birkcreative

How a single human response on Reddit accomplished what Google and traditional search couldn't!

I spent weeks searching in all the wrong places. Turns out, I should have been asking humans all along.

My son is 6'6" and plays Division I volleyball. If you're thinking "that's awesome, he must have tons of opportunities," you'd be wrong. Men's volleyball in America is where athletic dreams go to die quietly.

Here's what I learned the hard way: there are only 21 NCAA Division I programs for men's volleyball in the entire United States. Twenty-one. Each program gets a whopping 4.5 scholarships to split among their entire roster. Meanwhile, women's volleyball has hundreds of programs with 12 sc

Try this. Write an article. Plug it into Notebook LLM. Generate the audio. Play it back. Be blown away. Gain an even deeper understanding of your content. CRAZY.

My original article:
https://www.fastcompany.com/91142325/employers-believe-this-is-the-age-youre-too-old-to-hire-this-is-why-theyre-wrong

Attached is the Notebook LLM audio .mp4 based on my unedited article before publication.

So I launched an e-commerce brand in under 48 hours. (Insert Madonna song "Live To Tell")

I created the brand, named the company, secured the domain, researched the platforms, designed it's e-commerce site and launched it in under 48 hours.

I used ChatGPT to do it. I'm sorry. I feel terrible that I did it this way.

I am a designer myself. I've worked with human programmers my entire career. Not this time. I watched a ChatGPT video where they said you could build a website by drawing the homepage on a napkin and it would magically appear. I tried that, it didn't work for me. But this did!

I feel that this prompting process was important for

We desperately need liberal and progressive voices on more podcasts, and we need to get people to bypass celebrity and engage with regular people. We are in crazy times. We’ve really got to get the courage to start our own platforms, instead of using gated social media that are only there to collect data so we buy more french fries and athletic shoes.

For many years, I taught a workshop, to inspire entrepreneurs to dig deep into their idea well, their own creative mindset, their magical thinking, to start their own podcast platform. Entrepreneurs are not like everyone else. We are different. At the time, I had just started my own podcast The Honest Field Guide, and pretty soon, found s

Totally took me by surprise. It's a podcast based on the article I wrote for Campaign USA. I love the nuance, my name is pronounced PERFECTLY, even the ending get's my vibe with the BYE from one of the speakers. The LLM got the essence of what I was trying to communicate as well as the context. I played this for my mother, she is 85, and she totally freaked out. She is still in awe of it actually. Here is the original article I wrote [https://www.birkcreative.com/blog/the-elite-design-industry-is-the-gatekeeper-of-american-culture-and-brand-but-can-the-elite-designers-be-motivated-to-create-diversity-in-business](https://www.birkcreative.com/blog/the-elite-design-industry-is-the-gatekeeper-o

Hi!!

I'm looking for some options for men's beach volleyball clinics for the summer of 2025. Does anybody have any idea ideas on who's offering something? Can you share links if so?

Always seem to be finding volleyball for young kids and high schoolers. I'm not seeing anything for men 19 and up.

I wish I knew why it was such a struggle to find volleyball opportunities for men here in the US.

Would love if anybody has any ideas!

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I've asked this question before I'm asking again in case someone missed it the first time.

I've actually found two really good quality summer training programs for men's volleyball. One in Medina Italy, the other one in Sydney Australia.

I would love to know if there's any additional ones. My son is a freshman, division one volleyball, in the United States. I'm looking for opportunities outside of the United States.

It just can't be competitive. And it would be great if the program was at least 10 days minimum.

Any suggestions, would be so great.!

Hi, sorry at this question been asked before. I'm beginning the search for summer volleyball for my D1 men's volleyball athlete. He's currently a freshman.

I'm looking for an international training camp that I may be able to send him to in the summer of 2025.

I've been doing Google searches and I'm coming up empty using my string query "international volleyball camps for men summer 2025."

I would love some links to some camps. I did find one from a friend of mine and he runs an Australia vlb camp. He was on the 2004 Olympic team for Australia.

I'd really love some other ideas if anybody has any!

I spent four days traveling in a car from San Francisco airport to the Redwood Forest in California with my youngest son who is 15 years old.

It was an interesting and eye-opening road trip for me because it was the first time I was able to spend some alone time with my youngest and last child. He is my most wild and clever one. He came of age during the pandemic where everything shut down: schools, gyms, tutoring, restaurants, neighborhood events, in-person relationships, community events, extracurricular activities, sports, everything went away. And for those two plus years he spent behind a screen, he lost some of his genius, and creative curiosity, that the screens snatched away and loc

I shared a workshop deck that I built on how to start your own podcast. Step by step with process and more.

Sharing because I ran the class, and I wrote the class.

It was removed for promotional content.

Why?

I get asked all the time, how can I start my own podcast. I have been workshopping my own podcast class for years and also built my own platform that I can listen and also blab on.

I love love love having my own show, I really do, The Honest Field Guide, not only because I have a lot of expertise that I share, also because I am ridiculously curious about literally everything else that I have no expertise in.

I really want all of us entrepreneurs to break the system and start our own shows.

Here is my start a podcast guidebook, I'm sharing this because, it's easy to start your own show.

I am not collecting names or making you pay. Just add this to your podcast toolkit.

https://docs.go

So I shared this recently...

It's highly relevant. Please do not sell your rights away to a publisher. It'a not worth it.

I was at a party recently with a famous film director, and their publisher wouldn't even pay for their plane ticket to their book launch party at a celebrity's private home. I mean, seriously???

So here's my little secret(s) about book publishing. Please make your own company.

So... here are my secrets. You are self-publishing your books all wrong, and you're losing opportunities to control your own supply chain of publishing a book. Here are my six tips that will help you learn how to avoid losing some of your intellectual property to help you be effective with pub

Hi all!

Seven month ago, I shared a post asking for recommendations for a podcast AI editing tool, and someone suggested Momento, which I tried, and liked in the beginning. The app now seems to be broken. I'm looking for a new AI solution to help me effortlessly make clips using templates of my podcast episodes, transcripts, social media clips, etc. I only make between 6-12 podcasts per year, but also need something to help me with my other live productions. I'll look at all quality suggestions! Thank you. I love this podcast community, so helpful.