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Keeping Your Solo Podcast Energy High
Keeping Your Solo Podcast Energy High
In this episode of Showmakers, Ed Barker from Studio 1878 shares practical tips on maintaining high energy levels while recording solo podcast episodes. Ed discusses the importance of visualizing a real listener, recording while standing, using a bullet point script, varying your pacing, and breaking content into segments. He emphasizes the power of storytelling and advises recording in short bursts to keep energy high. Ed wraps up by highlighting the value solo episodes bring in building intimacy and trust with listeners.
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Why Solo Energy Matters
01:10 Tip 1: Picture a Real Listener
01:41 Tip 2: Stand Up and Move
02:14 Tip 3: Script Smart
02:58 Tip 4: Vary Your Pacing
03:53 Tip 5: Break Into Segments
04:21 Tip 6: Include Real Stories
04:59 Tip 7: Record in Bursts
05:28 Closing Thoughts
Ed Barker has been producing and recording podcasts since 2009. After a long career as a corporate marketing and strategy executive (and then a VC), Ed launched Studio 1878 (www.1878.studio) in early 2025 with the goal of making brand and business podcasting much better. Ed is a Brit, working out of Seattle, and podcasting worldwide. 🌎
A podcast development studio for the modern brand. We believe everyone has a story worth telling. Specializing in business and brand podcasts, we’ll help build your story from ideation to distribution, transforming concepts to real connection with your audiences. We produce our own shows but our core proposition is in helping businesses and creators produce something truly compelling and authentic. We’d love to help you tell your story. 😈
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By Studio 1878Keeping Your Solo Podcast Energy High
In this episode of Showmakers, Ed Barker from Studio 1878 shares practical tips on maintaining high energy levels while recording solo podcast episodes. Ed discusses the importance of visualizing a real listener, recording while standing, using a bullet point script, varying your pacing, and breaking content into segments. He emphasizes the power of storytelling and advises recording in short bursts to keep energy high. Ed wraps up by highlighting the value solo episodes bring in building intimacy and trust with listeners.
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Why Solo Energy Matters
01:10 Tip 1: Picture a Real Listener
01:41 Tip 2: Stand Up and Move
02:14 Tip 3: Script Smart
02:58 Tip 4: Vary Your Pacing
03:53 Tip 5: Break Into Segments
04:21 Tip 6: Include Real Stories
04:59 Tip 7: Record in Bursts
05:28 Closing Thoughts
Ed Barker has been producing and recording podcasts since 2009. After a long career as a corporate marketing and strategy executive (and then a VC), Ed launched Studio 1878 (www.1878.studio) in early 2025 with the goal of making brand and business podcasting much better. Ed is a Brit, working out of Seattle, and podcasting worldwide. 🌎
A podcast development studio for the modern brand. We believe everyone has a story worth telling. Specializing in business and brand podcasts, we’ll help build your story from ideation to distribution, transforming concepts to real connection with your audiences. We produce our own shows but our core proposition is in helping businesses and creators produce something truly compelling and authentic. We’d love to help you tell your story. 😈
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.