Why Most Founder Podcasts Stop Publishing After Episodes 6 to 10
I can usually tell within the first couple episodes whether a founder's show is going to make it to episode 20, and it's whether there's a system behind the show or whether the whole thing is running purely on personal enthusiasm, which is a terrible long-term fuel source.
Read the full article + examples: https://blog.tiananed.com/p/why-business-podcasts-fail
This episode picks up right where last one left off. If you already started a podcast, or you're about to, this is about the four specific, predictable ways that decision falls apart around episode six to ten: being the entire production pipeline yourself, guest dependency killing your schedule, no feedback loop making it feel like shouting into a void, and perfectionism quietly turning a Thursday release into something that never goes out at all. I walk through the small, concrete fix for each one, plus why the founders who make it past episode ten were rarely more disciplined than the ones who quit, they just had less riding on their own willpower.
If you're in that stretch right now feeling the pull to quietly let it slide, this one's for you before you decide the whole thing isn't working.
Timestamps:
00:00 Why I can tell in the first couple episodes if a show will make it to episode 20
02:22 What this episode assumes if you already started
02:48 Why "got too busy" is the incomplete answer
03:13 Reason 1: being the entire production pipeline yourself
04:23 Reason 2: guest dependency
05:44 Reason 3: no feedback loop
06:07 Reason 4: perfectionism
07:42 The actual fix, and why it has to exist before you need it
09:15 Small, specific fixes for each of the four
11:42 What the founders who made it past episode 10 actually had in common
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Founder Publishing is a podcast about podcast strategy, publishing strategy, podcast SEO, and building a long-form publishing system (podcast + blog + newsletter) that turns expertise into authority and qualified demand.
I’m Tiana Ned, a podcast strategist and producer. I make this show for founders and high-value experts, including consultants, SaaS founders, architects, interior designers, luxury realtors, event planners, wealth advisors, functional medicine practitioners, therapists, plastic surgeons and other specialist service businesses who want their podcast to do more than simply publish episodes.
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