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Note: In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we deliver a repurposed episode that is an earlier interview with Doug Welch, one of the earliest podcasters — someone who is a real “Podcast Pioneer”. This repurposed episode is complete and not edited, but it still has a lot of good, evergreen content. It was originally prepared for a prior podcast show called “Boomers for Startups” (which has now podfaded).

It is the Doug Welch story which describes how his back catalog of content from a prior job became the main storage and archive for his very successful podcast which was called “Career Opportunities.”

As a matter of fact, the episode that posted in his podcast show, Career Opportunities, at the time of this writing used the term “New Normal” some six years before the pandemic (when it was used time and time again by the media).

But as you will hear in this audio interview, Doug did not stop there. He had this podcast run for over 10 years. And it is still now in Apple Podcasts under Career Opportunities, where he has several episodes that are of interest for any type of new media creator — podcasters, screencasters, authors, bloggers, etc. And you will also get to know more of Doug Welch “behind the scenes.”

He also started five other podcasts, as well as screencasts for video on his YouTube channels. He also is an author of several books, as well as a part-time yearly theater producer for enjoyment. He considers himself as a teacher — but just not in the classroom (as his wife is a University professor).

And, in addition, he also has volunteered his time and service to assist in setting up conferences for the high-tech and podcasting world in the BarCamp style and format. And you can also hear how he had to curb some of his activities and focus his time on planned programs, due to his health issues and his work.

And he started his flagship podcast of Career Opportunities in 2004, way before most of the early podcasters were on the map. As he said in this audio episode, of the 24 shows that had content on the early platform with Adam Curry, his was one of them.

Although this episode is really from his back catalog, Doug keeps posting updated episodes today. We encourage you to sign up and register for his show, for he is one of the few pioneers (aka “venerable elders”) in podcasting that is still publishing content which is of value to the newer and aspiring podcasters.

You can see the website of DouglasEWelch.com for more information on his programs, podcasts and his life projects.

Thank you for your attention.