Enough talk enough planning of jibber jabber, it's time to do it. It's time for you to simply make a podcast. Now, if you're like most people, there's still that initial hesitancy. I'm not sure I have a voice for radio for podcasting. I say too many arms. Get over it.

First of all, very few people like the sound of their own voice. You'll get used to it when you do it often enough. If you say on on every so often, big deal. Everybody does. You know who says more than you do? David Letterman.

Martha Stewart, what do they have in common? They make about $25 million a year talking. So I wouldn't worry about as in and I do realize that they are the twilight of their career. David Letterman is stepping down, but still you get my point. It's a far far more important thing to have something interesting to say. Then to sound like some generic newsreel broadcaster from the 1940s years I was like this never says, um, that's not what's gonna make your podcast interesting.

What's gonna make your podcasts interesting to people is your passion, interesting ideas, provocative ideas, news and interesting guests. That's what's going to make your podcast maybe entertainment or humor if you have that too. That's what will make your podcast take off. So what I need you to do is just start recording something, record your opening. If you're doing this with a group, assemble them, talk it out now, again, there's plenty of podcast a million websites to give you the ins and outs of the best microphone and the best recording system. As we're just doing our practice.

It's good enough to simply get your iPhone or any phone out and put the voice recorder on. For that matter, you can just call your own voicemail and record. But I want you to talk for a couple of minutes something that is not talking about your podcast, but actually doing what you envision as your podcast, something that is somebody put a gun to your head and said you have to put this out in a million people are going to be forced to listen to it. This is what you would put out. So I need you to speak and if it's just you doing stand up comedy, do that. If it's you interviewing world renowned experts on Beatles, then call an expert and let that person know hey, we're not necessarily going to broadcast this.

I'm gonna owe you one. We'll have you on for real in two weeks, but can I just talk to you for two minutes over the phone? Let's do as close as possible to the actual podcast format that you envision and just do it. This is the hard part for most people. It's just want to do it. I think that and I listen to people all the time, I know I'm better than this person.

I hate to sound like a Nike commercial. But you're going to have to just get over the hump and record yourself, record your audio. I'll tell you what to do after that, but for right now, I don't want to scare you. But you've got to get it on or if you don't do this, everything else before this is a waste of time, everything after is a waste of time, you're going to have to do some semblance of a show right now, record, don't worry about the special effects. That's a commodity. You can hire somebody on Fiverr to do an opening for you are closing and you can edit something and software and intern can do that.

But you can't really hire someone to be the voice of a podcast unless you have a tremendous amount of money. The voice has to be you. And if you don't think you have a great voice. Nobody cares about your opinion at this point. Just for right now. Now speak it out, record it, and I'll tell you what to do in a minute.