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Fishing Without Bait 530: Finding Your Voice: Austin Cairns on Taking the First Opportunity

September 8th, 2026  |  17 mins 33 secs

action and effort, alby oxenreiter, broadcasting, career development, comfort zone, confidence, covid 19 pandemic, creating yourself, family support, finding your voice, full impact mindfulness, honest feedback, jim ellermeyer, media career, mental wellness, mentorship, mindfulness, motivation, overcoming fear, pandemic isolation, perseverance, personal development, personal growth, pittsburgh broadcasting, pittsburgh media, podcasting, point park university, practice, professional wrestling, recovery, resilience, self doubt, self improvement, social isolation, sports broadcasting, sports media, wellness, young professionals

Jim Ellermeyer begins a new conversation with Pittsburgh broadcaster Austin Cairns about finding direction during the uncertainty and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Austin shares how encouragement from his father, early announcing opportunities, supportive mentors, repeated practice, and a willingness to hear difficult feedback helped a shy young man begin finding his voice behind a microphone.

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Fishing Without Bait 388: A Fresh Look with Mallory Sherman

June 27th, 2023  |  Season 11  |  16 mins 55 secs

art, artist, artwork samples, confidence, conversation, feedback, fresh look, inspiration, jim ellermeyer, life, mallory sherman, perspectives, podcast, preparation, student artist

Join host Jim Ellermeyer in another engaging episode as he delves deeper into the world of local student artist, Mallory Sherman. In this installment, Jim and Mallory explore a captivating array of her artwork samples, sparking an enlightening conversation about how we can approach art and life with renewed perspectives. Discover Mallory's inspiring journey as she shares her experiences in preparing to take that crucial first step and embracing feedback, regardless of its nature. Tune in to gain valuable insights on embracing fresh perspectives and navigating the artistic process.

Fishing Without Bait 249: Self Identity with Toria Susan

June 30th, 2020  |  27 mins 53 secs

abracadabra, confidence, fear, insecurities, pittsburgh, singer, songwriter, thank you, toria susan, validate emotions, victoria colonello

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Toria Susan about a positive outlook, recognizing feelings, romanticizing the past, signing with Digisonic Records, and more. You can listen to Toria Susan’s music at https://soundcloud.com/toriasusan. Toria is a newly signed artist with Digisonic Records.

Fishing Without Bait 248: If You Say So with Toria Susan

June 23rd, 2020  |  28 mins 16 secs

abracadabra, confidence, fear, insecurities, pittsburgh, singer, songwriter, thank you, toria susan, victoria colonello

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Toria Susan as they discuss how she came to music and growing with entertainment and dancing, finding her voice, being positive, building confidence, pleasing others, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 245: Strong Influences with Tim Vitullo

June 2nd, 2020  |  28 mins 56 secs

arrogance, blues music, confidence, do no harm, pittsburgh, singer, songwriting, tim vitullo

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Tim Vitullo as he discusses interfacing with his fellow musicians in the Tim Vitullo Band, writer’s block, capturing the human condition, writing the music to go with his thoughts and lyrics, his influences, and a live performance of “Running Out of Time” !

Fishing Without Bait 188: Confidence and Presence With Natalie Bencivenga

April 16th, 2019  |  22 mins

arrogance, chronos, confidence, kairos, mindfulness, pittsburgh, presence, time

Jim Ellermeyer spends some more time catching up with Natalie Bencivenga about arrogance and confidence and being a positive influence, time with kairos and chronos, the individual’s bill of rights, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 158: Becoming a Singer with Nick Eiben

September 11th, 2018  |  17 mins 36 secs

confidence, music, nick eiben, ocd, songwriting

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Nick Eiben talk about things he wants to work on, awareness, discusses becoming a singer when he only intended to be a song writer and work in other bands, and we listen to track from his most recent music video “Roses”!

Fishing Without Bait 157: Bullying with Nick Eiben

September 4th, 2018  |  14 mins 56 secs

bullying, confidence, music, nick eiben, songwriting, stuttering

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Nick Eiben as he talks about overcoming the bullying over his stuttering condition, advise for those going through trying times in school, being a friend, using humor and we listen to track from his first music video “You Make Me Smile”.

Fishing Without Bait 156: Creating Music with Nick Eiben

August 28th, 2018  |  22 mins 42 secs

confidence, music, nick eiben, songwriting

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Nick Eiben to chat about about poetry and lyrics in context , embracing creativity, influences with Elvis, the joy of dancing, resonating music such as Metallica and Nirvana, going ahead and starting to learn to play to a Metallica song book and being your own cheerleader.

BOLD Sports: Episode 36

May 25th, 2018  |  1 hr 46 mins

aaron wise, american pharoah, arizona, austin meadows, baltimore, baseball, bell, belmont stakes, bob baffert, bold pgh, bold pittsburgh, bold sports, bryon nelson classic, buccos, bull pen, bullpen, capitols, clint hurdle, colonial course, columbus, confidence, dallas, division, draft, fc cincinnati, fine, fleury, football, for worth, fort worth invitational, golden knights, hockey, lightning, memorial, mlb, muirfield village, nashville, national anthem, new standard, nfl, nhl, ota, padres, penguins, penn fc, pens, pga, pga tour, pimlico race course, pirates, preakness stakes, reds, riverhounds, rodger goodell, romeo parkes, rowdies, soccer, south africa, sports, sports talk, stanley cup, super bowl, tampa bay, team of the week, texas, trinity forest, triple crown, us open cup, usl, vegas, visualization, winnipeg jets

Are we going to see another Triple Crown?