Continuing my look back on 15 years of working on the internet (and the last decade as working as a podcaster), I'm addressing a question that I've gotten fairly often recently: Any advice on starting a podcast?
Based on my own mistakes working on three different shows, and observations about the podcast listening community and industry, in this episode I'm sharing what I would do if I started a new podcast today. While I speaking pretty specifically about podcasting in this episode, I also think that a lot of what I talk about applies to most creative endeavors on the internet in 2025.
I'm talking about creativity, marketing, mindset, equipment, and more. And at the end I give a little pep talk that maybe we all need.
MENTIONED in this episode:
Audacity recording/editing software
Riverside.fm software for remote recording
Single microphone I used for years recording in person
Current microphone I use
RELATED episodes:
Ep 124: Behind the Scenes of Podcasting
Ep 205: 10 Things All Podcast Fans Should Know
Ep 253: Regrets and Reflections After 15 Years of Working On the Internet
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