Troy Price, co-host of The Berea Podcast, recently completed the MACED-facilitated Kauffman FastTrac course to help launch his podcasting hobby into a full-fledged business, Front Porch Studios.
After working to create his own podcast, Price now wants to help others to do the same. As I worked to set up my recording technology for this interview, Price offered suggestions to help make my audio results as clear as possible. He even suggested that our conversation would make a good podcast.
Price expressed that after years of podcasting as a hobby, he was encouraged by friends and family to pursue it as a business. “Eventually, you just learn so much about a topic and you feel so comfortable in it that somebody says ‘you should make money from this’,” said Price.
Price’s business was unique to his FastTrac cohort, a feature he appreciated: “I learned a lot from those who were doing other things. No one in there was talking about podcasting or the internet […] If it had been one-on-one, I would have learned the book stuff, the lesson, but I wouldn’t have gained the interpersonal confidence.”
Price and his wife, Della Justice, first moved to Berea almost two years ago, and use the Berea Podcast as a way to better acquaint themselves with their new hometown. With the launch of Front Porch Studios, Price will be helping Berea’s people to tell their own stories.
“You do the talking, we do the rest,” Front Porch’s website explains. It is clear that Price is ready to spread his passion for podcasting and make it more accessible to others.
