Ep. 31 — Celebrating One Year of Podcasting!

It’s the first anniversary of the Love my Museum podcast! In this episode, host Amy Kehs reflects on the past year, shares how the show started, highlights favorite moments and most popular episodes, and gives a sneak peek of what’s coming next.

Key Takeaways:

• Podcasting has become a powerful way to build community and connect museum professionals.

• The most popular episodes focused on real-life strategies for staff wellbeing, visitor experience, and planning ahead.

• Momentum, mentorship, and collaboration were key in launching and sustaining the podcast.

• Year Two will bring more practical tools, inspiring interviews, and resources to help museums thrive.

• Fill out the questionnaire: https://forms.gle/1GLbRo1t4NFjAzoj6

• Gardenary by Nicole Burke: https://www.gardenary.com/

• Download the Museum Planning Calendar: https://lovemymuseum.com/calendar

• Get your Museum Metrics Tracker: https://lovemymuseum.com/metrics

Links from the Episode:

Mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 2: Introducing the Love My Museum Podcast

• Episode 3: Things I Know for Sure

• Episode 4: Putting Your People First

• Episode 5: Planning the Planning

• Episode 9: Creating Brand Love for Your Museum

• Episode 26: Looking at the Next 90 Days

Guest Episodes:

• Episode 11: Featuring Tacey Atkinson — Host of the Customers First Podcast

• Episode 21: Featuring  Kyra Pogge Brewka — Host of The Authentic Communicator Podcast

• Episode 23: Featuring Mary Zell Galen

Other shout-outs:

• Rachel Aiken, The Program Consultancy

• Lou Mongello, Host of WDW Radio and founder of the Momentum conference

• Conor Brown, Vacation Kingdoms

• Katie, Apostrophe Communications

More Free Resources for Museums:

• Museum Planning Calendar

• Museum Metrics Template

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