<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:psc="http://podlove.org/simple-chapters" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Diary of a Balloon Artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><b>Diary of a Balloon Artist</b> is where the balloon industry gets real. 🎈📖</p><p>Hosted by balloon artists Jazmin Austin and Whitney Koblin, each episode opens a new anonymous diary entry submitted by someone in the balloon and event industry. From nightmare clients and assistant drama to pricing mistakes, copycats, competition, business lessons, and the stories nobody wants to say out loud, we’re talking about it ALL.</p><p>We’ll read the entry, give our unfiltered reactions, share our own experiences, and offer advice on what we would do if it happened to us.</p><p>Have a story you’ve been dying to tell? Your secret is safe with us. Submit your diary entry anonymously at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com" target="_blank"><b>DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com</b></a>.</p><p>New diary entries weekly.</p><p><b>Signed,<br />Diary of a Balloon Artist 🎈📖</b></p>]]></description><link>diaryofaballoonartist.com</link><generator>Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:40:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://api.riverside.com/hosting/mOwdveep.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><author><![CDATA[Diary of a Balloon Artist]]></author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:12:05 GMT</pubDate><copyright><![CDATA[2026 Diary of a Balloon Artist]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><ttl>60</ttl><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><itunes:author>Diary of a Balloon Artist</itunes:author><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Diary of a Balloon Artist&lt;/b&gt; is where the balloon industry gets real. 🎈📖&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hosted by balloon artists Jazmin Austin and Whitney Koblin, each episode opens a new anonymous diary entry submitted by someone in the balloon and event industry. From nightmare clients and assistant drama to pricing mistakes, copycats, competition, business lessons, and the stories nobody wants to say out loud, we’re talking about it ALL.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We’ll read the entry, give our unfiltered reactions, share our own experiences, and offer advice on what we would do if it happened to us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have a story you’ve been dying to tell? Your secret is safe with us. Submit your diary entry anonymously at &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;New diary entries weekly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Signed,&lt;br /&gt;Diary of a Balloon Artist 🎈📖&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Diary of a Balloon Artist</itunes:name><itunes:email>diaryofaballoonartist@gmail.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Business"/><itunes:category text="Education"/><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/logos/a3ecf061-5c2e-4749-9603-37e6c95a04a7.png"/><item><title><![CDATA[Bonus Episode: Signed, Your Hosts]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h3>Bonus Episode: Signed, Your Hosts 🎙️📖</h3><p>The diary is back open… but this time, <b>we’re switching things up.</b> 👀💕</p><p>For this bonus episode, there’s no anonymous diary entry. Instead, we’re putting <b>Jazmin and Whitney</b> in the hot seat so you can get to know the women behind the mics.</p><p>We’re talking about how we got into the balloon industry, how long we’ve been in business, a little about our lives outside of balloons, and all the random things that make us <i>us.</i> 😂</p><p>Because if we’re going to sit here every week reading your anonymous stories, giving our opinions, and getting into all the balloon business tea… <b>you might as well know who you’re telling your business to.</b> 😭👀</p><p>So consider this our official introduction before we get back to your regularly scheduled diary entries. 🎙️</p><p>Got a diary entry of your own? Submit it anonymously at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com" target="_blank"><b>DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com</b></a>.</p><p><b>Signed,</b><br /><b>Your Hosts 🎙️✍🏽</b></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">33cfe463-e3cc-41cf-8548-e198e505a11c</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diary of a Balloon Artist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/656c2b3639ca7ff24b10f12da84b1c246b0bda2e329acc5e9cd68c53c3b7a122/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIzM2NmZTQ2My1lM2NjLTQxY2YtODU0OC1lMTk4ZTUwNWExMWMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIyNGM4MzVmMi0zZGQ5LTRhYzUtODYyYS0xOTdkMDkzNjE3MTUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTYwMTQyM2Y4NGNiNGNmZTFhMmJhYjAiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmFhMjE4NmRhNzMxZGQyNmFlYzg2MmJjL2RpYXJ5LW9mLWEtYmFsbG9vbi1hcnRpc3RzLXN0dWRpby0yMDI2LTktMTBfXzItMzktNDUubXAzIn0=.mp3" length="50105930" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/episodes/33cfe463-e3cc-41cf-8548-e198e505a11c/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;h3&gt;Bonus Episode: Signed, Your Hosts 🎙️📖&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;The diary is back open… but this time, &lt;b&gt;we’re switching things up.&lt;/b&gt; 👀💕&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For this bonus episode, there’s no anonymous diary entry. Instead, we’re putting &lt;b&gt;Jazmin and Whitney&lt;/b&gt; in the hot seat so you can get to know the women behind the mics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We’re talking about how we got into the balloon industry, how long we’ve been in business, a little about our lives outside of balloons, and all the random things that make us &lt;i&gt;us.&lt;/i&gt; 😂&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because if we’re going to sit here every week reading your anonymous stories, giving our opinions, and getting into all the balloon business tea… &lt;b&gt;you might as well know who you’re telling your business to.&lt;/b&gt; 😭👀&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So consider this our official introduction before we get back to your regularly scheduled diary entries. 🎙️&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Got a diary entry of your own? Submit it anonymously at &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Signed,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your Hosts 🎙️✍🏽&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:26:06</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/logos/a3ecf061-5c2e-4749-9603-37e6c95a04a7.png"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:title>Bonus Episode: Signed, Your Hosts</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>bonus</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signed, The Balloon Drop that Didn't]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h3>Episode 2: Signed, The Balloon Drop That Didn’t 🎈📖</h3><p>The diary is back open… and this one is every balloon artist’s WORST nightmare. 😭👀</p><p>For this diary entry, a balloon artist writes in about being hired to create a balloon drop for a big event. Everything was planned, everything was in place, and when the moment finally came for the balloons to drop… <b>they didn’t.</b> 😳</p><p>So what do you do when an install doesn’t go according to plan in front of a room full of people? How do you handle the client, the pressure, and the aftermath when something completely out of your control goes wrong?</p><p>Jazmin and Whitney are getting into ALL of it: what went wrong, how they would’ve handled it, what you do when a setup fails in real time, and whether the balloon artist could have done anything differently. 👀</p><p>Because sometimes in this business… <b>the balloons aren’t the only thing that can drop.</b> 😭</p><p>Got a diary entry of your own? Submit it anonymously at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com" target="_blank">DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com</a>.</p><p><b>Signed,<br />The Balloon Drop That Didn’t 🎈✍🏽</b></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">ce5d1d55-e0ca-42e6-b440-3966d331c273</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diary of a Balloon Artist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/994ebd909efdb8ad35c4a6972e11125f972c23e161cc8ce13f0c2264643924f1/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJjZTVkMWQ1NS1lMGNhLTQyZTYtYjQ0MC0zOTY2ZDMzMWMyNzMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIyNGM4MzVmMi0zZGQ5LTRhYzUtODYyYS0xOTdkMDkzNjE3MTUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTYwMTQyM2Y4NGNiNGNmZTFhMmJhYjAiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE5ZTVlNDQxNTE5NGMwZDNmMDcyODkwL2RpYXJ5LW9mLWEtYmFsbG9vbi1hcnRpc3RzLXN0dWRpby1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTktN19fOC00OC0zNi5tcDMifQ==.mp3" length="40700177" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/episodes/ce5d1d55-e0ca-42e6-b440-3966d331c273/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;h3&gt;Episode 2: Signed, The Balloon Drop That Didn’t 🎈📖&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;The diary is back open… and this one is every balloon artist’s WORST nightmare. 😭👀&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For this diary entry, a balloon artist writes in about being hired to create a balloon drop for a big event. Everything was planned, everything was in place, and when the moment finally came for the balloons to drop… &lt;b&gt;they didn’t.&lt;/b&gt; 😳&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So what do you do when an install doesn’t go according to plan in front of a room full of people? How do you handle the client, the pressure, and the aftermath when something completely out of your control goes wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazmin and Whitney are getting into ALL of it: what went wrong, how they would’ve handled it, what you do when a setup fails in real time, and whether the balloon artist could have done anything differently. 👀&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because sometimes in this business… &lt;b&gt;the balloons aren’t the only thing that can drop.&lt;/b&gt; 😭&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Got a diary entry of your own? Submit it anonymously at &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Signed,&lt;br /&gt;The Balloon Drop That Didn’t 🎈✍🏽&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:21:12</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/logos/a3ecf061-5c2e-4749-9603-37e6c95a04a7.png"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Signed, The Balloon Drop that Didn&apos;t</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signed, I Trained My Competition]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h3>Episode 1: Signed, I Trained My Competition 🎈📖</h3><p>The diary is officially OPEN… and y’all wasted no time getting messy. 👀</p><p>For our very first diary entry, a balloon artist writes in about bringing on an assistant, pouring time into teaching her the business, showing her the ropes, and trusting her as part of the team… only for that assistant to turn around and start a balloon business of her own.</p><p>So where’s the line between <b>training your team and training your competition?</b> And when someone learns the business while working under you, do they owe you anything when they decide to branch out on their own?</p><p>Jazmin and Whitney are getting into ALL of it—the betrayal, the business side, what they would have done differently, and whether the assistant was actually wrong. 👀</p><p>Welcome to the very first episode of <b>Diary of a Balloon Artist</b>.</p><p>Got a diary entry of your own? Submit it anonymously at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com" target="_blank"><b>DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com</b></a>.</p><p><b>Signed,<br />I Trained My Competition 🎈✍🏽</b></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">914a1b42-d358-4edc-b4ce-10ab631fc472</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diary of a Balloon Artist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:57:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/b68fdfd1fba0fbae7270b76329587e25f96b940e019ed9eb30f8caefcc66d003/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI5MTRhMWI0Mi1kMzU4LTRlZGMtYjRjZS0xMGFiNjMxZmM0NzIiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIyNGM4MzVmMi0zZGQ5LTRhYzUtODYyYS0xOTdkMDkzNjE3MTUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTYwMTQyM2Y4NGNiNGNmZTFhMmJhYjAiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE5NjJiZWZmYjk0YzAyNWUzZTYwNmM0L2RpYXJ5LW9mLWEtYmFsbG9vbi1hcnRpc3RzLXN0dWRpby1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTktMV9fMy0zNS00Mi5tcDMifQ==.mp3" length="50100915" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/episodes/914a1b42-d358-4edc-b4ce-10ab631fc472/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;h3&gt;Episode 1: Signed, I Trained My Competition 🎈📖&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;The diary is officially OPEN… and y’all wasted no time getting messy. 👀&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For our very first diary entry, a balloon artist writes in about bringing on an assistant, pouring time into teaching her the business, showing her the ropes, and trusting her as part of the team… only for that assistant to turn around and start a balloon business of her own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So where’s the line between &lt;b&gt;training your team and training your competition?&lt;/b&gt; And when someone learns the business while working under you, do they owe you anything when they decide to branch out on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazmin and Whitney are getting into ALL of it—the betrayal, the business side, what they would have done differently, and whether the assistant was actually wrong. 👀&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the very first episode of &lt;b&gt;Diary of a Balloon Artist&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Got a diary entry of your own? Submit it anonymously at &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;DiaryOfABalloonArtist.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Signed,&lt;br /&gt;I Trained My Competition 🎈✍🏽&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:26:06</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/24c835f2-3dd9-4ac5-862a-197d09361715/logos/a3ecf061-5c2e-4749-9603-37e6c95a04a7.png"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Signed, I Trained My Competition</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>