There's so many benefits to being a podcaster.
And as long as you got some great advice kind of going into it,
because you don't want to make too many mistakes on this thing,
you certainly don't want to take forever.
That's why I'm a big fan of really working with a guide
or someone that can get you launched pretty quickly.
Here's what I see.
When people just try to DIY it themselves,
they spend forever in action.
Worried, it's not going to sound right.
Worried about this, worried about the technology.
Right.
Someone has done it a bunch.
They're going to be, oh, no, it's super easy.
Here, let me show you.
And you're going to learn from their mistakes.
I like that.
All right.
Just to get, just so I can get you in the world quicker.
And I hear this, and Ashley, I know you've heard this too.
Anytime you ask a podcaster,
what's the number one advice you would give to a new podcaster?
It's almost always get started.
Right.
It's not, oh, save up your money and get a really good mic first.
No, that's not usually the advice.
It's always just get started.
Right.
So in the, like, let's say that you want to become known
for being an expert in, let's say, French pastry, for example.
Now, that would be a little bit more of a visual type level of expertise.
So I would say, listen, it's cool if you want to do a podcast.
Right.
But I would probably create your original content for YouTube
and then repurpose and repackage that very simply for a podcast,
which you can do.
Right.
So now what I would, here's one piece of advice.
Right.
Is that if you're going to produce content for YouTube,
produce content for YouTube.
If you're going to produce content for podcasts,
produce content for podcasts.
So that means you're going to need to be aware of your language.
Right.
So put all the YouTube, hey, YouTube, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then you have a certain point that you edit.
So you can recut that intro for your podcast.
Outro, same thing, because you've got to have all that YouTube stuff in there.
But you don't necessarily want that in your podcast
because you don't want people to feel like it's repurposed for them.
But again, all of that said, right, I'm a huge fan of creating something one time.
Like I love, Ashley, that we're recording this right now.
We're recording it in video.
That gives you and I the opportunity to get video clips.
Right.
And so we can repurpose this dozens of different ways and get it everywhere.
And so when you keep working on platform, platform is like it's the greased track.
Right.
It just makes your rise to greatness just so much easier.
Just grab a platform and start giving, start serving, stay in your zone of expertise.
You know, hammer that everywhere you go.
It's like you're the evangelist that's like advocating for a certain idea.
Right.
And so, but use that.
And so as you become the content creator yourself,
that will absolutely make it easier for you to get booked on other stuff.
Right.
So when you have a platform and you say, yeah, listen, you know,
I've been doing a show about blah, blah, blah, you know, for six months, you know.
And so it makes it easier for the media who are going to check you out before they book you
to look at your stuff.
They're like, Ashley Grant is TV ready or she's radio ready or she's, you know,
clearly an expert because you've owned that mantle of expertness.