Podcasting 101 -- XOTV Newsletter
Updates
Hello, XOTV friends!
I'm happy to see you here on this splendid Tuesday. We've had a great few weeks, and even met with a few of our creators for our Podcasting 101 Workshop. These workshops are a chance for creators to come together virtually for one hour and learn a new skill while networking and fine-tuning their projects on XOTV. We've recently opened these workshops up to XOTV users as well, so invite your friends to join you! If you have an idea or request for an upcoming workshop, email Katie to set something up.
On the platform, we've partnered with an exciting new company to put on a creator coffee event in Cape Town, can you guess who they are? Adriaan made a vlog about it last week!
Read on below for timely creative opportunities, creator profiles, XOTV vlogs, and more!
Have questions about these updates? Email our team here.
Everything XOTV Vlog
As always, we want to feature one of our team member’s weekly vlogs to keep you inspired in your creative pursuits. This week, Franz Michael (XOTV’s COO and co-founder) talks about his understanding of creativity, how to grow it, master it and allow it to flourish! Check it out here!
Creator Profile
If you've been with XOTV for a while, you know her, and if you're new here, I'd love to introduce the founder of Whitewater TV, Antoinette Lee Toscano. Antoinette is our first featured creator, and you can find her XOTV channel here. Below is an exclusive Q&A about herself, her creative practices, and her time with XOTV.
Q: What is your best piece of advice for creators?
A: When you do what you love and your passion shows through in your content viewers, subscribers, and sponsors relate to your authenticity and excitement. And even when external challenges arise, like bad weather, when you’re recording for example, it still feels like fun more than work.
Q: What do you like to do in your spare time?
A: In my spare time, I can be found whitewater kayaking a river, climbing a mountain, bow hunting, camping, ice fishing, and most other outdoor sports. And through my philanthropic work with the American adventure sports club, I help folks who can’t afford access to adventure sports or find a safe and supportive community, gain no cost access to get outside and adventure.
Q: What's something you wish more people knew about you?
A: Although I have the good fortune to have so many supportive sponsors in my philanthropic work and on WhitewaterTV, I am passionate about helping other underrepresented people become sponsored athletes. To date, I have helped eight people receive sponsorship.
Q: If someone was on the fence about joining XOTV, what would you say to them?
A: If you are excited to share your passion with folks who dig you, I can’t think of a more supportive platform and community than the XOTV family.
In our pursuits of knowing you and diving into how to be the best we can be, we’ve created a few surveys! I will be so grateful if you have a minute to fill them out! These help us to optimize our platform to bring the best to the creative world.
Survey for creators to be featured in our newsletter! (Free promotion, folks!)
Opportunities
This week we have some exciting opportunities for you to tune into and further your creative and business practices! I tend to choose a few opportunities to share: usually, one that you can invest in, and one to apply for financial aid in some way or another.
TikTok and Instagram guru, Jera Bean, is opening her exclusive Social Media Saloon at the beginning of August! This is the last Saloon of 2022, and spots are coveted. Apply here!
The CBC Spouses Visual Arts Scholarship is for full-time African-American or Black students pursuing a degree in visual arts including, but not limited to, architecture, ceramics, drawing, fashion, graphic design, illustration, interior design, painting, photography, sketching, video production and other decorative arts. Apply here!
Join Us!
Finally, you can sign up to watch our talented creators on XOTV here. Thank you for your time and continued support of our growing platform! These newsletters will be sent out bi-monthly, so we will see you in a few weeks.
Until then, stay creative,
Katie and the XOTV Team