Takeaways

• You do not need an established audience or 10,000 listeners to start a podcast. Nearly every successful creator, from Amy Poehler to Taylor Swift, started with an audience of almost no one and built from there.
• Audiences are far more silent than you realize. Most people who consume your content will never like, comment, or share it, but that does not mean they are not listening.
• A podcast is evergreen. With the right SEO, titles, and show notes in place, episodes keep finding new listeners for months or years after you hit publish, even if you stop making new ones.

In this episode, Abbey Graves tackles one of the most common fears she hears from beginner podcasters: what if I do all this work and no one actually listens? Abbey has helped launch dozens of podcasts around the world, and she ha ...