Podcasting for Coaches™

This brief bonus episode explains the exciting reason I'll be taking June and July off from the podcast.

Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

With both Apple and Spotify announcing private/paid podcast subscriptions on their platforms recently, you might be wondering if this is the right move for your podcast.

In this quick episode, I answer that question, give multiple examples of how your business can utilize private podcasts, and announce a brand course I launched TODAY using a private podcast feed that will help you audit your own podcast.

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes.

Is your podcast not growing like you'd hoped? Not bring in as many leads as you would like? Or maybe you're just not quite sure you're using the podcast to its full potential.

If that's the case, definitely check out my podcast self-audit online course (that can be consumed just like a podcast)!

Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram and Clubhouse!

Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Dr. Lindsay Padilla is an ex-community college professor who accidentally started a business while on the tenure track. Now, as the CEO and co-founder of the Hello Audio software, which takes your content and creates private audio feeds to make learning on the go much easier for your people, Lindsay challenges online industry norms of unfinished courses and unconsumed content with her product.

All of Lindsay's business ideas were born out of her tenure-track years teaching adults online at a community college, the ridiculous amount of learning she's done in all things education, and the years spent growing her course creation business online.

In this episode, Lindsay shares what Hello Audio is, how it was created with course creators and podcasters in mind, how she personally uses Hello Audio in her own business, unique ways Hello Audio users are utilizing the platform for both business and personal reasons, how it can completely replace course platforms like Kajabi and Thinkific if you wanted it to, why it creates a much easier (and better) experience for your course participants, and more!

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast self-audit online course
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Elsie Escobar is a ten-year-plus veteran in the podcast industry and an inductee to the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame. She is also Libsyn's Community Expert; running the community via social media and producing The Feed: The Official Libsyn podcast.

She also co-founded She Podcasts, a podcast, a podcasting community for women and non-binary people that has over 20 thousand members, a woman-centered podcasting conference She Podcasts Live, and a membership community called The She Podcasts Super Squad.

Her thing is driving dialogue in the podcasting industry focusing on podcasts' impact on society, diversity, and culture as well as their power to drive social change.

In this episode, Elsie shares what Libsyn 5 is, the difference between Libsyn as you've known it (Libsyn 4) and the new Libsyn 5, why it's important to remember Libsyn 5 is still technically in Beta as of the release of this episode, what Glow.fm is, how it relates to Libsyn and could become a huge benefit for Libsyn users, what the She Podcasts Super Squad is, and more.

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

I know the title and description for this special episode will likely seem a little clickbait-y but, unfortunately, they're not.

Apple Podcasts announced some major changes this week and, unfortunately, they've done a terrible job at rolling them out. And, if you do what they advise you to do in order to take advantage of these new updates, your entire show could end being removed from their platform altogether thanks to some bugs with their new Podcasts Connect platform. And, that's not even the only issue some podcasters are experiencing.

Take a listen to this quick episode before doing anything with the new Podcasts Connect platform or attempting to submit a new show to Apple Podcasts.

There's also an additional mention of an announcement Facebook also made this week regarding podcasting.

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes.

Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club!

Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram!

Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Shelby Fowler is a Facebook and Instagram ads expert, creator of Fempire Ads Academy, lover of reality tv, and the founder and CEO of Fempire Media.

She started Fempire Media, an ads agency, in 2019 after freelancing as a digital marketer for years. She has grown the company to multiple six figures in the first 2 years and is passionate about serving clients, teaching ads, and encouraging her team.

In late 2020, Shelby launched Fempire Ads Academy to empower female entrepreneurs to run their own profitable Facebook and Instagram ads. Every month, members get all the tools and support they need to scale their business with ads.

Outside of business, Shelby is a mom of 2 girls, a crazy-awesome cook, lover of real housewives (and all things Bravo), and true crime fan.

In this episode, she shares whether or not it's realistic for someone to successfully run their own Facebook and Instagram ads if they don't have the money to outsource it, when you should definitely start outsourcing your Facebook and Instagram ads, why she equates Facebook and Instagram ads for a podcast to a billboard, how much you realistically need to spend to promote your podcast with a Facebook or Instagram ad, what type of content should be used in a Facebook or Instagram ad for your podcast, her advice for running Facebook and Instagram story ads, the pros and cons of both sending potential listeners to a specific podcast app and a landing page for your podcast on your own website, why you absolutely should verify your domain inside the Facebook Business Manager before running any ads, why you need to be super critical of the resources you're using to learn how to run your own Facebook and Instagram ads, and more!

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Today's my birthday! For the past two years, I've done an Ask Me Anything (AMA)-style episode where you were able to ask me any question you wanted and I answered it in the episode. Well, it's that time of the year again. In this AMA episode, I answer the following questions from listeners just like you:

• How do I grow my show? (Also phrased as how do I grow my audience, increase visibility, or increase my downloads)
• How do I record an interview with someone who's not there with me in person?
• Is it worth it to do transcriptions for each episode?
• What's a good editing program for beginners who can't outsource it yet?
• Do I really need show notes?

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Lee Chaix McDonough is the CEO and Founder of Coach With Clarity, a training and education company for life and business coaches. She is also the host of the Coach with Clarity podcast and author of the #1 Amazon book, ACT On Your Business: Braving the storms of entrepreneurship and creating success through meaning, mindset, and mindfulness.

After over a decade as a clinical social worker and public health professional, Lee became credentialed as a coach through the International Coach Federation and now provides ICF-accredited continuing coach education for intuitive, heart-centered coaches.

Her Coach with Clarity® framework fuses meaning, mindset, and mindfulness with grounded intuition and solid business strategy to help coaches and clients excel at entrepreneurship and transform their lives.

In this episode, Lee shares why she decided to put her original podcast on an indefinite hiatus and instead focus on launching her current podcast a little over a year ago, how she utilizes coaching calls on her podcast, all the details for how she handles these unique calls, how she's able to tell that her coaching calls are some of her most popular episodes, how she converts her podcast listeners into paying clients and membership enrollees; including her call-to-action and the strategy of sponsoring her own show, how the podcast leads to 1:1 clients even though she doesn't advertise that service anywhere, how she utilizes her stats to help get a better understanding of how her show is growing and performing, and more.

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Amy Dempster helps in understanding the healing power of the earth. What began as openly sharing her spiritual journey on her popular blog Following Hawks, has become a resource for others wanting to learn how to communicate with nature and share their own unique healing gifts with the earth.

Together with the Spirits of the Land in the mountains of northwest Montana, she tends seven portals on the land where she lives, along with any grid keeping work she is assigned. She also leads the Earth Tenders Academy, an immersive online journey to help others re-establish their connection with their ancient ancestors, learn to communicate with the seen and unseen forces in their environment, and respectfully offer their healing energy to places in need.

Amy and I worked together on the launch of her podcast, The Earth Keepers, and we've been working together ever since.

In this episode, Amy shares why she decided to turn her blog into a podcast and what that process has looked like for her, why she feels the podcast has had more of an impact than her blog has, how the podcast leads people to join her Earth Tenders Academy, how her podcast has helped her become more comfortable being vocal in a field that faces a lot of stigmatism and mocking, how thinking she had to do interviews on her podcast prevented her from starting one sooner, and more.

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)

Jeremy Enns is the CEO & Storyteller In Chief of Counterweight Creative a podcast production and marketing agency helping optimistic rebels create podcasts that market & grow themselves.

He loves all things outdoors, is borderline religious on walking 10,000 steps per day, and will always look back on the day he finally saved up enough money to buy the Millennium Falcon Lego set as one of his proudest achievements.

In this episode, he gives us a peek behind the curtain of a recent experience with a client of his who used her podcast to help sell-out a recent launch to the tune of $300,000!

To learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Want even more podcasting insights and updates? Join the Podcasting Insiders Club! Want to connect with me further? Follow me on Instagram! Want to work together? Here's how we can do that!

• One-on-one podcast launch packages
• Self-paced online course for launching your podcast
• Podcast auditing (Ideal if you're getting ready to launch and want an expert's eyes on everything first or if you've already launched and you want advice on how to improve your show.)
• Podcast editing (Let me take care of the time-consuming post-production aspects of your show.)