Episode 195

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16th Mar 2025

195: Pause, Pivot, or Put Your Podcast to Bed: What to do when you don't love your podcast

Have you ever found yourself standing at the crossroads with your podcast? That quiet, empty intersection where the path forward isn't clear?

The road stretches in three directions. One road continues the miserable soul-sucking journey of producing your podcast even though the spark is gone.  Another veers toward a pivot - changing direction while keeping your momentum.  And the third... well, that's the road that lets you put it all to bed and walk away.

That once-brilliant bright idea for a podcast that would change the world, or at least get you more clients, has become cumbersome. The thought of sitting down to record another episode fills you with dread instead of excitement.

This has been my dilemma for weeks - loitering at the crossroads of whether to pivot and move in a different direction, miserably move forward, or put this baby to bed.

If you’ve ever felt like you were at a crossroads with your podcast or some other creative project, give this a listen.

 

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The Brassy Broadcast with Jen Edds
The Brassy Broadcast is an exploration of ways we create, engage, and communicate more effectively using the technology, social media, and platforms available to us.
The Brassy Broadcast is an exploration of ways we create, engage, and communicate more effectively using the technology, social media, and platforms available to us.

We're living through a revolution in how content is created. AI tools can now help with every aspect of content creation - from ideation to research, copywriting, editing, creating graphics, and beyond. These tools can save you hours of work and help you produce more polished content than ever before, but there's a darkside to these magic tools.

The more we use them, the higher the risk we run of losing the very thing that makes our content ours - our unique perspective, our authentic voice, our human experience, and our heartbreak. AI can suck the heart and soul right out of our work.

I’m on a mission to find that sweet spot where technology enhances rather than replaces our humanity, where we can save time on the mechanical aspects of content creation so we can invest more energy in the parts that truly require our creativity, experience, expertise, and perspective.

We are navigating this new world together, along with our guests.

I’ll be interviewing business owners and content creators to learn how they are getting the most out of AI without sucking the soul out of their work. We'll learn about the pitfalls and perks of AI use in our business and creative endeavors.

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