Six years…. well, three years of pretty solid work and three years of spotty-at-best dedication, but almost six years nonetheless. When I first started the Rookie Designer podcast I didn’t know what to expect. Podcasting was a venture into a new-ish technology and I was just excited to see what the buzz was all about. Six years later I’m left with a ton of great experiences, a person to share my life with, several testimonials to the effectiveness of my teaching and motivational skills and a couple of perfect candidates to keep the whole thing going.

Rookie Designer will go on, and it will be as good if not better than before. I’m putting my money on better! Kitty from Design\ and Jake from Prepressology are taking the reigns after almost six years and putting their own spin on the design podcast. So I wave goodbye to an old friend, but not for good. I’ll be around for an occasional ‘hey how ya doin,’ to help push Rookie Designer into the next (hopefully) six years of greatness.

Looking back I’ll always have fond memories of this trip I took into the world of podcasting. I once had a listener give me credit for helping them find their first job. Wow, really?! I’m just some guy who rants about my design experiences for 45 minutes each week. This thing turned out to be a lot bigger than I ever thought it would be. I attended a podcast expo after my first year of podcasting and ended up meeting a person I could end up with for the rest of my life. To say this podcast has impacted my life would be an understatement. I also had some people who were dedicated from the beginning, and not just to tune in each week and download the show, but also to help out on the site. Welcoming new forum members, squashing spammer posts and spreading the word about Rookie Designer. These were the first indicators that there were some great people out there who may be able to take the reigns.

Rookie Designer is my baby. It took months of back and forth thought to come to my final decision to let it go. I did not take the issue lightly and bottom line, I wanted the show to go on. It had turned out to be such a great resource and get such a great response from the listener base that it could not possibly be put to death because I didn’t feel like dedicating time to it anymore. This thing is bigger than me. So there you go. The next chapter of Rookie Designer begins now.

The podcast and site is still in transition at the time of this post, but keep checking back, because I’m sure some exciting things will be happening there soon!

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