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Earlier this year, I set out to answer a question.

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Could I reasonably record a podcast from my cell

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phone? Now, as somebody who is obsessed with

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gear, I thought that this would be hard. Right?

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I have lots of headphones because I really care

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about sound quality. I've invested in a bunch

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of gear to sound as good as possible even when

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kids are running around upstairs. But I know

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that I've over invested in this setup. So it

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got me thinking. What if I just bought a decent

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microphone, the one I'm talking into now, the

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DJI mic. and recorded from my phone. Would a

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voice memos podcast work? But then I thought,

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what if I just did the whole thing from my phone?

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How easy is it to save files and then upload

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them to my audio host? How easy is it to write

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a description and maybe create show notes? So

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in August, at Podcast Movement, I decided to

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launch Joe's Audio Notes, which you can subscribe

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at at Casabona .org slash notes. I'm going to

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talk more about the strategy or the experiment

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of audience growth with that show in a different

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episode and blog post. But today I just want

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to talk about The act of recording and uploading

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and how maybe you could do it, too. So what I

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do is I use the voice the whisper memos app on

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iPhone I like using that app because It all in

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one app. It's really easy to record. I basically

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push a button and Launch a shortcut that then

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automatically starts recording. So I just hit

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one button and start talking then it transcribes

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the audio and it gives me three easy actions.

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Copy the transcript, share the audio, share the

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transcript. So what I can do from there is save

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the audio to files and then take the transcript

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and throw it into chat GPT and ask it to come

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up with just like a one to two sentence summary.

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That's good enough for this show right so I should

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tell you right. This is a voice memos show and

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so There's not a lot of production value Right

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if you want that there are apps like ferrite

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that make it easier to edit audio but For this

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kind of show where I just want to just kind of

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like raw thoughts This is a great workflow save

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the audio to files send it to ChatGPT, and then

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upload it via Transistor. So I use an app called

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TeachyTabs. This is a really niche app, but the

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cool thing about it is that it means, like it's,

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you can basically pin seven websites, easy access,

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and it's always gonna maintain state. So you

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should theoretically never get logged out, which

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is nice because that, again, that just makes

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the process a little bit easier, so. I upload

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the audio, I upload the description, I upload

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the transcript, and I publish. And that's it.

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That's really easy. So again, the components

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for this are the DJI microphone that plugs into

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my iPhone and the Whisper Memos app. Now I'm

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recording a video for this as well. I have like

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a new... mobile rig setup that I'm testing out.

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I don't know if I'm going to release the video

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or not. But as far as answering the question,

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can you record a podcast from your phone? The

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answer is yes. The scope or the goal should change.

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And the reason I'm leaning into this strategy

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is for a couple of reasons, right? I think that

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people like behind the scenes content. So this

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is not something I'm just releasing on my main

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feed for the Streamline Solopreneur. It's behind

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an email signup form, right? So people have to

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give their email to get it. But it's free. It's

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a free private podcast. I wanted this to be low

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effort. Like the main goal is that I won't do

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this if I have another podcast to edit. So I

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want it to be low effort. I want to see if I

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could grow my mailing list. Something that drove

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this point home for me was when I was at Cabo

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Press, Luria Petrucci was talking about the thought

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leader content versus the real kind of influencer

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style content. And that's that is what kind of

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crystallized this was two months after I launched

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the show but this gave me the confidence to keep

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going because when there's video content there

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is there's two types of content like Luria says

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there's the thought leader content which is what

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all of this gear that I use for my videos is

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for right my teleprompter and my $1 ,600 camera

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and lens or $1 ,000 camera and lens and the Shure

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SM7B with the Rodecaster Pro and the in -ear

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monitors and the very framed picture that I use

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when I create these videos and the controlled

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lighting. That's the thought leader video stuff,

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right? The high quality stuff that is expected

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of high quality content. But then there's also

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this influencer content. The content that in

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the short form video world is just people recording

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raw video from their phone and uploading it.

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The stuff that tells you they're real people.

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And I think the same thing can happen for podcasts,

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which is why I'm doing this voice memos style

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show. And I'm not the only one. Jay Klaus started

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doing this too, and he got the idea from another

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person, right? I got the idea from a casual conversation

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I was having with a friend, and I thought, we're

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sending voice notes to each other. Voice notes

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feels like a really interesting way to make content.

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So... For podcast advent today, I've written

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a lot of long articles and today I just wanted

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to give you some insight into how I'm producing

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Joe's audio notes. And it really is just these

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three components, right? The whisper memos app,

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the DJI microphone, and then the ability to upload

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it from my phone to transistor. If you want a

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show like that, you can definitely do it from

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your phone. And I'll say that, you know, I know

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like Stephen Robles edits his podcast on his

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iPad. I know that Jason Snell has done podcasting

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from his iPad for his shows at the incomparable.

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I don't do a lot of editing for my show. I'm

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not quite ready yet to do something like that,

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but If you're looking for this short form audio

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content, voice memo style content, I think this

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is a really good use case for it. So I hope you

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enjoyed this episode. I'll probably release this

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on Joe's Audio Notes as well as the Podcast Workflows.

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And if you have any questions, you can always

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head over to PodcastWorkflows .com and comment

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on this article. But until next time, thanks

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so much for listening.