“the best thing about podcasting is you get time with the listeners you would not usually get from them, in the car, at home, giving real in depth information about life, career and teaching points, it is like radio 2.0, you have so much control over your content" 

Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, and is a former champion powerlifter turned new media entrepreneur. Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy and #26 in the business category.

Jeremy was named one of the top 26 podcast for entrepreneurs to listen to in 2017 by CIO Magazine and Millennial Influencer to follow in 2018 by Buzzfeed.  The Create Your Own Life Podcast has been downloaded a million times. He’s also a featured writer for Influencive and Business.com. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.

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Talking points - Jeremy Ryan Slate talks to Ed Andrew on Human Impact podcast

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• is education and getting a degree relevant today (5)

"I don’t think this model (education) will continue"

• on preaching and teaching, how do we fill the void of networking if we move away from the traditional education model

• the difference between coaches and consultants, and teh problem with online coaching - (6)

• his episode with Seth Godin , discussing the distinction between entrepreneurs and freelancers, freelancers are not building companies, economy going more to freelancers (12)

"in your 20s you should be getting experience as you can offer more high level coaching and then build a business, but there is something missing, something wrong" (13.30)

• where he disagrees with Gary Vaynerchuk message and disagreeing with not doing anything in your 20’s (16)

• the way the world works now is now not to set up and serve a tech based world (17)

• you have to pay your dues, build it form the ground up and put your blood sweat and tears into, starts with education- trend with extreme success is that they had extreme problem at some stage in their life, creates this inner fire and drive, ability to work harder than others - so may want to be on top right at the beginning (19)

“creativity is being driven out of people, there is a whole bunch of mess that we have to sort out with an outdated marketing and education model” (20)

• moving into podcasting, shorts stints in a bunch of careers as my training program to be an entrepreneur (25)

• the team of 7 publicists at Command Your Brand Media, a PR firm for the podcast industry - 80% of clients either had  podcast or started one afterwards, doubles downloads and book launches and product launches “the best thing about podcasting is you get time with people they would not get form them, getting real in depth information about life career and teaching points, it is like radio 2.0, they have so much control over their content. (33)

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• how to be a good podcast guest and get the most out of it -  “too many times people think they are on an interview and that is the end of it”  (39)

• being ranked 78 in top 100 and losing his podcast feed that day (42)

• on running a podcast, how easy will be able to find you - more frequency same as your podcast, listener habits give them an addiction, habit of consume content and more search terms, you need to be doing at least 2 episodes a week and if really want to dive in then 2 e experts and one content session ie 3 per week (47)

• pivoting his show, what is the uniting character is that they are all world class guests, do it their now way and inspire him, continued to evolve (49)

• his passions, building up the agency, super passionate about anti drug education, 

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• his favourite books Peter Greene Alexander the Great, favourite books, Arian favourite ancient writer, personal biographer of Alexander the Great, I Claudius Robert Graves

• podcasting tips - don't run more than one podcast at a time, podcasting is the best place to build your brand, be professional at it and get on other people shows and create content around that, ie repurposing content

• where to find him and a free download offer (58)

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