December 6, 2024 • 51 mins
Episode 354 - CO-HOST - Bill Monty - Getting Older in South Florida, Be Kind, Podcast Community Building
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Everyone, welcome back to the How to Podcast series.
I'm excited to have someone on my screen because I see this
person often on my screen. Part of our amazing meet up
community over on meetup.com. We get together on a regular
basis and Bill shows up and brings great wisdom, great
knowledge and a great speaking voice, which makes me happy.
And Bill Monte's on the podcast as my guest Co host.
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He's got multiple shows. He's going to talk about that
here on the show and we're goingto just talk about podcasting.
And if you live in South Florida, Bill's your next best
friend. So everyone reach out to Bill if
you live there 'cause he'd like to meet you.
Bill Monte on how to podcast series.
Welcome, Bill. Thank you, Dave.
Thank you. It's great to be here.
And yes, if you're in South Florida, I'd love for you to
reach out to me. Bill monte04@gmail.com or Tales
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from southflorida.com is the best place to go get more
information on me and the show. There you go.
And if you want to visit South Florida, you want to move to
South Florida, you know somebodyin South Florida, then they need
to hear about Bill's podcast forsure, right, Bill?
Absolutely. South Florida, you know, Florida
sometimes gets a bad rap nationally and everything else
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going back to the hanging chads of the election of 2000.
And Florida man, you know, everywhere he go is Florida Man
did this. So there's a Florida man who did
this, you know, and it's it's certainly not as a wonderful
spotlight on our state. But the fact is that Florida and
South Florida in particular is more than Disney World.
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It's more than amusement parks. There's a lot of culture,
there's a lot of history. There are a lot of wonderful
people. There are a lot of big names and
stars that have come from South Florida and that do things in
South Florida. You know, the the singer Pitbull
is Mr. Three O 5 and you know, he certainly brings a lot to it.
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So that's what my podcast about South Florida.
The idea for it came from was let me kind of go out and talk
about what a great place this isand what it was like to grow up
here because my family moved here in 1965.
We came from Texas. I was AI was a wee lad and you
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know, so I grew up in a really great time and it was a time
when South Florida was very seasonal.
So literally after Easter, so somewhere around April or
beginning of May, all of the thetourists, all the snowbirds as
we call them, would go back up north.
And for that period until right,like early October, mid-october,
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it was almost a ghost town. Hard to think of that now when
you think of how big Miami, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale,
all the growth here. But it would literally, things
would just empty out. Stores and businesses would
close for that time because there weren't enough people to
keep it going. So it was a a great place to
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grow up, you know, sunshine and beaches and Elvis showing up
every now and then. Shoot a movie.
I mean, who could ask for anything more?
There you go. Yeah.
And I guess a lot of Canadians come down and spend time there
and they're part of that vacuum that they go back N again.
So what do you love most about Florida?
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Like what is it that keeps you there?
Wow, you know, I guess it's home.
I think that's what it is more than anything else.
I have certainly I've, I've lefta couple times when I was a, a
younger person. I, I got married early and we
moved to North Carolina. There was a time right after
high school when I went out to LA for a little while, but I
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always came back here. And I think the reason is I'm
just comfortable, you know, I dothings like I, I, I wish we had
colder weather sometimes I wish it was more seasonal.
I wish the leaves changed color,but for the most part it's, it's
really comfortable place and thepeople are nice and there's a
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lot of different cultures. You can go from one city to the
next to 1 area or one town to the next.
And maybe it becomes mostly Hispanic and you have all these
wonderful Hispanic restaurants, this wonderful Hispanic culture
that's there to greet you and their celebrations and, and the
way that they do things. I then you have a Caribbean
influence down here. So you're, you're, you're
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exposed to all of this and without feeling overwhelmed.
And that really is what I think is, is just a driving force of
being down here. Now, I will say it has in the
last few years become extremely expensive to live.
And I guess that might be true of a lot of the nation right
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now. But if you're planning to move
South for the one thing I will say is check your bank account
because it's, it's very expensive because of the
Hurricanes. The, the property insurance,
homeowners insurance is, is veryhigh.
So if you're going to own a house, you need to know that.
But you know, we have, it's just, I don't know, it's
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Florida, it's South Florida. And I think the same for like
for many people, it's where I grew up.
So you know, it is, it's home. That's why I stay.
That's that's why I kept coming back.
That's why I stay. It's.
Good. I'm glad you have a podcast.
That's a local podcast. We've, we brought this up in the
meetups that there's basically two types of podcasts that are
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underserved audiences that are underserved in podcasting.
What's interesting about you, Bill, is you actually are
hitting both of them and doing it very well.
By the way, is a local podcast because people wanting to come
to South Florida, maybe move to South Florida, they're looking
for a real estate agent or they want to know more about the
area, all that kind of stuff. They they will look for a
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podcast about South Florida. That's where I want to move to.
So that's where I'm going to do my research and you will show
up. That's amazing.
I just did a Google search before we jumped on and you were
like on the top of the list, which is amazing.
So there's something about you and your podcast that's catching
attention. The other underserved audience
is people like over 50 in their 60s, fifties, sixties, 70s, that
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age group very underserved in podcasts.
There's not a lot of content that brings people to podcasting
because there's there's a big vacuum.
There's a big, you talk about people leaving South Florida and
that like places closing down. That's happening at podcasting
where people are coming to podcasting in their late 50s and
all that and they're looking at the content going, well, I don't
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see myself here, so I'm not going to be a podcast listener
and the podcaster, the podcast potential podcast listeners
looking for a podcast for anything over 50 in content age
wise. They're the ones that have
disposable income. They're the ones that are have
more time. They're the ones that are maybe
making big life changes. They're looking for content that
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suits where they are in life. And that's your other podcast.
So of the two areas underserved in podcasting, you are hitting
both, which I, I find amazing and you're a great example.
When I talk to people and they're like, Dave, I want to
start a podcast. I don't know what to talk about.
I'm like, go check out Bill Monte because he's doing exactly
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what you need to do no matter where you live in this world or
if you want to serve a generation underserved in
podcasting, you are the textbookexample that I used for people
to go check out what you're doing.
So congratulations for hitting both of these underserved areas
and podcasting. It's amazing.
Yeah, thanks. I, well, that shows what you can
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do when you have no idea what you're doing.
I I, so I have to say so I at the time when I started.
So as a little bit of context, Ido have a bit of a radio
background. It's not a heavy radio
background, but back in the late90s, me and my Co host Jeff
Wolfe, Jeff Ellen Wolf, we were,I was a brief the over the span
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of about three years we were on radio in South Florida doing
talk radio, which was dying out at the time.
As I said to him all the time, what do we have?
Perfect timing, right? We just came on right, right is
we're coming on board right whenthe ship was letting everyone
all on the land. So I have that and I have a
theatre background entertainment.
So I was an actor for years performing mostly stage, but a
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lot of film work, a lot of voiceovers and things like that and
hadn't done it for quite a while.
And I was working in a place that provides services to
seniors in the South Florida area.
And I was a little frustrated with the calls we would get that
the people didn't seem to know where to go to or where to turn
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to get help. By the time they reached out to
us, some of them were in panic mode.
So caregivers caring for an elderly parent or spouse.
And they thought they had a handle on it.
And then, you know, when you're dealing with things like maybe
dementia, it can go South so fast for you and all the
planning that you thought you did.
And you know, well, I'll pick upthe phone and call someone for
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help. And you when you do, you're
told, well, yes, we can help you, but there's a wait list.
And that wait list is maybe a year long and you need help
tomorrow. You need help yesterday.
So I would kind of lamenting about this at lunch one day.
And some of the the younger coworkers of my millennials, one
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kind of jokingly said, hey, withyour background, you should do a
podcast. Now I kind of knew what podcasts
were, but I didn't really. And I laughed and I said, well,
what on earth would I do a podcast about?
And he goes everything that you moan about here at lunch.
And I said, well, do people my age listen to podcasts?
And he goes, no, but maybe someone will.
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So I started doing research. I read books, I went on YouTube,
and I started saying, you know what?
Maybe this is actually somethingI could do.
Maybe I could help somebody I didn't do it for, you know, of
course, the first thought is, well, this will become some kind
of side hustle. It'll bring in some kind of
money, you know, I'll get, obviously my friends and family
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will support me and they'll put it on their Facebook and they'll
tell all their friends and family and it might take 3 or 4
episodes, but I should hit 1,000,000 views or listen
somewhere around 3 or 4 episodes, right?
Obviously. Yeah, it doesn't work quite that
way. So lesson #1 for everyone of you
starting a podcast, best of luckto you.
But be aware of the realities ofpodcasting, especially if you
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don't go into it really with a solid plan and solidly knowing
what's going on. So my on top of that was I'm
going to be creating a podcast for an age that doesn't listen
to podcast. So what do I do then?
How do I do this? And I just started tinkering
with it at that point. And the initial response was
actually pretty good. It was pretty strong and it just
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helped me to keep building and building.
I started getting people reaching out to me and saying,
hey, I heard this episode that you did and that I will say the
first part of the first year or so that I was doing it, maybe
8-7 or eight months. It really was kind of a how to
how to get help if you need it, how to cut cable if you can't
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pay your cable bill anymore, butstill watch all those, you know,
here's how you stream. If you don't know how to do
that, here's how you apply for Medicare.
I literally took two or three episodes and talked them about
how I applied for Social Security and all the things you
need to be aware of. And here's the documents that
you need and here's how long it's going to take and here's
what they're going to tell you. So it really was kind of a, a
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how to get older. And through that, I started
realizing that I could also justtalk about my experiences of
getting older and that that might be more valuable.
So the first season was kind of a how to get older.
And the second season is, is that I'm focusing on this kind
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of life lessons of, of becoming older, of being older but not
being old. That's the big thing.
I always say this podcast is foryoung people who have lived a
very long time. And that's not about being old.
It's about getting older. And life as you age can teach
you some really wonderful things.
And there's a lot of advantages to being older.
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Obviously there's some disadvantages, you know that.
I'll speak for myself. You know, the mind doesn't work
as quick as it used to. The body doesn't react as
quickly, you know, things like that.
But your attitude and your knowledge of the way the world
works and how things work, when you start lowering your
expectations as you age, the world is not so frightening and
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not so frustrating. There's no reason to believe
that it's going to be one way when you know, for 60 some odd
years, it has never been that way.
So stop thinking it will be livein the world that you live in.
And that's like one of the things that I've learned and
that's one of the things that I like talking about on the show
is be aware of where you are. Be aware of what's around you
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and who's around you and be thankful for that.
It's time to stop the wishing that we can do when we're
younger. It's time to stop hoping.
Time to stop planning for one day.
One day I'll do this, one day I'll do that.
One day is today at 1:00 at a certain point.
And you and you need to to understand that.
So it's been an interesting journey so far and I've met some
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wonderful people like in the meet up group, and I've had some
great experiences. And I can say this really hasn't
been a negative aspect of it. So yeah, I think that's kind of
like that part of it. So Bill Monte's guide for
getting older, what is the name of the of that podcast and
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available wherever podcasts can be found.
And I just, I hope people listen, that they enjoy it, that
they reach out and they share their experiences because not
like you were saying, this is kind of an underserved audience
here. And I would say that if you're a
caregiver and you need to hear afriendly voice or some good
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advice or solid advice, then youknow, give a listen because I
can, I can steer you in the right direction if you don't
know quite right now what to do or where to go to.
So when you look at your analytics and your stats and all
that stuff for your show, are you hitting your target market?
Are you seeing that age group listening to the show or any any
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surprises at all when you look at your stats?
The only surprise was when I seewhen I see things like the
people are listening in London or the Philippines or Spain or
there's even one I can't even pronounce Herzegovina,
something, something. And I'm like, really, I have
listeners there. So if you're listening, I'm
sorry, I can't pronounce the name of the country you're
listening from us. Thank you so much for listening.
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I do appreciate it. So I think that was the biggest
surprise is that oddly enough, where I thought there would be
the the groundswell from my local community is, you know,
one of my most vocal supporters actually lives in New York and,
you know, often writes to me to tell me how much he appreciates
and he'll comment on this is I I've enjoyed this episode.
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It really, you know, I really related to that.
So I think that's the part of itthat amazes me.
Absolutely. The, the demographic for the
show is probably 50 and up, but I could say that if you are
certainly in your 30s or 40s, you could be listening and find
something because again, you, itmight not be for you, but there
might be a relative or someone that you know or neighbor that
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this would be good information for.
So, and I try to keep the episode short.
One of the things I found early on was brevity is your friend.
So, but those what my, my first episodes were probably about 25
minutes to 30 minutes long for the first, I would say 7 or 8
episodes. And part of that problem was in
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and again, going back to believing that it would be
family and friends and friends from long ago on Facebook who
would be the supporters they might want to know also what I'm
up to do. So it was this mix of here's
this advice for getting older than suddenly the second-half of
it would be. And here's what Bill's doing.
Here's the music I'm listening to.
Here's a great book I read and what I would look at the
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analytics and see where people dropped off.
They dropped off when I start talking about here's what Bill
overhead and here's the music I've been listening to.
So quickly dropped all that. And so the average episode is
about 15 minutes now or this forthis podcast and for the South
Florida what too? Interesting, for my Dad space
podcast, I was looking at my stats and I had a listener in
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Japan. I'm like, who would who would be
who would find my show first of all, when they're in Japan And
I'm like, and then I found out that this person is serving in a
military base in Japan. They're from the US and I'm
like, OK, well, that makes sense.
So they're they're listening to a little bit of home while
they're away from their family and they're missing their
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children and they're wanting to connect with stuff about dads.
I'm like, I didn't even put two and two together in that, that
someone serving overseas and this is their connection with
home. I'm like, well, OK, well, not
now my world is bigger. Just realizing that it could be
somebody that's just away from home and just looking for
something that feels like home when they're so far from their
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family. So.
Yeah, absolutely. That.
You know, I, I often think that and I also think that when we
talk about aging, it's universal.
So when I look at see, we talk about being a father or or
father think that's, that's universal.
If you are a parent and parenting doesn't go away just
because your child turns 18. So it's actually something that,
you know, my daughter's 32 now, I still feel towards her as I
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did when she was 5, is if there's something I can teach
her, if there's some, there's still things I can do, even
though she's more annoyed by it now.
But you know, absolutely, you know, the, the love and the
caring that you have doesn't stop.
So, you know, you want to hear that from someone else.
And the universality of, of aging is there for everyone.
So it doesn't matter if you're in South Florida or the
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Philippines or New York, wherever it might be, we're all
going through experiencing. We have the same cultural
memories and we, we have the same fears.
We have the same triumphs and wehave the same low moments and
it's sometimes it's nice to hearthat someone else talking about
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it and go, oh, it's not just me.Wow, OK, that's cool.
I'm I'm good with that. Yeah, it doesn't matter if
you're 18 or 75, you're one day older than you were yesterday.
So technically everyone is your audience, but you're focused on
more of that older generation, which I love.
And then there was a, you know, about halfway through doing
that, I thought to myself, well,this is fun.
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I did think to myself, it to me,it was feeling I needed
something else. I wanted to podcast about
something else that was more personal for me.
And I kept going through Facebook and seeing I grew up in
Fort Lauderdale. I grew up in Florida.
I grew up in and I thought, well, what if I did that?
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But instead of posting pictures and putting a post up with a
memory saying, does anyone remember this restaurant or this
place or something like that? What if I did a podcast and each
podcast would focus on one of those things that I'm seeing
people talk about. And then I'll put my own
personal spin. So when I went to this place,
here was my experience and here's the history of it, yada,
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yada, yada. And so that became Tales from
South Florida, which launched inJanuary of 2024.
And that's been now you talk about a reach.
So apparently people who live inSouth Florida have branched out
to all over the world. I think I'm in like 100 and 15
countries. Wow, you know, which is like
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amazing to think about, you know, to to that, you know, but
people from all these different places are locking into this
idea of South Florida and the history of it.
So I try to keep episode where each episode where it's not
alienating people who have neverbeen to South Florida.
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So if you like history, if you like hearing about, you know.
Different things if you ever watched Miami vice then I my
podcast is for you did you ever watch flipper?
My podcast is for you. Did you, did you ever hear of a
man named Henry Flagler who started Standard Oil and back in
the 1800s and became a very richman?
Well, he basically is the reasonpeople go to Key West.
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Now. Why is that?
He built the train that went from Jacksonville to Key West.
So, you know, there's a lot of what happened here in Florida
that reaches out to do more of the world outside of just
Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, and
over to the West Coast of Florida.
So that, and that's been exciting and I've been able to
do some fun things with the, thewebsite, which I just launched.
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It's Tales from southflorida.com.
So I created a, a playlist, a Spotify playlist.
So if you go to the website, youcan actually listen to a
playlist of songs that relate tothe episodes that I've put into
Tales from South Florida. You know, so you can hear the
theme from Miami Bias. You can hear the theme from
Flipper. You can hear the music that was
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I was listening to in 1968 when I talk about growing up in South
Florida and riding my bike around and going fishing or with
my parents, I would go to the Everglades, you know, things
like that. This is the music that was I, I
like to say that the, the music that inspired the episodes and
and the episodes were, were kindof inspired by the times and the
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music. So I thought that was a nice
dimension to put into it. I know a nice little flavor.
So it's good to have fun with that also.
So it's a lot. It's a little more playful than
Bill Monte's guide for getting older.
There's a couple of more areas to go into with the Tales from
South Florida, but they're both a lot of fun and I think that of
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course, I'm biased, but I think they're a good way to spend some
time. Listen, you can listen to Tales
from South Florida, driving fromMiami to Orlando and back.
And you can listen to Bill Montethe entire time telling you the
history of Florida. It's good.
So, but we got a lot of people listening to the show that are
at different stages of their journey and podcasting.
They're coming here looking for inspiration from another
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podcaster. They want to listen to a new
podcast, which is great. We got lots for them to listen
to from you. But let's talk to that podcaster
that's listening and what can you do to encourage them today
and their journey? What are your thoughts like for
somebody who's maybe struggling with their show, maybe looking
at continuing with their podcast?
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They don't really see a lot of response from their audience and
they're like kind of making thatdecision, like should I
continue? Should I not continue?
I just, I'm not getting a lot offeedback.
What would you say to them? I would say first, if you're
thinking about doing a podcast and you haven't started yet
because you're trying to make itperfect, just hit the record
button. You know, script out.
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If you need to write out a script, write out an outline,
even if that episode that you record, no one ever hears but
you, you will learn a lot about you and your podcast from doing
it. So don't be afraid because if
you don't like it or you think it's terrible, you don't ever
have to play it for anybody. You don't ever have to put it
out there. But if, if you're like me, I
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think what will happen is you go, well, that's not very good.
How can I make it better? And you'll tweak it and you'll
try it again. I probably did about four to six
recordings before I ever recorded one that I said, OK,
I'm happy with this one. So, so just, you know, do it.
And there was the old Nike commercial.
Just do it. You know, I'd say for
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podcasting, there's that. For those who have started and
you're not setting the world on fire the way you thought you
would, that's OK. Because maybe your message is
hitting the right people or the right person that it needs to
hit. I've had podcast episodes that
have only had 20 downloads, but that's 20 people who enjoyed it.
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So it, it resonated with the right people for that time.
At first, I used to get really frustrated.
I used to think I'm not going todo this anymore.
This is a waste of my time. But then I thought about it.
I would hear people say, and you've reiterated this also,
Dave, since I've since I met you, you know it.
It's not about the numbers, It'sabout what you're doing.
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It's about the quality of what you're doing.
It's about the message you're trying to send out.
So I would say, you know, what is the message you're trying to
send out? How important is it to you?
And start looking at, there's a lot of information out there.
There's a lot of great books, there's a lot of great people,
and there's YouTube that will teach you how to do some things
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with marketing. So search engine optimization,
SEO, keywords, social media, you've got to find the one that
works for you. And I would also say, hold off
on the impulse to spend a lot ofmoney.
When people say they will get you a lot of downloads, they
will, they'll get you a lot of downloads, but no one will hear
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your podcast, but they will get you a lot of downloads.
They're bots. And so just just be careful of
that, but be true to it and thendon't be afraid to tweak it.
This is your show. You can do Bill Monty's guide
for getting older used to be called Bill Monty's Guide to
Getting older. And then about halfway through
that wasn't resonating with me anymore.
And the original artwork that I thought was great because there
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was my face shining and I realized no one is listening to
this for me. They don't know who I am.
So I changed the artwork to reflect what the show is about.
I have, I have re edited episodes that I just didn't care
for and made them better by doing that.
I there are things you can do. So be true to yourself, be true
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to your vision, be true to your podcast, and at that time,
you'll find you're being true toyour audience.
And once you make that connection, they'll be there for
you. So don't focus on numbers,
especially initially. Don't worry about it.
Just do your show and do the best show you can possibly do,
and I think you'll be happy. Now, if you're really unhappy
with it, you might have to sit back and reflect, is this what I
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really want or need to be doing?But if you had the passion to
even think about doing it to begin with, that's a huge step
right there. So, so follow it.
I think you'll have a lot of fun.
I know I, I, I do it's, you know, someone asked me a while
back. They said, why do you, why do
you podcast? And I had to be honest and say,
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I'm going to say for a very selfish reason.
It's it's my way of trying to beimmortal.
Because your podcast will live long after you stop podcasting.
I can't tell you how many times I'm searching for a podcast and
I'll look at the last episode was 2017, you know, or something
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like that. So long after I have shuffled
off this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible.
If someone wants to hear about South Florida, they can search
South Florida. My podcast is going to pop up
and my experiences and my voice and my stories are going to live
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beyond me, and there's somethingkind of cool about that.
There's something to me anyway. There's something that's kind of
nice to know that you are makingyour own little footprint in the
sand that's going to stick around for a while.
I was listening to James Cridland from Pod News.
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He was being interviewed on a podcast and he said the one
thing that's so unique about podcasting is that your podcast
is up against and with a collection of other podcasts and
you're up with the best of the best, like some of the most
popular people in the world having a podcast.
Your show is right next to theirs.
Now try to do that on television.
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Go create your own television station and see how long that
takes and how much money that gocreate your own radio show and
go get a radio tower and go get it.
All that like, I'll go get a newspaper, go get a magazine and
get on the magazine stand at thecheckout counter, go try to get
yourself next to everyone else in in a creative space.
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Podcasting is so unique that youcan be right next door to the
best show in the world with hundreds of thousands of
downloads. And then there's you.
There's me. We're in that same space and I'm
like, what a great experience. What a great opportunity to know
that your voice is being captured.
There's legacy and there's reach.
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You talked about like 100 plus countries for your show, Like
there's no boundaries, time, place into the future.
You can people are going to press play on this episode years
from now and where we where willwe be?
I don't know, but somebody's going to press play on this.
And that's what I love about podcasting is it's just taken
away all of the restrictions andgiven us this platform to talk
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about the things that mean something to us and to build
community as well. And that's, that's something
else too. It's a great way to give back if
you're doing something locally or if you're doing something for
a very niche audience, I guess. It is certainly a way to build
community. It is certainly a way to, to
support those all around you. And how often did you get a
chance to do that? I'm, I'm a big believer and
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every day we should try to always make a difference in
someone's life. And you know, sometimes when I
say to that, people go, well, that's very lofty kind of thing.
You know who, what do you mean? Like, you know, cure cancer or
something like that. I said, you know, sometimes you
can just hold the door open for someone who would struggle to
walk through a door and you've made a big difference in their
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life that day. If you're in a store and someone
can't reach that item on the topshelf and you just do it for
them and hand it to them expecting nothing in return,
you've made a difference in someone's life.
Sometimes just a smile or a kindword, which is so lacking in the
world today is enough to to makea difference in someone's life.
And I think podcasting allows you to do that on a larger
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scale. So if you need a larger scale to
do it, if it's not enough just to hold that door open for
someone, then podcasting is a way to make a difference in
someone's life. And again, when when the the
gentleman from New York writes to me and says, I loved what you
did, I love that episode, You know, it took me back.
It made me think, it made me reflect.
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Wow. If that's the only thing I ever
did with any of my podcast, it'shas been well worth it.
Yeah. And I think going back to your
Getting Older podcast, I'm in myearly 50s and I'm realizing that
there's less days ahead of me than there are ever before.
And I'm realizing that I'm at this tipping point where I'm
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like, wow, I want my legacy to continue.
I want my voice to continue. My dad passed away like 20 years
ago. I would give everything I own
Bill to hear his voice, to be able to press play and hear him
talk. I don't have anything really
recorded with his voice because it wasn't around back then.
So, you know, I just love the idea that we can get out there
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and share our voice, share our story.
It's a gift to our family. Our voice continues on.
I just love that the whole idea around community, talk a little
bit about how you're building community around your podcast
and if you have any plans to do that.
Is anything working for you to build community adjacent to your
podcast? I would say for me, phase one of
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all this journey was just doing it and getting it out there and
getting probably where I am now in the website out there is, is
I think the start of Phase 2 forme.
So when we look at marketing, one of the things I have found
the most frustrating about podcasting is the marketing
aspect of it. I, I initially thought,
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especially with Tales from SouthFlorida, that all I would have
to do is reach out to these other I grew up in and wherever
groups and say, Hey, you guys were talking about the Hollywood
Sportatorium. Well, I've got an episode about
it on my podcast and that all 16,000 people that group would
come clamoring over. Well, the fact of the matter is
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that, you know, a lot of people did come from that, but they
didn't necessarily stay for the next episode.
They came for that thing that they wanted to hear about that
time and it didn't necessarily go to that.
So that became a real frustration.
And also without having the website back then, I was having
to take that episode link and put it into all these different
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Facebook pages, all these different social media sites.
And that was taking me like an hour out of my day just to put
it out there and hope someone clicked on it or hope I didn't
get banned from the group for a spamming because they think I'm
trying to sell something. So Part 2 of all this phase two
for me is going to be starting that build and that outreach of
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of community and building the community.
So, you know, I'd love to get out to some local as it's kind
of easier to do at this time of year, you know, local fairs,
arts and crafts shows, get some merch created, you know, and
think that I can hand out littlethings that I can hand out to
get people interested. It's a very grassroots way to do
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things, I understand, but it's kind of what I'm comfortable
with. I have a marketing background
and it's from back in the day when grassroots was actually
something you did. We all live by rave cards back
then. We didn't really have social
media or websites to do anythingfor us.
So that feels a little more comfortable to me.
And then starting to do things like being a guest on other
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podcasts, you know, is, is the other way to do it.
And it kind of spread the word. And I just, you know, I just
hope someone comes and they enjoy what they're doing and
maybe they tell a friend or if they they just want to keep it
to themselves, they come back tothe next episode.
I'm perfectly happy with that too.
So that's that's kind of where I'm at in the community plan
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right now and it'd be interesting to see where it
goes. Yeah, there's a lot of tools
that we can leverage. There's newsletters, social
media, your website. For me, I started our meetups
for the How To Podcast series because I wanted to.
I wanted to encourage other podcasters and give them a safe
place to get together and talk podcasting without feeling like
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intimidated or that he didn't have a voice.
I want people to come in and go.I don't know anything about
anything. I'm going to ask some really
stupid questions that I think feel stupid to me, but I want to
be able to ask this in a group where other people are going to
build me up. And I started our meetups and
the first two or three, I sat there by myself, Bill, nobody
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showed up. And I'm like, why am I doing
this? Why am I giving up time to sit
here and there's nobody here? And then all of a sudden
somebody showed up and then someone else showed up.
And now we've been doing these for a while now.
And what I love about the meetups that we're doing is it's
not about me. It's, it's not a Dave show.
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It's a, it's an US show where weall get together.
And there's, I found even today on our meet up, I didn't even
talk as much as I might normallytalk because the group just kind
of took the conversation on and I got to sit back and listen.
It is, it is. It's fun to do that.
I'm trying to encourage more people to come join our meetups
just so that they can meet each other and support each other.
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So I'm going to ask for a shameless plug from you.
Bill, can you explain to people the power of getting together
with other podcasters, whether at a conference or a meet up,
whatever? Why is that so important to meet
other people that do what we do?It's so important because you
really don't have feedback from anywhere.
So I'm going to say this and, and in the hopes of not
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offending family or friends of mine, the the people who will
support you the least, we start a podcast, unfortunately, are
your friends and family. And I don't mean that in any
kind of mean way or like I'm ticked about it everything, but
I initially thought that's what it would be.
And someone wants to explain to me.
They said, well, Bill, let's sayyou opened a hot dog stand and
your family and friends stopped by and they bought a hot dog the
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first day. Maybe they came back the second
day. They're not going to come every
day and eat your hot dogs. You're going to have to build
your own customer base. And I, I kind of went, oh, OK,
yeah, I kind of OK, I kind of get that.
So they will support you to a certain extent, but they're not
going to be your biggest fans. So getting feedback, honest
feedback on what you're doing and having a group of people who
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answer the questions, like you said, the what the question you
think of this is so dumb. I would never ask this out loud
because everyone else must know the answer and I'm just stupid.
It's, it's invaluable, I can tell you that.
And, and, and if you're thinkingof being a podcaster, so I'm
going to do the plug here, you need to be a part of this meet
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up group. It's on Saturday mornings and
Dave has started it on, on Tuesdays, I think during the
week. I unfortunately am working at
that time where I'd be a part ofthat one too.
And it is the most selfless group of people.
They're nice, they're caring, they offer their support, they
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they reach out to you. You can reach out to them with
questions beyond the hour and a half of the meet up or two
hours, whatever it might be. There isn't another group out
there that I'm aware of. And I've been a part of several
different groups and none of them have been like this before.
It is unique. I mean, Dave, you have, you
know, kudos to you and thank you.
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You have created something that if this were replicated in a lot
of other businesses even, but even more in the podcasting
world, the world would be a better place.
It's because it really is a safeplace of kind good people.
Just the the only reason being there is to learn and to share.
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And that's, you know, that's something you just don't get
every day in this world. So I would say, you know, if
you're listening to the podcast,I list, I have become a huge fan
of days how to podcast series. I listen all the time.
Now imagine that friendly voice that you hear welcoming you and
thanking you all the time in the, during the podcast, being
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in charge of this group. And then, like you said, he, he
kind of asked the questions and then the group just takes off
with it. It's like, it's like a great
college course or anything like that that you just couldn't get
anywhere else. And, and I, I, I am so glad and
so grateful that I am a part of this group.
There's no other way to put it. It's, it's, it's really
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something, something special. Yeah, I kind of, I'm trying to
build a meet up group around theidea that there's the wisdom in
the counsel of many. And I love the idea that we all
come and we all contribute. We all put our two cents in and
we may disagree or see things differently, or we might have a
different approach to how we do what we do, but nobody ever
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feels like their talk down to. That's a big part of what I try
to do in podcasting is I'm really tired of anybody that
talks down to people or makes them feel like they're not
welcome or they don't have a voice in the group.
I've been in meetups, we talked about this where I've, I've sit
there and as an audience member and never given the opportunity
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to speak. And I'm like, this doesn't feel,
I don't feel like I want to comeback.
Like I don't feel like I was ever welcomed or acknowledged.
You know, and I wanted our meet up to be different than that.
So, and again, I didn't want it to be a day fest because that
doesn't that's just my opinion and my opinion is only my
opinion and it might not work for you.
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So let's get Bill's opinion on how he does his show and let's
bring Sharon in and let's bring JJ and all these people because
it it helps us to get a better perspective.
So I just like the idea that there's more wisdom with more
voices, you know, that's that's kind of the whole underlying
theme of the meet up. And everyone that's in the group
has a very different podcast in mind in, in, in one in, in, in
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terms of like the subject matter, but in terms of like
everything else, we all have this commonality among us and
that we all had the same questions.
We say we face the same problemsand we're just there supporting
each other. So if that's what you sought out
to create as a, as a safe environment for people to be
creative, you did it. Congratulations.
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Well, you're a big part of it, Bill, so I really appreciate
that. If I could ask if I could ask
you a quick question, I 'cause Ithis is something I haven't had
a chance to do. You you do 8 podcasts 8.
Yeah, I have a problem. So when did you start
podcasting? Back when. 2019-2020 around,
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they're just getting it around close to the pandemic I guess.
OK. And did it grow like you started
with one and then the end of oneyear you said, no, I'm like it 2
and then two became 3, so is is it?
It's an addiction, yeah. Because I I'll be honest with
you, I find 2 to be overwhelmingat times.
And you and you work right? I work full time nights yeah, I
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I do this during the daytime, so.
So do you have you fit sleep in anywhere?
Or well, I worked last night andI got, I slept for two hours,
went to our meet up. Now I'm here with you.
It's like 2 in the afternoon forme right now.
And then I go back to work tonight.
So I'll sleep about four or 5:00this evening into tonight and
then go back to work. So that's kind of my day.
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And if I could ask, what can youlist the names of your other of
your podcast beyond this one? Oh yeah.
So yeah, I actually have to pullit up because there's a few.
Well, we have the How To Podcastseries, which you are on right
now. That's this is one that I really
love because I get to meet greatpeople like you.
But without this show, I, I don't know how we would have
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connected. And now I know your podcast as
well. So that's what I love.
I'm a musician. So I've been doing music for 45
years. And so I did a lot of recording
and all that stuff. So one of my music, my, one of
my podcasts is the add to my playlist podcast.
And that was done primarily, Spotify had a way where you can
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insert music into a podcast. Then they took it away.
So I'm trying to think of how I'm going to continue with the
show, but I could actually have playable songs embedded in the
podcast without making you leaveto your Spotify playlist thing.
My songs were in the show, so I could queue up the show, queue
up the song, talk about the song, play the song, and then
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come back and talk about anothersong.
It was really fun. I loved it.
It was so cool. So that's my Add to my playlist
podcast. It was a Spotify exclusive, so
that was that one. I have Living My Side Hustle.
It's a podcast to anybody that does something on the side of
which I do all the time. So that's another one.
I have the Upcycle Canada podcast to where we take things
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that people don't want and instead of recycling them, we
upcycle. So it used to be one thing and
we turn it into something totally different and keep it
out of the landfill. So that's the thing that my wife
and I started a little business about 10 years ago and we
upcycle products, keep them out of the landfill.
So we had our little business and everything.
So that's that podcast. I did that one with my wife,
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Jen. I have Living the Next Chapter
podcast, which is an author podcast that has almost 500
episodes in three years. And I'm not an author, but I
interview authors and I get to meet people from around the
world, Hollywood, actors, musicians, anybody that's
written anything, Netflix writers.
It's amazing. It's a really fun podcast.
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I have Dad Space podcast for dads by dads because I'm an
empty nest dad and my three children are out of the house
now. So I'm I want to share dad
lessons and life lessons with other dads and give them tools
to help them be a better dad andbring other dads on to talk
about their dad's story. So that one's that was fun for
me. I love that one.
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I have the daily Santa podcast, which is daily 25 episodes in a
row for children leading up to Christmas where and we countdown
to Christmas and it's all kind of like AI voices with me mixed
in the mix. And again, it's all for kids.
I always wanted to do a kids podcast, so that was fun.
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So that's only it's, it's live 365 days a year, but primarily
focused on December 1st and December 25th.
And then I have the Podcast editing and support show where I
help podcasters find an editor and editors to find a podcaster
where we can talk about how to hire somebody and how to find a
good editor and what does what does good sound like.
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And we kind of get more into that side of the podcasting side
of podcasting. So that one's really fun to do
and I really enjoy that one. And then on top of that, I do
edit for other people as well. So I'm an editor helping other
shows. So all that's on my True Media
Solutions website. But those are my podcasts and I
love every one of them. And I wish I had more time
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'cause I do more. But my wife's like, that's
enough, that's enough, that's enough.
That's, that's, I mean, that's great.
I'm glad I got that list down. So now I can start listening
because I was like searching. I was like, OK, where's other
Dave? Other Dave podcast though?
Well, you're brave. If you need more, Dave in your
life, you're brave. That's good.
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So Bill, I want to wrap up with this because I think I'm again,
going back to the legacy piece. I really think that's important.
I love that you're doing that through your podcasting journey.
I'll kind of give you my answer to kind of frame what I'm kind
of going for with you this question.
I think my purpose in life is tocollect people.
That's my goal. If if if I was to walk out of a
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room and the people that know me, my family, my community, my
friends, all that, if they couldtalk freely and openly about me.
I want them to say that Dave collected people.
You're part of my collection, Bill.
I just love meeting new people and expanding my community one
person at a time. That means that brings a lot of
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joy to me and through podcastingthat gives me the opportunity to
do that. So again, I've had conversations
with people I should never have time with and people I would
never meet otherwise. So I feel that's my mission in
life is to collect people. What's your mission in life,
Bill Monty? What is what is that thing that
if you could kind of narrow it down for us, could be podcast
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related, could just be life in general?
What is Bill Monty's purpose? Why are you here?
For me, and I think it's if I walked out of the room or when
I'm no longer here, if people say well what what about Bill
was special? I would like people say he made
a difference. And if that was on my well, I
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plan to be cremated and put out to sea.
So it won't be a headstone. But if there was a headstone, if
it had my name and said he made a difference, that would be good
enough for me. I end both of my podcasts.
I end with the words. Every single episode.
I end with be kind. And there was a phrase by the
Dalai Lama. Be kind whenever possible.
It's always possible. And I just think the world could
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use a little more kindness. So my mission is is to make a
difference every day in someone's life. 1 little
difference. A stranger, someone that I know,
someone that I love, whatever itmight be, if I just do one that
day, that's enough. If I can do more than one,
that's even better. Well, Bill, I can tell you
you're already on the right pathbecause you've done that for me
through your podcast, through your connection with me, through
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our meetups, and just having time with you.
You're on the right path becauseyou're having an impact on some
guy up in Canada. So thank you for doing that.
Thank you. Everyone, all information for
Bill in the show notes. As always.
You know how we do things. Please.
What I'm asking from everyone that listens to the How to
Podcast show is to go and check out Bill's shows to listen.
When you listen, listen to the entirety of every episode that
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to do exactly what he said and to leave that impact on others.
So everyone, please, I'm asking you to do that.
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Let's support each other as podcasters.
Bill, again, thank you so much for being on that a podcast
series. Thank you, Dave, and be kind.
Hey, thanks for listening to thepodcast all the way through to
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Podcast series. We'll talk to you soon for our
next episode.
Everyone, welcome back to the How to Podcast series.
I'm excited to have someone on my screen because I see this
person often on my screen. Part of our amazing meet up
community over on meetup.com. We get together on a regular
basis and Bill shows up and brings great wisdom, great
knowledge and a great speaking voice, which makes me happy.
And Bill Monte's on the podcast as my guest Co host.
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He's got multiple shows. He's going to talk about that
here on the show and we're goingto just talk about podcasting.
And if you live in South Florida, Bill's your next best
friend. So everyone reach out to Bill if
you live there 'cause he'd like to meet you.
Bill Monte on how to podcast series.
Welcome, Bill. Thank you, Dave.
Thank you. It's great to be here.
And yes, if you're in South Florida, I'd love for you to
reach out to me. Bill monte04@gmail.com or Tales
(00:46):
from southflorida.com is the best place to go get more
information on me and the show. There you go.
And if you want to visit South Florida, you want to move to
South Florida, you know somebodyin South Florida, then they need
to hear about Bill's podcast forsure, right, Bill?
Absolutely. South Florida, you know, Florida
sometimes gets a bad rap nationally and everything else
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going back to the hanging chads of the election of 2000.
And Florida man, you know, everywhere he go is Florida Man
did this. So there's a Florida man who did
this, you know, and it's it's certainly not as a wonderful
spotlight on our state. But the fact is that Florida and
South Florida in particular is more than Disney World.
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It's more than amusement parks. There's a lot of culture,
there's a lot of history. There are a lot of wonderful
people. There are a lot of big names and
stars that have come from South Florida and that do things in
South Florida. You know, the the singer Pitbull
is Mr. Three O 5 and you know, he certainly brings a lot to it.
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So that's what my podcast about South Florida.
The idea for it came from was let me kind of go out and talk
about what a great place this isand what it was like to grow up
here because my family moved here in 1965.
We came from Texas. I was AI was a wee lad and you
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know, so I grew up in a really great time and it was a time
when South Florida was very seasonal.
So literally after Easter, so somewhere around April or
beginning of May, all of the thetourists, all the snowbirds as
we call them, would go back up north.
And for that period until right,like early October, mid-october,
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it was almost a ghost town. Hard to think of that now when
you think of how big Miami, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale,
all the growth here. But it would literally, things
would just empty out. Stores and businesses would
close for that time because there weren't enough people to
keep it going. So it was a a great place to
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grow up, you know, sunshine and beaches and Elvis showing up
every now and then. Shoot a movie.
I mean, who could ask for anything more?
There you go. Yeah.
And I guess a lot of Canadians come down and spend time there
and they're part of that vacuum that they go back N again.
So what do you love most about Florida?
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Like what is it that keeps you there?
Wow, you know, I guess it's home.
I think that's what it is more than anything else.
I have certainly I've, I've lefta couple times when I was a, a
younger person. I, I got married early and we
moved to North Carolina. There was a time right after
high school when I went out to LA for a little while, but I
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always came back here. And I think the reason is I'm
just comfortable, you know, I dothings like I, I, I wish we had
colder weather sometimes I wish it was more seasonal.
I wish the leaves changed color,but for the most part it's, it's
really comfortable place and thepeople are nice and there's a
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lot of different cultures. You can go from one city to the
next to 1 area or one town to the next.
And maybe it becomes mostly Hispanic and you have all these
wonderful Hispanic restaurants, this wonderful Hispanic culture
that's there to greet you and their celebrations and, and the
way that they do things. I then you have a Caribbean
influence down here. So you're, you're, you're
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exposed to all of this and without feeling overwhelmed.
And that really is what I think is, is just a driving force of
being down here. Now, I will say it has in the
last few years become extremely expensive to live.
And I guess that might be true of a lot of the nation right
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now. But if you're planning to move
South for the one thing I will say is check your bank account
because it's, it's very expensive because of the
Hurricanes. The, the property insurance,
homeowners insurance is, is veryhigh.
So if you're going to own a house, you need to know that.
But you know, we have, it's just, I don't know, it's
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Florida, it's South Florida. And I think the same for like
for many people, it's where I grew up.
So you know, it is, it's home. That's why I stay.
That's that's why I kept coming back.
That's why I stay. It's.
Good. I'm glad you have a podcast.
That's a local podcast. We've, we brought this up in the
meetups that there's basically two types of podcasts that are
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underserved audiences that are underserved in podcasting.
What's interesting about you, Bill, is you actually are
hitting both of them and doing it very well.
By the way, is a local podcast because people wanting to come
to South Florida, maybe move to South Florida, they're looking
for a real estate agent or they want to know more about the
area, all that kind of stuff. They they will look for a
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podcast about South Florida. That's where I want to move to.
So that's where I'm going to do my research and you will show
up. That's amazing.
I just did a Google search before we jumped on and you were
like on the top of the list, which is amazing.
So there's something about you and your podcast that's catching
attention. The other underserved audience
is people like over 50 in their 60s, fifties, sixties, 70s, that
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age group very underserved in podcasts.
There's not a lot of content that brings people to podcasting
because there's there's a big vacuum.
There's a big, you talk about people leaving South Florida and
that like places closing down. That's happening at podcasting
where people are coming to podcasting in their late 50s and
all that and they're looking at the content going, well, I don't
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see myself here, so I'm not going to be a podcast listener
and the podcaster, the podcast potential podcast listeners
looking for a podcast for anything over 50 in content age
wise. They're the ones that have
disposable income. They're the ones that are have
more time. They're the ones that are maybe
making big life changes. They're looking for content that
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suits where they are in life. And that's your other podcast.
So of the two areas underserved in podcasting, you are hitting
both, which I, I find amazing and you're a great example.
When I talk to people and they're like, Dave, I want to
start a podcast. I don't know what to talk about.
I'm like, go check out Bill Monte because he's doing exactly
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what you need to do no matter where you live in this world or
if you want to serve a generation underserved in
podcasting, you are the textbookexample that I used for people
to go check out what you're doing.
So congratulations for hitting both of these underserved areas
and podcasting. It's amazing.
Yeah, thanks. I, well, that shows what you can
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do when you have no idea what you're doing.
I I, so I have to say so I at the time when I started.
So as a little bit of context, Ido have a bit of a radio
background. It's not a heavy radio
background, but back in the late90s, me and my Co host Jeff
Wolfe, Jeff Ellen Wolf, we were,I was a brief the over the span
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of about three years we were on radio in South Florida doing
talk radio, which was dying out at the time.
As I said to him all the time, what do we have?
Perfect timing, right? We just came on right, right is
we're coming on board right whenthe ship was letting everyone
all on the land. So I have that and I have a
theatre background entertainment.
So I was an actor for years performing mostly stage, but a
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lot of film work, a lot of voiceovers and things like that and
hadn't done it for quite a while.
And I was working in a place that provides services to
seniors in the South Florida area.
And I was a little frustrated with the calls we would get that
the people didn't seem to know where to go to or where to turn
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to get help. By the time they reached out to
us, some of them were in panic mode.
So caregivers caring for an elderly parent or spouse.
And they thought they had a handle on it.
And then, you know, when you're dealing with things like maybe
dementia, it can go South so fast for you and all the
planning that you thought you did.
And you know, well, I'll pick upthe phone and call someone for
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help. And you when you do, you're
told, well, yes, we can help you, but there's a wait list.
And that wait list is maybe a year long and you need help
tomorrow. You need help yesterday.
So I would kind of lamenting about this at lunch one day.
And some of the the younger coworkers of my millennials, one
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kind of jokingly said, hey, withyour background, you should do a
podcast. Now I kind of knew what podcasts
were, but I didn't really. And I laughed and I said, well,
what on earth would I do a podcast about?
And he goes everything that you moan about here at lunch.
And I said, well, do people my age listen to podcasts?
And he goes, no, but maybe someone will.
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So I started doing research. I read books, I went on YouTube,
and I started saying, you know what?
Maybe this is actually somethingI could do.
Maybe I could help somebody I didn't do it for, you know, of
course, the first thought is, well, this will become some kind
of side hustle. It'll bring in some kind of
money, you know, I'll get, obviously my friends and family
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will support me and they'll put it on their Facebook and they'll
tell all their friends and family and it might take 3 or 4
episodes, but I should hit 1,000,000 views or listen
somewhere around 3 or 4 episodes, right?
Obviously. Yeah, it doesn't work quite that
way. So lesson #1 for everyone of you
starting a podcast, best of luckto you.
But be aware of the realities ofpodcasting, especially if you
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don't go into it really with a solid plan and solidly knowing
what's going on. So my on top of that was I'm
going to be creating a podcast for an age that doesn't listen
to podcast. So what do I do then?
How do I do this? And I just started tinkering
with it at that point. And the initial response was
actually pretty good. It was pretty strong and it just
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helped me to keep building and building.
I started getting people reaching out to me and saying,
hey, I heard this episode that you did and that I will say the
first part of the first year or so that I was doing it, maybe
8-7 or eight months. It really was kind of a how to
how to get help if you need it, how to cut cable if you can't
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pay your cable bill anymore, butstill watch all those, you know,
here's how you stream. If you don't know how to do
that, here's how you apply for Medicare.
I literally took two or three episodes and talked them about
how I applied for Social Security and all the things you
need to be aware of. And here's the documents that
you need and here's how long it's going to take and here's
what they're going to tell you. So it really was kind of a, a
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how to get older. And through that, I started
realizing that I could also justtalk about my experiences of
getting older and that that might be more valuable.
So the first season was kind of a how to get older.
And the second season is, is that I'm focusing on this kind
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of life lessons of, of becoming older, of being older but not
being old. That's the big thing.
I always say this podcast is foryoung people who have lived a
very long time. And that's not about being old.
It's about getting older. And life as you age can teach
you some really wonderful things.
And there's a lot of advantages to being older.
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Obviously there's some disadvantages, you know that.
I'll speak for myself. You know, the mind doesn't work
as quick as it used to. The body doesn't react as
quickly, you know, things like that.
But your attitude and your knowledge of the way the world
works and how things work, when you start lowering your
expectations as you age, the world is not so frightening and
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not so frustrating. There's no reason to believe
that it's going to be one way when you know, for 60 some odd
years, it has never been that way.
So stop thinking it will be livein the world that you live in.
And that's like one of the things that I've learned and
that's one of the things that I like talking about on the show
is be aware of where you are. Be aware of what's around you
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and who's around you and be thankful for that.
It's time to stop the wishing that we can do when we're
younger. It's time to stop hoping.
Time to stop planning for one day.
One day I'll do this, one day I'll do that.
One day is today at 1:00 at a certain point.
And you and you need to to understand that.
So it's been an interesting journey so far and I've met some
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wonderful people like in the meet up group, and I've had some
great experiences. And I can say this really hasn't
been a negative aspect of it. So yeah, I think that's kind of
like that part of it. So Bill Monte's guide for
getting older, what is the name of the of that podcast and
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available wherever podcasts can be found.
And I just, I hope people listen, that they enjoy it, that
they reach out and they share their experiences because not
like you were saying, this is kind of an underserved audience
here. And I would say that if you're a
caregiver and you need to hear afriendly voice or some good
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advice or solid advice, then youknow, give a listen because I
can, I can steer you in the right direction if you don't
know quite right now what to do or where to go to.
So when you look at your analytics and your stats and all
that stuff for your show, are you hitting your target market?
Are you seeing that age group listening to the show or any any
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surprises at all when you look at your stats?
The only surprise was when I seewhen I see things like the
people are listening in London or the Philippines or Spain or
there's even one I can't even pronounce Herzegovina,
something, something. And I'm like, really, I have
listeners there. So if you're listening, I'm
sorry, I can't pronounce the name of the country you're
listening from us. Thank you so much for listening.
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I do appreciate it. So I think that was the biggest
surprise is that oddly enough, where I thought there would be
the the groundswell from my local community is, you know,
one of my most vocal supporters actually lives in New York and,
you know, often writes to me to tell me how much he appreciates
and he'll comment on this is I I've enjoyed this episode.
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It really, you know, I really related to that.
So I think that's the part of itthat amazes me.
Absolutely. The, the demographic for the
show is probably 50 and up, but I could say that if you are
certainly in your 30s or 40s, you could be listening and find
something because again, you, itmight not be for you, but there
might be a relative or someone that you know or neighbor that
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this would be good information for.
So, and I try to keep the episode short.
One of the things I found early on was brevity is your friend.
So, but those what my, my first episodes were probably about 25
minutes to 30 minutes long for the first, I would say 7 or 8
episodes. And part of that problem was in
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and again, going back to believing that it would be
family and friends and friends from long ago on Facebook who
would be the supporters they might want to know also what I'm
up to do. So it was this mix of here's
this advice for getting older than suddenly the second-half of
it would be. And here's what Bill's doing.
Here's the music I'm listening to.
Here's a great book I read and what I would look at the
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analytics and see where people dropped off.
They dropped off when I start talking about here's what Bill
overhead and here's the music I've been listening to.
So quickly dropped all that. And so the average episode is
about 15 minutes now or this forthis podcast and for the South
Florida what too? Interesting, for my Dad space
podcast, I was looking at my stats and I had a listener in
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Japan. I'm like, who would who would be
who would find my show first of all, when they're in Japan And
I'm like, and then I found out that this person is serving in a
military base in Japan. They're from the US and I'm
like, OK, well, that makes sense.
So they're they're listening to a little bit of home while
they're away from their family and they're missing their
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children and they're wanting to connect with stuff about dads.
I'm like, I didn't even put two and two together in that, that
someone serving overseas and this is their connection with
home. I'm like, well, OK, well, not
now my world is bigger. Just realizing that it could be
somebody that's just away from home and just looking for
something that feels like home when they're so far from their
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family. So.
Yeah, absolutely. That.
You know, I, I often think that and I also think that when we
talk about aging, it's universal.
So when I look at see, we talk about being a father or or
father think that's, that's universal.
If you are a parent and parenting doesn't go away just
because your child turns 18. So it's actually something that,
you know, my daughter's 32 now, I still feel towards her as I
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did when she was 5, is if there's something I can teach
her, if there's some, there's still things I can do, even
though she's more annoyed by it now.
But you know, absolutely, you know, the, the love and the
caring that you have doesn't stop.
So, you know, you want to hear that from someone else.
And the universality of, of aging is there for everyone.
So it doesn't matter if you're in South Florida or the
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Philippines or New York, wherever it might be, we're all
going through experiencing. We have the same cultural
memories and we, we have the same fears.
We have the same triumphs and wehave the same low moments and
it's sometimes it's nice to hearthat someone else talking about
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it and go, oh, it's not just me.Wow, OK, that's cool.
I'm I'm good with that. Yeah, it doesn't matter if
you're 18 or 75, you're one day older than you were yesterday.
So technically everyone is your audience, but you're focused on
more of that older generation, which I love.
And then there was a, you know, about halfway through doing
that, I thought to myself, well,this is fun.
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I did think to myself, it to me,it was feeling I needed
something else. I wanted to podcast about
something else that was more personal for me.
And I kept going through Facebook and seeing I grew up in
Fort Lauderdale. I grew up in Florida.
I grew up in and I thought, well, what if I did that?
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But instead of posting pictures and putting a post up with a
memory saying, does anyone remember this restaurant or this
place or something like that? What if I did a podcast and each
podcast would focus on one of those things that I'm seeing
people talk about. And then I'll put my own
personal spin. So when I went to this place,
here was my experience and here's the history of it, yada,
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yada, yada. And so that became Tales from
South Florida, which launched inJanuary of 2024.
And that's been now you talk about a reach.
So apparently people who live inSouth Florida have branched out
to all over the world. I think I'm in like 100 and 15
countries. Wow, you know, which is like
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amazing to think about, you know, to to that, you know, but
people from all these different places are locking into this
idea of South Florida and the history of it.
So I try to keep episode where each episode where it's not
alienating people who have neverbeen to South Florida.
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So if you like history, if you like hearing about, you know.
Different things if you ever watched Miami vice then I my
podcast is for you did you ever watch flipper?
My podcast is for you. Did you, did you ever hear of a
man named Henry Flagler who started Standard Oil and back in
the 1800s and became a very richman?
Well, he basically is the reasonpeople go to Key West.
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Now. Why is that?
He built the train that went from Jacksonville to Key West.
So, you know, there's a lot of what happened here in Florida
that reaches out to do more of the world outside of just
Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, and
over to the West Coast of Florida.
So that, and that's been exciting and I've been able to
do some fun things with the, thewebsite, which I just launched.
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It's Tales from southflorida.com.
So I created a, a playlist, a Spotify playlist.
So if you go to the website, youcan actually listen to a
playlist of songs that relate tothe episodes that I've put into
Tales from South Florida. You know, so you can hear the
theme from Miami Bias. You can hear the theme from
Flipper. You can hear the music that was
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I was listening to in 1968 when I talk about growing up in South
Florida and riding my bike around and going fishing or with
my parents, I would go to the Everglades, you know, things
like that. This is the music that was I, I
like to say that the, the music that inspired the episodes and
and the episodes were, were kindof inspired by the times and the
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music. So I thought that was a nice
dimension to put into it. I know a nice little flavor.
So it's good to have fun with that also.
So it's a lot. It's a little more playful than
Bill Monte's guide for getting older.
There's a couple of more areas to go into with the Tales from
South Florida, but they're both a lot of fun and I think that of
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course, I'm biased, but I think they're a good way to spend some
time. Listen, you can listen to Tales
from South Florida, driving fromMiami to Orlando and back.
And you can listen to Bill Montethe entire time telling you the
history of Florida. It's good.
So, but we got a lot of people listening to the show that are
at different stages of their journey and podcasting.
They're coming here looking for inspiration from another
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podcaster. They want to listen to a new
podcast, which is great. We got lots for them to listen
to from you. But let's talk to that podcaster
that's listening and what can you do to encourage them today
and their journey? What are your thoughts like for
somebody who's maybe struggling with their show, maybe looking
at continuing with their podcast?
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They don't really see a lot of response from their audience and
they're like kind of making thatdecision, like should I
continue? Should I not continue?
I just, I'm not getting a lot offeedback.
What would you say to them? I would say first, if you're
thinking about doing a podcast and you haven't started yet
because you're trying to make itperfect, just hit the record
button. You know, script out.
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If you need to write out a script, write out an outline,
even if that episode that you record, no one ever hears but
you, you will learn a lot about you and your podcast from doing
it. So don't be afraid because if
you don't like it or you think it's terrible, you don't ever
have to play it for anybody. You don't ever have to put it
out there. But if, if you're like me, I
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think what will happen is you go, well, that's not very good.
How can I make it better? And you'll tweak it and you'll
try it again. I probably did about four to six
recordings before I ever recorded one that I said, OK,
I'm happy with this one. So, so just, you know, do it.
And there was the old Nike commercial.
Just do it. You know, I'd say for
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podcasting, there's that. For those who have started and
you're not setting the world on fire the way you thought you
would, that's OK. Because maybe your message is
hitting the right people or the right person that it needs to
hit. I've had podcast episodes that
have only had 20 downloads, but that's 20 people who enjoyed it.
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So it, it resonated with the right people for that time.
At first, I used to get really frustrated.
I used to think I'm not going todo this anymore.
This is a waste of my time. But then I thought about it.
I would hear people say, and you've reiterated this also,
Dave, since I've since I met you, you know it.
It's not about the numbers, It'sabout what you're doing.
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It's about the quality of what you're doing.
It's about the message you're trying to send out.
So I would say, you know, what is the message you're trying to
send out? How important is it to you?
And start looking at, there's a lot of information out there.
There's a lot of great books, there's a lot of great people,
and there's YouTube that will teach you how to do some things
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with marketing. So search engine optimization,
SEO, keywords, social media, you've got to find the one that
works for you. And I would also say, hold off
on the impulse to spend a lot ofmoney.
When people say they will get you a lot of downloads, they
will, they'll get you a lot of downloads, but no one will hear
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your podcast, but they will get you a lot of downloads.
They're bots. And so just just be careful of
that, but be true to it and thendon't be afraid to tweak it.
This is your show. You can do Bill Monty's guide
for getting older used to be called Bill Monty's Guide to
Getting older. And then about halfway through
that wasn't resonating with me anymore.
And the original artwork that I thought was great because there
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was my face shining and I realized no one is listening to
this for me. They don't know who I am.
So I changed the artwork to reflect what the show is about.
I have, I have re edited episodes that I just didn't care
for and made them better by doing that.
I there are things you can do. So be true to yourself, be true
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to your vision, be true to your podcast, and at that time,
you'll find you're being true toyour audience.
And once you make that connection, they'll be there for
you. So don't focus on numbers,
especially initially. Don't worry about it.
Just do your show and do the best show you can possibly do,
and I think you'll be happy. Now, if you're really unhappy
with it, you might have to sit back and reflect, is this what I
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really want or need to be doing?But if you had the passion to
even think about doing it to begin with, that's a huge step
right there. So, so follow it.
I think you'll have a lot of fun.
I know I, I, I do it's, you know, someone asked me a while
back. They said, why do you, why do
you podcast? And I had to be honest and say,
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I'm going to say for a very selfish reason.
It's it's my way of trying to beimmortal.
Because your podcast will live long after you stop podcasting.
I can't tell you how many times I'm searching for a podcast and
I'll look at the last episode was 2017, you know, or something
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like that. So long after I have shuffled
off this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible.
If someone wants to hear about South Florida, they can search
South Florida. My podcast is going to pop up
and my experiences and my voice and my stories are going to live
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beyond me, and there's somethingkind of cool about that.
There's something to me anyway. There's something that's kind of
nice to know that you are makingyour own little footprint in the
sand that's going to stick around for a while.
I was listening to James Cridland from Pod News.
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He was being interviewed on a podcast and he said the one
thing that's so unique about podcasting is that your podcast
is up against and with a collection of other podcasts and
you're up with the best of the best, like some of the most
popular people in the world having a podcast.
Your show is right next to theirs.
Now try to do that on television.
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Go create your own television station and see how long that
takes and how much money that gocreate your own radio show and
go get a radio tower and go get it.
All that like, I'll go get a newspaper, go get a magazine and
get on the magazine stand at thecheckout counter, go try to get
yourself next to everyone else in in a creative space.
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Podcasting is so unique that youcan be right next door to the
best show in the world with hundreds of thousands of
downloads. And then there's you.
There's me. We're in that same space and I'm
like, what a great experience. What a great opportunity to know
that your voice is being captured.
There's legacy and there's reach.
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You talked about like 100 plus countries for your show, Like
there's no boundaries, time, place into the future.
You can people are going to press play on this episode years
from now and where we where willwe be?
I don't know, but somebody's going to press play on this.
And that's what I love about podcasting is it's just taken
away all of the restrictions andgiven us this platform to talk
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about the things that mean something to us and to build
community as well. And that's, that's something
else too. It's a great way to give back if
you're doing something locally or if you're doing something for
a very niche audience, I guess. It is certainly a way to build
community. It is certainly a way to, to
support those all around you. And how often did you get a
chance to do that? I'm, I'm a big believer and
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every day we should try to always make a difference in
someone's life. And you know, sometimes when I
say to that, people go, well, that's very lofty kind of thing.
You know who, what do you mean? Like, you know, cure cancer or
something like that. I said, you know, sometimes you
can just hold the door open for someone who would struggle to
walk through a door and you've made a big difference in their
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life that day. If you're in a store and someone
can't reach that item on the topshelf and you just do it for
them and hand it to them expecting nothing in return,
you've made a difference in someone's life.
Sometimes just a smile or a kindword, which is so lacking in the
world today is enough to to makea difference in someone's life.
And I think podcasting allows you to do that on a larger
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scale. So if you need a larger scale to
do it, if it's not enough just to hold that door open for
someone, then podcasting is a way to make a difference in
someone's life. And again, when when the the
gentleman from New York writes to me and says, I loved what you
did, I love that episode, You know, it took me back.
It made me think, it made me reflect.
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Wow. If that's the only thing I ever
did with any of my podcast, it'shas been well worth it.
Yeah. And I think going back to your
Getting Older podcast, I'm in myearly 50s and I'm realizing that
there's less days ahead of me than there are ever before.
And I'm realizing that I'm at this tipping point where I'm
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like, wow, I want my legacy to continue.
I want my voice to continue. My dad passed away like 20 years
ago. I would give everything I own
Bill to hear his voice, to be able to press play and hear him
talk. I don't have anything really
recorded with his voice because it wasn't around back then.
So, you know, I just love the idea that we can get out there
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and share our voice, share our story.
It's a gift to our family. Our voice continues on.
I just love that the whole idea around community, talk a little
bit about how you're building community around your podcast
and if you have any plans to do that.
Is anything working for you to build community adjacent to your
podcast? I would say for me, phase one of
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all this journey was just doing it and getting it out there and
getting probably where I am now in the website out there is, is
I think the start of Phase 2 forme.
So when we look at marketing, one of the things I have found
the most frustrating about podcasting is the marketing
aspect of it. I, I initially thought,
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especially with Tales from SouthFlorida, that all I would have
to do is reach out to these other I grew up in and wherever
groups and say, Hey, you guys were talking about the Hollywood
Sportatorium. Well, I've got an episode about
it on my podcast and that all 16,000 people that group would
come clamoring over. Well, the fact of the matter is
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that, you know, a lot of people did come from that, but they
didn't necessarily stay for the next episode.
They came for that thing that they wanted to hear about that
time and it didn't necessarily go to that.
So that became a real frustration.
And also without having the website back then, I was having
to take that episode link and put it into all these different
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Facebook pages, all these different social media sites.
And that was taking me like an hour out of my day just to put
it out there and hope someone clicked on it or hope I didn't
get banned from the group for a spamming because they think I'm
trying to sell something. So Part 2 of all this phase two
for me is going to be starting that build and that outreach of
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of community and building the community.
So, you know, I'd love to get out to some local as it's kind
of easier to do at this time of year, you know, local fairs,
arts and crafts shows, get some merch created, you know, and
think that I can hand out littlethings that I can hand out to
get people interested. It's a very grassroots way to do
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things, I understand, but it's kind of what I'm comfortable
with. I have a marketing background
and it's from back in the day when grassroots was actually
something you did. We all live by rave cards back
then. We didn't really have social
media or websites to do anythingfor us.
So that feels a little more comfortable to me.
And then starting to do things like being a guest on other
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podcasts, you know, is, is the other way to do it.
And it kind of spread the word. And I just, you know, I just
hope someone comes and they enjoy what they're doing and
maybe they tell a friend or if they they just want to keep it
to themselves, they come back tothe next episode.
I'm perfectly happy with that too.
So that's that's kind of where I'm at in the community plan
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right now and it'd be interesting to see where it
goes. Yeah, there's a lot of tools
that we can leverage. There's newsletters, social
media, your website. For me, I started our meetups
for the How To Podcast series because I wanted to.
I wanted to encourage other podcasters and give them a safe
place to get together and talk podcasting without feeling like
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intimidated or that he didn't have a voice.
I want people to come in and go.I don't know anything about
anything. I'm going to ask some really
stupid questions that I think feel stupid to me, but I want to
be able to ask this in a group where other people are going to
build me up. And I started our meetups and
the first two or three, I sat there by myself, Bill, nobody
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showed up. And I'm like, why am I doing
this? Why am I giving up time to sit
here and there's nobody here? And then all of a sudden
somebody showed up and then someone else showed up.
And now we've been doing these for a while now.
And what I love about the meetups that we're doing is it's
not about me. It's, it's not a Dave show.
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It's a, it's an US show where weall get together.
And there's, I found even today on our meet up, I didn't even
talk as much as I might normallytalk because the group just kind
of took the conversation on and I got to sit back and listen.
It is, it is. It's fun to do that.
I'm trying to encourage more people to come join our meetups
just so that they can meet each other and support each other.
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So I'm going to ask for a shameless plug from you.
Bill, can you explain to people the power of getting together
with other podcasters, whether at a conference or a meet up,
whatever? Why is that so important to meet
other people that do what we do?It's so important because you
really don't have feedback from anywhere.
So I'm going to say this and, and in the hopes of not
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offending family or friends of mine, the the people who will
support you the least, we start a podcast, unfortunately, are
your friends and family. And I don't mean that in any
kind of mean way or like I'm ticked about it everything, but
I initially thought that's what it would be.
And someone wants to explain to me.
They said, well, Bill, let's sayyou opened a hot dog stand and
your family and friends stopped by and they bought a hot dog the
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first day. Maybe they came back the second
day. They're not going to come every
day and eat your hot dogs. You're going to have to build
your own customer base. And I, I kind of went, oh, OK,
yeah, I kind of OK, I kind of get that.
So they will support you to a certain extent, but they're not
going to be your biggest fans. So getting feedback, honest
feedback on what you're doing and having a group of people who
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answer the questions, like you said, the what the question you
think of this is so dumb. I would never ask this out loud
because everyone else must know the answer and I'm just stupid.
It's, it's invaluable, I can tell you that.
And, and, and if you're thinkingof being a podcaster, so I'm
going to do the plug here, you need to be a part of this meet
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up group. It's on Saturday mornings and
Dave has started it on, on Tuesdays, I think during the
week. I unfortunately am working at
that time where I'd be a part ofthat one too.
And it is the most selfless group of people.
They're nice, they're caring, they offer their support, they
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they reach out to you. You can reach out to them with
questions beyond the hour and a half of the meet up or two
hours, whatever it might be. There isn't another group out
there that I'm aware of. And I've been a part of several
different groups and none of them have been like this before.
It is unique. I mean, Dave, you have, you
know, kudos to you and thank you.
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You have created something that if this were replicated in a lot
of other businesses even, but even more in the podcasting
world, the world would be a better place.
It's because it really is a safeplace of kind good people.
Just the the only reason being there is to learn and to share.
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And that's, you know, that's something you just don't get
every day in this world. So I would say, you know, if
you're listening to the podcast,I list, I have become a huge fan
of days how to podcast series. I listen all the time.
Now imagine that friendly voice that you hear welcoming you and
thanking you all the time in the, during the podcast, being
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in charge of this group. And then, like you said, he, he
kind of asked the questions and then the group just takes off
with it. It's like, it's like a great
college course or anything like that that you just couldn't get
anywhere else. And, and I, I, I am so glad and
so grateful that I am a part of this group.
There's no other way to put it. It's, it's, it's really
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something, something special. Yeah, I kind of, I'm trying to
build a meet up group around theidea that there's the wisdom in
the counsel of many. And I love the idea that we all
come and we all contribute. We all put our two cents in and
we may disagree or see things differently, or we might have a
different approach to how we do what we do, but nobody ever
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feels like their talk down to. That's a big part of what I try
to do in podcasting is I'm really tired of anybody that
talks down to people or makes them feel like they're not
welcome or they don't have a voice in the group.
I've been in meetups, we talked about this where I've, I've sit
there and as an audience member and never given the opportunity
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to speak. And I'm like, this doesn't feel,
I don't feel like I want to comeback.
Like I don't feel like I was ever welcomed or acknowledged.
You know, and I wanted our meet up to be different than that.
So, and again, I didn't want it to be a day fest because that
doesn't that's just my opinion and my opinion is only my
opinion and it might not work for you.
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So let's get Bill's opinion on how he does his show and let's
bring Sharon in and let's bring JJ and all these people because
it it helps us to get a better perspective.
So I just like the idea that there's more wisdom with more
voices, you know, that's that's kind of the whole underlying
theme of the meet up. And everyone that's in the group
has a very different podcast in mind in, in, in one in, in, in
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terms of like the subject matter, but in terms of like
everything else, we all have this commonality among us and
that we all had the same questions.
We say we face the same problemsand we're just there supporting
each other. So if that's what you sought out
to create as a, as a safe environment for people to be
creative, you did it. Congratulations.
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Well, you're a big part of it, Bill, so I really appreciate
that. If I could ask if I could ask
you a quick question, I 'cause Ithis is something I haven't had
a chance to do. You you do 8 podcasts 8.
Yeah, I have a problem. So when did you start
podcasting? Back when. 2019-2020 around,
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they're just getting it around close to the pandemic I guess.
OK. And did it grow like you started
with one and then the end of oneyear you said, no, I'm like it 2
and then two became 3, so is is it?
It's an addiction, yeah. Because I I'll be honest with
you, I find 2 to be overwhelmingat times.
And you and you work right? I work full time nights yeah, I
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I do this during the daytime, so.
So do you have you fit sleep in anywhere?
Or well, I worked last night andI got, I slept for two hours,
went to our meet up. Now I'm here with you.
It's like 2 in the afternoon forme right now.
And then I go back to work tonight.
So I'll sleep about four or 5:00this evening into tonight and
then go back to work. So that's kind of my day.
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And if I could ask, what can youlist the names of your other of
your podcast beyond this one? Oh yeah.
So yeah, I actually have to pullit up because there's a few.
Well, we have the How To Podcastseries, which you are on right
now. That's this is one that I really
love because I get to meet greatpeople like you.
But without this show, I, I don't know how we would have
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connected. And now I know your podcast as
well. So that's what I love.
I'm a musician. So I've been doing music for 45
years. And so I did a lot of recording
and all that stuff. So one of my music, my, one of
my podcasts is the add to my playlist podcast.
And that was done primarily, Spotify had a way where you can
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insert music into a podcast. Then they took it away.
So I'm trying to think of how I'm going to continue with the
show, but I could actually have playable songs embedded in the
podcast without making you leaveto your Spotify playlist thing.
My songs were in the show, so I could queue up the show, queue
up the song, talk about the song, play the song, and then
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come back and talk about anothersong.
It was really fun. I loved it.
It was so cool. So that's my Add to my playlist
podcast. It was a Spotify exclusive, so
that was that one. I have Living My Side Hustle.
It's a podcast to anybody that does something on the side of
which I do all the time. So that's another one.
I have the Upcycle Canada podcast to where we take things
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that people don't want and instead of recycling them, we
upcycle. So it used to be one thing and
we turn it into something totally different and keep it
out of the landfill. So that's the thing that my wife
and I started a little business about 10 years ago and we
upcycle products, keep them out of the landfill.
So we had our little business and everything.
So that's that podcast. I did that one with my wife,
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Jen. I have Living the Next Chapter
podcast, which is an author podcast that has almost 500
episodes in three years. And I'm not an author, but I
interview authors and I get to meet people from around the
world, Hollywood, actors, musicians, anybody that's
written anything, Netflix writers.
It's amazing. It's a really fun podcast.
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I have Dad Space podcast for dads by dads because I'm an
empty nest dad and my three children are out of the house
now. So I'm I want to share dad
lessons and life lessons with other dads and give them tools
to help them be a better dad andbring other dads on to talk
about their dad's story. So that one's that was fun for
me. I love that one.
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I have the daily Santa podcast, which is daily 25 episodes in a
row for children leading up to Christmas where and we countdown
to Christmas and it's all kind of like AI voices with me mixed
in the mix. And again, it's all for kids.
I always wanted to do a kids podcast, so that was fun.
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So that's only it's, it's live 365 days a year, but primarily
focused on December 1st and December 25th.
And then I have the Podcast editing and support show where I
help podcasters find an editor and editors to find a podcaster
where we can talk about how to hire somebody and how to find a
good editor and what does what does good sound like.
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And we kind of get more into that side of the podcasting side
of podcasting. So that one's really fun to do
and I really enjoy that one. And then on top of that, I do
edit for other people as well. So I'm an editor helping other
shows. So all that's on my True Media
Solutions website. But those are my podcasts and I
love every one of them. And I wish I had more time
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'cause I do more. But my wife's like, that's
enough, that's enough, that's enough.
That's, that's, I mean, that's great.
I'm glad I got that list down. So now I can start listening
because I was like searching. I was like, OK, where's other
Dave? Other Dave podcast though?
Well, you're brave. If you need more, Dave in your
life, you're brave. That's good.
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So Bill, I want to wrap up with this because I think I'm again,
going back to the legacy piece. I really think that's important.
I love that you're doing that through your podcasting journey.
I'll kind of give you my answer to kind of frame what I'm kind
of going for with you this question.
I think my purpose in life is tocollect people.
That's my goal. If if if I was to walk out of a
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room and the people that know me, my family, my community, my
friends, all that, if they couldtalk freely and openly about me.
I want them to say that Dave collected people.
You're part of my collection, Bill.
I just love meeting new people and expanding my community one
person at a time. That means that brings a lot of
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joy to me and through podcastingthat gives me the opportunity to
do that. So again, I've had conversations
with people I should never have time with and people I would
never meet otherwise. So I feel that's my mission in
life is to collect people. What's your mission in life,
Bill Monty? What is what is that thing that
if you could kind of narrow it down for us, could be podcast
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related, could just be life in general?
What is Bill Monty's purpose? Why are you here?
For me, and I think it's if I walked out of the room or when
I'm no longer here, if people say well what what about Bill
was special? I would like people say he made
a difference. And if that was on my well, I
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plan to be cremated and put out to sea.
So it won't be a headstone. But if there was a headstone, if
it had my name and said he made a difference, that would be good
enough for me. I end both of my podcasts.
I end with the words. Every single episode.
I end with be kind. And there was a phrase by the
Dalai Lama. Be kind whenever possible.
It's always possible. And I just think the world could
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use a little more kindness. So my mission is is to make a
difference every day in someone's life. 1 little
difference. A stranger, someone that I know,
someone that I love, whatever itmight be, if I just do one that
day, that's enough. If I can do more than one,
that's even better. Well, Bill, I can tell you
you're already on the right pathbecause you've done that for me
through your podcast, through your connection with me, through
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our meetups, and just having time with you.
You're on the right path becauseyou're having an impact on some
guy up in Canada. So thank you for doing that.
Thank you. Everyone, all information for
Bill in the show notes. As always.
You know how we do things. Please.
What I'm asking from everyone that listens to the How to
Podcast show is to go and check out Bill's shows to listen.
When you listen, listen to the entirety of every episode that
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you listen to and leave him somefeedback, leave him reviews,
leave him whatever, whatever he has out there that you can do to
respond, please do that and let Bill know that you're connecting
with him because I want to encourage him on his mission to,
to do exactly what he said and to leave that impact on others.
So everyone, please, I'm asking you to do that.
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Let's support each other as podcasters.
Bill, again, thank you so much for being on that a podcast
series. Thank you, Dave, and be kind.
Hey, thanks for listening to thepodcast all the way through to
the end. I love having these great guest
Co hosts on the show to share their podcast with you.
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You have some homework to do. And what I'm asking of you is to
go check out our featured guest Co host today and go over and
listen to their podcasts. And links are always in the show
notes. I'd love for you to go and give
them your love and support. And I think if we can all do
that for each other, podcasting will be a lot more fun for all
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of us. So it's time to do what you've
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Go listen to their episodes in full, the entirety of an
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staying to the end. Probably one of the best ways
you can help a podcaster grow their audience and be shown to
more people is by simply going and listening wherever you
listen to the very end, like you're doing right now here.
This is the perfect way to signal to wherever you're
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