Carry on Friends Podcast Season Update

Speaker 1 0:03

Hello everyone , welcome to another episode of Carry On Friends , the Caribbean American podcast . As always , thank you for tuning in , and so this is the first solo episode that I've done in a while . This year has been a year of really great episodes . I mean , I might say that almost every year , but this year truly it's been a lot of phenomenal episodes and guests and conversations and I'm just really excited . But I'm going to rip the band-aid off to say that this episode will be the last episode for 2023 .

Speaker 1 0:42

And this episode is also out of cycle because I recognize that I needed to take rest . So over the summer it wasn't apparent because I batch a lot of work and so I edit in advance and then I schedule them out , and so over the summer I was able to really enjoy the summer , travel , spend time with family , and I just recognize how much more of that I needed , maybe not the traveling so much and maybe yes , but just definitely just take the time off and really get rest . And so that's the reason why I said you know what , let me just round out October , right , it really makes sense because typically I try to end the season around Thanksgiving , early December , the latest , because it tends to be the holidays and people are traveling , and so I'm just giving myself an extra couple of weeks to just take some time , rest , reflect , restore , because that is super important for me . And so , in addition to ending the season early , what I wanted to do was also get more time to get feedback from you , the audience and the listeners . So if you're on my newsletter , you'd have gotten a request to give your feedback in an audience survey , and I'll make sure I'll include the link in the show notes . Surveys are very important to me . I've done them for the past 10 years for Carry On Friends . Those surveys and the feedback led to the creation or validated my reason for creating the podcast , and so the survey is a way for me to connect and get to understand you , the audience , and without your feedback , it can be challenging to validate the direction for Carry On Friends in terms of topics and guests , et cetera , and so the surveys are really valuable . They help validate or make sense of the data in terms of the listening , the downloads , the website , all of that stuff . And so , if you've already taken the survey , thank you so much for responding and just giving your feedback . If you haven't , please take a few minutes and just give me your feedback . It's especially important because I am so tired and my creativity is just not humming and flowing the same way , which is also why I'm just like I need to rest and just take that time to restore , and so I'm going to make sure I put that link in the show notes .

Speaker 1 3:31

A big thank you to everyone who tuned in to Carry On Friends in 2023 . I didn't make a big splash of it . I mentioned it here and there , but 2023 marks 10 years since Carry On Friends existed as a platform . While most people might make a big splash of a milestone year , I just kind of just kept going . Maybe I should have made a big deal about it , maybe it is what it is , but if you discovered the podcast in 2023 , thank you for helping us in making it to 10 years . If you've always listened , thank you for rocking with me for the past . Maybe it's not 10 years , maybe it's the past two , three , four , five years . Either way , thank you for continuing to support Carry On Friends .

Speaker 1 4:20

So , as I mentioned earlier , this year I had some really great episodes , and some of my favorites included the episode that I kicked off the year with with Kimoi , who is a huge supporter of the podcast , and so she was able to interview me as a supporter of the podcast , as a listener , and so it was such a long conversation . We made it two parts and so we kicked off the year with that , and then another episode is with audience favorite Ingrid Murray . Ingrid came on the podcast in 2020 . She had her cleaning business and , you know , before that happened there was a lot of trials that led her to be the very successful businesswoman she is today , and so for the 10th year I was able to bring her back on the podcast to catch up the audience as to where she is and how she was doing in business , and that was also a very transformative episode . A lot of people really valued her honesty . So I'm going to make sure I'll put the links to these episodes . I also had got to do an episode with Wyatt Yachty and that was funny . I laughed a lot . Althea Brown , who is the blogger at Met Mg and she recently wrote a book Kirby and Paleo , was on the podcast . I had a lot of fun recording that , and I had two episodes with Kisha Bailey . She is a financial wealth advisor just really doing big things , and I mean , when I think back about a lot of the episodes , there were just really really good episodes the pharmaceutical breakthrough , you know just so many really good episodes .

Speaker 1 6:06

And one of the biggest distinction with the podcast this year I added video . The videos are on YouTube . A lot of people don't really watch them on YouTube , but which is fine . They help with the clips on social media . So for the 10th year , we've been experimenting with what video means and what this is probably more information that some people want , but I just like to give that transparency . In podcasting , everyone is just like video is going to be the next biggest thing and I am doing video , but the audience is still gravitating towards audio , which is fine , because audio is my first love . I do understand that for some episodes is just a static image , but then for the episodes that I did for this year a couple of them they were actually the video recordings of me doing the interviews . So Ingrid Kimoi , althea , white , yachty , I think the second episode with Keisha they were all video recordings on YouTube , so you can check that out .

Speaker 1 7:12

So what was your favorite episode for the year ? I'd love to know and let me know why . I know that the audience loved to send DMs , so you could definitely send me a DM , or you could email hello at carryallfriendscom . I just love to hear how you're feeling about the podcast , what topics you want to hear , what subject matter experts you want to hear from all that good stuff and that's why I have the survey , so make sure another reminder to go and give me your feedback in the episodes .

Podcast Break and Catching Up

Speaker 1 7:46

What the break also offers is that it's time to catch up . I know for some people they haven't listened because they usually kind of wait towards the end of the year when they have a free time . So it's also a great time to catch up on the episodes that you may have missed . Or maybe you want to go back and listen to some of the episodes that I just mentioned . Holidays coming , you get to spend time with family , but you also get to catch up on some episodes of Carry All Friends , the Caribbean American podcast .

Speaker 1 8:17

So again , I just want to thank you for tuning in to the podcast for 2023 . And this is the last new episodes . I'll still be promoting older episodes . I have so many clips and I think that's what the video has done allowed me to have different clips so you can hear parts of the interview and I'll still be interacting as much as I can or just posting on social media there , so I'm not completely falling off the face of the earth . So , lord's Willing , the show will be back in January and I just encourage you wherever you are , just make sure you're spending time with family and friends , you are taking care of yourself , you're getting rest and , as I love to say at the end of every episode , walk good .