Earlier this year, I set out to answer a simple question: can you reasonably record a podcast from your phone? As someone obsessed with gear and high-quality production, I assumed the answer would be no.

But after some experimentation, I discovered that not only is it possible, but it can also be a game-changer for podcasters who want to create raw, behind-the-scenes content.

Here’s how I streamlined the process into a low-effort workflow anyone can replicate.

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“Your book changed my life.” I was at a WordPress conference in 2014, about a year after my first “real, live, on the bookshelves” book, Responsive Design with WordPress, came out, when an attendee came up to me and told me this. I had never spoken to them — in-fact, they weren’t even from the…

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I know we’re all looking for that ONE thing that’s gonna grow our podcast. I know this because when I first started in this industry, I was searching for it too. Far and wide. I asked everyone. I thought that if I asked the question the right way, the answer would be revealed to me. But with time, I came to understand that there’s no one thing. There’s many things. And we need to try all of them — constantly — in order to figure out which levers we should continue pulling to eventually find growth.

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You may or may not be familiar with British technology journalist Ian Betteridge, and his law of headlines. If you’re not, Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states, very simply: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word ‘no.’ The idea is that if the writer had enough evidence to make…

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“The drums are the easiest instrument to play.” A friend in high school said that to me—a drummer—to my face! “Why do you say that?” I asked, trying not to lose my cool. “All you do is hit drums.” To someone who’s never sat down at a drum set and actually tried to sound good,…

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You can’t make people want what they don’t already want. Accept it, or accept a long, hard, frustrating future of marketing your show.

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I’ve been using the Shure SM7B as my main mic for the better part of a decade now, and I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon. However, when I bought that mic, there wasn’t the dearth of affordable, purpose-built podcasting mics there are now. And while I love the SM7B, I’m not ready to recommend…

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As I look towards the 2025 baseball season (after a crushing end for my Yankees in 2024), I find myself thinking about how it relates to publishing my podcast. Like many things in life, both have a number of moving parts and contexts in which you want to change your approach. For example, in baseball,…

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Remember when celebrities used to endorse everything? It worked for a while (hello, Air Jordans gathering dust in your closet). But then came the era of the Social Media Influencer. We followed people like @alexis.belbel because they felt relatable (and, in my case, they were 5’1 and knew where to buy pants that didn’t need…

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I have a draft in Ulysses that’s at least 18 months old. Want to know how I know? Here’s the intro: I have changed that at least 3 times: Usually, I’m great at writing — I wouldn’t have committed to writing at least 14 articles, and publishing 24, in the month of December if I…

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