The Four People Stopping You Starting a Podcast

Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot · Sep 22, 2026 · 3m

You keep saying you're too busy to start a podcast. Be honest with yourself for a minute, is that really the reason, or is it something you'd rather not say out loud?

This one's a bit of a straight-talking to, with love. After ten years making podcasts, mostly with women, I've watched too many brilliant ones talk themselves out of it and blame the diary, when the diary was never the problem. So in this episode I go after the thing that's actually stopping you, and I don't let you off with it.

I work out who you're really afraid of, and it's a far smaller and stranger list than the whole world…