Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. I want to

answer a very very common question that I get and I thought it would be simpler

for me just to put it in one place

so I can send the link to people and that is John how do I do what you're doing

how do I become a podcaster how do I start a podcast how do I become a podcaster? How do I start a podcast? How do I get big on YouTube? How do I get big on iTunes?

And I don't know that I'm big, but I'm big enough that I get the question. And this is a question I'm very happy to answer.

One of the first things though I usually do is I do warn people about this.

It is not all that it's cracked up to be.

And what I mean by that is some people have a little bit of a star struck attitude when it comes to someone

who's big in the podcast world very similar to like a movie star or something

like that

in some ways there's a different dynamic because someone who's in the podcast world is very self-made.

They just got a camera and they started talking and people liked it.

Enough people liked it that they had a show.

No one, well sometimes people help you along, but in this world it is very sink or swim.

Maybe you could pour thousands of dollars into someone to do podcast but if no one listens and

they don't like the content then it's not going anywhere and it's a very

interesting dynamic it's it's one that I never planned on getting involved with.

I never thought, even five years ago if you came to me and said,

John, would you consider becoming a podcaster or an influencer online

or writing books.

Writing books I probably would have said, yeah I could see myself doing that, maybe like 10 or

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