Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it.  

    Michael Roderick is the founder of Small Pond Enterprises, LLC,  a company that helps service-based professionals become thought leaders.

“So if you are able to tap into people's emotions, if you're able to make them feel something while they're listening to you, they will remember whatever it is that you talk about.”

– Michael Roderick

Michael Roderick began his career as a high school English teacher before producing Off Broadway and then on Broadway. This combination of experience in the arts and entrepreneurship led to Michael starting an arts incubator program to teach more artists about building and growing their own businesses.

     Michael took a short break to work as the V.P. of Operations and as a Director of Business Development for a tech startup in New York.

     Eventually, he decided to develop a workshop on networking, which grew into a full-time consulting practice that became Small Pond Enterprises.

     Most recently, he founded The Connecting Connectors Conference (ConnectorCon).

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

1. Mirasee
2. Michael’s website
3. Michael’s  LinkedIn

Credits:

Guest – Michael Roderick

Co-Producers – Danny Bermant & Geoff Govertsen

Supervising Producer – Cynthia Lamb

Executive producer – Danny Iny

Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin

Audio Post Production by Post Office Sound

Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely

Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

Music and SFX credits: 

• Track Title: The Sunniest Kids

Artist Name(s): Rhythm Scott

Writer Name: Scott Roush

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Track Title: Sweet Loving Waltz

Artist Name(s): Sounds Like Sander

Writer Name: S.L.J. Kalmeijer

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Track Title: Lazy Evenings

Artist Name(s): Sam Barsh

Writer Name: Sam Barsh

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Episode transcript: Be Memorable (Michael Roderick) Coming soon. 

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