PodChatLive is a monthly online livestream show for podiatrists and other health professionals interested in the topic which is broadcast live on Facebook as well as available later as a replay on YouTube, the website as well as the usual podcast sources such as iTunes and Spotify for the sound version. In each show both hosts have on one or more guests and discuss a variety of issues of importance to podiatrists and the lower leg. Through the livestream, questions might be asked by those viewing during real time and the hosts and guests respond to them. The livestream has gathered a wide following and is very popular in the podiatry profession.
The hosts of PodChatLive are Ian Griffiths and Craig Payne, both podiatrists. The show began one night when Craig was visiting Ian and they went live from Ian’s kitchen to have a discussion live on Facebook about what came up. It was afterwards called PodChatLive because they realised that it worked and they were getting a following. Craig is located in Melbourne and he admins the discussion forum, Podiatry Arena and runs the online courses for the Clinical Biomechanics Bootcamp. Ian is a sports podiatrist London, UK. The livestream did start out as a weekly livestream, but as it's not monetized, it was way too much work for the hosts to put on, so following the first year it was transformed to a monthly livestream.
Sometimes the PodChatLive livestream is about clinical topics such as injuries, other times it talks about business topics like social media marketing. In other episodes the guest is someone famous inside the podiatry profession and so they focus on a variety of topics with that guest. Some episodes are much more popular than the others and at times the hosts get amazed just how popular some episodes are as they weren't always expecting that episode to be as popular as what it ended up being.