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For better communication in your Podcast, avoid using the following phrases in your show.

• Avoid "This Is A True Story".
• Avoid "This Really Happened".
• Avoid "To Be Completely Honest With You".

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4 Ways to Make Your Audio Podcast Sound Dated (Potentially).

1. Cliffhanger-Openers to every episode of your show. These can be great, but most often are not.
2. Adding Background Music to every segment of the production. The emotionality in the melody of the music can enhance the mood of your Podcast (when it's perfectly chosen or composed to suit the episode), but it can also distort the intended delivery and tone of the dialogue. It's also a poor substitute for putting real emotion and intention into the voice recording itself.
3. Using Music and Sound Design Elements straight out of a 2014 Tim Ferriss YouTube Video.
4. Overloading your production with audio clips from film and TV from the 70's, 80's and 90's. I love this stuff personally (in moderation), but too much of this can feel like, 'HEY! I've got a new toy with heaps of buttons on it, and here's a bunch of now 30 year old noises I like."

What makes a Podcast sound dated to you?

Happy Podcasting!

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TL;DR: Guesting on other Podcasts is amazing and you should definitely jump on the majority of opportunities to do so, but don't let your success or lack thereof getting booked define your value as a Podcaster.

No single piece of Podcast Growth Advice bothers me quite as much as "just be a guest on other shows" does, like it's so easy to do. As the great Alban Brooke (Head of Marketing at BuzzSprout) said recently on X, "If it (Guesting) was super easy then we’d all be doing it constantly", and I couldn't have said it better myself.

I've been living and breathing Podcasting and the Podcast Medium since 2012, and I've never met a single person (outside of domain experts, famous folks, and subculture superstars) that find getting booked on Podcasts as a Guest, easy. In fact, it's rare, it's difficult, and is often outpaced by the sheer rejection of trying to get booked.

My advice would be to Share the H out of the shows you CARE most about, and instead of thinking, "how can I get on that show so they can help me grow?", start by thinking, "what can I do (over the long-term) to help them grow?" Good things come most often from a good place.

The other short-long of it: Although I believe that being a Guest on other shows is incredibly valuable for growing your own show, anyone out there pushing "Guesting" as an easy to implement solve-all for growing your Podcast, is leaving out a great chunk of the process and the negative impact of continued-rejection in the Arts, and in business.

Happy Podcasting!

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Episode Production Chain: Rode Wireless Micro >> Rode Capture App for iOS >> Auphonic Website for Levelling, EQ, Compression, Reverb and Noise Reduction >> Adobe Audition for Editing and Export.

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