
FILO Podcast
FILO Podcast continues the conversations started at FILO Conference and carries them throughout the year. Todd Elliott hosts the podcast and interviews key influencers in the world of church production to talk about ideas that affect all of us involved in pulling off weekend services.
Latest episodes

May 18, 2020 • 54min
Episode 044: Daniel Scotti
Todd and Daniel talk about the responsibility that we all have to be a pastor for the people on our team. We shouldn't just need volunteers to fill a position but to be involved in and care about their lives.
Liz Forkin Bohannon's Book: Beginner's Pluck
Rick Warren's Leadership Values: Lead, Feed, Understand the Needs, Intercede
We are grateful for Amplio's support of this podcast episode.
Visit ampliosystems.com to start a conversation today!

Apr 27, 2020 • 53min
Episode 043: Sabrina Joseph
Todd talks with Sabrina Joseph, Owner of Roya Productions in Atlanta and Project Manager for Local Engagement at Passion City Church. They talk about how she started in production and how it led to helping churches and organizations realize their ideas. Getting to the heart of the story, figuring out what we want people to feel and experience are just a few keys to making visions become reality.
Passion City Church: home.passioncitychurch.com
Roya Productions: royaproductions.com
Simon Sinek TED Talk - "Start With Why"
Book Recommendation: Anonymous: Jesus' Hidden Years... And Yours by Alicia Britt Chole
Sound Design Documentary: Making Waves
Sabrina is teaching a breakout class at FILO 2020 Chicago on Creating Environments. Join us and check it out!
We are grateful for Clark's support of this podcast episode. To get more information on Clark, text "FILO" to 47-177, or visit Clark.IS/contact.

Apr 6, 2020 • 60min
Episode 042: Andrew Schuurmann
Todd sits down with friend and former co-worker from the Willow days, Andrew Schuurmann to talk about visual storytelling. Not only from the perspective of shooting and editing, but into why use video at all. It was a good time.

Mar 16, 2020 • 54min
Episode 041: TC Furlong
Todd sits down with one of his favorite people, TC Furlong, to talk about the barriers to a great production. These barriers aren't just about better technology, but about our processes and even the relationships we have with our team.

Feb 24, 2020 • 1h 12min
Episode 040: Mike Sessler
Mike Sessler shares his story and how each experience has helped to shape how he approaches production in the local church. We talk about ad agencies, portable churches and tanning beds!

Feb 3, 2020 • 43min
Episode 039: Caleb Loeppky
Caleb and Todd talk about the idea of FILO Staffing. What skills are churches looking for and what types of technical people churches are actually going to find. How can we help make the local church more effective through being the type of technical artists the church needs?

Jan 13, 2020 • 59min
Episode 038: Scott Ragsdale
Todd sits down with old friend and FOH mixer Scott Ragsdale to talk about mixing audio in church, on the road, or for local bands at the VFW.

Dec 23, 2019 • 39min
Episode 037: Justin Firesheets
Todd talks with Justin Firesheets about the transition from doing production to leading people doing production. To expand the reach of our ministries requires us to let go and to empower others. There is some good stuff in here!

Dec 2, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode 036: Robert Scovill
Todd sits down with Robert Scovill to talk about the Scovill origin story and explore some of the lessons Robert has learned along the way. Some of those lessons are related to audio, but many are just very insightful live skills.
Learn more about Robert on his website: robertscovill.com
We are grateful for L-Acoustic's support of this podcast episode. To get more information on L-Acoustics, visit their website.

Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 21min
Episode 035: Muchiri Gateri
Todd talks with Muchiri Gateri, Head of Creative Technologies for Hillsong Church in Australia. They talk about leading teams, leading up and leading yourself.