Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society. International Podcast Day™, September 30th, is an international celebration of the power of podcasts. Help spread the word by sharing #InternationalPodcastDay. Let’s keep the celebration going. Justin interviews two repeat guests, Jay Gates and Elisa Stampf, who both host popular podcasts, and gets them to share their podcasting secrets with you. Listen for insight into the intersection of risk management and podcast production.   Key Takeaways: [:01] About RIMScast. [:36] About today’s episode for International Podcast Day, September 30th. [:58] All about exciting, upcoming RIMS events! The RIMS Western Regional Conference will be held October 4th–6th in Vail, Colorado. Visit RIMSWesternRegional.com for more information and to register. [1:15] Head to the RIMS.org/Advocacy page to find information about The RIMS Legislative Summit, which is returning to Washington, D.C. on October 25th and 26th. [1:29] We are very excited about the RIMS ERM Conference 2023, November 2nd and 3rd in Denver, Colorado! The theme is Elevate and Evolve. The ERM Conference 2023 will have some great changes; book your travel plans now! Visit the registration link in this episode’s notes. Enter 2023RIMSCAST at checkout to receive 10% off registration. [2:01] September 30th is International Podcast™ Day. Justin loves producing RIMScast and being in touch with you every week to provide insight from leading minds in risk, insurance, and business! Today, Justin interviews a couple of podcasters in the risk and insurance space about what it takes to launch a podcast and keep it going. [2:40] Justin introduces Jay Gates of Know the Risk. Jay was a guest on RIMScast on June 8, 2020, speaking on advocacy. Justin met Jay at RISKWORLD 2023 and he was just as much fun in person as he was virtually! Jay hosts Know The Risk and is a claims advocate with Arthur J. Gallagher. [3:31] Jay Gates, welcome back to RIMScast for International Podcast Day! [4:17] Jay Gates started at Sedgwick and spent 12 years in the TPA business doing everything from claims management to assistant ops manager for national large retail accounts. Next, Jay went to RMH and became Director of Risk Management, managing 175 Applebee’s in 15 states. [4:44] After Applebee’s, Jay went to Gallagher in national risk control. Now he is Managing Director of the Restaurant Practice Group. Jay has been with Gallagher for four years. [5:46] Jay started the Know the Risk podcast when podcasts were starting to be big. He thought it would be fun and people told him he had a voice for radio. It was one of the first podcasts to talk about risk management in restaurants. At first, he recorded now and then. Now that he has a following, he records regularly. [7:07] You need consistency to keep your followers. [7:32] Know the Risk is a side project for Jay. He doesn’t make money from it. He promotes Gallagher in it. He keeps it relevant. He hasn’t had any pushback for it. Jay says it is beneficial to Gallagher and to the risk industry, as well as to himself. [8:21] People know Jay from his podcast, his traveling with Gallagher, and LinkedIn. He has a lot of connections and the podcast is just part of it. Podcasting is a nerdy industry and Jay tells people he’s an insurance nerd. People ask when the next episode will drop. One recent episode had over 2,000 downloads. [10:28] Jay has a server that holds the shows, a GoDaddy website, editing software on his laptop, a couple of microphones, and the right equipment to record a decent-quality show. He does it all himself. He can record anywhere. He edits out background noise, coughing, miscues, and “ums,” and then publishes it. [11:39] Justin and Jay discuss setting the gain correctly and other audio topics. Make sure that every way you can be muted is turned off before you start recording. Is there a mute button on your headset you don’t kn