platform.
But the actual numbers are that.
Yes.
Okay, so maybe YouTube has 35%of the people on YouTube, but the
other, you know, 65% of peopleare listening on other podcasting
platforms.
It's just, you know, Apple'sgot maybe 25% of that and Spotify
(28:21):
has got 10% of that.
And then all the other smallones have the other percentage.
So in order to get the full100%, why not expand to both video
and audio?
It just seems like a win winall the way around for everybody.
Great.
And I think YouTube does offera thing where you can download things.
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If you did want to listen tosomething that was on YouTube, you
could probably do that too.
I know that you were sayingthat you usually don't, but like,
I feel like with my videos youdon't necessarily have to watch me
to hear me.
You know what I mean?
Like so you could.
Like a lot of times I'll justlisten to like I listen to certain
(29:06):
readers on YouTube and I don'talways watch the videos.
Like one of the ones that Ilisten to, she doesn't even have
a video.
She just has like a graphicand then she just speaks and talks
about her reading and Isometimes fall asleep to that because
her voice is so calming.
Yeah, you can actually do that.
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Right.
In the hosting platform.
So I use Captivate for mypodcast, and there's actually an
RSS feed.
So whenever a new podcastepisode comes out, I added that RSS
feed to my YouTube channel.
So if you go to my YouTubechannel and you click on my playlist,
you'll see podcasting forspiritual women there.
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And you.
You get the graphic, but thenall you get is my voice.
It.
Because the podcast isautomatically sent over to YouTube.
There's no video component toit, but there's.
It automatically gets sent over.
So if you wanted to only doone step, you could certainly do
it that way, too.
So totally up to you.
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Yeah.
So what platform do you dothat from?
I do it from Captivate, but aslong as you.
You could even do it fromSpotify for podcasters.
As long as you get that, onceyou publish your first episode on
any platform, any of thedistribution platforms, you'll get
what they call an RSS feed, which.
(30:29):
I know it sounds funny becauseI have a Boston accent.
It's.
Hold on.
R, R, S, S. Now I sound like apirate, you know.
You know the one that comesafter Q. Yeah.
Rsv.
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You'll get that link, andthat's the link that you put into
YouTube.
When you go back over toYouTube, you'll see in the back of
the house there, you'll see itsays playlist.
You click there and it says,start a podcast or add a new podcast.
And it will say, do you havean ISS feed?
And you'll just put that rightin there.
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And then it will automaticallypopulate every time you publish an
episode.
One step, One step and it's published.
I'm going to think of youevery time I see that now.
It's the rr.
Apparently, this.
I'm part pirate, too.
That's okay.
(31:34):
All right.
Yeah.
I think that would beinteresting to, you know, be able
to reach more people, becauseobviously, that is the goal, is to
reach as many people with apositive message as I can.
And, you know, I thank you forthat, of course, because, you know,
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I'm always open to new ways.
And, you know, with doing thiskind of work, it's like, there's
so many options, but it's just.
I feel like as soon as youstart, you kind of are like, okay,
well, I got that down.
Now I've, you know, built themuscle memory for it.
Now I can maybe take onsomething else.
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And, you know, I'm just kindof always trying to expand, and I
think that's all part of thegame, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
And Like, I mentioned thebeginning, one step at a time.
If it's too much, no problem.
Just do those small, tiny tweaks.
As far as, like, changing thename in your YouTube playlist, you
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know, making sure that each ofthe episodes have some sort of, like,
link and some sort ofdescription in them.
Just little tweaks like that.
I noticed that you have thesame title screen for each one.
I know you can work on canvaon your phone and stuff like that.
If you had some really funtitle captions there, those would
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be.
You know, those would beanother way to draw people in.
You know, like, a lot ofpeople, you'll see people, and they'll.
They'll, like, point to, like,some sort of, like, bubble in the
sky or something like that or,you know, something kind of cool.
So, you know, you could.
You could definitely playaround with that in YouTube if you
chose to just stay there andyou could see, like, oh, that.
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That title works really well.
You know, that caption title,that thumbnail really works really
well.
Or, no, that didn't work as well.
And go back to the old one.
They do allow you to do all ofthat, which is really, really nice
inside of you.
Awesome.
You're very welcome.
Is there anything else I canhelp you with today?
No, I think I. I guess that'sall I have for today.
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Awesome.
All right, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much forlistening to this episode of Podcasting
for Spiritual Women.
If you would like morestrategy and tips and sim tricks
on how to make your podcastbetter, how I recommend that you
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