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This series is all about Libsyn\u2019s podcasters. Its sole purpose is to introduce these awesome podcasts to the world as well as share their podcasting insight to empower the community!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I started as a guest on the Chariots of Iron in 2010 and returned several times, eventually I started filling in as a guest co-host when one of the main hosts wasn\u2019t available to record. I started my own show in May of 2012.<\/p>\n I left the Seventh-day Adventist church, seminary, and the evangelistic series I was preaching in Mexico in one day in 2007. I didn\u2019t know how I fit in the world and felt very alone.<\/p>\n Podcasts like the Chariots of Iron helped me feel more comfortable with myself and like there were other people who felt like me. While I was still lonely, having just moved to a new city and working a demanding management job, I didn\u2019t feel totally alone.<\/p>\n After the Chariots of Iron ended, I felt like there was a hole in my life and the playlist on my podcast player, so I filled it with my own show, well, that and as they say, \u201cOnce a preacher, always a preacher.\u201d<\/p>\n The Atheist Nomads<\/a> is predominately a news and current events show covering church\/state separation issues, human rights, and other topics of interests to atheists, skeptics, and humanists.<\/p>\n I also interview leaders in the atheist, skeptic, and humanist community. The show has three goals: help new atheists and atheists living in very religious regions know that they aren\u2019t alone, help normalize atheism, and shine a light on attacks on the wall of separation between church and state.<\/p>\n I am usually joined by my wife and a rotating cast of local comedians and friends.<\/p>\n Microphones: I have a Heil PR40, two Shure SM57s, and a Behringer XM8500. I also have an Electrovoice RE320 on the way.<\/p>\n Interface: Behringer UMC404HD<\/p>\n Monitoring: Behringer HA400 and an assortment of studio monitor headphones.<\/p>\n Software: My computer is running Arch Linux and the JACK Audio Connection Kit to route the audio from my interface and software sources to my DAW. I use VLC to play my plays my bumpers, which I control with either the multimedia controls on my keyboard or using KDEConnect on my phone.<\/p>\n For interviews I\u2019ve used Skype, Hangouts, Google Meet, and Zencastr, but I don\u2019t really like any of them. Ardour is my DAW, and I am using the Calf compressor, gate and limiter.<\/p>\n My website is running on WordPress and shownotes are prepared using Google Keep and Google Docs.<\/p>\n I share every episode as well as every news story I consider covering on the show on my Facebook page<\/a> and Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n I also share promos with other podcasts, have hosts from other podcasts on my show, and have been a guest on other shows in my niche.<\/p>\n However, I have not found any of the promotion to be particularly effective.<\/p>\n Consistently producing quality content and having a name that will show up in search results has been the most effective.<\/p>\n I wish I had known that I would still be doing this six an a half years later and that the show would be profitable. 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Why did you start podcasting?<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s the name of your show about and what is it about?<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s your podcasting set-up? Hardware, software, CMS, etc.<\/h3>\n
How have you promoted your podcast?<\/h3>\n
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?<\/h3>\n
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