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How I Launched My New Rideshare Podcast in 7 Easy Steps

Exciting news: we have a new ridesharing podcast to tell you about! Senior RSG contributor Jay Cradeur recently launched a new podcast called the Rideshare Dojo Podcast, and below he explains the steps he took to create, design, and deploy his podcast.

There are two things about rideshare driving that I belligerently enjoy:  listening to music and listening to podcasts.  Since I began driving in December of 2015, I have developed a huge appreciation for jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Stan Getz.

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Concomitantly, I have become a loyal podcast listener of Marc Maron, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris and now, Conan O’Brien.  For about a year now, I have also been driving around thinking to myself: “I think I can do that! Wouldn’t it be great to have a podcast for drivers, by drivers?”

Then I started to visualize a podcast just for rideshare drivers and passengers.  Like many of my ideas, it sat rattling around my head for many months.

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From Rideshare Driver to Notary Public: One Driver’s Plan B

Is there life after rideshare? For many drivers, the answer is an enthusiastic ‘yes!’ Senior RSG contributor Jay Cradeur highlights one driver’s life after rideshare as a notary public, which he pursues in addition to driving for Uber and Lyft. His story, and how you can learn more and pursue your own Plan B, is below.

Drivers, want to share your success stories, how rideshare driving has helped you find your plan B or what you’d share to new drivers just getting started? Reach out to us here and we’ll be in touch!

I first met Nathan Daulton when he contacted The Rideshare Guy and expressed his distress over a citation he had received at the San Francisco International Airport.

Nathan had been working with a company called Carvertise and one of the yellow vests at SFO had written up a citation for advertising on airport property.  At the time, no one knew whether you could or could not advertise.

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Thinking Beyond Rideshare Driving

I always encourage drivers to think beyond rideshare driving: whether it’s driving strategies to help you drive smarter, not harder, introducing you to rideshare drivers who now run their own successful YouTube channels, and more, I believe it’s important for drivers to consider “what happens?” after they’re done rideshare driving. Today, RSG contributor Jay Cradeur shares his strategies for thinking beyond rideshare driving.

In case you have not heard, after two years of superlative driving for Uber, I was deactivated on December 6, 2017.  As of this post, now three weeks later, Uber can not tell me why I was deactivated.  They have told me it has something to do with the California Department of Motor Vehicles.  Uber tells me their “hands are tied” until they get a response from the DMV.

The bottom line is this: no matter how well you drive, no matter how long you have been driving, no matter how high your rating, Uber and Lyft and any rideshare partner can deactivate you at any time.

Given that this is the harsh reality of our gig economy, it is imperative you have a back up plan, a Plan B, so that these unexpected events will not cause you a severe loss of revenue.  This post will delve into some back up plans that you can incorporate now so that you will not get stuck in the future.

If something happened to your ability to drive rideshare, would you have a Plan B? It's never too early to start thinking beyond rideshare driving -

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