Well hello there it's entries and welcome to another episode of the savvy

painter podcast. You know until I started my own, I had no idea how much work it takes to keep one going.

That's why so many podcasts disappear so quickly.

Did you know that the average podcast lasts less than six months?

And even when you include mega hits like NPR Serial or This American Life or one of my favorites

on Being, all told, the average podcast gets less than 300

downloads per episode.

Savvy Painter averages more than 7,000 unique downloads.

And there's even some that are 25,000.

Apparently, I'm doing something right.

And look, I know it's not perfect, but I have somehow managed to keep this

podcast going for more than four years by myself. I am no IRA Glass or Terry Gross, but did you know that they have an average of 15 to 20 people working on each episode,

doing research, coordinating guests, creating graphics, writing scripts, keeping the website up, keeping the technology

working, handling promotions and social media and marketing, and still responding to listeners.

They have a whole team working behind the scenes so that the

host can focus on the interviews. Guess who does all of that for Sabby Painter? I do. It's me all by myself. It's a lot of work. They also have people who

edit the podcast, handle the sound engineering, write the show notes, upload the

final episode for distribution, and upload and publish

all of that to all of the podcast channels and the website so that listeners can just

click a button and hear an episode. I work with an amazing company called

Podcast Fast Tracks who does all of that for me and thank God because if I didn't have them I would

be curled up in a little ball in the corner of my studio

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