That went quickly! Listen in to our live event where we commemorate 100 episodes of The Busy Creator Podcast and remark on the journey. This event was a crossover with the New York City Podcast Meetup, recorded at Small City Co-working space in Brooklyn.
Joining Prescott on stage are musician Joaquin Cotler (@ShinyIslands), UX designer Rashan Casseus (@rcassues) & video publisher/entrepreneur Gabby Wallace (@GabbyAWallace). Together we discuss daily practice, creating projects and nurturing them over time, and our own experiences with podcasting.
Get The Episode
Subscribe to Get New Episodes
Subscribe to The Busy Creator Podcast on iTunes, on Google Play Music, on Android, on iHeart
Show Notes & Links
"It's a great time to go to Puerto Rico if you already have a lot of money."
—Joaquin Cotler
Tweet This
"Busy is a four-letter word."
—Prescott Perez-Fox
Tweet This
- “Busy Beaver” is an English-language idomatic expression
- MIT’s mascot is Tim the Beaver, nature’s engineer
Tim The Beaver
- Buzz The Busy Beaver is the mascot of The Busy Creator Podcast, but not modelled after Prescott
- #HumbleBrag, a definition
- The Busy Creator Podcast started as bi-weekly, went up to weekly, then returned to bi-weekly
- Bi-Weekly vs. Fortnightly vs. every-other-week, semantics
- TBC by the numbers: 3 years, 106 episodes (including B-Sides), 98 unique guests, 15 single-topic episodes, 4 monologue episodes
- TBC by the numbers, best single day downloads: 567, 11 January 2017
- TBC by the numbers, best monthly downloads: 10,148, November 2016
- TBC by the numbers, lifetime downloads: 103,279, as of 16 January 2017
- Marc Maron’s show received nearly 750,000 downloads in 24 hours when he interviewed President Obama
- Casper Mattresses, not a sponsor
- #TBC100 and #NYCPodMeet to see photos from the event
- Rashan Casseus, NYC native, FIT Grad, currently a Senior UX Designer
- Rashan & Prescott met at a fan meetup for Keith and The Girl
- R & P participated in The Cinnamon Challenge
- The Ice-Bucket Challange, The Mannequin Challenge, etc.
Ice Bucket Challenge
- Emeril Lagasse
"I make digital tools easier to use."
—Rashan Casseus
Tweet This
"UX is the thought process of how a human being gets from point A to point B."
—Rashan Casseus
Tweet This
- MailChimp, and their mascot Freddy
- Disembodied Monkey Hand, the name of Joaquin’s new punk band
- Microcopy, the words around the site on buttons, short messages, etc.
- Eat24, and their “hungry” shopping cart
- 90Elm, Rashan’s cousin’s t-shirt company
- User Stories, User Interviews — tools of planning a site
- Sayba Naturals, Prescott’s mother’s soap brand
- Squarespace, also not a sponsor
"Websites are never finished, they are only abandoned."
—Prescott Perez-Fox, paraphrasing Leonardo da Vinci
Tweet This
"Your website is done when you run out of time, or when the client says 'I want it up now'."
—Rashan Casseus
Tweet This
"I create something every day. Most day, many things."
—Gabby Wallace
Tweet This
"I reject all that quality and editing because it takes forever!"
—Gabby Wallace
Tweet This
- Keytar
- Gilmore Girls, and the revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
- Gilmore Guys podcast
- The Town Troubadour from Gilmore Girls
- Joaquin attended CUNY J-School, earning a Master’s in Multimedia Journalism
- Atavist, easier to use than Squarespace or WordPress
- Roots on The Record, Joaquin’s graduate project speaking to musicians and
- Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
- Marian McPartland, 1918–2013
- The Nerdist Podcast
- Alicia Witt, and her episode on The Nerdist
- The 101, traffic magnet in Los Angeles
- Studio 360
- Kurt Andersen
- Ashley Milne-Tyte, previous guest on TBC ep 8
- WBAI, the liberal talk station which plays Latin Jazz
- Ray Barretto
"Way more fun than playing music is listening to other people play."
—Joaquin Cotler
Tweet This
Tools
Techniques
- Name buttons on websites in an intuitive way; say “conclude” or “done”
- Consult a designer even when using a templated system like Squarespace
- Take team outings as a way to get to know each other
- Post a common planning document to keep your team accountable
- Share your core message; if you don’t have it defined, go back to square one
- Mix your “main bit” with casual, less rehearsed pieces
- When discussing an “album”, call it a “record” to be more generic
Habits
- Keep your skills up with family and community projects
- Find the intersection of your creation and what people need
- Post helpful content and videos; people will ask for your help
- Constantly learn from others via podcasts, videos, blogs, books, etc.
- Return to a consistent format to avoid rehearsal
SaveSave