If there's more than one person responsible for your podcast, then it's a good idea to have a legal agreement in place regarding who's responsible for what. And here's why.

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A question I see come up a lot

is if you're starting a podcast with a friend

and they're gonna be a co-host,

should you put a legal agreement in place.

After all, they're your friends, so you'd hope that nothing goes wrong.

But we all know that isn't always the case, unfortunately.

So yes, I would recommend that if you're about to start a podcast with your friend

and they're going to be a co-host

and you're going to be responsible for different things,

it's definitely worth getting a legal agreement in place.

It doesn't have to be super technical or full of legal jargon,

but definitely something that makes it easy to understand

and clear as to who's responsible for what.

So if one person's paying for all the podcast hosting and marketing

and the other person's paying for all the editing, etc,

it's clear what that role is.

That way, if you ever do go your own way,

there's no grey area about what part of the podcast

belongs to each other.

Not only will it make it easy to either close

the podcast down or start a new podcast altogether,

but it should keep your friendship intact too.

A great resource for this is Gordon Firemark,

whose got a lot of templates you can use,

as well as resources and insights

into the legal side of podcasting.

And I'll leave a link to Gordon's website in the show notes.

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