The document provides guidance on how to get started with podcasting, including determining why you want to podcast, what type of podcast to create, how to name and brand your podcast, equipment and software needed to record and edit audio, hosting platforms, and tips for preparing, recording, editing, publishing and promoting your first podcast. The key steps are to determine your goals and audience, choose a name and artwork, record with the right equipment, edit your audio files, host your podcast, and publish and promote your new podcast.

1. How to Get Started
in Podcasting
The Why, What & How to Do
Your First Podcast

2. WHO am I?
• Award-winning Author of
From Grief to Grace
• TEDx Speaker
• Online Media Consultant
• Podcaster of “What Really
Matters Interviews”

3. My Podcast

4. Why?

5. WHY do you want to
do a Podcast?
• Hobby vs. business?
• Marketing?
• Reach your market in another
content form?

6. Benefits of Podcasts
for Listeners
• Listen anywhere
• In-depth content
• Longform content they have
time for

7. Benefits of Podcasts for You
• Intimate connection – your voice
• In-depth, long-form content
• Listen to them anywhere
• New marketing channel

8. What are your expectations?
• Highlight your skills
• Talk about your expertise
• Reaching your audience more deeply is
good (in-depth content)
• Direct monetization is difficult, so don’t
plan on that right away – unless you
already have a big following.
• Me: use it as a way to showcase my
interviewing skills, build an audience and
hone my skills

9. What type of podcast do
you want to make?
• Solo:
• Just you talking about your topic
• Read your book
• Specialty (gaming, movies, music
etc)
• With others
• Co-host with another
• Interview others
• Inperson vs. remote interviews

10. Who is your Audience?
• Lots of Podcasts
• Find a niche and stand out!
• Biggest mistake I’ve made.

11. … do you

12. What “stuff” do
you need to DO a
podcast?

13. What’s the NAME
of your podcast?
• Make it short & simple
• Make it appeal to your audience
• Check other names to make sure
you’re okay
• See if you can get the domain name

14. Create Podcast Artwork
• Make it graphically
simple
• Square shape
• Large size:(3000 x 3000
px)
• Where to create it:
Canva, PowerPoint,
Fiverr, etc.
Create
it in
Canva

15. Google “Podcast Covers”, etc.

16. What equipment do
you need?
• Need to create a recording
• Basic: phone
• Better: external microphone, iPad,
PC or Mac
• Best: mixing board, boom,
soundproofing, digital recorder (if
on location)

17. My Set-up

18. What Software Do You
need to Record?
Remote Interviewing:
• Zoom, SquadCast, etc.
In-person Recording & Interviews:
• Phone or iPad (built-in software?)
• Audio recording software: Audacity
(free), Hindenburg, Adobe
Audition, Garage Band, etc.
• * Digital Recorders – bypass
software and record directly into a
recording device.

19. What editing software do
you need?
• Free: Audacity
• Free: Garage Band (Mac)
• Paid: Hindenburg
• Paid: Adobe Audition
• Free: DaVinci Resolve (for
video AND audio!)
• Many others out there …

20. Audio Editing + Transcript
An all-in-one solution for transcripts & audio editing!

21. Where to host your
audio files?
• Anchor – Free. Gives you limited
control.
• Libsyn – Been around forever.
• BuzzSprout – my fav. Good
reviews, support, interface, etc.
• There are many others …
(Need a place to store your audio files distribute
them to Apple, Spotify, etc.)

22. HOW
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HOW do
you do
your
podcast?
Make the Leap and DO It!

23. Prepare
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Prepare for Your Podcast
• Gather your notes and links - Google
docs, relevant websites, etc.
• Mic check – On? Have you selected the
right mic input? Sound level check?
• Software and/ or recorder ready?
• Prepare & relax your guest
Get

24. Record Your Podcast
• Click “Record” on Zoom, Squadcast,
digital recorder, etc.
• Have 8-10 seconds of silence at the
beginning
• Record. Don’t stop/ start … keep going.
• Done – leave 8-10 seconds of silence.
• If online recording – let files upload.

25. Edit Your Podcast
• Create file folder for all
audio files. Move all
audio files to those
folders
• Remove noise
• Normalize
• Tighten up
• Add intro & outro
• Render

26. Organize Your Files!
• Create file folder for all audio
files
• Date-Podcast-Name
• Subdirectories for “Renders”
& “Media”
• Within media: images, audio,
etc.
• Enables you to keep
everything in one place

27. Prepare at Hosting
• Add artwork for issue
• Add text about podcast
• Add any relevant links
• Upload audio file

28. Publish Your Podcast
• Push the “Publish Button”
• Get the word out!
• Social media, Facebook,
LinkedIn, Instagram,
Email, etc.

29. Q&A / Resources
Resources Page (PDF) soon available:
• Send email to doug@douggreene.net
What questions do you have?