You'll Never Be Ready To Start A Podcast

Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot · Aug 23, 2026 · 3m

How long have you been getting ready to start your podcast?

Not thinking about it. Actively getting ready. Sorting the branding, working out the niche, planning the first twelve episodes, and somehow still not pressing record.

I've launched over a thousand podcasts in ten years, and the ones that never happened were almost never the ones where the woman couldn't do it. In this episode I tell you what they did have in common, why the way podcasting gets taught keeps you preparing forever, and what I've decided to do about it.

I also tell you what happened ten days into my own experiment. It's…