Independent News Commentary with a California perspective featuring newsmakers, thought leaders and authors.

Formerly a financial services industry executive with broad experience in private banking, asset management and corporate banking both onshore and offshore - 3 assignments in Latin America during a 7 year period. And an 8 year assignment in the UK, Graduate of The London School of Economics. Strong International experience and perspective.

While living in Latin America as a banker, I was also a stringer for The Economist, Business Latin America, the BBC and The Times. Author of a financial thriller “Deceit and Dirty Money”. Fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Engaged in the civic life of San Francisco as a citizen diplomat. I serve as the co-Chair of the San Francisco Bangalore Sister City Committee and Treasurer of the SF Cork Sister City Committee. Both sister cities were created by San Francisco Mayor’s Gavin Newsom and Dianne Feinstein. Sister Cities International based in Washington D.C. is the parent organization created by President Eisenhower in 1956 to foster citizen to citizen diplomacy.

The San Francisco Experience is independent news commentary that does deep dives on topical subjects. With 276 published episodes we seek out newsmakers, thought leaders and authors as our guests.

With listeners in 50 plus countries and all 50 states the podcast is carried on 19 platforms, our listeners are approximately 60% male and 40% female with a majority in the 30 to 55 year old category.

87% of listeners are in the United States and 13% overseas.
 

The podcast is celebrating its 2nd anniversary. I created it to fill a perceived lack of independent, non partisan news commentary stories that add are informative, thought provoking and engaging.

We began on March 26, 2020. It took one month to release the first episode and we are up to 276 published shows today.
 

I am dedicated full time to the podcast and fund it myself. I publish a minimum of two episodes weekly and sometimes up to four per week. Each show lasts about 30 minutes. I recruit the guests myself from my list of contacts. I also produce, edit and promote on social media every episode.
 

As a former stringer for newspapers and the BBC , podcasting permits me to use my journalist experience. I find it very fulfilling, albeit time consuming. I dedicate 50 hours per week to my podcast.

I do not have any sponsors at this point but open to considering sponsorship.
 

RodeCaster, SoundBand. Audacity. All Social channels.
 

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Also my 300 member personal mailing list are my principal marketing tools. Self promotion.
 

Be persistent and open to learning from your peers.
 

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