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Hey, welcome back to the how to Podcast series.
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It's Dave with you. We are getting super close to the end of this 24 and 24. And it's been a very long 24 hours as I've been recording this February 13th to the 14th overnight and going live and hanging out with podcasters and doing this marathon thing. And it's been interesting. And I'm still sipping coffee. I've gone way over my limit for coffee intake and yeah, I'm almost there. We got, we're almost done our path. We're almost at the finish line, everyone. So thank you for sticking with me if you're listening to this in the future. I've been doing this 24 episodes in 24 hour marathon, self imposed. I don't know anybody else who's doing this. I don't think it's very common. But I've been recording and publishing an episode every hour on the hour. So I wanted a 24 episode arc to have one main theme to talk about over this 24 hours of recording and publishing time. And so I thought, well, creating a path for podcasters to go from beginning as a beginner all the way through to pro, like actually being in podcasting and understanding it and developing your show. I wanted something that carried us through the entirety of the process, touching on some of the main key things that we need to know as podcasters. This isn't an exhaustive list by any means, but what I've been hearing from new listeners to my show how to Podcast series, of which you're listening right now as they come to the show and there's a wall of episodes and they're like, I don't even know where to start. I just want like a condensed version of the show that touches on some of the key things that you expand on in the podcast. But can you just give me a starting point? So these 24 episodes in a row are going out into the world. I know it's a lot of content to go out over a 24 hour period. I get that as a listener, you're probably looking at your phone like, is my phone broken? Like, why are there so many episodes? That's just Dave. And again, what I've done is grouped all these episodes together on YouTube so you can go to my YouTube channel. There's a link in the show notes and it's a just a curated list, all 24 episodes together in one location. Easy to share if you know another.
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Person who's thinking about podcasting.
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And Wants podcast advice for free and no sales funnel. Send them a link to my playlist, copy it, send it to them. And it's just meant to be an encouraging starting point for anybody new or a refresher for somebody who's been in podcasting for a while to some of the things maybe you've passed over or haven't really done to any depth before for your show. It's what it's meant to be. I hope you find value in it. Love to get your feedback on the entire series and what I've missed, and maybe I can tag that in in the future and update the episodes as well. But they all live in that playlist. Share it away if you can. I'd appreciate that. We're going to talk about the podcaster's mindset today. This is super important and it carries through and everything we've talked about in the last series of episodes for this topic. But I think as podcasters, our mindset is something we need to grow and we need to protect. So let's talk about this. When you set out to start a podcast, you're putting yourself out there in the world. And by putting yourself out in the world, you are opening yourself up to praise, admiration, and criticism. You're opening yourself up to opinions. You're opening yourself up to people talking about you to you and about you behind your back. It's a little daunting to do this, to. To have the. To have the ambition to put your podcast and your voice out into the world. I get that. And after a while, you'll settle into your routine of your podcast. You'll settle into your content. You'll start building relationships with your audience. All that stuff is great, but it comes back to our mindset. We want to make sure that we are. We're healthy as well as podcasters. One of my podcasting friends, his name is Danny Brown. DannyBrown me is his website. Danny talks a lot about mental health for creators and that he challenges the idea that as podcasters, we bring on people who talk about their mental health journey and how they've grown and how they help people. And our shows become a support for people on a journey of working with their mental health, finding healthy alternatives to some pretty unhealthy things have been happening for them mentally. But Danny says it's great that we have podcasts to help our listeners, but where are the podcasts and the podcasters that help their fellow creators? And who's there for us podcasters? Who's there for our mental health? Who's there to support us and encourage us and challenge us at times. But who is there in our corner and I talk about here on this episode and in other episodes that we need three people in our life. We need a challenger who challenges us to do better, who can speak hard truths and we trust and love them for it. We have a cheerleader who just loves everything we do and they see us through rose colored glasses. They just think you're awesome and they just, they're like, go you right? They're just great. And then we have a coach who looks at what we're doing from a different perspective and offers insight and helps us to avoid some of the obvious things we're heading for that could be our downfall. These three people combined become our circle, become our, our main support. And I think we need that. And if you try to do podcasting on your own, especially if you deal with topics that are at times pretty deep, pretty intense. My author podcast, I have people on who gone through traumatic life experiences and then wrote their story about it. And when we get on together and talk, it's heart wrenching. Some of the things, the stories I hear from people and what they've been through. And after you have several interviews back to back in one day, you're done. Mentally, you're done. You're just, you don't know what to think anymore because you've just been dealing with somebody's trauma and all of the things they've been through and it just weighs on you. So we need to watch our mindset and protect the good side of our mindset and be diligent to keep our mindset strong and pure and protect our mental health as Danny encourages us to do. Dannybrown Me we face a lot of mental battles as podcasters and content creators. From Crickets in the downloads, a new episode goes out and there's really no reaction. Even this. Over this 24 hour period, I went live on a few different platforms. I don't normally do this and to, to the credit of the platforms, I don't because I don't normally do it. I'm, I'm not known to be on there and I didn't plan ahead, I didn't announce it. I did a lot of things wrong. But I went live and I sat in empty rooms, just me and my webcam and there's nobody there. So that's, it's heart wrenching when you put yourself out there and you don't get the response you expected. And it happens in our podcast as well. We have things where technology fails us. We have that guest that is so disengaged, it's like dragging them along with us and trying to get them to open up and they just won't. The podcaster's mindset isn't about just grinding as well. I'm a bad example of this, doing 24 episodes in 24 hours and 365 episodes this year. It's not just about grinding harder. Those are personal things that I'm doing to put myself in a creative space, not something I'd recommend to anybody else to do. It's about building your resilience to bounce back when things go wrong, to creatively stand out in your space, and a long term view that turns your hobby into a lasting voice. That's what we're looking at here as we kind of get close to the end of our journey together on this podcaster's path. Resilience is required when your microphone and your podcast feels heavy. Every podcaster knows the sting of zero comments glitchy audio and that episode that was released, you're like, that wasn't my best. That bad review where somebody gives you one star and tells you how horrible you are and that you don't know anything. They're probably right. I don't know everything. That's why I have a podcast, because I want to learn. So these things happen. They replay in your head. We remember the worst, we forget the best. It's how things are. You'll probably remember the worst.