Charles explains his journey leading up to his podcasting journey starting and what got him on the path to beginning podcasting.

If you want to become a Dev Influencer, go to https://devinfluencers.com to apply for the Dev Influencers Accelerator.

Chuck is often asked how to come up with great podcast episode topics. He explains that the best way is to connect with your community and find out what they're talking or asking about.

One source of this is facebook groups, another is users groups, third, conferences.

You can also check newsletters and other curated sources.

Finally, and probably best, talk about what you're working on.

If you want to become a Dev Influencer, go to https://devinfluencers.com to apply.

Chuck talks through the different kind of microphones for podcasting.

Podcasting recommendations:

If you want to become a Dev Influencer, go to https://devinfluencers.com to apply.

In this episode, Chuck asks the 5 questions that he used to outline his 3 year vision and how he worked backward from there to define how he's going to build his Dev Influencer vision and avatar and how he's moving forward in his influencer journey.

If you want to be a Dev Influencer, go to https://devinfluencers.com.

In this episode, Chuck talks about the REAL reason that he's a Dev Influencer. He talks about the listener he met at Microsoft Build and what the story this listener told him that changed the way he saw podcasting forever.

If you want to be a Dev Influencer, go to https://devinfluencers.com.

Some of the benefits you get from being an influencer are a lot of fun. Some of these I've enjoyed include getting basically free coaching from some of the top people in the field.

I've also been invited to conferences as both speakers and as media to cover the event.

I've met my developer heroes.

Chuck tells the stories of the fun things he's done as a podcaster over the last 12 years.

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.

This episode dives into why you should become a Dev Influencers. This episode dives into the long term goals you probably have that being a Dev Influencer enables.

Do you want to be well known? How much do you want to make? How do you want to be making it? Who do you want to be helping? What kind of a difference to you want to make?

Do you want to matter?

Charles Max Wood introduces the Dev Influencers' Show and explains that the show is for people who are looking to go from Senior developer to the level beyond it.

You're looking to become a mentor, build a business, build a course, or make other contributions to community. In order to do that, you need to build influence within the community. That will enable you to grow into a position where they can get where you want.

This show will help them fill the gap between where you're at and where you want to be.

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.