Lessons Learned from Starting a Podcast in 2020
Alexi Cashen is the CEO of Elenteny Imports, a multifaceted logistics company dedicated to growing their partners’ businesses in the wine, beer, and spirits industry.
Alexi is fondly called the ‘Chief Executive Optimist’—spreading the gospel of empathetic customer service, sales panache, and meticulous operations. She scours ideas and drives home solutions, strategy and above all else, positivity!
Alexi is also the host of The Alexi Cashen Podcast where she talks with inspirational people in the wine, beer, and spirits space.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Why Alexi Cashen decided to start a podcast
What the early days of hosting a podcast was like for Alexi
How starting a podcast during a pandemic became a big advantage for Alexi
Alexi shares why she did a series on what it’s been like selling wine during a pandemic
How having a podcast allows you to have conversations with different types of people inside and outside of your industry
Alexi discusses her plans for her podcast for 2021 and her best takeaway from podcasting
In this episode…
Podcasting has been a gift that keeps giving to Alexi Cashen and her business, Elenteny Imports. Despite the difficulties and challenges that 2020 brought with it, podcasting has allowed her to have incredible conversations and business growth–something that not a lot of people can say they’ve been able to do during the previous year. Although she wasn’t sure about what to expect from starting her podcast during the pandemic, she was able to enjoy the process and was able to interview and get in touch with some amazing individuals that she otherwise wouldn’t have been able to connect with.
With each guest that she features on the show, Alexi’s network grows even bigger and new lessons are learned with every recorded episode. The momentum that she has gained from when she started her podcast has set the tone for how she intends to maximize podcasting in order to push her business, professional, and personal goals this 2021.
On this episode of the Alexi Cashen Podcast as she looks back on her podcasting journey that she kicked off during the 2020 pandemic. Tune in as she talks with John Corcoran of Rise25 about why she decided to start a podcast, how podcasting has been advantageous for her business and personal development, and how much further she plans to take her podcast in 2021.
Resources Mentioned in this episode
Alexi Cashen's mail address: alexi@alexicashen.com
Episodes Mentioned:
Maggie Henriquez: CEO of Krug on Amplifying Attitude on the Alexi Cashen Podcast
Ari Weinzweig on Success = Vision, Mission Plus a Healthy Ecosystem on the Alei Cashen Podcast
Sponsor for this episode...
Elenteny Imports is an alcoholic beverage logistics and compliance service that alleviates back-office work so that clients can focus on what they do best: sourcing and sales. Elenteny works with importers of all sizes, distributors, marketing agents/brokers, and wineries, and they guide their partners through a myriad of intricacies of the three-tier system offering logistics, consolidation, importing, customs, freight, drayage, and back-office administration for inventory management, invoicing, collections, and compliance.
Elenteny is licensed in all 50 states and they import over 1 million cases of wine, beer and spirits annually. They create competitive advantages for their customers through customized cargo and information flow by employing the use of superior technology to provide transparency and access to information that’s crucial to expanding business and accelerating growth.
To learn more about their services, send them an email at info@elentenyimports.com or visit their website today.