I recently got a dose of my own medicine.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013 and still take

an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. Recently, I was listening to a podcast about podcasting.

I'm always looking to improve this podcast, to get better at it, to provide you with more value, to make it a better listen, a more entertaining listen.

And also learning ways to invite new listeners.

That line in Field of Dreams, if you build it, Ray, they will come.

If you build it, they will come does not apply to podcasting.

You need to let people know that the podcast exists and provide value so they keep coming back and hopefully

at some point down the road they will tell others about the podcast one of the main

responsibilities for a podcaster who wants their podcast to to have more listeners to grow to help more people is that you actually

have to find ways to invite more people, which I find to be the most challenging part

of doing this podcast.

The walking, the talking, thinking through what to say, the topics to cover, how to say it.

Love that.

The inviting part, the finding more listeners, that for me is the challenge.

So I was listening to this podcast, and they were talking about that very thing.

And one way that's very effective is to actually

be on other podcasts. But again, the whole, if you build it, they will come thing doesn't

apply. You actually have to approach other podcasters and say, I think I can help your

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