I made a bunch of videos last night at 3 AM... and I realize these could/should have been just audio files. But I don't know where to host audio files without a public feed or podcast-like sharing options... I will just embed them on my site (behind a paywall). Was looking at Zencastr. Does anyone have experience using that platform? Or anything else for what I'm trying to do?

I know @Dan Foster makes the big bucks there. I know @Linda Locke is on there, has her own publication, and is pretty active. I also know that @Rachael M and @Denisse Vega and @Jeff Tarbox are on there, too... So, I'm wondering, is anyone else here writing on Medium? If yes, feel free to share your profile, and I'd love to give you a follow! (This is mine.) Also, what's your experience with the platform so far? Is it worth putting in the work? I just started publishing there (after a long break), and hoping to ramp it up to 3 stories per week. I'm also not paywalling, because I mostly want to reach as many people as possible and get new subscribers. Mostly because, as I was telling Matt Giaro a few days ago... historically, people who joined my list from Medium have been buyers. So... your thoughts?

According to Wikipedia: === The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias where a person with expert or specialized knowledge assumes that other people share that same understanding. === I apparently suffer from this. I did a workshop today in @Dan Foster's group about what blogging on your own platform looks like. For context, Dan's audience mostly writes on Medium and Substack. So there I was, talking to beginners, and they were asking me some really good questions. Questions I almost never address anymore because, in my mind, these are things everyone already knows... But obviously that's not the case. I'm sure there are folks in my audience who are probably wondering about the same things that I was asked today in the workshop. I should keep that in mind! And if you catch yourself thinking the same thing... that everyone already knows this stuff... or they can just Google or ChatGPT stuff... think again. People always appreciate the POV of another person who is living the life they want to live. Basically, nothing is ever too basic to write about, teach, or make offers for.

If you read my email today, you probably know that I'm considering upping my content game. So, I published a story on Medium today, republished it on Substack (trying to cover as much square footage as I can with minimal effort to catch as many fishies as possible!)... And just as I was about to hit publish on SS, this new thing caught my eye: "Scan for AI text." Substack has apparently partnered with Pangram to bring this new and completely useless thing to everyone (AI detection tools are notoriously incorrect, fyi). In any case, I hit the scan button just to see what's what, and according to Pangram, my content is delightfully AI-free ✌️ Whatever. Any Substackers here? What even is the use case for this thing, anyway???

My biggest source remains Google, followed by Pinterest, some direct (?), and LinkedIn when I do post there, which isn't as often as I'd like to... Of course, I also do cross-promos/swaps, but on a day-to-day... Google remains the winner. Screenshot of the last few days' subs and sources attached. Those of you with an email list... where/how do you get your subscribers? --- I'm doing an SEO/GEO workshop soon. Free for Vault members, drop-in pass required for non-members. You can sign up here if you want: https://luma.com/xgmqlmrs