Are you ready to record your first episode and get it edited??? LETSSS GOOOOOOOO!!!! Step 1: Record the episode Step 2: Submit it to us using this link: podigy.vercel.app/kb-launch

Hi everyone! I decided to throw an offer out here for those of you who are looking for a little more hand-holding on the podcasting tech tasks. We can schedule a call and I'll let you screen share and we'll walk through the tasks together. Then I'll send you the call recording so you can complete those tasks on your own in the future. I've done recording and editing in both descript and riverside so I know enough to be dangerous. We can also walk through things like setting up accounts or other tech tasks from the not-course course. I'm also down for answering related tech questions. A 30 minute call is $75. Here's my scheduling link. https://cal.com/healingoctopus/tech-consult-podigy Thanks to @Dawn Petrin and @Justin Moore for giving me permission to post this!

See you at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET for a YouTube training with me 🙌 We'll talk about how to come with powerful video ideas that get thousands of views. And if you can't make it live, don't worry. You'll be able to watch the recording. See you later!

This is only tangentily related to the imposter syndrome conversation. After yesterday's call I kept wanting to encourage everyone to just start recording and playing with the platforms. Even if the name, art, music, etc are still in progress. That way when you're for real for real recording you already know the buttons to push and have gotten over some of the tech stress. Plus you have the speaking practice and you get used to your own voice and face. It took me some hours of editing my stuff before I got okay with hearing my voice and many more hours for the video. The video still bothers me a bit and gets me stuck on doing more recording but doing more of it gets me closer to okay with that. Go head in to descript (or riverside) and play. Maybe invite a friend on to get the hang of how interviewing works. Then mess with the editing and the AI stuff. Push all the buttons! That'll at least help with the tech hangups. And you can stick with the free trial until you're ready for the real deal, so no reason to not start now. I think it's also good to practice the intro/outro and reading other copy, to make sure it sounds good out loud and you don't trip up on the words. I've found a lot of copy I end up stumbling and so I can tell it's not in my voice. Or that I'm not super excited about it. But I had to record it to figure that out, and then to play it back to see that it wasn't as awful as I thought. (Although some of it was still pretty awful.) So at this point I've recorded dozens of solo hours of me doing and saying stuff, and a lot of it I won't use. So I think it's helpful to start doing that sooner. When I first tried out riverside, I recorded a test run where I read through all of the settings and pushed the buttons, and it made a "magic clip" out of that, which it named "David laughs through confusing tech setup." I'm sharing that here for your amusement. 😂

Here is the microphone we discussed on the group call today