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Clocking In with Haylee Gaffin - Podcast about Podcasting for Podcasters


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Are you tired of releasing episodes week to week and getting no download growth? In this episode, I’m kicking off a brand-new series where I’ll be breaking down the exact strategies you need to expand your podcast audience—starting with the essential foundations. In this first episode, I’m covering: Why podcast growth matters (and why it’s NOT just about big numbers) The 3 core growth strategies: organic, collaborations, and paid growth What sustainable, realistic growth actually looks like Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale, this series will give you the tools you need to grow your show strategically. Today's episode is brought to you by Mic Check Society , our community for podcasters who are looking to take their podcast from good to great. Come join us for educational trainings, a private member's only community, and monthly calls! Get $10 off per month with code PODCAST at micchecksociety.com . Clocking In with Haylee Gaffin is produced by Gaffin Creative , a podcast production company for creative entrepreneurs. Learn more about our services at Gaffincreative.com , plus you’ll also find resources, show notes, and more for the Clocking In Podcast. Time-stamps: Why podcast growth matters (2:09) Three pillars of podcast growth (3:39) Organic growth (3:52) Collaboration and borrowing audiences (4:31) Paid growth opportunities (5:11) What sustainable growth looks like (6:36) Connect with Haylee: instagram.com/hayleegaffin Gaffincreative.com micchecksociety.com Review the Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/Plzue2YOIAh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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It's Del Toro Time - A Guillermo del Toro-adjacent Podcast

It’s Del Toro Time returns with a deep dive into Steven Spielberg’s haunting 2001 sci-fi fairy tale, A.I. Artificial Intelligence . Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and completed by Spielberg, this movie mashes up Pinocchio , Frankenstein , and a whole lot of emotional trauma—plus teddy bears and Jude Law as a robot gigolo. What more could you want? In this episode, we break down the film’s chaotic production history, themes of abandonment, sentient love, del Toro connections, Kubrick’s ghost, and the one robot we’d die for: Teddy. https://berenstainbearcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DelToroTime-AI.mp3…
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What do you get when three of the most powerful men in Hollywood decide to produce an animated film about the life of Moses? You get “The Prince of Egypt!” https://berenstainbearcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/DelToro-PrinceEgypt.mp3
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It’s anime! It’s a thriller! It’s bizarre! It’s awesome! It’s Satoshi Kon’s “Perfect Blue” on The Ecstasy of Influence on It’s Del Toro Time! https://berenstainbearcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Del-Toro-Perfect-Blue.mp3
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Finally! The movie people have been DEMANDING! Oops, I mean, finally the movie no one has ever seen. Yes, this is the video that will most likely go the most unwatched! It’s Pupi Avati’s “L’Arcano Incantatore” and it’s really good! https://berenstainbearcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Arcano.mp3
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Who is the biggest GO-BO-LIN of them all?! The Monster! The Creation! The FRANKENSTEIN! Yes, it’s out BAZILLIONTH version of Frankenstein and we’d like to remind everyone that THE MONSTER IS NOT VERY NICE! It’s “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” y’all on the Ecstasy of Influence! https://ia800405.us.archive.org/4/items/del-toro-shelleys-frankenstein/DelToro-Shelley%27s%20Frankenstein.mp3…
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We’re back with “Tim Burton’s Henry Selick’s Everyone Else’s The Nightmare Before Christmas!” We’ve seen it a billion times! Spooky! https://ia600800.us.archive.org/20/items/del-toro-night-christmas/DelToro-NightChristmas.mp3
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In 1992, Martin Scorsese directed a movie that is either his magnum opus, or a load of HOGWASH. It’s “The Age of Innocence” and we really get into it! https://ia600802.us.archive.org/27/items/del-toro-age-innocence/DelToro-AgeInnocence.mp3
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Welcome to the JUDGMENT ZONE! It’s Phil and Willow and we’re back to talk about Albert Brooks’ 1991 classic “Defending Your Life!” What a weird movie to come back on, I swear. Anyways, here it is! https://ia600800.us.archive.org/0/items/ecstacy-defending-your-life/Ecstacy-Defending%20Your%20Life.mp3
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Aaaaaaaand, we’re done! It’s “A Little Something For Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick and “The Dark Descent” is over! PARTY HORN NOISE! https://ia600308.us.archive.org/7/items/del-toro-tempu/DelToro-Tempu.mp3
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WE’RE SO CLOSE TO THE END! It’s the penultimate “Dark Descent” story and it’s a whopper! “The Hospice” is quintessential Robert Aickman: it’s creepy, offbeat, weird, strange, chilling and inexplicable. We really loved it and now… only one story to go! https://ia600303.us.archive.org/23/items/deltoro-hospice/Deltoro-Hospice.mp3…
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What a mystery this story is! Willow isn’t sure if she likes it, or if it even qualifies as horror. I’m enamored of it, but can’t really decide what it’s about! PERFECT! It’s “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch! https://ia800307.us.archive.org/20/items/del-toro-asian-shore/DelToro-AsianShore.mp3
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This week, it’s one of the most terrifying and terribly intimate stories we’ve yet covered. The cosmic horror of “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood! https://ia600206.us.archive.org/15/items/del-toro-the-willows_202403/DelToro-TheWillows.mp3
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This week, Willow and I take a look at the creepy effects of UNFETTERED CAPITALISM with Edith Wharton’s “Afterward!” https://ia600203.us.archive.org/29/items/del-toro-afterward/DelToro-Afterward-1.mp3
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Whaddaya get when you take a dead guy, an invisible monster and a heaping dose of post-Civil War Traumatic Stress Disorder? “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce! The missingest author in the history of Weird Fiction! https://ia600206.us.archive.org/25/items/del-toro-bierce/DelToro-Bierce.mp3
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This week, Willow and Phil take a quick look at a quick story: “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson. We throw out a lot of theories as to the actual nature of this story, but the one thing we can agree on? That stranger is beautiful. https://ia601307.us.archive.org/32/items/del-toro-beautiful-s/DelToro-BeautifulS.mp3…
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Sometimes, you don’t even need to ask. “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien! https://ia601302.us.archive.org/31/items/del-toro-what-was-it/DelToro-WhatWasIt.mp3
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Boy oh boy are we ever getting tired of sad men dying for their ghosts. It’s “The Beckoning Fair One” by Oliver Onions! A good story, but jeez, guys. See a therapist or something. https://ia601304.us.archive.org/16/items/del-toro-beckoning/DelToro-Beckoning.mp3
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We’ve got a big one this week! It’s “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers and Willow goes OFF. If you’re looking for her sources, here they are! de Oliveira, Hugo Mendes. “An Empire of Delusion: The Process of Alienation as Expressed by Robert W. Chambers’ ‘The Repairer of Reputations.’” Thesis, Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 2021. Emmert, S.D. (1999), A Jaundiced View of America: Robert W. Chambers and The King in Yellow . Journal of American Culture, 22: 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1999.2202_39.x Sulmicki, Maciej. “STUDIES IN MADNESS: REALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY IN ALAN MOORE’S PROVIDENCE, AMBROSE BIERCE’S “AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA” AND ROBERT W. CHAMBERS’ “THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS”.” (2019). And the copy of the book I used was “The King In Yellow – Annotated Edition” with notes by Kenneth Hite. https://ia601203.us.archive.org/17/items/del-toro-time-repairer/DelToroTime-Repairer.mp3…
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This week, we’re heading off to jolly ol’ Russia for a bit of nineteenth century whimsey titled “Clara Militch” or “Klara Milich” or any number of permutations. It’s by Ivan Turgenev and it’s a real cracker! By which I mean, we were utterly confused by it. https://ia601204.us.archive.org/5/items/del-toro-clara-militch/DelToro-ClaraMilitch.mp3…
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It’s another headscratcher! “Seaton’s Aunt” by Walter de la Mare might not be the scariest story we’ve ever read, but it sure does make me feel sad! https://ia601201.us.archive.org/14/items/del-toro-seatons-aunt/DelToro-SeatonsAunt.mp3
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Yes, I sing Hall and Oates at one point. It’s “Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates! https://ia801204.us.archive.org/26/items/del-toro-night-side/DelToro-NightSide.mp3
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We’re back in Lovecraft Country, this week! It’s Stephen King’s “Crouch End” and it’s a modern CLASSIC! https://ia801204.us.archive.org/14/items/del-toro-crouch-end/DelToro-CrouchEnd.mp3
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When is a ghost not a ghost? When it’s a SIGNAL-MAN! It’s “The Signal-Man” by Charles Discken and Willow has NOTES on the story! NOTES! https://ia601200.us.archive.org/26/items/del-toro-signalman/DelToro-Signalman.mp3
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“Seven American Nights” is phenomenal and Gene Wolfe is brilliant. That’s all. https://ia801801.us.archive.org/3/items/del-toro-seven-american-nights/DelToro-SevenAmericanNights.mp3
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“Sssssssssmokin’!” Oh, somebody stop me. This week, we begin a new chunk of “The Dark Descent” as we wend our way into “A Fabulous Formless Darkness” by way of the game-changing short story “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber. Does it live up to the hype? Yes. Yes, it does. https://ia601509.us.archive.org/12/items/del-toro-smoke-ghost/DelToro-SmokeGhost.mp3…
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Oh, Henry James. Why must you be so obtuse? This week, it’s a return to the creeps and the spooks as we take a step inside “The Jolly Corner!” Any good? Well, Willow had no idea what was going on! https://ia800505.us.archive.org/32/items/del-toro-jolly-corner/DelToro-JollyCorner.mp3
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This week, it’s a story that really left a wild impression on us. Is it supernatural? Natural? A little bit of both? Who knows! It’s “Mackintosh Willy” by Ramsey Campbell! https://ia600505.us.archive.org/32/items/del-toro-time-mackintosh-willy/DelToroTime-MackintoshWilly.mp3
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This week, it’s a story that is remarkably similar in many ways to last weeks. So, we both loved it, of course! Right? RIGHT?! *sigh* It’s “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. https://ia601402.us.archive.org/9/items/del-toro-time-good-country-people/DelToroTime-GoodCountryPeople.mp3
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This week, it’s our first Tanith Lee story and, maybe not coincidentally, one of our favorites. Is it horror? Who cares? It’s awesome! It’s “Three Days” here on The Dark Descent! https://ia904600.us.archive.org/0/items/del-toro-three-days/DelToro-ThreeDays.mp3
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D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” is no liar. It’s got a rocking horse. It’s got a winner. It’s all there on the tin! https://ia600501.us.archive.org/1/items/del-toro-rocking-horse/DelToro-RockingHorse.mp3
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