# Campfire: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
**URL:** https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-tuesday-june-3-2025/4546
**Category:** Campfires
**Created:** [May 19, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-tuesday-june-3-2025/4546 "2025-05-19T22:14:05Z")
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-tuesday-june-3-2025/4546/1 "2025-05-19T22:14:05Z")
Tuesday, June 3rd is our next Campfire — You’re welcome to pop in even for just a few minutes
# Tuesday, June 3rd — 3pm Eastern US/NYC
The date/time should be 2025-06-03T19:00:00Z in your timezone. ◀ that auto-conversion to display in your local time works _only_ if you are reading this on the Podcaster Community at [https://forum.podcaster.community/](https://forum.podcaster.community/)
Notes and takeaways will be posted as replies to this topic.
Hope to see you there!
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# What’s a campfire?
Campfires are our video-call gatherings where you can share your ideas and passion for podcasting in a social setting.
[About the Campfires](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/about-campfires/3905) has the details— including how to make them appear automatically on your calendar.
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-tuesday-june-3-2025/4546/2 "2025-06-03T17:25:03Z")
[@patrons](https://forum.podcaster.community/groups/patrons) this starts in a couple hours! 🙂
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-tuesday-june-3-2025/4546/3 "2025-06-03T20:24:55Z")
# Takeaways
**Coaching in Parkour spaces** — Starting to formally coach at structured events after years of informal movement instruction.
**Move NYC event logistics** — A Parkour event held in Manhattan using both high school facilities and public park areas, blending built and natural training environments.
**Reimagining a podcast’s direction** — Considering pivoting a curiosity-themed podcast to focus on coaching or conversation itself, reflecting a search for clarity in creative projects.
**Using PodMatch strategically** — Ignoring algorithmic matches and instead using the platform to identify proactive potential guests who demonstrate initiative.
**Successful podcasting as a business model** — Describing how a long-running ESL podcast generates revenue by funneling listeners into an online course offering.
**Avoiding burnout in podcast production** — Exploring techniques like hiring co-hosts and designing the show around a sustainable business structure.
**Co-host dynamics in podcasting** — Emphasizing the value of vocal differentiation and conversational chemistry between hosts to maintain listener engagement.
**Critique of long-form podcast information density** — Questioning how much information listeners actually retain from extended podcast episodes.
**Single-topic podcast episode concept** — Proposing podcast formats that focus tightly on just one takeaway per episode to improve clarity and retention.
**The ‘Page 88’ heuristic** — Using a consistent page number to judge whether a book is worth reading, and developing a podcast concept inspired by this habit.
**Use of AI for creative support** — Employing AI tools for tasks like generating image captions, assembling article content, and assisting with writing workflow.
**Repurposing personal writing into processes** — Photographing and digitizing journals and books to create reusable content structures like daily readers or quote libraries.
**Newsletter curation philosophy** — Designing a weekly email with only a few links and a fixed structure to avoid overwhelming readers and preserve thematic coherence.
**Podcast production tools and distribution challenges** — Observing how platforms like Captivate simplify multi-show hosting, while also noting friction in approval processes and category selection.
**Massive personal book collection** — Organizing a home library using Dewey Decimal numbers, tracking books with LibraryThing, and maintaining a wishlist of unread volumes.
**Translation and archival of French texts** — Printing and annotating a DRM-protected French ebook to preserve access and begin an English translation for a foundational Parkour document.
**Experimentation with journal prompts** — Exploring the use of physical card decks and unconventional questions as inspiration for journaling or conversation.
**Fascination with well-designed quotes** — Drawing quotes from obscure, pre-WWII compilations and cultivating a large, tagged quote database for creative use.
# Resources
1. Resources
[Move NYC](https://www.movenyc.org/) — A movement-focused event in Manhattan that blends built environments and public park training spaces.
[PodMatch](https://www.podmatch.com/) — A service for matching podcast guests and hosts, used as a discovery tool for proactive guest outreach.
[All Ears English](https://www.allearsenglish.com/) — A long-running podcast helping ESL learners improve communication skills through conversation-based teaching.
[Captivate.fm](https://www.captivate.fm/) — A podcast hosting platform mentioned for its ease of use and multi-show support under a single subscription.
[What You Will Learn](https://www.whatyouwilllearn.com/) — A podcast featuring book summaries and lessons learned from nonfiction reading, formerly co-hosted by two Adams.
[Peter Attia’s The Qualys](https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/) — A podcast offering short, focused insights extracted from longer medical and health-related discussions.
[Huberman Lab Podcast](https://hubermanlab.com/) — A dense science-based podcast hosted by Andrew Huberman, known for information-rich episodes.
[Mark Manson’s Podcast](https://markmanson.net/podcast) — A show relaunched after burnout, featuring long-form episodes centered on single philosophical themes.
[Where Should We Begin? – A Game of Stories](https://www.estherperel.com/cards) — A card deck by Esther Perel designed to spark deep conversations and storytelling.
[David Sedaris](https://www.davidsedarisbooks.com/) — Satirical essayist known for his observational humor and unusual questions used to initiate conversations.
[The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/8754/the-price-of-the-ticket-by-james-baldwin/) — A collection of nonfiction writing referenced in connection with the “Page 88” heuristic.
[The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations) — A classic Stoic text repeatedly read and digitally reformatted as a daily reader.
[LibraryThing](https://www.librarything.com/) — A personal cataloging system used for managing an extensive physical book collection.
[Seven for Sunday](https://7forsunday.com/) — A curated weekly newsletter of seven interesting items, combining quotes, articles, and reflections.
[Let’s Talk Podcasting by Amanda Cupido](https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Talk-Podcasting-Essential-Industry/dp/1459748699) — A comprehensive guide to podcast production from a Canadian podcasting educator.
[L’Art du Déplacement (French book)](https://www.addacademie.org/) — A foundational text by the original ADD founders, discussed for its historical and pedagogical content.
[Brain Pickings / The Marginalian](https://www.themarginalian.org/) — A website by Maria Popova offering deep literary and philosophical commentary, cited as a source for book discovery.
[40,000 Quotations: Prose and Poetic (1937 edition)](https://archive.org/details/40000quotationsp0000unse) — A pre-WWII anthology of quotations organized by theme, valued for its depth and classic sources.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-tuesday-june-3-2025/4546/4 "2025-06-18T22:14:13Z")
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