Learning to podcast

For me learning comes most natural when I play, have fun and create a project. It was the same way with podcasting.

We are often asked how we got started with podcasting. And to be honest then the idea where there for years before we got started. But we procrastinated.

It is so easy to make a project difficult in your mind.

The thing that broke our procrastination spell was that we appeared as guests on Amrit Sandhu's podcast Inspired Evolution - And after the show we talked a little in private and I asked Amrit how he got started. 

It showed that Amrit had gotten this question so many times that he has created his own "Launch Your Podcast" course. We were hyped after our talk with Amrit and was like - YES LET'S DO IT... But to be honest it still took us almost 6 months to actually start.

The biggest difference between succeeding and not succeeding is to actually start - so we did it - we took Amrits course and then we booked some guests and started for real.

The two main points from Amrit I want to share with you is this.

  1. Record at least 5-10 episodes before you launch your podcast. This advice works really well for us with our traveling life-style - some weeks we record 3-4 episodes and then some weeks we are immersed in traveling and record zero.

  2. The second advice is quite simple: Don't quit.

Love and hugs 

Cecile and Jesper

I wrote a free ebook on how to easily take your podcast and create it into content for social media. You can download it here.

Our Podcast Tech SetUp

As we are full-time travellers, we need a set-up that can be in a backpack - So our setup is kind of simple - it doesn't look like a super fancy podcasting studio, as you can see - but it works, and the video and audio quality is good.

When you are about to start your podcast, you can end up in an endless Google Search of what to do, how to record, how to distribute your podcast and so on. I know we loved to see what others did, so here is our set-up.

  • We record on Zoom

  • For the camera, we have 2 options: We either use our iPhone Pros as a Continuity Camera on our MacBooks, or a CenterCam, which makes eye contact even better. 

  • We use 2 Røde Røde lavalier Mics as microphones (they came with our Røde Go set), and then we have them in a mono-splitter inserted into a headphone splitter (nerdy but works, and we don't want giant mics in our faces)

  • We edit the videos with Descript and export a WAV file, which we upload to Buzzsprout.

  • To distribute our podcast, we use Buzzsprout - There are free alternatives available like Spotify for Podcasters, but when it is free, you are the product :) We love Buzzsprout for the features: Dynamic Content and Magic Mastering.

And that's it - Don't make it difficult, just start! The important part is not the tech, but the dialogues :)