Creators from TrueFans: Showcasing Independent Podcasting

Highlighting the ways independent creators can connect with audiences and potentially monetize their work while maintaining creative control, join us this week for inspiration and practical guidance for envisioning – and manifesting – your creative potential over the next decade. In this episode, award-winning podcaster Tricia Duffy reveals how long-term planning can transform your creative life r...

What makes a podcast valuable? Is it immediate popularity, or something deeper? "Every podcast you create will exist for many years to come," observes Clayton M. Coke of The Cashflow Show podcast, highlighting the lasting significance of podcasting as a medium that creates permanent records of our conversations and ideas. Clayton reveals how he uses his platform to interview business owners about...

The true cost of quality storytelling. In this episode, Claire chats with Fariba Nawa, the award-winning investigative journalist behind the On Spec podcast.  Fariba trains journalists worldwide to tell the stories they are personally connected to through sound, ultimately producing documentary journalism that rivals that of major broadcasters. Since launching in 2019 with Kickstarter funding...

The lived experience of independent podcasters is one of both liberating freedom and unique challenges. How can the TrueFans listening platform address those challenges and help indie creators keep creating? Through an interview with Joana PR Neves, host of Exhibitionistas podcast, and conversations between Sam and Claire, this episode of Creators discusses: The power of podcasting to give voice t...

Claire and Sam announce a brief hiatus until June 16th, sharing podcast recommendations and answering listener questions about the TrueFans platform to tide listeners over during the break. • Claire recommends "Conning the Con" by Sarah Ferris, a true crime podcast about a family turning the tables on a con man • Sam suggests "The Snap," featuring two Nashville artists navigating Bitcoin and value...

Introducing "Creators" - a podcast built specifically for independent content makers looking to break through the noise. Hosted by independent podcaster Claire Waite Brown and TrueFans CEO Sam Sethi, this podcast tackles the three essential challenges every creator faces: discovery, interactivity, and monetisation. The launch episode establishes the show's format by featuring Claire's own podcast...

Clare Waite Brown and Sam Sethi kick off their brand-new podcast "Creators" with a deep dive into the evolving landscape of creator monetization. The groundbreaking news? TrueFans has just launched a much-requested feature allowing creators to withdraw micropayments directly to their bank accounts through Stripe integration. Gone are the days when fan appreciation was merely symbolic – now creator...

Creators is a new weekly podcast from TrueFans. Each week, we will showcase an independent podcast creator and an independent music artist. We will also discuss a new TrueFans feature as well as look at what's going on more widely in the podcast world aka the podosphere. We are keen to hear from independent creators who would like to be featured on the show. You can get in touch with us by leaving...