This week on the podcast, we met our new Ottawhat News writer, Mike Holuj. He’s a pretty cool, and seemingly very busy, dude.
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Ottawhat 89 – Mike Holuj (January 28)
Ottawhat 88 | Kelly Ann Wilson (January 21)
On the Ottawhat podcast this week, we interviewed singer-songwriter Kelly Ann Wilson. It was really cool getting a look at the process of performing and putting an album together in a musical family, and hearing from somebody who has spent her whole life in what I’ll call ‘rural Ottawa’.Kelly Ann also debuted her latest music video for the song ‘Clean’, which you can check out over on the podcast page.
Ottawhat 87 | Pablo Juarez (January 14)
This week’s Ottawhat includes our interview with Pablo Juarez. He spent the last 15 months in Australia and had a ton of great stories about his travel adventures!
Ottawhat 86 | Brian Lee (January 7)
This week on Ottawhat, we had my very good friend Brian back on the show for a 2nd interview. I’ve spoken with him many times, on and off air, and it’s always an interesting conversation. If you’re curious what he’s been up to in his life for the last year or so, I encourage you to listen!
Ottawhat 85 – Sandy Powell (Help At Home Association)
This week, our last Ottawhat of 2015 was all about charity, family, and community. We met with Sandy Powell from the Help at Home Association. Go listen to the episode and check out the organization to find out how you can help the families of sick children.
Ottawhat 84 – Duncan McEachern
This week on Ottawhat, we were joined by our friend Duncan. We chatted about Star Wars (before having seen the movie), and generally had a fun time learning about Duncan!Merry Christmas!
Ottawhat 83 – Jon Stouffclair
Ottawhat this week had a musician on the show. We finally had somebody actually bring an instrument on the show, and Joe Stouffclair did not disappoint! Go and listen!
Ottawhat 82 – Monica Haberl
The podcast this week featured our friend, Monica Haberl. She chatted with us about gender equality, something near and dear to my heart, among many other things (that we chatted about).
Ottawhat 81 – Natalie Poirier
This week, we had Natalie Poirier on Ottawhat. She did a 6-week hike all alone across Ontario in support of angioma research, and she raised money under the name “The Brain Venture”. It was a really cool story hearing what she put herself through for the cause, and all the interesting things we don’t really think about going home to sleep in a warm bed every night.I really like these chats with people who’ve got way out of their way to do things that are really important to them, especially when those people have extremely positive results.
We haven’t had many people go and check out our Brew Donkey contest in recent weeks, so if you head to ottawhatpodcast.com/brewdonkey, you’ll have a very good chance of winning a free brewery tour ticket (with a $90 value!).
A Big Day
It only makes sense that exactly three years (to the day) after doing my very first video on YouTube, I would cross the threshold of actually earning real money from Google. Let me tell you the story.
For a little over a year, starting on July 4, 2011, I had been writing on my blog (which still exists to this day). December 1st, 2012, I made my first YouTube video, a Google+ Hangout live chat with my good friend, Carolyn Higman. You can go watch it, the quality of the video is relatively embarrassing, and a lot has changed since then.
The first time I exposed my face to the world, three years ago to the day. As a point of comparison, here is the latest episode of Future Chat, recorded this past weekend:
Over the years, a lot has changed. But one thing that hasn’t changed is that I still love teaching, helping, writing, and learning about technology. Here’s a brief timeline of my milestones on the internet.
July 4, 2011 – I start Living In The Future, my blog, on my birthday. I published the first post the following day.
December 1, 2012 – My first Google+ Hangout on Air.
January 14, 2013 – I agree to begin work with Sons of Pluto, a band with my friends. Work includes recording their practices, shows, building their website, making promo videos, and running their social media accounts. Those guys are now working on an EP!
February 7, 2014 – The first Future Tech Chat takes place. This is the spiritual successor to the first Hangout on Air from 2012, and the podcast continues on a weekly basis to this day under the more general “Future Chat“.
March 27, 2014 – I make the first Attrell Update video. My sister and I go on to exchange videos on a weekly (or almost weekly) basis until December of 2014.
May 20, 2014 – The first episode of Ottawhat is released, after Keegan, Amaan and I decide we should start an Ottawa-themed podcast about people.
December 14-16, 2014 – East Meets West and Feedback debut, also marking the formal launch of UnwindMedia.com, a media network that is the home of my Internet-related work so far.
November 5, 2015 – Ottawhat News, a satirical look at events around Ottawa, has it’s first viral post. In just a few days, over 65,000 people read about Peter Hayes and the Bier Markt.
December 1, 2015 (Today) – In an inevitability of time, math, and fortune, Unwind Media finally passes the threshold for being paid real money for ads on the sites I run. It is now just a matter of time now until a cheque from Google arrives. It’s not a lot of money, but it feels extremely good to hit that threshold.
I really love making things, and being creative. I’ve been doing it for over 4 years and I’m more excited now than I ever have been. I’m looking really hard for a job right now, and the stuff I do on the side is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment, as it’s one creative outlet I have amidst filling out applications and writing cover letters.