Hi, I’m Andrea Samadi

In 2019, I bought a new website template that had a podcast theme, and the web designer told me “You don’t have to do a podcast, we can delete that section.” I thought about it, and decided to move ahead with the podcast since I was already interviewing people for our online programs. Then I looked up, “How to Launch a Podcast” and I almost gave up. I had no idea what an RSS feed was, or even how to generate one. I started looking at some of my online friends, to see if anyone had an online course, but no one did. So I began to figure out how to launch a podcast one step at a time. For my first episode, I handed my husband a list of questions as he had just come in the door from a week of travel, and said “Answer these questions for me, and I will record you” and he did, and like that, the podcast was launched.

A year later, The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast is being downloaded in 96 countries, and has almost 17,000 downloads and often hits the Top 100 list often for Education/How to on iTunes—out of ALL global podcasts, we are at #2,164, which I never expected at all when I launched this thing. We’ve also been named The Top 10 Social and Emotional Learning Podcasts for 2020.

If you have been thinking about starting a podcast, contact us with any questions you might have. It’s much easier to start something when you follow the proven path of someone who has already accomplished what you are looking to do.