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Two Things That Will Save Your Podcast When Life Gets Hard · Your Mic

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  Pod fate is real. I've had four different podcasts since 2020. Over a thousand interviews
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  recorded and I have wanted to quit more than once. Not because podcasting is hard but because
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  life is hard and podcasting, well, it sits on top of life. So today I'm giving you the two things
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  that'll keep you from ever wanting to walk away from your show no matter how hard life gets.
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  My name is Freddie Cruz, founder of Speak Podcasting that is S-P-E-K-E podcasting.com.
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  We help iconic brands launch iconic shows grab a free podcast roadmap at SpeakPodcasting.com slash
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  free resources. Let's begin with the first thing that'll keep you from everyone to walk away from
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  your podcast and that is treating it as if it were a client and I know that sounds goofy but I
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  wanted to stick with me, okay? Because when it comes to the businesses I work with that speak
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  podcasting, I'm not letting any of those clients down. It doesn't matter what's happening in my
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  life. The show, this show, it gets done every single time. So I made a decision that your mic,
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  the one you're listening to right now is a client. It actually lives in a client folder with
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  all of my other clients. It gets a production calendar, it gets the same urgency as a paying
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  account. And the moment I made that shift, everything changed because now skipping an episode
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  isn't just a personal fail. It's letting down a client and I never want to do that. Neither should
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  you. Thing number two, batch record, full stop. I'm going there again. Yes, we have touched on this
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  numerous times. So I want you to imagine a scenario. It's Monday and you release every Tuesday
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  and you haven't recorded a single thing. You've got a client call at nine. Kids need to be at school.
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  Emails are backed up, prospecting to do. And by 3pm you're sitting there staring at your mic
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  totally blank and that's not a content problem. It's a systems problem. And if you batch record
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  even two or three episodes ahead, the nightmare, well, it doesn't exist. Your mic releases
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  biweekly. That's eight episodes every month. And my goal is to always be six or seven episodes
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  ahead, whether that's outlined or fully scripted or scheduled or recorded or heck, some months,
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  seven or eight episodes produced and scheduled ahead. Now, do I hit that every single month? No,
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  but I've got a system I can come in on a Saturday knock out three episodes and boom,
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  get back ahead of the curve. So batch record and protect your future self and your show.
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  And if this quick solo ran hit different, please leave me a review, leave me a comment,
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  subscribe, share with whoever the podcaster is in in your life who is having a rough go at it.
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  And if you don't have a podcast yet, grab that free roadmap. It's waiting for you at speakpodcasting.com.
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  Slash free resources that is SPEKEpodcasting.com.