78: Your Podcast Workflow: Optimize, Automate, and Outsource It, with Ari Meisel

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How much thought have you given to your podcast workflow recently?

That much, huh? ;)

I've been thinking about mine a lot lately because I have found myself caught up in the minutiae instead of getting the important things in my life and business done.

A workflow like it takes to produce a successful podcast can be very tedious to think through, so I wanted to talk to someone who can give me good tips on how to optimize it.

Ari Meisel is that guy. If you’ve never heard of Ari you really need to listen to this episode so you can hear his story.

An illness literally forced the guy into figuring out how to optimize, automate, and outsource the things in his life that needed to be done in order for him to be truly productive. And he has leveraged it for all it is worth.

In this episode, we walk through the basics of what it means to optimize anything, how to take the next up from there to automate things that can be automated, and then as a last resort, outsource things to people who can take many of the remaining tasks off your hands.

Yeah, I know, it sounds potentially expensive.

But if you'll take the time to listen you'll learn how much of what Ari did when he first started doing it was absolutely free, and what wasn't free wasn't that expensive.

So there you go… check out the outline below and give this episode a listen.

 

Here’s a rough outline of this episode about optimizing your podcast workflow

• [1:28] Who is Ari Meisel? The story of how he was forced into optimizing his life
• [3:54] What it means to optimize and why it’s important for your podcast workflow
• [6:14] How to begin the optimization process for your workflow
• [8:12] What Ari means when he speaks of automation
• [10:22] How do you know when it’s time to outsource?
• [13:01] Ari’s podcasting career and his tips for optimizing his podcasting workflow
• [18:31] What Ari would do if he was starting a podcast all over from square 1
• [21:20] What Ari’s doing now and how he can help you optimize your podcast workflow

Your podcast workflow needs help, even if you don’t think it does.

I have been podcasting for over 4 years now and I felt like I had my podcast workflow refined pretty well. But then I talked with Ari.

Man, I was both discouraged and invigorated at the same time.

There are so many pieces of my workflow that can be more effectively optimized or automated that I wasn't even aware of. I'm so glad we had this conversation and I believe you will be too - because it will show you what's possible when it comes to getting things off your plate and producing your podcast faster and with better results.

What does it mean to optimize something… in this case, your podcasting workflow?

When I think about optimizing something I often think of NASCAR.

Just watch 1 pit stop and you'll see how obviously those racers and their pit crews have done everything they can to optimize their speed as a team and the performance of their car and driver.

We are podcasters - we're not zipping around the track at hundreds of miles per hour. But what we are doing is still important. We've got lives to live, clients to serve, and families to love, so optimizing the work we need to do in order to publish a podcast episode is vital... so we can have the time for those things.

That means we need to learn how to optimize the processes that we