So, you’re cruising along with your podcast. It’s growing slowly but steadily. And then suddenly, it stops. You’re not losing listeners but you’re not gaining them either. You’re in a podcast rut. The good news is that lots of podcasters deal with this. It’s...
The Most Important Questions Happen Before you Hit Record Podcasters ask me all the time if they should give their guests the questions before the interview. My no BS answer is – NO Way Jose. I don’t know if it’s all of the years I spent on talk...
Why You Need to Tap into the Purpose of Your Podcasting Efforts As a podcast coach, I’ve met with hundreds of podcasters through my free 15-minute coaching sessions. Hundreds. There’s one question I always seem to be asking. And, for some reason, this question often...
The Good, Bad & Ugly of Podcasting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) If you listen to my last episode on AI and Podcasting then you know that we, the human podcast hosts, don’t have much to fear in terms of being usurped by our AI counterparts. At least...
The AI Takeover of Podcasting: The Robo-pocalypse This is how I generated it. I used: https://chat.openai.com/ . Free to use (at the time of this episode). PROMPT Write a podcast script for an ai generated voice about how podcasts can be 100% ai created and nobody...
It’s an invasion! AI is going to take all of our jobs! Grab your homestead now while you still can… Okay, so it’s not quite time to panic about how Artificial Intelligence is going to decimate the economy and take all of our jobs. But, it is time for us podcasters to...
Ready for some real talk? There are over 250 podcasts with the name ‘real talk’. I’m sure it seemed like a perfect name to the podcaster at the time. But here’s the thing – what the hell does that even mean? What kind of real talk? Real for who? About what? ...
Discover Your Podcast Path to Profits I’ve met my fair share of podcasters with dollar signs in their eyes. And fair enough – podcasting takes a lot of time and energy … when you do it right. So, why shouldn’t you get paid? Why shouldn’t you want some podcast...
Podcasting seems like a fun idea and what-the-heck, it’ll be great for my business. After speaking with hundreds of podcasters, I’m convinced that this exact thought is what lead them to start their podcast. And I agree. It is fun. And it can be great for...
Podcasters often think of their schedule when they think about consistency – and it’s true, it is important to deliver your podcast on a regular basis. But, that’s not the only way to benefit from being consistent with your podcast. In this episode,...
Podcasting is easy. Just grab a mic and go. Lots of people are making tons of money podcasting. These are lies. Or at best, half truths. In this episode, I get real with you about some of the harmful industry lies being told to podcasters. But don’t worry, it won’t...
Great content, check. Professional mic, check. But your podcast still sounds like crap? It could be where you’re recording. Let me tell you something you may not want to hear if you’ve spent a lot of money on a mic (or any money, for that matter). Even the most...
I don’t want to alarm you but, ahem, I do make mistakes. Not many. Like, maybe 5 in my whole life. But, like all entrepreneurs, I’ve learned from the ones I’ve made so in this episode, I thought I would share the ones I made when I launched my very first podcast...
Do you spend hours in conversation with your guests just to get one juicy story out of your guests? Have you ever wondered how talk show hosts and professional podcasters manage to get the best stories out of their guests in such a short time? It’s not magic. It’s...
You’ve heard of podcast fade (when eager new podcasters can’t keep up the pace and their show dies away), but I’m hearing a lot of podcast mic fade. This is when the host’s (or guest’s) voice slowly drifts off. Let’s talk about what this means to your...
Want to be the Joe Rogan of Your Niche? Here’s Your Step by Step Plan I talk to a lot of podcasters in my free 15- minute coaching calls and hands down the most common thing I hear from podcasters is that they want Joe Rogan level success in their podcasting niche. ...
Sometimes I listen to a podcast and I can almost see the questions the podcast interviewer is asking. I picture them clutching to these questions like it’s a floating door next to the almost sunk Titanic. Somewhere, someone in the podcasting world told people to...
Get your grubby hands off me! If your mic could talk, that’s what it would be saying. There is one time and one time only that you should be touching your mic and that is when you are setting it up at exactly the right position. Could your Mic Skills be Ruining Your...
There’s this thing that happens to athletes when they over train. They over-analyze every stroke, swing, or step. They start to overthink what they are doing. Their motions and reactions become too premeditated, too stiff, too awkward. The pressure to perform mounts…...
Jayna Marie’s Promotion Plan Generated Massive Downloads in the First 30 Days It’s the dream. Launch a podcast and instantly have 30,000 downloads. ‘Huge downloads’ is certainly the most common goal I hear in my free 15-minute coaching calls! The problem is, it’s not...
Where do you put your promo? Are you asking for something right out of the gate? Do you like to sneak it in the middle? Or are you closing with your CTA? There are a lot of opinions about the best placement of your call to action and in this episode, I’m going to...
Repetition and Consistency are Essential and Powerful Just because you’ve said it 100 times doesn’t mean someone has heard it 100 times. And it certainly doesn’t mean you can toss it away like a 2 month-old iPhone. (Apple slam!) I hear this all the time. It happens in...
Make a sticky note and put this up in your podcast studio: The Weight is in the ‘Why’, Not the ‘Who’. Let me help you decipher this one. The weight or the value of each episode comes from why someone would listen NOT who you have on your show. Let that sink in....
So, you got the most expensive mic and you thought that would make you sound great. I have bad news for you. The best mic can still sound like crap if you’re using it wrong. If you want to sound great, you need to have good mic technique. I explain all about proper...
One of the best parts of what I do is getting to meet so many podcasters. I love it when they bring their problem podcast or podcast dreams to me. And, with hundreds of coaching meetings under my belt, I can see the patterns. Every podcaster or would-be podcaster is...
The Podcast Lesson I Learned from a Burly, Tattooed Biker You’re out there minding your own business when suddenly you come face to face with rather large, tatted up biker who forces you to see things a different way. This literally happened to me in my twenties on...
Do you ever feel like you are running out of things to talk about in your podcast? You are not alone. I hear this challenge from a lot of podcasters. The good news is that there’s gold hiding in your past episodes! I’ve talked before about how to use past topics to...
Do you ever feel like you’re talking into a great empty void? Like your podcast is out there floating around and nobody is listening? It can be so demoralizing! In this week’s episode, I share a blast from the past to help you see that what you’re...
Don’t Fall Prey to the Lure of False Metrics Who doesn’t want to have the number one podcast? Pretty much every podcaster, right? That’s why marketers keep promising it to you. But, you shouldn’t bite. I’ve been seeing a lot of ads lately offering you up a guaranteed...
The Top Mistakes Podcasters Make Using Music Have you ever been at a bar or party where the music is really loud and it’s a struggle to have a conversation? It’s annoying but part of the party experience. When it’s part of a podcast experience it’s just annoying....
