November 03, 2026 You Can Talk Back, You Know
You know what I just realized? I haven’t shared how you can talk back at me.
All right, so if you have anything to say, if you have any feedback, if you have a comment, if you just want to talk back at something I said, or whatever—questions—you can email hello@elsieescobar.com.
And if you want to leave me voice feedback, you can use SpeakPipe.
I’m not sure how many of y’all know about SpeakPipe. You can leave voicemails, basically, online. There are little widgets you can put on your website and all that stuff. A little while ago, it was really one of the only ways you could get voice feedback back to podcasts.
I started using this tool, goodness gracious, a long time ago, and it’s still there. You can pay for Pro, but there’s a free version.
Actually, I’m going to have y’all check this out. Head over to speakpipe.com/elsie. So, E-L-S-I-E.
I’m not going to update anything on that page right now, because that’s the point here, y’all. You are going to see a little avatar of an image I took—I cannot even remember how long ago. It must have been like 2010? Gosh.
I really liked this microphone from Blue Microphones, the maker of the Blue Yeti, okay? They made this microphone called the Nessie, like the Loch Ness Monster.
I bought that microphone strictly because of the way it looked. That literally was it.
It had a really cool design. It’s one of those mics that, if you saw it, you immediately would think, “What in the heck? What is this?” It was so cool. The design of the thing is so cool.
I love things that are different, and I tend to gravitate toward using things that really stand out or are unusual for a variety of different reasons.
So I bought this microphone because of what it looked like, and it really was not very good at all. At all.
It was a desk microphone that had a little thing underneath it—I’m saying felt, but I don’t think it was felt. It had a base and then a big long stem, and the actual microphone capsule on the top was round. Very reminiscent of round microphones from the 1950s and things like that. It was very cool.
Anyway, it had a really cool shape. If you had it on a desk, it looked great, but it wasn’t so good when you were trying to record in a noisy environment. I believe it might have been a—no, it wasn’t a dynamic microphone. I’d have to do some research.
But anyway, it was so cool. I really loved that mic.
The image on my SpeakPipe page is this old-school image of mine that I made. I had these hashtags on there: #iPodcast, with an “i” at the front, and #PodcastLover.
Then it’s got my old @—I guess, I don’t know what you call it, moniker? Right now, I’ve been going with @theelsieescobar for such a long time, but this was @yogeek.
And my biography, or my little intro thing there, says:
“New media strategist, dynamic living specialist, podcaster, yoga mentor, Mac girl, full-time mama. Creating brilliant media solutions for remarkable people.”
Oh man, I love her. She was so sparkly. What happened?
No, anyway, that’s how you can contact me. You can leave me a message. And hey, listen, if I start to get super fancy, I might just put together an episode and have voice feedback in it as well.
That’s it. I’m trying to keep it low-key. I’m trying to keep it super simple.
Although I do feel I’m going to be doing some post-production on this one because I forgot that my washer is in the background, and it’s making noise.
I think ambient noise when you’re outside and you hear cars and wind and things—I think that’s additive. But when you have random laundry in the background, it doesn’t sound so good.
So yeah. But it has been a day. It has been a very exhausting day.
I had a very full weekend. I had a doctor’s appointment for my kid yesterday, early, and I just needed to get her done with that. Obviously, that takes up a lot of time. Came home and had to finish some things, and I feel that I’m now just feeling incredibly exhausted.
There is so much. I have so much going on that I don’t even know. How did we arrive? How did we arrive at this particular part?
And my deep and ongoing frustration with the fact that social media and marketing channels are just—I have no words. Maybe that’s going to be a conversation for another day.
I would like to share with y’all what I’m doing this week, so that in case you’re interested in hanging out in any and all of these different ways, you’re welcome. You’re welcome to do it.
The first thing I’m going to share is that I am recording In & Around Podcasting tomorrow morning, so I’m preparing for that.
I have to get our show notes together so that we have, obviously, a run of show of some kind. I’m getting that together, and that episode is going to go live next week.
Let’s see, what is the date? November 10. Yeah. So take a look at that feed.
Also, next week I am doing Office Hours for Captivate, and we have just released the coolest way to run dynamic audio campaigns.
I’m trying to change my language and not call it dynamic ad insertion technology, or DAI, but dynamic audio insertion.
What’s the coolest thing about running the campaigns—at least, I really don’t know how DAI works in a lot of other podcast hosting platforms to this depth—is that you can basically run your own promotions and use it for dynamic content updates to your content. Which is so cool.
We just had these updates for being able to geotarget messaging in your files.
Let’s say we’re having a meetup in a very specific part of the world—in the United States, because at this time it is U.S. only. Literally down to a city. You can run an ad just for the people who are listening from that specific place, which is so cool.
The geotargeting has just been released, and there are all kinds of other really fun things. We’re going to talk about that kind of stuff, as well as monetization things that people always want to know about, and other really fun things in preparation for 2027.
I was thinking about how to help podcasters know how to run their own end-of-year promotional campaigns, as well as beginning-of-the-year promotional campaigns, so that you can use this technology. It’s going to make things so much easier.
As well as dynamic show notes. Those are my favorite.
Anyway, I don’t want to keep talking about that because I’m going to get so excited.
I have those two things I’m preparing for, and I’m also creating episodes for yet another podcast for Captivate (aff). This one is called Your 2027 Podcast Plan.
I am developing these five episodes right now. I’m in the development phase, people. It’s going to come sooner than I’m ready for, and I’m going to be scrambling. I don’t want that to happen, so I’ve got to get that done. But other things are getting in the way.
It’s a private podcast. The reason I wanted a private podcast is because I want to get to know the people who are consuming this content.
I feel higher-touch relationships with people are just vital nowadays because we are living in a sea of ongoing stuff. Maintaining relationships and maintaining those touchpoints in a way that’s meaningful—I’m just so focused on that right now.
Let me tell you a story.
I just published this private podcast with a trailer attached, right? It’s very simple. It’s a super teeny-tiny little trailer.
There haven’t been very many people who have subscribed. Mind you, I haven’t been promoting it almost at all. There’s a handful-ish. I think now we have more than 10 people who have subscribed to get this podcast.
In the trailer, I say, “Email me,” and then I give out an email address for feedback.
And I had somebody do that!
I mean, isn’t that the coolest thing? I had somebody email me already.
If you think about percentage rates or conversion rates for a podcast, let’s say one out of every 10 people takes action on a private podcast. I think those are some pretty good odds right there.
Anyway, shout-out, John, for sending this email. It was so cool.
He created a private Vimeo video giving the Captivate team some feedback on some transcription stuff. He was so great and so sweet and so kind and so focused on why he would want to do it this way. He had screenshots and everything.
I just love that. I love that so much.
So I sent him a very excited, excited email. Then he asked me if I’m going to be talking about some best practices for sponsorship and stuff like that.
Very interesting. I love it.
Any kind of communication like that, I think, is so vital for all of us.
I’ve already—goodness gracious, I’ve been talking so much.
Oh, and I’ll give you a really quick update. I did get the video that I was complaining about in the last episode on YouTube.
I know I was very frustrated by the whole thing. I spent the majority of the evening yesterday working on videos and publishing the video everywhere, and it’s exhausting.
Let me tell you what that got me. In fact, you know what? Because we’re here, let me disclose.
I used a very specific link because I wanted to make sure I could see the results. I spent the entire day—or not the entire day. The entire afternoon getting this stuff in there, right?
For this link that I shared, as of yesterday, I got 18 click-throughs.
I shared it on YouTube, Threads, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Five places that I shared all of that, and I got 18 clicks, which wasn’t very much.
I do not believe I got any conversions off of it, which was really to promote Your Kaigi, my planning opportunity.
So I just wanted to share the results of that.
Mind you, it is a long video because I am not going to sit here and start editing and being all fancy and cute with all the harsh editing and stuff like that.
Let’s get back to just being chill about stuff, you know? Like, down to earth.
That’s what I want. Down to earth. Real.
The end.
Recording notes
- Recorded with the iPhone 13 mini’s built-in microphone using the Just Press Record app
- Processed using Auphonic
- No editing outside of that. Live to tape and published!
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