Any tips for a beginner podcaster? I have a USB microphone and keep procrastinating my own podcast. I get hung up on the little things - intro/outro music, how long the intro should be, etc. Silly, but keeps me from really engaging one.
I completely get that as I dealt with it before I started a pod and I deal with it allllll the time with music still regarding those little "blocks" we have. Honestly, the best thing is to just start. All the bells and whistles of intro music, outro music, cover art, yada yada, that'll come after. Start first and let the show take on it's own life, and all that will follow.
I had been procrastinating starting my own pod for a year, and then I met another rapper and podcaster and went on a livestream with him... and for some reason, as he told me to start a podcast, I was like "okay, I'll do it in the next two weeks" and because I told someone I would, I would up doing it. So if you want me to check back with you in a week or two, I absolutely will 😉 Anything else though, all you need is that USB mic. I used StreamYard and Riverside when I'd do video episodes, but if it was audio only, I'd just use the same program I recorded music in (Logic) and I'd export the audio file. I used rss.com to host and distribute the podcast. Luckily substack will do that shit for free but only on substack. LMK if you have any other questions, I'd be very interested to listen to your podcast!!!
Well this is perhaps just the motivation I needed :)
I've had a couple people already mention how, since I have dozens of articles written already, I can just discuss those. I considered voiceovers (reading the text) and sending those out too. Or a combo of that and then more of a free-form monologue of the article. And interviews as well.
I'll work on this a bit this week then. Thanks for the insight.
That was great. I was listening to you while I was outlining a piece of art for someone in Illustrator. Thank you for talking to me while I did that. I thought of a lot of things, I mean you said a lot. But here's a few that are stuck in my brain. We Do need to be community for each other. I keep telling myself that my next friend may look nothing like me. They could be different in many ways, but if they are genuinely concerned with what is going on and they are in it and they are committed to being who they are, I accept them. I will help them move. I have a truck. I can't tell you how many people I have helped move. We all need to be there for each other. I make friends at the grocery store. They email me when I haven't been by in a long time. But it's nice to know people. All I had to do was stop to ask them how things were affecting them. It started in 2020. I made a lot of friends at the grocery store in 2020. It is common to find yourself in a "conversation" with someone and they are constantly applying everything you say to themselves, rather than just letting you tell a story. That is so common. I talk to a lot of people on a regular basis. (at one of my jobs) I LISTEN to people. I repeat what they have told me and try to reframe it from my perspective, perhaps, or ask more questions. Why? Well, if I am having a conversation with you, clearly, I am meant to be focusing on this experience with you right now. You are as important as I am. So, if I apply that reasoning, clearly, I SHOULD be listening! There might be more than meets the eye as well, sometimes. Who knows? Many wonderful things were born because someone felt heard. They felt understood. I am always glad when that comes back to me. I notice when it doesn't. When people cut me off to apply this to them or to tell me a correlating story, when I wasn't even at my point yet; I notice. I forgive them and hope that over time, they will learn a new pacing in a conversation with me and some of them do! Some people do learn a new pacing to a conversation with you. Sometimes, they just haven't had anyone to talk to in so long, they have so many things to say about their own experience that they can't listen to you yet. They need to talk about what they want to talk about for a while first. I like to hang in there with people. I have seen good things come of it. Now and then, you realize it just isn't worth the effort. They aren't learning (or teaching) anything at all. That's okay. That's their deal. Then I switch to "professionalism" or "professional loving kindness". I like being nice to people. If there is a reason to kick them in the ass though, you can count on that too. Sometimes a swift kick in the ass is exactly the most loving thing you can do. For example the time a woman came up to me and POINTED in my FACE and said "AMY! YOU DIDNT DO THE THING the way I wanted you to!". I said "number one, do NOT point in my face. " breath....."Number two, GOOD MORNING". Pause for lesson to kick in, forgiving smile, awaiting a 'good morning' myself..... "And as for the "thing", please give me a call during office hours or leave a note on my desk. I will review it when I am in the office. I do not accept complaints or requests on Sunday morning before I get into my music. This is my sacred time. " Never had a problem again. Also, other people were listening, so that was good. No one wants a repeat correction, not even an egotist. She goes out of her way to swing by and pay me a compliment now and then. I guarantee you she will never point in my face again. AHaha. Ah, people. They are complex creatures. I am really worried about a lot of them. People who are lonely and alone and closed off, I am worried about. Everyone needs community. That's so true.
Any tips for a beginner podcaster? I have a USB microphone and keep procrastinating my own podcast. I get hung up on the little things - intro/outro music, how long the intro should be, etc. Silly, but keeps me from really engaging one.
I completely get that as I dealt with it before I started a pod and I deal with it allllll the time with music still regarding those little "blocks" we have. Honestly, the best thing is to just start. All the bells and whistles of intro music, outro music, cover art, yada yada, that'll come after. Start first and let the show take on it's own life, and all that will follow.
I had been procrastinating starting my own pod for a year, and then I met another rapper and podcaster and went on a livestream with him... and for some reason, as he told me to start a podcast, I was like "okay, I'll do it in the next two weeks" and because I told someone I would, I would up doing it. So if you want me to check back with you in a week or two, I absolutely will 😉 Anything else though, all you need is that USB mic. I used StreamYard and Riverside when I'd do video episodes, but if it was audio only, I'd just use the same program I recorded music in (Logic) and I'd export the audio file. I used rss.com to host and distribute the podcast. Luckily substack will do that shit for free but only on substack. LMK if you have any other questions, I'd be very interested to listen to your podcast!!!
Well this is perhaps just the motivation I needed :)
I've had a couple people already mention how, since I have dozens of articles written already, I can just discuss those. I considered voiceovers (reading the text) and sending those out too. Or a combo of that and then more of a free-form monologue of the article. And interviews as well.
I'll work on this a bit this week then. Thanks for the insight.
That was great. I was listening to you while I was outlining a piece of art for someone in Illustrator. Thank you for talking to me while I did that. I thought of a lot of things, I mean you said a lot. But here's a few that are stuck in my brain. We Do need to be community for each other. I keep telling myself that my next friend may look nothing like me. They could be different in many ways, but if they are genuinely concerned with what is going on and they are in it and they are committed to being who they are, I accept them. I will help them move. I have a truck. I can't tell you how many people I have helped move. We all need to be there for each other. I make friends at the grocery store. They email me when I haven't been by in a long time. But it's nice to know people. All I had to do was stop to ask them how things were affecting them. It started in 2020. I made a lot of friends at the grocery store in 2020. It is common to find yourself in a "conversation" with someone and they are constantly applying everything you say to themselves, rather than just letting you tell a story. That is so common. I talk to a lot of people on a regular basis. (at one of my jobs) I LISTEN to people. I repeat what they have told me and try to reframe it from my perspective, perhaps, or ask more questions. Why? Well, if I am having a conversation with you, clearly, I am meant to be focusing on this experience with you right now. You are as important as I am. So, if I apply that reasoning, clearly, I SHOULD be listening! There might be more than meets the eye as well, sometimes. Who knows? Many wonderful things were born because someone felt heard. They felt understood. I am always glad when that comes back to me. I notice when it doesn't. When people cut me off to apply this to them or to tell me a correlating story, when I wasn't even at my point yet; I notice. I forgive them and hope that over time, they will learn a new pacing in a conversation with me and some of them do! Some people do learn a new pacing to a conversation with you. Sometimes, they just haven't had anyone to talk to in so long, they have so many things to say about their own experience that they can't listen to you yet. They need to talk about what they want to talk about for a while first. I like to hang in there with people. I have seen good things come of it. Now and then, you realize it just isn't worth the effort. They aren't learning (or teaching) anything at all. That's okay. That's their deal. Then I switch to "professionalism" or "professional loving kindness". I like being nice to people. If there is a reason to kick them in the ass though, you can count on that too. Sometimes a swift kick in the ass is exactly the most loving thing you can do. For example the time a woman came up to me and POINTED in my FACE and said "AMY! YOU DIDNT DO THE THING the way I wanted you to!". I said "number one, do NOT point in my face. " breath....."Number two, GOOD MORNING". Pause for lesson to kick in, forgiving smile, awaiting a 'good morning' myself..... "And as for the "thing", please give me a call during office hours or leave a note on my desk. I will review it when I am in the office. I do not accept complaints or requests on Sunday morning before I get into my music. This is my sacred time. " Never had a problem again. Also, other people were listening, so that was good. No one wants a repeat correction, not even an egotist. She goes out of her way to swing by and pay me a compliment now and then. I guarantee you she will never point in my face again. AHaha. Ah, people. They are complex creatures. I am really worried about a lot of them. People who are lonely and alone and closed off, I am worried about. Everyone needs community. That's so true.