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PSA | We Launched a Patreon! Here’s Why It Matters
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In this PSA-style bonus mini episode, your co-hosts Cheech and Nibby (Chiara and Isa) share a behind-the-scenes update that’s been months in the making: The Ripple Affect Podcast has officially launched a Patreon! With their signature humor and heartfelt clarity, the sisters break down why this next step matters, how it supports the sustainability of the show, and what it offers their growing community — including long-awaited show notes and a collection of never-before-heard “Lowdown” recordings. It’s an honest conversation about connection, intention, and the value of building outside the noise of social media.
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Introduction to The Ripple Effect Podcast
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You're listening to The Ripple Affect with your hosts, Cheech and Nippy, a podcast that explores how individual change has the capacity to affect the whole. From neuroscience to donuts, we're two sisters with a deep curiosity for ancient wisdom and modern knowledge, and we're obsessed with learning alongside you because we don't know.
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Let's dive in.
Patreon Launch Announced
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Welcome back to the Ripple Effect podcast. Thanks for pressing play. I'm Kiata, aka Cheech, your co-host, and today's mini episode, mini-sode, is an update. We recorded it back in October leading up to launching our Patreon page, so please forgive the future tense of some of it, as in we will be launching.
00:00:50
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Instead, I'm so pleased to announce the Ripple Effect podcast officially has a Patreon page, As of 1010, we are very excited to share with you some of the deets in this casual style talk.
Cheech and Nippy's Humor
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We are so stoked to be back in podcast land with all of you. Looking forward to connecting more in this coming new year. Enjoy the mini-sode. Are we live? We're live.
00:01:13
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For each other. Welcome back to another episode of the Ripple Effect podcast with your host, Cheech. And Nibby. But this is Nibby's voice. And this is Cheech's voice. Sorry for confusing you right off the bat. We realize our voices sound very similar. We're two people, although we could be one person having a personal conversation with themselves. What? Back and forth, back and forth.
00:01:37
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What are you talking about? What if we were that good? What if we said we were two hosts, but we're actually just one person going back and forth? That would be psychopathy. Psychopathy.
00:01:48
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I think. Potentially. But we're two people. we are. And I'm excited to be recording. We did it, Nib. We did it. We've come so far. This is our new equipment. Sorry, I'm eating them.
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Yeah, what the fuck is so unprofessional? I'm sorry. I hear nephew. Oh, his little voice. Kiada.
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He's calling Kiada. He says Dada and Kiada. He does not say Mama yet. He said Mama, but not like all the time. Anyway, so this is to share what we're going to
Why Patreon?
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do. What are we doing? This is news to me, everybody. No, it's not. I have no idea what's going What are you talking?
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I'm hearing this first time like you. No, you're not. Issa, look at me. Oh, she's whispering Patreon. Yes, Patreon. Oh, right, or i right, right. on this for months working bunny ears no whata has been i have that's not true you have been working I do nothing I am the weight She keeps looking over at me with these weird facial expressions. I'm a little worried.
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No, we are launching our Patreon because we want this project to be sustainable and to go into the future with us. And we need support to do that. Yeah, we need financial support. But then more importantly, i guess it's equally, is we get to actually create community.
00:03:17
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So we've been looking for things alternative to social media. Because while... We can build community there. It's not exactly what we we're looking for in terms of intimacy, I think.
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Your dog is scratching at the door. My dog's louder than my child. It's terrible. Okay, good morning. Baby. So we're doing it. Yeah, I think I'm still learning the Patreon platform and what that's going to actually be.
00:03:48
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and how it's going to work, but I'm excited about there being an option for chats and Q&As and lives and more more interaction with our audience off of social media. Because I don't think social media is the healthiest place for any of us just to be hanging out. And some of us are better at curating our feeds to make them conscious and healthy and fulfilling. But I think it's hard to avoid the toxicity of social media.
00:04:17
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I agree. Well, it's just attention sucking on purpose. It's the attention economy. So that's just hard to want to encourage people to find us there when it we know what it does to ourselves.
Patreon Tiers Explained
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And i did dive in a little bit to Patreon and have been. And so essentially, if you've never heard of Patreon, it is a way for the public to support a private project. So you could subscribe to a tier, become a member of our Patreon page and then you get whatever we're giving. But the other side part of that, and we get to build this any way we want, is that we can create what is called posts inside of Patreon, but there are different offerings to you to interact with there. Also, when we go into our community posting, we can write a question and you can answer it. We can, like Issa said, go live and you can be there with us. We can sell things, sure, like merchandise or whatever. Isabel.
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I was reading some copy of... i said Isabel. That was weird. Yeah. But I was going to say, because you wrote this copy for our Patreon that says flamethrowers and lunchboxes. Yes.
00:05:32
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Lunchboxes. The ripple effect. Lunchbox. Lunchpail. The ripple effect. Flames. The flamethrower. The kids love that one. Yeah. So that made me laugh. But we don't want to put it as selling things as much as we want to have it be interactive and meaningful, meaning giving an offering more than we do just for the podcast. Because the past podcast is an offering to the public. But then through your support, we get to exchange in that support and have more offerings.
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Yeah, we also get to add more value to our listeners' lives. and I'm looking forward to that because there's only so much we can do by having and holding conversations and including people in our process and having that build a community of conscious-minded people that are trying to change themselves and change the world for the better.
00:06:28
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but you know Talk therapy only goes so far. Conversations only go so far. There is action involved in in change. And so I think that the Patreon platform is going to be a lot easier to have actionable support items for our listeners.
The Value of Show Notes
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Yeah. Yeah. And we have big ideas, but we're going to start simple and sustainable. So our tiers right now include show notes. Yeah.
00:06:56
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Which is I think, of huge value. We've been hoarding them. Yeah, essentially. We have 20 plus episodes and we have not released one show now. And here's why. We had built out last year a website that we lost. Tear. R.I.P. So that was where we originally were going to have a moment of silence for our dead website.
00:07:18
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For our never launched website. The dreams that never came true. We had that intention to host show notes there. Intentions don't mean shit. Best laid plans. I think it was for the best.
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Because I think Patreon, as we begin to explore it, really does hold the space to do that kind of thing. And so you'll be able to get show notes. And then for the next year, you'll be able to get what we call the lowdowns.
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Yeah. Okay, so these tiers are essentially like different memberships. So it will be a flat rate that you'll pay monthly and it'll be consistent material out to you for that subscription. And then the second tier is the lowdown, which is... The lowdown. Recordings. The lowdown.
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Which is... I'm still working on that. The lowdown. No, you're not. why are you doing this The lowdown. what This is so cheesy. Wait, wait, I hope you got better one. I got a better one. Here we go. The lowdown.
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No, not. I'm not. but That's okay. You just put yourself on the spot to do it, which I have no idea why you did that. Okay. So The Lowdown. Lowdown. Which is the same name as our newsletter. The Lowdown. You are subscribed to our newsletter. If you are not, you can go to The Lowdown. Jesus. Okay. was going to say you could go to our website address and that's where our newsletter lives now. How do to sign up for our newsletter. This is confusing. I'm confused. Are you confused? Yeah. What fuck is she talking about? you go to www.rippleeffectpod.com, it takes you to a landing page that lets you sign up for our newsletter.
00:08:58
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No shit. Yeah. And we have zero newsletters. We have not sent a single one. Interjecting for a not so quick update. Since the time of this recording, we have officially launched our newsletter. The first edition was sent out last week and it is entirely thanks to our secret weapon, our producer, Miss Michelle Asaro. She has taken over this corner of the Ripple Effect podcast and will be stepping out from behind the curtain to send periodic gems to your inbox. She is the living embodiment of exceptionalism. Believe us, you don't want to miss out on it.
00:09:32
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We promise it will be an email that you will actually want to open. If you'd like to receive the first entry, you still can. Go to rippleeffectpod.com. That's affect with an A. That will take you to our landing page to sign up for the newsletter.
00:09:46
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Sign up and we'll send it over to you. Okay, back to the conversation. So secondarily, then we have the what was I saying? The...
Introducing 'The Lowdown' Tier
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Oh, the sorry. My eyes just got really big. I just stared back at her just freaking bleam her eyes like, what? The lowdown. The lowdown is intimate recordings that Eason and have accumulated over the years that are the moment in time when we start to have a conversation, organic conversation, and we hear podcast.
00:10:21
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Hear meaning... it kind of is an intuitive hit that we should record this conversation, not knowing where it's going to go. It's literally in our kitchen, in our living room, sometimes in the car. we we just put our phone out, record.
00:10:36
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And usually, well I know that they are valuable to me because I have these conversations with you that are valuable to me. And that's why we started the podcast because we felt like they might be valuable to others.
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But they also have a certain unedited, you know, The quality is on our phone. You hear life going on around us. But the moment that it captures is very authentic and usually deeper dive and more intimate than necessarily what we would put on the podcast.
00:11:06
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And we want to share those with our Patreon members. Yeah, they're definitely more vulnerable. They're definitely more more intimate into our personal process and also just our personal lives.
00:11:19
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they always carry some value in in process of what we're going through or what we're reading. or you know There is a professional identity that both of us assume when we are recording the podcast. And we do our best to drop the veils and be authentic and and show up like we would in a room with you. But like we would in a room with you, we wouldn't share the same things that we do in our kitchen with your sister 11 p.m. at night. You know, it's just a little different. And those lowdowns are those conversations that we get to have just with each other and get to be really, really honest and and real and weird. and Weird. that's the Mostly me. Operative word there. like I think I confess that I thought I was an alien the other day to Kiana. was like, what? It's like, fuck, are you talking about? Do you remember that one time where there' was like the CAPTCHA? CAPTCHA?
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CAPTCHA? I think that's what they're called. For Airbnb. And I like, I legitimately came to Keanu. I was like, I don't think I'm, i don't think I'm a human. No, it's. I do not Those little things where it makes you like click all the bicycles. At first i was like, come on, Issa, seriously. And then I looked at it and it wasn't a normal CAPTCHA. It was like some weird... It was like a full-blown puzzle of some sort that I could not riddle. It was... Anyway, so yeah, listening to Isabel thinks she's an alien and so far will be what you'll get. I ah There'll be much more. Yeah, more on this soon. But we wanted to get this out to you to tell you what's going on.
Sustaining the Podcast
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That we're here. We're still trucking.
00:12:51
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We still have every intention to add a lot of value to your life as not just our supporters, but our actual community. And so stick with us. And we have unreleased episodes that we'll be releasing after this Patreon launch because we need that sustainability.
00:13:09
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Thank you. We love you all. Yeah. See you on the flip side.
00:13:18
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Okay. i I think we did it. Listen. I don't know what we did, but we did it.
00:13:27
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Look, unattainable ideals are overrated. We're way more connected and deserving than society's false sense of separation dictates us to be. You're not just one person. You're enough. Your effort is enough and change is possible.
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Question the standard that says otherwise, because what if almost is good enough?
Encouraging Listener Engagement
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Just by tuning in you're a part of our clan. Not in a culty way though.
00:13:53
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yeah We don't know how far this ripple can go, but we're going to keep showing up and we'll never get to perfection, but we're all going to be okay if we let the process be the solution and we see the value in the attempt.
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Thanks for listening to another episode of The Ripple Affect. We're looking forward to exploring a different facet of change with you next week. DM us directly at rippleeffectpod on Instagram and let us know what you liked about our show or any of your own ideas. We'll see you time. We're really excited to hear from you. We value your feedback because it helps us make the pod better and it's our way of including you in our process.
00:14:30
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Okay, so ratings aren't the point of why we do this, but in the matrix, they're our algorithms. So yeah, every single review we get helps the ripple go farther.
00:14:41
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To help us out, please take two seconds, find the ratings and review section on whatever platform you're listening from, click five stars, wink, wink, and leave a review. We sincerely appreciate it.
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If you want to become officially initiated into our clan, again, not in a culty way, hit the subscribe button wherever you get your podcast. And as always, we're in it with you.
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Keep questioning. Stay curious. You got this, clan.
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A special thank you, love, and credit to the magnificent Mia Casasanta for this beautiful music you're listening to right now.