122 What are Podcast Themes and Do You Really Need Them?

122 What are Podcast Themes and Do You Really Need Them?

How to Organize Your Content to Save Your Audience Does your podcast have themes buckets? Breaking News: it needs them!   “Uh, Coach, what’s a podcast theme?”   So glad you asked, Billy.    A podcast theme is where you place the topics of your show....
100 The Most Important Lessons Learned in 100 Podcast Episodes

100 The Most Important Lessons Learned in 100 Podcast Episodes

My biggest takeaways from my podcast about podcasting 100 episodes is a milestone in the world of podcasting. It took me a long time to get here and the road was bumpy. That might seem like a strange thing for a podcast coach to admit but I’m just like you – and...
076 5 Big Mistakes Co-Hosts Make in Podcasting

076 5 Big Mistakes Co-Hosts Make in Podcasting

How to avoid co-host awkwardness bleeding through your podcast You’ve got a co-host – that’s great. It makes creating the podcast so much more fun and easier too, right? Bad news – there’s a much higher chance that you’re effing it up because two hosts...
074 How to Stop saying Um and Ah in Your Podcast

074 How to Stop saying Um and Ah in Your Podcast

Avoiding verbal crutches and filler words Do you have a verbal crutch? You know that word or sound you lean on when you’re struggling to find the next real word in your sentence. Um, ah, like, you know, I mean… it’s natural. Now, stop doing it. Disclaimer. This is not...
070 Will Your Podcast Be Out in 3 Strikes?

070 Will Your Podcast Be Out in 3 Strikes?

How Your Podcast May Be Pissing Me (and Your Listeners) Off You’ve got maybe a minute to convince a listener to keep listening. This is not a newsflash. But, do you know what three things are likely to stop them in their podcast enjoyment tracks and exit out before...