How To Produce An Audio Drama Podcast And Fulfill A Creative Dream - In today's The Kult Creator Experience episode, our guest is Melissa Del Toro Schaffner. Melissa Del Toro Schaffner is an American Voice Actor and co-creator/producer/narrator of The Untold Tales Podcast - a short story sci-fi audio drama.

As a child, Melissa enjoyed making different voices, but she chose electrical engineering as a career. When her daughter was born, she refused to go back to her job as she didn't want to miss any key moments of her daughter's life. After taking a leap of faith, she started her voice acting business. She began doing audiobooks and turn, met a fantastic author, and together they collaborated to create an audio drama podcast "The Untold Tales", a sci-fi short story podcast.

In this episode, she shared how she uses her podcast to share her talent as a voice actor and other creative storytellers' stories. Podcasting has given her a space to show her creativity and not bound by any agency or person to dictate what she should instead be doing.

She puts so much effort into her podcast by choosing a great story, hiring a coach to help her play characters' accents, and selecting songs that go well with the story. With podcasting, she planned for the long game, giving herself at least a year to build an audience and a back catalogue of binge-listening. She is now on in season 3 of her podcast.

Here are some quick highlights from this episode:

00:00 How To Produce An Audio Drama Podcast And Fulfil A Creative Dream - Melissa Del Toro Schaffner
03:15 Melissa Del Toro Schaffner Introduction and journey of starting her sci-fi storytelling podcast
08:27 What inspired Melissa to start voice acting?
10:48 How does the podcast benefit Melissa to stand out as a voice actor in a competitive space?
12:02 Why do audio quality and choosing the right music matter?
12:45 Surprising fact about building podcast audience
17:16 A look into Melissa's podcast production process
21:46 How does Melissa make more money by doing the podcast for free?
27:45 A discussion of the community building platform
30:40 How to attract an audience on social media?
33:22 How long does it take to see the results in a podcast
35:25 How can you market a fictional podcast?
46:52 Melissa's message for new content creator
48:52 Other Methods to increase your podcast visibility

KEY INSIGHTS

If you aren't enjoying the content creation process. Please don't do it. Don't feel like you have to be married to anything with content.
A good leader helps build some level of consensus that works for everyone, which is extremely difficult and rarely happens.
A good leader lets other people lead, contribute, and make decisions that are right for them.
We see so much cynicism in people and kids just looking around for the example they have to become because nobody's stepping up, which is ridiculous. Why should our kids be the ones that do it? It's our responsibility.

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-- ABOUT MATT CHENEY --

I’m Matt and I am the Founder of KULT Media and host of the KULT Creator Experience.

I am an audio expert & producer that has been working in film, TV, and Audio for over 15 years, creating Emmy award-winning music features & documentaries, BAFTA-nominated animations, chart-topping podcasts, and multi-million dollar branded campaigns.

I have a passion for sharing my experience to help people like you build a leading brand, create a podcast platform and most importantly, develop meaningful relationships with your audience.

Over the course of my career have noticed the uncanny similarity between great leadership and successful content creation.

And to demonstrate this link, I will connect you with incredible digital leaders and content creators, so you can learn from their successes and failures.

In each episode, I will share with you insights into the creators' mindset, their audience, their creative processes, channel growth strategies, and their lessons learned along the way.

We’ll walk you through every step of the process, from idea to ear and on to audience growth.

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