The most effective way to grow a podcast organically is to feature guests because it leverages their audiences and improves the quality of the conversation.

“In order to grow this podcast I had to find a way to reach new audiences and to pull them in so I opened up this podcast to other entrepreneurs to successful people to the guests you've seen to come here and share their diary”

Tom Segura believes that being a podcaster is a legitimate professional endeavor.

“Entrepreneur, actor, producer, podcaster.”

Theo Von believes that asking questions out of genuine curiosity is a core purpose of his podcast.

“I don't want to grill them. I want to know what they think. And then I'll bring somebody else who thinks something different and I'll ask him that.”

Kevin Clancy agrees that KFC Radio belongs in the top 100 most influential podcasts list because of its early influence in the medium.

“I don't even think top 100 is like a question like what top do you think it should be in because I feel like top 100 that's so many podcasts. It's definitely top 100.”

Talking through negative life experiences in public or on podcasts is not a helpful strategy for men.

“but like talking through it is not helpful. Do you have a solution that I can do that now? Give me”

Shane Gillis enjoys recording podcasts with a partner because it provides someone to interact with, making the process more enjoyable than doing it alone.

“doing it with a buddy is so fun dude because you have like there's just somebody to talk to like sometimes I do them by myself and I'm like I wish there was somebody else here you know”

Luis J Gomez finds podcasting to be a valuable medium for keeping listeners engaged and preventing them from feeling alone.

“podcasting's nice podcasting [ __ ] rules you're just talking you're just trying to compete with someone's internal monologue at work as long as you can beat someone in their head being like [ __ ] this sucks you got a killer podcast on your head we're keeping people alive yeah yes”

Interviewing teammates is a beneficial activity that improves connection and knowledge about team members.

“I really enjoyed it I think there's things that we talked about in that podcast where I've been Jalen's teammate for like three years now and uh you know you learned something new about your teammate right you connect with them a little bit more and you know I think that it's awesome I hope that we ”

Podcasting provides a platform for honest reflection on personal experiences rather than just delivering easy, rehearsed quotes.

“Quotes are easy when you sit on a bus. We did the same weight all workout. That's all I know.”

Zach views podcasting as a way to maintain friendships by being forced to hang out on a regular basis.

“I kind of see it as like I get to see you know the people I like to hang out with anyway once a week no matter what so that's pretty nice we get to catch up on each other force a friendship”

Khalyla Kuhn suggests that sharing too much of a relationship publicly on a podcast can diminish its intimacy and turn it into public consumption.

“when you open that door and everything just flows out to the world but the candle still burning yeah but it the heat's dissipating and the lights dissipating and it's it's not your little warm little burning ember anymore and it's it's again I'm not saying it's bad to share it to the world but you'r”

Stephanie believes that podcasts about real crime should be respectful, especially when discussing victims who have left behind grieving families.

“try to be sensitive because like Derek said, these people that died, they they have families who are still alive and and probably this is the worst thing that's ever happened to them.”

He is strongly opposed to the practice of using free internships or apprenticeships for his podcast work.

“I would not consider hiring an apprentice for free. I'm I'm very against the idea of free work and internships and stuff like that. I don't do it on any of my podcasts.”

Ari Shaffir believes that the podcasting medium rewards honesty, yet it also presents dangers regarding the public nature of sharing personal stories and secrets.

“it's rewarding honesty. Sort of. >> It definitely is. But it's also dangerous as [ __ ] Like especially if you're me like like I I always think I have like I I'm always very cognizant of I don't know maybe I'm cognizant of it I'm more cognizant than I used to be of anything >> saying secrets to me >”

Creators should be able to share their personal trauma and experiences as a way to help others, regardless of external criticism.

“I can't you know go on my podcast and help people through abusive relationships like God forbid at least I actually one of us had the experience the actual legitimate experience”

Podcast hosts should generally handle their disagreements using words rather than resorting to violence.

“I like it when people though, like if they do get into disagreements over over podcast and stuff, they can handle it with words.”

He recommends that podcast hosts should stay out of the comment sections to avoid negative interactions.

“Stay out the comments, bro.”

He advises the other hosts to keep their podcast conversations general so that no one feels attacked and to improve the quality of their content.

“I just think my only dropping though. Y'all have beautiful, beautiful content. And I ain't just saying it cuz that cuz I [ __ ] with y'all. I'm just saying I think y'all should keep all conversations in general so nobody feels attacked.”

He believes the guests on his other show are physically dangerous or capable of violence.

“one of them murders people though one I'm not going to tell you which one but one of them [ __ ] K it's actually tough TOS up”

Podcasters should prioritize decency and sincerity when addressing audience concerns rather than using the medium for pity parties.

“Just handle everything with decency or sincerity, you know ? Hey, hey, hey.”