Here is the Answer to Every Question I am Commonly Asked About My 365 Consecutive Day Podcast Journey.

If you are new to seeing my content… Hello and welcome.

I’m the guy that goes around the internet constantly bringing up the fact that I once took a year out of my life, and decided that I was going to start a podcast, and go through the entire process of creating an episode every single day for that year.

And I did it.

It is now coming up on an entire year since I ENDED that podcast, and I want to take this article to address some of the questions that I already know that you might have about my journey, why I did it, and so on.

1.) Was it hard?

This question is actually far more common to me than I feel like it should be, and here is the plain and simple answer.

No.

It was not hard, however it was moderately time consuming, and it took CONSISTENCY.

A big part of the reason that I decided to run with this project in the first place was to build up my consistency, discipline, and also become better at creating content, public speaking, and that sort of thing.

So no. Hard is not the right word, if you mean difficult.

But it did take work, and it was inconvenient at times.

2.) Why did you start?

I also get asked more than enough why I decided to put myself through this endeavor, and this answer has two parts. Both of which have already been answered, in a sense.

The first reason, as I mentioned above, is because I wanted to improve some of my soft skills AND my hard skills… and also learn what it actually took to be a content creator.

Like a real content creator that does it as WORK.

The other answer is actually embedded in the question… and that is because it is not ordinary for someone to just make this sort of time commitment, or effort commitment to anything.

Have you ever heard the saying:

“You have to be odd in order to be number one”?

That was essentially the case here. I didn’t want to do something that everybody else was doing.

I strive to work harder and more consistently than others… and so far it has worked out pretty well.

3.) Did you actually work on this every single day?

Yes.

Overall it is fair to say that I recorded, edited, uploaded, wrote, and published an episode every single day.

The few exceptions were episodes that I recorded with guests or co-hosts.

In those situations we would, of course, have to find a time that worked for both of us and record then.

4.) How do you come up with topics for podcasts?

The answer to this is too long to put into this post right here, but I’ll shorten it up and link you to another post where I go more in depth on this topic.

The short version is that you have to start with one topic, and then pull topics from your old content and expand on them.

If you can learn this strategy… you can actually go for a very long time without ever running out of ideas.

There’s also the cliché advice of focusing on your day to day life. Look for things that make you angry, things that inspire you, and so on.

But we don’t need to get into that.

5.) How much money did you make from this podcast?

This is always tricky to answer because it depends on what is meant by “from the podcast.”

No podcast that I have had an active roll in runs ads. I tried it for a short while on this original one and racked up $0.72 so I guess that’s the answer you’re looking for.

However….

This podcast is what ultimately led me to where I am now in my career of being a freelance podcast producer, as well as working in sales and doing a few other things.

Because of starting to create content, I managed to find myself leaving my day job, and making my full time income “online” (which I use that term loosely).

So if you count everything I’ve made up until the second I’m writing this, that I believe stemmed from the podcast, it is thousands and thousands of dollars.

If you mean directly from the podcast through advertising or paywalls… the answer is seventy-two cents.

Where does it go from here?

This isn’t a question I get asked a ton, but it’s one I’d like to answer to round out this article.

I still have been podcasting on a few different shows, and I still enjoy the space very much. I am an avid listener and an avid talker just as well.

I recently hung up the mic for about a month or two and took a break from it as well. My goal wasn’t, isn’t, and probably never will be to do my own podcast for a living.

I tried finding something that interested me that I could pursue in order to sharpen as many skills as I could, and hope to apply those skills into my own business some day.

• Consistency
• Discipline
• Communication
• Persuasion
• Writing
• Technical

The list goes on and on and on.

So from here, I have been advancing in various areas and plan to continue to do so.

I do have a passion for the microphone, and every once in a while when I’m feeling a little frisky I’ll get behind the camera too.

So when the chances pop up, I will always try to create content to help people learn from what I’m learning…. and continue on from there.

After all… we can see that I’ve gotten into blogging now, can’t we?