Podcasting since 2004

ChrisDoelle

/kris DAY-lee/ · Author, podcaster, consultant, historian, speaker

I started making podcasts in 2004, back when you published an XML file and hoped somebody’s aggregator found it. Now I help nonprofits, school districts, and businesses across Texas launch shows people actually listen to.

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I have interviewed

Rudy Tomjanovich
Cat Osterman
Jody Conradt
Joey McGuire
Jeff Traylor
Hal Mumme
Jeffrey Gitomer
Joel Salatin
Robert Scoble
Bob Burg
John Lee Dumas
Brooks Kieschnick
Betsy Mitchell
Dr Charles Breithaupt
Evo Terra
and 216 more →

100,000+Episodes published since 2004

22Years behind the mic

19Shows I host or co-host

8Books in print

01 / About

The long version

Chris Doelle recording at the microphone in his studio — In the studio.

I started podcasting in 2004. There was no Spotify, no Apple Podcasts app, no YouTube to fall back on. You published an XML file and hoped somebody’s aggregator picked it up. Most people I told about it assumed it was a phase.

Twenty-two years later I’m still at it, and the one thing I know for certain is that the gear was never the hard part. Plenty of shows sound great and nobody hears them. The hard part is knowing exactly who you’re talking to and giving them a reason to come back next week.

These days I run Fresh Media Works out of the Texas Gulf Coast: podcast production and AI marketing for nonprofits, school districts, and businesses that have something worth saying and no idea how to say it into a microphone. I’ve written eight books with two more on the way, I cover Texas high school football like it’s a full time job, and I keep more side projects running than my family thinks is reasonable.

If you’re trying to start a show, or you started one and it stalled out around episode nine, I’ve probably already made the mistake you’re about to make.

02 / On the air

Shows I host

Nineteen shows where I am the host or co-host, and I produce plenty more than that. Here are nine of them. Pick whichever one sounds like your problem.

Chris Doelle at the podium with Brother Gary Moses — With Brother Gary Moses, my original co-host on This Week in Victoria. I am the one in the orange tie.

03 / Books

Eight books, two more coming

Texas football history, nonprofit media, and the practical stuff nobody tells you until you’ve already done it wrong. Two of them below, the rest on Amazon.

Valley Ball Rio Grande Valley football history, written with Gabe Rivera

Friday Night Warriors Texas high school football

All I Need to Know I Learned From My Texas High School Football Coach cover

All I Need to Know I Learned From My Texas High School Football Coach Wisdom from the sideline

Rocket Man Biography

Student-Athlete Social Media Playbook cover

Student-Athlete Social Media Playbook For coaches and athletic directors

Escaping a Manipulative Relationship cover

Escaping a Manipulative Relationship A step by step guide

Lame Jokes Rule, Volume 1 500 groaners

Lame Jokes Rule, Volume 2 500 more groaners

04 / Speaking

Bring me to your room

Conferences, chambers, school districts, and nonprofit boards. I show up early, I don’t read slides, and I leave people with something they can use Monday.

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Podcasting for people who aren’t broadcasters How a small team with no studio starts a show that lasts past episode ten.
AI that actually saves you time What’s real, what’s hype, and the handful of workflows worth setting up this quarter.
Telling your organization’s story out loud For nonprofits and school districts sitting on great material nobody has heard.
Texas high school football history Twenty plus years of covering it, and the stories that never made the paper.