Podcasting Production Insights

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Since I was asked, here’s some thoughts and insights on doing a podcast.

I read the request at the beginning and also read most of this post: https://integratingpresence.com/2023/04/23/grandiose-thought-experiments-to-show-up-like-never-before/

Also, here are some of the mostly free tools and resources I currently use:

Audio: Podcasting Production Insights

The raw unedited YouTube transcription of this podcast:

so I recently got this following email

hey Josh I hope you’re a phenomenal my

friend just a note to say how much I

enjoy connecting with you on your

podcast it was such a lovely experience

and I truly appreciate the opportunity

to connect with you I’d love to stay in

touch and keep the conversation going

I’m excited to share that we are in the

final steps of launching our own podcast

and I’ll forgo the name of it here where

we teach how to master your mind expand

your wealth and enhance your health as

we’re getting everything ready I was

wondering if you had any particular

suggestions or tips for running a

successful podcast I really loved how

you operated yours so any insights

tricks ideas Etc would be incredibly

valuable if you’re willing to share I

love to pick your brain about what works

best in this space excited to hear from

you and hopefully collaborate more in

the future and I’ll forgo who this was

just for

anonymity but thought you know instead

of a personalized response which it will

still be in some sense why not just make

this kind of a behind the

scenes podcasting operation

type thing for anyone else interested in

this and this won’t be linear and it

won’t appeal to everybody this is more

geared towards obviously people who want

to do a podcast and maybe know a little

bit more about what happens behind the

scenes so been doing this maybe since

2020 and I started it bootstrapping it

so I’ve done every single thing myself

except for a few things right um the

main thing is getting a host having a

recording

software and you know putting out

episodes pretty basic straightforward

things there’s a few things I recorded

to that I had to have professionals edit

on like Fiverr this freelancing site

that I really wanted to keep but the

editing was just too hard for me

so you learn over time about what takes

a lot of time with the editing process

how perfect I want it to be how raw I

want it to be so there’s pros and cons

to each of this I’ll go into some of

those of course when you do it from

scratch yourself then it’s going to take

a lot more time and energy however you

will know all the kind of ins and outs

of all the processes from those you want

to delegate some of the work

to I don’t have experience with the

collaboration so that’s one thing that I

lack on experience if it’s just going to

be a whole team doing this but at least

from doing it all myself I kind of know

the ins and outs of some of the low

quality processes if you’re not going to

be charging for it then the pro is that

you don’t have to do too much editing

too much high quality stuff since it’s

free however if you want it to be be

widely successful of course the more

time and effort energy and quality um

controls you have on it the the more

well-received it’s going to be it took

me time just to have it take off and I

think where it starts from is just

having a kind of vision and purpose for

what it want it to be it’s kind of a

given and just keep hammering at it and

will it just took time for it to finally

take off but at the core of that really

caring about what I wanted to do and you

know it’s really hard to explain it was

just kind of a calling and just knowing

what to do and then leaving myself

enough free space in this project to

just follow my

heart’s um fancy in some cases and try a

lot of different experiments I left room

open for a series for awakening and

change so like a miniseries within the

main

podcast I did one offs you know before I

got into interviewing people uh I found

people in real life to interview I sent

off emails to

someone’s someone’s quite a few people

that were like dream guests really

wondering if they’ll get back or not no

big deal and then I found this service

pod match it helps link up guest and

host and then at one point I was saying

yes to everybody and then I got into the

space where I just have to turn down so

many people because they’re just either

not a good fit or there’s just not

simply enough time and maybe even

inclination of doing that doing

experimental projects like what is light

and how you know and just go around

asking all kinds of people really

spending extra time on those that I

wanted to talk to and having them back

on multiple times another thing is

leveraging kind of byproducts or

recording things that people normally

wouldn’t record so when I was doing live

events on insight timer I would have a

recording and then I would later release

that as a podcast and now insight timer

even has premium audio products to

getting this on other platforms there’s

certain

services that will kind of submit to all

kinds of

platforms

definitely once it’s set up the

distribution is kind of easier to go out

to multiple

Platforms in working one’s

Network there’s so much that goes into

these things behind the scenes that

people don’t see but reaching out like

the one who wrote To Me is a great idea

everybody loves to talk about what

they’re interested in so reaching out to

those you’re involved with to pick their

brain a lot of people will be very

responsive to that it makes them feel

kind of seen heard needed acknowledged

valued

validated and plus it helps um the one

asking so where they don’t have to go

out and hire someone new or a consultant

um or even a coach maybe to get certain

expertise and advice so it works both

ways it’s a great great idea I found

myself connecting a lot of people to

even not involved in the shows people

would reach out asking for resources and

or just having oh this person would love

it would be great if this person could

talk to that person about this topic and

connecting people um which helps the

community helps the World At Large will

help me and audience as well if I think

why passion or enthusiasm needs to be

brought to the project and keeping one’s

head down and just keep going with what

one just feels needs to be done and how

one needs to be it that needs to be

balanced with being open to feedback

criticism being able to change direction

and even being able to scrap the project

if it’s something were anything were to

happen so I think

that kind of balance is helpful as well

in just using intuition discernment and

internal guidance on how to make

decisions kind of on the micro and the

macro as far as tools of the trade

there’s plenty of things out there I

bootstrapped with free tools like

audacity and garage band um somewhat

decent microphone but also even using

the microphone on the Mac and phone ‘s

apps of this there’s plenty of

information out there the big thing

around this is workflow though like from

kind of start to

finish from the re from the scheduling

process to the recording to the editing

to the publication and the release time

and then the followup if anything needs

to be done there and then promotion I

didn’t promote integrating Pres as much

as I could have just liked to jump in

with the content and maybe come back to

promotion later if I could but it all

depends on what you want and your needs

are of course there’s all kinds of

assistance with this that’s dependent on

time and budget as far as the actual

conversation itself which is the Crux

the most important part it went from

before years before doing this to to

working behind the scenes where it’s

absolutely terrified to step in front of

the microphone to that’s probably the

most enjoyable part of this whole thing

you why shouldn’t it be that’s why we

would our host would want to do a

podcast to begin with so I don’t do

scripts for the most part I did a script

for my course so I didn’t want them to

waste any time or deal with any

frivolous extras or anything like that I

wanted to be a finally refined product

what what’s nice about not a lot of

editing is it shows kind of a realness

although it can be a little bit

distracting a lot of things a little bit

rough around the edges some people like

that some people don’t it is a craft so

think about what kind of questions would

you love for people to ask you that they

never ask you and I think it comes down

to a genuine interest in the other

person and even if that’s lacking a

little bit more than likely there’s

going to be common ground for mutual

interest and I’m not afraid to hold

people’s feet to the fire if I think

it’s going to be beneficial to them to

me and the audience can do it in a kind

way of course authenticity and integrity

are really good in these instances and

they’ll be strengthen weaknesses that we

have of course one of my weaknesses is

this Ms and o and not being able to

pause and be comfortable with

pausing to feel gaps instead of

stammering so with these weaknesses just

making a resolve whatever they may be to

be open to receiving the right knowledge

information and folks to come along and

help strengthen those weaknesses I had a

speaking coach on and then another one

who teaches

corporations to present publicly public

presentations so this has helped quite

tremendously compared to where I was

when I started so let me read a blog

post I have now it’s called Gro thought

experiments to show up like never before

how can you really show up and have a

presence so these are just experimental

things to think about when it comes to

this

this isn’t for those with huge egos nor

for those subject to delusions of

grandeur it’s for those who belittle

themselves and for those who’ve been

belittled who think and feel why bother

my daytoday life is insignificant and

greatness is only for a select few

imagine showing up for every interaction

like you were one delivering life

altering news like doctors do every day

birth cancer loved ones dead after

surgery Etc imagine on the level of the

president or world leader announcing a

nationwide disaster or War number three

part of one of the biggest pranks or

hoaxes of all time four contributing to

many listeners most Vivid and Lasting

memories five meeting the architect of

the Matrix movies where depending on how

it goes the entire reality itself hangs

in the balance number six

granted significant Fame soon after

guaranteed number seven assured to fall

into ill repute or infamy soon

afterwards number eight experiencing the

the Airing of War of the world’s radio

drama in Reverse where instead of

hearing an announcement beforehand that

this was just a makeb believe drama

where most people missed the key point

and took it to be real you actually

interact as if this was just another

fancy production to be consumed and

forgotten about but found out later no

it was just as important as an alien

inent

invasion number nine we’re tipped off

that somebody’s goons were waiting to

take you out afterwards how would you

then show up to your last interaction

under such

circumstances I’ll stop there but the

point is to elicit these really

heightened states of showing up and

interacting in life of course it’s to

highlight The Other

Extreme because most people are just

like H yeah whatever no big deal we take

our interactions for granted so but to

balance this kind of extremely important

interactions it would be like not taking

oneself too seriously right this isn’t

as big a deal as I thought you know this

can be a natural free flow relaxing

conversation and it’s not that big a

deal so that’s the other end of the

spectrum too this is the one of the most

absolutely critical times in my life

where every single moment of every

single word matters so I think that’s

kind of one of the spectrums when

showing up and doing a podcast and

talking so finding the kind of right

flow and balance

and ground and interest and ideals where

is it natural where is it authentic and

where can I push the boundaries and

where should I draw back at so there’s

are just a few things behind the

podcasting I’ve done here for a few

years hopefully someone has found this

or parts of this helpful

Published by josh dippold

IntegratingPresence.com

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