I watch most of the sailing videos on You Tube and for most part I like them all. I started thinking about all the enjoyment I was getting but was not giving back anything in return. So I started paying attention to the patrons and did a bit of research. I soon realised that I could not be a patron to each sailing group and decided that I would pick one and make a sizeable contribution each month. But how do you decide which one is best for you. My thoughts were to select a group that I felt needed me. Not a group that already had a large group of patrons and could spend their money on most anything that they wanted but I would choose a group that I felt needed my help and that I could connect to. I chose Sailing Merawether because she met the criteria that I was looking for. Two young people from two different countries coming together and enjoying each other and working together to just have fun. They had a nice boat, nothing fancy but they were able to make it work. They were aware that they had a budget and were going to live within it. They were not struggling but were frugal with what they had. Kerine seems to have a good working knowledge of the boat and he uses Isabelle in such a way that helps him and gives her the information that she needs to be a better first mate. There were their work ethics, quality of video’s and other factors I won’t go into. And not one of my requirements but Isabelle is not hard to look at. :)

When my parents were alive, I tried so hard to help them stretch their meager retirement funds through investments. I subscribed to many newsletters and even paid over $7000 to become a member of an investment newsletter club only to be pointed in 100 different contradictory directions. I was turned onto great hope but was stuck in dead end investments. They never had the experience of getting ahead and lived off of the pension my dad had and social security. I have derived more benefit and learned more through Patreon than any other source of information I’ve ever applied myself to. Words can’t express how thankful I am to the Patron team and to James for helping my wife and me to finally understand the right way to view the markets. We both have benefited in our accounts and have a way to map out a financial plan that’s based on numbers not stories. All this time I thought that I was stupid or had bad instincts but I didn’t have the tools or the perspective necessary to succeed. I literally can’t thank you enough for sharing this life changing information at the price of charity. James, my wife and I watch your tireless efforts in helping others and only hope that you are finding fulfillment and work life balance. Than you and your team for spending yourselves to change the lives of so many like us.

I absolutely love this podcast app. At the beginning I wished that it had not only showed you what episode you were currently listening to & left off from, I really wanted it to show me which episodes I had already listened to. That way in case I missed multiple episodes in a row, I would know exactly where to listen first. Lo and behold a few months later the new update came with just that!! Yay! It also gave you all your currently listening to episodes then below those you were able to see "what's next" for you to listen to in your most frequently listened to podcasts! Which this is in its very own section of the app. You of course have your home page then one other section I can't recall if it's your profile or your saved podcast list. The only thing I'd update now, is to be able to go farther back within the home section to see more of the updates but I suppose going to there actual page within the app isn't too difficult! If you're a time sucker I'd for sure give this a 3 out of 5 stars, wouldn't change a thing!! Haha ScaredToDeath TimeSuck BadMagic : get to listening you creepers!

I’m so happy to be a patron of the podcasts I love, but accessing their content is so difficult. 1. There’s no way (that I’ve been able to find) to separate feeds of the podcasts I patronize by individual podcast without going first to my membership tab. 2. Can only sort by “posts” and “audio,” no option to sort oldest to newest, newest to oldest, etc. 3. When I’m playing an episode, the progress bar in the feed does some crazy skipping around, changing the total time of the episode from 10 minutes to 25 hours to 4 hours (?!) 4. Can’t adjust time to skip ahead/go back, they’re both only 15 seconds. 5. When iPhone is locked, I’m unable to play from Lock Screen. I have to unlock phone, navigate to app, and play from there. 6. When I’m listening to an older episode and I open the app, it automatically goes to the newest posts so I have to navigate down almost every time I want to listen to the next episode in the list. 6. No option to go to next episode when on an audio post. 7. No search function on the main feed, have to browse to find what I’m looking for. I realize in the grand scheme of things these aren’t a huge deal, but this is a professional app and I expect professional quality. Certainly there are enough developers working for Patreon to fix these minor kinks and make the user experience infinitely better.