Have you ever wanted to launch a podcast but don’t have the expertise or know where to start? Dr Amy Robbins, host of the Life, Death, and The Space Between podcast, joins Rob Cressy to dish about her journey of launching a podcast and experience working with Rob.
* Since Amy had no prior podcasting experience before working together, she is a great testimonial of the positive things that can happen because of it.
* What was her mindset in the beginning?
* How did she overcome any limiting beliefs she had (like putting herself out there)?
* How did she find time to work on her podcast with all that she has going on in with business & life?
* What was the response from her audience when she finally launched her podcast?
* How did keeping things simple allow her to make progress and build momentum?
* Why did the length of her podcast make her show feel like a great party?
Here is a transcription of our conversation and some of the best nuggets from it:
Rob Cressy:
What we’re going to talk about on this podcast is your journey from zero to launching your podcast, which just happened. And included in this, I want to talk about your mindset, the struggles that you’ve had, as well as your experience of what it was like working with me. So, let’s start at the very beginning. You didn’t have any experience in podcasting, did you?
Dr Amy Robbins:
Zero. No experience, yeah. I mean, I barely have an experience with a computer, sometimes I feel like, so I definitely did not have experience with podcasting.
Rob Cressy:
And what was your mindset, going into this?
Dr Amy Robbins:
I was excited, but I was nervous. Part of my struggle, in terms of what my actual podcast is about, was around putting myself out there. So, I’m a clinical psychologist, but this podcast shares that I’m also a medium. And so, it was really combining those two. And I had a lot of internal struggles around getting to a place where I could put that out to the world. And so, that was one piece of my mindset. And the other is just that I don’t particularly love technology. So, the idea of doing a podcast and all the little pieces around it, with GarageBand, and now, I’ve learned Libsyn and all these different… iTunes and Spotify and Stitcher, and how to get everything… How to make it all come together was completely overwhelming for me.
Rob Cressy:
And when you started this, take me to your why, because a lot of people want to create a podcast, but you committed to creating a podcast. And I believe your why has to be strong enough to make you to commit and take action. So, why did you want to create the podcast that you did?
Dr Amy Robbins:
In my clinical work, I was seeing a lot of people really struggling around issues of grief and loss. I had been talking for months about wanting to do a podcast and wanting to get my voice out there so people could hear and get more comfortable with the idea of death and what it means to die and what happens to us when we die. And that was really where my passion came from. I will have to say that I think, when I committed to doing this with you, when I signed on the bottom line, I knew in my mind that the timing for me was not great. It was the summer. I have three kids, two of which were going to be gone, so I was getting them ready to leave for the summer. It was summer, so I wanted to enjoy summer, but I felt like if I didn’t commit and hold myself sort of accountable, then I wouldn’t have really… I would have kept finding reasons why to not do it. And so, I committed, and I have to be honest, I felt like at times I was letting you down because I think there was a long period of time where I just wasn’t pushing myself. But I knew once September came around, it was going to be all systems go.
