The Big 100! A Live Meetup Event with guests Rashan Casseus & Gabby Wallace

The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

That went quickly! Listen in to our live event where we commemorate 100 episodes of The Busy Creator Podcast and remark on the journey. This event was a crossover with the New York City Podcast Meetup, recorded at Small City Co-working space in Brooklyn.

Joining Prescott on stage are musician Joaquin Cotler (@ShinyIslands), UX designer Rashan Casseus (@rcassues) & video publisher/entrepreneur Gabby Wallace (@GabbyAWallace). Together we discuss daily practice, creating projects and nurturing them over time, and our own experiences with podcasting.

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Show Notes & Links

• Small City co-working space in Brooklyn
• Joaquin Cotler, musician, journalist, composer of The Busy Creator Podcast theme song
• Paul Shaffer, Clark Terry, Questlove — late night talk show band leaders through the years
• New York City Podcast Meetup
• Joaquin has appeared on The Busy Creator Podcast episode 41
• John Lee Dumas & Kate Erickson, guests on TBC episode 50

"It's a great time to go to Puerto Rico if you already have a lot of money." —Joaquin Cotler Tweet This

• Creighton Mershonn & Jessi Arrington, proprietors of Small City and past guests on TBC ep 92
• Vector Media Group, our default host of the NYC Podcast Meetup
• Nick Spriggs, partner at Vector, guest on TBC ep 91
• New York City Podcast Meetup is one year old
• New York City Podcast Meetup on Twitter
• New York City Podcast Meetup on Facebook
• Prescott removed Facebook from his phone, sleeps better
• The Busy Creator Podcast made it to 100 episodes — they’re all here
• Jonathan Coulton, and his Thing A Week podcast project
• JoCo Cruise, featuring Aimee Mann, et al

"Busy is a four-letter word." —Prescott Perez-Fox Tweet This

• “Busy Beaver” is an English-language idomatic expression
• MIT’s mascot is Tim the Beaver, nature’s engineer

  Tim The Beaver

• Buzz The Busy Beaver is the mascot of The Busy Creator Podcast, but not modelled after Prescott
• #HumbleBrag, a definition
• The Busy Creator Podcast started as bi-weekly, went up to weekly, then returned to bi-weekly
• Bi-Weekly vs. Fortnightly vs. every-other-week, semantics
• TBC by the numbers: 3 years, 106 episodes (including B-Sides), 98 unique guests, 15 single-topic episodes, 4 monologue episodes
• TBC by the numbers, best single day downloads: 567, 11 January 2017
• TBC by the numbers, best monthly downloads: 10,148, November 2016
• TBC by the numbers, lifetime downloads: 103,279, as of 16 January 2017
• Marc Maron’s show received nearly 750,000 downloads in 24 hours when he interviewed President Obama
• Casper Mattresses, not a sponsor
• #TBC100 and #NYCPodMeet to see photos from the event
• Rashan Casseus, NYC native, FIT Grad, currently a Senior UX Designer
• Rashan & Prescott met at a fan meetup for Keith and The Girl
• R & P participated in The Cinnamon Challenge
• The Ice-Bucket Challange, The Mannequin Challenge, etc.

  Ice Bucket Challenge

• Emeril Lagasse

"I make digital tools easier to use." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This

"UX is the thought process of how a human being gets from point A to point B." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This

• MailChimp, and their mascot Freddy
• Disembodied Monkey Hand, the name of Joaquin’s new punk band
• Microcopy, the words around the site on buttons, short messages, etc.
• Eat24, and their “hungry” shopping cart
• 90Elm, Rashan’s cousin’s t-shirt company
• User Stories, User Interviews — tools of planning a site
• Sayba Naturals, Prescott’s mother’s soap brand
• Squarespace, also not a sponsor

"Websites are never finished, they are only abandoned." —Prescott Perez-Fox, paraphrasing Leonardo da Vinci Tweet This

"Your website is done when you run out of time, or when the client says 'I want it up now'." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This

• Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
• Gabby Wallace, YouTube producer, teacher, online marketing coach — hates headphones!
• Keith Richards
• Gabby defines herself as a creator. Simple.

"I create something every day. Most day, many things." —Gabby Wallace Tweet This

• Prescott & Gabby met at Podcast Movement 2014
• Gabby was a podcaster, has moved back to YouTube.
• GoNaturalEnglish, a video show to learn to English
• Friendtor, teaming up with people of complementary skills
• Adrienne Stortz, Katie Quinn, cooking video producers in Brooklyn
• Matt Cremona, woodworker

"I reject all that quality and editing because it takes forever!" —Gabby Wallace Tweet This

• Keytar
• Gilmore Girls, and the revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
• Gilmore Guys podcast
• The Town Troubadour from Gilmore Girls
• Joaquin attended CUNY J-School, earning a Master’s in Multimedia Journalism
• Atavist, easier to use than Squarespace or WordPress
• Roots on The Record, Joaquin’s graduate project speaking to musicians and
• Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
• Marian McPartland, 1918–2013
• The Nerdist Podcast
• Alicia Witt, and her episode on The Nerdist
• The 101, traffic magnet in Los Angeles
• Studio 360
• Kurt Andersen
• Ashley Milne-Tyte, previous guest on TBC ep 8
• WBAI, the liberal talk station which plays Latin Jazz
• Ray Barretto

"Way more fun than playing music is listening to other people play." —Joaquin Cotler Tweet This

• The Busy Creator Podcast is switching from bi-weekly publication to a seasonal format
• 9 Habits of Highly Creative People
• Zapier, upcoming episode for season.next
• Hulse Durrell, upcoming episode for season.next
• Vancouver Olympics
• New brand and website for The Busy Creator coming in the spring
• SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets), better than CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Rashan Casseus on Twitter
• Rashan Casseus on Facebook
• Rashan Casseus on Instagram
• Rashan Casseus on LinkedIn
• Gabby Wallace on Twitter
• Gabby Wallace on Facebook
• Gabby Wallace on Instagram
• Gabby Wallace on LinkedIn
• Gabby Wallace on YouTube
• Joaquin Cotler on Twitter
• Joaquin Cotler on Facebook
• Joaquin Cotler on Instagram
• Joaquin Cotler on LinkedIn
• Joaquin Cotler on YouTube

Tools

• Jira
• Slack
• Squarespace
• Google Docs
• Atavist

Techniques

• Name buttons on websites in an intuitive way; say “conclude” or “done”
• Consult a designer even when using a templated system like Squarespace
• Take team outings as a way to get to know each other
• Post a common planning document to keep your team accountable
• Share your core message; if you don’t have it defined, go back to square one
• Mix your “main bit” with casual, less rehearsed pieces
• When discussing an “album”, call it a “record” to be more generic

Habits

• Keep your skills up with family and community projects
• Find the intersection of your creation and what people need
• Post helpful content and videos; people will ask for your help
• Constantly learn from others via podcasts, videos, blogs, books, etc.
• Return to a consistent format to avoid rehearsal

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