How to Manage the Pressure of Weekly Podcasting and Stay Ahead (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Hey, Chris here. So let's talk about the pressure of being a podcaster and deciding to put out an episode every week, every week, every week, or even more ambitious every day, right? So at first, new podcasters believe that, oh, putting out one episode a week, that's easy. You know, maybe I should do two or three episodes a week. I don't know. Let me start with one. Let me tell you something. I've done so many different podcast shows for myself with co-hosts and everything, probably somewhere between 15 and 20 shows I've done. I don't do most of them anymore. I do only do two of them still. But when you start a podcast, you have a lot of energy and you're ready to work and it's fun and everything. But if you put out an episode every week, at some point, usually within a few months, you get tired. You want to take a break or you want to skip a week or you had an interview, but your guest canceled and now you don't have an episode. So all right, I guess I'll just skip a week. And then you start skipping weeks and then that's it. Then you're off track. So my point here is staying on track with doing a weekly podcast is a lot of work and a lot of pressure. It doesn't have to be a lot of pressure though. So that's what this video is about. Most people record their podcast a few days before they want to publish it. And then so they record it and then the day comes two or three days later, a week later, and they publish it. Great. And then the next week they do another interview, wait a few days, publish it. And that's where you can get into trouble because if your guest cancels or you maybe go on vacation, right? And you just, you can't record an episode that week. So that's why to take the pressure off doing a weekly podcast, what we've learned from some of the great podcasters who came before us is that you can actually get ahead. Meaning you can record three or four or five or six episodes, have them done. And then you just put out one per week over time and then you keep recording as well. So what I'm saying is you get three or four or five episodes ahead of yourself so that so if you have to go on vacation for a week, you already have four, let's say four episodes done and recorded. You have one to put out that week. And if you want to take a week off, you have time to do that. So having several episodes in the can, as we say, which means simply means that they're done and they're ready to publish. So having a bunch of episodes ready to publish, even if it's only two or three, that takes the pressure off. And it's a lot easier to maintain a weekly show if you stay ahead. So don't fall behind, stay ahead. That's the point of this whole video. So it's a really good feeling when you stay ahead too, right? Because mentally you know you're ahead and the pressure's off. So all right, well, that's all I wanted to say today. Don't forget my podcast engineering show. That's my podcast. This is the daily goody emails you can sign up for at podcastengineeringschool.com. These are just a bunch of tips and tricks, really cool stuff. And at the website is the full course where I teach people how to develop a career working from home, producing podcasts and earning a lot of money working from home, developing a career, developing a life skill that no one can ever take away from you. It's almost like job security. But anyway, that's the course at podcastengineeringschool.com. So thanks for watching. If you have any questions, please comment. If you want to give the video a like, please do and subscribe. Please do. And I'll see you in the next one. Bye.