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Welcome to podcast answers, the show where I help you start and grow your podcast. That's

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right. I help people start and grow their podcast, answering any podcasting questions

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along the way. Today I am talking about just starting your podcast, just getting it out

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there because you know what, if we have this fear, we're never gonna do it. So that's right.

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Today, I've got a couple things going on. I am live streaming like I normally do. I

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stream to YouTube, to Facebook, and I also stream live on the new podcast apps. You can

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get a new podcast app at newpodcastapps.com. And my favorite one is Castamatic. So I would

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suggest using Castamatic because honestly, that is one of my favorite, favorite, favorite

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podcast apps.

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And and you can listen live as I'm recording the episodes.

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If you have a iPhone, which I hope you do, because Apple is great and that's my opinion.

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But anyways.

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If you have an iPhone, use Castamatic, go ahead and download it, try it out.

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You can listen to our show live.

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get notified as I go live and as I start doing this podcast.

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And it's great.

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So you can actually be listening to me right now in your podcast app,

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as well as Facebook and YouTube.

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And this time, I'm also doing something kind of fun.

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I'm doing what I'm calling backstage.

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I have a Zoom room going and you can find that at podcast answers dot com

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slash backstage, and that'll get you into my what I'm calling backstage,

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where you can have direct access to me.

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I can actually bring you on the podcast video and audio.

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So if you want to do that, podcast answers dot com slash backstage today

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will get you on to the show with me.

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But so what are we talking about today?

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I was chatting with somebody this earlier this week, and I told them

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we were talking about just getting started, just getting started,

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just getting started.

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And they were talking a little bit about, hey, shout out to you, Kim.

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They were talking a little bit

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and just saying how it's not perfect.

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So they want to listen to it and go over and listen to it

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and try to get their their talk and the way that they sound perfect.

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Well, for me, I was listening and she actually sounded perfect.

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She actually heard her with the way she was talking.

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The tone was great.

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But I told her a little bit of information.

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I said, Listen, Kim.

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Yes, again, shout out to you, Kim.

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I said, Hey,

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Your first episode is not going to be perfect.

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I have been podcasting since 2007, so I want to talk a little bit

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about my podcasting journey, because I don't think I've actually even

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mentioned to you on on this show

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what my podcasting journey was, how I got started a podcasting and

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and how far you know where I've come.

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So I wanted to talk a little bit about that and just getting started.

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So for me, I was starting podcasting in 2007,

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And I was I was into this thing called geocaching high tech scavenger hunt.

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It's a great thing to do if you've never done it.

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But what it it does is it allows you to

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go hide some things and people can find it with their with their GPS.

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What what I did, though, is I was listening

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and I knew that there was one podcast about that already,

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and I was listening to that and I came across this thing called Talkshoe.

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Those of you who have been around a long time know about talk show,

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you know about how it was.

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So essentially what it was is it was a conference bridge.

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So think of kind of like Zoom, but it was meant for before Zoom.

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You could call up and you could talk to, you know, people on the conference

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bridge. And what was cool about about talk show is is they were starting

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to get into this podcasting business.

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They were starting to get into podcasting and all about it.

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And what what they were doing is kind of cool is you could have

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essentially a call in show.

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You could use talk to you to call in because you could record your podcast on it.

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But then you could have them dial this phone number and they could be on the show.

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So I decided I was going to start a podcast about geocaching

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and I was going to have a call in show

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because the other podcasts about geocaching that I knew weren't doing call ins.

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They were just doing a recorded podcast.

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They were putting it out.

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I said, This is perfect.

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I'm going to do a call and show kind of like a radio show.

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And which is, again, why I'm doing this backstage thing right now.

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So you can join me if you want to, because I'm all about people joining.

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Now, I started doing that in my office at the time.

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I was, you know, help desk somewhere.

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And I said, Hey, I'm going to record on my lunch period.

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I had never really done anything like podcasting before,

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and I did some training as far as radio broadcasting goes,

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but I'd never really put it into use.

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I had some training, but I had never really done it live on air,

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except for to the parking lot of the school where I did the broadcast

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training at.

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And so what what that did for me is it sounded terrible for one,

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but it got me going.

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So my first episode, it sounded like this.

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Thank you for talking about the geocaching.

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What is geocaching?

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The geocaching is this.

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And I was very monotone and it sounded terrible.

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And I did the geocaching podcast for several years after that,

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and it went through some iterations, I got some co-hosts in there

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because at that point, like, that's what helped me

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actually produce a decent podcast is having a podcast with like co-host.

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Since then, I've done lots of podcasts with co-hosts, but I've also

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I've also went ahead and done podcasts without co-hosts.

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This this podcast that we're listening or watching right now

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is one that I don't have a co-host on.

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And so what I realize, though, is this

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during this whole process was.

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Your first episode is going to sound not great.

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your first episode, even if you have done podcasts before

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a new podcast, your new episodes are still not going to sound super great.

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They may not sound terrible,

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but as you go along, you're going to learn skills.

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You're going to learn things that help you get behind the mic better

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and do a better job podcasting.

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And so what that's allowed me to do is to be able to say,

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You know, if you wait until your podcast is perfect,

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I'm using that in quotes, if you're not watching the video,

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if you wait till your podcast is perfect, you're never going to release your podcast.

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You just aren't.

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If you always wait for the most opportune time,

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if you wait till you have the best equipment,

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if you wait till you have the best microphone,

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you're going to be chasing that that equipment.

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You're going to be chasing that perfection.

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You're going to be chasing the perfect podcast episode.

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and you're never going to release your episode.

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So just record it.

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Get out there and just record your podcast episode.

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Now, again, if you're just joining me

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and you want to join my backstage, go to podcast answers dot com slash backstage,

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and I'll get you into my Zoom meeting where I have a backstage going on

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and where you can chat and interact with me.

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But we're talking today a little bit about just getting your podcast

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episode out there.

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I if you wait to do it, you're never going to be right.

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So what I would recommend doing is I would recommend listening to it.

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Create your first episode.

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Listen to it first.

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Get it going.

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Listen to it.

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See how it sounds.

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It may not be perfect, but just get it out there.

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You can try if you do record your first episode

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and you decide it's not perfect or it's 100% trash recorded again.

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No big deal.

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But don't don't do 10, 15, 30 takes.

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It's never going to be perfect.

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for the most part.

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For me, I'm a one take kind of person for that reason,

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because for one, I don't if something's going to take me a long, long,

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long time to do it, I'm going to get tired of it over over time.

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So I want to find better ways to do things.

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And so for me, I've always done one take type of things.

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The sound effects that you're hearing.

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These sound effects, podcasts are cool.

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Those things I'm putting in to the show as I'm recording.

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I'm doing the music as I'm recording.

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I'm taking one take.

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I hit stop.

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I post process a little bit, then I push it out to the Internet.

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And the reason for that is, again, because I know

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And if I just record and don't go live,

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and that's another part of the reason why I go live to

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to allow you to hear the raw episode,

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because I know that if I know someone's listening, someone's watching,

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I'm going to actually do a better job at it

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because I'm going to know that I really am putting out a product right away.

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Like I started nine minutes and 52 seconds ago and.

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I know that that my product is going to be good

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because I know that I have people listening to this episode.

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And so whatever it comes out as if it's if it if it if I flub up,

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I flub up, you know, I'm real, you know, I'm you know, I'm not some robot,

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some AI guy.

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And also, I do it live because that allows me

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to have a little bit of pressure behind me, I've tried to record voiceovers,

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I've tried to record things where I'm not going alive.

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And if I don't go into it with the perception of I'm hitting record

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when I'm done, I'm stopping.

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I always mess up.

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I say something wrong, I trip over my words, I restart,

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and I do like 50 takes and that gets really annoying.

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So for me, I'm a one take type of person.

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I leave my podcast recorder started and I record all the things

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as I'm doing it, and then I'm done in a post process just a little bit and post it.

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So that way I can get the podcast episode out really quick.

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But as well as also, I also know that it's not going to be perfect,

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but it helps me be a little bit more perfect in the way that I record

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because I know that I have to be because I'm delivering it live.

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Essentially, people could be watching.

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Delivering it live.

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So with that said, record your first episode, get it out there.

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It's not going to be perfect, and that's OK.

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You're going to get better as you go along.

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You're going to get better as you have 10 episodes under your belt.

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20 episodes, 200 episodes, 2000 episodes.

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You're going to sound way better and more professional

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the more you do it when you just start out.

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You're just learning how to do this as a hobby.

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You're just learning.

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Give yourself grace.

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Get out there and just do it.

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Guys, that is what we do. If you need help podcasting, I would love to help you.

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Go ahead and hit podcastanswers.com/contact. I do one-on-one consulting and help you do your

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podcast all the way from consulting on how to do it to actually helping you do a remote recording

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and podcast editing and production. That's me. That's what I do.

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And so I would love to help you with that. Again, that's podcastanswers.com/contact.

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We can do a one-on-one consultant and you can hire me to do anything you want for this for your

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podcast. Also, guys, if you feel like you've gotten any value out of this podcast, I would

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love that you'd return it to me. Go to podcastanswers.com/buymeacoffee and donate back to the show.

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Thanks. Have a great week and keep podcasting.