From Blog Posts To Podcast — How It’s Changed My Writing

I’ve been wanting to talk to my audience in a different way for a long time, and my writing has oddly changed as well

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I’ve been a writer for 20 years, and for the longest time, blogging and writing articles were my main ways of communicating with the world. And don’t get me wrong — I’ve loved writing, putting words on paper, receiving comments from readers, and even coaching writers to publish their books. But something was always missing.

I realised that sometimes I’m at my best when I’m talking.

I have new ideas, I connect deeply with people, and there’s an energy in a live conversation that you just can’t capture in an article. Have you ever felt that way? That a conversation with a friend gives you so much more than reading a self-help or how-to article?

Here’s the big surprise — I’ve been dreaming about starting a podcast for two years.

But I always thought it would be this big, complicated, stressful thing that I had to build, market, and execute perfectly. Turns out, it wasn’t nearly as hard as I imagined. And now that I’ve started, I wonder why I waited so long. Have you ever put off something because you thought it would be too hard — only to realise later it…