Five Years of I Think This is Great! with Clay N. Ferno

A Platform. A Podcast. A Substack. Watered Like a Cactus.

LJ shared my inaugural episode, and I have one thing to say: 2018 seems like FOREVER ago! Thank you to my fearless mentor and CoMuse Founder (The Mindful Business Community for Creative Professionals in Music, Tech, Media and Entertainment) for recognizing this milestone.

With only 25 main episodes and as much as one year between them, some special edition episodes, and moving to Substack, this podcast is important to me, though it is updated sparingly.

This podcast is my cactus. I water it when it gets too dry, but I don’t worry too much.

Here’s some info about the podcast:

• I very much like the fireside.fm platform from podcaster Dan Benjamin (that’s your name, Dude), a person whose work I admire greatly. As a podcaster and podcast network head, he coded the best CMS I have used for podcasting. You can add sponsors and links and feel like a real professional.

• Use code AUTUMN2023 and get 33% off for 3 months.

• I have 37 podcasts in fireside, 25 regular episodes, and we are currently in Season 3.

• Besides Special Editions, I have not yet released “Season 3, Episode 1”.

• Who should be my next guest?

• 8,425 episode downloads on fireside (not counting these same episodes provided early for my Substack readers.

• We’ve had 8 sponsor reads on the show.

• Most popular episode is 1,463 downloads. Season 2, Episode 9: Akilah Anderson of uniquelyfit2u. Let’s get it to 1500! This talk on wellness seems to have helped people in pandemic times, it may be worth a re-listen!

• One episode is shelved, like the Batgirl movie. We shall not speak of it again! (Talking about my live show experience on stage with a disgraced internet news celebrity before news broke that he was a creep. HINT: Rhymes with Flannel Flive).

I am incredibly proud of the work done here and in text on Substack. Though not frequent, whenever I am able to produce a podcast with my name on it, it means the world to me that you would listen. Hear me more regularly with my friends on leaguepodcast.com.

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Next from me, a post: “Return to Zero”. This post has been simmering and I need to get it out. There will be an audio version here and on ithinkthisisgreat.com. Coming soon.

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About the show

I Think This Is Great! with Clay N. Ferno is an interview podcast about people doing and being their best. We talk about compassionate work, working on teams, getting over hurdles and doing great things even when the chips are down. This is part productivity podcast and part interview show about fascinating people in my life. Welcome, and please let me know what you think is great!

P.S. Thank you to Sam Furst at Monsters are Good. for episode and title artwork. I love the colors! Check out the Halloween sale, you cretins!