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Podcasting Made Simple

Jordan Harbinger's Podcasting Success Story

Podcasting Made Simple

Alex Sanfilippo, PodMatch.com

Education, Content Marketing, Podcast Guesting, Podcast Hosts, Podcasting, How To, Audience Growth, Podcast Guests, Business, Podcasters, Marketing, Monetization, Technology

5671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Send Us a Text Message MORE FROM THIS EPISODE: HTTPS://PODMATCH.COM/EP/184 In this keynote interview, Alex Sanfilippo interviews Jordan Harbinger about his podcasting journey. Jordan shares about how he got started, the struggles he faced along the way, and ultimately what has led him to the success he has seen today with more than 15 million downloads on The Jordan Harbinger Show every month! Get ready to be challenged and inspired by podcasting industry celebrity, Jordan Harbinger! MORE F...

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0:00.0

You're listening to Podcasting Made Simple, where we deliver weekly masterclass episodes

0:09.8

that help podcast hosts and podcast guests elevate their podcasting game.

0:14.2

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

0:16.9

Today's episode features the audio replay of the keynote presentation from the last PodPro's quarterly event.

0:22.5

To learn more about the keynote speaker that you're about to hear from, along with other helpful resources, including the video version of this episode, please visit Podpros.com slash 184.

0:32.2

And now please enjoy today's keynote episode.

0:38.8

So recently we were on the phone and we were having a conversation and I asked you a question

0:43.3

and I really want to start this conversation off with it because I think it would be very

0:46.7

valuable for everyone who's listening and watching to be able to hear your response to this.

0:50.5

And I just asked you, did the name Jordan Harbinger have any sort of celebrity associated with

0:54.8

it before you started podcasting? So I'd love to just pick up from right there. No, far from it.

0:59.6

You know, I was a quiet kid, which is funny now to say that. But I was a quiet introverted kid.

1:04.2

And during high school, I got a little better than in college I kind of reverted back to that.

1:09.3

So no, certainly not. Certainly not.

1:11.4

I was a Wall Street attorney. And then I started teaching a course on networking and people were

1:20.2

curious about it. So I recorded the lectures onto a CD on a mini-disc actually to put a little

1:24.6

timestamp on how old I am now and then burning those to

1:28.2

CDs and then sharing those and I was like man if there was only a way to put mp3s on the internet

1:32.8

and there was not a way to do that again I'm 42 and so I was just lamenting about how annoying that was

1:40.9

and then a friend of mine was like hey there's this brand new thing called podcasting. And it's kind of like downloadable radio shows. You should just do that because

1:48.0

everybody at school has iTunes. And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do that. So I uploaded it. I had to

1:52.7

buy like a GoDaddy shared server to put the MP3 file. There was no, there wasn't really a such thing

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