The Backroad

The Backroad

By Ethan Levesque (The Mainah Man)ComedyBusinessMarketing
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The Backroad episodes

  • Your Hobby is Your Best Career Choice

    Through golf analogies and rants about firetrucks, The Backroad Podcast urges the importance of having a career that you love as much as you love your hobbies. With many stages of his career evolution, Ethan explains what his job in video production, marketing, and content creation/influencing really means to him.

    16 min
  • How To Build Efficiency into Your Video Production

    With a fast pace and a lot to cover, The Backroad Podcast explores the importance of efficiency in all aspects of content creation. Follow along as Ethan uses his production process to showcase how a good backlog and an understanding of momentum will improve your workflow and productivity. Catch the end of the program for sneak peaks into The Mainah Man's newest videos.

    22 min
  • Writing & Producing a Web Series

    Offering a behind the scenes commentary on the short web series, Loon Echo, The Backroad Podcast explores the in's and out's of writing, directing, and producing a web series on an amateur budget. Through his storytelling experiences, The Mainah Man explores how to capitalize when inspiration strikes, and pays tribute to two influential loved ones.

    26 min
  • Pros & Cons of Being an Influencer

    With bird analogies and a pro and con list, The Backroad Podcast discusses the connections between expectations and dissapointments. The Mainah Man's honest review of self employment through content creation, serves as a both an encouraging guideline, and a warning, to any budding entrepreneur or influencer.

    23 min
  • Improve Confidence, Decrease Shame

    Setting out to elaborate on Ethan's latest coaching catchphrase "your voice will develop naturally," The Backroad discusses the existence of shame in all of our lives, and how practicing confidence weakens the power shame has over us. Additionally, The Backroads new segement "Storytime" recounts the tale of how The Mainah Man got lost in the woods while hunting as a teenager.

    19 min
  • The Dos and Don'ts of Creating a Podcast

    After a week away to analyze the structure of The Backroad, the podcast returns with a new outline. An episode built for buding podcasters, The Mainah Man discusses the best practices on staring, improving and promoting an audio show, using The Backroad and The Boondock Perspective as examples. Stay tuned until the end of the episode for exciting updates on The Backroad's future.

    19 min
  • Best Social Media Posting Strategies

    In celebration of 10 episodes, Ethan spills the beans on the strategies he personally used to build The Mainah Man. Ethan attributes most of his success on TikTok to algorithm manipulating posting patterns. With the best practices discussed in this episode, anyone pursuinig social media is guarenteed to see improvement.

    18 min
  • Emotions People Can't Explain

    An excited and brain-tired Ethan reads an entry article titled "23 emotions people feel, but can't explain" from his journal. Activate your introspective side while Ethan defines, misprounces, and examplifies these emotions. The Mainah Man also goes on to give a greater look into his latest youtube video, "Viral & Vile: Interview with The Worlds Worst Robber,"a parody of dateline/60 minutes news, featuring Ethan's most successful character on TikTok, Bad Robber.

    21 min
  • Speaking to High School Students at Husson University

    This week The Mainah Man had the opportunity to speak with highschool students as a guest speaker at Husson Alive, at Husson University. In this episode of The Backroad, Ethan revisits his conversation by tossing out a few helpful tidbits of information on marketing, hashtags, business, and messaging, and reveals the pros and cons of the career path. Plus, as to be expected at this point, Ethan expands upon his intentions and the philosophies that guided him through the lecture.

    27 min
  • Marketing Strategy for The Self Employed

    Bunkered down in a basement on an editing retreat, Ethan discusses the many perks of being self employed, and the belief system that has driven his career path. He also shares a few of the strong marketing principles that have backed his entrepreneurial efforts. Stay tuned to Waterfront Concerts social media for Caleb Sky The Concert Guy trailer and videos, releasing soon!

    23 min

About The Backroad

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On The Backroad, you'll follow along the career of an emerging content creator as he navigates his opportunities to bring larger success to his brand. A passionate storyteller, Ethan Levesque, AKA…