She Podcast: Elsie Escobar Shares How Her Past Affiliations Made Way To Podcasting. | 052

Elsie Escobar works in the cross-section of technology, digital
media, and holistic living with a heavy bias on podcast strategy
and creative use of audio. A podcaster since 2006 and was one of
the first female Indie podcasters using audio to teach yoga.
She’s behind the Elsie Yoga Class that has now been downloaded
over 4 million times! She is also the co-host and producer of The
Feed, the official Libsyn podcast.


Elsie is co-founder and co-host of She Podcasts. She focuses on
podcasts’ impact on society, diversity, and culture as well as
their power to drive social change, personal development, and
bring a voice to support underrepresented communities &
initiatives. But before she discovered her talent in podcasting,
she experienced being in different industries that eventually
honed her to be a better podcaster.


“I think it was acting... Being on stage in front of lots of
people and sharing… possibly my first step was in taking the
stage… and at that point, giving voice to other people's
words...”


Elsie said that she is already equipped with experience when she
started podcasting. Back in her high school days, she is
performing theatre arts. It was the first time when she dealt
with a huge audience watching her from the stage. She had years
to mold her confidence in acting. Then, she also earned money
from it after finishing school.


“And then, the next stage was probably … my yoga classes, my
physical yoga classes. ”


She handled several students in her class. It was around 50 to
100 students per day. She said that it started in 2002 until it
became a podcast in 2006.


“And then when podcasting came around, maybe I could just record
my classes and then that way they can get them like I was
thinking of my own students, and saying like ‘you guys, well, you
can come to my class, but if you can't, if you don't have access,
you can take me with you, like you've been asking.’"


“So, I started to study up. I got a book on RSS. It really was a
great book. It actually broke things down so well.“


Elsie did the preps — like having a website, recorder,
microphone, a host, and set up her social media accounts.
Confidence was not a big problem in her podcasting journey and
sharing yoga classes lead her to create her own podcast. Then,
eventually, She Podcast was created to articulate, voice out, and
help women to overcome barriers.


The long journey of Elsie towards podcasting was very inspiring.
Her experiences were the initial steps for something bigger.


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