Have Fun with Your Podcast, The M...

Have Fun with Your Podcast, The Money Making Opportunities Will Come - Lively Lewis Stories

Friendly Podcast Guide: Teaching Women How to Grow a Podcast... by Andi Smiley
S2 · E2
Sep 10, 2024
42:18

Episode notes

I’m sharing a conversation I had with Alexa Lewis, who is a veteran in the creative space. She and her family have a very successful kid YouTube channel and I can’t wait for you to hear about how the YouTube audience translated to podcast listeners.


Table of Contents

(0:00) Introducing Alexa and Lively Lewis Stories

(0:35) Introducing Alexa

(3:48) Using Trello to stay organized

(5:48) Having fun with the podcast

(9:39) How Alexa comes up with podcast story ideas

(11:47) Evolution of the podcast story subjects

(13:11) Audience going from YouTube Kids to kid podcast

(17:41) Why Alexa likes her podcast more than YouTube

(19:24) Alexa’s favorite episode of Lively Lewis Stories

(23:21) Experimenting with different episode styles

(24:22) Why Alexa chose to make a short kid podcast

(27:14) The money side of Lively Lewis Stories

(28:20) How much money Lively Lewis Stories makes

(31:54) Creating with faith that it will work out

(32:38) Money making opportunities that aren’t ads

(33:50) Where to find Lively Lewis Stories

(36:05) Storybutton

(38:55) What Andi learned from Alexa Here are the things I learned from my conversation with Alexa: - Use tools to stay organized - Listener participation doesn't have to be all or nothing - Know your audience - Don't let your episode structure get too rigid - Money making opportunities don't always mean ads


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