Dailey Blend Show - The Rundown (Week of March 25th, 2025)
In this episode of The Dailey Blend Show, Reed Dailey discusses the evolution of his podcast and personal brand, highlighting the restructuring of content delivery, special projects, and his passion for golf. He emphasizes the importance of community connections and personal growth through collaboration and experimentation with technology.
Takeaways
Reed is restructuring The Dailey Blend Show for better content delivery.
The podcast now has distinct segments: The Rundown, Sound Off, and a newsletter.
Reed is focusing on special projects, including a golf initiative.
He is experimenting with new technology in music mixing.
Reed aims to connect with local entrepreneurs and showcase their stories.
The golf project is a passion project with plans for product launches.
Reed is utilizing a coach to improve his golf skills this season.
He encourages community engagement and collaboration.
The Daily Blend Show aims to highlight interesting news and projects.
Reed is committed to personal growth and learning through mentorship.
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Transcription - Dailey Blend Show
Host Reed Dailey (IG & X - @ReedDailey): This is the rundown segment of the Dailey Blend Show
Reed Dailey (00:01)
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Rundown segment of The Dailey Blend Show with me, Reid Daly. This is the week of March 25th, 2025. And if you are new around here, this is the segment of The Dailey Blend Show where we feature what's going on across The Dailey Blend, special projects I'm involved with, and highlighting some of the top news stories that I find interesting from the World Wide Web.=
Before we jump in the show, I want to remind you we are on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. If you're a social person and I am, me Dailey blend, on X and Instagram. You can also find me on LinkedIn, X and Instagram at Read Dailey. With that said, let's jump in the show. So very happy with some of the progress we've been making with the Dailey Blend podcast. I know we're on the Dailey Blend show.
But I've been doing that for 10 or 15 years and I had a friend of mine really tell me that I was doing too much on my own sort of personal brand and Dailey Blend and sort of like blending too much and I really needed to find these sort of different channels and blends. So over the last year, I've set up Read Dailey Music and then the Dailey Blend podcast as their sort of own entities.
and they both have their own YouTube and Instagram accounts and they've just been special projects. So the Dailey Blend podcast is mostly how tech house and I put out new mixes. I wouldn't say every week, but every couple of weeks and you know, putting those out on cloud, which is to Apple podcast and then having them available to stream on YouTube is just a creative outlet that I enjoy and it's fun. And I, know,
I'm not really trying to do much as terms of a middle-aged DJ here, but I still continue to have fun with DJ equipment and live production and technology. so the way I'm thinking about it is the Dailey Blend podcast is very much sort of like a studio mix. I've got my Read Dailey Music project, which is gonna be a little more, I'll call it art-inspired music and thematic mixes.
And then Sunday sessions, what I want to do is really continue to experiment with technology in different ways in mixing. So the other day I actually went out and bought this little Hercules mixer. It's like the size of an iPad, much thicker. And it does a lot of the same great stuff that DJ equipment, the big rigs, it just works with some, in this case, software, more specifically, I think it's called algorithm DJ or DJ algorithm.
which does a lot of stuff off your phone. And so the next Sunday sessions, I'm going to try to do it, you know, using this little controller and my iPhone and try to find a way to sort of record that mix through one of the many pieces of gear I have. So be on the look for that. But yeah, I'm going to put the show link, the notes and links.
In the show notes for the Dailey blend podcast so you can go find that on Apple podcast SoundCloud and over on YouTube So don't forget to check that out really happy with kind of where I'm going with some of my mixes a lot of house a lot of tech house in what's going on with the Dailey blend show so big sort of tweaking the Dailey blend show and I think I've got it nailed
So I think on Tuesdays we're gonna do the rundown, which is the show you're listening to. And the rundown is sort of just things that I'm involved with, know, things within Dailey Blend and then sort of special projects and sort of topical things that I find interesting in the news. And then on Thursdays we're gonna do the sound-off segment of the show where we're doing Q &A interviews with folks. And then sort of the third leg of that, you know, tripod is
on Saturdays doing the newsletter. So moving the newsletter from Fridays to Saturdays. The reason for that is when I just kept on missing getting it out on Fridays, it was just the end of the week. And it just always seemed to pushed back. And I always end up having a little bit more time Friday nights and sort of Saturday mornings early to sort of craft that. And I also thought it was a little weird to like be showcasing sort of, I'll call it weekend.
and activities like Friday morning, which is when that was going out. And it just felt way more appropriate to come out on Saturday morning. So those are sort of the three pieces of the Dailey Blend show. So it's the rundown on Tuesdays. It will be sound off segments on Thursdays and then the newsletter on Saturdays. Now I fully anticipate the rundown on Tuesdays and the newsletter to become much more staples and then the sound off
segments will probably not be as as every Thursday, just trying to schedule and execute some of those Q &A interviews. just takes up more time than you would ever imagine. But we're going to get there. We're talking with a virtual assistant to help us with some of those activities. And so my hope is that we get those going. And you'll hear much more of those interviews in 2025. In terms of what's
on with the broader Dailey blend continuing to do special projects, things I'm interested in. And, you know, you'll see a lot of that content on the features tab if you go to Dailey blend.com. So with all that said, I want to sort of do things that are coming up. first is our first sort of 2025 Q &A interview or sorry, it's our second one with Luke out of Canada. So I met Luke through
the internet. Luke had this fantastic Instagram account called underscore coffee and kicks. I reached out to him during the lockdown and I was able to get a copy of his coloring book. We ended up, you know, becoming friends over the internet, if you will, and I've used his coloring book many times and we talk about the coloring book, his creative endeavors and his new agency. So, the lookout for that interview, which
launch on today. In terms of special projects going on with Dailey Blend, well we're continuing to push out content on the golf project. If you can't tell, the hat I am wearing is one of our sample hats, our second round of sample hats for the golf project. We're looking at the S for Sheridan, that's the working name that we're going with. And if you go over and check out the Sheridan Instagram account, you'll start to see content for Sheridan.
Which is the name we're going with like I said coming up so more on that we've got Second round of polo samples coming in the first ones I got I liked I like the cut I like the look I just didn't like the sheen of the fabric Actually, maybe I'll take some pictures of those and put those on the web and then we did the first round of hats We're gonna do a third round of hats and then we're gonna do a sample on gloves And then we're gonna get ready to launch this company We've been debating how to do it. I think
towards it is doing sort of a release of some images and let people do pre-buys. And then we're going to do our first order of products and get people their products before summertime. This has been a passion project. am oversimplifying the amount of hours, weekends that I put in to this company and looking forward to start to share that more with you guys.
on this show and on my personal Instagram account and on the web. What else is going on with Dailey Blend? Well, in terms of me, got some really great events and travel coming up. I'm heading to Boston in a couple weeks for a few networking events and meeting with friends. And then in Chicago, I am hosting an F.
Chicago Summit event. So we are talking about manufacturing. So if you follow me on LinkedIn, you'll be able to LinkedIn. You'll be able to sort of follow along about a little more on the details that event, I'll be sharing it we're doing an hour and half overview presentation and q &a at a pinball manufacturing facility. So it's going to be really fun.
to host that event and get the opportunity to play with some of the pinball machines and learn a little more about manufacturing pinballs. In terms of personal stuff, what's going on, we are getting close to golf season here in Chicago. I know all of my friends down in Georgia have been texting me and DMing me that when I post it, golf season yet, it's like, hey, it never.
stopped and I'm fired up because of a couple things. One, I finally signed up for Fair Game and this is the app that Ben from Houdinki launched and if you know Houdinki, you know they have just like a really clean aesthetic and the app is very similar in terms of look and feel so I appreciate that but it's like if Instagram and
golf handicap index, so gin, came together and formed a company. And that's what fair game seems like. So I'm gonna be entering my scores in there, putting pictures from the courses. I played for the first time last week when it was super warm, got to go out, played on Saturday with my daughter, played nine holes. It was so much fun. And then on Sunday it snowed. So typical Chicago spring.
But the goal is to get to shooting 85 and under on every round. And I took my first lesson today. So I got to go down to the campus, the North Western campus and go into the golf practice facility, which I didn't even know they had. I know that colleges have these facilities, but my only sort
Experience is the one with the D3 school right down the road, which is a single hitting bay and basically the boiler room that they turned into a putting surface. And this is very different. They had multiple bays, a oscillating putting facility, and then like a huge area for chipping and putting, similar to what I've seen from like the golf league down in Florida. So was really cool to get to go down there.
It's been a long time since I've had a coach. And I thought it was like, walked out of the session thinking that was pretty interesting that I essentially sell consulting services in my day job and that I hadn't hired a coach in a long time. And sure, you you spend a little bit of money, you get instant results. And I think I'm going to take a cue and start to use more consultants in my life from everything from working out to helping me like meal prep.
and including helping me with this show to make it a little more dialed in. But excited to continue with my golf journey and I'm hoping that having a coach this season is dramatically going to increase my enjoyment of the game and lower my score. In terms of, you know, other things going on with
the for the golf stuff I will share all the links to both my gin number and my fair game account and so you can follow along with me on both those apps and services depending on when you like. Outside of that you know I'm doing a little bit of traveling like I mentioned and a lot of content creation so expect more you know
I distilled or sort of simplified what we were doing on Holy Blend, I think pretty succinctly on this show, but it took a lot of thinking back and forth and talking to friends, talking to mentors. And I think I'm really happy with where I landed in terms of the focus of this show and sort of the anchors. you know, like I said, I really wanted this show as an opportunity to meet people and connect with people.
and showcase what they were doing and learn and share my learnings with others. And so I'm going to be spending a whole lot more time not only reaching out to people but hopefully doing a lot more interviewing with folks both nationally, internationally, but in my local community. And that's one of my big goals of this year is to have five or 10 interviews with sort of local Chicago, Illinois people that
either I know or sort of friends of friends and say, hey, this person's doing something special. You need to go meet them. You need to shine a spotlight on them. So if you're listening to this show and you live in the Illinois area and you've got some friends that sort of fit that model or you're an entrepreneur, you're an operator, you've got a great story to tell, a brand you want to showcase and spotlight,
Send me a DM, send me an email at Read Dailey and let's get you on the show. All right, that wraps it up for this week's episode of The Rundown. Thank you for tuning in. Look forward to having you join us on Thursday with Luke. And with that said, we'll catch you on the next episode. Thanks for tuning in.
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