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Welcome to Help Me Podcast, a show designed to help you

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launch and grow your podcast. I am your host, Gino, and twice

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a week I will release a new episode with different tips and tricks

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for launching and growing your podcast. From audio engineering to planning

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intentionally to growth tactics, each episode will be a bite sized

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tip to help you podcast.

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Hey. Welcome back to help me. Podcast. Thank you all for tuning in.

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Today we're going to talk about how you can leverage your friends and

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your family when you're launching a new podcast. Sometimes you

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might not want help from your family, and maybe if you're starting a new podcast,

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you might feel a little uneasy or unsure about it and maybe

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you want to hide it from your friends. But in this episode, I want to

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talk about why, if you can push past that,

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using your family and friends could help you launch your podcast. I'll share

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with you my experience and why I believe that this to be

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true. So at the beginning of 2023, I started two

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podcast. One of them was this one called Help Me Podcast,

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which is obviously to help you guys podcast. And the other one

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called working towards our purpose. When I first started these

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podcast, I didn't want to share them with the people that I

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knew. I didn't want to be judged, certainly didn't tell my family. And

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I kind of just launched them quietly. And to my surprise,

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hardly anybody listened. But then the working towards my

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purpose podcast. I started interviewing people. So eventually word

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got out through the people that I was interviewing that the show was

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existing and I had a podcast. And I actually remember the first time

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I interviewed somebody and they shared it on social media. It was

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like very early on, maybe like episode three.

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And at first you get that sort of like, oh, no, they're

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sharing it with all the people that I know. Now they're going to know and

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I'm out there, right, and people can judge me. And

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at first it was like, I didn't really want that. But in the back of

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my head, I knew this is what I needed to be doing all along,

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because that episode had way more downloads than any of the

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other ones. And it's no surprise because people

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knew about it and people who knew me wanted to support me and wanted

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to listen to what I was doing. And that's kind of what this idea in

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this episode is about, is simply just telling

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the people that you like and the people that care about you that you're doing

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something. It can definitely be a little overwhelming,

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and maybe you feel like you can't tell them,

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and I certainly understand that because I've been there. But if you could push past

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that, you can actually help your show to launch with

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a bang, right? You can launch your show and you can actually have people

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listen and tune into it and leave reviews

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and give you feedback and all that sort of good thing that's going to

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help you grow. So let's talk about even before launching your

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podcast, if you can entrust a couple of people, maybe they're

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close friends or maybe they're family members and maybe they

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have skills like graphic design or audio

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engineering or journalism or something that could be useful to a

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podcast. You could imagine how it would be very helpful to get their

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opinions and feedback on specific things that you're doing for your

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show. For example, your cover art, right? You can design your cover art

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on Canva like we've talked about in previous episodes, and

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maybe you design two or three of them and you try to figure out which

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one's the best. If you have a cousin, for example, that

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is a graphic designer, or maybe they do some work in design,

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you can show them the covers and be like, hey, can I get your opinion

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on them? Now, that doesn't mean that you have to take their advice,

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but you can hear what they have to say and they could offer you some

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helpful advice that can make your cover art look a little better or

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translate your message a little bit better. So, I mean, that can be one reason

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why you want to leverage your family and friends is that they may have skills

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that you don't have or maybe you're not as good at. And

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this could help your show in many different ways. The

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second reason why you want to get your family and friends involved right at the

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beginning is because when you go to launch your show, you'll actually have people

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waiting to listen to it, right? Like you could tell them, hey, I got this

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podcast coming out. It's coming out on X Date. Here's the link when

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it comes out. And now you have, let's just say, 1015

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people who are waiting for the episode to drop because they support the

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things that you do. Now you have 15 listeners right off the

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bat. You can possibly have 15 people reviewing your

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show, and now you have a bunch of good reviews, you got some

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listens, and that's just a way better way to launch your podcast, is

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to get some reviews and to give you that momentum of

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people listening to your show right off the bat. Whereas when I did

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it, I kind of launched in silence and slowly

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people started listening to it and it wasn't exactly

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the best that it could have been. So let your friends and family know that

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you got a show coming out and you want them to listen to it, and

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you'd appreciate if they listen to it. Of course, always be

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thankful for whatever feedback or whatever listens or whatever reviews

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they give you, and you'll be well on your way to

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getting a community of listeners and a community of people that enjoy your

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podcast. And just think about how that's a much

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better way to launch a new podcast into the world than it is

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to kind of quietly go into the world and just hope that people

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come after you release it. Having a group of people

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who are ready and waiting to listen to your show and going to

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consume the content as soon as it's out there, is a much better way to

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go about it. And that brings me to my third point building a support

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system around your podcast. A lot of times people are podcasting on their own,

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and if you are podcasting on your own, that's fine, there's nothing wrong

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with it. But it's also great to have a support system around you

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to where maybe you have a friend or your sister

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or brother who knows about your podcast and follows along,

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so you kind of feel like you owe them the episode, right? If

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you're releasing an episode once a week and you

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don't release an episode a week, you know that that person is listening and they're

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going to ask you, hey, what happened? Where was the episode this week?

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And it kind of just gives you some accountability. So it's always

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good to have a good support system around you and even somebody to

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talk to when it gets difficult, because as we know, podcasting is a

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lot of work and sometimes you need somebody there

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to help you get through the tougher situations. This is

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why it's all a great idea to let people know that you're podcasting

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and to don't just podcast in silence like I did when I first

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started launch your podcast and tell all of your friends and family and

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everybody that you know that you are launching a brand new podcast. And you

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would love their input and help and feedback and support. And to

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recap those three reasons why it's so important, first is

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because you can leverage your friends and your family's technical and

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creative skills that they may have that can help you launch your

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podcast. Second is getting people to listen

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and to review your show right when you launch it is a great

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way to get some momentum behind your podcast and to get some

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listeners right off the bat. And thirdly, to create a

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supportive network of people that can help be your support system

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for your podcast. Even just one of these reasons is enough to tell

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everybody that you know and to try to push past that fear of being judged

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and that fear of doing something new because

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people are around you to help you and to support you. And

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I think it's always a message we have to remind ourselves is that you

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can't do it alone. And when you do things with

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people and community, it makes the final product better.

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It helps you to not be so hard on yourself, and

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it just makes it more fun. So when you go to launch your podcast.

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Make sure you tell all your friends and family, that's all I got for you

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today. Thank you everybody for listening and I will see you next time.

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