Morgan Franklin: One of my favorite parts about working in
podcasting and being a podcaster is hearing people's podcast
recommendations and learning about new podcasts. I mean, is
there anything better than finding an incredible podcast
with hundreds of episodes to completely obsess over and
listen to day and night and ask every single person that you
see, oh my gosh, have you listened to this podcast? I
mean, I really don't think so, that it's hard to get better
than that. This week's episode is kind of different from my
normal lesson based episodes, but I thought since it's the
week of Christmas and it's the end of the year, that this will
be the perfect time to just let loose and talk about podcasting
and all the podcasts that we've loved in 2024. Hello and welcome
to podcast for profit. My name is Morgan Franklin. I'm a
Podcast Producer, strategist and educator. This podcast will help
you create and grow a podcast that cuts through the noise of
social media and speaks directly to your target audience. If
you're ready to create a podcast that will align you with the
experts in your industry, position yourself as a trusted
leader and create another source of revenue for your business,
you're in the right place. First and foremost, one of the few
podcasts that I've listened to every single episode of this
year is the broski report with Brittany broski. And if you
don't know who Brittany is, she is a tick tock and YouTube
personality. You might know her from her first meme that ever
went viral, of her trying kombucha and thinking that she
liked it, and then kind of thinking is gross, and then
having a second thought, and then kind of a third thought.
And to me, she is just exactly the kind of silly and smart host
that I love to listen to. It feels like every time I listen
to her podcast that I am listening to a friend just kind
of catch up with me on a one way voice note. I made a video about
this a few months ago, but I think that really good content,
and the content that is going to move the needle moving forward
into 2025 and beyond. Whether it's a 32nd Tiktok video or a
three hour long podcast episode, is gonna feel like you are
listening to a friend, like you are hanging out with a friend
and they're just talking and you're just listening. The thing
that I love about Brittany is that she worked so hard to be
consistent and to be relevant and to be purposeful, and as I'm
like rattling off all these corny buzz words, I feel like I
have to explain myself. But she doesn't really just bring things
up just for the sake of bringing them up. You know what I mean?
She brings them up to go deeper into what they really mean for
her and for us as the listener. I'm thinking about this episode
specifically that she did this summer, where she was talking
about the catacombs under Paris, and she was telling a story
about how she went to the Summer Olympics. And, you know, she
could have made this story of all about her. She went to the
Olympics, she was invited to the Olympics. This could have been
just such a self centered story, but she took the time to talk
about what it meant to her and to talk about something that she
was really interested in, and you could feel that passion,
like she is very interested in the French catacombs. And then
from there, she really did a lot of very purposeful research, and
it was very well presented, just on the catacombs and death and
what it means to live and die, and how we can take more than
just memories from the places that we visit. We can take
history. And that was such a beautiful episode, and it was so
incredible. And it could have just been so shallow, you know
what I mean? She could have just talked about, oh, I got invited
to go to the Paris Olympics, blah, blah, blah, but instead,
she told something about herself, and she tried to
educate the audience, and she tried to start a bigger
conversation that meant more than just the shallow things
that she had done at the Olympics, even though that is
incredible On its own right, but she took that extra step, and
like every good friend, Brittany broski is constantly putting in
the effort and showing up for her listeners. I mean, she feels
like a friend to me, and through her actions and her effort, she
has earned my attention, and that's why I never miss an
episode of her show. Now is it for everyone? No, no, of course
not. She is a wacky girl in her mid 20s that moved from Texas to
LA and went from working in an Insurance Call Center to being
an influencer and screaming at the top of her lungs about how
much she loves Timothy Chalamet and dune and is that gonna be
for everyone? No, no, of course not, but that's why you as a
podcaster should always be pursuing your highest self and
showing your audience who you really are. Because while some
people probably think that Brittany broski is one of the
most. Waiting podcasters to ever rank on the charts. She's one of
my favorite creators of all time, speaking of friendship and
podcasts that I've listened to every single episode of In 2024
my real life friends, Elaine Boyd and Micah Johnson, they
host automate your agency, and it's a podcast that really I
would recommend to any kind of business owner. I know that it's
technically targeted for agency owners, but there is just so
much valuable information about scaling a team and growing your
business, and of course, probably most importantly, how
to properly incorporate automation and AI into your
workflow. I have learned so much from this podcast about
automation that I really haven't seen anywhere else online. It's
helping me to create systems that no other Podcast Producer
has even thought of, and I truly learn something new every single
week. My favorite episode of their podcast this year was
about how to effectively run a meeting. And I know that sounds
kind of boring and like who cares? But if you're a business
owner, you know how much it matters and how much you should
care. Because, you know, a ton of time and money gets wasted
doing meetings that could have just been an email or a Slack
message, or worse, you have the meeting and nothing actually
gets accomplished, or you have to have another meeting because
that meeting got too out of hand. I just remember in this
episode that they had so many good ideas for how to organize
and prioritize action items for the team, and how to
redistribute those ideas and action items to actually get
them accomplished. And of course, the best part is that
it's all automated. You know, the podcast is automate your
agency. So, yeah, it's all automated. So once you set it
up, you really don't have to worry about it anymore. It's
just a system that's set up that your entire team can use to help
make everything more efficient for everyone. And I'll speak
from personal experience here. Elaine and Micah are two of the
most creative and giving educators in the AI space, so
definitely check out automate your agency, and of course, I'll
have all of the podcasts that I'm talking about in this
episode linked in the episode description next. And my
apologies in advance, because I know that these podcasts really
have nothing to do with each other. They're just genuinely
the podcasts that I love to listen to, and some might not be
relevant to you at all, but they are all the podcasts that I've
listened to every episode of. So next up is radio rental by pain
Lindsay. I've been listening to pain Lindsay's podcast since his
first podcast, which was up and vanish, that was released in
2016 It's crazy to think about listening to podcasts in 2016 so
radio rental is from his production company. It's called
tender foot TV, and it's kind of a true scary stories like from
listeners. So basically, people write in and they tell their
spooky or unexplained story, and they'll come in and record and
they do all kinds of special like post production to make it
sound as dramatic and scary as possible. It's kind of like
listening to a movie. I love scary stories. I love the
unexplained, so I never miss an episode of it. I will say, while
the quality of the show and the post production audio editing
have improved 2,000% since it started, the stories just aren't
as good as they used to be, which I hate to say, because I
love pain Lindsay and I love the show, but it feels kind of lazy
the past season, especially. Oh and the host of the show is
Rainn Wilson. He played Dwight Schrute in the United States
version of the office. He plays a character called Terry
carnation who owns a VHS store. And so all these stories are
supposed to be tapes that he found in a store. So like I
said, I've loved this show for years. It feels like the stories
are getting kind of flat compared to what they used to
be. But you know, every once in a while, I'll still hear an
episode and I'll be like, Oh my gosh, I'm so spooked out by
this. The best episode of the year so far was about a man that
thinks that he sees a time traveler on his ring camera. So
I guess that he owns an Airbnb a few states away from where he
actually lives, and he thinks that he sees a man in his
backyard. So he calls the cops. When the cops come, they don't
find anybody. Then the next day, a much older man who looks very
similar to the man that he saw walking around in his yard the
day before comes out of the shed in his backyard. Now, he never
saw anybody going into the shed. He never got an alert that
somebody went into the shed. It is just totally unexplainable.
It's a great story, and I'm still honestly kind of stumped
by it. Next, and as I told you, these have nothing to do with
each other. Next is simple pin podcast. I feel like there is
not a day that goes by that I'm not trying to recommend this
show to someone that wants to start a Pinterest account. This
podcast is outstanding for anyone that's trying to grow
their presence on Pinterest. Also, it is no fluff. It's what
I try to do for you on this podcast. Just straightforward.
I'm giving you the facts I'm telling. Telling you what you
need to do. We're getting in and out of here in 30 minutes. The
host, Kate has been working in Pinterest marketing for over a
decade. She has such a clear way of explaining how these systems
work and how that they are going to work for you. When I started
listening to this podcast, my Pinterest grew by 1,000% in a
month. And if that doesn't tell you everything that you need to
know, I don't know it will. Pinterest is amazing. If you
know me, you know I love Pinterest, especially for
podcasters, so you need to listen to this podcast. My
favorite episode this year was about how to figure out what
advice for Pinterest is true or not. And I thought this was a
really good lesson on using media literacy and curiosity to
take what serves for your business and leave what doesn't.
We always get so much advice on social media and Pinterest and
podcasting and everything else. It was also a great reminder to
just test things out, which is exactly what I would tell you,
if you were questioning something that I say about a
podcast or advice for a podcast, test it out for yourself. Most
of the time, people like me and Kate are just trying to give the
best advice for the most amount of creators, and sometimes it's
not the best advice for every single person. So make sure that
you're always checking your sources and that you're testing
new ways of doing things. And of course, if you want to start a
Pinterest for your podcast, listen to simple pin podcast.
Next is today, explained and funny enough. Well, I love this
podcast. I have found recently their kind of middle of the road
reporting has found a way to make everyone in America mad. So
again, there is a lesson in this for all of us, which is a friend
to all is usually a friend to none. For most listeners, if
you're trying to take both sides, you're going to end up
making everybody mad. As this has been an election year in the
United States, I've been listening to even more political
podcasts than normal, which is normally a lot. So I've listened
to this podcast almost every single day. Something that I
really enjoy about this podcast is they take a very topical,
recent event, usually that happened the day before they
publish every single day, Monday through Friday, and they'll give
two different segments on it, I think, with the intention of
showing more than one side to the story, as there always is
more than one side to the story. But for a lot of listeners, they
just don't want to hear it. As a podcaster, you have to read the
room, and if you don't know who your audience is, you cannot
serve them. And I think that while I love this podcast, they
have to figure out where they stand on issues and do a more
concise job at providing the topics and Intel to their core
listeners and what they want to hear so they are not just
constantly bombarded by these one star reviews every single
day, getting hate from both sides. Next is an independent
podcast called The Extra Credits podcast. It is a podcast all
about movies, that is hosted by a husband and wife pair that are
both English teachers. I'm a movie buff, so of course, every
time I watch a new movie, especially one that I really
like, I want to hear somebody that's smarter than me talk
about it, and Kelsey and Trey are absolutely the people to do
it. I'm not sure if it's because I'm so used to watching Tiktok
videos, my brain is now just a bowl of mashed potatoes, or I
can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time. But the
themes that they pull out of these movies are truly
remarkable, and it helps me to think about what I have just
watched in a totally different way. And it always is just so
crazy to me. They do a wonderful job on this podcast, especially
for it to be a self produced show. And if you love movies,
you need to listen to it. My favorite episode of their
podcast, and it's actually from 2022 it's not from this year. I
just looked it up. I thought it was from this year. It's when
they host the director of barbarian. His name is Zach
Krieger, and if you don't remember the movie barbarian. It
is with Justin Long and Bill Skarsgard, about a girl that
rents an Airbnb that someone else already rented for the
night. And I'm not gonna say anything else other than that,
because if you haven't seen the movie, it is just so good. I
don't want to ruin anything for you, but you need to watch it.
If you have watched it, you need to go listen to this episode,
and congratulations to Kelsey and Trey for landing that guest.
What an amazing guest. And you can be an indie podcaster and
still get high profile guests. I do it all the time. All you need
to do is ask and then ask again and then ask again and again,
and you're gonna get a lot of no's, but you are also going to
get a lot of yeses too, if you just keep going. Okay? And
lastly, even though I know this is cheating, I'm going to say
this podcast, podcast for profit, with Morgan Franklin,
and yes, I listened to my own podcast, and I am proud. Proud
to be my own fan, and I hope that you are proud to be a fan
of your own podcast too. Because if you aren't, who else is gonna
be seriously, if you are not your number one fan, how do you
expect anyone else to be my favorite episode so far? And
again, I will link it in the episode description is episode
21 good versus great podcast, the one skill you must master.
It's all about storytelling and being a better storyteller on
your podcast. I think this is the most important thing for any
podcast host or producer or creator of any kind to master,
and if you haven't listened to that episode, you absolutely
should. I'd love to hear about your favorite podcast of 2024
please feel free to send me a DM. I want to know. I want to
listen to them. Also, there is still time to book a discovery
call to start your podcast in 2025 my contact form will be
linked in the episode description. Also with my online
storefront for podcasters, I hope that you get some rest. You
get to spend some time with friends and family, and as
always, I can't wait to listen to your podcast. Hey, thank you
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