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    So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community that Will Listen
    So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community that Will Listen
    So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community that Will Listen
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    So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community that Will Listen

    Written by Kristen Meinzer

    Narrated by Kristen Meinzer

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    2020 Audie Awards® Winner – Business/Personal Development

    A comprehensive step-by-step guide to creating a hit show, So You Want to Start a Podcast covers everything from hosting and guest booking to editing and marketing - while offering plenty of encouragement and insider stories along the way.

    Though they are the fastest-growing form of media, podcasts are actually difficult to create—and even harder to sustain. Few know the secrets of successfully creating a knockout podcast better than Kristen Meinzer. An award-winning commentator, producer, and former director of nonfiction programming for Slate’s sister company, Panoply, Meinzer has also hosted three successful podcasts, reaching more than ten million listeners. Now, she shares her expertise, providing aspiring podcasters with crucial information and guidance to start their own audio forum.

    Meinzer believes that we each have a unique voice that deserves to be heard. But many of us may need some help transforming our ideas into reality. So You Want to Start a Podcast asks the tough questions to help budding podcasters define and achieve their goals, including:

    Why do you want to start a podcast?
    Think about specifically why you want to start a podcast versus a blog, zine, YouTube channel, Instagram feed, or other media outlet. Find out if a podcast is really the best way to tell your story.

    What is your show about?
    For any advertiser, corporate partner, or press outlet, you need a snappy pitch. How would you describe what you want to do in two to three sentences?

    Who is your podcast for?
    Who are you trying to reach? How will your content and tone appeal to those listeners?

    How is your show going to be structured?
    Create a step-by-step map planning the show out. Think about length, segments, interviews, advice, news reads, and other aspects of successful podcasts you can adapt for your own.

    With this motivational how-to guide—the only one on the subject available—you’ll find the direction you need to produce an entertaining and informative podcast and promote it to the right audience. So You Want to Start a Podcast gives you the tools you need to start a podcast—and the insight to keep it thriving.

    Editor's Note

    Audie Award winner…

    “Kristen Meinzer's energetic narration is well suited to her information-packed account of what it takes to put together a successful podcast and keep it going,” say the judges who awarded this gem a 2020 Audie Award. If you’ve got a podcast, you need this guide!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9780062939562
    Author

    Kristen Meinzer

    Kristen Meinzer is a podcast host, producer, and former director of nonfiction programming for Slate’s sister company, Panoply. Her hosting credits include Stitcher/Panoply’s By the Book, Stitcher’s We Love You (And So Can You), CNN’s Decades of Movies podcast, Panoply’s When Meghan Met Harry, and WNYC/PRI’s Movie Date. Her producing credits include Happier with Gretchen Rubin, The Sporkful, Food 52’s Burnt Toast, Girlboss Radio, and other award-winning shows. Kristen’s work has been celebrated in Time, the Washington Post, Bust, Buzzfeed, the Evening Standard, Real Simple, Indiewire, and dozens of other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 5/5
      Really enjoyed this book. Was equal parts practical and entertaining.
    • 5/5
      Cool thank you. Amazing content.
      I love lt! I recommend
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed learning about starting a podcast from Kristen. Her insight as a producer and content creator reminded me of all the things I glazed in my own process. Consider Kristen your podcasting coach and heed her advice on what to do (and what not to do!).
    • 5/5
      Just finished the audiobook. I then bought the kindle version and am now going to outline the hell out of this one and put it to work!
      Very useful!!! Look for my podcast(s) soon!
    • 5/5
      I love Kristens voice. She gives very practical advice and stimulates you to do it: start a podcast.
    • 1/5
      Filled with feminist and race baiting trash. Do not listen!
    • 4/5
      A good overview on how to start and launch your Podcast. What I liked most was the encouragement to be as creative as you can with your show.
    • 5/5
      Practical and so helpful to those starting the journey of podcasting!
    • 5/5
      Clearly written, a fun and educational listen. This prepares the reader to enter the world of podcasting.
    • 4/5
      I've co-hosted and produced my own podcast for three years now. There's always more to learn so I read or at least skim any book about podcasting that I come across. If anyone were to ask me to recommend a book about starting a podcast, this is the one I'd suggest. It is clear, concise, not techy, and Meinzer clearly has buckets of experience in the industry.