In this week's episode, I'm talking about Podfade!

What it is and helpful tips on how to prevent it.

Podfade is when you fade away from your podcast!!

Why does it happen? [1.11 min]

• You get super busy in your biz
• Overwhelm
• A personal event in your life
• Fall out of love with it

Don't worry!

Here are some things you can do to prevent it: [2.02 min]

• Make the podcast fit your schedule.
• Planning [5.00 min]
• Schedule a time to flesh out your episodes, book guests, schedule time to edit and do show notes etc.

For me blocking the time out in your diary really helps.

If you outsource - make sure you have a plan with your manager. Is it clear who's doing what for what date? You can use a project management tool for this. (Link Trello / Asana) [7.15 min]

Useful Links

• Asana Project Management Software - Online Tools, Templates & App • Asana - Project management software that you can use yourself or with team members for your podcast processes.
• Trello | Manage Your Team’s Projects From Anywhere - You can use a project management tool for yourself or collaboration for your podcast.

Important - let your audience know what's going on! we're all human, people get it. Communicate that to them instead of just dropping off the face of the earth!!

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Welcome to podcasting one on one with me your host

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Rachel. This podcast is for female business owners and

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solopreneurs that are looking to start a podcast that add to your

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own already awesome offering. I'll give you helpful advice

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that you can take away and use in your podcasting journey. I

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hope to answer those tricky questions that just keep you

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from starting. Once a month, I'll be joined by other female

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podcasters. They'll share their journey with you and offer tips

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and advice they discovered along the way. Let's get started.

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Hi, and welcome to this week's episode. Today, I'm talking

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about pod fade. Now you may or may not have heard of this new

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term that is coined. When you basically fade out from your

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podcast you drop off the face of the earth with your podcast. Why

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does it happen? Well, there are a few different reasons why you

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might stop doing your podcast, you get super busy in your

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business. And you simply just don't have time. And there's

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factors of overwhelm there, you have too much on your plate. And

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you just don't have time to record or to find your guests or

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things like that. You might have a personal event going on in

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your life, that makes it really difficult to find time to record

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your podcast to invest that time in, in whatever you need to do.

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Well, you might have fallen out of love with it. Let's face it,

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sometimes things don't work out exactly how we planned, maybe

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it's not going the way you want it to do and you're just kind of

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ignoring it. Not to worry, there are a few things that you can do

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to prevent pod fade. Number one, make the podcast work for you.

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The podcast should fit in with what you have going on in your

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business and in your life. So this is one thing that I

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recommend that people think about, like prior to starting

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your podcast is, you know, being realistic with your time have

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you got the time and the energy to fit the podcast in? Have you

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got time to record? Have you got time to schedule all those kinds

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of things? And is it now? I mean, it's okay to to realise

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actually, this is a lot of a lot of work? And am I putting too

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much pressure on myself. Let me give you an example. So when I

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started my first podcast, the virtual inspiring podcast, I

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started out weekly, I'd been organised, I'd sorted out some

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guests, and I kind of got a lot of interviews in the bank. But

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as time had gone on, I had started picking at work because

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this is when I started right at the beginning of my business

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when I didn't have very many clients or not a lot of work on.

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So I quickly realised after a couple of months, I've got

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through my bank of interviews, I had more work on I didn't have

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time to schedule interviews. And then I realised why am I putting

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this pressure on myself. Yes, I made a commitment to do my

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podcast and I had decided on weekly. But then I decided to

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change it to monthly because this suited me better at that

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point that I was in with my business. So is that something

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that you can think about? Have you committed to a weekly

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podcast, and it's too much doing the weekly podcast. So make it

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monthly. Just let your audience know when they can expect your

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next episodes. Do a little video just everybody will understand

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you don't have to, you know rigidly stick to something if

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it's not working for you and your business. Another option is

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looking at what you can do to streamline the process for your

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podcast. Can you outsource any of it, some of it, all of it.

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You could outsource a social media and get a VA to do the

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repurposing of your podcast to make it into so if you're

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repurposing your podcasts yourself, and you're making

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audiograms, social captions, blogs, all those types of things

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from your podcast. Maybe you could outsource that to somebody

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else. Maybe it's the editing that you find you have the

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trouble with or guest management, scheduling, you know

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your guests, researching your guests, you can outsource some

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or all of those things. You don't have to put that pressure

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on yourself to do it all yourself. The next big thing is

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planning, planning will definitely help you with POD

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fade. If you have the planning in place, maybe you haven't done

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the planning to begin with, and that's okay. Like I this

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podcast, I planned out 12 months in advance, I knew I wanted to

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commit to 12 months of podcasting, I mapped out all my

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episode ideas and where my guests were gonna go. Now I've

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changed a couple of the episodes to fit in with what I want to

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put out there. Now I thought of something new, that's absolutely

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fine. But I had that idea, the dates when I wanted to them to

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go out. And then I, I kind of am about four weeks ahead with my

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podcast. So I will schedule the time in your diary, which I

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think is a really important thing to do. You have to like I

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physically plan out my diary, I love colour coding, it's my

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version of online post, its and I have that time in my diary, it

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does move around sometimes, and sometimes it does get pushed

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because because of life. And that is okay. But I think if you

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have a really good idea of how much time you need to save for

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doing shownotes, for editing, for guest research, all those

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types of things, if you have it, whether it's you block a day

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out, whether you blog, a couple of hours, every couple of weeks

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out to do that. I think that Well, I know, this is what keeps

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me on track, I have them as a recurring appointment, so that I

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know, right, I need to start planning the you know the depth

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of the episodes, I need to do all the social media graphics, I

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need to get in touch with my guests, or I need to do some

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guest research now. It's really, really helpful to stop you kind

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of losing interest or just finding everything too much. If

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you outsource all of these things to a podcast manager like

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myself, then make sure you have a plan with your your manager to

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see to know how clear it is like who's doing what, for what day.

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So you may be outsourcing everything. But for all the

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episodes to go out on time, you need to get the content to your

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podcast manager or your producer. So if that is what

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you're struggling with, again, blocking out the time in your

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diary, making it clear when you have to get that information

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over so that your podcast manager can work all their magic

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and make everything happen for you. There are a couple of tools

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that you can use for this, I'd recommend you use a project

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management tool. There are, as you probably already know, there

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are a lot of project management tools out there. Trello, Asana,

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clickup, monday.com, whichever tool works best for you, even if

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it's you know you've got a planner on on paper, and then

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you're just emailing the dates or you put a little note in your

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diary, this is when this is happening. These kinds of tools

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are there to help you. For example, I have a Trello board

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with one of my clients, I have cards of all the different

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episodes. And within that there are tasks that we can tick off

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when things are done. So they can see when I've edited when I

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need certain things like thumbnails or show notes. Those

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can really help keep keep you on track. And then you can set date

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reminders on those as well. So that you don't miss anything.

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Hopefully, these tips will help you avoid pod

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fade. One last little thing that's important is to just let

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your audience know what's going on. I mean, we're all human.

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People get it if you're busy. I think if you just communicate to

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your audience, that you're having a hiatus perhaps or

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you're changing your frequency of your episodes, just let them

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know. And instead of just kind of disappearing. Let me give an

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example of this. So this podcast, I'm taking a bit of a

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break over the summer, I was trying to fit everything in

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creating new episodes before my holiday and I literally sat down

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the other day and thought I just can't do this, I'm not going to

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be able to fit it in with all my other client work that I need to

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do. So I've decided to for the six weeks of the kids school

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holidays because I've got kids that I'm planning holidays and

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things so I'm going to repost some of my favourite episodes

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and some of the guest insight episodes that are really well

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worth listening to again. So that is what I've decided to do

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over the summer and then come back in September with an

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amazing guest, which is Michelle Deniro and some new fresh

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episodes. content for you all. Here's me letting you know. I'll

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also be sharing this on social media as well so you can find

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out when you can get new episodes. Next week, I have the

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final gasp before the summer break. And that is Sadalsuud

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Stewart. She was a fantastic guest. We had a really great

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chat, and she gave me a lot to think about for guest user

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experience. This is something that I'm taking on board for

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myself. I hope you enjoyed the episode today and you've got

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something out of it. As ever. If you have any questions, please

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let me know. I would love to hear from you. Take care. Bye.

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