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This is Podcasting where I'm on a quest to conquer the podcasting realm
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and I'm bringing you along for the journey to help you achieve your own podcasting success.
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What's going on guys? Welcome back to Podcasting. In today's episode we are diving into my current
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podcast struggles, so let's dive right into it. So this episode is going to be unfiltered, unedited.
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I'm just going to be talking off the top and kind of see what happens and yeah, so let's just dive
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right into it. So currently what I'm struggling with as far as podcasting is concerned is finding...
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I'm finding that I want everything to be perfect and that is causing issues because it's taking
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me five hours to record a 10-minute episode of a podcast. I keep starting over again and wanting
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it to be perfect. I mean look at this episode for instance. I started recording this like 20 minutes
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ago and I've stopped recording it and started again multiple times, multiple times and it's
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already an issue and I'm stumbling over my words here. I'm really drinking a lot of coffee today
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and so it's definitely impacting my speaking here because I am caffeinated up the gazoo. Is that a
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phrase? I don't know if that's a phrase. I think I just made that up but anyways, that's not what
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we're talking about here. What I'm trying to say is that I want everything to be perfect and it's
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causing issues and a metaphor for this is you know, I'm trying to be an archer. Like I'm an archer
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right and I'm trying to hit a bullseye and there's no way I can hit a bullseye because I'm
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focused on hitting a bullseye too much and I'm struggling. I'm shaking there holding the bow
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and I want this so bad and I'm never going to achieve that bullseye. I'm never going to hit
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it with that arrow because I am trying too hard and so I'm really trying to focus on
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letting something not be perfect and so this is an exercise in that. This episode I don't plan on
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really editing. You know, I'll do some bare minimum editing to make it sound better but as far as
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removing filler words or even some background noise, I'm just going to leave it and see kind of
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how I feel after that and upload it and see what happens. So yeah and one of the things about
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perfectionism I think is that we're in an age of AI and that's starting to come to fruition
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and that's something that I've been thinking about as well is I think that authenticity might
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be better. You might have more, you know, imperfectionism could be a benefit for authenticity.
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One of the reasons I think of this is I was watching a YouTube video from a creator that does
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helps people with YouTube channels called Think Media and he was talking about how one of the
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trends going on currently with YouTube is authenticity and really that means people are
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just uploading videos with no editing. They're just recording on their phones or they're recording
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their living rooms, hanging out with their dogs and there's no high quality editing. People are
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craving authenticity and so that's something that's interesting and I think as AI becomes more
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prevalent and people are using AI to create perfect podcast or other content or things in general,
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authenticity might be more of a craving people are having and so maybe imperfection could be a
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benefit and so that's something I've been thinking about as well. Another struggle I'm dealing with
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currently as far as podcasting is concerned is I have a lot of podcast ideas and I'm trying to
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figure out how to have the time to do all of them. So a long-term goal of mine is to have a podcast
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network called Wolfshild Media and eventually I'd like to expand the network into other things like
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audio documentaries and video documentaries and media in general but obviously start with podcasting
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and podcasting be the staple and the base for the network and the media company but having all these
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different ideas and trying to work a full-time job outside of podcasting is definitely a challenge.
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I've been using a task management project management software called Asana which has been helpful.
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I think that's how you pronounce it and I've been able to create projects on there for different
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podcast. For example, I have one project on there for podcasting, one for some other podcasts
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that I'm doing and so that's something that I'm hoping will help me and I think it's starting
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to help me as well as well as with motivation because when I create a task I feel like there's
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a bit of a dopamine release if you will kind of gamifying the different tasks that I'm trying to
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achieve and yeah and as far as podcast ideas I do have a lot of podcast ideas but at the same point
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again that perfectionism is coming into play where I want it to be the idea needs to be perfect as
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well so I'm struggling with you know is this a good idea? Am I wasting my time here? Is there an
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audience for this? And you know I understand how to see if there's an audience for a podcast.
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You know one of the things that I'm working on currently for podcasting is coming out with a
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an episode where I will dive into creating a pod figuring out a podcast idea and kind of a structure
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that I'm using for myself and so I understand how to see if there's an audience for a podcast
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and kind of research that and it's pretty easy these days right? You can go on a podcast directory
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and search for similar podcasts and see if there's an audience for that or different content.
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Maybe if there's a YouTube niche for it or a Reddit community so you can go on Reddit and see
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if there's a community for whatever niche or genre you're looking for so maybe you have an idea for a
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podcast or I don't know baking gluten-free food or something and then you go on Reddit and you look
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at communities that are focused on just that and you see oh wow there's 200,000 people in this
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community if I can just get a fraction of that that would be awesome for a podcast so that's
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something that I know how to do it but I'm second guessing myself and so one of the things that I'm
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starting that I'm going to start doing is what's called mini series and this is an idea that I have
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for myself to really focus on the creativity of podcasting and not so much focus it focus on it as
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a business which is really what I want to do is I think that if you want to be successful in podcasting
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you need to focus you need to take it as a business and really have a business plan which I've created
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I have a mission statement for my different podcasts I have a mission statement for this podcast
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I have a mission statement for all the different podcasts I'm doing a business plan marketing plan
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etc but it's kind of ruining part of the creativity and you know they say that when you are you know
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taking a passion and turning it into a job it could ruin it and I don't know if that's starting to
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happen for me but I still enjoy it I still enjoy the process like I'm enjoying recording this right
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now but I'm trying to figure out how to find a balance and so one of the things I'm going to be
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doing is some mini series the first mini series I'm doing is a Halloween one and you know I've
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never actually been much of a Halloween person in general but I do enjoy fiction and fantasy and
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things like that I think Halloween encompasses that and so one of the ideas I have is to do a
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mini series where I release a episode each week of October and so that's going to be called Spooky
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Tales and Traditions Halloween 2024 so you can look for that coming out here in October
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and basically I will be doing each week I will be telling a story a spooky story and I will be
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talking about a Halloween tradition and we will be doing that for the first for all of October
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and so I'm looking forward to doing that I just created the cover art for that last night
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and I used Canva to do that so if you're trying to figure out how to do some cover art I'd recommend
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you know just going on Canva you can do that for free they have a lot of free options you can just
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type in cover art template and you can find a different you can find a bunch of different
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options for that so that's something I'd recommend if you're interested in learning how to do that
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I do have a YouTube video actually on how to create a podcast cover art on Canva specifically
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so you can check that out if you want as well but yeah so I'm starting a mini series for Halloween
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I have some other ideas for some mini series that I want to do a audio documentary on the
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Arthurian legends so that's something that I want to do and it's going to be called Arthurian legend
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through time so that's something that I'm interested in starting as well which is something I'm working
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on but trying to work on all this different ideas is kind of a challenge and I'm wondering if I need
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to gain some more focus and you know focus on one or two podcasts instead of trying to do this
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network thing right off the bat which probably is a good idea but I don't know I'm still figuring
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it out so that's kind of a struggle that's happening right now is you know figuring out
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the best plan of action that'll help me reach my goals and so that's something I'm currently
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struggling with as far as any other struggles I'm currently dealing with as far as podcasting is
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concerned finding audiences for the different podcasts is obviously a struggle getting listeners
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is a struggle that I think we all deal with at first and so that's something I'm struggling with
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I did do a Facebook ad for a podcast episode and you know I only paid $20 to kind of test out the
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waters here for Facebook ads and I did get two followers on Facebook from it and the interesting
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thing is that there was I believe 31 clicks on the ad to the link that I had for that podcast
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episode and that was to send the person to a Spotify episode of a podcast and so it said there
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was 31 clicks on the link yet if I looked at my analytics on the podcast hosting platform and
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looked at Spotify there was no increase in listens during that four-day period so that I thought that
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was really interesting I don't know you know if there was some if people were clicking on the link
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and then they just did not go into the episode and download the episode it is interesting to see that
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there's some other interesting insights during that ad that I did so that's kind of an interesting
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thing and then you know it was valuable in the sense that I got over you know it was like 1500
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impressions on that ad so that means you know there was over 1500 people that are now at least
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somewhat knowledgeable about the podcast because of that ad maybe didn't translate into followers
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or downloads or anything like that but there was a you know it did people did see it which I think is
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an important aspect would I do another ad maybe if I had more of a budget for it or if maybe in the
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future I will try some more ads and let you guys know how it's going but I'm not sure if it was
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worth it at this point in time and we'll see how it goes in the future I might try some more maybe
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try some different social media ads different platforms try some ads on as well and it's kind
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of what happens there but yeah as far as any other podcast struggles it's kind of all I can think
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about at this moment and so yeah that I can't really think of anything else off the top of my
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head other than you know trying to be perfect and trying to realize that perfection does not exist
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and you know you can just do the best you can and also trying to figure out how to find the time
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and the energy to work on everything and find a focus what do I do to create a high quality podcast
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or high quality podcasts rather and how do I balance that with quality how do I balance
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quality and quantity is something I'm trying to work on as well but yeah that's kind of the
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struggles I'm currently dealing with right now curious to hear your guys's thoughts your current
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struggles if you can relate to any of these struggles here that I'm kind of relaying to
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you guys let me know follow us on social media I do have a newsletter now coming I do have a
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newsletter I do have a newsletter that I just started actually on Substack so that's
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podcasting.substack.com you can check out the newsletter there I also have some articles on
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medium.com and then of course I have a YouTube channel you can follow us on Facebook and I just
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started a Reddit community as well on podcasting so if you go to Reddit and check out podcasting
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you can find us there as well I'd love to have you over there as I'm trying to create a community
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here for podcasting my phone just went off and I'm not going to edit it out because this is an
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exercise in being okay with not everything being perfect so yeah let's if you want to if you want
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to follow me on there or on any of the social media platforms or Reddit or anything or interested in
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some more content through articles check out those check out those resources as well until next time
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guys I hope you enjoyed this episode and enjoy the journey and the quest to podcasting where we will
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conquer the podcasting realm together until next time have a great day
