Talking The Talk with Courtney Reimer

About Talking The Talk with Courtney Reimer

How do you start a podcast that actually grows your business? Talking the Talk is a podcast about podcast strategy, launching a podcast, growing a podcast, and building a business podcast that lasts. Host Courtney Reimer shares practical advice, expert interviews, and honest lessons for founders, entrepreneurs, and aspiring podcasters.

Publisher

Courtney Reimer

Category

education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Feb 2026

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Email Continues the Conversation Your Podcast Starts (with Emily Claire Hughes)

   Podcasts are great at making your prospects feel like they know you. They hear your voice, your laugh, your tangents, your opinions. They spend an hour with you while walking the dog or driving to work, and over time, you start to feel familiar. That familiarity builds trust. But there's a catch: you're still talking to them, not with them. Email changes that. A newsletter gives your podcast listeners a way to hit reply and actually talk back. The podcast builds trust and familiarity; email opens a channel for direct conversation. And when the two work together, they can deepen the relationship your content is building with the people you ultimately hope to serve—and maybe even sell something to. That's the content flywheel Courtney explores with Emily Claire Hughes, email marketing strategist and founder of the 10K Email Club. Together, they make the case for thinking about podcasting and email as two parts of the same relationship-building system instead of two more content obligations competing for space on your to-do list. We discuss: Why podcasting and email do different jobs in the relationship-building process How to turn your newsletter into a deeper conversation around your podcast Why replies might be a more meaningful email metric than opens Why repeating your core message across channels is smart business Building a content ecosystem instead of five separate content obligations Using private podcasts as a more engaging alternative to the traditional lead magnet Emily also shares her three-email welcome flow for new subscribers...and the templates she uses to build it. You can grab them here -> https://www.emilyclaireand.co/email-challenge ABOUT THE GUEST Emily Claire Hughes is the founder of the 10K Email Club, where she helps female founders turn their email lists into relationships...and revenue. Before becoming an email marketing strategist, Emily was a professional singer, actor, and dancer who spent nearly two years performing on cruise ships around the world. That career eventually led her into travel writing, copywriting, and communications, where she discovered that communication was her real superpower. Learn more about Emily: https://www.emilyclaireand.co ABOUT THE SHOW Talking the Talk: A Podcast About Podcasting helps entrepreneurs, founders, creators, and business owners build podcasts that work harder than they do. Host Courtney Reimer explores how to build a show that creates trust, builds your business, remains sustainable, and delivers a meaningful return on what you invest into it. ABOUT THE HOST Courtney Reimer is the founder of Sounds Great Strategy and a former executive at Spotify, Audible, Yahoo!, Discovery, and MTV. She helps entrepreneurs and organizations create podcasts that become their hardest-working business assets. HOW TO CONNECT WITH COURTNEY Follow on Instagram: @soundsgreatcourtney Connect on LinkedIn: Courtney Reimer Subscribe to her weekly-ish newsletter on burnout-proof podcasting: Sounds Great on Paper To book your free Podcast Clarity Call with Courtney, visit SoundsGreatStrategy.com.

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   What Job Are You Hiring Your Podcast to Do for You?

   If your answer is simply "be a podcast," we need to talk. If you treat your podcast as just a feed to be fed with episodes, lather, rinse, repeat, you're missing out all that a podcast can do for you and your mission or business. Your podcast is like a wildly overqualified employee...one that deserves to have an actual job description (or, ideally, several). Because once you know what you're hiring your podcast to do, it can help lighten the load of the decisions and actions the world asks you to make and take you every day. And if you know what your podcast is supposed to do, it can help you also figure out what it doesn't have to do (cough cough full-on slick video production). ABOUT THE SHOW Talking the Talk: A Podcast About Podcasting helps entrepreneurs, founders, creators, and business owners create podcasts that work harder than they do to earn their keep. Host Courtney Reimer explores how to build a show that creates trust, builds your business, remains sustainable, and delivers a meaningful return on what you invest into it. ABOUT THE HOST Courtney Reimer is the creator of THE STRATEGIC PODCAST LAUNCH STUDIO, the founder and principal strategist of Sounds Great Strategy,and a former executive at Spotify, Audible, Yahoo!, Discovery, and MTV. She helps entrepreneurs and organizations create podcasts that become their hardest-working business assets. HOW TO CONNECT WITH COURTNEY Follow on Instagram: @soundsgreatcourtney Connect on LinkedIn: Courtney Reimer Subscribe to her weekly-ish newsletter on burnout-proof podcasting: Sounds Great on Paper Email Courtney: courtney@soundsgreatstrategy.com THE STRATEGIC PODCAST LAUNCH STUDIO  opens Monday, September 28, and there is one spot left. This six-week, done-with-you experience is for people who are ready to stop talking about their podcast idea and actually build it...with a thoughtful strategy underneath so it has a fighting chance of earning its keep. If you want to figure out what jobs your podcast should be doing for you and build a show ridiculously well-qualified to do them, visit SoundsGreatStrategy.com/Studio to learn more about it and grab that last spot!

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   How Your Podcast Can Sell You Before You Sell Anything (With Samantha Hoey Nelson)

   Show Notes There are a thousand things on your plate as an entrepreneur. Clients to serve. New ideas to chase. Business to keep moving. And somewhere in there, you're supposed to find time for the work you actually want to be doing. The last thing you need is another content machine to keep feeding. Your podcast should earn its keep. No one knows this better than Sam Hoey Nelson. She's a creative strategist, writer, entrepreneur, mom, autism advocate, founder of Storytime LA, creator of the Kitchen Table Method, and host of Powermomma. With so many different pieces of her life and work competing for her attention, she's figured out how to make the podcast not just work for her, but harder than her. In this episode, Courtney and Sam talk about turning a podcast into a discovery call you don't have to schedule. They dig into how the show can build trust with potential clients, spark new ideas and offers, and help the right people find you before you ever get on a call. We discuss: What a podcast can do before you ever get on a sales call Why giving people a sense of your personality can be more valuable than giving them more information How personal stories can create professional trust Why AI can create more room for the creative work only you can do How to build a sustainable show through seasons, breaks, and better boundaries Why letting yourself screw up is part of learning how to podcast ABOUT THE GUEST Samantha Hoey Nelson is the founder of Storytime LA, a creative strategy agency helping women, founders, creators, and purpose-led teams turn lived experience into clear messaging, offers, content, and brands. She's also the creator of the Kitchen Table Method, a story-to-strategy framework, and host of The PowerMomma Podcast, where she explores motherhood, identity, ambition, and becoming. Connect On LinkedIn: Samantha Hoey Nelson Website: Storytime LA ABOUT THE SHOW Talking the Talk: A Podcast About Podcasting helps entrepreneurs, founders, creators, and business owners build podcasts that work harder than they do. Host Courtney Reimer explore how to build a show that creates trust, builds your business, remains sustainable, and delivers a meaningful return on what you invest into it. ABOUT THE HOST Courtney Reimer is the founder of Sounds Great Strategy and a former executive at Spotify, Audible, Yahoo!, Discovery, and MTV. She helps entrepreneurs and organizations create podcasts that become their hardest-working business assets. HOW TO CONNECT WITH COURTNEY Follow on Instagram: @soundsgreatcourtney Connect on LinkedIn: Courtney Reimer Subscribe to her weekly-ish newsletter on burnout-proof podcasting: Sounds Great on Paper To book your free Podcast Clarity Call with Courtney, visit SoundsGreatStrategy.com.

Who has been a guest on Talking The Talk with Courtney Reimer

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• Jess Milanes
• Julie Fischer
• Anika Jackson
• Emily Aborn
• Ryan R Sullivan

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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