162 Joe Pardo - Winning Big with Creativity and Community

Joe Pardo is the host of The Business Podcast and co-creator of the Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference or MAPCON which debuted in 2015. Super Joe, as he’s currently referred to, is also the author of four books, a speaker, and has a knack for designing nifty t-shirts people want to wear.

He was turned on to event planning from a young age watching his grandfather put on vendor events in the 80’s and he later started to put together his own LAN parties for video gamers. After attending a conference in Florida and speaking with Lou Mongello and Jared Easley of Podcast Movement, he got the idea of starting his own podcasting conference for the entire Mid-Atlantic region.

07:26 - The idea behind my Podcast Junkies t-shirts
08:50 - Joe’s Mic Dropper shirt and creating shirts people want to wear
11:18 - His MAPCON shirts
14:01 - The origins of MAPCON
22:37 - His knack for being a very generous host
25:23 - What sets his conference apart from other podcast conferences
26:43 - The “Dating Game” panel they created with podcast coaches & new podcasters
28:13 - MAPCON’s, “Create a Podcast on the Fly” contest
29:04 - One of the things he had to learn to improve MAPCON
31:28 - Adding another day to MAPCON 2018
32:54 - What drew him to DJ’ing early on in his life
35:42 - When I first started DJ’ing
38:46 - Joe’s Adventurtorium album and how it led him to start podcasting
41:10 - His experience editing audio and how he got the idea for his podcast
46:01 - The different types of series he’s done on his show
47:29 - The new series he just launched
49:21 - A common theme he’s noticed in his conversations on The Dreamers podcast
51:57 - What drives him to keep writing books
54:47 - His new book, Sales Won’t Save Your Business
56:09 - Joe talks about the three other books he’s written
1:00:14 - Joe’s two pieces of advice for content creators
1:02:02 - Something he’s changed his mind about recently
1:04:31 - The one most misunderstood thing about him