Feeling bored with the content that you're creating, because you might have chose a topic to focus your podcast around, it's natural to then get bored of that at some point. 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. If you've been following me on Instagram at Digital Podcaster, you might have seen this post. It's gonna be the theme for our episode today. And that's talking about what's normal for podcasters. When it comes to podcasting, it's kind of like a solo game, right? We see other podcast hosts, we don't always get to hear what they're going through. We don't always get to hear the internal game more of the inner stuff that comes up, whether it's impostor syndrome, and just the troubles. So I wanted to talk about and share some things that are normal for podcasters. Number one feeling imposter syndrome. This is huge for podcasters, impostor syndrome, and podcasting go together a bit like peanut butter and jelly. Maybe it's something about taking up space talking a bunch, it's just normal. I know for myself, I felt impostor syndrome. When I first started Digital Podcaster, I was like, I want to help people on their podcasts, because that's what I've done for years. But I don't want to have my own podcast. And it took me kind of getting over this idea of, oh, this is some imposter syndrome I'm experiencing, I just feel like maybe I'm not good enough for a podcast or something that's totally normal. And I speak with a lot of other podcasters who feel the same. Another one is not always knowing who's listening. This is especially true if you're just starting for everyone in the beginning stages. But even after you've been going for a while, you don't always exactly know who's listening. Because unless you're doing it live, and you can see faces, you just don't know you're talking to a recording, and that recording doesn't have a face on it. So not knowing who's listening is just a completely natural thing. Also, people when it comes to habits for listening to podcasts, they don't always just listen every week. I know, there's a lot of listeners who do but there's also a lot who don't, there's a lot of listeners who will binge a show and then come back to it in a couple months. Or they just binge it once and don't come back to it to say you always know who is listening. It's just I don't think that accurate. And it's just something normal, like you don't know. So you just keep on going. Another thing is, I love this one, having guests on your podcast, who you're not even sure are qualified to speak on the topic, you might see a guest and be like this would make a great guest a great interview, cool, you do enough research, whatever everything checks out, you have them on your podcast. Next thing you know, I don't know that this person, for one knows more about this subject than I do. Maybe you might know more about them than they even know. Maybe you're further along. And then two, you might be like, Wait, is what they're saying even accurate? And that's probably a great topic for a whole nother episode of like, what if you have someone on that isn't qualified, right? What if they come on your podcast and they're actually spouting stuff, that's not true. There's different ways they handle that. And I think that would make a great topic for future episodes. If that does sound like something you'd be interested in hearing more, please let me know. And another thing is feeling discouraged when people don't engage with your content, you release your podcast, you promote it, and you just don't get the engagement that you feel deserves or that matches the work you put in. Another thing is disliking the sound of your own voice. I felt that way. In the beginning, it kind of cracks me up partly the microphone, partly the gear I have helps. But I found in the very beginning, I was like, Oh, my voice that's kind of gone away a little bit. Some people love the sound of their own voice. Some people just don't care for it. I think because I work with my own content a lot every day, I get tired of the sound of my own voice. And at a certain point, I just want to hear myself not talk because I'm listening back to videos and listening back to episodes, I just put out so much content, I'm just like, over the sound of my own voice that may or may not be you. Also not having the capacity to promote every single episode. This is completely normal. You might go through periods where you're really excited about your podcast. And then you'll go through periods where you're not as excited and you're like, Ah, shoot, I just had a new episode, and I didn't promote it. That's normal. That's okay. It's 2023 and there are a million different podcast strategies you could be implementing what if instead of trying everything, you just focus on one thing, one thing that would really help you grow your audience and increase the revenue of your podcast, I'm excited to share a series of free limited time virtual workshops for you which you can sign up for right now, at podcast workshop.com these workshops will give you the tools and strategies you need to really take your podcast to the next level. No matter what stage you're in, whether you're just starting out or looking for ways to increase your revenue podcast. workshop.com has something for every podcaster sign up for free today by visiting podcasts. workshop.com Now the thing is feeling bored with the content that you're creating, because you might have chose a topic to focus your podcast around, it's natural to then get bored of that at some point, I've done it on Digital Podcaster. I actually didn't talk about podcasting in the beginning of this show, because I was afraid that I would get bored of podcasting. But I actually find myself getting more excited about talking about podcasting. So I kind of had the reverse effect. So out of fear, I didn't talk about podcasting. But then once I leaned into that, and overcame that, I actually got way more excited and interested in it. Kind of funny. And then the final one I just want to address here is not knowing what next steps to take to grow your podcast, I offer Digital Podcaster as a resource for podcast hosts to learn more about how to grow your podcast, but not having all the steps is completely natural. I've found this is kind of one of those life principles. The people that seem to grow and thrive the most, are really good at admitting or just kind of like, not worrying about if they don't know about a certain subject. If you're open to advice, feedback, things like that. You're gonna grow faster, not knowing what steps to take, I think is one of the best steps to take to grow your podcast. I'll leave it at that. I hope this was helpful. I hope you feel a little bit normal as a podcast host even if just one of these things that you identify with and you kind of like breathe just a little easier. My goal was accomplished. I will chat with you in the next episode.