Do You Need Guests on Your Podcast?

Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot · Sep 28, 2026 · 4m

Do you need guests on your podcast? If picturing your show means picturing yourself interviewing somebody, and the diaries and emails and rescheduling feel like too much, this one's for you.

I'm 37 episodes into Getting Heard and I haven't had a single guest on, and that's completely on purpose. After more than ten years making podcasts, I also run a community for people who want to get booked as guests, so this definitely isn't me being anti-guest.

In this Pod Shot I talk about one of the biggest reasons I see shows grind to a halt, why going solo is actually the easier option even though it…