One Year In

One year ago, I hit record with shaky nerves, a rough setup, and a very different plan for what this show was “supposed” to be. Now I’m celebrating the Emily to Gremily one-year anniversary by answering your listener questions and telling the real story of how the podcast came to life, including the setbacks, the rebrand, and the moment I realized a solo podcast with full creative control was actually the best version of the idea.

We get into the behind-the-scenes details people don’t talk about enough: how much editing goes into a single episode, why a blooper reel sounds fun until you realize most bloopers are just me restarting a sentence, and how perfectionism can mess with your confidence on camera and on a mic. I also share the honest truth about my least favorite episode and why I keep it up anyway as proof of growth.

Then we look forward. I talk guest strategy and how I approach people to come on, plus my dream list for future interviews. The big goal for year two is audience growth, more downloads, stronger YouTube views, and ultimately getting the show signed to a podcast network.

If you’ve ever wanted to start a podcast, grow a YouTube podcast, or just needed a push to stop waiting for “perfect,” this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a five-star rating and review, then tell me who you want as a guest next. And don't forget to submit your gremlin stories, guidance, and gossip to EMILYTOGREMILYPOD@GMAIL.COM and it will be shared on a future episode!

Happy One Year Gremlins!

Transcript

Anniversary Kickoff And Mocktail

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Okay, cheers guys. Emily, Emily to Gremily here with another solo episode, and this is a big, big episode. It is the one-year anniversary of this podcast. I am really excited. Real quick, episode drink of the week. This is the last episode that I will have to do a mock tail. And I cannot describe to you the amount of excitement that I have that next week I will have a cocktail in hand and be doing this podcast. I almost, almost, almost decided to break the 75 hard and have a cocktail for today to celebrate the moment. But I just couldn't do it. I committed to it. I made it this far. I'm finishing it out. I'm making it to the end. So I just have water with lemon today and ice. And it's super boring, but I'm like, you know what? Let's end the 75 hard with a refreshing and hydrating drink. And what's more refreshing and hydrating than water? Also, I realized like about an hour ago that I was like so parched and dehydrated. And I'm supposed to drink a gallon of water every single day. And I hadn't really drank any water. I had drank a lot of Alani, and that was it. And I felt like my bones were like shaking in my skin. So I'm like, um, you need some water. So I got the water, and I'm going to drink the water throughout the podcast and throughout the episode because I don't want to be sitting there tonight at like 11:58 chugging water to meet my goal. So we're having water, and next week we are coming back with a glorious, glorious cocktail. I don't even know what cocktail I'm gonna make. It's gonna be vodka-based because baby needs her vodka. So, yes, water today, cocktail next week, but still we are celebrating the one-year anniversary of this podcast. And I didn't know how to like commemorate the episode or celebrate the moment. And I just kind of threw it out to you guys. I've been telling you the past few weeks that it's the one-year anniversary. And if you guys have questions or ideas for this episode to send those in. And you guys did send in some questions, so I'm kind of turning this episode into almost like a moment of reflection for myself and my journey with the podcast. You guys had questions and I kind of have answers. Some of them are gonna be a little roundabout, but you guys have listened to me for a year, so you know how I answer questions, and sometimes I go in a circle. It also has to do with, you know, my undiagnosed ADHD, but whatever. It's okay. Also, I was trying to figure out an outfit for this episode, and I bought a dress and I like it, but it was almost too like floofy. So if you're watching on YouTube, the outfit I'm wearing is the outfit I wore in the photo shoot for my cover art pictures. So I pulled this out of the closet and everything still fit. I don't know why I was nervous about it, but I don't know, I was nervous about it. But yeah, everything slipped on perfectly. So I was like, great, awesome. So that excited me, and this was a last-minute decision, and I like it. It's a little warm though, but what can we do? So I'm gonna answer the questions that you guys have sent in, just talking about the podcast and the journey and the future, basically. So that's what this episode's

Why I Started The Podcast

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going to be. Okay, so the first submission is from Claire, and Claire says hi. Why'd I say hi in such a high-pitched voice? Okay. Claire says hi. I found your podcast back in September and have loved it ever since. I ended up going back to the very beginning and listening to all episodes from the pilot. You have definitely come such a long way. I know you have touched on this before, but being that it's the anniversary, I was wondering what made you start the pod, what was the process of getting it off the ground, and are you happy with how it's evolved? Has it changed from your original vision? Sorry if that's too many questions in a row. Thank you for reading and excited to hear what will happen for you next. Claire. Okay. First of all, that's not too many questions in a row because I ask questions like the same way. I want to know the who, what, when, where, why, how. I want to know all the information and I want you to give me all the info at the same time. Um, so I'm nosy like that, and Claire, I appreciate the multitude of questions because that's kind of how I would ask it too. Okay. So let's see. Let's go through this. Um, also, you listen from the pilot. God bless you. Um, those episodes are uh I don't like to go back and look at them. And not because of like the guests I had on. Like, I'm so grateful for those people, but it was like myself. I my nerves were like just jumping off the screen. And you know, the equipment I was using and the this and the that. Like it's just like I feel like it's come such a long way. So if anyone goes back and watches those first episodes, um, you gotta give me grace, and it's we're it we're getting better. We're trying over here. Okay, uh, let's see. What made you start the pod? Okay, so starting the podcast was I feel like I had the idea for a couple of years, like before I even attempted to start it. And it came from like honestly, I my party days, I was kind of a wild child, and every week and every time I saw my friends, I had news stories and this and that, and they had stories for me, and I might seem like I'm still crazy, but to anyone who knows me then versus now, I've settled down and it's it's a pretty big difference. But I um but it was just we had all these stories that we would tell each other and these like tales and of this is what happened, and this is who I saw, and this is what we did. And I was like, these stories are funny, like we should have a podcast and talk about them and have other people tell us their stories, and I think this would be a fun podcast. And it was just something I had talked about, like it's gotta be like two, three years, like before I even attempted it. And finally, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna sit down and I'm actually gonna try to do this. And starting it was a process. There were lots of setbacks, there were lots of tears, there were lots of meltdowns and laughs and tantrums. I'm the kind of person who wants to know how to do everything perfectly right away. And when I can't, and when there's setbacks and I don't understand something, I get extremely frustrated and have many meltdowns. Sometimes they're not many, but you know, I have have meltdowns and I get upset with myself. So there was a lot of that because this is all new technology to me. I didn't know how to edit videos, I didn't know how to edit audio, I didn't know what softwares to use. You know, I I when I said I wanted to start a podcast, I thought I was gonna sit in front of a camera, talk and be funny, and then just like upload it somewhere. I didn't think that I needed to learn the multitude of steps that happen before I sit down in front of the camera. And learning all that was challenging for me, but I'm glad that I challenged myself to do it. But it was um, it was a process. And I don't know if I've ever talked about this on the podcast. I don't think I have. And if I have, maybe it was just like a very quick mention. But the original format of this podcast was not what it is today. I originally was gonna have a co-host, and it was a friend that I had, and we had kind of planned it out together, and we were really getting our ducks in a row, and I'm not gonna go into everything that happened, but basically it all fell apart, and I basically decided that I needed to do this by myself and for myself, and just have it be a solo podcast, and that meant rebranding everything. I had to change the name of the podcast, I had to get new logos made, new cover art. I had to really restyle the entire format of this because the format I had before was based on having a permanent co-host. So it did evolve. It evolved before you guys even saw anything. And I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I am so happy with what this podcast has become, the format it's taken, the evolution it's had, and I couldn't imagine it being any other way. Like, I'm at first I was like really stressed about it, and I was worried and wondering if maybe I should just like give up right then and there before I even started. And I'm really glad that I persevered, worked through it, and was just like, no, I'm doing this, I'm making it all about myself. My narcissism's gonna pop out, and I'm gonna name it after myself, and I'm gonna do it by myself. And the way it's worked out is just it was a blessing in disguise. And yeah, um, so yeah, the way it evolved, I'm happy with it. And the it changed from my original vision 100%. And this format, I wouldn't trade it in. Like, I'm super excited, and honestly, like now I just have complete and total creative control over it, and that feeds my controlling little heart. And now we have additional segments, and I just I love that. I love that the podcast is ever changing, and we can add some segments, we can have theme or specific topic episodes, like the I don't know. I feel like the world is my oyster, and I just gotta allow it to grow, and you know, not everything's gonna be cookie-cutter the exact way I plan it out, and I've realized that's okay.

Bloopers And Editing Reality

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Okay, the next question is from Myers. Myers asks, Have you ever made a blooper reel? Because I would definitely want to see that. Okay, I haven't made a blooper reel. There, I have posted, I think, a few videos like on social media of like mess ups, maybe. Like, I remember there was one where I like spilled my drink like on my chair, and it was it towards the beginning, so it was a brand new chair, and I was like, oh my god. Um, so there was that video. There's also a video I think of myself and Jay. We couldn't get over whatever was making us laugh. So it was me trying to like lead into the next topic, and we just had like the giggles. We couldn't get through it. I know I've posted that, but as far as like a blooper reel, I haven't posted it completely because like if I'm by myself and I make a mistake, I usually I always edit it out, but I'm always like blop and I don't know why I do that. And it's like when I hear it back when I'm like editing everything, I'm like, oh my god, why did I make that noise? Every single time. Like there's gotta be at least like 10 blop in each episode that I cut out. So I don't think a blooper reel would be that funny. It's more funny if I have like a co-host and like someone here with me and have a guest. So I could start posting blooper reels with my guests, but a blooper reel just of like me by myself, you're just gonna hear me make funny noises or like whisper to myself, like, well, that's not how you say that. Because I jumble my words constantly. I know some of them make it to air and you hear them on the podcast, but there's a lot of editing that goes into this, and a lot that I cut out, and I cut out a lot of like the stupid phrases I say. I say um a disgusting amount of times, and thank God I've learned how to clip it out and it makes the podcast flow so much smoother. I also say like a lot. I I hate myself, it's terrible, but now I'm scared I'm about to say it as I'm trying to talk about my bloopers. But I yeah, a blooper real by myself wouldn't be too fun. I could, I mean, I guess I could make one. Like, for example, right now I'm already at 33 minutes for this podcast, and you guys watching and listening, you're probably at minute 10 because I've had to start and stop and like redo an intro, redo myself reading a question. I think that's what gets me a lot is the reading of the question. I will read it and I mess up my words, and I want to make sure I get the submission read exactly how it was written to me. I don't want to mess up the words of the person who submitted the question or the story. So I think that's a lot of the bloopers too. Which that's not fun. No one wants to see me just like jumble over my words. So I will start posting like the funny bloopers that I have, but yeah, just my consistent mess-ups. You're just gonna think I don't know how to read, which sometimes I wonder if I don't know how to read. It's like it's a little tragic.

Favorite Guests And Least Favorite Episode

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Okay, the next submission is from Renee. And Renee says, This might be too scandalous for a question, but do you have a favorite episode and a favorite guest? And a more interesting question, do you have a least favorite episode and a least favorite guest? Okay, so I had to think about this, and this whole week has been like a total like reflection of like everyone I've had on and and the episodes I've filmed and the topics I've covered. So I was really going through like all my outlines and you know the clips I have of on social media and this and that. So as far as favorite episode, I don't have a favorite episode because I love them all. That's what actually that's not true. I'll come back to that. But as far as like guests, I don't have a favorite guest, and I don't have a least favorite guest, actually. I just I'll I love them all equally because each person brought something special and unique to their episode and whatever topic we were talking about, you know, whether it was, you know, Michael, when I had him on and we were talking about Titanic and what a Titanic nerd he was, which I did know he was a nerd about Titanic, but I didn't know he was that nerdy about Titanic. But that was a great surprise. Or when I had Jessica on and we were talking about um immigration and homelessness in Los Angeles, and you know, that was a super serious topic, but it was important to talk about, and that's why I did it. And then I have, you know, Jay on. She's like my most frequent guest, but I have had Jay on, and every time we film, it's always fun and interesting, and we say random, crazy shit because that's just our personalities and our friendship. So, favorite guest or favorite episode, I don't have either of those because I love them all equally. And uh hold on, and I lie about the episode. I do have a least favorite episode, and it was my very first solo episode. Please don't go back and watch it or listen to it because that shit is so choppy. I I had to I wanted to go back and look at not the whole episode on YouTube because I wish I could just erase it. I could erase it, but I'm not going to. But I looked back on the clips I posted on social media and it's it's tragic, it's upsetting. I remember I was so scared to do my first solo episode. I had been dreading it since I started the podcast, and I think it was episode four or five, I think it's four, and I hate that episode. I filmed that episode three different times. So the final result was the third time, and that was my best take, and it's terrible. Like it, I just I couldn't get out of my head. I stumbled over every single word. I was so nervous in front of the camera. I just I didn't know how to be a person anymore. It was ridiculous. So yeah, that that's my least favorite episode, which it kind of made me sad to pick a least favorite, and even my least favorite episode, that first solo one, that's special in its own way, but it's special because it's it's so bad. And I guess I if I want to put a good spin on this, looking at that episode, I can see the growth on how much I've changed and how much more comfortable I am doing this podcast. So, so looking back on it, that's like my starting point. That's me at my worst. And now we're just evolving and getting better, and I'm more comfortable in front of the camera, and I don't mind, you know, I have now feel like I can have like a full-on conversation with you guys, with you guys watching and listening. And even though I'm looking around and there is nobody else in this room, I feel like I'm able to have a conversation with you without you being here, as opposed to when I first started, I was so extremely aware that I was in here by myself and that I couldn't get the feedback from anybody talking to me. And now I'm able to kind of like get past that and just make the podcast, film the podcast, record the podcast. So, yeah, that's my least favorite. But don't go back and watch it or listen to it. Just take me at my word and let's move forward.

Perfectionism And Advice For Beginners

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Okay, the next submission is from Marina. Marina says, Almost a day one listener here. Thank you for that. I feel like you've grown so much since the first episode. And I was wondering, what do you think you've learned since the start? And what advice would you give to someone out there who wants to start their own podcast? Marina. Okay, so I feel like I've kind of been answering this, but let me do like a little more in-depth. I when I first start, like I've said before, I'm very much a perfectionist, and I've had to realize that not every episode is going to be perfect. You know, there's some episodes where I don't like the way I've looked. Oh my god. There's some episodes on YouTube where I'm like, oh my god, like please, someone put a bag over my head. Um, there's some episodes where I don't like what I've said after I've said it and put it out there, and I'm like, oh my god, like why did I say that? Like somebody's gonna come for me. And you know, I just there's some days I just don't like the sound of my own voice. Actually, I don't like the sound of my own voice. I in my head, like when I hear myself talk, I sound so much deeper than what I sound to everybody else. When I first heard myself in the first recording, I thought I sounded like Minnie Mouse. I was like, ew, like that's my voice. Like, why do people talk to me? This is terrible. Um, so I really wanted everything to be perfect and look perfect and sound perfect, and it's not. And I had to really realize that, you know, life isn't perfect, and I really needed to let go of it and just put it out there and hope that people like it for what it is, because what this is is this is just me. I've learned to like show myself and who I am on this podcast, and if some people don't like it, or if it's not wrapped up in a pretty bow, then you know that that's that. Like, what can I do? And not every episode is going to be happily received. I have gotten some messages where people don't like what I've covered, and it was mainly political, which I understand not everyone's gonna have the same political beliefs. And the great thing about, you know, watching a YouTube video or listening to a podcast is you can turn it off. So freedom of speech, I can say what I want, and you have the freedom to not watch it, basically. And yeah, just realizing that it's not gonna be perfect, I'm not gonna be for everyone, which I already knew. I was really comfortable with that, but yeah, I I can't please everyone. Not everyone's gonna like me or like what I say or like how I sound, and that's okay. As far as advice, I would just say you need to make sure you know what you like want to say and how you want to say it. And if you want like more of a technical aspect of it, there really needs to be like a how-to on how to create a podcast because I gotta tell you, unless you're really tech savvy, it's kind of difficult. Not that I want to discourage anyone from doing it, but I did say before I wanted to make um like a week in my life video of how I make this podcast because I did want not did, I do want to make more like behind-the-scenes content. I just I really need to work on it, and that's another thing too, is structure. You I really need to myself have more structure in my life and a better schedule for myself. So if you're someone like me who gets a little scattered, but you know exactly what you want to do, you just really need to plan out your days, plan out your weeks, and structure yourself on how you want it to be done, what days you want it to be done. Like I'm a person, I need a daily schedule, basically. And that's what I need to work on. So I would say for anyone out there, you really need to just like know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and just basically put it out there because that's really like your best learning curve is putting it, is doing it, putting it out there, and then tweaking it to exactly what you want it to be. So that's kind of my advice. It's kind of roundabout, but you guys get it. I hope you get it at

Guest Outreach And Dream Guest List

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least. Okay, the next submission. Is from Elena. Elena says, Hello, my name is Elena. I'm 19 and a listener in Lucerne, Switzerland. He, I love that. Even though I'm younger and far away, I would love to one day visit LA and be a guest. I am curious, do you plan on having more guests on soon? And if so, who? How do you approach people to be a guest? Thank you. And I hope to one day sit in your pink chair, Elena. Okay. Um, okay, guests. This is a huge topic in my mind. So absolutely. I thrive when I have a guest here and I am able to plan something out with them, and there's this very specific topic in mind that we're gonna talk about. I love having guests on. As far as the way I approach people to be a guest, everyone that I've ever had on is a friend of mine, and I just am like, hey, do you want to do an episode of my podcast? It's like really basic, but that's pretty much what I do. Although I will say, even asking a friend to do the podcast, it's like intimidating. I don't know why. It's just like, I don't know, it makes me feel vulnerable and like what if they say no or they don't want to be a part of it? Like, and not that I'm afraid of rejection. It maybe I just don't want to like impose upon people. I don't know what my deal is. But yeah, asking people to do an episode is always a tough one for me. Obviously, I've done it, but yeah, it doesn't get easier. And also, I'm that person, I don't like to ask people for help or to ask for assistance or ask for a favor. I don't like doing that, so I think that kind of plays a role in why it's so hard for me to ask a friend to be a guest on my podcast. And am I gonna have guests on soon? Absolutely. I had mentioned when was this? I don't even know. All my days like blend together after a while. But I had mentioned before in the past that I was really gonna start working on finding new people to be guests on the podcast, and I even asked for your suggestions on who you guys wanted to hear and see, basically. I did get suggestions. It's just I've been a little crazy and a little preoccupied and busy, and I don't want to approach someone and then not get back to them right away. So I've just been kind of getting my ducks in a row, if you will, and then I'm gonna put it out there and reach out to people, and I've gotten some great suggestions. But my list of suggestions that you guys have sent in and that I've thought of either on my own or whatever, and this isn't even my entire list either, but I have on here astrologer, a therapist, a sex therapist, a beauty influencer, a psychic or medium, a ghost skeptic, because I had that ghost episode that I did, a color analyst, a stylist, lawyers, doctors, nurses, historians. Um, and in my head, I'm thinking of like other podcasters, so it could be like kind of a cross-promotion. You guys, I mean, I feel like you guys know me pretty well. Astrology is a topic I talked about in my very first episode with SPICE. We talked about our big three sun, moon, rising. I would love to have an astrologer on or like a numerologist, people who read like your birth chart, like that, like it fascinates me so much. I would love to have someone on who does that. Therapists and sex therapists. Um, I feel like that's pretty self-explanatory. You know, that would be such an interesting topic. Also, I have been asked before, because I've talked about therapy, and that I don't have a therapist or go to therapy, and someone asked me why. And it's not because I don't believe in it. Obviously, I believe in it. It's because I live in the United States and we don't have free health care here, and insurance and/or a therapist and therapy is super expensive, so it's not a luxury I have at the moment. But maybe one day we shall see. I figured starting this podcast and talking out my problems with all of you people was uh cheaper than shelling out a lot, a lot of money every single month for insurance and therapy. So that's why I don't have a therapist to answer that question that I got a little while back. Um, beauty influencer, I see them all the time on you know TikTok. And I aspire to be that one day. Will I ever? Probably not because I'm not great with my hair or makeup, but you know, it's just fun to do. It's something fun to talk about. Uh, let's see what else I have on a psychic or medium. I'm into all that, you know, spooky woo-woo shit. I do I would love to have someone on here. And then the other side of that coin is a ghost skeptic. I had that entire ghost and spooky story episode, and I even said in that episode, maybe I should have someone on to, you know, debate it with and see what they have to say. And, you know, they're not gonna change my mind on it, but I'd like to hear another point of view, I suppose. Uh, color analyst and stylist, I love fashion. I when someone said color analyst, I was like, oh my god, absolutely. And I've been looking them up on TikTok, and there's so many out there. Selfishly, I want to do it because I want to know what I am. Am I a true summer? Am I a cool winter? I don't know. Because I look at all of those and none of it makes sense to me. And I'd love someone to sit down and describe it to me and let all of you know what it is and how to do it and the ins and outs, all that stuff. Let's see. We also have on here lawyers, doctors, nurses. Those are like the unsung heroes, basically. I would as far as like what kind of lawyer. I'm still really interested in hearing from like an immigration lawyer and getting a little more detailed into that, considering it's such a heavy topic here in the United States now in this current climate. Um, a historian. Someone wrote that in, and I forget why they wrote it in. I'd have to go back and look at that email. But I had mentioned something, maybe it was at the Titanic episode. No, it that was too long ago. Or maybe someone listened to it and then they wrote in. I forget, but I love history. I don't know if I've ever said that here on the podcast, but I'm a huge history buff. I love that like they say every girl has like their Roman empires, and I 100% have mine. So I would love to have a historian on here and just like teach me stuff. I don't even know. Like, talk about like my Roman empires. I have three of them. I won't disclose what they are just yet. Maybe I'll save that for like kind of a special episode. But I would love to have a historian on here to just talk to me and just educate me and educate all of you. And you know, maybe you guys would have certain questions and I could ask the person on the podcast. I don't know. I'm just I'm thinking over here. And then other podcasters for cross promotion. I would love to connect with other podcasters who are like me. They're a grassroots podcast who they're just starting out on their own, they're doing their own thing, they're trying to make their way in the podcasting world, and we can talk about whatever, and they can come on my podcast and talk about their work, and vice versa. I go on their podcast and do an episode with them and talk about what I do here. I think that would be really fun and really great. And as far as contacting all these people, it sounds so easy like when I just say it, but to find someone who's willing and available and just, you know, all the little details that go into it, it's hard. And also it makes me nervous to just like try to like slide into someone's DMs and be like, hey, you want to be on my podcast? You know, it's just it sounds so weird, and I need to just really get over myself and just do it. Basically, that's my message to myself within this episode is to just get up, get out, and do it and move it along. Like, let's go, lady.

Growth Goals And Signing To A Network

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Okay, and the last question I have is from Katrina. Katrina asks, What are your future plans for Emily to Gremly? Do you have any goals for yourself and the podcast? So absolutely. Future plans. I'm someone who I like to dream big and think big, and I'm like thinking about where I'm gonna be in like five years from now. And as far as current goals to get myself to my five-year plan, I need to grow the podcast. I need to reach more people, I need to get more downloads, I need to build my YouTube. My YouTube, like I have my consistent group, little group of people who watch every single week, but I need to bump those numbers up. Those numbers need to be in the thousands right now, and they're not, but they will be soon. I am focused on that. So, my goal pretty much I view this past year of the podcast as really just my learning curve. I had to figure out what I was doing, and now I have a rhythm, I have my footing, I have a general idea of how to do it. And now I need to push forward. I need to grow this podcast. I need to bump up significantly the number of downloads that I get every single week. It's it's obviously growing, it's gotten bigger, and I'm so grateful for that. But I want it to be bigger and better. I'm looking, I'm always looking to grow and to be more accomplished, and I'm so grateful for the numbers I have right now, and they're consistent numbers too. Like I it's just it's crazy to think how many people I've reached out and how many downloads I have just with me doing this by myself. But I want that to number to be bigger and better. So my goal is to grow the downloads and to bump up those YouTube views. So that's the goal for this year is to get this to a point where I can my main goal is sign to a network. And when you sign to a network, there comes with that, you know, you get brand deals and ad sales, and you get help with, you know, the technical side of it. I just want this to basically grow enough to where I get the attention of a podcast network or where I can bring it to a network and they like my work, they see the work I've put into it, they see the loyal listener fan base that I have, and they see the potential that the show has and they sign it. So that is my ultimate goal is to get this podcast signed to a network, and I can't do that without downloads and YouTube watches. So that's what we gotta do. That's what we gotta focus on this year is to bump up those numbers.

Thank Yous And One Year Reflection

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And that's pretty much it for the one-year anniversary episode. I can't believe it. I like I said before, I didn't really think that I had hopes and dreams for what I wanted this to be, but in the beginning, I just didn't see how it was gonna be possible. And it has become possible, and that's really just thanks to everyone that's been supportive and helpful in this process. All of my guests that I've had on. Um, I want to give not a special thanks, but like some people deserve like extra, extra thanks. Spice, who was on my very first two episodes, she really jumped in in like the very last minute because the first episode that I had recorded was a disaster. And I reached out to her and I was like, Hey, I need I need help with this. Are you willing to come? And she was like 100% absolutely. She came over. We did the first two episodes, and uh, and she walked with me into the introduction of this podcasting world. And all the guests I've had on After Spice, there was Jackie, who I want to get her back on the podcast. We had teased at the end of her episode almost a year ago that we wanted to talk about hospitality horror stories. And her and I talked about it recently. We're we were like, oh, we should do that, and we just gotta find the time and make it happen. Uh, who else have I had on? Lynn. I've had I had Lynn on the podcast, and there's so much more I need to talk with her about. Um, we've both just had so many different changes happen in our lives since she was on the podcast. So getting her back on is a goal as well. We've had Michael on the podcast, and he's a great person to have on because he thinks I'm picking on him, but it's just witty banter back and forth. And having him on is always so much fun and such a good time. And we end up filming for like two hours, and you guys don't see the whole thing because it's just us going back and forth and going on tangents, which that's always the best content. Um, a really, really big special thanks to Jay, who I call my official unofficial producer, because she's been with me since the very beginning. She's the one who did the logo and the cover art and did all the graphic design for me. And now that's what her job is. So if anyone needs graphic design or any work like that, you hit her up. She's fucking amazing. Which maybe she right now she's like, I don't need more work, but you know, I gotta promote her somehow. And her episodes are always so much fun. She's like I said before, she's been my most frequent guest, and I feel like you can really see the friendship that we have and the back and forth that we have a lot. And I talk with her every single day, and we're always talking about the podcast and the goals for it and what we want the future to look like, and she's very much involved in this, and I couldn't have done it without her because I've cried to her on multiple occasions of so many different things that I think is going wrong, and I think the sky is falling, and then she's like, Well, the sky isn't falling, you're you're gonna be fine, and she's right, I am fine. And the biggest, biggest, biggest thanks has to go to my boyfriend who was a guest on only one episode, and it might stay that way because that episode was a disaster, but that wasn't his fault, that was my fault because it was my birthday and I was a drunky poo. But he has been extremely supportive of myself and this dream that I have. And when I said I wanted to start the podcast, he was always just so gung-ho for it and supportive and respectful, and he helped build my studio. So if you're watching on YouTube, none of this would be here if it wasn't for him. And he's always just so excited about what I have going on next. But he really does deserve a super special thanks because he is believing in my dreams and telling me to chase them, even though they feel so far-fetched sometimes and too big for myself. But no, nothing's too big. If other people can do it, why can't I do it? So that's how I'm gonna end the podcast. We're gonna end on an uplifting and happy

Where To Follow And Write In

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note. If you want to follow myself and the podcast on social media, you may do so at Emily to Gremlade Pod on Instagram and TikTok. Still, every single time I do I do this every week, and I'm always stumbling over my words. Anyway, um, if you want to watch this episode and almost all the past episodes on YouTube, you may do so at Emily to Gremlade Pod on YouTube. If you have your own Gremlin story, you need Gremlin guidance, or you have a juicy piece of Gremlin gossip, you may email that in at emlategremlapod at gmail.com, or you can message or DM me on social media, whichever you prefer. And a call to action. I'm just gonna say this at the end of every episode now, I think. If you have any ideas on future episode topics, or you have a suggestion on a guest you would like me to reach out to, or if you yourself want to be a guest on this podcast, reach out to me. You can email me at mlategramlaypod at gmail.com or again message or DM me on social media at mlategramlypod on Instagram and TikTok. And that's it. Happy one year anniversary, guys. Make sure to like, follow, share, subscribe, rate five stars, do all the things. We're gonna cheers out with the last, last mocktail of this podcast. There might be more in the future, but next week we're we're gonna have a cocktail and it'll be a glorious cocktail. So cheers to you, cheers to me, and cheers to one year of uh exciting new opportunities and to the future and whatever it holds. Cheers.

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