Transcript
A (0:00)
Hello, everyone. This is Michael Hyatt from MichaelHitt.com you're listening to the man who has trained more people to podcast than anyone else on the planet, my friend Cliff Ravenscraft. He is the podcast answer man. Well, hello and welcome back to another episode of Podcast Answer Man. My name is Cliff Ravenscraft. And this, my friend, is the original POD about podcasting, helping you take your message, your business, and your life to the next level. That's right. It doesn't matter if you are brand new to this online content creating world or if you've been creating content for many years. There's something we can all do to take everything we do in life to the next level. And taking her life to to the next level is exactly what Laura McClellan has been doing for over 12 years now. Laura is a lawyer, she's a wife and a mom who took my Podcasting A to Z course just over 12 years ago, and she almost never launched her podcast. She talked herself out of it for six whole months. And when she finally pressed that publish button on that very first official episode, she did it from a closet with a handheld digital audio recorder and a little bit of fear. Today, she has released more than 500 episodes of her podcast out into the world. And she has built a community of listeners whose lives have been changed by something she almost never shared. The conversation that I'm about ready to share with you is actually a part of a series of conversations titled where are they Now? Where I sit down with people who took my Podcasting A to Z course and I ask myself where are these people today as it relates to creating content more than a decade, 10, 15 years later, are they still creating content today? At the end of this episode, I'll tell you where you can find some of those other conversations. But if you're thinking about launching a podcast, or if you have one sitting on pause, or if you're currently producing content and wondering, is it still worth the effort? I want you to hear this conversation with Laura right here. Laura, this month celebrates 12 years since you graduated from the Podcasting A to Z course. I looked recently and saw that you have published over 500 podcast episodes in the last 12 years. When I discovered that you've continued the Productive Woman podcast after all of these years with a bit of a hiatus in June, and we'll get into that. I want to tell your story. How does one get to over 500 podcast episodes? And what has that journey been like? Laurette, why did you first ever decide you want to create A podcast.
B (3:31)
I had discovered podcasts because of someone whose blog I followed years ago, and he launched a podcast. And I thought, well, what's that? So I started listening to his. And from his, I learned about yours and various others and started listening to others, and I started thinking it might be something I would like to do. I had. I had tried doing a blog, but I never had the discipline or the time or whatever you want to call it to sit and write blog posts. But I thought I could do that. I could talk. And I was actually looking for something to do that had nothing to do with my day job. I started thinking about doing this a podcast. And I learned about your podcasting a to Z course and got brave and decided to sign up and. And start the process that way. But it was really just something. A way. Something to do that wasn't related to. To my rather stressful day job, that I could feel like I was doing something creative and. And maybe contributing something to the world.