Hey, welcome back to The Daily Dave here on The How To Podcast Series. We're looking at how to get back on track with your podcast. And we've had four episodes in a row. So far, this is the last of our four for this little mini series here on The Daily Dave. We've talked about getting your podcast back on track by assessing and planning, reestablishing your routine, engaging your audience, and we're going to end off this four set with re-igniting your passion.
And why that's important. Here on The Daily Dave, how to podcast series, are you ready to re-ignite your passion? Well, we need to do so. Here we go. So if you're married, whether that's one year, ten years, for me it's over 30 years with my wife, Chan, hi Chan, we have to be intentional so that we don't get into a rut in our relationships where we take each other for granted.
We stop talking to each other, we go around our daily day to day and we kind of high-five each other in the hallway as we go off to the next thing and we don't even sit down and talk to each other. You've got to get back to the thing that re-ignites the passion for your relationship.
Or your love for whatever it is you love to do. You got to get back to that part, it was like why did I fall in love with stamp collecting or renovating houses or restoring old cars or woodworking or crocheting or reading or playing my guitar? There's things that we do for a period of time and then we just kind of put them away or they just kind of fade away.
Out of busyness of life and kids and work and responsibilities and bills. These things just kind of fade into the background and it's like you got to go dust off your passion for these things that one time you couldn't get enough of. And now you're like me, well you know it's a guitar, meh, okay. I have nine guitars. I haven't opened a case in a long time.
They're all sitting over there mocking me from across the room going Dave. Remember when you played the guitar? I see you over there, yes I know I'm coming I'm coming. There's these things that happen in life where we get busy and we start to lose the passion for something that we had that was such a big piece of us for a long period of time. We were known as the person who fell in the blank right you were known for something and that thing you don't do as quite as often or ever.
Now, today's because of whatever has come into your life that has taken you on a new path and the one thing that was your identity is now your history and not actively part of your day anymore. I'm sure you can name something right now that you were known for in the day and you're not. No. It's time to reignite our passion for our podcast. There was a time when your podcast was all you talked about.
Everybody would see you walk in the room and they would grab their stuff and run for the exit because you might talk about your podcast and now it's like yeah yeah you don't even talk about it anymore. You don't even tell anybody about your show because you're like embarrassed about it. You're not consistent with it. You're not doing the thing the way you used to do the thing. And it just becomes more of a half to do hobby than a passion. And when we talk about getting our podcast back on track.
Getting that passion back for our podcast is one of the things we really need to focus on. Reigniting the passion we have for our podcast. Remember that day when you started a podcast for the first time and you would not shut up about it. Remember that. Ask your friends. They'll tell you you were annoying because all you talked about was your show podcast podcast podcast. Oh yeah yeah.
And now it's whatever. And people come up and you're like you still doing that thing. You don't talk about it anymore. Yeah I'm doing the podcast you know. Do you heart well how's it going well you know it's the thing. You've lost your passion. You've lost that loving feeling. Oh whoa that loving feeling. You've lost it for your podcast. It's time to reignite it go grab something that lights a lighter a match and go grab a candle or a barbecue.
We're going to like this sucker up. Okay. We're going to reignite your passion. The first thing you're going to do to reignite your passion and get back on track as a podcaster is to focus on quality and your podcast instead of quantity.
So in speaking with a new client this week we were talking about how often should I podcast as a regular thing. Do I have to do it daily every two days three days once a week once a month once a year what is the how often should I podcast Dave very relevant question very frequent question. You're going to see that a lot of Facebook groups if you want to ask me questions is a link in the show notes that's only for you as a listener of the show no one else has this link.
And it gives you 30 minutes in my calendar anytime you want as often as you want I will make time for you as a listener a because I want to hear your amazing voice. B I want to meet you and see I want to help. I'm not going to sell you a book or a course or a program or whatever. If you want to work with me in the future we can talk about it later but I much rather just talk to you and help you with your podcast.
So there's a link in the in the notes for this episode look on your phone scroll scroll scroll at the bottom there it's a calendar link. You click that link and only you have that link no one else has it. It's not on my website. It's just for you. So jump out and reach out let's talk. Okay. When I was answering this question about how frequently should I podcast Dave my answer to them was I'm more interested in the quality of your podcast over how often you do the thing.
Now again there's going to be gurus out there in podcast land that are going to tell you the opposite. They're going to tell you you have to do once a week and if you don't your fail. There is something to say around being consistent and giving your audience something they can count on that's I believe in that 100% but weekly is not a requirement daily is not a requirement monthly is not a requirement. In frequent episodes are sure they'll work but it's really hard to build you into a routine.
So having some kind of cadence to how often you do it and when is a good thing I would highly recommend that. But really if you take a break for a week or two it's fine. It's fine. And don't let this stress you out. You do not have to podcast every single week and record it the day of the day before and run on empty all the time. Sometimes you need to push away from the desk and go take a walk. I would much rather you focus on the quality of your podcast than how many episodes you do.
You need to prioritize creating wells researched and engaging episodes rather than a hearing to some strict schedule that some guru told you you had to do. This is really going to help you rekindle your enthusiasm for podcasting for your show, for your audience, for your content and will improve your listener satisfaction. They're going to get more out of the show for it being better quality than better quantity. Because a whole bunch of nothing is still a bunch of nothing.
But when you show up and you give me something that I can really sink my teeth into and think about and it's transformative, I'll come back. But a bunch of fluff, I'm going to unsubscribe because I can tell you're just kind of phoning it in. You don't really care about your content, but it's Monday, so I'm going to record an episode. That is the worst way to approach your audience out of duty instead of out of serving. So record when you can.
Batch record, we talked about recording more than one episode at a time. You create more than one cookie with each recipe. You don't cook one at a time. You create a batch of cookies. Try to batch record. If you have a free day, record more than one episode. I've recorded the last four episodes you've heard over the last four days, eat within a two-hour period, edit it, record it, post it, everything done in one sitting.
I'm thirsty. I haven't even got up to refill my coffee. I've recorded all four of these in a row. Batch recording. Focus on quality over quantity. And then second, I need you to go seek some collaboration. I want you to reach out to other podcasters and be a guest on their show, have them on your show, or to feature their episodes on your podcast. Work together with the podcast community. We are friends here, everyone.
There's a few people who are a little bit, well, I would avoid, but there's a lot of amazing people including you. There's a lot of great resources at your fingertips. One email away, one speak-pipe message away, and you can have people lining up to work with you and help you. Podcasters are awesome. By inviting collaboration with other podcasters, it can provide fresh content for you, for your audience, and help YouTube reconnect with the podcast community.
You are part of the podcast community with one episode or two thousand. And by working together with other podcasters, you bring all of us up. Don't be afraid to reach out to people when you're struggling, and you're like, I can't. I just can't do it this month. Maybe bring on, how about this? Dave, can you do my podcast this week? I'm really just near break. Sure. I'll come on and I'll be the host of your show and give you the week off. Really? Why not?
I get host your show. Maybe. It'll be fun. Your audience will be like, who the heck is this guy? Why not? Are there any rules to say that I can't be the host of your show to give you a week off? Really? Why- there is no rules. Why not? I host your show. You come and do it for me later. You'd be like, hi, this is so-and-so on the How to Podcast series. Dave's on break. I'm take- I took over the podcast. What's this button do? Oh, so why not? We can work together. There is eight a way out.
If you feel overwhelmed and you're thinking, I can't do this on my own anymore. Well, there's the problem right there. You shouldn't be doing this on your own. You should be doing podcasting in community. We have a meet-up group we meet every Saturday, even through the summer. We meet every Saturday with other podcasters. Come and meet us at my meetup on how to podcast.ca. If you want to talk to somebody who's in your corner who podcasts just like you do.
I would love to talk to you. Link in the show notes. That link is just for you. So we've talked about this for the last four episodes in a row. To get back on track with your podcast, you need to assess and plan. You need to reestablish your routine. You need to engage with your audience. And you need to reignite your passion for your podcast. If you need help with this, use the link in the notes. Let's get to the other and talk.
Thanks for listening. Get your podcast back on track. You got this. Take care.