About Being... a Self-Made HUGE Podcaster (with Les Alfred)
Tell Me More with Nicole Walters
Dear Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
" I don't have some amazing strategy or some How-To book that I'm keeping to myself. I'm just trying things and figuring it out. I'm a girl who just bought a microphone and started throwing spaghetti at the wall and never really stopped."
Les Alfred went from no listeners, zero star reviews, and recording in her closet after working her 9-5 to hosting a podcast that everyone wants to listen to. In this chat with Les, we get to hear what was happening behind the scenes in those early days to what worked (and didn't) along the way.
Les shares the reasons her show recently rebranded - in content and in name - and why she's decided to embrace the word "luck." Les may look lucky from the outside but she shares how she handles the responsibility of having a large platform in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.3 | Hey guys, I'm Whitney Port and this is WithWit. |
| 0:08.5 | A lot of you may know me from reality TV, and the reality is a lot's happened since the Hills. |
| 0:14.2 | WithWit is dedicated to having real, raw, and occasionally ridiculous conversations with the people who have had a profound impact on me. |
| 0:22.3 | Because on WithWit, very little is off limits. |
| 0:27.8 | Subscribe so you don't miss any of the amazing conversations to come. |
| 0:31.8 | New episodes of WithWit are available every Tuesday on all platforms. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to the Tell Me More podcast with Nicole Walters, |
| 0:49.7 | the only podcast where I'm not seeking to make you think more like me, but to help you keep thinking for yourself. |
| 0:59.9 | Okay. but to help you keep thinking for yourself. Hey, friends. |
| 1:00.9 | So I am, I always start this way. |
| 1:03.3 | I always say I'm so excited. |
| 1:04.5 | And it's true. |
| 1:05.1 | I live in a state of perpetual excitement because I love doing this new version of the podcast |
| 1:10.2 | because every single person here has a |
| 1:12.7 | meaningful relationship to me and hopefully to your future. And today's guest is no different. |
| 1:18.8 | Les Alfred is someone you probably already know because her podcast is massive. It's huge. |
| 1:25.2 | It is big within black women because, you know, her recent rebrand into |
| 1:29.8 | she's so lucky, you know, comes from being a balanced black girl. And so many of us turn to her |
| 1:34.9 | podcast for inspiration, for support, for wellness tips, and to find community because we |
| 1:41.0 | identified with the people she was bringing into the conversations and with her |
| 1:44.6 | own journey that she's so candidly and vulnerably shared with us every single episode. And I'm |
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