Hi, my name is Jared.
And I usually when I tell people my name is Jared in the US, I'll tell them that it's
Jared like the jewelry store.
I used to say Jared like the subway guy and for people in the US, they'll get that and
it's you don't really tell that joke anymore.
And then my last name is easily and I'll say it's easily to remember.
And then most people will remember my name when I say that.
So Jared easily, I live in South Florida, but I'm originally from Alabama, but I've
kind of moved around.
I was a rambling man for a little bit, jumped around and went to different places.
I was in the military.
I lived in Hawaii and some other, some other spots that were fun and not so fun.
And then, yeah, my wife is originally from Fort Lauderdale.
So when I moved to Florida in 2003, I was living in Orlando and she was a travel nurse
and we met and then we started dating, got married and now I'm ultimately down here in
Fort Lauderdale.
I don't think when I was younger, whatever would have imagined myself in South Florida,
but I absolutely love it now.
My daughter is happy to be near grandma, grandpa.
And yeah, my wife loves it because she's from here and her family's here and her friends
are here.
There's actually a lot of really awesome people and good things about this community down
here and it's very diverse.
And so from coming from Alabama and then some of the experiences I had post Alabama were,
you know, military and things like that.
It's kind of neat now to be in a place like Fort Lauderdale where it is so different.
That said, podcasting is a passion and absolutely love it.
I started my show when I was in 2013 and that was just for fun.
Really no delusions of grandeur there.
Just wanting to say, Hey, can I create content and what am I going to talk about?
I don't know what that is.
So I figured, let me just interview other people so you can share their wisdom and their
expertise and that would bring value.
So that's the route that I took and fell in love with it, made a lot of really amazing
connections, got ideas for businesses.
One of which is podcast movement, which is how we have met.
And podcast movement is the world's largest conference for podcasting.
It's also a media company.
We do newsletters and we have professional services and we have several other things
that we do, but it's just been an absolute blast.
In the podcast community back in 2013, 2014, you didn't see as much collaboration between
niches.
So like a comedian wasn't really interacting with the business podcaster, for example.
You see a lot more of that now and not to toot our horn, but I think podcast movement
has kind of helped facilitate a lot of those types of collaborations with different niches
and different podcasting genres.
And because of that, we learn from each other and we get better ideas on, hey, this person's
trying this.
Let's see what that's like in our space.
And so you get some of that crossover and podcasting is just continuing to grow and
it's an exciting thing and anyone can do it.
And just because anyone can do it doesn't mean it's going to take off and do amazing.
But I love the fact that it's democratized and anyone can do it and anyone can share
their voice.
And if they're a little creative and they're kind of niche down, they have some opportunity
to get noticed and do some good things.
So that's in a nutshell, if that really answered the question like you'd hoped, but that's
my answer and I'll stick with it for now.
It did answer my question.
Thanks for listening.