From Fairy Podmother: This question about podcasting profit cropped up a few times on Facebook over the weekend. But really, it's one of those questions that gets asked with alarming regularity. The answer truly is: Probably never.  

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Her publisher wanted her to start a podcast to launch her book, but even with a professional producer, the process was painful. She knew her message was to important to share to be deterred, so she kept at it. She shares her most powerful lessons learned, her go to coping strategy for dealing with impostor syndrome and how she makes podcasting work for her.

About the Podcaster: 

Jennifer Whitacre Gardner, MA, BA, LMT, is an Expert Myofascial Release Therapist who helps with physical injuries, structural imbalances, and various other chronic conditions. Jennifer discovered the importance of understanding how intricately connected our physical health is with our mental health, our emotional health, and our spiritual health. She helps her clients reveal the source of these issues so they can come to a new level of acceptance of themselves. Her work, her podcast, and her writing often revolve around this theme of raising personal awareness and learning to take a whole new approach to health, and to life. This is why Jennifer started her podcast-- so her listeners can hear stories of the challenges others have faced and how they surmounted their obstacles. Everyone has a story that will inspire someone!

Highlights:  

• Not all professional help in podcasting is great help
• Information overwhelm is REAL and paralyzing
• Creating great interview questions
• Guests with control issues
• Jennifer's budget
• Getting the first episodes recorded can be a real pain
• Automation is AMAZING
• The show notes conundrum
• Podcasters self-abuse
• Podcast coping skills
• Retaining authenticity in your podcast
• How podcasting impact Jennifer's personal relationships

Mentioned in this episode:  

• JenniferWhitacre.com
• Sound Flower
• That SNL Skit (NSFW)
• Podcast Editors Conference
• Podfest
• She Podcasts Live

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The technical thing I learned from this episode: Having your audio transcribed makes creating show notes a lot easier and faster.

Podcasting Pain Point: Recorded this with Zoom.us... and you can tell. I wasn't smart enough at the time to record my end locally, which is weird because I do that when I'm a guest on other's shows. Done is better than perfect.

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Goli Kalkhoran of Lessons From a Quitter, talks about leaving her practice as an attorney to find contentment and drive from her passions. We delve into leaving her firm, the emotions behind that, building a new business, and how she eventually allowed herself to begin podcasting. With so much going on between being a mom of two littles and running her own businesses, we also discuss time management, balance, and how all of this is impacting her personal life.

Website: www.lessonsfromaquitter.com

Goli Kalkhoran is a former lawyer turned podcaster on a mission to let others know that it is okay to abandon the passions and goals they had as young adults, in order to grow and thrive as they get to know themselves in every decade of life. She spent the time, effort, energy, and money to become a lawyer, but once she started practicing, realized that she felt stuck and trapped. Along with that feeling of being trapped, was a certain level of guilt over wanting to quit something that she had worked so hard and for so long to attain. With the support of her husband, she quit the job that was suffocating her, and found her calling in helping others realize that it is okay to be a quitter in order to find the work that truly inspires growth and passion both personally and professionally.

• Goli spent two years conceptualizing her podcast, but put it off due to time and imposter-syndrome. She wanted to get her message out there when she quit her firm initially, but felt that she needed to be successful in her own business before she could launch. Sound familiar?
• After deciding to take the leap, she had her show launched within 5 months.
• Barriers: She stood in her own way thinking that she needed to be able to provide experience, but she’d already taken the leap by quitting her practice and really just needed to share her insights.
• Budget: Goli had no budget in mind when she started. She didn’t spend too much or too little, just got the things she needed to get going. She now thinks she’ll be spending more on marketing.
• Pain points: Writing show notes. We both agree that writing the show notes almost takes longer than editing the pieces themselves. Do they actually have value?
• Struggles: The struggle is real when it comes to falling down the rabbit hole. She shares about how she gets sucked in to the social media aspect because she enjoys connecting with her audience, but this has caused her some time management issues.
• This experience has been so very positive for her and her family. Her husband is supportive, her son loves to pretend to record, and she has found profound fulfillment in normalizing the idea of starting over to pursue your passions, rather than staying stuck in your expectations.
• Message to new podcasters: starting is overwhelming, but you don’t know what you don’t know and there are so many things that you can only learn by doing. Don’t wait for everything to be right to start, just start.

• YouTube Creator Burnout
• Libsyn
• Quitter Club

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The technical thing I learned from this episode: Figuring out transients and Ozone 8...

Cats in this episode: It's always Fat Round... but sometimes Moo.

Personal Podcasting Pain Point: I kinda hate the way the interviews sound a year later. Maybe my processing was too aggressive. I use a gentler touch these days and I'm more forgiving of my own voice.

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Jen Vertanen joins us to discuss her podcast experience dealing with tough topics. Jen explains the struggle to finding the right guest to come on the show, getting over 1-star reviews, the time it takes to put out a quality podcast, balancing podcast and family life, and getting your process to help beat the overwhelm.

About the Podcaster: 

Jen Vertanen is a guru who deals with trauma and hosts the Going There podcast where she and her guests explore tough topics through unfiltered, raw, and often hilarious conversations about the things that make us human.

Highlights:  

·        Dealing with tough topics

·        Finding the right guests

·        Finding the time to make a podcast

·        Hiring a good team

·        Knowing what you need

·        Avoiding active listening in podcasts

Mentioned in this episode:  

https://www.jenvertanen.com/podcast/

She Podcasts

Libsyn

Omny Studio

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The technical thing I learned from this episode: Transients are still an enigma for me...

Podcasting Pain Point: The problem with working with recordings and edits you did a long time ago is that you can't remember what issues you had... is the audio really scratchy and were the levels always wonky or is that something I messed up in post?

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Jerri Williams discusses her transition from former FBI agent to author to podcaster. She weaves a compelling tale, detailing the challenges of creating a podcast based on interviews with FBI case agents, both former and current. Beginning with budgetary concerns, equipment, scheduling and family impact, she gets more in-depth while discussing her personal mission to present the cases and issues in true FBI fashion, unbiased and non-partisan.

About the Podcaster:

Jerri Williams has always been a storyteller and, after serving 26 years as a special agent in the FBI, she has plenty of stories to tell. During most of her Bureau career she worked major economic fraud investigations and was amazed at the schemes con-artist and corrupt corporate and public officials would devise to steal other people’s money. She has also had the opportunity to work bank robberies and drug investigations. The one thing she knows for sure is… “With a gun, you can steal hundreds. With a pen, you can steal millions.”

She is using her prior professional experiences with scams and schemers to write crime fiction inspired by actual true crime FBI cases and to produce and host FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime and history podcast where she interviews retired FBI agents about their high-profile cases and careers, corrects clichés and misconceptions about the FBI in books, TV, and movies, and reviews crime fiction.

In her new book, FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives, she presents her top 20 clichés and misconceptions about the FBI. Each cliché has its own chapter where she provides a reality check while breaking down the facts. Throughout the book, she also includes quotes from retired agents about how the FBI actually works and reviews popular films and fiction featuring FBI agent characters.

Highlights: 

• Why Jerri decided to do a podcast
• How long it took Jerri to execute her podcast
• James Comey’s impact on Jerri’s social media presence
• The budget and technology Jerri started podcasting with
• The physical toll of podcasting and simultaneously writing her third book
• Podcasting with side projects and family growth
• Parts of podcasting that overwhelm Jerri
• Does Jerri’s family share her love of podcasts?
• How Jerri finds time to podcast and write
• Jerri discusses how her new book FBI in Film and in Fiction combines her passions
• Why podcasting for social impact is important to Jerri
• How has podcasting negatively impacted Jerri’s life?
• How has podcasting positively impacted Jerri’s life?
• Something that should be changed about podcasting culture

Mentioned in this episode:

FBI Retired Ca

se Review Files

Jerri’s Website

PodcastExpo

Podcast Movement

She Podcasts Live

Just Busters Facebook Group

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The technical thing I learned from this episode: Always switch to the WiFi extender when you’re in a place that needs the WiFi boost. ALWAYS.

Cats in this episode: Fat Round. Who I think is now our official mascot. Jerri’s pup, Canyon, got jealous, so he’s in there, too.

Personal Podcasting Pain Point: When you love to listen to podcasts and have one of your own, it’s hard to keep up! Also, I need to get out of the house more! Also, Squadcast failed partway through this interview. Zencaster doesn’t work for me… ever. So, we finished up this recording on Zoom.us. And you can probably tell.

Special thanks to my awesome editor Michael for sorting out the mess that was this recording. He’s one Ya Ya Podcasting amazing team members and I’d be lost without him.

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Rick Paddock joins us to talk about podcasting, and his WHY behind the podcast. Rick discusses the time-consuming points of podcasting, the development of his WHY, clarity of focus for the show, knowing your priorities and not letting overwhelm get to you, the benefit of listening podcasting as a form of meditation and some insight on looking back on what he’s learned so far.

Rick Paddock is a Board-Certified Hypnotist, Mind Coach, and Author, as well as podcast host of Mind Flipping. He shares tools & tips to renovate & update you mind and life!

• Why Rick started his podcast
• Podcast Budgeting
• Does the WHY change?
• Balancing family and podcasting
• Getting time away from computer
• Redirecting negative thoughts

http://mindflipping.com/

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There is real time and there is Audition Time. These are not the same thing.

It’s my kid. Chiming in on Alexa. Because that’s what kids with Alexa do, apparently.

Letting go. That’s not natural to me. I want to micro-manage, but I’m learning to curb this habit because it is a productivity and happiness killer. Can you relate?

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Lisa Orkin, one of the first ever podcasters, discusses her 10 years of experience in podcasting. Coming from a voice acting background to starting her first podcast, and how she got to her current podcast, Project Woo Woo. She shares how she copes with all the aspects of podcasting, how much of her life is spent podcasting and how she mixes humor with her wisdom.

Lisa Orkin is a comedian, the Creative Director at Radio Ranch, a company that creates ads for radio and podcasts. She is the host of Project Woo Woo, where she has real conversations with imaginary people fulfilling her deep desire to look deep into the hearts and minds of the most important spiritual, historical, and intellectual influencers, past and present, dead or alive all played by some of the most brilliant world-class actors, writers, and comedians, in Los Angeles. It is part comedy, part performance art, part serious interview. Unlimited by time and space, Lisa suspends reality to talk with people she has always wanted to. There is not one minute that Lisa does not believe she is talking to the real people, making Lisa’s fantasy world organically funny, wonderfully wacky and strangely enlightening.

Lisa is a Ya Ya Podcasting client.

• Why She Started a Podcast
• The History of all her Podcasts
• How to Cope with Details
• The Need to Tell Stories
• Dealing with Feeling Unsure
• Parody laws

http://honestlylisa.com/

http://www.projectwoowoo.com/

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Squadcast has some issues, probably because I was on wi-fi and not hard wired like usual.

Thor. AKA Maydoh. While I was recording the intro, he wanted me turn on the bathroom tap for him. Because why would a cat want to drink from a water bowl?

This year has been crazy so far, in a good way. New clients, new team members and new opportunities and a growing to-do list. Getting this podcast out remains a challenge. Next season, I'll be doing things differently so I really can drop an entire season in 1 day. I'm learning from this failure and experimenting a bit with other ideas (which I'll share with you soon!).

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Bryan Entzminger joins us to discuss why podcasting is WORTH it even when it’s hard. Bryan had a full time job but something was missing. He wanted to do something MORE and make a bigger impact in the world, so he started the Engaging Missions Podcast to feature missionaries and church planners and share their experiences with the world. Bryan discusses his experiences in podcasting, budging, avoiding overwhelm, and what he still struggles with and so much more.

Bryan Entzminger is a Logistics planning Analyst and Podcast host. Bryan hosts the Engaging Missions Podcast to bring God stories in your earbuds-sharing stories from the lives of missionaries, ministry leaders, and church planters.

• Balancing Full Time work & Podcasting
• Being Impactful
• How to pick ONE Person to listen to for advice.
• How to Show Up in your Niche
• Navigating family life while podcasting
• Avoiding Overwhelm in Podcasting

https://engagingmissions.com/

https://www.facebook.com/engagingmissions/

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Breath control in RX7 is your friend... but if you aren't careful, you cut off letters and sounds like CH, TH, P, B and Ks. (Grab RX7 here) I may sound a little too breathy still, but trust me, it's sooo much better than it was. (It's my myriad of allergies that causes it as I'm allergic to most things man-made)

Fat Round. We hopefully got him out of the episode though.

Why do I find everything so funny? Or maybe amusing? The world is a funny place, I guess. Also, there's the squeaky chair.

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"Podcasting is like YouTube without the video!" - a discovery by one of Andrea's (super smart) students... because after I asked a gazillion podcasters, no one came up with that perfect description.

How can I effectively summarize the podcasting powerhouse that is Ms. Andrea Klunder? Andrea Klunder truly believes in empowerment and engagement through expression in media. Using podcasting as a tool to bring people together, she truly believes that podcasting can be an effective way to engage, educate, and communicate within our diverse communities. This includes special learners, who can use the power of podcasting to evolve as young minds with special needs using her podcasting project, "Power Your Story." Today, we speak about her unique podcasting story and how she uses the humble podcast to help students achieve greatness.

• How Andrea turned her own passion for podcasting into a powerful communication tool for students with special needs in high school using her "Power Your Story" project.
• How Andrea successfully pitched podcasting as an educational tool for high school students.
• How Andrea was able to create a real world podcasting project for high school students on a budget.
• The technology that students used in order to record their podcasts.
• Were there any unexpected costs that Andrea did not budget for?
• How the storytelling and interviewing aspect of podcasting can engage and empower a special learner.
• What was Andrea's biggest challenge in engaging her special needs' students in the podcasting project.
• How podcasting can empower students to become experts in both planning and producing in a real world context.
• How Andrea turns podcasting into a community project for her students.
• How the editing process can help empower the podcaster-- with or without special needs.
• Why becoming a podcast mentor is so important.

Wow! That's a lot of great podcast production information! Hold on tight while we build this great podcast community together!

#PowerYourStoryPodcast #ThePodcastMentor #SpecialNeeds #StudentsAndTechnology #AfterSchoolMatters #TheFutureofPodcasting

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One more notes about this series. I plan on experimenting with it while making it work FOR ME. From time to time, things may be different, go a bit wacky or even sideways, so your feedback will help me (and my lovely team) learn, grow and craft something that serves you, dear podcasters.

The technical thing I learned from this episode:

Double sided tape helps keep your boom arm in place when you have an odd shaped table edge.

Cat in this episode:

Fat Round... who has turned into somewhat of a mascot for the show. #podcats

Personal Podcasting Pain Point:

My son came home about 5 minutes early and about 5 minutes before the episode wrapped up. That might not be a big deal to a lot of you, but schedules are super important and transitions are super hard for him because austism. He's getting better at managing his reactions, so while it was a tad stressful for that last 5 minutes, it was also small WIN for him and for us parents who work so hard to help him through this stuff.

Power Your Story Podcasting

Andrea Klunder works with mission-driven individuals and organizations to help them use podcasting as a powerful tool for connection, trust, and social impact. She is the Producer & Host of Podcast Envy, all about the craft of podcasting beyond the microphone, and The Creative Impostor Podcast, a show all about how to take bold action in your life and work, despite the little voice in your head that says, “Who do you think you are? You can’t do THAT!” In 2017, she launched Power Your Story, a high school mentoring program and podcast produced by students with diverse learning challenges in Chicago. Andrea is the Producer & Editor of Key Change, a podcast by The Santa Fe Opera and Opera for All Voices, and believes in the power of podcasting to develop an intimate connection with your listeners, build loyal community, and immerse your followers in an authentic brand experience through engaging, entertaining, and educational audio media. Andrea has been a featured speaker and trainer for Podcast Movement, Next Door Chicago, Singularity Storytelling Summit, Nikki Nigl’s About Women, Chicago Public Schools, and many, many podcasts!

A BIG THANK YOU!

Thank you to all the people who made this series possible: My loving, supportive family, my incredible Ya Ya Podcasting Team and the podcasters who were so generous with their thoughts, feelings, experiences and time. And thank you to my clients who always inspire me, my The Good, the Bad and The Yetis (you know who you are), Elsie Escobar and her E-League Alum and my the supportive communities of podcast editors: Podcast Editors Cub & Just Busters: Female Podcast Editors.

P.S. I have been using HelloCast (currently in beta) for this show's workflow... they are NOT a sponsor, but I LOVE how easy they've made putting my show together. All the non audio elements are in 1 place and I can easily track where in the process an episode is... from IDEA to RELEASED. So, THANK YOU HELLOCAST for knowing how I think and designing an app to organize me. :)