Ever thought about having your voice heard far and wide? Why not podcast? Join this illustrious group of podcasters who all talk about sexuality, in one form or another, and find out what it takes to have a podcast that finds its audience and has longevity.
Podcasting — What’s in It for Me: Marketing, Mojo and Monetization
Moderator
Mia Martina
Panelists
Cunning Minx
Graydancer
Nobilis Reed
Raven Lightholme
Unspeakable Axe
Over 70 million Americans now listen to podcasts, and many sex-positive educators have built powerful communities using a podcast as a base. But that doesn’t mean all podcast hosts are rolling in the dough. Six podcasters, with varying content and audiences, will discuss how they use podcasts to build community and market their message.
If you have considered starting a podcast, recording an audiobook, or adding audio content to your blog, you will want to take part in the discussion. Panelists will discuss how to build community, publicize the show, set realistic expectations for sponsorship (if at all), and other issues that may arise like Apple “cleaning up” iTunes sex related content.
Mia Martina
Mia Martina is a writer and smut podcaster. Mia’s podcast – I Want Your Sex – is told in the form of a serialized narrative about her adventures at sex parties, her experiences with open relationships, and her tales of modern urban sexuality. As one listener raves, “Mia walks the listener through the door and into a bedroom of complex physical bliss and intense emotion.”
Mia looks to inspire people to explore their sexuality and be open to new experiences. She has taught workshops on non-monogamy and is excited to be a co-host of an erotica reading series in her new home of Austin, Texas. In closing out her ten-year chapter in the big apple, Mia was featured in the 2010 New York Sex Blogger calendar. Aside from the Library of Congress indexing her tweets, Mia’s writing can be found on Nerve, Ravenous Romance and Paper Bag Press.
Cunning Minx
Cunning Minx has been the tireless producer and host of the Polyamory Weekly podcast (www.polyweekly.com) since the spring of 2005, now with over 230 episodes in production. A kinky boobiesexual, Minx founded the show as a resource for the poly and poly-curious to form a community, share experiences and help guide each other on their journeys of poly exploration. And hopefully, also guide each other away from common relationship land mines–or at least share sympathy when they step on one!
Poly Weekly has received accolades from the likes of ErosZine, Fleshbot and the Chicago Sun-Times, and Minx has spoken on poly, kinky and Web 2.0 community-building topics at the Heartland Polyamory Conference, Leather Leadership Conference, Dragon*Con, Galleria Domain 2 and New York’s Poly Pride Day. Join the conversation at or on Twitter at .
Graydancer
Graydancer, Ninja Sex Poodle & Ronin of Love, comes from the venerable rope bondage tradition of Madison, WI, where he honed his craft to become the world premiere podcaster of rope bondage with “the Ropecast“. He is the author of three novels including Nawashi (which climbed to #1 on the Podiobooks.comcharts) as well as numerous short stories and essays. Graydancer’s writing has been published in several anthologies edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Secret Magazine, Power Exchange Magazine, and most recently “” (edited by Lee Harrington).
A veteran of the stage, Graydancer serves as a feature performer and M.C. for Madison’s hottest burlesque company, Foxy Veronica’s Peach Pies, as well as regularly appearing at the Miramar Theatre as part of “Erotic Milwaukee.” He has also been featured as a reader of several fiction podcasts including Nobilis Erotica and Escape Pod. You can browse the images in the Graydancer Style gallery to see some of his work, and feel free to use them on your site provided you A) only use them to reference Graydancer’s work and B) where the image is being used.
Drawing upon a background in performance video and technology, Graydancer’s company satorimedia also professionally rigs, photographs, shoots, edits, and works as a web designer for several clients ranging from Kink.com to Costume Cuties. You can also hear Graydancer as a guest on various other popular podcasts such as Polyamory Weekly and Dart’s Domain. Currently he plies his trade as an itinerant Rope Artist, Kink Educator and Sex-Positive Activist, smiting the evil of sloppy ends wherever they may lie. You can follow his general exploits at his page, or simply email him at .
Nobilis Reed
A few years ago Nobilis Reed decided to start sharing the naughty little stories he scribbled out in hidden notebooks. To his surprise, people actually liked them! Now, he can’t stop. The poor man is addicted. His wife, teenage children, and even the cats just look on as this wretch of a man, hunched over his computer keyboard, and shake their heads. Clearly, there is no hope for him. The best that can be hoped for is to just make him as comfortable as his condition will allow. Symptoms of his condition include a novel, several novellas, and numerous short stories.
Raven Lightholme
www.freedomoffetish.com
Raven Lightholme is the host of the sex, relationship, and fetish advice podcast, Freedom of Fetish. She is a member of the Connecticut bar and graduated cum laude from law school with an emphasis on intellectual property law, and she received her B.A. in psychology. She now works for an online privacy company. Raven is as kinky as they come: pansexual, a lifestyle switch, an occasional guest dominatrix at fetish events, and an active part of New England’s fetish and BDSM scene. Through Freedom of Fetish, Raven endeavors to provide accurate, frank, and entertaining advice based on her legal and psychological background, sexuality research, and personal experience.
In her free time, Raven enjoys letting her kinks run wild at fetish events, presenting at sexuality conferences, putting herself through masochistic workout sessions, and playing marathon video game sessions. Freedom of Fetish is available on iTunes and at www.FreedomOfFetish.com. To find out more about Raven, follow her adventures on twitter at .
Unspeakable Axe
UnspeakableAxe is a blogger and podcaster who has been involved in the BDSM community from the first day he moved to New York City almost six years ago. As a kinky submissive male he found it difficult to meet a partner and began blogging about his difficulties. After a few years he started The Masocast, a sexuality podcast featuring interviews with a variety of people in the sex-positive community.
He has been called “the greatest sex-podcaster his apartment building” and many consider his websites among the best UnspeakableAxe-themed online today.
Podcasting — What’s in It for Me: Marketing, Mojo and Monetization will be presented on Sunday, April 3rd, from 9:30 – 10:40 AM in the Chesapeake Room.
