Day 3: St Louis Children's Hospital Therapy Intensive.

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Marsh Naidoo (00:06):

Welcome to this episode of Raising Kellan, the podcast to motivate, inspire, and educate parents, raising kids with special needs. I am your host, Marsh Naidoo And today I am with Matthew Ryan of Audience Prime. Welcome to the show, Matthew. Thank

Matthew Ryan (00:24):

You for having me.

Marsh Naidoo (00:25):

Matthew and I have a little interesting story to share. I met Matthew about a year back when I brought Kellan to St. Louis for one of his initial therapy intensives. And when booking our Air BnB I saw one of the neat things to do in St. Louis was take a podcasting class. And so that is how Matthew and I first got to meet Matthew. Your company says called Audius Prime Studios. Tell us about Audius?

Matthew Ryan (00:56):

Okay, so the name is a play on Optus Prime. So if anyone ever grew up watching Transformers, the cartoon, it's a play on that. So Audience Prime is also kind of vague that it could be an individual, a company, a public figure or celebrity, all that kind of weird stuff. So I'll write music under Audius Prime. I do my production work, but I'll actually say my studio is Audius Prime Studios. So it's kind of like a nice versatile phrase. Anyone who's a Transformer fan immediately gets it. So I think that's a bonus point.

Marsh Naidoo (01:30):

<laugh>. And what about the podcasting classes you hold? I think that would be of particular interest. Can you tell us about the podcasting classes?

Matthew Ryan (01:41):

Yeah, so I ended up volunteering for a local nonprofit "cradle loop". I basically volunteered doing audio classes for middle schoolers, and it was a new thing for me. The feedback I got unanimously from all the other teachers and the main staff was, you do a really good job teaching people, which kinda surprised me. I never thought myself as a teacher, so that gave me confidence. And then my wife kind of pushed me, You've been doing your podcast, you know how to do it. Keep on saying how simple it is. You should probably just do a class so you can basically thank my wife for pushing me to do it. So I worked on that. And then I ran a couple versions of the class through Event Brite, and then that helped me figure out things to tweak, things to include pricing, all that stuff. And then now there's a version that also runs through Airbnb experience, Airbnb experiences, which you and I met through.

(02:33):

And that's basically the same format of the class they usually run, but done in a coffee shop. So it's kind of a good test to see how people react whenever they're in an environment where there might be noise, things like that. And the idea is, is that it's a four-hour intensive workshop. So it's like a lot of work. It's takes a bit of time, but you get hands-on experience using the equipment. You get to record something, edit it, and by the end of the class you have an episode and you have a clear idea of how to make something.

Marsh Naidoo (03:00):

That first class we did with you, I think actually one episode then blossomed into 14. So, hey I would encourage you guys, if podcasting is something you wanna do, please check out Matthew's classes here in St. Louis. And what about those folks not in St. Louis, Matthew, what advice would you have for them?

Matthew Ryan (03:22):

So the good thing and the bad thing is there's YouTube. So there is an opportunity to learn remotely. But what I've discovered is this is such a hands-on experience that online can't really substitute physically doing it. So if you find a show that's locally being made, ask 'em how they make their show. See if you can sit down and watch them. There are a lot of local libraries that will actually have podcast equipment and maybe even classes occasionally that will do that stuff. If someone's traveling and they happen to be going through St. Louis or going to St. Louis, I will be happy to host a class for them or even do one-on-one classes with people just so that they can get it. So I really wouldn't recommend YouTube unless you have previous experience using equipment but finding somebody who's already doing something locally that you could basically shadow and kind of see what they're doing, it's gonna be the best way for you to see, Oh, so this is how you set stuff up. This is how you interview, all that good stuff. So really just firsthand experience in a physical way is probably the best way to do it.

Marsh Naidoo (04:21):

Well, Matthew I sincerely would like to thank you, sir, for giving us the skills and for coming out and actually teaching me a little bit on this DAW board. Is that the right word? DAW the editing board.

Matthew Ryan (04:37):

Oh, so they'll call it a DA W, which is short for Digital Audio Workstation. So the people have probably heard of Pro Tools. That's the one. A lot of big studios use Reaper's, just one of 'em. Audacity is a pretty popular one amongst podcasters, but they're a bunch of 'em. Logic comes with Mac, Garage Band comes with Mac. Well, Logic you have to buy, but it's a Mac only program. So there's a lot of different ones. So we'll spend a little bit of time working in Reaper, which is a full-fledged audio production environment or a doll.

Marsh Naidoo (05:06):

Well, thank you for conversating us during this difficult time. I sincerely appreciate that.

Matthew Ryan (05:11):

You're welcome.

Marsh Naidoo (05:12):

All right guys, that's it for today. It's just a quick five-minute update. Everything is going well with Kellan at his intensive. He did some awesome work today and I posted that to his social media site. So check out Raising Kellan on Facebook. And as always, we will keep you update on his blog at raisingkellan org. Until we see you guys next time, remember get the top of that mountain. This is Marsh Naidoo signing off.