After taking part in NaNoWriMo quite a few times, this time I’m taking on the challenge of National Podcast Post Month by publishing an episode every day. I’ll be talking about my experiences in podcasting, from my longest-running show, 21st Century Work Life, to my first, Spain Uncovered. I’ll also share stories and insights from my journey, discuss the changing definition of podcasts, and explore ideas from my Trello board.
Join me as I navigate this Adventure, sharing lessons from over a decade of podcasting experience.
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Here’s the transcript:
Hello, and welcome to Adventures in Podcasting. My name is Pilar Orti, and I’m your host. For the next 30 days, I’m going to be doing something a little bit different. I’m going to be publishing episodes because I haven’t been on this feed for a very long time.
I do miss it, but other things have got in the way. So, I am taking the chance to start again and give this show a little bit of life by taking part in NaPodPoMo, which is National Podcast Post Month. This is where podcasters or beginner podcasters, or anyone commits to publishing 30 episodes in 30 days during the month of November, and we are now in 2023.
I’ve never taken part in this challenge before. I have taken part in NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month, and that’s all about committing to writing 50,000 words in a month. And I did a kind of NaPodPoMo with NaNoWriMo at one point on my show, Word Maze.
So, if you are interested in writing and fancy hearing what I did around then, check it out. The podcast is still out there, though I can’t remember when’s the last time I did an episode – it’s pod faded, or I have stopped it, whatever you want to call it. So Stephanie Fucho…
Hello. She introduced me to NaPodPoMo, and I have been playing with the idea of what would a podcast look like where I publish an episode every day, and I’ve had ideas and I’ve tried, and you know what, it’s never happened. And what are the reasons for that? Well, I don’t know, I haven’t psychoanalyzed myself.
But there is something about, of course, finding the right time to do it every day or whenever some people record a batch or whatever. Interestingly enough, I have been able to find the time to write every day by saying between eight and 8:30, which is before I start my day. Eight and 8:30, I’ve been writing my novel, and I’ve been taking ages, so it’s kind of like that slot is taken, but I’m going to see if I can do something different and find the time.
And, of course, the other thing is, what am I going to talk about every day? And, well, I thought that one easy thing to talk about for me is podcasting because I love it. And if I take these episodes as really short episodes, which is something that’s very difficult for me to do because my shows are usually long, then maybe I can get to 30 episodes and still have something to say. And also, those of you who know me will know that all my ideas come as podcasts or books.
And there’s a book, Adventures in Podcasting, that is just there. It’s just a Trello board, and I’ve got loads of ideas. So what I’ve done is I have got my Trello board, and podcasters, if you don’t know what Trello is or don’t use anything similar, check it out. T-R-E-L-L-O.
It’s a way of organizing your projects really easily. So, I’ve got a Trello board where I have just been putting ideas for chapters, anecdotes, just stuff I wanted to go in the book. And then what I’ve done, I’ve just gone through it and gone, okay, this I could talk about, this I could talk about, this I could talk about.
The first one I’ve got here is, “When’s a podcast not a podcast?” And this is something that we didn’t have this issue with when I started. I don’t know, when did I do my first show? Well, I definitely started around 2013, so ten years ago.
And I’m not even like a super veteran of the medium, but it was very clear then. A podcast is somewhere, an RSS feed where you subscribe to, and every time there is a new audio file added to that RSS feed, you have access to it, and that was it. But now a podcast is anything.
It could have audio, it could have video. That’s always been the case. People talk about things that are only really happening on LinkedIn Live as podcasts or things that only happen on YouTube as podcasts.
So, I think, note to self, I need to stop being so pedantic about this because it doesn’t help, and it’s not a battle worth fighting. I’m not going to be correcting everyone. And also, it’s really interesting.
So, if I just go back a bit, some time ago, I opened up my calendar to anyone who wanted to ask me anything about podcasting or self-publishing, just because I’ve got a wealth of knowledge around that, but I’m not going to monetize on it. I just wanted to share that. And I had a couple of people who – well, I had one person who was actually mainly going to be doing a video podcast.
Someone else who actually really was just talking about recording a piece of audio that they could then release on the podcast platforms. So, this really shows. Well, we’re using podcasts for anything.
We’ve also always used a podcast to mean an audio file. “I’ve done a podcast.” “Oh, really?” “Yeah,” and it’s one audio file that they’ve done.
So, I’m going to stop being so pedantic about this, and that’s probably about as far as I’m going to go on this Trello card. I’ve also got a note here saying that I did this. I went through my Trello board picking out the bits I’m going to be doing for this challenge.
I did this on the plane, and it was mainly a way of distracting myself because I really needed to go to the loo. And I was in a three-seater at the window, and both my neighbors, the people sitting next to me, had just got out food, and I couldn’t bring myself to say, “Can I go to the toilet?” and get them to put the food away, put the tables up, blah, blah, blah. So, I thought, I need to do something to distract me while I wait until they finish.
And this was a really nice way of distracting myself. So, as you can see, for this challenge, I’m going to be mixing a little bit of stuff. Stories, I ramble a lot, I go quite random.
But what I would like to do is to share some of what I’ve learned over – well, we’ve just figured that out – over around ten years of podcasting and doing loads of different shows. And I will tell you about those in a second. At the moment, I’m just going to commit to release 30 episodes.
It might not be that I record daily; it might be that I batch. And in fact, I’m talking to you right now from the past, because right now, when you’re listening to this, I might be on a plane. So, I thought I’d get the first one down before I go.
And anyway, I hope you enjoy your time with me here at Adventuresinpodcasting.com. There’s a contact form there if you want to email me.
This is all for today. But now, if you want to stay because you’ve never met me and you’re curious about what else I do, I’m going to tell you that now. But if not, see you tomorrow. Or, listen to me tomorrow, or I’ll talk to you tomorrow. I don’t know. How do we say goodbye on a daily show?
Alright, bye. If you’re still here, it means you’re a little bit curious about my shows. So my longest-running show is ’21st Century Work Life’, and I will talk about that at some point because I want to change it and it’s evolving. It’s one of my Trello cards. And that is all about leading remote teams. And we are on episode 340.
Management Cafe is a show I co-host with my friend Tim, who is in Australia. And we are on episode 66. And that’s all about it’s… a 20-minute, coffee, conversations around an aspect of management and our own experiences. So a little bit like this, but a little bit deeper and with Tim, who has so much great stuff to say. And then there’s this one, Adventures in Podcasting, which if you are into podcasting, have a listen.
The episodes with me are a little bit more time-sensitive, the solo episodes, but the ones with guests are really broad. And I’ve got some fabulous people that I was able to talk to on that show. What else? Yes, I am a co-host of My Pocket Psych, which is not my show. It is Dr. Richard McKinnon’s show from WorkLife Psych. And there I’m a co-host. It’s a gig. It’s a paid gig. Hoorah! The dream of every podcaster where basically I turn up and I play the voice of the people. And it’s all about the psychology of the workplace.
Then, other shows that are out there that I’m not involved with anymore, Facilitation Stories, which I will definitely talk about over these 30 days, which is a show I co-hosted with co-hosts. And it was part of — well, it is part of a community and there used to be three of us running it. That’s Facilitation Stories.
I’ve got Word Maze, as I mentioned before, which is about writing. And I’ve got Spain Uncovered, which was my first podcast. It was the show with which I experimented and I will tell you all about it at some point.
So, lovely to have you here. My name is Pilar Orti. Thank you for listening, and I look forward to spending the next 29 days with you.