Welcome to your brand amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a

difference.

I am so excited to have T.J. Bonaventure here today, who is the founder of Studio Pod Media,

and we're going to be talking about podcasting,

but in a slightly different way and much more in depth than a lot of my previous guests have.

So, TJ, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me. I'm super excited.

Hey. So let's talk about your company because you were doing something a little bit different before but

tech related what were you doing and what brought you into the world of podcasting?

Yeah so previously you know I was born and raised in the Bay Area,

so Silicon Valley, and as most that are from that area tend to do,

they find their way in tech and in sass. I was there throughout as a child through the

dot-com boom and saw a lot of our family get involved in tech and then when I

finished college inevitably got roped into being on Hamilton Road in Palo Alto and working

in the incubator and I just love the life and the style which work was being developed and how it was changing with the

Googles and the apples and these large organizations and you saw it trickle down to startups and I loved

working for startups and so I found myself working in tech for almost 10 years

before then I got into podcasting.

And the podcast stories is kind of funny

because I never saw myself doing this as ways to live or making ends meet.

I try to start a podcast with a friend of mine at the time I was living in New York and he was in

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