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Kristen Meinzer - So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen

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An inspiring, 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 can actually be tricky to createand 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 Slates 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 work smarter, not harder as they 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 but important 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 storyand what you really need (and dont need!) in order to get started.

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 guidethe only one on the subject availableyoull find the smart, bottom-line advice and inspiration you need to produce an entertaining and informative podcast and promote it to an audience that will love it. So You Want to Start a Podcast gives you the tools you need to start a podcastand the insight to keep it thriving!

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For Dean.

You are so good at everything you do, and being with you makes me better at everything I do.

Hello, you magnificent creature. Yes, you, who just opened this book. I want to tell you something, something that you deserve to hear but perhaps dont hear enough: I believe in you. I believe you have great stories in you that people want to hear. I believe you are something special. Dont ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

The question, of course, is not whether youre magnificent (you are) but whether you want to translate your magnificence into a podcast. And thats reason number one why Im here: to help you figure that out. Reason number two: to help you make your podcast a reality, if podcasting is what your heart truly desires.

Now, you might be saying at this point: Of course I want to start a podcast! Thats why I picked up this book! Why are you even questioning my intentions?

Heres why, gentle readers: because podcasting can be hard. It can be confusing. It can leave you wondering why you ever thought it would be a good idea. I want you to know not only about the joys that lie ahead, but also about the work that will be required to make those joys materialize. I want you to do better than I did starting out. I want you to know that I and others are a resource for you.

Warning: Im going to ask you some tough questions: questions that every podcaster should, to my mind, ask themselves in order to do the best job they can. These questions will involve some soul searching. And Im going to expect you to do some serious work.

And regardless of whether you end up creating the next Serial at the end of all this, or making a tiny little show for just your family and closest friends, I want you to remember: Youre magnificent.

Why Me? (a.k.a. What Qualifies This Person to Give Advice?)

You might be asking: Who is this person whos simultaneously telling me Im magnificent and sending me warnings? What does she know about me, and, more important, what does she know about podcasting?

First and foremost, Im a podcast host. Ive hosted three successful podcasts in the past ten years, the audiences of which exceed ten million. The first show, Movie Date, was a production of WNYC (the same folks behind Radiolab and Death, Sex, and Money), and ran for six years. The show had a fairly modest following but a very notable guest list, including Scarlett Johansson, Joan Rivers, Christina Hendricks, James Franco, Clive Owen, Taraji P. Henson, and loads of other famous and respected actors, directors, and writers. Each week, my beloved co-host Rafer Guzman and I would interview stars, review new movies, quiz listeners with movie trivia, and dispense what we called Movie Therapy (listeners would write and call in with their life issues, and we would give them a prescription of movies to watch to help them through their predicaments).

My next two hosting gigs were with Panoply (the powerhouse behind Revisionist History, You Must Remember This, and Happier with Gretchen Rubin).

One show, When Meghan Met Harry: A Royal Weddingcast, was fairly short lived by design. As the title suggests, it was a countdown to the royal nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and it was nothing short of a six-month obsessive lovefest. Each week, my pal James Barr and I discussed the latest headlines, interviewed experts, provided explainers on various bits of royal protocol, and made predictions for the big day itself. The show garnered international attention, landing us on the BBC, CBC, TLC, and NBC, among several other networks. It was named a top fifty podcast by Time and a top forty podcast by Cosmopolitan and was showcased in dozens of other press outlets. The show was even featured on British Airways flights for the month of May 2018.

And then there is the show I love and continue to host with my dear friend Jolenta Greenberg: By the Book. Part reality show, part self-help podcast, By the Book has, in my opinion, changed what a podcast can be, and is currently wrapping up its fifth season. In each episode of the show, Jolenta and I choose a different self-help book to live by, follow it to the letter for two weeks, and weigh in on whether the book was actually life changing. Along the way, we eat what each book tells us to eat, we dress as were told to dress, we change our sleeping patterns and vocabulary and even our sex lives. And as with any reality show youd see on TV, we record ourselves throughoutat home, at work, with our husbands and friends, at our best and at our very worst. By the Book repeatedly lands on best of listsits been named a top nine podcast by NPR, named a top twenty-one podcast by BuzzFeed, was picked as a New York Times Podcast Club pickand its covered in the media almost every week.

While hosting might be what Im best known for, Im also a podcast producer. Ive produced live, daily, national news shows. Ive produced podcasts about food and entrepreneurship and music and parenting and mental health. Ive worked on award-winning shows with famous hosts and produced podcasts for notable brands, and Ive even helped produce audio projects with small children. The shows Ive produced include Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Happier in Hollywood, Girlboss Radio, The Sporkful, Food52s Burnt Toast, Spawned with Kristen and Liz, Side Hustle School, Quiet: The Power of Introverts with Susan Cain, Vanity Fairs Little Gold Men, Soundcheck, Inc. Uncensored, and the Real Simple Podcasts, to name a few.

With a number of these shows, I was doing far more than just scriptwriting, booking guests, engineering, coaching hosts, and cutting tapeI was also doing show development: creating the concept or shape of the show from day one. Show development is something I also did for CBS TV before my audio days, and its something I continue to do for clients on a contract basis.

Outside the studio, Ive taught classes on audio production at such respected institutions as Columbia University, Brooklyn College, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and Hunter College. Ive been a regular presenter at the Brooklyn Historical Society, discussing history and pop culture. Ive appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CBC, Vox, Australian Broadcasting Corp., Radio New Zealand, multiple Slate podcasts, multiple WNYC programs, and dozens of other shows and outlets, large and small. And I speak on average once a month at conferences (recent conventions include the BlogHer Creators Summit, Podcast Movement, the IAB Podcast Upfront, Werk It, and the On Air Fest), where attendance ranges from a few hundred to many thousands.

Between all my media and conference appearances, many millions of people have heard and seen me speak. Each week, more than fourteen million people listen to All Things Considered, a show Ive appeared on more than once. Two million people listened to me on WNYC every Friday for six years when I was a regular on-air contributor. Millions of people watched the three hour-long TLC royal wedding documentaries in which I appeared in May 2018. And millions of Gretchen Rubin fans know me as her former producer and occasional guest.

Im qualified. And more important: Im here to help.

What This Book Is, What This Book Isnt

Friends, I sincerely hope that this book will be more to you than just a podcasting guidebook. My dream is that it will be the motivation you need to find your voice, the confirmation that your story matters, and the cheering squad you wish for when youre feeling most discouraged.

But beyond the instruction and encouragement and love, this book is also about the tough stuff: ideation, direction, structure, storytelling, soul-searching, and all the other elements that are central to making a great podcast. Im talking art. Im talking heart. Im talking craft. Im talking about the stuff that most handbooks and blog entries and listicles dont cover.

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