In today's episode, our guest is Melissa Del Toro Schaffner. She is an American Voice Actor and co-creator/producer/narrator of The Untold Tales Podcast - a short story sci-fi audio drama.

As a child, Melissa enjoyed making different voices, but she chose electrical engineering as a career. When her daughter was born, she refused to go back to her job as she didn't want to miss any key moments of her daughter's life. After taking a leap of faith, she started her voice acting business. She began doing audiobooks and turn, met a fantastic author, and together they collaborated to create an audio drama podcast -"The Untold Tales", a sci-fi short story podcast

In this episode, she shared how she uses her podcast to share her talent as a voice actor and other creative storytellers' stories. Podcasting has given her a space to show her creativity and not bound by any agency or person to dictate what she should instead be doing.

She puts so much effort into her podcast by choosing a great story, hiring a coach to help her play characters' accents, and selecting songs that go well with the story. With podcasting, she planned for the long game, giving herself at least a year to build an audience and a back catalogue of binge-listening. She is now on in season 3 of her podcast.

Tune into this episode and listen to Melissa's content creation journey story.

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Here are some quick highlights from this episode:

• [03:15]- Melissa Del Toro Schaffner Introduction and journey of starting her sci-fi storytelling podcast
•  [08:27] -What inspired Melissa to start voice acting?
• [10:48]- How does the podcast benefit Melissa to stand out as a voice actor in a competitive space?
• [12:02]-Why does audio quality and choosing the right music matter?
• [12:45]-Surprising fact about building podcast audience
• [17:16]-A look into Melissa's podcast production process
• [21:46]- How does Melissa make more money by doing the podcast for free? 
• [27:45]- A discussion of the community building platform
• [30:40]- How to attract an audience on social media?
• [33:22] -How long it takes to see the results in a podcast
• [35:25] -How can you market a fictional podcast?
• [46:52]-Melissa's message for new content creator
• [48:52]- Other Methods to increase your podcast visibility

KEY INSIGHTS

• If you aren't enjoying the content creation process. Please don't do it. Don't feel like you have to be married to anything with content.
• A good leader helps build some level of consensus that works for everyone, which is extremely difficult and rarely happens.
•  A good leader lets other people lead, contribute, and make decisions that are right for them.
• We see so much cynicism in people and kids just looking around for the example they have to become because nobody's stepping up, which is ridiculous. Why should our kids be the ones that do it? It's our responsibility.

GUEST BIO

 Hello! My name is Melissa Del Toro Schaffner. I am an American Voice Actor and co-creator/producer/narrator of The Untold Tales Podcast - a short story sci-fi audio drama. In addition to being in the Mom after 40 club, I am grateful to be an international best-selling author, accomplished Accountability Coach, and the creator/ illustrator of the Minority Girl Empowerment Coloring Book “Careers for Little Sisters” (available in English and Spanish). I was also a contestant on the nationally televised game show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” and was an Electrical Engineer and a Project Manager before I took the big leap into my dream of business ownership. My current mission is to inspire one million women to live the life of their dreams and to use my voice as a force of nature to do good in the world.

Check out these Resources and Items Mentioned in the Show

• The Untold Tales Short story sci-fi podcast
• Free Mindset Audio-”Empower me” for you 
• Beginner Voiceover advice from beginner

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• Connect  Melissa Del Toro Schaffner  on Instagram
• Connect Melissa on Twitter
• Connect Melissa on Linkedin
• Watch her Youtube Channel 
• www.melissadeltoro.com
• @kult.media
• https://www.kult.media/

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Notes from Host-

Hello, I'm Matt, the founder of KULT Media and host of this Podcast. Thank you for listening and being part of the KULT Creator Experience. 

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