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Your Podcast Consultant: Podcast Tips To Avoid Podcasting Mistakes
Late is temporary - Bad is Forever
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All right, I gotta let everybody know there's a little bit of bathroom humor in this episode, so if you're offended by the thought of poo poo, you might want to tune out.
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Welcome to youo Podcast Consultant. Small lessons with big value. With more than a decade of experience and millions of downloads, this hall of fame podcaster is a featured speaker, author, and mentor to thousands. Now he wants to work with you. He's your podcast consultant, Dave Jackson.
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All right. We all live and breathe now with our different devices that tell us when and where to turn. Our GPS is built into our phone. And you might think, because I had one, that the very first GPS was made by the company Garmin. And I would say you're wrong. The very. Your very first GPS was your butt. Yep. And you're like, wait, what? Yeah. Have you ever had to, like, go number two? Yeah. And it's weird because the closer you get to home, the more you're like, I hope I'm gonna make it. And you get out of your car, you're walking kind of funny, and you put your hand on the doorknob to go into the house, and you're like, I don't think I'm gonna make it. And it's weird. It's just the closer you get, there's this pressure. Dave, what does this have to do with podcasting? Because the closer you get to launching your first episode, I do not know why, but there's a lot of pressure that you put on yourself. I get it. I always say it's, you know, you've done this episode three or four times, probably, and you just want it to be like, I just want it out. I get that. But yet I've seen people that have fairly easy to fix, we'll call them mistakes that I just know three years from now, you're gonna go, oh, I should have fixed that. That was an easy one. And I tell people this. I'm like, this is easy. Just go back and fix the volume or whatever it is. And they'll like, I just want it out. I just. And I'm like, okay. And I kind of go back to that pressure we feel where we're just, I just need to release this. So I get that. And then I always myself, I'm in a situation right now. I'm launching a new podcast and rebranding another. And last night I was working on, and I really wanted to get this website the right way. And it was 11:30, and I was like, you really should go to bed. And I'm like, but I want this out now. And I was like, you know what? And this is the case with your podcast. As I record this in 2026, podcasting has been around roughly 22 years. And it's waited 22 years. You know, six months, 25 days, three hours, and 14 minutes. It can wait another week or two or maybe even a year. I know people that have been thinking about doing a podcast for literally years, if not a decade in some cases, and they've got a very dusty microphone in their bottom drawer. And so, on one hand, I'm worried. I don't want to put you in the mindset of, it's never right. I can't release it. But there are, again, some very easy things in some cases. And you're like, yeah, but I told myself I was going to release on Monday, and it's Sunday. And you're like, yeah, but you could wait till next Monday or next month. You know what's going on, and all you need to do is identify. What do you need to change? Well, I don't like the music on the intro. That's an easy fix. In the middle, I went to say cheese, and instead I said, cheese. Okay, that's easy to fix. You found out that your volume level is 1.5 decibels too soft or too loud. That's an easy fix. And yet people are like, I have to get it out now. And I'm here to tell you again, the world has waited over 20 years for your podcast. And I get it. You want to meet your deadline. I get it. But maybe it's better to make a great first impression, even if it's, quote, late. Late for who? Late to you. But nobody else knows. It was supposed to come out last Monday, so it's better to put something out. That's great. That's a little late. Wow, I'm rhyming. Suddenly I've turned into a rapper. But here is my bumper sticker for this. Just keep in mind that late is temporary. So if it was supposed to come out on Monday and on Tuesday, it's late, and on Wednesday, oh, it's here. That's temporary. But bad often is forever because you never go back and change it. I know. I am a victim of this myself. This is kind of one of those physician, heal thyself moment. And I put out an episode in the outline. Everything was great, but the actual delivery was a little weird. And I said, you know what? I don't want to miss my. I've got, you know, 21 years of never missing a Monday. And I didn't follow my own advice. I went ahead and put it out because I didn't want to be late. And I said, I will go back and rerecord that and fix it. And so far hasn't happened. So I, again, totally get your feeling. I just want you to stop and think. Late is temporary, bad is forever. And so it's one of the things I plan on doing this weekend is re recording that episode because the content was great. I just was a little scatterbrained and it could be better. So if you need some help, maybe some feedback on an episode, feel free to join the school of podcasting. One of the things we do is we offer listener parties, get a bunch of people to kick back, listen to your show, let you know what part is just going amazing, and if there's anything that's confusing, we'll let you know in a loving and kind way. Also, you have courses. You got an amazing community. It's all there. Schoolofpodcasting.com use the coupon code listener when you sign up for either a monthly, quarterly, or yearly subscription. I'm Dave Jackson. I help podcasters. It's what I do. I've been doing it for over 20 years, and I can't wait to see what we're going to do together because I want to be your podcast consultant. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I had been podcasting for 19 years. I run the school of podcasting. And a student of mine, Kim Newlove from the Pharmacist Voice podcast, said, hey, Dave, do you know you have a typo in your podcast? And I said, well, which one? I have a number of podcasts. And she said, oh, no, the school of podcasting. And I go, really? Is it like in a title or a, you know, show description? The episode description, where's it at? And she said, no, no, it's in the title of your show. And I thought, no, come on. I mean, sure, I had updated the tagline, but typo? I mean, that's ridiculous. And I went over and there it was School of podcasting. Plan, launch, grow and montize. I left an e out of monetize. Thankfully, I had a friend like Kim, new love, you can't fix what you don't know is broken. I mean, don't you hate it when you've gone through most of the day only to discover things like, I don't know, your zippers down, you have a stain on your shirt, toilet paper stuck to your shoe. Or my favorites, you have broccoli stuck in your teeth. And then just think, why didn't somebody tell me? And that's what we do here at Fix My podcast. We make shows that are kind of, meh, better and good shows great. You can't fix something until you know about it. And that's where I come in. I'm Dave Jackson. I help podcasters. So come on over and improve your show@fixmypodcast.com.