My Experience
Roles & Responsibilities
Freelance Podcast Editor
The Startup Story
March 2021 - Present
My fundamental role for The Startup Story podcast is to edit the podcast and making sure it is at the highest standard for its audience of 85,000 listeners.
Key Skills:
Audio Editing
Creating high-quality podcasts
Writing program notes
Punctuality, making sure everything is with the client on time.
Podcast Producer
The Back Yourself Show
November 2021 - Present
My role at Stakester has consisted of running the Founder Tom Fairey’s podcast The Back Yourself Show. In my position I took control and rebranded the podcast, creating a structure to the episodes and series and creating an overall improvement to the podcast. Key skills running the podcast are:
Preproduction
Seeking out aspiring entrepreneurs and investors to come onto the show.
Booking the guests onto the show
Zoom meeting with upcoming guest to prepare them for the show
Creating program notes including the background of the guest, topics that the host should bring up, and any other relevant information.
Designing and creating settings for the different series
Recording and Post Production
Being on set on the day making sure everything is running smoothly
Editing Audio podcast with Adobe Audition
Editing Video podcast with Premiere Pro, creating multi-camera sequences.
Running the podcasts social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube)
Promoting the podcast through social media
Writing the show notes and uploading the podcast to be distributed every tuesday on multiple podcast platforms.
Other
Presenting my own mini series for the company
Coming up with new ideas for the Stakester Marketing team
Pitching ideas and showing podcast stats and results on the weekly marketing meeting.
Podcast Producer
The Prosperous Performer/ The Backstage Podcast
April 2020 - November 2020
The Prosperous Performer podcast is a podcast for all singers and performers of all ages and abilities. Each episode provides basic and advanced fundamental skills to grow as a performer.
Key Skills:
Creating all content
Creating a personal brand for the podcast
Excessive planning for each episode: program notes and exercises
Inviting guest onto the podcast
Recording, presenting and producing the podcast
Providing clear audio for listeners
Editing content using Adobe Audition
Uploading Podcast to feeder Podbean that distributes it onto Apple, Spotify, and a personal podcast website
Creating content for the podcast: videos, I edit with Adobe Premiere Rush or Imovie; Photos, I edit them using Adobe Photoshop Mix then put it all together with Adobe Spark posts.
Promoting podcast through social media: Facebook pages, Podbean and Instagram
Time management keeping and punctuality with keeping to weekly deadlines
Collecting and understanding analytics and demographics from Spotify, Apple, and my website finding out how listeners found the website [Instagram, google or Facebook]
Tracking the improvements or fall from analytics
By creating my own podcast I have worn all of the job hats, I understand every area of a podcast that needs to be juggled. I do all of my marketing and in a space of four weeks I have had over two hundred listens on Spotify, Podbean and visitors to my website.
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coming clips of the podcast and promote podcast guests as well on there.
Eagle Radio Station, Guildford
University Work Experience
September to December 2019
Eagle Radio provided me with the more advanced skills I need for the broadcasting industry. With the information and skills I have learnt I was able to create my own podcast.
Key Skills:
Understanding the basic running of a radio station
Understanding the key fundamental skills to create a profession and seamless radio show.
Perfected the skills behind planning, recording and publishing to a high broadcasting quality.
High understanding of how to grasp the attention of the target audience and the demographics.
Learning how to use professional broadcasting equipment: Adobe Audition, used to record and edit radio shows; Zetta, song programing system and Bionic studio, used to connect phone calls with the general public.
Radio Redhill, East Surrey Hospital
Volunteer
January 2019 - March 2019
Radio Redhill opened my eyes to broadcasting and the community with it. Volunteering provided the basic key fundamental skills to start my personal broadcasting and presenting journey.
Key skills:
Interacting with patients and staff and collecting song requests from them
Sourcing information from the patients with song request such as, messages to loved one
Sourcing music, CD, digital media or vinyl
Copresenting the evening request show
My Skills
Podcast Producer and Editor
A Valuable Skill
Publishing and Marketing
Above and Beyond
Presenting
Raising the Bar
Adobe Audition
Industry standard
Education
My Studies
First Class Honours
BA(Hons) Music Industry Practice
September 2018 - July 2020
The Academy of Contemporary Music provided me with a whole rounded knowledge of the music industry. I have experience in not only performing but also Music Journalism and Broadcasting. This experience has helped me shape my path into broadcasting.
A Levels
September 2016 - June 2018
Ewell Castle provided me with the skills I needed by study Music A level allowed me to understand every genre and deeply analysis music along side doing my grade eight singing. My english literature A level provided the skills for effective essay writing which has benefited me in may ways.