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Want to Start a Podcast? This Is the Episode To Help You Begin · All About The Joy

• 0:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi everyone, welcome to All About the Joy, the private lounge.
• 0:08
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm Carmen Lee Set.
• 0:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Your host, rick, will be showing up a little bit later, but I want to first start by saying this is our first how-to.
• 0:16
  Carmen Lezeth: We've gotten a lot of email requests regarding this over the past couple of years and I've kind of just never thought it was something that we could do.
• 0:24
  Carmen Lezeth: But now I want to read an email from one of our viewers and we'll get started.
• 0:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, carmen and All About the Joy hosts.
• 0:34
  Carmen Lezeth: My name's Keisha.
• 0:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I live in Kansas City, missouri.
• 0:37
  Carmen Lezeth: I work retail mostly and I help take care of my niece, but lately I've been thinking about starting a podcast or going live.
• 0:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Sometimes I've got thoughts, you know, on music, relationships, just life in general.
• 0:51
  Carmen Lezeth: I keep seeing people do it and something in me keeps saying why not you?
• 0:55
  Carmen Lezeth: I've been listening to your show for a minute now and I love how it feels like I'm sitting in the room with y'all.
• 1:02
  Carmen Lezeth: It's funny, it's real and it don't sound scripted.
• 1:06
  Carmen Lezeth: That's what I want, but I don't even know where to start.
• 1:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Like, what do you need?
• 1:10
  Carmen Lezeth: How do you even plan it?
• 1:12
  Carmen Lezeth: How do you not get nervous going live?
• 1:14
  Carmen Lezeth: If you could talk about how y'all started and maybe share a few tips.
• 1:18
  Carmen Lezeth: That'd be amazing.
• 1:19
  Carmen Lezeth: I think there's a lot of us out here who've got something to say, but we just don't know how to say it out loud yet.
• 1:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Appreciate y'all.
• 1:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Keisha.
• 1:29
  Carmen Lezeth: First, I want to say thank you to Keisha for sending us that email.
• 1:31
  Carmen Lezeth: There were a few other people who had asked the same thing, so we're going to do our best to at least explain it on the basic level that I think I'm at.
• 1:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick has been doing it a lot longer.
• 1:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Level that I think I'm at.
• 1:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick has been doing it a lot longer.
• 1:47
  Carmen Lezeth: So we're going to chime in and try to do what we can to help people who want to start podcasting and live streaming.
• 1:52
  Carmen Lezeth: And here's the thing If you want to do it, you can do it.
• 1:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Trust me, you know how you always hear people say if I can do it, you can do it.
• 2:00
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not even kidding at all.
• 2:02
  Carmen Lezeth: So let's answer the first question what do you need?
• 2:08
  Rick Costa: But yeah, phone, just put it in front of me.
• 2:11
  Rick Costa: I didn't have nothing fancy.
• 2:13
  Rick Costa: That's what they always say when you want to start, just start.
• 2:16
  Rick Costa: You don't have to have like multi-thousand dollar equipment, just start.
• 2:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, using your phone is a great place to start, because here's the thing you can use your phone and go on certain social media like Instagram or TikTok or even Facebook, and just start playing around and it's free, right?
• 2:39
  Carmen Lezeth: You already have your phone, you can already access these social apps and you can actually just start recording yourself and then posting it and seeing how it goes.
• 2:49
  Carmen Lezeth: And here's the best part about it If you don't like it, you can delete it.
• 2:53
  Carmen Lezeth: It's really easy.
• 2:54
  Carmen Lezeth: So you can first start there if you're nervous about just trying to see if you want to do it or like to do it.
• 3:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, so let's say you have tried using your phone, you kind of like the vibe, and now you want to upgrade just a little bit so that you can start actually doing things like this, like recording an actual show and then posting it maybe on your YouTube space.
• 3:20
  Carmen Lezeth: So the next step is basically investing a little bit into actual equipment that will help you look more professional.
• 3:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Now, as I say this, I'm kind of laughing because if you watch us regularly, which I know, those of you who are emailing us know we have so many gaffes all the time with technical stuffage.
• 3:43
  Carmen Lezeth: But let's just start with the basics.
• 3:45
  Carmen Lezeth: You're going to need a computer, because it'll be easier to do on a computer, so you can use your laptop, or I have a huge monitor, which is what I use and you're going to want an external camera.
• 3:57
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not that the camera on your laptop or your computer isn't great, but if we're just talking about upgrading to a little bit more professional, you can get a really good, cheap camera that will work.
• 4:10
  Carmen Lezeth: And when I say cheap, I'm talking you can get one for like 30 to 50 bucks.
• 4:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I know that's not cheap to everyone, but let's just say you've decided you're going to invest and do something a little bit different.
• 4:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Now, rick had mentioned that he's had the same camera for years, and it's kind of true when you invest in the equipment you don't have to replace it all the time.
• 4:32
  Carmen Lezeth: So I've had this.
• 4:34
  Carmen Lezeth: This is a newer camera for me, but the camera I had before, the only reason why I had to replace it was because I dropped it and the lens cracked.
• 4:41
  Carmen Lezeth: So I had had that one for years as well.
• 4:44
  Carmen Lezeth: So my camera that I have, I'm going to put what I actually use in the show notes.
• 4:51
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not promoting any of them, because they don't sponsor us and you don't have to buy what we have.
• 4:57
  Carmen Lezeth: But just so that you have kind of an idea what we're using to be as quote unquote professional as possible.
• 5:03
  Carmen Lezeth: So that camera is an external camera, it sits on top of my monitor, it can sit on top of my laptop, and that is what I'm looking into right now when I'm talking to you, and that's what gives you kind of that crisp, good look kind of thing.
• 5:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, the other thing that's really important that Rick is a huge fan of is making sure you have great lighting.
• 5:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Now I have to tell you if you've seen our live streams.
• 5:27
  Carmen Lezeth: My live streaming is kind of dark all the time, but when I'm doing these recordings, I fix it in post right.
• 5:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I do it in editing.
• 5:37
  Carmen Lezeth: I am trying to figure out a way in which to get the best lighting possible for my space, but I kind of have my office in a little cave, so it's a little harder, but I'm working on it.
• 5:48
  Carmen Lezeth: But see, even though you guys think we're kind of professional, we're still working through it too.
• 5:54
  Carmen Lezeth: So lighting is extremely important as well.
• 5:58
  Carmen Lezeth: The next thing and all three of these are really important, by the way, but it's your mic.
• 6:02
  Carmen Lezeth: You want people to be able to hear you clearly, you don't have to spend a lot of money on a mic.
• 6:09
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm actually using right now a mic that costs about $79, $80.
• 6:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick will tell you he spent a lot less money on his mic, but he also uses a mixer.
• 6:22
  Carmen Lezeth: So I think it's important to understand that when you choose a mic, you can buy a cheaper mic, but you might need a mixer in order to help elevate that really warm kind of voice and some of this might sound kind of foreign and stuff.
• 6:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Don't worry about a mixer, you don't need one.
• 6:40
  Carmen Lezeth: But if you want to buy a decent mic, you can get one for about 50 bucks, 79 bucks, the one that's the most common.
• 6:48
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not the one that I use, but I just want you to know.
• 6:50
  Carmen Lezeth: The most common podcast mic in this level, like medium level or whatever is a Blue Yeti, so you can Google that.
• 7:00
  Carmen Lezeth: And again, I'm not endorsing anything, I'm just giving you guys some flavor.
• 7:04
  Carmen Lezeth: So again, we'll put those in the show notes.
• 7:06
  Carmen Lezeth: So, basically, to start doing live streaming and podcasting and setting yourself up on YouTube, all you need is a computer, an external camera, good lighting and a mic.
• 7:20
  Carmen Lezeth: So now you're all set up.
• 7:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, you're ready to do this, but now you're trying to figure out what's the difference between live streaming and podcasting.
• 7:31
  Rick Costa: Oh, it's a big difference, for sure, because live, you literally just go on the button and you're on, there's, there's no editing, because you're literally live streaming.
• 7:40
  Rick Costa: People are watching you and you're just on from there, like it's not like.
• 7:45
  Rick Costa: Oh, I mean rewind, you can rewind, You're on.
• 7:48
  Rick Costa: Everybody's looking at you right now.
• 7:49
  Rick Costa: It's like watching the live news.
• 7:51
  Rick Costa: If they make a mistake, oh well, the whole world just told me to make a mistake.
• 7:54
  Rick Costa: But you know, but people that's another thing too.
• 7:56
  Rick Costa: That was encouraging.
• 7:57
  Rick Costa: People are like you're fine, you're fine, don't worry about it.
• 8:07
  Rick Costa: Like if you goof, they're not gonna generally don't make fun of you.
• 8:08
  Carmen Lezeth: They're like think it's cute, you know, so I wouldn't be worried about you know like what if I goof?
• 8:10
  Carmen Lezeth: So what?
• 8:10
  Carmen Lezeth: You're human.
• 8:11
  Carmen Lezeth: You can also think about live streaming and podcasting in this way the recorded aspect of it.
• 8:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Podcasting tends to be what we use.
• 8:19
  Carmen Lezeth: We used to just say that it was something you'd use for audio, but now that podcasting is part of a visual medium too, I think that's what's confusing people.
• 8:28
  Carmen Lezeth: But let's talk about live streaming.
• 8:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Live streaming is like going to the theater.
• 8:33
  Carmen Lezeth: You're going to the theater, you're watching someone on stage and anything can happen.
• 8:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, an actor can forget their lines, somebody's phone in the audience could go off.
• 8:43
  Carmen Lezeth: Please, please, turn off your phones when you go to the theater.
• 8:46
  Carmen Lezeth: It's very disturbing when you do that, but the whole point is theater is live.
• 8:51
  Carmen Lezeth: It's happening right then, and there you may stumble, you may get messed up I'll stutter a million times or whatever and you just have to go with it because you're on live.
• 9:05
  Carmen Lezeth: When you do a recorded type of thing, which is what you're watching right now, this is pre-recorded.
• 9:10
  Carmen Lezeth: This is a not live streaming.
• 9:13
  Carmen Lezeth: What this is is we go in, we have this conversation and do what we have to do, and then we edit it and then we present it to everyone and we send it out to all of our social media accounts and platforms that allow us to show it.
• 9:31
  Carmen Lezeth: So that's kind of the difference, and that, to me, would be more like film, right?
• 9:36
  Carmen Lezeth: So you have your theater, which would be live streaming, and then you have your recorded content, which is like film and television, right.
• 9:43
  Carmen Lezeth: That is all pre-recorded and you're watching it.
• 9:46
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not live, it's been heavily edited, and that's the difference.
• 9:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, here's a great question how did we start?
• 9:55
  Rick Costa: So Periscope was all the rage back in the day.
• 9:58
  Rick Costa: I know some people today probably haven't heard of it, but back then it was like at the year that I started.
• 10:03
  Rick Costa: It became the number one app on Android and iPhone.
• 10:06
  Rick Costa: It was like super hot, everybody wanted to check it out, blah, blah, blah.
• 10:10
  Rick Costa: So I started watching that.
• 10:12
  Rick Costa: The first thing I ever recorded was it was supposed to be an eclipse and my phone was not very good quality to be able to capture that.
• 10:20
  Rick Costa: I was like, oh well, I tried and I was like goodbye, see ya.
• 10:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I started live streaming because a friend of mine who was on Twitter had invited me to their account on an old app that no longer exists.
• 10:35
  Carmen Lezeth: And that's how I started and that's actually how I met Rick, because it was a live streaming program, software, I'm not even sure what to call it an app, I guess an app and you would go on there and there would be people talking, having different conversations in different areas, and then people would have you come up and you would also talk with them and it's kind of like what we're structuring here on Friday nights here at All About the Joy.
• 11:06
  Carmen Lezeth: But this was a kind of different thing.
• 11:07
  Carmen Lezeth: But that's how I started.
• 11:09
  Carmen Lezeth: I was really comfortable in front of the camera because many of you know that I'm actually a performer at heart, but also I had been doing so many Zoom calls for so long, just business-wise, so it wasn't something that was foreign to me.
• 11:23
  Carmen Lezeth: It just became more kind of intense with meeting new people, because when we were doing Zoom calls from you know, with people in other countries or whatever, it was kind of the same thing.
• 11:32
  Carmen Lezeth: But this was like meeting new people, people you didn't know, and it wasn't business-related.
• 11:37
  Carmen Lezeth: So it was kind of cool and that's how I met Rick.
• 11:39
  Carmen Lezeth: That's how I started.
• 11:41
  Carmen Lezeth: Great question how do you plan it?
• 11:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick will tell you that his show, that he does every single day and he does, he has a show every single day.
• 11:52
  Carmen Lezeth: It's a religious type of show.
• 11:54
  Carmen Lezeth: He's been doing it for so long, and I mean years.
• 11:58
  Carmen Lezeth: He's been doing it for, like I think, eight or nine years now.
• 12:00
  Carmen Lezeth: It's very formatted and it's very rhythmic for him because it's just him talking straight to camera.
• 12:08
  Carmen Lezeth: He knows what he wants to do and it's structured.
• 12:16
  Carmen Lezeth: And so you can do that too, if you want to have a show which is just you, straight to camera and there are tons of shows on YouTube where people are doing that because if you have something to share, people are going to want to know about it, right?
• 12:26
  Carmen Lezeth: So in that case his show is very structured, it's very familiar and it's pretty easy for him to do it.
• 12:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Now All About the Joy is a little bit different, because we have more than one host.
• 12:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, I'm the host, but then I have my co-hosts on the show, then I have guests on the show.
• 12:43
  Carmen Lezeth: We also have a live on Friday nights.
• 12:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I think I've said that 17 times now during this whole thing for those of you who don't know.
• 12:51
  Carmen Lezeth: But we have very different structures for all of those different shows and we have a new show starting in September.
• 12:57
  Carmen Lezeth: So because of that, it's a little bit harder for me.
• 13:02
  Carmen Lezeth: When I eventually hire a producer, that'll make it easier.
• 13:05
  Carmen Lezeth: But one of the things that I have to do on a regular basis is make sure we have content or a subject matter or something to talk about.
• 13:13
  Carmen Lezeth: And when we interview peoples, we all do all this investigation on who they are.
• 13:17
  Carmen Lezeth: When I say investigation, I mean we try to find out who they are, learn their bio and then have appropriate questions so that we can have a nice interaction.
• 13:26
  Carmen Lezeth: But you don't have to worry about all that.
• 13:28
  Carmen Lezeth: When you're first starting, you're going to figure out how to plan your show as you go along.
• 13:33
  Carmen Lezeth: I promise you, as you go along doing it, it's all going to make such sense and it's going to filter into however it is.
• 13:42
  Carmen Lezeth: You want to do it.
• 13:43
  Carmen Lezeth: You may do a very, very structured show, or you may turn around and just wing it, which is what we do sometimes Never.
• 13:51
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm very much a control freak, so as much as some things seem like we're winging it, we're not.
• 13:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Do you have any last tips Do?
• 14:02
  Rick Costa: you have any last tips?
• 14:03
  Rick Costa: I mean just really the basics.
• 14:05
  Rick Costa: Don't be afraid to make a mistake, don't be afraid that people are going to throw tomatoes at you.
• 14:09
  Rick Costa: They ain't going to throw tomatoes at you, you're home anyway.
• 14:12
  Rick Costa: But you know what I mean, you know just, yeah, you're going to goof.
• 14:17
  Rick Costa: Sometimes it's fine, like nobody expects, and actually it becomes endearing because they're like, oh, they're being real, they're trying to fake or be like.
• 14:26
  Rick Costa: You know, I'm so professional, you know they find it endearing that you're, you know you're you goofed a little bit or whatever.
• 14:32
  Rick Costa: And I laugh about.
• 14:33
  Rick Costa: I'm like, oh, one for the blooper reel.
• 14:35
  Rick Costa: I always joke, you know, if I make a mistake.
• 14:36
  Rick Costa: But, um, yeah, it is nerve wracking, but the more you do it, the more comfortable you'll be, the better you'll get at it.
• 14:45
  Rick Costa: Yeah, and if you like we're doing it to people here, if you want to do it with somebody, even better, because then you, then you're not feeling like the focus is only on you.
• 14:55
  Rick Costa: You know, if that's how you have to start.
• 14:56
  Rick Costa: And nobody likes the sound of their voice, just get that straight.
• 15:01
  Rick Costa: Nobody likes the sound of their voice.
• 15:02
  Rick Costa: Just get that straight.
• 15:03
  Rick Costa: Nobody likes the sound of their voice.
• 15:04
  Rick Costa: But another thing, too, is, if you're starting to do it, I always say watch yourself back, cause you're going to learn a lot about the things you do that you're like, ooh, maybe we could have did that better.
• 15:14
  Rick Costa: So, yeah, watch yourself back too, cause that's very helpful.
• 15:18
  Rick Costa: The thing that people said to me that was encouraging to them, that I would say, is go online because you know something I don't know, something that's common sense to you, that used to be in your mind thinking well, everybody knows that.
• 15:33
  Rick Costa: Trust me, I don't know a lot of stuff that maybe I should know.
• 15:35
  Rick Costa: You know stuff that I don't know and I would like to know, I'd like to learn from you.
• 15:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I think the only tip that I would give isn't just about whether or not you should start doing your own YouTube channel or podcast or live stream.
• 15:51
  Carmen Lezeth: This is just in general.
• 15:52
  Carmen Lezeth: If you're curious about doing anything in your life, anything that possibly gives you a little bit of fear to do a little bit, that you don't know how to do it, but you're still intrigued by it and you think about it all the time, I say do it, jump in with both feet and try it and do it.
• 16:12
  Carmen Lezeth: You just never know where you'll land.
• 16:15
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, and it might be a fantastic, wonderful journey and you'll always learn from it.
• 16:21
  Carmen Lezeth: If you take that step and just try and do it, I think the biggest regret you'll have is never knowing because you never took the shot.
• 16:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Like, if you never take the shot and try to do something, you are absolutely for sure never going to know what happened.
• 16:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, that is the absolute outcome of never jumping and doing it full.
• 16:46
  Carmen Lezeth: On Keisha.
• 16:47
  Carmen Lezeth: We hope we answered your questions, along with all the other people who have sent us questions about this same topic over the past couple of years.
• 16:55
  Carmen Lezeth: So anyways, that's it.
• 16:58
  Carmen Lezeth: If you have any other questions, please go to allaboutthejoycom.
• 17:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Go to the contact area and you can see how you can reach out to me.
• 17:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Specifically, the email does come to me and I try to read all of them.
• 17:12
  Carmen Lezeth: We've made some changes on how you can contact me because we also get a lot of spam and bots, but if you want to reach out to me and you have a question and you want us to talk about it in one of our how to's, we're absolutely happy to do it.
• 17:27
  Carmen Lezeth: And, yeah, I hope you're having a great day, a great evening, whenever you're watching this.
• 17:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you for your support and remember, at the end of the day, it really is all about the joy.
• 17:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Goodbye everyone.
• 17:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Thanks for stopping by.
• 17:42
  Carmen Lezeth: All About the Joy.
• 17:43
  Carmen Lezeth: Be better and stay beautiful.
• 17:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Folks, have a sweet day.