Hear me out. I know I probably learned more lessons in my first year of podcasting. But there is ONE lesson I learned from doing one year of podcasting that I want to share as a blog post.
Which, if you didn’t know, my podcast turned one this year back on June 5th! And I had mixed emotions when I realized it’s been a year.
But most of it was pure joy.
It first came to me as a shock. I had it planned out on my content calendar, of course. But it didn’t hit me until a week prior that I had really been podcasting for a year.
And that’s when I started to think deeply about it.
Have I learned anything this past year from podcasting? Am I still the same? What am I really doing? Those were just a few questions running through my mind.
While I will be answering most of those questions on my next podcast, I started to think even harder about podcasting.
And there was one thing that really popped out to me that I wanted to share for a blog post.
So here it is. My one year of podcasting lesson.
The one big lesson I learned from my podcast over any other lesson is:
It’s better to start than to not start at all.
If you’re not an avid listener to my podcast (Hi, what are you doing? Start listening here), then you might not know how I had been wanting to podcast for almost two years at this point.
It started with me listening to a Youtuber’s podcast called The Basement Yard. While his content and my content are not the same, it made me fall in love with podcasts. That was over two years ago.
I was and still am an avid listener to his podcast, and I’ve seen his podcast grow into something big. He has listeners that tune in to his funny stuff every week, like me, for example.
Now, I’ve done a lot of stuff in the multimedia and online world. I used to work on newspapers, yes actual print newspapers. I worked at a radio station and I’ve also worked at TV news stations. It was something I did for my Bachelor’s degree.
But when I found the world of online fun, I dipped myself in all that as well. I mean, I have my blog, I have my toes in Youtube, I’m on almost all social media platforms, and so on and so forth.
So I have quite a background on multimedia outlets and all the different ways to reach some kind of audience that resonates with you.
Podcasting was something new I didn’t really know too much about until I finally listened to the Basement Yard. I found such joy in listening to someone basically talk in my ear for an hour or so while I mindlessly did other work.
Podcasting is radio shows online. And I’ve done a radio show in the past, and I’ve worked at a radio station as well. So this was something that I definitely thought I could do and would enjoy doing.
But even when I wanted to do it, it still took me over a year to finally get something out. And even in that year, I had already bought all the equipment I needed in order to start the podcast, but it never came out.
It definitely was a lot of reasons why I didn’t do anything that first year. Fear. Laziness. Feeling inadequate. So many emotions. And I didn’t do the one thing that was going to solve all those weird feelings.
And that was to just finally sit my ass down in front of my computer, plug in my Blue Yeti Mic I bought as a birthday gift, and just record a freaking episode no matter how long, short, awkward or whatever it was going to be.
I didn’t do that. For a year.
I finally got the courage last year to just plant my butt down on my computer chair and just start talking on my mic.
To finally just start. No expectations, judgements, everything was thrown out the window because I knew I just needed to start already, or else I was never going to start. And since then, I haven’t looked back.
And to think, if I had just learned this lesson a year prior, my show could be bigger. I could be reaching a different audience. Or it could even be worse, and I might now be doing it at all, but at least I would have found that out sooner rather than later.
While I still have so much more to improve on my show, I couldn’t be happier that I finally got the courage to just start aimlessly talking on a microphone, and publish a podcast for the world to hear.
I can’t wait to see how it turns out a year from now, two years from now. And so on and so on.
So if you want to learn something from me doing a podcast for over a year now, it’s to just shut up and just do the dang thing.
And it’s something I will continuously live by for not only my podcast but for other aspects in my life. Because it’s almost always better to just do it, than not do it at all.
Because ‘what if is much scarier than well shit’. (Direct quote from my own brain bank 😉
Because what if will make you crazy for a very long time, while well shit is more of an oops moment that you can learn and grow from.
So if it’s starting a podcast, starting a new business venture, or whatever it may be. Just start it. Best advice I can ever give someone with the little good advice I actually know.
And if you want to listen to me talk more nonsense, just listen to the podcast. I’ll have an episode coming soon where I will talk more in depth about the lessons I’ve learned in podcasting, things I want to work on and what the future looks like for the podcast.
I’ll probably also talk a lot about some other random stuff in my life. So you can look forward to that too.
You can listen to my podcast here, and it’s also available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Google Play! My podcast comes out every Tuesday and it looks forward to knowing it has listeners. (Yes, I did just talk about my podcast as if it is its own entity. Thanks.)
Now, if you want to comment down below some lessons you’ve learned from doing something for a year, whether it’s blogging, podcasting, writing a book, whatever. Post it in the comments below. I want to hear all the good advice and lessons from people that finally just did the dang thing and grew and learned from it.
As always, keep enjoying the unfamiliar. And as an added just start it!
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