160 Chel Hamilton | The Guided Meditation Artist

For over 10 years, Chel Hamilton has been a hypnotherapist. She decided to create her podcast, Meditation Minis, which focuses on helping people manage their stress and anxiety through guided meditations, after a friend of hers kept insisting she start a podcast on meditation. She committed to doing six episodes, but 6 million downloads later, Chel is only just beginning.

With big plans to take Meditation Minis to the next level by incorporating Virtual Reality technology in the future and adding workshop weekends to her repertoire, it’s definitely safe to say that Chel got more than she bargained for when she set out on her journey of podcasting.

07:04 - Her biggest takeaway from Podcast Movement 2017
08:32 - The sessions she found interesting at Podcast Movement
09:10 - Chel explains the Sparks talks from Podcast Movement
10:47 - How she got the idea for Meditation Minis
13:04 - Why she found it surprising that her podcast has had such a positive effect on people
14:46 - Why she designed her show the way she did
17:26 - When she was first introduced to meditation
18:34 - Chel explains who Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) is
20:27 - How she became involved with hypnotherapy
23:20 - What steps she took to ensure she would have a successful business and podcast
27:06 - Why she didn’t end her podcast after her first year as she originally planned
27:49 - The idea of the concept Know, Like, and Trust
29:25 - Repurposing her content for people to purchase
31:18 - How she approaches recording longer meditation sessions
33:44 - Where she learned how to mix sound for her podcast
37:22 - Combining all her skill sets
37:48 - Her plans to create virtual reality immersive guided meditations
39:17 - Podcast Junkies in virtual reality?
41:13 - The therapeutic possibilities of using virtual reality technology
41:29 - Our experience with Float Tanks
44:04 - Growing up and moving away from Columbus, Ohio
45:38 - The person who is most surprised of where she has ended up
46:21 - Her relationship with sponsors
47:31 - If she thinks about different ways to grow her show
50:39 - Her three day Emotional Detox workshop
51:52 - The one most misunderstood thing about her
52:25 - Something she’s changed her mind about recently