That went quickly! Listen in to our live event where we commemorate 100 episodes of The Busy Creator Podcast and remark on the journey. This event was a crossover with the New York City Podcast Meetup, recorded at Small City Co-working space in Brooklyn.
Joining Prescott on stage are musician Joaquin Cotler (@ShinyIslands), UX designer Rashan Casseus (@rcassues) & video publisher/entrepreneur Gabby Wallace (@GabbyAWallace). Together we discuss daily practice, creating projects and nurturing them over time, and our own experiences with podcasting.
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Show Notes & Links
Small City co-working space in BrooklynJoaquin Cotler, musician, journalist, composer of The Busy Creator Podcast theme songPaul Shaffer, Clark Terry, Questlove — late night talk show band leaders through the yearsNew York City Podcast MeetupJoaquin has appeared on The Busy Creator Podcast episode 41John Lee Dumas & Kate Erickson, guests on TBC episode 50 "It's a great time to go to Puerto Rico if you already have a lot of money."
—Joaquin Cotler
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Creighton Mershonn & Jessi Arrington, proprietors of Small City and past guests on TBC ep 92Vector Media Group, our default host of the NYC Podcast MeetupNick Spriggs, partner at Vector, guest on TBC ep 91New York City Podcast Meetup is one year old New York City Podcast Meetup on Twitter New York City Podcast Meetup on FacebookPrescott removed Facebook from his phone, sleeps better The Busy Creator Podcast made it to 100 episodes — they’re all hereJonathan Coulton, and his Thing A Week podcast projectJoCo Cruise, featuring Aimee Mann, et al "Busy is a four-letter word."
—Prescott Perez-Fox
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“Busy Beaver” is an English-language idomatic expressionMIT’s mascot is Tim the Beaver, nature’s engineer
Tim The Beaver
Buzz The Busy Beaver is the mascot of The Busy Creator Podcast, but not modelled after Prescott #HumbleBrag, a definitionThe Busy Creator Podcast started as bi-weekly, went up to weekly, then returned to bi-weekly Bi-Weekly vs. Fortnightly vs. every-other-week, semanticsTBC by the numbers: 3 years, 106 episodes (including B-Sides), 98 unique guests, 15 single-topic episodes, 4 monologue episodesTBC by the numbers, best single day downloads: 567, 11 January 2017TBC by the numbers, best monthly downloads: 10,148, November 2016TBC by the numbers, lifetime downloads: 103,279, as of 16 January 2017Marc Maron’s show received nearly 750,000 downloads in 24 hours when he interviewed President ObamaCasper Mattresses, not a sponsor#TBC100 and #NYCPodMeet to see photos from the eventRashan Casseus, NYC native, FIT Grad, currently a Senior UX DesignerRashan & Prescott met at a fan meetup for Keith and The GirlR & P participated in The Cinnamon ChallengeThe Ice-Bucket Challange, The Mannequin Challenge, etc.
Ice Bucket Challenge
Emeril Lagasse "I make digital tools easier to use."
—Rashan Casseus
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"UX is the thought process of how a human being gets from point A to point B."
—Rashan Casseus
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MailChimp, and their mascot FreddyDisembodied Monkey Hand, the name of Joaquin’s new punk band Microcopy, the words around the site on buttons, short messages, etc.Eat24, and their “hungry” shopping cart90Elm, Rashan’s cousin’s t-shirt companyUser Stories, User Interviews — tools of planning a siteSayba Naturals, Prescott’s mother’s soap brandSquarespace, also not a sponsor "Websites are never finished, they are only abandoned."
—Prescott Perez-Fox, paraphrasing Leonardo da Vinci
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"Your website is done when you run out of time, or when the client says 'I want it up now'."
—Rashan Casseus
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Museum of Arts and Design, NYCGabby Wallace, YouTube producer, teacher, online marketing coach — hates headphones! Keith RichardsGabby defines herself as a creator. Simple. "I create something every day. Most day, many things."
—Gabby Wallace
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Prescott & Gabby met at Podcast Movement 2014Gabby was a podcaster, has moved back to YouTube.GoNaturalEnglish, a video show to learn to EnglishFriendtor, teaming up with people of complementary skillsAdrienne Stortz, Katie Quinn, cooking video producers in BrooklynMatt Cremona, woodworker "I reject all that quality and editing because it takes forever!"
—Gabby Wallace
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KeytarGilmore Girls, and the revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the LifeGilmore Guys podcastThe Town Troubadour from Gilmore GirlsJoaquin attended CUNY J-School, earning a Master’s in Multimedia JournalismAtavist, easier to use than Squarespace or WordPressRoots on The Record, Joaquin’s graduate project speaking to musicians and Marian McPartland’s Piano JazzMarian McPartland, 1918–2013The Nerdist PodcastAlicia Witt, and her episode on The NerdistThe 101, traffic magnet in Los AngelesStudio 360Kurt AndersenAshley Milne-Tyte, previous guest on TBC ep 8WBAI, the liberal talk station which plays Latin JazzRay Barretto "Way more fun than playing music is listening to other people play."
—Joaquin Cotler
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The Busy Creator Podcast is switching from bi-weekly publication to a seasonal format9 Habits of Highly Creative PeopleZapier, upcoming episode for season.nextHulse Durrell, upcoming episode for season.nextVancouver OlympicsNew brand and website for The Busy Creator coming in the springSASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets), better than CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Rashan Casseus on Twitter Rashan Casseus on Facebook Rashan Casseus on Instagram Rashan Casseus on LinkedIn Gabby Wallace on Twitter Gabby Wallace on Facebook Gabby Wallace on Instagram Gabby Wallace on LinkedIn Gabby Wallace on YouTube Joaquin Cotler on Twitter Joaquin Cotler on Facebook Joaquin Cotler on Instagram Joaquin Cotler on LinkedIn Joaquin Cotler on YouTube Tools
JiraSlackSquarespaceGoogle DocsAtavist Techniques
Name buttons on websites in an intuitive way; say “conclude” or “done”Consult a designer even when using a templated system like SquarespaceTake team outings as a way to get to know each otherPost a common planning document to keep your team accountableShare your core message; if you don’t have it defined, go back to square oneMix your “main bit” with casual, less rehearsed piecesWhen discussing an “album”, call it a “record” to be more generic Habits
Keep your skills up with family and community projectsFind the intersection of your creation and what people needPost helpful content and videos; people will ask for your helpConstantly learn from others via podcasts, videos, blogs, books, etc.Return to a consistent format to avoid rehearsal SaveSave