Intuitive Podcasting with Expert Guest Laura Powers

02/09/22 • 19 min

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This week's expert podcast guest is Laura Powers. Laura is a celebrity psychic, author, public speaker, actress, singer and so much more. This phenomenal woman has 6 podcasts on different subjects from intuitive healing to music, to writing, and more. - Laura started podcasting 10 years ago.

Our Takeaways:

Laura is savvy and uses the fact that podcasting is a form of media to submit for press access to conferences and festivals, learning & networking, getting interviews for her podcasts
Laura has a unique vision of podcasting. She begins a podcast when she has an area she want to learn and grow in!
Laura had mindset issues like the rest of us: What do I have to share? Who am I to...? She experienced imposter syndrome and got over it by thinking of podcasting as being a platform for these other people....presenting someone else’s knowledge helped to build her own confidence. By doing this she built her own knowledge
Laura sees podcasting as something that opens up doors in other media- TV, celebrity podcasts, celebrity clients...books +podcast creates great marketing for yourself
Go for it! Aim high...keep moving forward! You can do anything!

Connect with Laura:

www.healingpowers.net | www.powershour.biz | www.laurapowers.net

[email protected]

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Our Takeaways:

Laura is savvy and uses the fact that podcasting is a form of media to submit for press access to conferences and festivals, learning & networking, getting interviews for her podcasts
Laura has a unique vision of podcasting. She begins a podcast when she has an area she want to learn and grow in!
Laura had mindset issues like the rest of us: What do I have to share? Who am I to...? She experienced imposter syndrome and got over it by thinking of podcasting as being a platform for these other people....presenting someone else’s knowledge helped to build her own confidence. By doing this she built her own knowledge
Laura sees podcasting as something that opens up doors in other media- TV, celebrity podcasts, celebrity clients...books +podcast creates great marketing for yourself
Go for it! Aim high...keep moving forward! You can do anything!

Connect with Laura:

www.healingpowers.net | www.powershour.biz | www.laurapowers.net

[email protected]

Join our FREE Facebook community: Mastering the Podcaster Mindset Support Group

Get the Guide “The Biggest Mistake Podcaster Make and How to Avoid It”:

DM us on IG: @podcastermindset

Previous Episode

Setting Personal Metrics for Successful Podcasting (that have nothing to do with downloads)

As podcasters, it is easy to get caught up in using downloads as our metric for success. However, podcast download numbers are elusive and never totally satisfying. It is a data point that has a metric for success that is always moving and leaves us feeling dissatisfied. Chasing downloads can even make us forget why we created our podcast in the first place.

Here are a few of our personal metrics for success:

Improve our speech so that we naturally remove filler words (so, like, um, you know....)
Reach out to "dream guests"
Say Heck Yes! to opportunities that come our way from podcasting
Become better interviewers to help facilitate and encourage our guests to share their knowledge and their stories

Referenced in this episode:

Mastering the Podcaster Mindset, Guest Amanda Chen, episode 7.
Radical Audacity, guest Ashely Stahl, episode 41

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Our mics this episode:

Tiphany & David are both using the Earthworks Icon USB mic

Thank you to Earthworks for sponsoring this podcast.

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Guest Editor: 11-year old Max

Editor: The Sexy Sound Guy (aka David Sais)

Produced by; KaSa Media Productions

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Next Episode

What's the Down-low on Podcast Downloads?

Downloads can be useful data point metrics for analyzing, reflecting, and applying what you have learned to improve your podcast.

Here are ways podcasters tell us they use download data...

The top answer in the poll we created was:

Downloads tell me how engaged my listeners are

Other feedback we received:

Analyzes downloads to see when listenership falls off. The Podcast host can see what is working for the podcast audience and what isn’t working.
Listens on each episode help to better understand what content is preferred by listeners and then create more content around those popular topics.
Determine if your show is continually expanding reach, and providing content that resonates with the people listening.
Downloads can also be a terrific data point to let you know if your growth strategies are making an impact or not.

Word of caution: downloads should be one measure of this but not the only measure! If you have worked to create an engaged community- additional metrics can be feedback from listeners, survey data, reviews, direct messages from listeners... these data points can tell you more than just download numbers alone.

Downloads numbers can be fickle- we saw our downloads significantly drop during a two-week period in the holidays. This drop had nothing to do with the quality of our shows and more to do with the seasonal busyness of our listeners.

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David & Tiph’s Mic: Earthworks Icon USB

Thank you Earthworks Audio for sponsoring our podcast

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