A couple of months ago, my friend and former client Adam Hulme asked me if we could catch up, as he was in the process of creating a new podcast. He wanted to ask me what I had learned from the first few months of The Coach’s Journey Podcast. I decided to record the conversation and release it as an episode, as I knew that Adam wouldn’t be the last person to ask how I made my decisions about creating a podcast.

So this episode is structured around the brilliant set of questions that Adam brought to me, about how I went about creating this podcast, what I have learned, what I would advise other people to do, and what I might do differently if I started again.

In particular, I talk about:

How I structure my interviews (and what I have done to try and make them as useful to listeners as possible).

Loads of the nitty gritty detail: RSS feeds, editing, hosting, gear/tech setup and more.

My three ‘must do’s if you are creating a podcast.

And you get to meet Adam, and great coach and dynamic entrepreneur, and hear about his new podcast (with co-host Kerry Hearsey), Two Coach Confidence.

Of course I’ve only made 13 podcast episodes to date, but I hope that at the very least what I have shared in this episode and via the links below will help some people shortcut the research they need to do and - even better - help people feel empowered to get out there and make something cool.

For information about my wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.

For more about Adam visit https://mycoachforlife.com/, and to listen to his podcast Two Coach Confidence (which he hosts along with Kerry Hearsey), visit: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1071241

Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg

Things and people I mentioned (that you might be interested in):

~4: The Joe Rogan Experience: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/

~5: The Jordan B Peterson Podcast: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/

~6: Squarespace and a discount code: https://www.squarespace.com/coupons

~9: Mums In Business Association: https://www.mumsinbusinessassociation.com/

~9: Kerry Hearsey from Two Coach Confidence: https://kerryhearsey.com/

~14: The Tim Ferriss Show: http://tim.blog/podcast

~26: Tim Ferris’s blog about building a podcast: https://tim.blog/2016/04/11/tim-ferriss-podcast-business/

~26: Tim Ferris’s page of podcast gear: https://tim.blog/podcast-gear/

~26: The video I mentioned (made by Pat Flynn) about how to edit a podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUBZHOljzU

~27: The gear I bought: Audio Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone (not on Amazon.co.uk right now); mic covers (apparently help with sound): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B019OO4IY6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1; some wired headphones to plug into my mic (so you can hear yourself - I wanted to get some special ones for this): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Q724CXS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. Plus Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/, Zoom (free for one-on-one conversations, including recording): https://zoom.us/ and Auphonic (https://auphonic.com/).

~28: Joel Monk, the podcast episode where I spoke to him: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-6-joel-monk-conversations-at-the-cutting-edge-of-coaching. The mic he uses for his podcast is a Yeti Blue (which looks like it’s gone up in price since last time I checked! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Recording-Streaming-Condenser-Adjustable/dp/B00N1YPXW2/).

~36: Article I used about which podcast platforms to upload your podcast to: https://www.thepodcasthost.com/promotion/best-podcast-directories-where-to-list/

~38: My sister’s podcast, Thank You For The Pain I Needed It For My Art: https://podcast.app/tyfta-lro-the-podcast-p803129/. She used Anchor.FM to host it: https://anchor.fm/

~38: Auphonic: https://auphonic.com/

~40: My ‘information for guests’ document.

~43: My 12-minute blog: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbieswale/detail/recent-activity/posts/

~65: The episode of the podcast with Katie Harvey about coaching curing coronavirus: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/coaching-during-coronavirus-katie-harvey