We were lucky to catch up with J Grier recently and have shared our conversation below.

J , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

Learning to be a Podcaster took lots of trial and error. I was able to research the different kinds of equiptment and/or programs to use, but in order to truly get a working system, I will take practice. Through social media networking, I was able to find a great community of other podcasters that I could use as resources to help me get a good routine going. There was also the great Youtube University, that never lets me down.

I believe having a background in Radio & Televsion production (high school elective) , helped me to understand the editing process and I was able to transfer those skills into producing podcast episodes. I started everything on my own just by using the knowledge I already had and reading a few articles, but if I had taken networking a little more seriously, having that support system could have helped me speed up my learning process.

The skills that I feel are most essential are planning out episodes, learning how the equiptment you’re using truly works, and, editing your audio.

The only obstacle that stood in my way was me and my lack of confidence to jump right in and get something recorded.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I decided to start my podcast in 2019 as a creative outlet. For most of my years as a young child and teenager, I was always interested in being creative. I first found a love in writing and would write short stories for which I won many Young Author Awards during my elementry years. As I got older, I moved on to writing poetry, songs, and long form stories. I have an amazing love for music and soon my interest to be in entertainment was born. I loved creating my own radio shows while I was in high school and was worked for our performance arts center. There, I learned how to produce a live show from sound, lights, camera work, and stage set up. I was also able to take a Radio & TV class, allowing me to produce television segments for our school’s tv channel, Tiger TV.

After high school, I decided to major in Business Managment with a minor in Marketing. I wanted to be able to have my own entertainment company. Over the years, life happens and I found myself thriving as an Operations and Marketing manager for a retail company. I was able to be successful as I continued to grow in my field for many years to come. Although, I was finding success, I still felt like something was missing. I knew I needed to find a way to create again and after much thought, I landed in the podcast world!

J’s Quick 3 Podcast is a show where I take 3 random topics and talk about them for my unique point of view. I cover anything that is interesting to me. It can be personal stories, news events, and even music & entertainment! I enjoy the freedom to speak freely and to have an audience that looks forward to my episodes. Some of my favorite episodes have been focused on music and introducing my audience to artists and songs they may not have heard of before.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

The best thing about being a creative is that the possibilities are endless and the sky is the limit. Being able to take an idea and bring it to life is such an amazing feeling. This is what drives me. The goal for my journey as a creator is to grow my audience by being my authenic self. No matter if its, through a podcast episode, YouTube video or a social media post, I always want to be true to myself and my interests. I know those who appreciate that will flock to my content.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Perfection is something most of us strive for, but it can also be a hinderance to our growth. I’ve always wanted to be the best I can be but I also felt that in order to step into this creative space, I had to put perfection out there. When I started my show, it took a while to actually put out episodes because I wanted the sound to be perfect. I wanted the right mic, the right editing software, the right recording enivorment. I had to learn that wanting to have good content didn’t mean I had to be perfect This pressure I put on myself, caused a lot of aniexty. It caused me to be hesitant to have guests on my show or create videos. These are the situations I had to push through to show myself that it could be done and that no one is expecting perfection from me, but me. My listerners and supporters have enjoyed what I’ve been procuding. Even when I watch or listen back, I realize that things were as bad as I perceived them to be. Although this is something I still struggle with, Im learning how to navigate it and produce good content.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jsquick3pod.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jsquick3/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/JsQuick3Pod
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JSpotNetwork/streams
• Other: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jsquick3

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