How to Get Your First Million Podcast Downloads in a Hard to Reach Market with Maria Calanchini: An EOFire Classic from 2022
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
From the archive - This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Maria Calanchini is a digital entrepreneur. She took a 100 year old Public Domain property and turned it into an original children's podcast called Goop Tales with over one million downloads.
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| 0:00.0 | Light that Spark Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by |
| 0:07.7 | High Level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform. On today's classic episode, we'll be |
| 0:12.7 | breaking down how to get your first million podcast downloads in a hard-to-reach market. |
| 0:17.9 | To drop these vibe bombs, I brought to Maria Calacini and Eofire Studios. |
| 0:22.0 | Maria is a digital entrepreneur. |
| 0:23.5 | She took a 100-year-old public domain property and turned it into an original children's |
| 0:27.3 | podcast called Goop Tales with over 1 million downloads. |
| 0:31.6 | And in today's episode, we talk about how there are no rules for being successful, |
| 0:35.0 | how the best way to engage with your audience is to think of who your |
| 0:38.1 | listeners are and what will resonate with them and oh so much more. And a big thing for |
| 0:42.5 | sparsing today's episode goes to Maria and our sponsors. Are you ready for the ultimate |
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| 0:55.1 | automate follow-ups, |
| 0:56.1 | manage clients, |
| 0:57.1 | and even white-label your own software, |
| 0:58.8 | say hello to our |
| 0:59.9 | featured partner high-level |
| 1:02.0 | and visit |
| 1:02.9 | high-level fire.com |
| 1:05.6 | to start your free trial today. |
| 1:09.2 | Fire Nation, |
| 1:09.9 | success isn't a solo journey. |
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