Entrepreneurship has become increasingly more popular over the years among college students. Although, there are many students who attend business classes we rarely here about the few that actually decide to run their own businesses.
This podcast provides perspectives from 1 student and two professors at Gwynedd Mercy University, focusing on how students try balancing classes with their business, sacrifices they have to make, and more challenges along the way.
This was my original story idea that I wanted to go with. I followed through with this story because I immediately knew the perspectives I wanted and needed for this podcast. The validity of the sources I had in mind I knew would be strong and throw off any of the ideas I had set when it came to the interviews.
Since I arrived on campus and as a class, we began discussing the Big Story I knew the theme for all of my podcasts that I wanted to connect to would follow with that being student entrepreneurs that run their own business. The passion that I had for this topic had to do with learning and researching about a more obscure idea like students in college running their own business.
The topic being not as relevant compared to others. This is due to not a big chunk of students on a college campus run their own business especially due to most of the students at GMercyU are nursing majors. This led to me having doubts on my topic but pushed for me to try to be more interesting and hope to give students who may listen to the podcast have an open mind and learn something new and interesting, that being college students can run their own businesses.
My process was to take my time and make sure everything went smoothly step by step. If a problem were to occur along the way like scheduling interviews, I won’t freakout and take my time and try to find the right times to fit within both mine and the interviewees schedule. I also thought to remember what I did that worked and flowed for my Interview and Event that followed my same theme throughout each podcast. While also applying what a learned after each assignment I did for this class but also apply what I know that has worked like how I piece my podcast together overall.
Why I chose my sources
Kim Cooney is a professor for UNV-100 classes and also happens to have strong beliefs with how Gwynedd can support students who choose to run their own businesses and has had students in her classes before that happened to run their own business.
Dr. Herman is a sports management professor and is the advisor for the Sports Business Association club at GMercyU and has helped Ryan with his business. She also has expressed her opinions on students who run their own business and how professors can support their students that run their own business.
Ryan Zielke is freshman sports management major who runs his own business called Gridiron Entertainment League also known as GEL. I learned about his business from networking with him after our business theory class together.
Challenges and Plans Changed
I struggled with editing a lot and saw myself forgetting at times what I learned in class with Exercise 6. A problem was with dragging the pieces I edited longer which would bring back the questions that I had deleted which I usually never saw myself struggling with on any of the other assignments.
I had issues with setting up times for my interviews like with Ryan we had scheduled an interview, and it had got rescheduled due to complications we had with our schedules and events that we had going on that conflicted last minute.
The biggest issue was me hoping that the topics relevance wouldn’t be unappealing or a problem.
Dates that I had planned to edit had to change due to balancing it with all my extracurriculars I had going on over the weeks, and I’m usually not used to being a busy person so I had to get better with making sacrifices so that way I could get my editing along smoothly.
Some initial people I had in mind to interview were busy or it was just too late to try and switch a source to interview.
Interviewing
I applied skills I learned from Interview chapter of the book we used in class. I always remembered most importantly how I make my source comfortable which I saw myself doing so well it was as if I had it embedded in my mind. Remembering the advantages and disadvantages of in-person interviewing, which goes back to making sure the source is relaxed.
I remembered to try my best with not looking at my questions which for this one specifically I saw myself doing well with since I’ve gotten accustomed to interviewing sources over the semester. I would make small talk with each source to easy them in and not jump straight to the questions which worked each time without a single flaw.
Editing
I saw myself having my biggest issues with editing which I always find to be the hardest part of the process. It goes back to what I said before I tried my best to apply what I learned from all the exercises I did this semester being, Intro edit, Exercise 1, 3, 4, 5, and the editing chapter of the book we used.
I was effective with noise removal for background noise although it wasn’t as easy with like heavy breathing or noise in between breaths and pauses from the person speaking. I had lost my progress but I remembered what Karl told me to do in class which was click on edit and try to go back steps so I can get everything I had back. I also listened to my interview and event that I edited to remember how well they have to sound.
Reflection
Producing this podcast taught me to not give up no matter what step of the way got hard and to persevere through each step. That balancing storytelling with smooth edits are crucial and should be treated more importantly in podcasting. This information I’ll never forget about and apply to my own podcast that I soon hope so to start up in the near future. To continue attempting to apply obscure ideas or topics and finding the perfect way of making them relevant to audiences.
Check out Brayden’s final cut here!
