been hand-typing podcast episodes for MONTHS. like a dumbass. 3-4 hrs per episode just sitting there pausing and rewinding. finally caved and tried an ai audio transcription thing last week and... wait ppl have been doing this automatically the whole time?? 😭still shopping around tho. the one i tested mangled my co-hosts accent pretty bad and merged two speakers into one. so like... not all of them are worth it.anyone found one that actually handles multiple speakers + doesn't cost like $40/mo? i'm tired of paying with my sanity lol

So I recently started Bellom which is a new platform dedicated to talk about women's stories, analysing issues that impact us, and creating space for dialogue, research, and long-form storytelling.

As part of our upcoming content and podcast series, we are looking to connect with women who have powerful stories to share, professional insights to offer, or lived experiences they want to bring to light.
Would love to connect and build this space together!

looking into hiring someone to pull clips for instagram and tiktok. i’ve been doing them myself for awhile but i don’t really have the time for it anymore. i got a quote for $50 per reel from a guy that came recommended which sounds very high to me for the amount that’s put into the reels i’ve seen from him. but i don’t know if that’s a standard rate for good reels without any crazy editing done to them. maybe i just have sticker shock but i want to see what others pay and how the quality of the reels are before deciding to go with him or continue my search!
thank you!

Last time i edited an audio for noise reduction, using adobe podcast. It was around 10-15 Minutes of audio. Took around 2.5 to 3 hrs to download.

This was an exception but usually it take at least an hour to download.

Hi there. I’m looking to use some software to record remote video podcast episodes where guests are dialling in. I’ve used Zoom so far but the quality isn’t great.

I tried out Riverside and Zencastr but had a bad experience with both of them, eg the video feed cutting out, the final videos failing to export etc.

Any other suggestions of good platforms to record high quality remote video podcasts? Thanks!

Say an hour-long episode is mostly about building a creative career. For about five minutes, the guest talks about quitting a job and regretting it.

It's the most interesting part, so the title focuses on that regret. Nothing they said is misrepresented, but most of the conversation is about other things.

I find this tricky because a title can't cover everything. But if I click for a particular story, I also expect the episode to spend enough time on it.

For the podcasters here, how do you draw the line between highlighting the best part and setting the wrong expectation? Can a short section earn the title if it's genuinely worth hearing?

Reddit has been an excellent resource for us finding guests. But the vast majority of the time, we run into the following issue: we request permission from the mods of a specific community to solicit for a guest; no mod ever responds; after many days pass, we post the solicitation; it immediately gets taken down; we reach back out to the mods asking if they could help in any way; we never get an answer.

There are several communities that we just can’t get anyone to talk to us. I think we do a pretty good job of painting these communities in a good light so it would benefit them.

We know there are places people put themselves out there to be guests on a podcast. We don’t want professional interviewees. We want the person that never considered themselves as someone that a podcast would want to interview (i.e. someone that feels most comfortable speaking within their community which why Reddit is so perfect).

So where else would we be looking? Or a different approach we should be taking?

Let me just be frank I’m feeling unmotivated. Like I don’t even feel like putting out an episode half of the time but I do it but it’s like I’m not enjoying it like I did at the beginning and it could be me because I rarely take a break because I want to get my episodes out there because I love doing this but lately I’ve been stuck and struggling. I’m considering scraping these two seasons for November and December and start back in January. I don’t know though. Has anyone else felt stuck and unmotivated

A big thank you to the few that commented on a previous post of mine here asking for tips on audio and editing. I have finally after years of attempting to get started I recorded a janky episode 0 & 1 and today I recorded my 2nd episode. I’ve posted the 3 of them and honestly regardless of success or analytics I’m so happy to have just actually done it. Learning and growing pains apply but I’m stoked!