Today I continue my series titled Stepping Out And Moving On for the 30 Day Blog Challenge. One of the things I really loved doing that will continue on with the podcast is doing interviews.

During the run of the radio show I was very fortunate to interview guests on the show. As a music show, I had alot of different artists on the show, but I did one series of interviews that I really enjoyed doing, the 40 Day Fast.

The 40 Day Fast was a series of posts where a blogger would fast for 1 day and blog about a ministry of their choosing. It was fascinating to talk with people like P.D. Ross and how a simple t shirt can make such a powerful statement and make a positive change in the world. Another favorite from that series was Kat, a stay at home Mom who had the inspiration to start the 40 Day Fast and it was interesting to learn about the inspiration for the series, as well as her thoughts on blogging, family, and privacy.

Tomorrow’s post concludes the series, and I will be talking about why I am leaving radio in favor of podcasting.

Today I continue Friday’s post about some of my favorite moments while I was doing radio, as part of my series titled Stepping Out And Moving On for the 30 Day Blog Challenge.

One of my favorite thing about doing radio was being “in the know” about all of the new music before it hits the streets. I was very eager to learn and I made some connections at the record labels and was thrilled to be able to get the latest singles for free. I was also able to connect with lots of radio programmers on a couple of list serves and was able to find out lots of different ways to improve the show.

I am going to talk more about this in tomorrow’s post, but I was able to use some of my radio connections and research to secure interviews with some of today’s top artists. I remember my first interview with the band Farewell June. They were going to be in concert nearby and I talked with their radio promoter Shannon Becker and we got an interview scheduled. Man, I was so nervous! Being my first time interviewing an artist, I took lots of time in prep and I know I sounded really nervous, in fact I was so nervous that I stuck to my outline and didn’t ask any follow up questions. All in all it was a great experience.

Tomorrow I will talk more about some of the interviews I had on the show..

This is my post for Day 5 of the 30 Day Blog Challenge. I will resume the series of posts about my venture into radio and why I am going to produce podcasts in the next post.

OK, I knew this was going to happen eventually, I just didn’t expect that it would happen in the first week. I missed a day in the 30 Day Blog Challenge. This, my friends, this is what I struggle with the most when it comes to blogging, and to some extent podcasting. These are things I really enjoy doing, but I sometimes struggle to find the time to do them consistently when life gets in the way.

I work a full time job, I am married to the most wonderful woman in the world and together we have a great daughter and I want to spend as much time with them as I can, plus we have a house and a yard that seems to always need work somewhere. I know that there are other bloggers out there that have jobs and families, but never miss a scheduled post. How do they do it?

If you have read my previous posts about my plans to podcast Monday – Friday. I am struggling with this as well because once I start promoting this in the fall, I need to keep it going, so I have developed a gameplan for how I am going to tackle this from a podcasting perspective.

Since most of the podcasts are music based, I am going to take a page from the tv playbook and record a week’s worth of music shows in one setting and I will have them scheduled to post on the appropriate day. For the other content, I will have to work that out somehow. I have read about people doing that with their blogs, but I’m not sure about how that would work.

Maybe that is the answer. What do you do to maintain a consistent publishing schedule?