How to create a successful podcast using AI in 7 steps. My lean podcast production stack: 📌 Idea generation & copywriting → Claude (@Claude) 📌 Recording & editing → Descript (@descriptapp makes it so easy to text edit) 📌 Sound engineering → Upwork (Keith Giordano delivered incredible results and love communicating via @Upwork) 📌 Visual branding → Canva (after Wyeth Hansen's creative direction, then I go to @Canva) 📌 Hosting & distribution → Acast 📌 Daily coaching & task management → Microsoft Copilot (honestly, Copiloy is the best coach) 📌 Marketing amplification → @LinkedIn newsletters

How did I go from an idea about having a podcast to actually having one that's ranking in the career section of Apple Podcasts? Especially when I have so much going on, it's all about using the tools. I had my idea down, I wrote it down, I dictated some of it, and I threw it into Claude. That helped me with some brainstorming, some fine-tuning, you know, sometimes you just need some copywriter help. Claude also helped me draft the copy for outreach emails, questions for the guests that I would tweak and make my own, and some of the final descriptions that end up in the actual podcast. Two, I need to actually make the podcast. I use Descript. I'm obsessed. It's really easy to record on there. You can throw in a recording, but it's better to record in it. And it makes it so easy to edit. You're not editing by watching, you're editing via text, so you can just cross out things that are not good. You can copy and paste things, and it just repeats it. You can fix errors with the AI voice clone. You can make clips really quickly by highlighting and boom. What else can you do in there? You can remove word gaps, repeated words. You can fix sound quality. It's incredible. Then I needed to get the sound right, and I tried to do it on my own, but I couldn't quite find it, so I went to Upwork. Found an amazing sound editor. His name is Keith Giordano. Incredible. We picked the perfect sounds because I knew how I wanted it to sound in the ear, and he works in Descript with me, so you can add in team members. And once I've done my initial edit with the text, he then tightens it up. Then I need to market it. I need assets. I asked my friend KP, and she connected me with her friend, Wyatt Hansen, who has a most amazing creative. Check him out, and this is what we produced, and the whole idea, and I'll do a separate video, was to create an old-school self-help vibe, but also as a textbook since the podcast is a textbook, and he made a bunch of assets, but some that I want to create on the go. I got a Canva. Love me some Canva. I can crank stuff out, move, change, create a brand kit really easily with the colors that Wyatt gave me, and then it was time to actually host the podcast. I use Acast. I'm obsessed with Acast. It's really easy. It takes the RSS feed and puts the podcast everywhere, and then this is like one of my secrets. There's so much that goes into launching a podcast. I need a daily kind of motivation or almost like a coach to help me figure out what tasks to do when and move it forward, and I found that Copilot, Microsoft's Copilot, is incredible. I'll be like, this is what I need to do today. This is all that's happening. What should I focus on in order to get this done? And it'll be like, okay, this is how we need to structure the day. Boom, boom, boom. It's not just giving you the output. It almost has like a true kind of coach, friend, buddy energy to it, like an actual Copilot that I love. It's like an executive assistant, and then I post it, and then we go live, and one of my secret hacks is LinkedIn newsletters. Do the newsletter. When you create it, it goes out to all your followers, but it allows you to kind of combine your thoughts together and short-form video on LinkedIn. That's doing really well these days, so do that. That's how I did it. Listen to the show. It's really good.