Why You'll Never Get Ahead With Your Podcast

Why You'll Never Get Ahead With Your Podcast

Podcast Pontifications

A lot of podcasters live episode-to-episode, dreaming of getting ahead so they aren't always rushing to get an episode produced and publish. For many, that's an achievable dream. The trick is staying there. 

Broadly speaking, there are two types of podcasters. Those who are working on the next episode they need to produce, and those working on the next episode they need to publish. 

Those two groups are very much not the same. For many, the episode currently in development is the next episode the audience will hear. Sound familiar? And would you like to not be in that position? I feel you

Many of us who have chosen to mirror both our production and release schedules yearn for a change. We see ostensibly-smarter-than-us podcasters working on episodes that won't publish for weeks or months and we wish we could get ahead like they are. 

But they aren't ahead. They're on schedule.

If you work your tail off to get three or four episodes in the can, you're not ahead. But you let a production date slide. You get distracted by a fun project you think you have the bandwidth for now that you're "ahead". 

But you're not ahead. And you're sliding back to your baseline with every missed production opportunity.

That's my reality. I was a full month "ahead" in early January. Now it's early March, and I'm about a week "ahead". I'm slipping because I didn't make every day a production day as I had done previously for 3.5 years, So my lead has gradually withered.

There's no getting ahead with your podcast. There's only adjusting your calendar and developing the discipline to keep separation between your production schedule and your publishing calendar.

If you can do it.

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Podcast Pontifications is a production of Simpler Media. New episodes are released weekly, providing ideas and questions every serious podcaster should be thinking about.

It's created and hosted by Evo Terra. Follow him on Twitter for more podcasting insights as they come. Allie Press assists with the production and transcription of the show.

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