Episode 0 - Introduction - Making Podcast Production Easy and Clear

This pilot episode of the Wayfare Recording Podcast introduces the world of podcasting and the agency's podcast strategy workbook. The show aims to provide a firsthand look at what a podcast can look and sound like, emphasizing the importance of consistency and presentation. The Wayfare Recording Company is a team of technicians and producers who offer post-production services for podcasts. They aim to simplify podcast production for new and veteran podcasters.

Takeaways

• Podcasting is a popular medium that can be easily accessible and professional with minimal equipment.
• Consistency in scheduling and presentation is key for podcast success.
• The Wayfare Recording Company offers post-production services to simplify podcast production.
• The agency's podcast strategy workbook guides creating and improving podcasts.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to Podcasting and the Workbook
02:27 - The Importance of Consistency in Podcasting
05:49 - The Wayfare Recording Company: Post-Production Services
08:39 - Making Podcast Production Easy and Clear

Resources

• Download the Wayfare Podcast Strategy Workbook
• Need help with your podcast? CLICK HERE
• Need help starting your podcast? CLICK HERE

Versions

• Check out our video version of the podcast.
• Check out our audio version of the podcast.

Acknowledgments
A big thank you to:

• Kath - Creating the podcast artwork (You can find more of her work here)
• Anna - Wayfare's Admin Assist.
• Matt - Graphics creation for the show
• Dan - Post-production work

For any additional questions, please reach out through this link.

Thank you for listening!

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Podcasting and the Workbook
• 2:27 The Importance of Consistency in Podcasting
• 5:49 Wayfare Recording Company: Post-Production Services
• 8:39 Making Podcast Production Easy and Clear

Transcript

Jon (00:01.698)
Hello and welcome to a new episode of the Wayfair recording podcast. This is the first one of, I'm not too sure how many we'll be doing. I'm gonna guess probably about 11 or 12, but nonetheless, this is the pilot episode. If you are checking this out specifically,

as opposed to the entire show, you'll be finding this on only YouTube and Apple podcasts, Spotify, Amazon music, pocket casts, I believe. but not on the website. This podcast is specifically designed for, to introduce whomever may find the show, the world of podcasting, showing them.

what is a podcast, how to make a podcast. What is the philosophy of a podcast, I suppose. but basically I guess to fully encompass that into one item, we're going to be working through the, agency's workbook, wayfare recording companies, podcast strategy workbook.

And that's basically where you'll find all these ideas, concepts and notions. And you'll find it on our website, whether if you, fill out one of our forms to talk with us, by doing that, you'll get to a thank you page and it'll have like a, it'll have like our CV, our, podcast, our workbook.

It's just a couple of goodies that you'll get, but yeah, basically the video, this video series, this podcast series, this audio series is really to kind of guide you through it step by step. in case you have any questions in case you want to kind of get some FaceTime with us, as a matter of, as, as a matter of speak as a matter of, In a sense, I guess, since, know, this isn't FaceTime, I'm not actually responding to you, but you're listening to me. You're watching me.

Jon (02:27.49)
And yeah, this episode specifically is more not to go through that though, but kind of just to get an idea of who, the agency is, who I am, who you're listening to. What, why are we even checking out the show and what's the goal of the show outside of the workbook? Well, the goal of the show is the workbook, but the goal of the

show is also to kind of get you a sense of really like a, like a firsthand look as to what a podcast could look like and listen like. And I'm sure you kind of already know that if you're a fan of a podcast, if you're just thinking about a podcast, you know what a podcast is and what it can look like. But really I find that when I, when I find that I'm working with people, I get the, I get the sense that they think that they need to do everything that

those, those, big podcaster, like they need to get the really expensive equipment. They really need to get the really expensive studio set up. They really need to just get it all right the first time. And, and that certainly is helpful for your, credibility for your, for your presentation. mean, you want to look really

You know, first impressions and consistent impressions are really important for sure. But I mean, it really doesn't take too much to get a podcast to look even remotely. Good looking sound looking, and professional all at the same time. So I guess all of that to say is if you're watching this and you're listening to this, like you'll hear that the audio quality is.

Good, the video quality is good. The way that I'm presenting it, if you're watching it, I'm kind of realizing right now as I'm doing this, I'm not really making eye contact with the camera. But I mean, as you're listening through this and you're watching through this, you'll notice I may not be always in the same place and you might hear my dog in the background.

Jon (04:41.492)
Sleeping literally right before I hit this hit the record button on this. He was definitely Sleep talking he was definitely sleeping. That's for sure I don't know. Maybe I woke him up while I was hitting record on this but nonetheless like it really doesn't it really does not take a lot but what it does take is Consistency in your scheduling it takes consistency in your presentation and it really

Consistency is really the thing that I really kind of push through when I'm talking with potential clients.

So with that said, kind of more onto who we are, what we're about way for recording company on the whole. And then you can be on your way listening to the next episode. I say that meaning I really want these episodes to be short digestible into the point and help you just start working through that workbook. So, who we are. we, we are a team of technicians, people who have helped with the post -production.

who help with the editing, the content editing, the mixing, the mastering, making sure that everything you're saying is nice, consistent and clean. two really cool guys are on the team right now that might date this, you know, okay. If you watch this like five years from now and now we have like, I don't know, hopefully way more than two, but two really awesome guys. I'm sure one of them is working on this. Dan, Matt. Hello.

And they do video production and audio production. that one of them are definitely going to be working on this particular episode, doing the whole graphics, doing the whole music. like I said, this is going to be a pretty low five, but I still consistently want to make it look cool because that's how I want it to look. and then we also have an awesome assistant, Anna, she's great and myself. So.

Jon (06:50.25)
I've been doing this names, John, been doing this for about at the time of this recording eight years now, nine years, I think one of those two for quite a while. I really wanted to get this, I really wanted to get into the music production scene and I really started to see a need in podcasting. when I started.

Podcasting was huge. Joe Rogan was really starting to get pretty big. I don't believe he was signed to Spotify quite yet at that point. I really, I don't follow him personally too much. I like to listen to more people like Rich Roll. He's my current favorite right now. And yeah, I found my first client.

Really realized that there was something here in the podcasting world and I just wanted to pursue it. and yeah, really our, our big thing is to make sure that, know, anyone, new veteran to the podcasting scene that like they see the production of podcasting as consistently, coherently and easy as possible. Anyone on our roster of clients, if you ask them like, you know, is this, is this team legit? would hope.

And I would really like to say, or think that they, would say that we make things super easy and clear for them. yeah, we're a full, full team of, video and audio editors to publishing transcription and consulting, which is why you're here. so yeah, with that being said, we are getting pretty close to the.

10 minute mark. don't know, maybe some future episodes will be super longer than that. And I won't really be paying attention. I am right now because this is my first recording of the series. I'm very mindful of it. but with that being said, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out. if you want to get the book and download it, and really start to dive in with us, whether it's following along, go through the entire book first and see what we have to say.

Jon (09:09.806)
you can find the link to the workbook in the, description and the show notes associated with this episode. if your video, if you're watching this on video, it'll be in the description below the video. And if you're watching, sorry, not watching, if you're listening to this on Apple podcasts and Spotify, you'll find this in the show notes. and yeah, with that being said, I will see you in the next.

Episode. See you guys.