Takeaways

• Only 15% of podcasts on Apple Podcasts have released an episode in the last 90 days, which means consistency alone puts you ahead of the competition.
• Your lived experience is completely unique, and no one else has had your exact journey, your perspective, or your voice, which makes your podcast irreplaceable even in a crowded niche.
• Your podcast is your owned marketing platform. Guest appearances are great, but they can't replace the audience you build when you show up consistently on your own show.

In this episode, Abbey Graves breaks down the three most common arguments she hears from aspiring podcasters who are talking themselves out of getting started, and she dismantles every single one.

It starts with a number that should stop you in your tracks: of the roughly 4.5 million podcasts inde ...