How to Actually GROW Your Podcast With a 9–5

👩🏽‍💻 Apply for Emerging Voices Accelerator 👉 https://hiwote.typeform.com/to/RETSnMtR 📥 Grab the free 10-step guide 👉 https://tenstepstolaunch.depthandcandor.com/ \---------- 🔗 Mentioned in this video: Finding your ideal listener: Don't Launch Your Podcast Until You Do This → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWopX7Li\_Hs Choosing your podcast topic: How to Validate Your Podcast Idea Before You Start → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W226-g5dlDc Shannon's podcast, Highlight Your Healing → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/highlight-your-healing/id1845396615 \-------- If you're trying to start a podcast, you're probably focused on the wrong thing: getting your first episode perfect. My student Shannon started with five-minute solo episodes, recorded audio-only in her closet, while working full time and raising two young kids. Eight months later she reached 1,000 listeners - then landed her first sponsor. Here's her process: 1️⃣ PICK YOUR ONE LISTENER - her primary listener archetype decided the niche, the topics and the episodes before she recorded a thing. 2️⃣ MAKE A SHOW YOU CAN ACTUALLY FINISH - short, solo, audio-only, one 10-episode season. Simple enough to complete alongside a full-time life. 3️⃣ ASK YOUR LISTENERS THE RIGHT QUESTIONS - not "do you love the show?" but which episode stayed with them, where they wanted more, and the one thing they'd change. Plus the three ways that feedback changed her podcast - longer episodes, a bigger idea of what grief can mean, and guest interviews - and why you make one change at a time. Tell me in the comments: who is the one person your podcast is for? 👇 🙋🏾‍♀️ Who am I? Hey, I'm Hiwote, but my friends call me Hiwi! 👋🏾 I'm a podcast producer, and I've worked on shows like Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel, This is Dating (featured in TIME Magazine as one of the best podcasts of 2022), and projects with The New York Times, TED, and more. My goal? To help aspiring podcasters gain the creative clarity and confidence they need to create shows that are as unique as they are. –––– Ready to start? ✅ Subscribe for weekly tips on how to create and grow a podcast that feels like you. 📥 Grab the free 10-step guide: https://tenstepstolaunch.depthandcandor.com/