Colin Anderson

Hi, ladies.

This is Colin Anderson.

I was the exec who signed Office Ladies to iWolf back in the day.

One of my favorite things about the Office Ladies launch, which was October 2019, was that our company, the marketing team, Strategy, shout out to Bill Irwin, forecast the show to get 400,000 downloads a month.

And we hit over a million in the first week.

Absolutely crazy numbers.

More than double any of the other shows we had on the network at the time.

And 200,000 of those listeners told us that Office Ladies was the first podcast they'd ever listened to.

I wonder how many new listeners you've brought into podcasting since then.

So I guess the personal tip bit that Office Ladies listeners might know about me is that I had a kidney stone last year.

That seemed to go away.

I had an ultrasound.

They said, no, no kidney stones.

You must have passed it.

And then a couple of weeks later, I was in a lot of pain, ended up in urgent care and had to have an emergency operation to remove my kidney stone.

It was painful, undignified, a lot for a gentleman to go through.

And listening to Office Ladies a couple of weeks ago and hearing that Billie Eilish is listened to every episode,

I'm like, oh great, now Billie Eilish knows about my kidney stone.

I set up my own podcast business about a year ago, and Office Ladies were one of my first clients.

So since then, I've been helping build the Office Ladies network with Lazy Genius, and we brought in How We Made Your Mother last year.