Two Decades of Podcasting Insight

I recently came across a LinkedIn post that made a strong case for podcast hosts getting to the point more quickly. The idea was simple: if your episode could be ten minutes, don’t stretch it into forty-five. Respect your lis...

Welcome to episode 500 of Podcast Answer Man. This milestone episode gave me an opportunity to reflect on what podcasting has meant to me over the past two decades, how the podcasting space has changed, and why I still believ...

In this episode, I share the thinking behind my new live streaming and video content strategy. For the past several months, I’ve been very clear that Podcast Answer Man is an audio-only podcast, and that is still true. I rema...

A question came up while I was preparing for my podcasting workshop at Social Media Marketing World: Does the world really need another podcast? It is a fair question. There are already millions of podcasts out there. Many in...

In this episode, I recorded while out for a walk using a small wired lavalier recorder clipped to my shirt. It was not a studio setup. It was not polished. It was not carefully produced. And that is exactly the point. The rec...

I missed an episode last week. It was the first time since recommitting to a weekly publishing schedule for Podcast Answer Man that I failed to release an episode on Friday morning at 12:01 a.m. And you know what? The world i...

This episode came from a pattern I’ve seen over and over again. So many people come to me asking for audience growth strategies. They’ve been podcasting for a while, they feel like they’ve hit a plateau, and they believe the ...

In this episode, I share something I’ve been seeing over and over again in conversations with people who are on the verge of launching a podcast. There’s this belief that you need to have everything figured out before you’re ...

Over the years, I’ve told my origin story in podcasting many times. I’ve shared how I got started, how things grew, and how this work eventually became my full-time career. But what you’ve almost never heard is this story tol...

In this episode, I’m sharing a conversation with Heather Bayer who was one of the first people in her industry to launch a podcast. She didn’t wait for permission. She made a decision about who she was and who she was there t...

In this conversation, I sat down with Jason Cabassi, someone I had the privilege of helping launch into podcasting back in 2011. Since then, Jason has gone on to produce more than a thousand episodes and build an entire podca...

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a replay of a conversation I had two years ago with Alex Freeman on the UpFlip podcast. When that interview first aired, it quickly became one of the most significant entry points into my world...

In this episode, I share one of the most important lessons I’ve learned from more than twenty years of podcasting and content creation. Success in this space, more often than not, comes down to two simple things: getting star...

Have you ever felt like your podcast is a grind? You’ve been showing up consistently. Publishing episodes every week. Doing everything people say you should do. And yet, after months or even years, it feels like nothing is re...

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I talk about a milestone moment that I never thought I’d see so soon. For the first time in history, audio podcasting has surpassed AM/FM talk radio as the most popular way Americans con...

Lately, I’ve been seeing a growing narrative that video podcasting is no longer optional. That if you’re not producing high-quality video alongside your podcast, you’re already behind. I don’t buy it. In this episode, I offer...

In this episode, I share a conversation that was recorded at the Cincinnati Podcast Studio with Brian Erickson . I originally invited Brian to join me for an episode of my What Are You Creating? podcast, which I typically pro...

In this episode, I sit down with Scott Smith, host of The Daily Boost , for a wide-ranging conversation shaped by more than two decades of podcasting experience. This is an honest exploration of what it actually takes to stay...

Does podcasting really take too much time and cost too much money to produce? That question came up for me after a series of conversations with experienced podcasters who have stepped away from shows they once loved. In this ...

What if the most powerful podcast you ever create is not one you plan to produce every week for years, but one you intentionally decide to end before you ever hit record on episode one? In this episode, I share the full recor...

If you would like to learn how to start a podcast and still be around 12 years later, you will want to listen to this episode. In it, I share a powerful conversation with Laura McClellan, host of The Productive Woman podcast ...

In this episode, I share why podcasting conferences still matter in 2026. Attending podcast-focused conferences has shaped my entire career. From the early days of missing the very first podcasting events to the way conferenc...

One of the most common questions I get from podcasters is how long a podcast episode should be , and in this episode I go much deeper than just throwing out a number. Podcast Episode Length In the first half of this episode, ...

In this episode, I respond to a popular video from Stephen Bartlett , host of The Diary of a CEO , where he shares how his podcast generates seven figures a year and suggests that "anyone else can do it too" by following six ...