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Why You Need to Start Your Holiday Best-Of Episode Right Now · Abbey the Podcast Lady

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  On a day when it's 81 degrees and sunny and there's
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  barely a cloud in the sky and the lake is like
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  glass, the last thing I'm thinking about is my
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  holiday best of podcast episodes. But it's actually
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  the exact thing I need to be thinking about as
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  I sit here recording this podcast for you today.
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  Hey, welcome to another episode of Abby the Podcast
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  Lady. I've said it in the past couple episodes,
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  but I think this actually is going to be the
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  last pontoon podcast of the summer. Recording
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  at my parents' lake place and it is just such
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  a beautiful day. I don't want to be inside. These
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  days are so numbered. Like I said, it is kind
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  of the last little bit of summer. We're soaking
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  it all in. It is 81 degrees right now. It's just
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  beautiful out here. Just a nice light breeze.
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  And so when I listen back on this episode later
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  this fall, early this winter. I just want to
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  remember what it's like taking all this in. It's
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  so beautiful. But with that being said, it is
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  officially September. It's after Labor Day. We're
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  in that little tweener area. between Q3 and Q4.
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  Q4 is really when the money starts moving around
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  in business and you are currently podcasting.
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  You're using it as your marketing tool. I'm so
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  proud of you. That's exactly what you need to
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  be doing. But it's starting to get to be the
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  time where you need to think about your best
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  of episodes for the holiday season. Yeah, best
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  of for the holiday season because we all know
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  that the holidays are going to roll around and
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  you're going to want to take a break. We all
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  do. Everybody loves that last little bit of time.
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  at the end of the year between Christmas and
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  New Year's, taking some time off, maybe doing
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  some traveling, going to see family, just hanging
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  out and laying low, wrapping up the year the
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  right way. And the last thing you want to be
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  doing is scrambling, trying to get your best
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  of podcast episodes out into the world. So the
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  best thing you can do right now is start working
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  on them. And yes, you can start working on your
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  best of episodes. I actually just did a best
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  of summer episode for one of my clients. They
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  needed a week of wiggle room. over Labor Day.
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  And I'm like, hey, you guys, you had a really
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  great summer. They had some really killer interviews
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  that they did throughout the summer. They had
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  some really great solo episodes they did throughout
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  the summer. I'm like, guys, how about I just
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  take the last three months of content and find
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  some of the best key moments that stood out from
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  those episodes. We'll mash them together. We'll
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  do a best of the summer episode for Labor Day
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  week. That means you guys all get a week off.
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  You don't need to worry about it. You can send
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  the kids back to school and just take a breather
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  for a little bit. And it worked out so incredibly.
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  well. But doing that made me think, okay, now
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  is the time to start kind of cultivating those
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  best moments that we've had so far in the year
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  for my other shows. So I have content ready to
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  go for those best of episodes when I want to
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  make them come December. So the best way I have
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  found to do it, I have a subscription to Riverside,
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  which is a online recording platform. There's
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  so much more than that now they do podcast hosting
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  and all that. But I think that they're the best
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  online podcast recording platform out there.
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  If you're doing video interviews, Riverside,
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  Riverside, Riverside. But they also have some
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  really good AI tools built into it. And one of
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  my favorites is you can take the episode that
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  you have completed. It's done. It's edited. It's
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  ready to go. And what you do is you upload it
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  into your Riverside editor and then it creates
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  magic clips and magic moments. So what I like
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  to do is ask the co -creator function to make
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  me magic. moments that are between five and ten
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  minutes long from the episode and it scans a
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  transcript it reads everything it pulls out the
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  really juicy bits of the show and then I like
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  to mash up a handful of them for a best of episode
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  I think anywhere from that like I'd say like
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  five clips at minimum for a best of that are
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  at minimum five minutes long and then I'd probably
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  max it at 10 10 can get kind of confusing and
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  long but what I like to do is pull those magic
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  clips and then one from every episode and mash
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  it all together into one best of episode. And
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  for the client I just did it for, we did kind
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  of a mishmash of both their interviews that they've
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  done and their solo ones. But what we do at the
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  end of the year, because every other week is
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  an interview and a team episode. So I will do
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  a best of interviews episode for the last week
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  of the year. And it's just some of the standout
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  moments from the interviews that they have done
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  throughout the year. But then I'll also do a
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  best of their crew. So then they get two weeks
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  off at the end of the year. So week one will
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  be the best of the crew. Week two will be the
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  best of the interviews. And so they get a two
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  -week gap to just take some time off, reset.
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  They already did the work. And honestly, recycling
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  some of those clips from those shows drives numbers
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  to people to listen to the full episode of the
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  show that they might have missed throughout the
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  year. They might be listening to that best of
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  episode and go, wait a minute, I didn't hear
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  that interview with that person. That was a great
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  little clip. I want to hear the rest of it. So
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  then they'll go back in the catalog and then
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  listen to that full episode. So it's driving
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  numbers. It's building interest. It's reminding
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  your audience of what you have done this year,
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  of what you've accomplished this year. And it
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  just works out really great to give people some
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  time off as well. What's also nice is that I
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  usually over content when it comes to like social
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  clips and reels and stuff like that. So there's
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  still stuff that didn't get posted throughout
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  the year that they can go and post to promote
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  the best of episode. It works out really well
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  that way. And really the only work that they
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  have to do on the front end of it is record.
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  a little clip at the intro saying, hey. We're
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  taking some time off for the holidays. We hope
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  you are too. And we wanted to still put something
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  out for you guys and just kind of recap a great
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  year that we had. So here is the best of episode
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  for... And then that's it. I just put that in
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  the front. I add in the clips that I've pulled
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  through Riverside, mash it all into one audio
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  form, video form, whatever you're doing for your
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  show. And then that gets posted as the best of.
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  And then I do like to include links in the show
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  notes as well for the episodes that are referenced.
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  So if people do... listen and they're like oh
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  what was that interview that happened with sally
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  at the eight minute mark i want to go listen
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  to that full one they have an easy place in the
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  show notes to access that interview go back and
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  listen and just kind of recap the year now that
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  being said i just spent seven minutes explaining
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  how to make a best of video and that didn't include
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  actually uploading or downloading or editing
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  anything so it does take some time there are
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  a lot of moving parts and pieces you do need
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  to factor in when making your best of episodes
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  so my best advice to you especially going into
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  q4 right now you're recording podcasts you're
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  locking in for labor day you're making sure that
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  you get some fresh content out you're making
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  sure you're doing the best thing you can to market
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  the shows and market your brand and market your
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  business if you have a really great moment in
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  an episode that you are recording that you're
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  editing pull it out right now Start a folder
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  on your computer where you edit that just says
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  best of 2026. And when you are editing and you
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  have that standout moment, you're like, wow,
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  I was really proud of the question I asked, or
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  I really loved the answer my guest gave. Save
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  that clip, throw it in the folder, because then
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  when it comes time to make that best of episode
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  at the end of the year, you have a folder that's
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  just ready to go. You don't need to think about
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  it. It's already edited. It's already sitting
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  there waiting for you. Go in and just grab it
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  and go. So as you're editing now, remember to
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  pull those best of moments so you're prepped.
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  ready for the end of 2026 I cannot believe I'm
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  saying the end of 2026 already oh it's crazy
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  and I'm sitting here sweating in the sun But
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  seriously, working ahead is going to save you
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  a lot of time and energy at the end of the year
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  when you are probably going to be pretty strapped
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  for time and energy. So think about it. Grab
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  those clips. Work ahead. And if you need help
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  with planning this out or you listen to this
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  and you're like, I don't know what she's saying,
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  but I really want a best of episode. I do podcast
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  production work. I can help you with this. If
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  you want a podcast, if you want all of this and
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  you want it to run smoothly and not have to deal
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  with any of it or learn any of it. I can help
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  you with that. Go ahead and reach out at abbygravesproductions
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  .com. Link is, of course, down in the show notes
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  below. I can help you with your podcast no matter
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  what kind of help you need. I'm the podcast lady
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  for a reason. But keep working on those best
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  of episodes. Pull those moments so you're ready
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  to go at the end of the year and start planning
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  accordingly. Honestly, what you can do is if
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  you got enough clips for two weeks of best ofs
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  at the end of the year, start working backwards.
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  There are less weeks between now and then than
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  you think. And you can probably... map out some
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  pretty incredible content to put out in that
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  timeframe. So that being said, leave a five -star
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  rating and review, and we will see you next week
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  on Abbey the Podcast Lady.