So, a friend of mine just started a podcast, I've been a co host on all the episodes of the podcast till date, its been fun and pretty interesting. At first when she thought about it and asked me to be a co host, I was a bit reluctant as I thought it was going to be an additional stress to the different kind of stresses an average young Nigerian youth faces each day. After so much pestering and breathing down my neck , gradually taking away my ability to engage in the act of respiring effectively, I gave in and agreed to
We recorded the first episode on the 23rd of February 2021. What I feared came staring at me in the face, we had about 5 different topics we had written down to discuss before initially deciding to start recording, and boom after about 20 minutes of recording, we both knew deep down in our minds that what we were doing/talking and recording was complete rubbish and nonsense lol.. we weren't connecting, we were not even using the right words, Lexicons or structures, and we were obviously struggling to pass any meaningful message.
Moving forward, we decide to dump the first topic and move on to another maybe we would make sense. However after about 10 minutes, we knew we towed the same route as the first topic, absolute nonsense!., then we moved on to the next topic and yet again it was not what we wanted we were doing. At that point I gave up, it was already becoming stressful for me and the stress I had already envisaged was here tickling me in the spine (imagine deciding to recording a podcast of 25/30 minutes and we had spent about an hour already with no reasonable content, well at least nothing that we can be proud of)
I went out, grabbed a cold drink and a snack, after gulping down the drink, it was like my nerves needed something that refreshing, I'm sure they were obviously screaming out loud "THANK YOU SAMMY". Well to cut the long story short, the spirit of Moses reincarnated, just like he was shown the 10 commandments, idk how, I just got a revelation of a perfect topic. Grabbed my pen, scribbled down some words on the paper and I told Ayinke, "hey babe, this is divine, let's work on this"
It was indeed divine, from the very first word, up till she called my attention that we had recorded for about 49 minute (remember I said the target was 25/30 minutes) everything we said made so much Sense, it was perfect and we were definitely passing the rightest of messages. I wanted the recording to continue as I still had more in me to pour out, but she insisted we stopped it at that point (can't blame her though, the plan was 30). We rounded off, added some garnishes and voila, the first episode was ready
With so much joy in my heart, I was very proud of myself, we released the first episode and it was very much welcomed, nice reviews flying around, people gave lot of kudos(es) and almost everyone thought it was brilliant. Yes, I was indeed proud too, although I still feel it could be better and we weren't 100% yet.
At the end of the day, what I thought was gonna be extra stress and trouble turns out to be fun, excitement and adventure. With each passing episode we record, the feeling of accomplishment, the reviews and the lifes we've touched with our messages makes all the stress worth it. This podcast has kind of become my means of unstressing, unwinding and shutting my ears to all the craziness happening in the world
Podcasting can be fun and beautiful, its very easy too, you actually do not need heavy equipments to get the best audio quality (thanks to technology). Just like it has helped mentally and emotionally, it can help you too. You can get yourself heard by the world, touch lifes and pass your own very important message to the world, someone out there is waiting to hear you, of course you might never know. How about you try it and see
I have decided to teach someone out there how to start their own podcast and get it published to the world, therefore my next couple of posts is going to be about everything you need to know about setting up your own Podcast. I hope it helps.
In the mean time, I have chosen to attach the link to one of the Episodes of out Podcast, click on the link, listen, share and I'm looking forward to entertaining your thoughts
LINK TO LISTEN TO THE SKINNIES PODCAST
Gracias
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