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So a funny thing happened on the way to planning
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out Season Four of Podcaster Stories, and that was realizing
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the show turned one yesterday, April 21st. So in this
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quick bonus episode, I just wanted to say, thanks for
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being here for the last 12 months and have a
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look back at the, I guess the gestation of the
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show. I'm not even sure if that's the right word,
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but when I started the show back in April, 2020,
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I had an idea of what I wanted to do
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with the show and how I wanted it to progress.
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This was something brand new though, as my previous podcast,
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with the exception of a business one I used to
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co-host at the marketing agency I used to work at,
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they'd all been solo affairs. But now I was creating
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an interview style show, and one that I really wanted
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to get to know all the guests I had on.
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Thing is, these guests would also be fellow podcasters and,
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often ones who had her own interview style show as
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well. So I was a bit nervous as I started
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out, but thankfully they all turned out to be great
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guests, very gracious with their time and the stories that
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they shared because as the show name entails Podcaster Stories
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is about sharing these stories of the podcasters that we
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tend to listen to. And it wasn't just about their
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podcasts that I wanted to get to know, although it's
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very useful to obviously hear about their own podcast growth
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and how they grow their show and their voice with
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that. But what I wanted to do was really get
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to know who the person behind the voice, and how
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that made them, how that shaped them to, be the
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person they are today.
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This includes very personal stories at times, such as overcoming
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child abuse, overcoming sexual abuse, overcoming cancer and mental health
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issues, and a lot more. And hearing these stories and
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being able to share them with you, the listener, has
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been incredibly inspiring, and really helped me grow as a
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person individually over the last 12 months. When you think
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of some of the things that are, that they have
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overcome and with the examples they've shared in their episodes,
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it really makes you, you know, look at your own
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life and be like, well, was it so bad that
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I spilled some milk when I was getting the kids'
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breakfast? No, it wasn't. Yeah. It made a mess of
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the kitchen floor, but it wasn't a, an earth shattering
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world ending experience.
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So it has been incredibly interesting and I'm very grateful
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to my guests for sharing their stories. The show has
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also evolved over the last 12 months from when it
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first started. Initially the episodes were fairly short at around
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a 20, maybe 25 minute mark, but what I was
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finding was I wasn't getting enough time to really talk
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with my guests and chat with them about their story.
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So in Season Two of Podcaster Stories, I flipped the
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format a bit. It was still an interview style show,
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but I flipped to it to be a longer episode.
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And episodes ranged from 40 minutes to 50 minutes, to
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sometimes over an hour, and I'll be honest, when I
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made the change, I was a little bit wary as
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to whether people would enjoy the show less, because it
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was a longer format.
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You're talking about doubling the length of the episode, but
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thankfully the, the listeners and the feedback I've got since
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moving into that format has been universally good. There've been
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some people that preferred the previous version and that's completely
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understandable, but for the most part, listeners like yourself who
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have written to me, or tweeted to me, or, or
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whatever, to advise that they enjoy the new format. So
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thank you for that. Moving forward, as I approach Season
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Four, I am going to start experimenting with some of
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the format as well. It will still be on an
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audio show, but there may be some video options involved
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as well, whether that's on YouTube or Facebook or something
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like that, or just even embedded on my website.
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We'll see, but I've got so many ideas that I
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want to start messing about with, and that could be
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just a bonus content with, with snippets, just for the
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video version, or it may be a livestream, on something
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like Streamyard or whatever when I'm recording the episode, and
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we have the guest on with myself, live streaming the
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episode during recording just for a special event now and
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again. So it's something I'm thinking about. And I'd love
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to hear your feedback as to whether that's something that
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would be interesting to listen to, or I should say
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watching. So let me know if you can always email
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me at any time at Danny at Podcaster Stories dot
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com. As I mentioned, the show's really continued to grow
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over the last 12 months, and especially since I made
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the format change, and it's really enabled me to, to
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lock down what I want to do with the show,
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and I know the direction I want to take it
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as I move into Season Four, Five, Six, et cetera.
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And I'm looking forward to you being part of that.
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So thank you so far for being along for the
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ride. I hope you're enjoying the show as much as
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I do making it. And if there's any time you
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want me to give me any feedback or make a
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suggestion as to a guest you'd like to hear, you
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can always reach out to me at Danny at Podcaster
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Stories dot com. If you think that anybody else who
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would enjoy the show, just send them over to Podcaster
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Stories dot com forward slash Listen, where they can catch
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up on some of the episodes they may have missed,
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as well as choose what podcast app they prefer to
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listen on. Again, I really appreciate your support and you
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listening to the show, it makes it all worthwhile. I
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mean, it would be worthwhile anyway with my guests and
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the stories I get to hear from them.
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But knowing you're enjoying it as much really validates it
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for me, so thank you for that. Next week, I'll
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be doing a recap of Season Three and we'll be
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hearing some more snippets from the guests that you may
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have not heard previously, so look out for that episode
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coming down in about a week's time. Until then I
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hope you're well, I hope you're keeping safe, and we'll
