Rethinking Podcasting | Reframe your Thinking & Flourish with your Podcast

Hi, Matt here! This episode will tell you what to expect over the next few months with the podcast and, more importantly, how you can get in touch with me to respond to my ideas, and send your own through!

Let's Start a Dialogue

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Its easy to start your podcasting journey and feel far away from the top 1%. And if you feel like you can get there easily, you might find the journey harder than you thought. But the key is not to be stuck in the quagmire of the present, but build your grand vision of where podcasting can take you.

This is the fifth and final foundational episode of this podcast as an introduction to me, Matthew Bliss, the host of RE:Thinking Podcasting through sharing with you my career, a bit of my life and how my thinking has changed on my podcasting journey so far.

In this episode you will hear about my pivot into why this podcast came about, a few choice opinions about the direction of the podcast industry, and a reality-check: that its not about what the rest of the world is doing... Its about what you do.

And, once again, you'll hear Coffee with a Podcaster mentioned: where this show began and has transformed into Re:Thinking Podcasting. I'm now creating what I had always intended: helping podcasters think and reflect deeply about podcasting - but there's still a few other projects waiting in the wings...

Let's Start a Dialogue

The Socratic Method is best done in dialogue, so if you'd like to respond to one of my episodes or send through an idea of your own, send it to:

📧 [email protected]

🎤 rethinkingpodcasting.com and select "Send a Voicemail"

Make sure you share the name of your show, so I can include it in my response!

Support this Podcast:

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Use Brain.FM to stay focused while you podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

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Interested in Episodes like this for your podcast?

Activate Your Podcast is a service I offer with Peter Daly-Dickson and Rob Drummond where we help you launch your podcast with a marketable set of five introductory episodes, built from a 90 minute conversation with a Conversation Partner.

We'll even host and distribute the podcast for you.

It's basically Done-For-You marketing with everything included - all you need to do is have a conversation.

If you're interested, head to ActivateYourPodcast.com to schedule an introductory call and make sure to mention Re:Thinking Podcasting when you get there.

Many podcasters sharing their experiences talk about "Podfade" (otherwise known as "podcaster burnout") as something to avoid at all costs for fear of failure.

Whatever failure could mean in podcasting, anyway.

Burnout can also hit the podcast professionals as well, in a world where competing with AI means we have to keep adding more and more to our offering. So what can we do?

This is the third foundational episode of this podcast as an introduction to me, Matthew Bliss, the host of RE:Thinking Podcasting through sharing with you my career, a bit of my life and how my thinking has changed on my podcasting journey so far.

In this episode I talk about the nature of podcasting today from my perspective as an editor & producer, how much value is in the podcasting process and what I've learned from working in the red zone of burnout.

Let's Start a Dialogue

The Socratic Method is best done in dialogue, so if you'd like to respond to one of my episodes or send through an idea of your own, send it to:

📧 [email protected]

🎤 rethinkingpodcasting.com and select "Send a Voicemail"

Make sure you share the name of your show, so I can include it in my response!

Support this Podcast:

Here are some of the services I use to create this show. Sign up for these services with the links below to support the podcast:

Use Brain.FM to stay focused while you podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Sign up for Artlist.io to add Royalty Free Music to your Podcast (2 Months Free)

Use Captivate.FM to host & distribute your Podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Create your Episode Transcript with GoodTape.io (€5 off when you sign up)

Interested in Episodes like this for your podcast?

Activate Your Podcast is a service I offer with Peter Daly-Dickson and Rob Drummond where we help you launch your podcast with a marketable set of five introductory episodes, built from a 90 minute conversation with a Conversation Partner.

We'll even host and distribute the podcast for you.

It's basically Done-For-You marketing with everything included - all you need to do is have a conversation.

If you're interested, head to ActivateYourPodcast.com to schedule an introductory call and make sure to mention Re:Thinking Podcasting when you get there.

Everyone says that we don't teach critical thinking anymore, and everywhere, collective group-think is dominating discussions. This is why philosophy, and particularly Plato's work featuring Socrates, is incredibly useful when we explore podcasting. Thinking and internal discussion is more important now than ever, and what we interrogate and unpack ourselves is just as important as what we're told.

This is the third foundational episode of this podcast as an introduction to me, Matthew Bliss, the host of RE:Thinking Podcasting through sharing with you my career, a bit of my life and how my thinking has changed on my podcasting journey so far.

And in this episode, you'll hear about my background in Philosophy from High School to University, why Socrates was such a strong influence on how I think and why reflecting and reframing to find the truth is so important for the podcasting world today.

A note as well, here I reference Georgias as Plato's text where Socrates drank the hemlock - I'm pretty sure it was Phaedo on reflection but that's what happens when its been 16 years since studying it. Alright, let's get into it.

Let's Start a Dialogue

The Socratic Method is best done in dialogue, so if you'd like to respond to one of my episodes or send through an idea of your own, send it to:

📧 [email protected]

🎤 rethinkingpodcasting.com and select "Send a Voicemail"

Make sure you share the name of your show, so I can include it in my response!

Support this Podcast:

Here are some of the services I use to create this show. Sign up for these services with the links below to support the podcast:

Use Brain.FM to stay focused while you podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Sign up for Artlist.io to add Royalty Free Music to your Podcast (2 Months Free)

Use Captivate.FM to host & distribute your Podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Create your Episode Transcript with GoodTape.io (€5 off when you sign up)

Interested in Episodes like this for your podcast?

Activate Your Podcast is a service I offer with Peter Daly-Dickson and Rob Drummond where we help you launch your podcast with a marketable set of five introductory episodes, built from a 90 minute conversation with a Conversation Partner.

We'll even host and distribute the podcast for you.

It's basically Done-For-You marketing with everything included - all you need to do is have a conversation.

If you're interested, head to ActivateYourPodcast.com to schedule an introductory call and make sure to mention Re:Thinking Podcasting when you get there.

It's easy to think that producing a great-quality podcast is only about the tech, but there is much more to it. An idea, some audio troubleshooting and acknowledging my unique path were the ways that I became a podcaster. And once I had laid the groundwork, I could realise my podcasting goals and become the Podcast Producer & Editor I am today.

This is the second foundational episode that will give you an introduction to me, Matthew Bliss, as the host of Re:Thinking Podcasting through sharing with you my career, a bit of my life and how my thinking has changed on my podcasting journey so far.

And in this episode, you'll hear how I started my first podcast, how my background in mediation and debating helped, and why the journey to creating great-sounding audio can be a long and frustrating one!

Let's Start a Dialogue

The Socratic Method is best done in dialogue, so if you'd like to respond to one of my episodes or send through an idea of your own, send it to:

📧 [email protected]

🎤 rethinkingpodcasting.com and select "Send a Voicemail"

Make sure you share the name of your show, so I can include it in my response!

Support this Podcast:

Here are some of the services I use to create this show. Sign up for these services with the links below to support the podcast:

Use Brain.FM to stay focused while you podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Sign up for Artlist.io to add Royalty Free Music to your Podcast (2 Months Free)

Use Captivate.FM to host & distribute your Podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Create your Episode Transcript with GoodTape.io (€5 off when you sign up)

Interested in Episodes like this for your podcast?

Activate Your Podcast is a service I offer with Peter Daly-Dickson and Rob Drummond where we help you launch your podcast with a marketable set of five introductory episodes, built from a 90 minute conversation with a Conversation Partner.

We'll even host and distribute the podcast for you.

It's basically Done-For-You marketing with everything included - all you need to do is have a conversation.

If you're interested, head to ActivateYourPodcast.com to schedule an introductory call and make sure to mention Re:Thinking Podcasting when you get there.

This is the first of five episodes that will give you an introduction to me, Matthew Bliss, as the host of RE:Thinking Podcasting by sharing with you my career, a bit of my life and how my thinking has changed on my podcasting journey so far.

If you've met me before, it's incredibly likely I haven't mentioned a lot of what you'll hear in these episodes. I used to think my background was largely irrelevant, but I've since realized that its our unique talents and stories that lead to the epiphanies and emergent realizations that carry us to the next step on our journey.

In this first episode, you'll hear an early childhood memory, my background in technology and education, and, as usual, I sneak a video game reference in there as well.

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Let's Start a Dialogue

The Socratic Method is best done in dialogue, so if you'd like to respond to one of my episodes or send through an idea of your own, send it to:

📧 [email protected]

🎤 rethinkingpodcasting.com and select "Send a Voicemail"

Make sure you share the name of your show, so I can include it in my response!

Support this Podcast:

Here are some of the services I use to create this show. Sign up for these services with the links below to support the podcast:

Use Brain.FM to stay focused while you podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Sign up for Artlist.io to add Royalty Free Music to your Podcast (2 Months Free)

Use Captivate.FM to host & distribute your Podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Create your Episode Transcript with GoodTape.io (€5 off when you sign up)

Interested in Episodes like this for your podcast?

Activate Your Podcast is a service I offer with Peter Daly-Dickson and Rob Drummond where we help you launch your podcast with a marketable set of five introductory episodes, built from a 90 minute conversation with a Conversation Partner.

These five "Activation" episodes will help you get started on your podcast, give you a foundation to build your marketing from and the provided transcripts will give you a strong base to kick-start your introductory email automation sequences.

We'll even host and distribute the podcast for you.

Not only that, but as the Head of Podcast Engineering, I'll be editing your episodes together with the highest production value on offer. And if you love our process, you can choose to continue with the service ongoing for your podcast.

It's basically Done-For-You marketing with everything included - all you need to do is have a conversation.

If you're interested, head to ActivateYourPodcast.com to schedule an introductory call and make sure to mention Re:Thinking Podcasting when you get there.

Certainty in podcasting feels like a warm bed on a cold evening, but the truth is that there is more variability in the podcasting world than you know. You may have been sold this certainty in advice, but the only real way to find your path in podcasting is to create your own Podcasting Philosophy.

In this episode of Rethinking Podcasting, I explain the problem of bad advice in the podcasting world, how creating your own thinking system will help you separate the bad from the good, and why I’ve chosen Socrates and his Method as a way to show you.

Let's Start a Dialogue

The Socratic Method is best done in dialogue, so if you'd like to respond to one of my episodes or send through an idea of your own, send it to:

📧 [email protected]

🎤 rethinkingpodcasting.com and select "Send a Voicemail"

Make sure you share the name of your show, so I can include it in my response!

Support this Podcast:

Here are some of the services I use to create this show. Sign up for these services with the links below to support the podcast:

Use Brain.FM to stay focused while you podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Sign up for Artlist.io to add Royalty Free Music to your Podcast (2 Months Free)

Use Captivate.FM to host & distribute your Podcast (30 Day Free Trial)

Create your Episode Transcript with GoodTape.io (€5 off when you sign up)

Imagine the Agora in Ancient Athens: a bustling marketplace of citizens and slaves living their lives. The chipping of ceramics echo across the square, the shuffling feet of crowds across cobbled streets, the tinkle of coins changing hands... and you may even hear Socrates, a philosopher known to walk the streets engaging in his infamous dialogic technique with the masses. He was beloved and maligned in equal measure for his ability to push his interlocutors to deeply interrogate and reflect on their thoughts and ideas.

Podcasting, just like the Athenian Agora, is a marketplace of ideas, conversations and advice that, if we're honest, could use some shaking up. And we may need our friend Socrates to help.

"RE:Thinking Podcasting" shares a philosophical approach to how you should think about your life as a podcaster. Through philosophical thinking and the Socratic Method, Matthew Bliss unpacks commonly accepted podcasting ideas and advice, and asks questions of his guests and of himself to help you discover your own reflective, self-sustaining podcast workflows and strategy.

For too long, Podcasters have been asking the same basic questions:

❌ How do I get more listeners?

❌ What's the best microphone?

❌ Which app is best for algorithmic growth?

❌ What should I talk about on my podcast?

"RE:Thinking Podcasting" will help you ask the right questions to get the answers you need to make the biggest impact to your podcast. It's through reflective practice and conversational reframing that you will grow to ask for what you really need, and you may even be able to answer your own questions.

It's time for the podcasting conversation to ascend and empower us all to create the shows that bring us happiness and flourishing in all its forms. Join Matthew Bliss on the journey to raise your thinking and find your own podcasting philosophy.

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