Client Testimonials

It all started with a podcast. Early in the spring of 2021, I was introduced to Jeff and his team at Chat with Leaders as a potential guest for the podcast. As the B Corp expert in Georgia, I’ve been asked to appear on numerous podcasts and speak about B Corps, B Local Georgia, and the overall market shift to a stakeholder-focused form of capitalism. After a planning call and the podcast recording, Jeff and I continued to talk. As a volunteer-driven organization (myself included), B Local Georgia often needed help finding the bandwidth to create relevant content and build our audience. Hard work and networking have gotten us so far. Still, I now had two universities looking for student projects and an ambition to expand beyond that. I needed new companies to seek certification to achieve the exponential growth I was picturing. With a minimal advertising budget and an aversion to “hard-selling” the B Corp movement, I asked Jeff about the possibility of creating our podcast. Why not let our CEOs, leaders, and trailblazers talk about why this movement matters, its bottom-line effect on their businesses, and the positive change they wanted them to be a part of? We’ve now recorded seven episodes, and Jeff guided me on the process, how to prep, and how to be an engaging host. Most importantly, as an incredibly busy person, he’s helped me and my volunteer board produce authentic and engaging content that is growing our audience, spotlighting my members, and driving demand for B Corp certification in the Peach State. Since that first episode I appeared on in early April, we’ve grown our LinkedIn followers by 118, an 18% increase. Organic impressions have risen from around 2,000/month in April & May to over 9,000 in August, and we’re averaging around 7% engagement on our posts, up from 3% in Q1. And most importantly, this Fall, we have eight company projects running in universities and five soon-to-to B Corps awaiting official certification. Five more (that I can directly attribute to our efforts) are actively working towards certifying.

We launched our brand new podcast exceeding my expectations. Also, some of the earlier feedback I’ve gotten is from the guests on the show, and they’ve said this was the most professional and well-organized production they’ve been a part of in podcasting. In addition, listeners have said that they found the questions to be compelling, it’s very easy to find, and it’s great material. Chat With Leaders Media helped me develop a 16-episode podcast idea that addressed my target clients for my consulting business — the product is an added value that will allow me to network with potential clients by inviting them to be guests on my show. They do the reaching out of the list of guests we came up with, the scheduling, and the pre-production planning, including coming up with the interview questions for me. Then, they take all of the production notes during the planning call and design the questions for the final recording. Their team is also present for the interview, and they do all the post-production and delivery of the episode into the Omni broadcast tool. The shooting is done over Zoom — they do have the in-studio option, but I haven’t elected to do that because I can accommodate guests from all over the world. Afterward, they do all the audio engineering to produce the episode and include a few custom graphics that I can use to promote the podcast on social media once it goes live. They also upload the final product to the podcast aggregator and give me the materials to post them myself. Project management has been great; the episodes have been released on time once we went live. In terms of communication, we use phone calls, email, Slack, and Trello. The thorough pre-production process distinguishes them from the competition; they do a lot of great research on the guests and ensure that the questions we’re asking are getting to a great story for the listeners. They also make the guests feel comfortable and celebrated — they create a product that the guests are proud to share.

Hands down…the best media partner ever!!! Jeff Bond and the entire Chat with Leaders team are worthy of marveling. Jeff and I had been nurturing a relationship through the pandemic, and there is something special about him and his style. So when he introduced his new business, I knew I wanted to work with him. I have felt nothing but top-notch service since we launched the Future Health NOW podcast. From the first encounter, I knew we would be long-term partners in this mission to spotlight thought leaders in the public health realm. When working with Jeff and his team, being a servant leader aligned with your “why” is easy. They understand who you are and what you hope to accomplish and allow this to be the guidepost for everything related to the content you curate together. At every turn, the production’s organization, professionalism, and quality inspire me to continue serving and amplifying my commitment to be the change I want to see in the world. I can’t say enough great things about this tremendous purpose-driven collaboration with loving and kind-hearted humans.

We’re at an exciting time in our industry for employee engagement, and we wanted to capture the discussions about how work was changing. When the time came to take our concept from the drawing board to reality, we were in good hands with Chat with Leaders Media. Jeff’s and his team’s knowledge and passion for storytelling and podcasting helped us get into the rhythm of this new venture. Each time, producing an episode with a different guest and story has many moving parts. Chat With Leaders Media’s process and collaboration kept us organized and excited for each episode. We’re proud of the quality and professionalism of the end product and being able to offer this additional touch point when speaking to prospects.