Alec Cuenca found himself investing so much of his time reading self-help books, and that was where an idea came to him. The idea: why not share all the lessons he learned from those books through a podcast? In one specific book, he remembered a quote that said, “The future is audio.”
He immediately went to Youtube and did his research on making podcasts.
That was where it all began, with what now is called “Small Talk! With Alec Cuenca – Motivation & Mindset Podcast.”
“Nagsimula ako sa YouTube tapos sabi ko oh sige try ko na din tong podcast and then nung nag pandemic sabi ko okay maybe there’s something into this,” Alec shared.
He added, “So let me just pour more a little bit of my resources, energy and time doon sa pag-create ng podcast kaya tinuloy-tuloy ko na lang siya and I became consistent with it.”
Asked where he gets the ideas for each episode, Alec said it’s “50-50.” 50% comes from the books he read, and the other comes from personal experiences.
“I was like: this week, what was my main problem? And how did I solve it and then what principles from psychology, from business, from success books that I also applied in my life,” he explained.
He added, “It was also a way for me to kind of remind myself to, you know, to keep going one day at a time. Especially nung nagsisimula din ako parang more on Mental Health ang mga topics ko.”
Alec revealed that there were only around 10-20 listeners from the beginning, and most of them were his friends trying to support him.
He stumbled upon a Facebook group composed of Filipino podcasters and listeners, where someone messaged him and said Alec’s podcast “saved” him. That motivated Alec to keep going on, despite the slow increase in listeners.
He reflected on that message, saying, “This is about something much bigger na something pwedeng maka-affect o matulungan din ‘yung mga tao, especially pagdating sa mental health, sa productivity and all of that stuff din.”
“Disregard the numbers, just keep on doing it every single week,” he said. He kept to his promise to keep uploading every week, and he proudly claims to have never missed one.
The consistency of Alec to upload every week eventually paid off, as his listeners grew. Now, he was included in the Top 20 podcast.
Right now, Alec is working on launching another podcast. This time, with his girlfriend, in which they will be talking about “relationship stuff.”
He is also working on starting a workshop about starting podcasts and putting it out there, specifically on Spotify.
“Spotify has a good, great platform for literally anyone. It’s also free and you can use it, you can put your message out there, you can start a podcast within the day and I truly believe that there are a lot of voices that need to be heard,” he said.
But overall, Alec assures that “Small Talk! With Alec Cuenca – Motivation & Mindset Podcast” will still continue, and looks forward to releasing more episodes in the future. (Interview by Edwin P. Sallan)
“Small Talk! With Alec Cuenca – Motivation & Mindset Podcast” is available on Spotify
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