
Decisions That Determine Direction | How The MM Sausage Gets Made
About this episode
What are the big and small decisions that have led the Mere Mortals Podcast to it's current point?
In Episode #358 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the actual size of the studios we have used, the OG notes Juan created for our first planning session, the Alpha Baller Club name choice, the decision to split the book review into their own channel, how we choose topics to talk about, our general underlying philosophy for creation and why we use video but don't specialise in short form clips.
Massive thanks to Dave Jones and Petar for capping off the year with some support. Absolute legends!
As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:
(0:00) - Not so deephearted today
(1:05) - Definition
(1:41) - The Studio
(5:16) - We're very minimal
(6:23) - Juan's initial notes for the podcast
(12:02) - Potential names
(14:00) - Action, editing & arguments
(23:35) - Negative comments really don't effect us
(29:20) - We try hard to keep it as genuine as possible
(33:34) - Boostagram Lounge
(37:39) - Juan's big announcement
(39:51) - The why/how of the Book Reviews
(44:03) - How we decide on content
(49:30) - What we don't want to get good at
(57:22) - Why bother with video?
(1:06:28) - Why we do Value For Value
Intro Music by 'Signs Of New Growth':
https://podcastindex.social/@SignsOfNewGrowth
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