Podcast Planning For The Worst Day Of Your Life

Unfortunately, the confidence one gains with podcasting bestows neither invulnerability nor immortality. When you’re taken down—or perhaps out—do you have a good plan to inform your audience?  On a long enough timescale, one day, our audience will no longer be able to hear our voice for an extended period of time. Perhaps forever. Or, less dramatically, perhaps for an extended period of time. How much thought have you given to what you can do when the thing that you do you can do no more? 

You can do nothing. If podcasting is just a hobby for you like it is for the vast majority of podcasters, then you probably shouldn’t spend much effort planning this inevitability. 

Or you can do something, like designate another podcaster to step in and post an episode letting your audience know what’s happening. But who is that person? And how will they know when you need their help?

But something may not be enough, so maybe you need to do everything, with a detailed plan that updates your audience where they live. Not only via an emergency audio episode. An update for YouTube. Your website. Your newsletter. Your outside publications. Your social properties. 

That sounds… complicated. And likely describes many processes that are locked inside your head, not written down. No shared login credentials. No clear designation of who’s doing what. No real contingency plans for when things go bad.

I know I’m not well prepared for this inevitability. Are you? 

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