Your Podcast Coach

In this final episode of Season 7 of Your Podcast Coach, I share my five takeaways from interviewing entrepreneurs over the past 10 episodes. These takeaways can help you grow your podcast and continue to improve how your podcast sounds. And in these five (#5), I share the easiest way to improve your podcast with your next episode! Thank you so much for listening to this season and all the best to you and your podcast!  

An interesting thing happened in April of 2020. Yes, a pandemic took over the world, but something else... Many podcasts launched during this time!  And while many people started podcasts because they found themselves with time, others started because they COULDN'T do what they WANTED to do. In the case of Becki Svare, it was travel. So, in lieu of getting on a plane and seeing the world, she launched a "literary escape" podcast. In today's episode, Becki shares more detail on how this started for her and how she can easily take what she's created and start making money with her listeners and her email list. Link with Becki! Check out Becki's podcast HERE! Ready to Read Your Way Around The World? Simple click HERE! Thanks for listening and sharing!

I preach that consistency is one of the most important things when running any sort of content channel. If you're going to do a podcast, YouTube, blog or just active on social, the most important thing to be is... consistent. Well, last Monday went by and I did not release an episode. My excuse:  A cat 4 hurricane and a bad head cold. Hurricanes or not, this still bothered me and I wanted to share a quick story in this 5 minute solo episode. Thanks for listening and sharing!

This week, I am happy to introduce you to Emily Wong.  Emily and I have spent the summer working on her podcast, Career Cohort - A Community for Curious Careerists.  Emily, the founder of Words of Distinction, helps women over 40 land their next great job! She believes whole-heartedly that the pursuit of perfection cripples many great ideas from ever starting. (and many from landing their dream job!) In this episode, Emily shares her inspiration for starting a podcast, one of her biggest initial challenges and some of her biggest learnings since starting in 2020. Get your job search started with Emily's free resource: www.launchyourjobsearch.com And connect with Emily on LinkedIn HERE! Thanks for listening and sharing!

Here's a word that I've used a lot this season as I am talking with entrepreneurs about their podcasts... Discovery It's great to have these coaching calls about podcasts with such an incredible variety of podcast hosts.  And in this exercise, I am offering coaching and ideas, but I am also LEARNING many great things! This process of discovery (which I highly recommend for your podcast and business!) is showing many things I didn't know. But, it also confirms the things I've always known. And the biggest thing:  The best hosts have a PASSION and a "calling" to do their podcast. As I share in this episode, the passion you have helps make your podcast really stand out. Thanks for listening and sharing! Click here to grab your FREE Podcast Roadmap

One of the best strategies to grow your audience is to appear on other people's podcasts. But what happens when you're doing that, but not seeing growth. In this episode, we meet Shelley Carney, who focuses on helping "life 2.0" entrepreneurs and is already getting booked on podcasts. I share with Shelley the single most important thing to do when appearing on other shows. thanks for sharing and listening! Interested in learning more about growing your podcast? Start here.

In the summer of 2020, when it seemed like everyone was starting a podcast, Tammy Zelez came to me for help. She didn't know what to do, how to do it, or where to start. She just KNEW she had to do a podcast. In today's episode, I catch up with Tammy on all her successes with her podcast Through The Lens and where she goes from here. Check out Tammy's podcast HERE Download the Podcast Roadmap HERE Thanks for listening!  

I will always coach you to leave your podcast episodes basically unedited. Leave them in there most authentic and true state. However, I come to you on this day, eating some crow because I massively edited last week's episode with Desiree Wolfe. In this episode, I share why I felt the need to edit that episode, what I learned from that experience as a host as well as two segments where we discuss social media and SEO for podcast hosts. Thank you for listening and sharing! Link to my podcast roadmap

When I first heard Desiree Wolfe say that her podcast was basically Mom's who like to swear, I was IN!  What a great content "Promise!" But as I got to know Desiree in this coaching conversation, I realized there's so much more to her podcast, Slightly Unfiltered. In this episode, Desiree and I have a conversation about the struggles of managing time and all the "tasks" associated with a podcast, as well as picking up a podcast after an 18 month break. Plus you'll hear the ONE STRATEGY I share with Desiree that made her basically say, "wow...that makes my podcast so much easier! I can breathe now!" Link to Slightly Unfiltered Podcast Follow Desiree on Instagram Download the Podcast Roadmap here.  

Vulnerability.   Authenticity.   If you’re going to do a podcast, a willingness to be both is key.   With Steven Murphy and The Nook Podcast, these two traits are front and center!   In this episode, Steven shares how faith is often misconstrued, how his biggest episode to date almost didn’t happen, plus we discuss key strategies you can use to get your own podcast soaring even farther.   And one of the big takeaways from this episode is having the courage to publish some of the more vulnerable moments in your life.   Link to The Nook Podcast here.   Follow Steven on Twitter here.   Download the Podcast Roadmap here.