Episode 1

The speaker, Katie Novak, introduces herself as the owner of Collab with Katie, a digital marketing agency. She explains that she started a podcast called Collab Social Club to reach more business owners and discuss the challenges of social media and marketing. She hopes that listeners will find the podcast helpful and feel supported in their own businesses. Welcome to the first episode of the Collab Social Club podcast. Hopefully this microphone is on. I'm Katie Novak. I am the owner and founder of Collab with Katie, a digital marketing agency specializing in social media management and website design. So why? Why do I want to start a podcast about Collab? Well, over the last year, we've recently started introducing the Collab Social Club, Collab Social Club meetups. I've had the opportunity to speak with a bunch of different business groups, and it wasn't enough. I felt like I wasn't reaching enough business owners. I was empathetic. Even though I'm an Enneagram 8, I found some empathy in there. And the fact that every time I saw a business owner out, they were like, oh, my God, social media. Like I could just feel the burden that social media and marketing as a whole was putting on business owners, you know, locally and afar. So what better way to reach more people than to start a podcast? Why not, right? Even if no one listens to this podcast except my mom, hey, mom, it's a way for me to kind of release a little bit of stress myself and talk about the hard things that we don't talk about a lot as business owners when it comes to marketing and social media. And so I just wanted this to be a space where you can come listen. I don't know if it's going to be every week, every other week, once a month, get some tips, learn something, but also feel like you're not alone. So welcome to the Collab Social Club Podcast.