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Should you record your podcast in
seasons or should you do a long
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running episodes, episodic podcast?
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Let's talk about it.
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So in this episode, I'm answering
questions from people who
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are inside my Facebook group.
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And the question is, should I create
my podcast in seasons or should
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I do a running episodic podcast?
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So let's answer it.
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So stay tuned and I will
answer that question for you.
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So what's up?
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Welcome back to another Q and a episode
where people ask me questions inside my
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Facebook group launch grow explode your
podcast on Facebook if you want to come
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and join us, and I come on here on my
podcast and answer them and I love it.
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So.
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Let's answer today's question.
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It is from Lacey and Lacey says, Is
there a benefit or negative to doing
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seasons versus continued episodes?
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So let's talk about it.
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If you have been around here
long enough, you know that I talk
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about seasons and I like seasons.
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And maybe you have noticed that I also
switched my podcast to non seasons.
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So maybe you saw that and
you're like, what the heck?
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Or maybe you didn't notice
at all, which is fine.
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I probably wouldn't notice.
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So let's talk about it because
this is present in something that
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is currently going on for me.
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So the reason I love seasons is because
I am ADHD, I, my brain is all over
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the place and I do really, really,
really fucking well with closed
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circles with things that are completed.
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It makes my brain space cleared.
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So when I came up with seasons.
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It was for me, largely, and
how my brain works, okay?
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There's, there's also other reasons
why I like seasons, but that is one
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of the big reasons why I like it.
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So it's how my brain works.
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I like to come up with one idea,
and I like to say, Okay, what
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is the goal that we are trying
to accomplish with this season?
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Then I can use my framework, map that
out, map out my goal, map out the episodes
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that are going to help me accomplish that
goal, and then I can record them, and
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then it's this beautiful piece of work,
it's this beautiful body of work that
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is a season that I can refer back to, I
can, um, use as kind of like a library,
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I know that in season two I talked all
about how to edit your podcast, and so.
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Anytime anyone asks me the
question, I'm going to go say,
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Hey, in season two, I talked about
all about editing your podcast.
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So go listen to that episode, right?
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Go listen to that whole season.
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So I love how it wraps it
up in a pretty little bow.
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I also love with seasons, how
you can stop because you're
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like, season one is over with.
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You can stop and then you can start
again and re engage your audience.
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You can say, okay, now
it's time for season two.
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Let's re engage.
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Let's do like a little relaunch.
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Let's do a little giveaway or
something for my new season.
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So I love that about seasons.
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Now the reason I switched to doing
episodic is because I have a new strategy.
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It's because now I'm releasing episodes
twice a week and I'm releasing, and
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the other part of this is that, I've
shifted my business and I'm only selling
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my membership and I'm only selling
my digital products and digital shop.
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And that's it.
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So it's not like I'm doing seasons
to warm people up to something that
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I'm doing differently in my business.
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Cause I'm always doing the same thing now.
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This is all I'm forever going
to be doing in my business.
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I'm not even going to say forever because
that's ridiculous, but that's what
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I'm going to be doing in my business.
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And I wanted to switch and increase
the frequency at which I release them.
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And I wanted to try a new format,
which is release one episode and then
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release a Q and a episode every week.
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So there was several reasons
that I wanted to do it like this.
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Is one way better than the other way?
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No.
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I don't think one way is
better than the other way.
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I just think that they
serve different purposes.
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And you have to decide which one is
right for you and the way that you work.
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For a long time, I, I did not
create weekly episodes, I just
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created in seasons and I use
those episodes in a different way.
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And so right now I'm hyper focused
on increasing my listenership
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through the podcasting app.
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And I'm just doing things
differently versus.
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When I was doing Seasons, I would use that
same content over and over and over in
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my business to primarily sell my offers.
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Now I am shifting a little bit more
into, I'm not just using my podcast in
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my business, but I am growing my podcast.
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Not saying that you can't
grow your podcast in Seasons,
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but My focus is different.
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Okay.
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If that makes sense.
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So I'm focused in general in my
marketing on producing more and
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more content, just to be honest.
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And before I wasn't focused on
that, I was focused on let's take
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this group of episodes this season
and let's maximize it and use it.
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To help me sell my shit.
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Okay, so I hope that that makes
sense and the answer to your
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question Seasons versus episodic.
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I hope that I answered that but it's
really a preference It's really what feels
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good for you to create to really what?
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Makes sense for your business and
wherever you're at And I want to give
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you permission for whoever is listening.
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You can do this however you want
to do it and you can change it up.
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You can go from doing seasons if
you want and then switch it up
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or you can have been episodic and
then now you're going into seasons.
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Um, Instead of doing seasons, you
could do series if you want to, if
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you don't want to do big full seasons.
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Um, I may incorporate some of that into
the podcast, but for now I'm sticking
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to my format of two episodes a week,
one where I'm giving information,
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one where I'm doing a Q and a,
and that's what I'm doing for now.
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So.
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I hope that answers your question, Lacey.
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And again, if you have questions that
you want me to answer specifically
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for you, go over to my Facebook
group, LaunchPro Explode, your
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podcast, and come ask me anything.
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And so I can, uh, respond
to you here on the podcast.
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So I hope that helps and I will
see you in the next episode.
