Rise and Outshine Podcast Showcase

Oh, boy. We are live. Welcome to Rise and

Outshine. It is Tuesday, November 26th. I am

joined with my co host Maria Daniels. Maria,

welcome. Hello. I'm excited. It's

dark. I'm still awake. I'm excited for the shows. I'm excited for

Rise and Outshine. I know we missed you last week. We were teasing up

you because we always say Maria does all the things and we've listed all your

businesses, your marketing agency, your coffee shop, your, your truck

rental and then you were speaking at a conference. So we,

everybody missed you last week. We're glad to have you back this week. I'm

happy to be here. We've got a great show

tonight. We have Let Fear Bounce with

Kim Ling Ling Ling Ling. And she has a special

guest. We're going to hear all about it after the song.

We're asking the experts. We're all on a mission to rise

in the rankings and out shine the competition.

Welcome to Rise and Outshine.

I was a little bit off on my cues tonight.

That's all right. I still think you need a yeah at the end.

Well, Kim and Glenda officially welcome to the main

stage and the Let Fear Bounce podcast. We have a special show

coming up for a 10 minute segment and a sampling of

Let Fear Bounce. While we're getting ready, I'm going to introduce Kim

and Glenda. Everybody watching at home, go over to

menti dot com. This is your chance to do audience participation

during a live podcast. So you can use your phone to scan

that QR code and you'll see I've already done it. I can pull

up the scoring criteria. You'll be able to

rank Let Fear Bounce on different criteria. The audio

quality, production quality, the quality of the host and the content.

And then after that you get to fill out a stream of

conscious word cloud. So anything you're feeling or

inspired, anything you, any words that come to mind while you're listening

to the show, type them in there. You can do up to five words,

five inspirations. If you get more, you can also refresh the

page and keep adding to that word cloud. It's a great way to

give real time feedback to the shows. I know that the hosts that

have come on really enjoy that aspect of it. They get to see

where they're ranking over different criterias and then they get to see

how they are influencing and inspiring people. I'm going to

put up a little ticker, but let's introduce Kim and Glenda officially.

Welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm excited to be Here.

Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Kim. Thanks, Maria.

Well, Kim and I have been talking. We aren't too far away from each other.

We're both in western eastern, western Pennsylvania as far as

the sun shines. And potential

maybe down the road we might see her at our big event

in September. I'm not going to, not going to say anything or make any commitments

for Kim, but I know that we're close enough that if Wise were here, he

would say, make sure, Kim, you book your tickets at the end of September to

come to Pittsburgh. We'd love to have you on our main stage in the podcast

theater, which is right behind me here. Kim, officially now,

after all my witty banter. Officially, welcome to the

show. Thank you. And I just so appreciate all that wittiness

that you're providing to us all this evening. That's

what I do. I just keep. It's almost like a broken record sometimes. I keep

going around and round in circles. Well, tell us a little about, tell us a

little bit about the Let Fear Bounce podcast and what we're going to see coming

up here. Well, Let Fear Bounce came about about four years

ago when the world changed and I decided

to do, you know, a podcast, call it Let Fear Bounce, because fear, it

felt like to me that fear was being shoved in our faces on a daily

basis. You couldn't watch tv, listen to anything without

being told that you should be fearful of breathing, going outside, leaving

your home. So I thought, you know, I'm going to let Fear Bounce. I'm not

letting that stuff land on me. Just not going to happen. And I thought, I

want to talk to other folks, you know, that might feel the same way or

any fears, because we all have fears. So I wanted folks to come on, share

their journey and what fears they may have overcome

or maybe it was even trauma that created fears

that they have worked through, overcome, maybe are even still facing

to get where they're at now and to share how they're not only

surviving, but thriving and just looking forward to the future.

So it's positive, inspirational, and motivational, and I've had some

amazing, amazing guests. And Glenda Benavides, who is my

guest tonight for this portion, this shortened version

of Let Fear Bounce, she's been, she's been a guest of mine in the past,

so I'm super excited to have her on with me tonight. Thanks,

Kim. We're so glad to have you both here. And we talk

about podcasting, and it's a way to get your messaging out over the last

four years. What's Something that you've really taken away from this

experience of creating your own content and sharing your

message with the world. Any, like, key things for people out there

thinking about starting a podcast? Would you recommend it?

You know, would you do it all over again? I. I absolutely

would do it all over again. I have enjoyed and been humbled by.

That's my main thing. I've been humbled by each of my

guests because everyone has a different experience and a different

life path that they're going on and things that they've went through. And, oh, my

goodness, the warriors that I have met, and they are

just knocking it out of the park now, you know, just doing

amazing things and making their slice of the world a better

place. And that's so humbling and that I'm able to provide that small

little platform to let them share their voice

and get their message out there. To me, that it's just humbling. It's

a blessing, and I absolutely would do it all over again.

Absolutely. I'm going to keep on going. I'm not stopping anytime

soon. That's awesome. That's a great answer. We asked that. We

asked different questions, you know, after we hear the introduction and just to kind of

see where you're at in your podcasting journey. And you're all in.

It sounds like this is a great medium for you. It's a. It's a perfect

way to deliver your message. And you're having a great time doing it.

I am. And it is so fun. And like I said, I get to meet

some amazing people, just truly amazing people. And it's.

The word humbling just keeps coming back. And it's just. I am humbled week after

week. That's great. That's great. Let's pull up that

card one more time. Go over to menti.com, type in

that code or use the QR code. The pull up the

scoring for tonight's show, and

I don't have any further questions. I think

it's time if, Maria, if you're ready. I'm ready. I'm

excited to hear it. We're going to turn the show over to

Kim and Glenda. Everybody, this is the Let Fear

Bounce podcast and it's all yours.

Well, hello. Hello, everybody. Welcome to a short version of

Let Fear Bounce. And I want to welcome my special

beautiful guest tonight, Glenda Benavides. She is an American

singer, singer, songwriter, author, and podcast host

from California. She's also a member of the recording academy since

2021. Not only that, folks, she's also an accomplished

author, she has published three books, Courage, find your

fire and ignite action in your life, Soul on

fire and own the goddess within.

Woohoo. I love that. Own the goddess within.

Glenda is also. And this is so exciting, because when I found out about this,

I absolutely. I jumped up and down in my chair. Glenda is on

Antonio Vergara's contemporary BL album, which

is just now nominated for a

Grammy. It doesn't get any better than that, folks. But

Glenda's inclusion in this project highlights the power

of music to connect people from different cultures and create a

dialogue that transcends music.

So exciting. Glenda, thank you for joining me

tonight on this shortened version of Let Fear Bounce. And I'm just so

excited to spotlight you and being

nominated for a Grammy. Oh, my gosh,

you're such a dear spirit. I'm so blessed to know

you and now be on your being interviewed again. So

I just really appreciate you, Kim. Thank you so much. So after you

win. After you win the Grammy, we'll have to have you back

on so you can talk all about that excitement, you know. A couple questions

for you tonight, so let's jump right into it, shall we? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All

right, my first question. So being nominated for a

Grammy, it's such an incredible achievement, truly.

So how does it feel to be recognized on such a

prestigious platform? It's a lot of

work. And, you know,

it feels amazing because as an artist,

you know, a true artist, you spend most of your

life doing the work you do, the pick up the weeds.

I mean, dig up the weeds. You're doing everything you can to

develop yourself, to transform yourself, to share

with people, to love people, to uplift people. You know, that's just

been some of my mantras through the years. And,

you know, once the. The neat thing about the Grammys is that

it's a nomination or a consideration

or a Grammy from your peers.

So it's, you know, to have somebody recognize

what you've done and to say, good work. You know, just,

good job. That's up here. You know,

I think everybody knows what that feels like. When someone comes up to you at

work and goes, wow, you just did an incredible job, or, thank you for that.

I really appreciated that. Or this is how it made me feel. You know, and

then you sit back, you go, oh, my God, I didn't know I touched

anybody. You know, you're just like, really? Thank you, thank

you, thank you. So it feels amazing. Yeah.

Almost doesn't ring in my head sometimes. That's

what I was going to say. Does it feel real yet?

I. Let's just say I keep forgetting. So I just like

walking along. Yeah. Congratulations. I'm like, what they're

like for the nomination? I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank

you. Thank you. Yeah. So when. When are those awards given? What

is the date for that? February 2nd. February 2nd. Yeah.

Right now we're in round two of

voting. So everyone, this is. This is. So there's

nominations, and I'm one of five. So there's five people. Five

in that category, which is amazing. Five out of, like

20,000. And so what happens is now we're

in the second round of voting, so they will vote to see who

is the winner. And I don't know if we'll know

that right away. I. You know. You know, anybody's

ever watched Grammys, you're just gonna. And the winner is. You

know. Yeah. You know what? Regardless, you have

been nominated for a Grammy. That is correct. Oh, my. You know, not a whole

lot of people can say that. Yeah, that is correct. Thank you so much, people.

Yeah. It's so exciting. So your journey to this moment, which is

big, it must have been filled with some highs and lows. So what were some

of the highs and then what were some of the lows? And where did fear

play a part in any of that? Yeah, fear, for sure.

Well, I think one of the highs was just staying on the

Grammy conversation. There's been many. And there's been many, many

lows. So sticking on the

highs for the Grammys, about

five years ago, I was thinking, oh, my

gosh, you know, I've been in the music business for over 30 years.

I'm like, I want a Grammy. That's what I said

to myself. And I go, oh, I wonder what that means, you know? And so

I got online, I got grammys. You recordingacademy.com

and. And I. I found that there's all these things that you have

to do in order to do that. And I think once I

stepped through that. That door, so to speak, or that

portal, it was like, okay, game on. Let.

Let's see what you're made out of. Let, you know, let's get, you know, more

stuff, you know, deadlines. Let's do this. Let's make it happen. And

then. And there's. And it's like, it's a club, right? So it's

like, there's so many little secrets and so many little things, you know,

and that you've got to, like, educate yourself with and then you've, you know,

you. You can't. It's not for the faint of heart either. I. I noticed that.

So, yeah, it's pretty intense.

So to read through, especially after you voted and

they. They announced the nominations and you go, oh, I didn't

get that for that. That field. Oh, I didn't

get that. And then you go, what?

What? I must have sat there for, like, 10 minutes

just going like this. Yeah. How awesome though

it was. It was. What a moment in time. What a moment in time it

was. Now, you had shared with me, because you've been on my show before, you

had shared that there are many steps to being. It's not just, hey,

you've got a great album out there. We think you're great, and we're going to

nominate you for a Grammy. There is, like you were mentioning just a second ago,

there is a lot of steps you have to go through and a lot of

work. You have to be currently working a

lot. Yeah, correct, yes. Like, you have to be out there in the public, and

it has to be shown. You have to have music on Spotify or wherever.

It's got to be playing somewhere. Yes. So there's a lot in it.

So when you're going through that and you said, it's not for the faint of

heart, and that's why I went, yeah, right there. You have to. You got to

have some courage to really, really push yourself out

there. So did that courage flounder

at any time? Like, did fear kind of like, just peek its little head in

there and say, you ain't good enough? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. Matter of fact, when I.

When I was. When

Antonio reached out to me, I didn't know him. It was. I think

he's in the recording academy. It's such a big

academy. Anyway, he reached out to me, and I was just a yes. You know,

Like, I. He. I said, oh, sure, why not? You know, send me your stuff.

I'll see if I, you know, whatever. And I thought, yeah, I'll work on your

track, you know, on your album, you know? And he's like, great. He's like,

okay, okay. And so I kind of got sick, and then it took me a

while, and I go, when's the deadline? He goes, I got 14 days. I went,

oh, my God. And so I worked, worked, worked, worked my voice back

up because I wasn't feeling very well. And I just. So

basically, I had this track on the album, and it's called

Rebels. Right, The Rebels. Right off of that Album the

Fury. And so I started. I just

listened to it, and I was like, you know, and I

was just kind of singing through it, and I. So I created the melody. He

had already had the lyrics, but I created the melody around his lyrics. And then

I sang it and I just threw it down and I said to toe. And

I said, you know, I'm sorry, if. If, you know,

if you don't like this, please let me know. I will

totally redo it. Like, I will totally redo it for you. Because I was thinking,

I. I'm so fearful of this. This is horrible. This is not a very good

cut. You know, I was, like, really tripping,

like. And I was waiting for him to respond, and he

finally responds, and he goes. He goes, no, Glenda. He

said, when I heard it, I cried. And I was like,

oh, my opinion does not matter.

Well, you're. We always judge ourselves the harshest.

Absolutely. And I was definitely. You said you. He gave you

the lyrics, but you. You came up with the melody. The melody,

yeah. So you. You actually. You wrote

the music for. He just gave you lyrics. And

then 14 days later, he's like, yeah, I need this in 14 days

that I get nervous just thinking about it. I know,

right? Well, so just to be clear, so he had a

track that was already written. So there was music.

Right. He had separate lyrics, but he had no

melody. Okay. So I created the

melody. Well, you know, and sang it for him.

Okay. And said, you can tell that I'm not in the music industry. No, that's.

That's. None of us feel like we are anyway. It's

like. No, it's a mystery. It's

a mystery. It's a constant mystery. We want to keep it

a mystery because that's what make. That's what keeps it magical. Yeah.

Yeah, for sure. Well. And I tell you, the industry is

different from art. Art, artistically, anything.

Okay? So the industry is all about your

brand, what you look like, what you're going to do, how you're going to sell

your music. And there's levels, all kinds of levels.

You've got Beyonce way up here, and you got the rest of us in

other categories. Right. You know, we're

going to wrap up here real quick. We've got a couple minutes or less than.

So share a nugget of hope. Because I ask all of my listeners

or all of my guests to provide the listeners with a nugget of hope at

the end of my show. So if you've got a little nugget of hope, that

you could toss out real quick after a minute. That would be awesome.

Absolutely. And there it is.

Decipher that. No. You know, I would just say if

you have anything that you're inspired by, anything

that you really, truly desire, I would say

step forward and just give it a try. It doesn't have to be. You

don't have to be artistic or musical or whatever. You can

do anything. Just allow yourself to just step forward

and say, yes, let me try it. And you get to

explore yourself and your own feelings and what you.

What you want to share with the world. You never know, you might touch

somebody. That is an awesome nugget. Thank

you so much. So welcome so much. And I hope everybody out there listening that

you caught that nugget that she just tossed out. Give it a try, folks. Don't

stay back in the. In the dark room. Open up that door, peek out, look

at the light, and, you know, let the world know what you're made of. Rock

on. Yeah. Be curious and jump out. That's right.

Yeah. Thank you so much, Glenda, for being my guest today on this short

version of Let Fear Bounce. I love Let Fear bounce. Thank you. And I love

you, Kim. You're amazing. Such an authentic,

beautiful human being. Thank you for your contribution. Thank you.

That's a wrap. That's a wrap, folks. Oh, wow. It

always goes so much faster than you think it's going to go. 10

minutes. You held court the entire

time. The momentum was great. The pacing was great.

The energy levels were great. Maria, what were some of your

takeaways? I was entertained the entire time. And I mean,

you know, it's one of those things that you never know what. Because I've never

heard this show before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I actually prefer

that because then I don't. You know, I have no previous

experience on this show in particular, but I was engaged the

entire time. It was entertaining. And I agree with Glenda.

You're very authentic, you know, which to me is super

important, that authenticity really shines through in your show. And Glenda,

you were an amazing guest and you did drop the nuggets at the end. That

was great. Thank you.

Last chance, everybody. Get your votes in at home. There

are a lot of votes coming in. If you go to mentee.com, type in

that code or scan that code on your cell phone, scan the

QR code. This is the most nerve wracking part

where the next slide is your scores and we tell

people we're not looking for tens on this we're not looking for perfect

scores. We're looking to find with positivity and

love, where are areas of the podcast where we can improve on

if everybody's attendant. Nobody learns anything. So the goal is.

And the nice thing about the scoring is you're going to see a graph that

shows you a plot of where all the scores came in. So you may see

engaging hosts, and you might see that those were scattered around eight, nines and tens.

So I think we're going to lock it up here.

And Kim, are you ready to see the

scores? Yeah, I think

you'll be very pleased. Here we go. That's just so fun and

exciting coming in here. We have

audio quality, upper eights, 8.8, engaging

hosts. That's pretty close to 10. So that's what Marie and I were talking about.

You were holding and you were keeping the show moving forward.

The quality of the content was great. We were both entertained the

entire time, and you told us a little bit about what it's going to be

about. And sometimes interview podcasts, it's not always

exactly the content that matches expectations. And that was one that

you probably see with that type of show. When you're doing an interview show,

every interview is different. Everybody's story is a little different, so that one's a little

bit harder to score higher. And for a live stream, the production

quality was great, too, coming in overall at

9.1. And that's. That's one of the best scores we've had on the

show since we started. And so after

seeing this feedback and you can kind of see where everybody's

votes plotted in there, and most of them scored very high. I don't think

you had anything less than a six, maybe one or two sixes. But everything

else out of. Looks like 13 people were

voting tonight. 13 votes came in, and

9.1 overall. How do you feel after seeing that, Kim? I think it's

awesome. And I think it's also helpful because I had a great

guest. Yeah, absolutely.

9.1, I think, is awesome. The content matches

expectation that I guess I would need, like, more verbal

feedback on how to improve on

that. Yeah, well, that's. Again, I think that's just

the type of show that you're doing where it's an interview show. You're

never going to fully know what you're going to get from it with an

interview, because every interview is different. Everybody's story is a little bit different. So that

one's probably a little bit. That's a very good score, though. Still, yeah.

Okay. Yeah, my show. And Glenda

can attest to this because she's been on it before. And I tell everybody,

I will toss a question out to you. And then we roll. We just go

wherever it takes us. Absolutely. Yeah. And also, and

you're also adjusting your format for a 10 minute format

just to give a sample. So some shows take five to 10 minutes

to get ramped up and get rolling. So, you know, you keep all

that 10 minutes fast. That is very fast. It doesn't go

very fast. Maybe in the future we might go to like 15 minutes.

I think 10 minutes is great though, because it really keeps you. It's like, you

know, step up your game there. Yeah. And the, and the goal is to give

a sample because some of these criteria you can get in 10 minutes

or so. So if you're ready, let's go

over to the word cloud. Let's see what came in

here. 56 responses popped in here.

Wow. Everything from taking a chance,

inspirational, love the enthusiasm, global

badass goddess. I think that look what they're down there. It says

Glenda rocks. Glenda rocks. And the bigger the words,

that's the more times they were used too. So engaging,

authentic, fun, inspiring, energetic, grateful,

courage. Those were words people use more than. More

than once or more than one person used those words. And there's in their

Grammy, Grammy high energy. I like how they have Grammy in there

too. That's awesome. That's awesome. We judge ourselves.

That was part of the. Towards the end, I think the nuggets at the end,

fear, get out of here. I like that one. That's awesome.

Keep it magical and powerful and moving. And I'm going to give this

back to you, Kim, at the end of the end of the

recording tonight. So you're going to have the scoring sheet, you're going to have this

feedback. And this is what people just took away. And we want it to be

like a stream of conscious scorecard. And if you go back through

your episode and look at this word cloud while you're

listening, that's what people were feeling and thinking. And what

kind of takeaways do you have, seeing all this come together at the end

here? Humbled.

Always. Always. Seriously, I mean, you know,

for whoever was listening, you know, we,

between Glenda and I, we touched people and they came up with these words because

they felt something and that's what it's all about. Yeah,

that's great, Maria. I love that and I love how big

authentic is because that was honestly one of the words that came to my mind

as well. So obviously that one's so big because

multiple people put that same exact thing. I love it. Yeah.

This has been so much fun. So much fun. Thank you so much,

you guys, for doing this. This is, like, really creative. This is

really inspiring for us too, you know, and. And

to know that we have 56 people that we connected to, you know, that we

touched. And that's. That's what it's all

about, right? That's really it. Yeah. Oh,

and we love to hear that feedback, too, because we're starting the show as

a way to get to the end of the year

to have a festival where we're celebrating podcasters. So

you're enjoying us helping podcasters and you

enjoy the celebration of the fans listening and leaving scores. That

makes it worth it for us, and we love to hear that. And let's go

around one last time before we say goodbye tonight and play

that lovely theme song. Let's plug

and promote and make sure everybody can connect with you. Kim, we'll

start with you tonight. If folks want to get in touch or see what

else I'm doing and when the, you know, when different episodes or any of

the episodes that I've had over the last four years, go to my

website@kimling author.com that's K I M

L E N G L I n g

author.com that's the easiest place to check out everything, what I'm

doing and what's coming up. Awesome. And to Glenda.

Yeah, for me too. Kim. No, I'm joking.

Glenda. Music. That's easy. Glendamusic.com

you can just go there. You'll see everything that I'm up to. You can reach

out to me in the contact, you know, if you want to just say hi,

hey, or I have questions about anything. You can also

find my books on there. You can, you know, support

me as an artist. However, just reach out

glendamusic.com and the. Co

host with the mostest. It doesn't really work, though. The

co host is with the most. It works.

I take that I'm going to make a T shirt now?

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You guys see that? Just ties it all up.

I love it.