Getting Your Podcast Unstuck With The Three I’s [S3E55A]

Podcast Pontifications

Guest host: Patrick Oliver Jones from Why I’ll Never Make It.

When producing a daily podcast or a monthly podcast, it all comes down generating ideas ideas. Follows is the “Three I’s” that Patrick has learned in his three years of podcasting that keep him from getting stuck, or at least not stuck for long.

1. Input - If you’re the proud single parent of your precious baby podcast, it feels often like everything is on your shoulders. The recording, the interviewing, the editing, the writing, the marketing... and, oh yeah, coming up with the ideas for episodes as well. That’s a lot!

Reality check: It’s really hard to reach new levels of experience or success from a solitary effort. You need input from others in the form of feedback and critique and perspective else risk burn out. Or maybe just some pretty bad ideas.

2. Inspiration - Much more passive than actively asking for input, inspiration is passive. And often not planned. Something that we read in a book or hear in another podcast or see on a TV show can spark an idea or topic to explore. And it’s important that those sources come from a multitude of genres. Inspiration comes from learning about subjects outside of my own expertise and experience.

In addition to changing up the media you consume, inspiration can also come from changing up your surroundings and your routines. This pandemic has kept many of us inside and isolated more than usual. Just taking a walk, reaching out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while, or even starting a new workout routine can be helpful.

3. Inward - As we continue to search ourselves and uncover our own strengths and weaknesses, our passions as well as apathies, we will start to discover what’s important to us. And it is this awareness that will ultimately lead to ideas and content that we can put into our podcasts.

The content you create comes from you, from your life, your interests, and that unique way you see the world. That’s also what is going to also interest your listeners. When you go inward and wade through any successes or failures you’ve experienced, others will find those same situations similar or perhaps fully in common to others.

So focus on the “Three I’s” all over again where you are now giving input and inspiration to others. And isn’t that the whole reason we podcast in the first place?

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Support For Abortion Rights

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