Welcome to "Looking Forward Our Way," where we bring you the latest insights and expert advice on issues relevant to those 50 and older in Central Ohio and beyond.
As we celebrate our 4th year of podcasting, we reflect on the past 3 years of providing over 100 episodes. With a focus on bringing valuable information and entertainment to our 50-plus Ohioans, we discuss our goal of highlighting diverse topics that impact our lives, from financial stability and neighborhood issues to special events and the arts community.
We also introduce exciting new features such as curated collections of episodes and emphasize our commitment to providing expert guidance and resources to our audience.
We are Looking Forward our Way from Studio C in the 511 Studios. Carol and I are celebrating going into our 4th year of podcasting with Looking Forward Our Way. You know, we've our goal is to make Looking Forward Our Way the premier podcast focusing on issues for those 50 and older in Central Ohio. And we're expanding our reach throughout Ohio and highlighting not only local experts, but national as well.
Carol Ventresca [:
Brett, you know, we have had an incredible 3 years creating new and interesting topics for the podcast. You and I are not the experts, but we have lived with those 50 plus lives, our our own, those around us, And know many experts. We're bringing episode guests together with our audience in this really simple format. We've already created over a 100 full episodes, plus dozens of preview programs, webinars, and presentations, Some virtual, some via Zoom, but all of the voices of experts who are supporting our communities. We've also tried to create an informal venue conversing with guests, both local and national. And, you know, after all, nothing beats expert advice, and this is the place for you to get it. Our goal is to bring needed information entertainment too To our 50 plus Ohioans, and hope listeners have gotten even a grain of an idea.
Brett Johnson [:
Right. And, you know, we don't wanna focus on just age. And I think we've done a pretty good job of that. Of course, age is a part of what we do, but we know that what affects us in this age group affects everyone,
Carol Ventresca [:
concert. Exactly.
Brett Johnson [:
So our goal's been to highlight issues, sometimes very complicated situations surrounding our multigenerational families. What do we plan to do for the future? Well, since nothing beats expert advice, we hope to discover and hone in on topics that affect our lives, and we hope to strengthen, enhance, and provide. we hope to strengthen, enhance, and improve the lives of Ohioans overall.
Carol Ventresca [:
Now we're going to focus on 2 core areas, our money and our neighborhood in our podcast. We're gonna bring in local and national experts to provide cutting edge information and the resources needed by our audience. So first, nothing beats expert advice regarding our money. That's going to include topics such as job searching, employers finding that 50 plus talent, training, and human resources issues. We're also going to talk about creating your own business and how to grow that business. Plus, the legal and financial situations that affect Our 50 plus audience members and their families. Finally, Looking at technology and how it affects our financial stability and growth.
Brett Johnson [:
And our 2nd core area. Nothing beats expert advice regarding our neighborhood. You know, we're gonna cover, issues of aging and health. We're gonna continue to cover and discover new information on transportation and housing. However, we're also gonna spotlight on the situations we find in our neighborhoods. Plus. There are alWays some interesting new ideas that Carol and I wanna present, topics that may be outside of our normal programs, but we hope You'll enjoy hearing such as, more on veterans issues, the creative arts in our neighborhoods, and the art world in general, as well as special events in sent in the, Central Ohio area region.
Carol Ventresca [:
Yeah. Right, Brett. You know, one new feature for our audience is going to be the development of collections sections of podcast. You are going to create hold on a second. Brett, you know, one of the things that you're going to create for our podcast are collections. It is going to be groupings of our older episodes, Joining them with recent programs, providing our listeners with a more complete look of the issue as we've been discussing it. Tell us more about the collections and how listeners are gonna be able to find them.
Brett - So we're gonna create collections around themes like finances, entrepreneurship, possibly nonprofit resources for job searching, you know, very specific like that, as well as creating collections around our guests because We've been so lucky to have experts come in multiple times. Yes. And we feel we feel that, That when we do that, we should give them, their special collection of episodes as well too because the the usually, that first episode, we talk to that expert. It's laying the groundwork of who they are.
Brett Johnson [:
And then we start to dig deeper into very specific topics around that expert. And hearing that in a collection's a lot easier to absorb and and having the mindset of what they're talking about.
Carol Ventresca [:
Exactly.
Brett Johnson [:
Thank you for supporting Looking Forward Our Way over the past 3 years. We hope to connect with you for years to come. Check out our website, Looking Forward our Way.com. We're Looking Forward to hearing for your feedback on this and any of our podcast episodes.
