Tis I, Lord Podcast. Are you yearning to equip yourself with the confidence to record?
Elijah, the skilled podcast professional, is preparing himself for a tale of tools and
skill that only a mighty podcaster may employ in one's podcast journey. Elijah, I do believe
that we shall teach our weary wanderer the confidence that they strive to achieve. Shall
we start a podcast? We shall. It's settled. Let's start a podcast.
Where do you find your podcast inspiration for your podcast content for podcasting? Do
you get burned out? Do you feel like it's a bit of a struggle? No matter how hard you
plan and plan and do more planning, it feels like there's never enough ideas for my podcast.
Maybe I just have an analysis paralysis. Maybe I just overthink and set the bar too high.
Does that sound like you at all? Let's start a podcast. Is this podcast that you're listening
to created to help podcasters understand what they need to do to press record along with
the tools they'll need to succeed long term? I don't want you to start and kind of burn
out because that sucks that you put all the effort into buy some equipment, pull your
hair out a couple of times and scream at people because things didn't go your way and then
you just kind of leave it. No, that's not good. You have to have the up and downs with
the adventure like a roller coaster. That's part of creation, right? So here we are. Even
with a few decades of experience, I still run out of ideas. I was originally going to
review some save posts. I saw some cool tricks and tips and all that fun stuff to really
get into SEO and finding inspiration and searching for content. And to be honest, in hindsight,
I think it would have been a little nerdy, kind of like a snorefest. That's not fun
for you. You don't want to snorefest. You want to hear entertaining juicy gossip or
stuff that you actually could use, right? You don't want to fall asleep at the wheel
or the commute because you'll miss your stop and then you won't be late for work and then
the whole thing goes to crap. I don't want that for you. As more and more creators are
coming to threads. It's kind of cool because there's like a podcast thread community thing
going on and I asked creators how they come up with the content inspiration. How do you
come up with the stuff you do each and every week without kind of just fizzling out? So
I'm going to share what they said. All right. I took some screenshots. I'll just kind of
read them to you, but I'll have the blog and other content that'll be linked in the description
or if you want to go to talkpodcastwithme.com slash podcast. It's cool to check out the
podcast resources and the actual proof that people actually like to share ideas with me.
So too legit to crit. I love this. The iteration is cool for me and I'm a nerd with the D&D
and RPGs. They put out an offer to threads or anyone has a TT RPG and within their community,
I assume they take the related project they want to share with the world and then spend
some time talking about it. Also, they say they'll look at the news coming up from the
space to see if they can have a jumping off point maybe for a discussion. Sounds like
there's a group of them. Haven't listened to them yet, but definitely will.
Baroness Bree. She just uses journal entries, news stories, and she loves people watching.
That's it. It's simple, easy. And maybe there's more to that obviously, but that's really
it. I love people watching, especially when they fall over. There's podcasts that say
try not to laugh. I can't. That's idea generation. Simple, but it works.
Chaos Magic News. They like to be genuinely fascinated with the main subject to the pod
and then having a good chemistry. They feel that's all they need. So some of the best
episodes are just talking about something. The co-host sent me like, hey, this is so
cool. I love this. We got a chat about this. They would have done this anyway. A normal
conversation sounds like they're great friends, which is fantastic. And then just bring them
the podcast and record. If you're going to talk about something cool, why not record
it? Make sense. Or they say if you prefer, you can summon a demon. Man, both of those
works for them. Sense of humor. I love it. Or maybe they're serious. Run away. Listen
anyway to find out. CTN underscore podcast says they try to pay attention to current
events in the nerd sphere. Since all of them have different things they like, it's a huge
help and really creates a wealth of possibilities. So they also have been getting interviews
with other podcasters or product designers. It sounds like they're having conversations
and then those people start interacting and sharing, hey, what did you think about this?
And they become fans, which is totally cool. Start interacting, having a good time. And
that kind of just organically feeds the podcast fear content generation machine thing. Cool.
I love how people get into it. They start off as a guest and then they become a fan
and they start interacting. And then it's a whole thing and it just snowballs into
excitingness and people are like, Hey, did you think about this? And then it just starts
going and then that's a great way, I think, to really get people talking and engage in
the podcast, maybe getting some reviews down, maybe getting right into the podcast, maybe
the by-merch then. Who knows? That's a really cool way to kind of generate kill two birds
with one stone, get some ideas, get some friends and have a good time. That's awesome. Dr.
Liz White says she's led by the conversation she has in her therapy room, which is totally
interesting. I'm sure there's a confidentiality thing I always hear about in the media, but
there's generalizations, right? So you can kind of tell stories without giving things
away. She knows where the balance is, right? So she says her questions are people asking
her already. They'll say, why is the sky blue? Why am I damaged or whatever it may be that
Dr. Liz is dealing with. What themes are coming up? What's trending? Maybe she hits social
media for social media struggles. Mental health stuff is always popular, especially now post
COVID and the economy kind of hit in the toilet. And then finally, she sees a podcast as a
resource for current clients. So talk about things that no will be useful in therapy.
So that's cool. So she takes the content and inspiration from the conversation she has
while she's helping people get better. And also, she's able to use that stuff, podcast
content, to be able to serve other clients or potential clients. So that's kind of something
neat. It seems like this ecosystem that's kind of cheering and automatically coming
to be almost like I'd see an automated assembly line in a factory. That's how I picture it.
Just kind of keeps going and going. That's cool. Expedition.Works, they said they have
running notes, documentation like Google Docs or Notion. They add that to the ideas, the
names, email people who are interesting and links to compelling at least to them. New
ideas. So they find is interesting. And then they have a whole series of folders and notes
and folders and more folders and notes where they add info from research and then write
short episode pitches and then clarify why it's a good idea themes and topics. So they're
super organized. They got lists and check balances and things and in a running document.
It almost sounds like they're, they're treating this like a production studio or like a bunch
of team of writers that are coming together at the table and saying, Hey, we got this
great pitch. What do you think? And they just have a running tally of things going on. Great
use of it. If you don't have something you like right now, maybe you'll come back to
it later or maybe you'll be able to leverage those ideas for other ideas that are cool
and current. Neat. And then they go try to report throughout the news and recordings
and anything else they can kind of find that's interesting. You want to share with their
audience. Awesome. Michelle Moses, she says she listened to other podcasts. She talks
to her listeners and just through living her life. Maybe she runs into a jogger. They talk
about how they're sweating too much. I don't know. You know, you know what I mean? Interesting.
Whatever it is and pursuing it. And also, if she is pursuing it, she feels that her listeners
are probably doing the same or at least want to pursue that particular topic too. Life experience
is all she relies on. Simple and easy and just kind of organically find something throughout
her day. No fancy tools. Love it. Nadine Melis, if I say your name right, I'm sorry. We'll
try. She's a podcast producer and what she likes to do for her clients is get the best
ideas by working with them and for them. Challenges they encounter, solving problems
to make the best episodes. And then as she produces podcasts, it's usually things like
how to create and stick to a workflow to produce regularly and long term. She thinks that's
what most struggle with, especially if you have a family and a thousand other commitments.
It's how to stick with it and creating the burnout that I don't have time to do this.
I'm overwhelmed. It totally great points. Thanks, Nadine. Not that Lindsey Graham says
as a history podcaster got like 5500 years of possible content written down already.
So all you have to do then is explore the history books, the documentaries, other things
that are already produced and then kind of look at that as content and speak to that.
Quote, it was really cool. It boils down to this from David McCullough. History is human.
People love history. People love being fascinating. People love to understand where they're coming
from and they like to have conversation, tell stories about it like hieroglyphics. Those
are awesome. Ancient leaders totally get it and the pyramids. People still haven't figured
them out, but everybody's still talking about them. Really cool. Podcast or Rohit, Kokini,
No Notes or episode descriptions. This was interesting because this generated a whole
bunch of conversation. I started jumping in and Nadine started asking, kind of figure
out how this works. So it all comes down to it seems that there's an interest of not only
listening to the podcast, but actually diving deep into the podcast descriptions of other
podcasts and getting ideas and inspirations. A lot of people use the podcast descriptions
as a teaser or something to hook you in and get you interested about the podcast descriptions,
but he kind of comes back to the podcast after he's done, goes through the description, see
if there's any nuggets of inspiration in there and then go from there. That's cool. I never
thought of going back into the descriptions of the podcast and seeing the show notes and
then driving inspiration for me from that. Awesome take. The 10 year highlights, I think
is how you say that. Googled top questions. Quora Reddit. Those are obviously subreddit,
podcasting subreddit is wealth of information. People are always asking some decent questions
on there and the community is fairly active. Nobody's saying, Hey, this is a dumb question.
They're often saying, Hey, this is how you do it. This is how I would do it. And you
go from there. They're fairly helpful. Quora is always this Q and A sort of thing going
on. You ask a question and get answered a little better than Google sometimes. I'll
add chat TBT. You can hate it or love it, but I'm sure there's some good questions to
be answered. Even if the content that chat TBT pulls from is old, you can still get
some bits and information and turn it into something relevant. Cool. The behavior change
coach always finds great guests with the story to tell sense of humor, obviously, but the
great guests will have the great stories and that provides the great content. That's the
strategy. If you can find really engaging people to talk to that's your content. Then
that kind of serves a purpose for everyone. I think awesome. Three kitchens podcast looks
at current trends in the genre and then try to key into what people are interested in.
Also looking back, what was popular in past episodes and riff from those. So maybe there's
a takeaway or an expansion or they're taking a topic that people really want to ask questions
about. Maybe it's listener feedback. Pretty cool. So you can keep that content chip going,
but sometimes you'll see something really popular and they want to dive into something
a little more, but they didn't have time because they have time limits for themselves. Or maybe
they're busy kitchen cooking something that's delicious because that's important. I like
food. Now I'm hungry. Oh well. So I've found, I have to get back to who this was, but they
said their number one hack for finding content ideas for your podcast is your content, your
clients and your community. What questions are they being asked? What objections are
they coming up with? And what do they say they're struggling with? So intake forms,
DM combos, comments on your posts, your competitors posts, your Facebook groups, so many options.
Don't scratch your head trying to work out what to talk about on your show. Your clients
will tell you. Found out it's too busy to podcast. Awesome. So they're taking a lot
of different sources. It sounds like they have some robust features set up and workflows
and I call them things forms and conversations and really have this figured out. I think
that's cool. So instead of trying to overthink it, just let it come. You got tons of sources
to pull from is the is the real answer. And I think that is the problem even for me. I
overthink it. And I put too much effort into trying to perfect it. People just want to
hear good stories, you know, and that really resonates. Tour TZC, you call it Z, I call
it said whatever, find a topic and then talk to your friends, see where there might be
connection. But if it's authentic and timely topics, probably happen to be if one person
is feeling it, others are likely as well. You find something that's cool, that's relevant.
It's authentic. You're not kind of just BSing. Just roll with it. Probably going to like
it too. That it seems like the this group really trusts themselves to put out the content
and believes they understand their audience really well. Just go for it. The Uncle Dump
show. It's cool. Cool topic. I love the title. I don't know why it's fun. I'm a big child.
We're trying to be a bit more performative and do more than just converse. So we're developing
a new thing where we take a new story like NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft broadcasting binary
gibberish signals. Really? Sounds nerdy, but they're getting to do something like a writing
a comedy sketch around the event. Scientists decoding Voyager 1's gibberish to discover
it is a lost verse from the OMC song How Bizarre and that is carrying a mysterious message.
So they just kind of run with this and let their imaginations run wild. Uncle Dump show
just takes things that are normal and nerdy and everyday science-y stuff that would probably
be not as interesting to the masses. Not everybody loves NASA nerdy stuff. I think it's cool.
The eclipse is cool. All that stuff, right? But when you take the gibberish and all these
weird signals and stuff and you go into this is really just a creative way to say, here's
some humor attached to this and then it almost sounds like improv or like a who's lying in
it? Is it anyway? If you're familiar with that show, they just come up to do some improv.
The audience shows up some stuff and then you all laugh. It kind of sounds like that.
He says, does it work? He checks his active listeners. The jury is out and he asks for
a like, a subscribe and follow. Unless it's a she that likes to be an uncle, I shouldn't
generalize on the genders. Pardon me. It's pretty cool. There's a lot of people hanging
out doing their thing and I appreciate you very much. So each podcast, I'll screenshot
on the blog, talkpodcastwithme.com slash podcast. I'll link all of the podcasters that helped
out, create some content for this episode. I appreciate you and then go from there.
If you want their links, I'm not going to put all of them, but I'll definitely direct
that blog to making sure that they know that they're included. And this will give you a
good, I don't know, a few dozen podcasts of cool content to check out for yourself. If
you like them, great. Maybe give them a review. Give them a five star or whatever you like.
They'd appreciate it and I would too. Maybe the two people that blessed me with five out
of five stars on Apple podcasts, they'd like to not be anonymous. It drives me nuts when
I don't know who they are, but I'm like, eh, eh. It's like, I just want to reach out and
thank you to each their own. I love if you could too, leave some reviews because I'm
an only child that has not very many friends. So that would make me feel as if I'm loved
and whatnot. Okay. Super. So there we go. A different way of looking at things. A lot
of people when they're trying to find their content are just kind of relying on their
community, the source of information and news and just kind of drawing from what they know
or were successful at and then pulling that out of a rabbit hat, so to speak and saying,
hey, it's not magic. It's pretty easy. Stop overthinking it and just trust your gut, your
creator. If it fails or bombs or whatever you call it, you're paying too much time staring
at the ones of people listening or tens of people, maybe a thousand listeners. I don't
know. They're not all going to be perfect. All of your content is going to be different,
but keep current and stay in touch with your audience and your fans to know what they're
going to enjoy next, what they need to know about, what the problems they're going to
solve or you're going to solve for them. That's the dream. So I'm glad I didn't go through
all these SnoreFesta tools. It was kind of cool to read some feedback from people on
the socials. Appreciate you guys having an awesome community. Follow me on threads,
talk podcast with me or email me. Hi at a talk podcast with me.com. You can do that
or like I said, go to the blog, the podcast resources, check out all the cool stuff, how
to have the right equipment without breaking your wallet in half because that makes me
sad when I go poor from equipment buying, even though it's kind of a guilty pleasure.
Or maybe you don't know what all the hosts are or stuff like that, right? How to launch
your podcast. All that's there for you to help you out. And of course, links to all
of these awesome podcasters and their cool content because they're cool and awesome for
helping me figure out what's going on and how to create cool content. Where to get all
this inspiration from. It's always a venture and podcasting. And when you're lost in a
dark cave with a flashlight with dead batteries, there's always the ability to tell ghost stories.
Am I right? But when you hear a low growl followed by footsteps, get the out, run as
fast as you can and then tell us about it on your next episode of the podcast. Okay?
I'm Elijah. I hope that this episode has truly inspired you and your creative juices to get
the content, inspiration, generating and flowing as you should. Thank you so much for listening.
So let's start a podcast. I'll see you soon.
Let's start a podcast.