"The Complete Podcasting Course" is now LIVE !
I am very happy to announce that my long-in-the-works, how-to program to help YOU (or someone you know) make a podcast or improve one you are already publishing, "THE COMPLETE PODCASTING COURSE with Brendan Davis", is now available on the learning platform Udemy!
For a limited time only, I am offering friends of the podcast a discount coupon for a FREE copy of the course! All I ask is that IF you like it, you rate and review it well. If you DON'T care for it, that's unfortunate but fine - just don't rate or review it. I spent about 200 hours making this and don't want to pay for negative feedback. :D
For YOUR free coupon, message me HERE or contact me via any of my socials that you have. Please allow about 24 hours for a reply, as I am on China time and between work and time zone differences I am likely not seeing your messages in real time.
Thanks!!
- BD
Special Live Event: “Podcasting in the ‘Jing: A Panel Discussion”
This is a recording of a special LIVE event I was part of on July 5, 2018: “Podcasting in the ‘Jing: A Panel Discussion” along with the hosts / creators of several other great shows:
• John from China Tech Talk (Technode)
• Kate and Noah from Environment China (Beijing Energy Network)
• and Yajun from the Wo Men podcast (Radii)
We talked about the unique challenges of producing a show here as well as the best practices we’ve discovered to create them, the reasons we make our shows, the opportunities the shows have created for us, and what we hope the audience takes away from them. Enjoy!
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Brendan Davis on WeChat: BrendanDavis
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Other links to LISTEN: https://www.crazyinagoodway.com/podcast-links/
Special ANNOUNCEMENT - Beijing LIVE Event: July 5, 2018
Heads-up to Beijing-based listeners: I get to participate in a panel discussion with other local podcasters being held at the nakedHub in Dongdaqiao on Thursday, July 5. The event is FREE and runs from 7:30-9:00PM. I wanted to get the word out ASAP and figured this was the best way to do so. Learn more in this super-short episode.
Regular full interviews resume this coming Wednesday and don't stop, so check back soon for more and come see us chat it up live onstage if you'll be in town.
Check out all episodes at https://www.crazyinagoodway.com/home/ ! :D
Bonus: Teaching Tips for Udemy | LUKE PRIDDY
Bonus: Teaching Tips for Udemy | Luke Priddy
Have you ever wanted to build an online course teaching a topic you’re passionate and knowledgable about? Past show guest Luke Priddy did. Luke has successfully been using Udemy as a channel for his brand Cloud English, which brings his take on English language pedagogy online to share it with a wider audience. As I prepare to release my own very first Udemy course (The Complete Podcasting Course, available on Udemy mid-late June 2018), I wanted to get all the best advice and tips I could from Luke to help me prepare and make it as good as it can be. I learned a lot, some of which is Udemy-specific but much of which is applicable to learning and building presentations in general, so I am sharing a tightly edited highlights edition of our chat as a bonus episode. Enjoy!
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CloudEnglish
“BFMK" HOST / SHOW:
“Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom” on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigFishMiddleKingdom/
Brendan Davis on WeChat: BrendanDavis
Brendan Davis on Twitter: @VeritasInLux
Other links to LISTEN: https://www.crazyinagoodway.com/podcast-links/
BD's "Complete Podcasting Course" Coming Soon!
Hi everyone! Today I'm excited to announce that I am hard at work on a complete course on podcasting, which will be available on Udemy.com in just a few weeks.
Udemy is a leading resource for life-long education, and since I've had so many requests to help people with making their own shows, I thought I'd combine two things I love - podcasting and teaching - to create a course of my own that I can point people to.
If you've thought about starting your own podcast, I hope this course can answer all your questions and more. In the meantime, as I work on it, please let me know any questions you have so that I can make sure I cover as much as possible. Thanks! - Brendan
FEI WU: From Beijing to Boston
#028 - From Beijing to Boston | Fei Wu
My guest this week is Fei Wu, a “reverse laowai” who made the move FROM China TO the US. Fei is a native-born Beijinger who has now been living in the US for 17 years. Fei and I had a great talk. We discuss her origins in Beijing, her move to Maine to finish high school - where she became both the captain of the boys' hockey team AND the prom queen - and then her move to Boston for college and the cool life and business she’s built for herself there ever since. We also dive deep into WHY we both love podcasting, and oh, yeah: besides all of that, Fei is a third degree black belt, proving that not all podcasters are desk jockeys like myself. Links to Fei’s World and more are in the show notes below and in the blog post as always.
This episode also introduces our NEW sponsor, AWA Health! AWA Health is a unique facility, the first of its kind in Beijing, that among other specialities offers anti-stress flotation therapy. Listeners of the show get a 20% discount just by mentioning the show or my name when you book. Check the links below to get more information, and extract the QR code to contact the owner directly and book your session today.
And I’m pleased to be helping in a small way to support The Beijinger’s 7th Annual Hot Pepper Eating Contest, a fundraiser for the Maovember charity. I’ll be there shooting some footage for CrazyHot, a feature documentary film I’m helping produce that is the deepest dive ever undertaken into the origins, uses, foods, chilehead culture, and the medical future of ultrahot peppers from around the world. If you will be in Beijing on December 2 or would just like to make a donation to some very worthy causes, follow the links below to learn more.
Fei Wu and Fei’s World podcast:
http://feisworld.com
AWA Health (mention the show and get a 20% discount):
4th Floor, THE PLACE mall
Guanhua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing China
137-1618-2745 (Chinese)
186-0083-9624 (English)
The Beijinger’s 7th Annual Hot Pepper Eating Contest:
https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2017/11/29/gut-rupturing-peppers-prizes-chili-pepper-eating-contest
Maovember:
www.maovember.com
Punjabi:
http://punjabichina.com/
CrazyHot Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CrazyHotTheFilm/
Brendan Davis on WeChat:
BrendanDavis
Brendan Davis on Twitter:
@VeritasInLux
BFMK website:
https://www.crazyinagoodway.com
Other links to LISTEN:
https://www.crazyinagoodway.com/podcast-links/
SUPPORT BFMK via PayPal or WeChat:
https://www.crazyinagoodway.com/donate/
My Tom Petty Story
Since I work to keep the podcast episodes evergreen and not get into current events in them, my new favorite way of procrastinating when it's time to edit each week's show is to record a short video about my thoughts on the week.
In light of all the awful news from back home and the heightened geopolitical tensions around the world right now, I wanted to share a story that made me smile when I remembered it due to the untimely passing of musical legend Tom Petty...
*Spoiler alert* I didn't meet him in person; it was on a phone call. But still, I thought it was a funny little random story and worth sharing, in a time of such otherwise wretched news. It involves Athens, Georgia, a crappy telemarketing job at a place called DialAmerica, and my (then) young musician's sense of ethics.
Enjoy!