Conversations with podcast creators.
Podtalk is short conversations with podcast creators, that are not just about podcasting… because I like to take the scenic route.
In each episode, I talk with podcast creators about their shows, experiences, what they’ve learned, what motivates them, and… well, everything related to podcasting from the indie creator’s point of view.
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The 5% conversation
Twenty-five years ago, Sam Ardery launched into a diatribe about his wife over lunch. His friend said: I’m going to assume Patty is 95% of the problem. From this point forward, we’re only going to talk about your 5%. Most indie-podcaster discourse lives in the 95%—the algorithm, the platforms, discoverability. The 95%-conversation is comprehensive, satisfying,… more →
From the archives: Jennifer Myers Chua
Jennifer Myers Chua launched her podcast by the book — Marketing 101, existing audience, gift card incentives, review requests. It didn’t work. The lesson she came away with isn’t that marketing fundamentals fail; it’s that podcasting follows different rules. Audiences aren’t acquired the way customers are. Knowing every chapter of the marketing playbook doesn’t help… more →
The missing variable in the room
Danny Attias needed a hundred takes to record a sixty-second Christmas message alone. The fix wasn’t more practice. It was asking a colleague to join him on a Zoom call. One take, done. Talking alone into a microphone and talking to a witness are structurally different cognitive tasks. If you’ve been working on your solo… more →
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I hope these episodes spark ideas and conversations for you, and lead to new ways of looking at this wonderful art of podcasting.
I appreciate your time and attention, and I don’t take it for granted.
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