Why Do Most Podcasters Quit Before Their First Episode?
Most podcasters quit before recording because expensive equipment creates pressure to be perfect immediately. Start with a phone and a €20 microphone instead.
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Paul Veth has watched this pattern repeat itself over and over: people build an entire podcast studio and never record a single episode. Here is the catch. When you start buying stuff, a better microphone, better lights, maybe a studio, maybe a green screen, you spend 5,000, 10,000, sometimes 20,000 euros. In your mind you connect the spending to the output. I've got the best equipment, so I need to push out the best podcast episode. That connection is the problem. It never works that way, because your first episode will be the best one you have ever made until that moment, and then the tenth episode will be better, and the hundredth will be better still. Up until then, the first episode is simultaneously your best and your worst. Spending heavily on external things before you record raises the bar so high that most people never start.