[Music] As a regular listener to Pod Chat, you've probably noticed it's been a little bit quieter the last few weeks.

And there's a couple of reasons for that, but first, apologies.

I appreciate you taking the time to follow this show, and I want to make sure you're not disappointed.

So that's one of the reasons, actually, why it's been a bit quieter, is ensuring that guests that I have lined up are the ones that you expect as leaders in the industry, to ensure the quality remains as it has been since Pod Chat started last year.

To that end I revamped who I'm bringing on and there's some great guests lined up over the summer and beyond and I really can't wait to share them with you.

The second reason is I've been incredibly, incredibly busy both personally and professionally.

Personally our two kids are both in sports and have had tournaments or are about to have a tournament with their teams.

Now this has meant a lot of travelling, a lot of free time that I would normally have being eaten up and that's fine.

You want the best for your kids obviously, but it has meant that I've been able to spend less time on the podcast.

And at Captivate, where I'm head of podcaster support and experience, we've had a busy few months as we've led up to a massive new product feature that was released earlier this month in May, as this episode's being recorded.

I'll speak more on that feature very soon.

But that's kept me really busy professionally as well, so combined with the personal busyness, it has left very few hours in the day.

But now with some free time I can get my focus back to Pod Chat and delivering the kind of content that hopefully you as a regular listener enjoys.

So Pod Chat will return next month in June and as I mentioned there's some amazing guests and really good content coming your way so I look forward to bringing that to you soon.

Now as I mentioned earlier, at Captivate we've had a massive product release and this release addresses the question of monetization and how to get more involved with your listeners and for you to reward these listeners and supporters with really cool features like exclusive content, early access content, stickers, anything you want really.

But the really cool thing is how all this integrates with Captivate.

If you're a Captivate podcaster it's really easy for you to integrate all these features into your episode production flow.

Now instead of having to send the newsletter out to say there's a new exclusive episode out, this will go directly to your supporters.

Whether that's early access by two, three, four days or exclusive bonus content that's not available anywhere else and only available to certain membership tiers.

It's a really cool way for listeners to support their favorite podcaster and for podcasters to reward your listeners and give them really cool benefits that makes them feel even more part of the show.

If you want to support Pod Chat, A) thank you and B) you can do that easily at podchat.ca/support There you can choose from a one-off tip or choose from one of the tiers I've set up.

Each tier offers something different, from laptop sticker, shoutouts on the show, early access to every episode before anybody else, as well as some really cool exclusive content.

There will also be some occasional fun surprises down the line and that's for all tiers.

So if you find value in Pod Chat and the guests I have on and the topics they talk about, I'd love for you to be a supporter.

Thank you for being with Pod Chat so far and as I mentioned I can't wait to bring the new guests on within the next few weeks.

In the meantime stay safe and and happy podcasting.

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