
Explore practical steps for creating a podcast through real-world examples. Discover how solo production and minimal marketing align with his approach to making a podcast.
Determine your podcast path by exploring format, equipment, and planning decisions. Unlock efficient production by tracking listener requests, planning topics, and using batch workflows.
Realize the time cost of podcast creation, commit to a 24-hour-per-episode workflow, and decide what to give up to sustain a realistic, burnout-resistant schedule.
Identify a podcast topic through your passions, whether movies or history, so you can discuss it consistently, then name the show, secure domain and handles, and plan format and release.
Plan your podcast episodes by mapping a year of topics, including true-story movies, then adopt quarterly planning to align release schedules and episode length.
Organize your podcast with a clear backlog-to-done workflow, quarterly planning, and boards and statuses in Jira or Trello, plus calendars and notes apps for tracking.
Track listener requests from Facebook, Twitter, website, email, and Instagram using Jira to organize and prioritize episodes on a dashboard and backlog during quarterly planning.
Learn batch processing for podcasting to write, record, and edit episodes in blocks, avoiding gear-switch fatigue. Plan two months ahead, create evergreen content, and manage listener feedback without sacrificing workflow.
Prepare before you record by planning the content and technical setup to deliver better value and boost downloads. This section covers the recording setup and pre-recording steps.
learn a practical podcasting workflow from watching the movie and taking notes to recording, editing, quality assurance via a private RSS feed, graphics, a blog post, and scheduling on Lipson.
Explore podcast hardware essentials, including condenser and dynamic microphones and audio interfaces. Learn mix-minus workflows, room treatment, ground loop isolator use, and dbx 286s for clean sound.
Examine van Gogh's deteriorating mental health and his San Remy hospital stay through letters and testimony. Weigh evidence of suicide versus possible foul play and invite reader interpretation.
Finish your recording by saving the file, moving it to the file stream, and syncing it to Google Drive for cross-device access.
Practice the podcast editing workflow, including non-destructive versioning, trimming gaps, adjusting pacing, applying vocal effects and compression, and layering a music bed to enhance the episode's flow.
In part two of our editing session, learn podcast editing basics: remove mouth noises and breaths, arrange clips on the timeline, and use markers and shortcuts to refine the edit.
Master practical podcast editing: cut and organize quotes in a two-track intro, main, and outro. Apply noise reduction with audition and izotope, and export uncompressed wav files before mp3 encoding.
Learn hands-on podcast editing workflows, from exporting high-quality tracks and removing hiss with noise reduction, to layering music beds and syncing intros, quotes, and outro timing.
Learn practical podcast editing techniques including fades, music bed integration, quote voicing effects, mastering presets, and final export workflow to polish episodes.
Apply hands-on podcast editing by re-recording, merging takes, and creating versions, then use noise cleanup and loudness matching to export a consistent mp3 episode.
Finish editing by exporting at 96 kbps, balancing file size with voice quality, perform loudness matching in audition, save as a constant bitrate mp3, and run quality assurance before publishing.
Learn to create episode graphics using a reusable Photoshop template, edit episode numbers and titles, adjust the hero frame, and export optimized images for the web.
Discover how to create a blog post for a podcast in WordPress by cloning posts, customizing with plugins, and optimizing the slug for SEO, plus Lipson embedding.
Apply a practical QA workflow by listening to each episode before publishing, uploading the MP3 to a WordPress setup with the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin, and managing versions to catch mistakes.
Continue learning podcasting, absorb tips and tricks from the process, and share your podcast while exploring resources like School of Podcasting and Better Podcasting.
You like to learn by example. No vague advice needed. Keep it practical. You want someone to break down the entire process from start to finish so you can glean as much information as possible for your own podcast.
If that sounds familiar, this course is for you.
Here's what we'll cover:
Podcasting strategies to help you answer the right questions before you start
Hardware and software recommendations for your podcasting setup
Recording of a real-world podcast episode
Editing of a real-world podcast episode
Graphics, blog post, QA and scheduling an episode
Why this course?
Whether you're just starting out or you're an experienced podcaster, there's a lot of advice out there for podcasters. The challenge is a lot of the advice out there makes grand promises of creating chart-topping podcasts or implying you can quit your day job once you start your podcast.
This course is different.
We won't get in the weeds comparing podcast hosts. Everyone's budget is different. We won't add fluff to the course by talking about submitting your podcast to iTunes or Spotify. They've got official documentation to walk you through that process.
This course is fluff free.
Podcasting is a lot of hard work. For the past five years, I've put in thousands of hours into multiple podcasts.
As of recording this course, my current podcast ranks higher than 90% of shows (according to Libsyn's download stats). But I won't be covering any podcast marketing techniques in this course. Why? Because the best way to grow your podcast isn't through fancy tricks or a big marketing budget. The best way to grow your podcast is by creating great content.
In fact, I spend well over 90% of my time on the podcast focusing on the content using the techniques in this course. The only marketing I do for my podcast is the occasional post to social platforms...you don't need me to show you how to post on Facebook and Instagram. So, let's cut the fluff and focus on the good stuff in this course.
This course is practical.
Some courses cover recording and editing a podcast episode in less than five minutes. That's not realistic. We'll take the time to cover the whole process so you know what it's really like. It's just the right balance of being practical to give you realistic expectations about what it takes to create a podcast while saving you time in the process.
Ready to get started?
When you're ready for a practical, no-bull approach to creating a podcast...I'll see you in the course!