This is the show for creative entrepreneurs who have a message to share and want to live a life of freedom. Learn how to grow your network and net worth, hear from exciting guests, and more. My name is Dylan Schmidt and Welcome to Digital Podcaster. All right, this will be the first of a number of episodes of things that podcasters have to deal with that once they overcome, it unlocks the path to success with podcasting, podcasting is a game of content creation, it's a game of mindset, it's a game of skills that get developed over time. And the goal of the following episodes are going to be to increase your skill in a shorter amount of time that it takes two podcasts, and it's going to tackle one idea each episode. And I think it's going to be around 10. Don't hold me to this. But I think it's gonna be around 10. I want to make this valuable. I also want it to be something that you can look back on of something where like, someone's like, hey, Dylan, how do I do this? And I can go, Hey, this is exactly how you do it. So today's pain point that we're going to talk about with podcasting is time, specifically the time it takes to record edit and upload a podcast. This can be especially challenging for podcasters who have day jobs or commitments, is like, how do you fit it all in, right? There's the planning of the episode, there's the actual like setting up of recording, then there's the actual recording, then there's the editing, and then there's the uploading, and new jobs aren't even done yet started close to done, then you got to promote, then you got to do it all over again. But you also got to figure out ways you can innovate and improve. And there's a lot of like project management that goes into podcasting. So here's how I do it. Right. Instead of sharing like, this is what you need to do, I'll share what I do, that makes me successful at this. And this is something that I've been working on getting better at explaining because what's obvious to me is not obvious to everybody. And that is the pain of life, right? If everything was the the world would probably be an easier place if everything was obvious to everybody. And I say that because like it wasn't obvious to me at one point. So it's not like I woke up and responded with this, or anything like that. It's just developed over time. And then what started becoming normal was something that, you know, was not normal to others. So how it fitted all in? Well, first it comes down to knowing what you're doing, right? If you're constantly reinventing the wheel. Again, I'm going to try and talk in eyes. So if I'm trying to constantly reinvent the wheel when it comes to making a podcast, it takes so much energy. And I'm all about working smarter, not harder. So I find that when I'm making a podcast, I have to rely on my systems in place that helped me be successful. What systems in place do I need to be successful? Well, there's a couple of different things. I know that if I set up my recording gear outside in my living room, just to have a change of backdrop, a change of scenery, it really takes a lot of energy, like the lighting is the hard part out there. Specifically, it takes a lot of energy to set that stuff up and get it like dialed in. If I just have my recording gear set up and good to go, I'm much more likely like not even much more likely it does happen like that is something that will then make the whole recording process easier. So it saves me time and, and at the end of the day energy, right. So it takes me no time to set up my gear really other than like, if you count flipping on 1234566 pieces of gear I turn on, and then I open up one app. And that's my recording time. So basically about 20 seconds, 30 seconds, maybe. And that's how like, so there's no time really and set up. And then when it comes to recording, I have an outline of what I want to talk about. But I'm thinking about like things kind of all the time, right? I have all these ideas. But I don't spend a lot of time or energy of like knowing is this the right idea, right? Is this the one that's going to change everything? I know, and I've learned that content isn't built up in one piece of content. Content is a long term game content is something that you you know, people don't judge will, depending on what you do, or say, you know, people cannot speak with i People don't judge me on one piece of content. They judge me over a longer form, right? If they only judge me on one piece of content that person's in and out, right? They never even listened to me a second time. And that doesn't give them a full picture. So like what do I care I guess, but if they but over a period of time, just like any relationship, right? If you meet someone one one time, you don't know like, what they're like you don't really know all their thoughts and ideas and things like that it's developed over time. Listen, ships need time to unfold. So, all of that to say there are certain things you can shortcut like having gear set up. And there's certain things that you can't shortcut, like a relationship with your audience. All that to say as well is your mind is probably thinking of ideas, and you just have to execute on those ideas. So just pick an idea and go, maybe you got to pick the idea and go, they'll spend too much time on that either. And that's the part that's like the inner mindset game, right? What if I don't, what if the what ifs, don't let the what ifs creep in, pick it and go, you can course direct. And again, I guess that's what I was saying, like, no one's going to judge you, or they shouldn't judge you, the people that matter won't judge you on one piece of content. And then you edit it. And this is, again, the system structures processes in place for this, the system I use is I keep it very loose, that's built into the show, I don't do a high editing job. For one, that's not the style that I like, I don't think that conveys my personality, I find that when I do edit stuff like that, or if I find that if it's edited too much, it changes the way I'm trying to communicate to you my way of communicating to you is more casual, it's more room for mistakes, it's more room for imperfection, that is something that I want to get across to you. Because I want you to know that that's possible to have that. But yeah, my style, that's my style. If your style is more edited, then yeah, you're going to need to do that. But don't let the Edit get in the way of communication get in the way of you publishing. Because the goal is not to edit a podcast, the goal is to publish a podcast. And if you have to outsource the editing, that's one way it'll save you time as well. You're like, I can't afford that. Well, there's pretty much editing for any level these days, editing is not some crazy expensive thing, if you want on Fiverr or Upwork, you can find someone within your budget to edit your podcast. And when it comes to uploading, like that's not a big part. But there's basically like, corners, you can cut every step of the way. You know, and part of what I talked about in Podcasting Academy is, you know, I outline just like each step of the thing, and I don't go into like all of the different microphones like you can, here's, you know, eight different microphones to choose from, like choices is what you probably need less of, if you've got little time, the last thing in the world is you need to know all of the options, you need the option that works. And the option that works is you know, cutting those corners, and some of those corners you can cut again is editing like you don't need to be a perfectionist, or you outsource it, or recording have it set up so you can go and then uploading it. Do you need to write out all the show notes? Do you need a podcast website? No, that doesn't actually, it's not a requirement of you uploading a podcast to save Buzzsprout. But it is part of an overall strategy that could come in time. But as far as like the immediate No, you don't need that to just upload the podcast episode. So realize, you know, for one, how you're spending your own time, if you are like, I have no time. But you're actually like, you know, you could be multitasking, like while you're watching Netflix or whatever it is that you're doing. You could you know, be uploading it to a website, or you could be writing our show notes. That's the type of multitasking we're talking about. So evaluating your own time, of course, for me, I don't struggle with time to podcast. So because I build it in, right, like I build it into my day, but I'm also kind of different because I teach this stuff. So I know where to cut the corners. But I also know that at the end of the day if I had to like if I was absolutely pressed for time, and all I could do was record a podcast and I'm like, I want to get this out. I wouldn't make my normal show notes, I would just give it a good enough episode title, I would give it give it good enough shownotes and publish it. And then when I do get that time, when it opens up, I'd go back and then either change the episode title if I wanted something different or fill in a more robust episode show notes. So that's how I would save time as a podcaster and reduce the amount of time it takes to publish is do that. This helps. I hope it did. In the next episode, I'm going to talk about money. So money around podcasting can be expensive. I know it. I have spent a lot of money that didn't do anything for me. And I get it and a lot of people are maybe hesitant to invest money into their podcast but we'll talk about some things that you need to be mindful of when you're planning like budget wise for a podcast and some thoughts and considerations around money. And we'll talk a little bit about monetizing just a little your podcast and like what a promotion type budget should look like for that as well. So I hope you'll join me in the next episode about money and podcasting. I will talk to you soon