What’s your favourite podcast? Are you a true crime addict or do you relax to some chat with your favourite influencer? Do you have something to say? Or a community that needs a voice?

Podcasts are popular for a reason: they’re convenient, they’re accessible, and there is seemingly limitless scope for expressing yourself–and finding that niche audience that wants to hear what you have to say! But if you want to make a podcast, where do you start? And perhaps more importantly, how do you keep going? What may not always be obvious is the amount of effort needed to sustain podcasts, from scripting, creating a narrative (even nonfiction can have a narrative), to recording, producing, mixing, and marketing. How do you avoid podfade (which is the slow death of your podcast due to burnout)? How can you podcast in a way that’s sustainable and healthy?