Saturday, June 27, 2020

I’m Looking for a Mid-Career Reboot

This workshop is for you if you’ve been doing something else, and doing it well for 5+ years in any field but want to learn how you can use that foundation to get started in podcasting. We’ll talk about the essential building blocks for a team or solo operation. We’ll talk about the realities of differentiating your ideas in the market. And get you closer to deciding if podcasting, at this point in your career, makes sense.

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Alternative Ways to Measure Your Podcast’s Success (That Aren’t Downloads!)

Why are podcast download numbers treated like top-secret classified information? We’re here to tell you that download numbers are not the end-all-be-all of a show’s success. You should be thinking of the other s-word: sustainability. We are going to take you on a deep dive of tangible metrics that will make your show's growth sustainable based on strategic goal setting with key metrics that will prove to you and your potential advertisers the real picture of your podcast’s reach.

Saturday, October 24, 2020

What Does Editing Have to Do With Podcasting

Editing is one of those tricky words that can mean a lot of things. Some people use it to mean what an engineer does when they are cutting tape or creating assemblies in Pro Tools. This webinar is about a different type of editing—editorial editing: refining the content of your podcast to define its purpose and role in the audience’s life. A strong editing process not only makes each episode shine, but sets your show apart, starting with the show’s log line, description, pitches to guests, interview preps, and calls to action in your promotion.

Saturday, November 24, 2020

The Three Essential Parts of Podcast Interviews

This webinar will expand on the three critical components that can lead to a stellar interview for your podcast (or any medium, actually). From choosing the right guest for a topic, to preparing beyond the basics (a list of questions is never enough), and creating the atmosphere—in person or virtually—for your guest to feel comfortable owning and sharing their story or perspective in provocative and engaging ways. You’ll end the session with tangible action items that can be applied immediately to your own interviewing and producing work.

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Podcast Narratives from the Inside Out

In this webinar, author and podcast producer Laura Tillman will discuss the concept of the “interior narrative”—an emotional and intellectual arc drawn from a subject’s internal journey or the narrator's changing understanding of the subject. When you have a firm grasp of the interior narrative as an audio producer or editor, you’re liberated to pursue nonlinear storytelling structures, while remaining faithful to the central logic of the story. In the second half of the session, Tillman will lead a group discussion on how you can apply this concept to your podcast, or in strengthening the work of other storytellers as a producer. 

Laura Tillman is an author, journalist, teacher, and podcast producer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard and Literary Hub, among many other publications. She is an adjunct professor in the Goucher College MFA Program in Nonfiction Writing, and the Associate Producer of Who Is? from I Heart Radio. She lives in Mexico City with her family. 

Saturday, February 20, 2021

12 Questions to Test How Your Podcast Is Doing

You’ve got this podcast production down. You’ve got an engaged and loyal group of listeners. You might have even sold some ads into the show. Fantastic. Now what? Podcast creator and producer Juleyka Lantigua has created a set of fundamental questions to guide you in evaluating how your podcast is really doing in key areas like content, ad sales, performance metrics, audience growth, critical acceptance, and other key areas.  This webinar will cover 12 essential, non-negotiable, must-answer questions for you to determine where to put your focus, energy and resources as you grow your podcast. 

Juleyka Lantigua is the founder of LWC Studios, an award-winning and Peabody-nominated digital media studio. 

Saturday, March 20, 2021

How Sound Design Can Shape Your Creative Process

You’ve recorded your interviews, selected your best tape, and now you’re ready to start putting the pieces together. In this seminar facilitated by sound designer and composer Cedric Wilson you will  learn how to think about the bigger-picture sound of your podcast and the places throughout the production process that will get you there. From how and where you record, how you use (or not use!) music, to how all of your elements come together in the mixing process. You will come away with a better understanding of how thoughtful and intentional sound design can support and elevate the stories you want to tell.

Cedric Wilson is a sound designer and composer based in Providence, RI. He is Lead Producer at LWC Studios. You can hear some of his most recent work on Our Body Politic, 70 Million (LWC Studios), and Driving The Green Book (Macmillan Podcasts). He got his start in audio in music and his work has taken him through audio engineering, sound design, composition, post-production and media studies.

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Making Podcasts in Multiple Languages at the Same Time

In this session, Studio Ochenta founder, Lory Martinez, takes you through the process of producing a show or various shows in multiple languages. From identifying universal themes that work across cultures, to developing characters/subjects who listeners across geographies can identify with, to adapting scripts through translation, to learning about and targeting different markets with the same show—she will cover it all.

Lory Martinez is a Colombian-American journalist and podcast producer from Queens, NYC. She is the Founder of Studio Ochenta, a multilingual podcast studio dedicated to raising voices across cultures. She is the executive producer on a number of podcasts for the studio in French, English and Spanish, and hosts Mija Podcast, an audio drama that follows the immigration journey of one family from Colombia to the United States. The podcast is available three languages and hit #1 in Fiction on Apple podcasts in both Spain and France.

Saturday, May 15, 2021

16 Questions to Test Your Podcast

In this session, Juleyka Lantigua will expand on some of the questions she and her team at LW&C grapple with as they develop, produce, and evaluate client and original shows. Even if you have a brilliant idea, before you start working on it you must have answered six foundational questions as completely, factually, and honestly as possible. As you develop the show, addressing six other key questions will help you create the conceptual and achievable goals for the show and every episode. After you launch, four introspective questions will help you plan the determine the trajectory of your show.

Juleyka Lantigua is the founder of LWC Studios, an award-winning and Peabody-nominated digital media studio. 

Saturday, June 12, 2021

How to Make Sense of Your Podcast Metrics

When dissecting metrics for your podcast, there are a lot of numbers, but not a lot of clear information. What's the difference between a download and a listen? How do different services count different types of engagement? And just how much should you care? In this workshop, we'll look through the muck of podcast numbers to find what really matters to sponsors, to listeners, and to you.

Wil Williams is the managing editor for Discover Pods, CEO of Hug House Productions, and showrunner of the fiction podcast VALENCE. You can find them on Twitter, or on their website.

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Wrangling and Crafting Documentary & Narrative Podcasts

So, you have a burning story you need people to hear but don’t know where to start. It’s personal. You’ve spent time gathering interviews, meeting people, asking questions—and maybe you’ve become a character in the plot. How do you take that concept and turn it into a work of audio art? Chris Colbert, executive producer of the podcast docuseries Say Their Name, and the former VP of documentary programming at Cadence13, will share his tools of the trade to get you started, to effectively manage the documenting and editing process, and to incorporate all that tape!

Chris Colbert is the CEO and Founder of DCP Entertainment, a media platform for underrepresented voices, including people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and other overlooked communities. He began his career in audio production over a decade ago as an intern and consultant for Sirius Satellite Radio (now SiriusXM Radio), where he helped create Jamie Foxx’s comedy & music channel, The Foxxhole. Having worked with names like Jamie Foxx, Touré, Joy-Ann Reid, Zak Levitt, Andrew Jenks, Joe Madison, ESSENCE, PEOPLE, Crooked Media, Sports Illustrated, and the United Negro College Fund, Chris specializes in documentaries, media partnerships and content development. Chris founded DCP Entertainment; a place to bring together audio and visual storytelling for underrepresented communities.

Saturday, July 24, 2021

Three Elements for Exceptional Podcast Interviews

This webinar will unpack the three critical components that can lead to an unforgettable interview on your podcast (or any medium, really). From choosing the right guest for a topic, to preparing beyond the basics (a list of questions is just a grocery list), and creating the context—in person or virtually—for your guest to feel comfortable owning and sharing their story or perspective in provocative and engaging ways. You’ll end the session with tangible action items to apply immediately to your interviewing and producing work. 

Juleyka Lantigua is the founder of LWC Studios, an award-winning and Peabody-nominated digital media studio.

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Using Sound to Make a Scene

In this session, composer and producer Luis Gil will share an approach to sound design and scoring that will bring your scenes to life, and give you a set of practical tools and shared language to get your entire team on the same page about how to build a great scene through sound. He will draw from his training in film scoring and many years of experience writing and mixing for all kinds of media, including working with the brilliant minds behind the Duolingo Language Podcasts and award winning shows like 70 Million. This workshop is ideal for producers and sound designers looking for a fresh approach to scoring, and for writers and editors in need of a better way to communicate their ideas to their post-production teams.

Venezuelan producer and composer Luis Gil has been using sounds to tell stories on stage, off stage and online for over 15 years. For the past several years he has been focusing on podcasts – more specifically, highly produced narrative and documentary shows. His work consistently shows up at the top of podcast charts all over the world and has earned multiple accolades, including a Peabody Awards nomination in 2020. He currently works managing production operations and culture at Adonde Media.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Run Your Show Like a Business 

In this practical, no-nonsense workshop, LWC Studios founder Juleyka Lantigua will offer proven techniques for managing your show like a small business—especially if you're a team of one. From setting up production schedules to automating marketing and promotion to professionalizing communications to understanding how to get and apply KPIs (key performance indicators) to securing your IP, and so much more. This might be the most 'tough love' session we've ever offered, but you will walk away better prepared to streamline your work, prioritize what matters, and set yourself up for a sustainable podcast/life balance.

Saturday, October 16, 2021

Think Like an Editor

LWC Studios executive editor Jen Chien shares tips and techniques for sharpening audio work with an editor's mindset, whether you're a one-person-band editing yourself, editing colleagues on your team, or looking to branch out into editing as a career. We'll talk about the editor's essential toolbox, strategies for structure, and explore the art of giving feedback. You'll leave with tools to start leveling up your audio game immediately.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

First, Find Your Podcast Audience

"There's no podcast discoverability problem. There's an audience discoverability problem." LWC Studios founder Juleyka Lantigua has been saying this for a while. In this hands-on workshop she will take it a few steps further and offer insights and resources for identifying, quantifying and growing your show's audience before you publish your first episode. As an added bonus Manuela Bedoya, LWC Studios' social media editor, will offer an inside look at how she has multiplied the networks' audiences using streamlined and targeted campaigns.

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Test Your Podcast Idea

You're ready to start your podcast. You've got topics, themes, and even ideas for potential guests. Now what? In this workshop, LWC Studios' founder shares a proven process for evaluating your podcast's potential success, before launch day.

Juleyka Lantigua is the founder of LWC Studios, an award-winning and Peabody-nominated digital media studio.

Spring 2022

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Essential Pro Tools Hacks for Solo Creators

This workshop will cover best practices for setting up and optimizing your Pro Tools sessions. We’ll review session parameters, folder hierarchy, highlight useful preferences, properly importing media, tips to recover from challenges and more. These time-saving practices will free you up to pour into other aspects of your creativity!

Florence Barrau-Adams has over 20 years of experience working in audio and video media, serving as producer, director, writer, host, editor, and production engineer on various productions at companies such as WNYC: New York Public Radio, Simon & Schuster, Weston Woods Studios, and Scholastic to name a few. Currently she is Senior Producer of “Culturati: Conversations with Kierna Mayo” produced by Breakbeat in partnership with PRX. As well as Producer of the 2020 Webby-Honoree, "Citations Needed with Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi". Florence is an AVID certified Pro Tools instructor and teaches audio production at NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.

Summer 2022

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Make Them Press Play: How to Use Your Personal Brand to Market Your Podcast

What do Amazon, Nike and Tesla all have in common? Brand recognition. Without spending millions of dollars, you can apply the strategies from the most recognizable companies in the world to your podcast promotion. Because what if I told you, the difference between someone listening to your podcast or your competitor's is you?

In this session, you will:

• Understand why personal brands are for more than social media influencers

• Discover 3 C's of personal branding

• Build the bridge from your podcast to you

• Learn how to intentionally craft a brand that connects with your audience

Monica Rivera is a data-driven marketer, reformed self-doubter, community builder, and speaker determined to put more money in the pockets of women of color. She is the creator of YOU WANNA DO WHAT?!, a consultancy and podcast empowering women of color to take their business idea from stuck to start with mindset shifts and small scale actions. Prior to building successful communities and businesses, Monica spent 15+ years in marketing working for companies like SAP, Citi, Verizon, and Deloitte. She has spoken at TEDx, TIME Magazine, NPR, Podcast Movement, and more. Monica has been featured in O Magazine, The Huffington Post, NPR, and Business Insider.

Saturday, August 27, 2022, 1pm-2pm ET

Podcasting Legal 101