Hey, Alex here. Before we get into today's episode, I want to share some really exciting news with you. We just launched a podcast network. If you go to podmatch.com forward slash network, you can take a look at all the shows and categories that are involved. And if you'd like to have your show listed in the network, you can press the join network button at top. I look forward to seeing your application, and I hope you enjoy some of the shows there. And now, let's get into today's episode.

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Hey, everyone, Alex Sanfilippo here.

Thank you for joining us for this episode of Podcasting Made Simple.

Today, I am joined by a recent friend of mine, so I recently met Daryl Vestervelt, and I'm really excited.

I had Daryl in Podmatch Elite Mastermind recently. And I just, like, we were just blown away by what was shared. And I was like, I've got to introduce Darrell to our entire community here. So, Darrell, welcome. Thank you so much for being here today. Thanks for having me. Man, I'm really excited to talk about this today. So we're going to get in this idea of community learning, like the intersection between those things.

And before I do that, though, I was looking up a lot of your background and you do a lot of cool stuff. So I encourage everyone, go take a look what Darrell does. I'll let you down on your own time. But I'm going to let you talk about a little bit here because what I'm really interested is how you ended up from all these things that you've done,

how you ended up deciding that becoming

the VP of growth at Mighty Networks was like the thing. So if you don't mind, just give us a little

background and how you ended up and why you end up where you are today. Yeah, so I started

blogging in 2004 and I've been doing it for a long time. And a couple years into that journey of

blogging, I became wildly

obsessed with the idea that you could gather attention all over the world from a dorm room

in college, which is basically where I was at in 2004. And I remember, like, I was writing some

notes on a WordPress website. And one day I looked at the analytics and I was like, wait,

I don't know anybody in South Africa. And come to think of it, I don't know anybody in Germany. But like, people

who are reading my content, I just became obsessed with this idea of creating content online

could reach people all over the world. So I basically decided that I wanted to dedicate my entire

career towards that direction. And I basically did that. Not long

after that, a couple of years down the road, I read a book by a guy named Chris Gillibow called

279 Days to Overnight Success, and I realized that you could actually make an income blogging,

and so I just became wildly obsessed. I essentially never had a real job and just worked in

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