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Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson

SHED SESSION - Everything I Know About Starting a Podcast

Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson

Mountain & Prairie Media

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This is a special Shed Session episode, normally published exclusively for Mountain & Prairie Patreon supporters. In it, I answer the most common question I receive, which is some variation of "How do I start a podcast?"

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In this episode I answer that question in excruciating detail, laying out everything I know about it, based on my own bumbling, meandering, eight-year journey through Podcastlandia.

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I hope this episode will provide a little bit of actionable guidance that will allow you to put your own unique ideas into the world.

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To listen to all past, present, and future Patreon-exclusive episodes, you can sign up at www.mountainandprairie.com/patreon. Memberships start at as little as $2 per month.

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Back to the regular episodes next week!!

 

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TOPICS DISCUSSED:

[2:15] - Intro

[6:55] - Disclaimers

[10:00] - How and why I started Mountain & Prairie

[22:13] - Intentions

[28:12] - Getting started + endurance

[39:25] - Finding your voice, authenticity, enthusiasm

[52:55] - Finding an audience

[1:03:09] - Interview techniques

[1:08:48] - Finding guests

[1:11:40] - Dealing with negative feedback

[1:15:14] - Equipment and editing

[1:21:38] - Money (least important!)

[1:25:54] - Further reading

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody is Ed. I hope y'all doing great. This is a little bit of a different kind of episode. This is a shed session episode and normally the shed session episodes are exclusively for Patreon supporters. I put this one out last month in April and it was answering the question

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that I often receive which I most of the time think I'm not qualified to answer

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but I get the question a lot so I decided answer it, and that is something along the lines of, hey, I want to start a podcast, do you have any advice?

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And I get a ton of emails and messages on Instagram and all that kind of stuff, and I can never do that question justice via an email or via some little

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DM on Instagram or whatever and so I decided to record a podcast episode and just give you every single

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thing I know. And again, I really don't think I'm qualified to be answering that question,

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but I get it so much that I just wanted to answer it and I wanted to put it all out there.

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And so I recorded, I mean it's 90 minutes of me sitting in the shed, answering every bit of that question that I know how to answer.

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And so for better or worse, I put it out on the Patreon exclusive feed

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and got some really good feedback on it, and so I decided to put it out here on the main feed. I'm doing that for two reasons. One, I think it will be helpful for folks who are looking to start a podcast similar to mine. If you're looking to start the next Smartlist or Joe Rogan or this American life. You can turn this off right now.

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This ain't gonna be any help to you. But if you have seen what I've been doing

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Mountain Imperial over the last eight years and want to do something along those lines,

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hopefully this will give you a little bit of extra information that will help.

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And then I also wanted to just give you a taste of what the Patreon exclusive podcast is like.

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It's generally a shed session episode and I put one out every month as of this moment there are six

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Patreon exclusive episodes on the Patreon feed and if you want to learn more about all that

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you go to mountain and pray.com slash Patreon.

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So that's enough you happen for me. I hope this episode adds some value.

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Again go to mountain prey

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dot com slash patreon to learn more thanks Hey, what's up everybody, it's Ed here and we are getting ready to go into another

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shed session. Confession on this one though I was getting all this junk

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set up to record this in the shed and then the wind started blowing and then there

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