Suffering is not the tax you pay for podcasting. It is the training camp.

Freddy Cruz reframes the sting of low downloads, awkward interviews, and lonely recording sessions as reps, not punishment. Pain and tiny numbers stop being a verdict on your talent and start becoming the weight rack where you build resilience, timing, and a voice that does not crack every time the stats dashboard looks ugly.

Every rough episode forces you to confront your bad habits, sharpen your questions, clean up your structure, and figure out who actually cares about what you are making. You bleed off the fair-weather listeners and find the handful of people who replay your work, quote it back to you, and quietly become your real audience.

Over time, your tolerance for discomfort turns into an edge. While everyone else quits at episode seven because it “didn’t blow up,” you treat the grind itself as the point, knowing that the version of you who can handle this level of suffering is the only one capable of running a truly great show.

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