As I mentioned late last month, my wife has prepared for some time to launch her podcast. Lisa is a performance management strategist and a certified professional coach. Positivity is one of her greatest strengths, and this show is all about exercising gratitude and recognizing the things that Brighten Your Day. The variety of guests she has on the show share what they’re grateful for, and Lisa is adept at getting them to open up.

As of last Friday, the podcast is live with the first episode, and Capital Community Media in Salem, Oregon picked it up to run Sundays on KMWV, starting this weekend. Episodes will drop weekly. Lisa has done a great job mapping out the podcast and booking diverse guests; the interview calendar is full. My job is handling all the post-production and any technical issues. Evenings and weekends are busy with what has turned out to be a really fun creative project — the first we’ve worked on together.

Brighten Your Day is on all the major directories (Apple, Spotify, and Google) and quite a few of the smaller ones, too. If you have an Amazon Echo, you can even access the show via TuneIn or Amazon Music. Just say, “Alexa, play the Brighten Your Day podcast.”  Check it out. Even better, subscribe!

My wife is launching a podcast in April! This is a project she has built toward for a while that is finally coming to fruition. Lisa is a performance management strategist and also a certified professional coach. As she says, positivity is her beat, and that is what this new podcast is all about. It’s an entertaining exercise in gratitude she and her local guests share. Lisa’s goal is to start a ripple effect of positivity. What has brightened your day?

Podcasting enters my area of the world, and I enjoyed watching her quick transition to content producing. She formulated the idea, created a format for the show, started booking interviews, and hired musician and designer friends to compose her theme and design the pod’s logo. I was recruited to the effort as well (duh!). While I’ve made equipment recommendations and acted as a troubleshooter for technical issues, my job is mainly post-production and assisting with the metadata. I handle audio restoration, editing, mixing, and uploading. I’ll start the submission process shortly for Apple, Spotify, and Google. We’ve got her on a hosting service already and will route the podcasts through her website. There have also been discussions with a radio station in Salem, Oregon to air these shows, which will release weekly.

I’m really proud of Lisa. She comes at this with a producer’s mindset, and being a curious person, she is good at getting her guests to open up. She finds the interviews invigorating. We’re ironing out the creases as we go, and I expect any technical hitches to lessen over time. Lisa will also get more comfortable with the “live recording” aspect. Everything is headed in the right direction. Once the show launches, I’ll post a link on my site. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have more editing to do.