Self-Care For Podcasters

Podcasting Your Way Through Your Existential Crisis

Three tips for surviving the inevitable questioning of why you are doing this.

September 11, 2018

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It's not a matter of if but when you'll start to question why your show exists. Or why you keep doing it week after week. It'll happen. So you might as well prepare for it.

Here are a few tips for surviving:

Check in with others (Not your audience)
Go listen to new and amazing content (Outside of your vertical)
Talk about your crisis (Not necessarily on your show)

Trust me. It'll help. If not now, soon. :)

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Podcast Pontifications is written and narrated by Evo Terra. He’s on a mission to make podcasting better. Allie Press proofed the copy, corrected the transcript, and edited the video. Podcast Pontifications is a production of Simpler Media.

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