Weekly Standup

Personal

• Bourbon Update: up to 12 bottles. Favorite: Rowan's Creek
• Gamesbyemail.com Risk With Friends
• Prepping my grill for summer
• We got toilet paper....Bamboo!

Work 

• working overtime at home(sucks).
• Imposter syndrome
• Confidence is key

The Podcast

• Enlightened Millenial podcast
• Publish, publish publish
• Social media strategy
• New episode types
• MLC network (new members + options)
• Getting ready for sponsorships + partners
• Focus on episode publishing and downloads
• Digital Event w/hopin
• Pop-up shop

A new Episode Format.  For the spotlight, we're going to feature a different entrepreneur by highlighting their hard work and successes.

Featured Moonlighter: Shaun Bedgood

Shaun is the co-founder of this podcast. He resides in LA now by way of Boston and Alabama.

When were doing the podcast together he was a campus police officer and stand-up comic.  He's now transitioning to acting through TV spots, commercials and plays.

Where to find him

@FunnyManShaun 

@shaunbg on IG

IMDB

"Thankfully in April, I went part-time. It happened kind of all of sudden and it was a moment of sink or swim. You're getting less cash in the bank, you really have to make this happen."

"That's when everything took off. When I had more time to focus."

Everyone meet Alison Rogers.

Alison Rogers is the founder of Coffee Cup Collective, a circular economy for reusable coffee cups. She joined the Moonlighters' Club to talk about her journey from Consultant to founder and why it's important for her to use innovation to help the environment

About The company Coffee Cup Collective offers a guilt-free to-go coffee without the inconvenience of a personal reusable cup.

My checkin-

Personal Life

• Bourbon collection is growing (Rowan's Creek is #1)
• Slack chats keep me sane
• Watching: The Crown, Succession, Better Call Saul
• Reup on Bevel blades: The hair is crazy
• Stimulus = less debt

Work life

• Working on a Saturday Sucks

The Moonlighters' Club

• New Episode formats: Roundtable, Spotlights
• The Enlightened Millenial
• Upgrading Mighty Network
• New equipment
• Budget

Thoughts of the week

• It's easy to be a funk now.  Find out why you're down.  Find an outlet in a friend or a task
• Find a time to learn a skill (Youtube, Masterclass, Udemy)
• Treat your passion like your job
• Don’t be a content farm

In this standup we cover the following:

A Quarantine Status update

• Toilet Paper
• Bourbon
• New Face Mask
• Looking for sales
• Stimulus = les debt
• Home workouts

a 9-5 Update 

• The industry is insane
• Partnerships!!!!!!!!!!

A Moonlighters' Club update

• Standing Desk
• Editing, editing, editing
• Fiverr
• Mighty Networks
• Scheduling releases
• Social Media

Some thoughts on:

• Working alone
• Engage before asking
• Work on and in the business

We're back.

New city (DC), new job and a new batch of moonlighters to interview.  I had a lot of editing and adjusting to do, but I got it done.

In this episode, I talk about the move from Boston to DC, what it took to get the podcast back on track and why NOW is the time to get serious about your passion.

Enjoy.

(02:50) the creation of the podcast (07:24) Finding the Kirstein Business Library and the Innovation lab, (12:30) The new Moonlighters Becky Pleat, Protein Powerball, Drink pricklee, (16:00) the Baltimore trip, (19:50) Moving to Washington DC (23:20) Depression sets in (27:45) Coronavirus on the way (30:40) Time to edit and post episodes (32:27) corona and shitty employers (35:00)New Moonlighters’ Club episodes