Behind the Mic: Listener Love and Upcoming Creative Endeavors

Create art podcast special edition listener reviews and upcoming events.

Hello, friend.

This is Timothy Keemo Bryan, your head instigator for Create art podcast, where I bring my over 30 years of experience in the arts and education world to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume.

So here it is.

We're in October where I'm at here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and fall is, fall has sprung, what can I say?

Pumpkins and leaves and all that kind of good stuff and nice chilly weather.

And I just wanted to do a special episode here for you.

Take a little break from, from make fun a habit and let you know a couple of things that are going on here.

Also, I wanted to do something that I haven't done in the past, which is read a message that I received from a listener, a longtime listener and a fellow collaborator.

And that would be from York Campbell, now York.

He runs the welcome to Earth stories over@welcometoearthstories.com and I have appeared on his show numerous times.

Season seven.

I was the subject of a whole series of a whole season, which blows my mind.

But he recently wrote to me and I just wanted to.

And he was commenting on my previous episode of using negativity, using hate to fuel your creativity.

So without further ado, this is what York wrote me.

Hey Tim, I enjoyed your episode on harnessing Hate.

What I hate about myself is my lack of confidence.

And when you said that about yourself, I could relate.

There are so many things I'll like to do, but, and that's a big but.

My lack of confidence gets in the way and it hijacks everything.

Thanks for your honesty.

That's what I admire about you and your show.

You're always sincere.

Keep on making great episodes, and I'm going to continue on because most of podcasters won't do this.

But he said your last episode had some microphone issues.

You sounded far away from the mic, but in the outro you sounded clearer and louder.

There's also some static forgot you.

Perhaps you forgot to turn off the or turn on the noise gate.

But overall, he enjoyed the episode and happy podcasting.

And I, I just wanted to say, and I replied back to him, naturally, but I just wanted to say that I've been using the same microphone.

The Re 320.

Re 320 is not sponsoring this episode, and I've been using it for so long, it could be an issue with the microphone.

So hopefully this sounds a little bit better.

I've got things turned up the way they should be, but I just wanted to share with you all what he wrote, because it really touches me because I really enjoy listening to his show and I enjoy, obviously, being part of the show.

Thank you, York, for that.

And thank you for being my ears out there in the field letting me know, hey, Tim, you did something a little bit messed up there.

So York, thank you very much for that.

So next up, I'd like to go back to my podmatch site and some of the reviews from the guests that have been on this show.

We'll start with the most recent guest, Doctor Joshua Karbala, and he said that it was a great experience.

Really enjoyed chatting with Timothy.

He was great with making me feel comfortable, ask great questions and all in all, and is an all around great soul to connect with.

Now I use podmatch and I'll talk more about Pod match later, but Pod match gives me great guests to choose from and they connect us up very well.

So definitely if you're a podcaster or if you want to be on podcast, you're going to want to check out Pod match.

And they have a lot of great hosts to interview you.

Or if you are a host, have a lot of great guests to interview.

The next one is Shabbana, which I interviewed way back in July, June, July.

She says, tim was a great, engaging, thoughtful host.

It was wonderful and inspiring experience.

And Shabbat has wonderful, has a wonderful project going on right now, and I'd like to talk about that for just a moment, if I may have.

So this is from her newsletter.

Far away is close, and the title of it is catalyst, journey and ravensong.

And it's a webinar where your voice is catalyst and I will have the links for it.

It's going to be 690 minutes, sessions starting November 16 and ending on the winter solstice.

And it's basically creating your creed.

And if you register October 15, I'm recording this on October 15, but if you register, she has different discounts and you can do a one on one with her.

Links will be on her calendar.

Check it out.

It looks like it's going to be a wonderful event.

It's going to be a bunch of sessions that is going to help you out.

So definitely check out my show notes for it now.

Have the links there for you so that way you can participate in that.

So next up is Kristen Rudberg, and she writes, what a fun interview.

Honestly, we talked about everything from Oscar Wilde to screenwriting Maya Darren to me being kicked out of the library.

What a fabulous platform and a super fun host.

And she also has a podcast, bite sized blessings again, show.

The links will be in the show notes there for you.

And Amy Bernstein is a book coach, and she writes a wonderful, intuitive, free flowing conversation that focused on the essentials around creativity and great questions.

And last and certainly not least, one of my favorite interviewees, Ronica Merrill.

She's been on the show a couple of times now, and she writes, this is one of the most wonderful experiences I've had with a podcast host.

Tim is so kind, smart, and full of deepen wisdom.

What a great person to chat with.

So I bring all of this to you.

Not to brag and not to boast, although I do like butter on my breakfast toast.

Reminds me of an old rap song, if you get it, if you don't, just pass by, it's just him having one of his moments.

But I bring this to you because I want to let you know that in my podcast journey, I have gotten to meet some wonderful people.

Too many to mention at this point, but this is something that I want to do every year, and not just at the end of the year and going, hey, thanks for being on my show, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then doing that.

I these are their words.

These are not my words.

These are what they are saying about me, which makes me feel great.

And sometimes when you're out there and doing your artwork and all you hear is crickets, you're thinking, am I really getting through to people?

And this tells me that I absolutely am.

Obviously, I have a listener who's a co collaborator that really enjoys what I do and whose work I respect, which is York, and then the people I've met through pod match and who have been on my show.

Ten years ago, I would have never thought that I would have been talking to these people.

I had no idea who they were ten years ago.

And now I have their email.

I can reach out to them at any time.

They can reach back to me.

And it's a wonderful time and a wonderful opportunity.

Opportunity.

So I say all this to encourage you to go out there, show your art, whatever it is, be it writing, music, podcasting, whatever it is.

Go out there and interact with your public, with your audience, with your listeners, just like I'm doing here with you right now.

And again, it's not a brag.

It's just I want to share this with you.

It encourages me and I want to encourage you, and that's why I do the shows.

I want to encourage you to show your work, to show that art, and to create more than you consume and tame your inner critic.

It's not just words that I say at the end of the show.

It's something I truly believe in.

Okay.

At this point now, I'd like to switch gears and talk about upcoming events and things that are going on in my life right now.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'm doing personal training, and my first session with personal training ended up me passing out because I've been diagnosed with hypertension, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

So, naturally, my first thing was, let me go get a personal trainer, and let's get on some meds.

And I did all that in the same day.

Big mistake.

Don't do that, folks.

But what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to better myself physically so I can be there for my wife, for my kids, and for you.

Because if I'm laid up, sick in bed, and can't move and can't talk in this microphone, you're gonna be without a podcast.

And we can't let that happen, can we?

So, yeah, some health issues going on there, but they are being taken care of.

And for those of you that have reached out to me through this very socials that I'm on, thank you very much for doing that.

And things are gonna be a okay.

Something that I've done for my mind and for my spirit is I've joined a 90 day meditation challenge by Yogi Brian.

B r y a n.

He spells it incorrectly, but that's okay.

He's a good guy.

And as of today, October 15, I'm about halfway through that 90 day challenge, and basically what I do is I get up, set up my work computer, and I'll do a brain training game.

I'll do Duolingo, learning French, and then I'll do this meditation.

And it has worked wonders for me, and it's brought me a lot of peace, a lot of calmness.

Of course, yes, I have hypertension, high blood pressure, but, hey, I'm a dad of twins, right?

So there we go.

But I highly recommend that you give it a shot.

Try it out for yourselves.

Try meditation out for yourselves.

We've talked about this and make fun habit being present.

And I think back in that episode, I talked about meditation, so give that a shot for yourself.

If you're finding yourself stuck in certain areas or don't know where to go, I always believe that the answer is within all of us, and we can all tap into the collective unconsciousness.

So give it a shot for yourself and see if that doesn't help you out now moving into upcoming projects.

National Novel writing month is coming up in about 16 days.

November 1 is when it starts.

I usually participate in that.

It's also a national podcast post month.

And again, I usually participate in both of those.

But this year, what I'm going to do is I am going to work on novel that I started about three or four years ago, and I want to finish it.

It's at 90,000 words and it's something that I want to finish before I work on the next novel that I didn't finish and then the third novel that I didn't finish.

So I'm going to go back to that novel and I'm going to finish it out.

It's still going to be a rough draft.

I don't know how long it's going to be.

It's probably going to be another 50 to 90,000 words.

But it's not about the words.

It's about the story.

And is it entertaining and does it reach out to you?

So in November, that's what I'm going to be doing.

I don't know how much of that I'm going to share with you, but I would encourage you to check out national novel writing months.

And again, it's in the show notes.

If you want to participate it in yourself, it's free.

You write 50,000 words in 30 days and you have yourself a short novel right there.

So I challenge you.

Give it a shot for yourself.

I'm just going back to finish a novel, so I guess I'm participating in it.

Just finishing off a novel that I had started about three or four years ago.

Something else I'm going to be working on throughout the end of the year.

And I had started, I talked about this back in April, is writing or compiling another poetry book of, for the past five years.

Of all the poems that I've written for Napo Rhaimo, that's national poetry writing month.

And so after November into December, I'll start working on that book and editing those poems down and putting them into a book form and then naturally going ahead and selling that book here on the website.

And hopefully you take a look at that.

Not hopefully, I know you'll take a look at it and read it and let me know which ones are your favorites, because I have a few personal favorites.

And the Friday night poetry open mic that I go to, they have a few of the favorites, too.

So those are the upcoming projects that I have that I'm working with.

I'm also going to do a couple of visual arts projects as well.

One of them is going to be the show art that I create for the episode, art that I create for every episode.

And I want to do a collage of all those.

And so I'm going to be working on that again at the end of this year, beginning of next year.

And I'm also doing a, you know, trying to sketch every day.

I haven't, hasn't worked out too well, but I also want to do a series of those and present those in public.

And then I also am thinking about taking some of my string paintings that I have hanging up on the wall and putting them up at OG's, which is a coffee shop here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, run by my nephew who has been on the show, Mister Ethan Rush.

And or maybe we'll just go ahead and do some prints of them and put them up for sale.

And when that happens, I will definitely let you know.

You will have first crack at it.

If you want to collect some artwork from me that looks like a fourth four year old on crack up made it, by all means.

It's coming soon to a podcast near you.

Alright, I wanted to save this part for the end.

So first, I have started up my own podcasting consulting agency.

It's all called TKB podcast Studio and that's where I help my clients lead through the noise and develop great podcasts.

I already have my first client for them.

If you're thinking about starting a podcast and you want a hand with it, feel free to email me and I'd be happy to help you out.

Timothy at tkbpodcast studio.com is where you can email me at.

And I'm developing the website, so that's also a project that I'm working on.

I have too many projects.

Me next, I did want to let you all know that I have a couple of links in my show notes for a couple of affiliate programs that I'm working with.

One is podcast Beacon and that's where you can have a little watch thing or a little wristband and people can tap their phones on it and go straight to your website, straight to your podcast.

So the links for that, if you're interested, are in the show notes.

I also have a link for Pod match, which is an affiliate link for them.

And again, I highly recommend it.

I the guests that I just talked about a little while ago here, I got all of those off of pod match, so definitely check out Pod match for yourself.

You can use my affiliate link.

Will it give me a little bit of money?

Sure.

Yeah, why not?

But check that out for yourself and see if that works for you.

And if that helps you out, let me know.

Make sure if you sign up for pod match link up with me because I'm on there as well.

So the last affiliate link that I have is for pod page and that's where I, that service is why my website looks so good.

I don't know how to code.

I don't know what I'm doing with that.

So pod match helps me present my podcast in the best possible light.

So if you're, if you have a podcast and you are looking to do wonderful things with your website, by all means, give that a look see for yourself.

Again with these affiliate links.

Yeah.

Do I get a little bit of dough with that?

Just a little bit?

Yes, if you buy, yes, I get a little bit of a kickback there.

But these are things that I use myself.

And if you have questions about any of these products, please let me know and I'd be happy to talk to you about it and show you what I have.

Heck, I'll even do a zoom zoom call or a teams call with you and show you the backside of it and the behind the scenes stuff.

And I'd be happy to share that information with you if it's going to help you out.

If it's not, then by all means, just hit that skip button for about 30 seconds and you don't need to listen to what I'm saying.

So that's, that's what we have there for you.

So I know I got a lot out of this episode.

I hope you did, too.

And I just want you to get out there and interact with your audience and interact with the people that are buying your work or interested in your work, just like I have, and then do a scrap folder for yourself of when these things come in.

Just put into a little folder and go.

Anytime you're feeling you're hearing more crickets than you are, applause bring these out and let others know about it.

So if you got something out of this, and I know you did, feel free to share it with a friend.

That's the best way to find, to find podcasts.

And just also let you know, too.

I have another podcast called find a podcast about.

You can grab that at find a podcast about XYZ.

And that's where I review other podcasts that are out there.

There's millions of them out there, but I'm bringing you the ones that I feel are binge worthy.

So check out Findapodcast about XYZ and find your next binge worthy podcast.

Outsmart that algorithm, why don't you?

Okay, that's all I have for you today.

Next episode, which will be in two weeks, we'll go back into the make fun a habit.

And I can't wait to go back into that because making fun a habit and this is one of the things that I learned in make fun a habit is when you get responses, when you get feedback, save it and look at it when it's a rainy day.

And for me it was a rainy day when I got diagnosed with hypertension, high blood pressure and diabetes.

So I needed to see all these things and they happened just at the right time.

So go out there, tame that inner critic.

Create more than you consume.

Make some art for somebody you love yourself.

If you want to reach out to me.

Timothy@creatcast.com have a great one.

I'll talk to you soon.