Welcome to the 10 Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine. I always have at least 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell. This is a show where we believe

that sharing yourself will make you less lonely. At the very beginning of the year, I woke up

one morning to not one, but two different messages from friends asking about starting a brand new

podcast in 2025. These were two separate people, two totally different ideas, and they wanted to know

my opinion on starting a podcast, my advice, really.

And my first immediate and knee-jerk reaction was yes.

Yes, please start anything that will get you sharing, that will get you creating something, that will push you out of your

comfort zone, yes to all of those things. And also, I have a lot of other thoughts around this question.

And it's funny because in the weeks since, this has come up several times.

Maybe because I'm also looking back at my 15 years of working on the internet, I did an

episode last week on that very topic.

And so since I've been talking about that a little bit, other people have approached

asking different,

you know, pieces of advice for starting something right now. And I do have a lot of thoughts.

It's funny to me now that my knee-jerk response to those friends' initial messages a month ago was to say yes so enthusiastically.

Yes, please, start a show, do your thing.

Because not too long ago, my knee-jerk would have been the opposite of that.

It would have been like, please, no, no more

podcasts. People, please stop making podcasts. We are full over here in the microphone space.

That is kind of what it felt like several years ago when there was an explosion of shows. We've been through a couple of different

ups and downs in the podcast industry where there's been an enormous amount of crowding.

And that's still true. There's still a lot of shows out there. And when someone with already some fame or notoriety announces that they are

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