As much as I rail against the "podcasting is cheap and easy" mentality, I have to admit it: podcasting is cheap and easy for a lot of podcasters. But your content doesn't have to sound that way.
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but recently, during the recording of a different podcast than this one, my audio was bad.
Not so bad that you can't clearly hear what I'm saying, but bad enough that a disclaimer will be placed at the top of the episode that basically says, yes, we know Evo's audio sucks. Sorry.
And I hate that!
Call me an audio prima donna who refuses to accept anything except perfection if you want, but in reality, I don't care all that much about perfection. But I won't settle for producing podcast content that isn't quality.
To me, quality means doing the best you can with what you have to work with.
Your environment. Your equipment. Your voice. Your experience. Your level of comfort. All of those things are part of your overall "working with" toolset.
It's your best your striving to achieve. Not everyone else's best. It's what you personally have to work with. Which has very little in common with what everyone else has to work with.
Approaching quality this way means you don't obsess over the latest "best of" or "top-rated" piece of kit. It's just an object! An object that performs differently under different hands.
Making a personal commitment to quality means you're committing to quality in all the podcast-y things you do. Guesting. On your episodes. Your conference presentations. Your collaboration with other podcasters.
A personal commitment to quality simply means that you are confident that you are doing the best you can with what you have today. And if you can get to better tomorrow, then you will.
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