The community
Early access to the workspace, and a first look at every new module as it ships.
Book a call →We help churches, ministries, nonprofits, and creators build faithful, fruitful, sustainable podcasts.
Trellis is pioneering new kinds of content and new frameworks for the next era of Christian podcasts.
Or email Eric directly: eric@trellis.fm
Trellis software
One workspace for the whole show.
Plan, produce, promote, and grow from one login. Nothing retyped, nothing living in someone's head. Included with every cohort, with early access for the community.
Built by a producer who ran taping days from a binder, so nobody else has to.
Plan. Produce. Promote. Grow.
Four modules, one show. Every brief, board, email, and report reads from the same episode, so the only thing you retype is nothing.
Plan
Research to shoot day, in one click.
Brainstorm episode ideas against your strategy and your top performers, not generic prompts. Then compile the brief, the producer notes, and the tech rundown straight from the board.
Shoot day · Tuesday3 packets ready
Episode brief · EP-040
Habits that survive launch week. Guest: Dana Ruiz. Cold open from the listener voicemail, then the three habits, then the one she dropped.
Producer notesDone
Tech rundownDone
Guest intake formWaiting
Produce
A pipeline that matches how you work.
Rename columns, invent statuses, add fields. Batch days, seasons, subtasks by type, and assignments that live on the episode instead of in a group text.
Pipeline · Season 48 in flight
Research
Burnout and the creative brain
Guest inWhat sponsors buy
OutlineEditing
The honest money episode
Mix FriReady
A season that compounds
Mon
Promote
Marketing on rails.
Episode emails written from live show data, with A/B subjects. A clip queue, guesting pitches built from your real numbers, and a partnership tracker with statuses and next steps, so promotion stops being the thing that never happens.
Episode email · EP-036Draft from show data
SubjectThe season that finally compounds (and what we changed)
AltWe stopped chasing reach. Here's what happened.
Last week's episode did something we haven't seen in a year: a third of you listened to the end. So this week we're doing the thing you asked for in the voicemails…
Grow
Every platform, one view.
Apple, Spotify, and YouTube together, plain-English insights, and custom reports on a schedule. The numbers your coach reads before every call live here.
Downloads · last 8 weeks+31%
Apple + SpotifyYouTube
Guests and updates
Intake built in. Updates on the episode.
A customizable guest form that flows straight into research and shoot days. Threads, mentions, and assignments attached to the work itself, with notifications that follow you.
Guest intake · Dana RuizSubmitted
Bio and headshotIn
Three questions she wants askedIn
Availability · Tue or ThuBooked
Release formSent
How you get it
The software comes with the climb, not on its own.
Trellis isn't sold as a subscription by itself. It's part of the system, because a board without a plan and a room is how most shows ended up with seven apps in the first place.
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A cohort
A full seat from kickoff, with your coach reading your numbers in it, and it stays after week twelve.
Apply for a cohort →03
Production partners
Shows Eric produces run on Trellis, with the whole team working from the same page.
Ask about production →See it with your show in it.
Free live workshop for Christian podcasts
Are you ready for your podcast's biggest growth window?
The new year is when listeners go looking for new shows and content. Let's plan your 2027 content and launch now, so they find a show that's ready for them.
Wednesday, October 21
9:30am CentralLiveFree
Why now
January is when people go looking for a new show.
New routines, new commutes, new resolutions. Every year a wave of listeners arrives in the first weeks of the year looking for something worth their time. The shows that grow are the ones that were ready before they got there.
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The window is short
The surge starts the first week of January and settles by February. A show that's still deciding what it's about in the new year misses most of it.
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December is too late
Holidays, travel, and a church calendar that's already full. If the plan isn't set by November, the episodes won't be recorded in time to launch with it.
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Ready shows compound
A listener who finds a planned season keeps listening. One who finds a gap, an old episode, or a vague promise moves on and doesn't come back.
The stakes
Two ways to start 2027.
Unplanned
- ×A quiet JanuaryThe feed goes silent over the holidays and restarts whenever someone has a free afternoon.
- ×Episode by episodeEvery week starts from scratch. No arc, no theme, nothing for a new listener to commit to.
- ×The same numbers as last yearThe growth season comes and goes, and the show never finds out what it could have been.
Launched well
- ✓A season, not a streamA named arc with a start date, a reason to subscribe, and episodes banked before it begins.
- ✓A calendar you can keepRecording days, publish days, and promo days set before the year gets busy.
- ✓Ready when they arriveNew listeners find a show that knows what it's for, and they stay.
What we'll cover
The 5 C framework for podcast growth, worked through on your show.
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Clarity
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Currency
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Challenge
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Collaboration
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Compounding
Who it's for
Christian podcast hosts with a 2027 in front of them.
Already running
From one more year→to a planned season.
Your show has been going a while and the numbers have flattened. You want 2027 to be the year it grows on purpose.
Launching
From an idea→to a January launch.
You've been meaning to start the show. The new year is the best time to do it, if the plan is set this fall.
Churches
From a sermon feed→to a show that serves.
A staff that never signed up to be a media team, and a feed that could be so much more than Sunday's audio.
Portrait · Eric
Your host
Eric Randall
I've spent years behind whiteboards and production consoles: launching podcasts, directing livestreams, and building content teams for churches, founders, and organizations that would rather be trusted than trending.
Today I work two ways. For ongoing shows, I own the strategy and production for a season so the show ships every month. For one-off projects, I show up, produce the thing, and hand it back better than I found it.
Either way, the job is the same: make the people you serve trust you more, not just notice you.
Save your seat
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 21
9:30am Central
Free, live, online. Bring your show. You'll leave with a finished worksheet, and if you register and can't make it, you'll get the recording.
Save my seat →
The registration link is coming soon. Leave your email and we'll send it to you the moment it's live.
From shows Eric has worked with
In their words.
With Eric Randall as our podcast producer, we broke into the top ten of all Christian podcasts in the nation. Eric's creativity, tenacity, eye for detail, and innovative strategy helped take our podcast to new heights. On top of all that, he's a lot of FUN to work with! If you want to maximize your podcast's potential, then get Eric Randall on your team.
Eric is exactly what you would hope for. He is full of ideas and encouragement. It's clear he has the competence and care to provide incredible value through his time. He has helped recharge and refocus our podcast.
Before you ask
Workshop questions
Is it really free? +
Yes. No card, no catch. Near the end Eric will say a few words about Trellis for anyone who wants help carrying the plan out, and that's the extent of the pitch.
Do I need a show already? +
No. If you're launching in 2027, this is the right time to plan it. Bring the idea, the audience you have in mind, and a rough sense of how often you could record.
Will there be a recording? +
Yes. Everyone who registers gets the recording afterward, whether or not they made it live. The live session is better, because you can ask about your show.
How long is it? +
Plan for about an hour: the working session, then time for questions about your show.
Application drafted
Here's what would happen next.
Eric reads it, replies within a week, and books a twenty-minute fit call if it's a match.
The application form isn't wired up yet. This is a site frame. Nothing was sent anywhere. Until it's connected, email eric@trellis.fm with the show name and the problem.
Back to homeWhat happens next
Three steps, no pitch deck
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Eric reads the application and listens to the show.
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Twenty minutes: your problem, the honest read, the price.
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A seat, a start date, and a workspace login the same day.
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