Are you someone who either has a podcast or maybe you're looking to start one?

The biggest lie when it comes to podcasting is that your podcast will grow by just having a podcast

and that couldn't be further from the truth.

In this episode of the department, we're going to be talking about how we've been able

to grow this podcast to reach over millions of people all under a year starting from scratch.

We're going to talk about some of the mistakes we've made and even some of the things that you should avoid and also the things that we have found within this last year of podcasting.

So let's get into it.

Welcome to the department. It's Omar Zikori and I have with me my bro Art Mosqueta.

Yo, yo. So excited to get into this conversation. We've been wanting to do this conversation for some time.

One being, it's literally been pretty much a year anniversary from starting this podcast.

Yes, almost. We're like, what, maybe a couple months out?

I mean, so we haven't really equated what makes a year because we definitely hit a year on the calendar

But we we haven't hit a year in episodes so we we aim to do an episode a week and right now where I think this might be 44 or something like that right so we I don, like, because 52 episodes would be technically a year.

However, we started the podcast like mid-August, I believe, or September.

Yeah.

It was mid-September that we started.

So cool.

Like, I'll just start off by saying my life and the people that surrounds me's life have

completely changed.

Would you say your life

has changed because of the podcast? Oh yeah, 100. Like just in a skill set form. Everything. Like the ripple

effect of what the podcast, the department. So number one, I just want to shout you out. If you're

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