What We Learned In Our 1st Year of Podcasting

<p>Your Sparkly Brand is 1 y’all! It’s been a whole year of consistently inspiring and empowering entrepreneurs by showing up with high-value content targeted at helping them grow their business.</p> <p>In the spirit of celebrating our one year anniversary, we decided to share insights into our podcasting journey. We share lessons that we’ve learnt over the years, and the tools and tricks behind our consistency and success. If you’re looking to start a podcast, this episode is a must-listen for you. If you’re already hosting or co-hosting a podcast, you might also find one or two tips that can help you improve on how you deliver.</p> <p>Key points in this episode…</p> <ul> <li>Meg celebrates reaching the highest grossing month in her business.</li> <li>Lauren’s husband, Alex, had his first chemotherapy appointment.</li> <li>We recently reached a major milestone. We’ve been podcasting for over a year!</li> <li>Starting a podcast is a lot of work, but really rewarding.</li> <li>Lessons we’ve learned along the way.</li> <li>Set your intention on who your podcast audience is.</li> <li>Your idea will evolve. Be okay with flexibility in your idea and be open to feedback.</li> <li>Get organized with your assets.</li> <li>Podcasting presents a great networking opportunity.</li> <li>It becomes a great catalog of content that you can refer people back to.</li> <li>Experiment and try new things, and be willing to try other things if that’s not working.</li> <li>When simplicity works, go with it.</li> <li>Make it easy for your guests by giving them as much information as would make them comfortable.</li> <li>Provide assets to guests to make it easy for them to promote your podcast.</li> <li>Don’t be too concerned about how to impress your podcast guests, just show up and genuinely listen to them.</li> <li>Be yourself, nobody cares how you look.</li> <li>Do video if you can.</li> <li>Use Anchor as your free, user-friendly podcast hosting platform.</li> <li>Descript is a great podcast video ed