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What Should Your First Podcast Episode Be About?
Planning your first podcast episode? If it starts with "Hi, I'm so and so, welcome to my podcast", I want to save you from it.
I've launched more than a thousand shows, and I've listened to so many first episodes that are ten minutes of somebody explaining who they are and what the podcast's going to be about. I get why you'd do it, it feels polite. But that episode is almost never the one people remember.
In this Pod Shot I talk about what a stranger is really deciding in those first few minutes, where your story actually belongs (it isn't episode one), and the one question I'd want you to…
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