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The Pod Stack
by Jesse of The Pod Stack
You're starting a podcast — or you're five episodes in and drowning in tool advice. Every YouTube video says buy twelve apps. This show helps you buy three. The Pod Stack is short, practical episodes about podcast tools for new hosts: hosting, remote recording, editing, cover art, show notes, and email. No hype. No coaching pitches. Hosted by Jesse of The Pod Stack. Affiliate disclosure: Some links in show notes may be affiliate links.
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Headphones for Podcasters: Closed-Back Basics and Why Monitoring Saves Remakes
You finish a "great" take. You listen back on phone speaker. There's a truck. There's a click. There's you saying "um" forty times next to an open window you somehow didn't notice live. Monitoring isn't audiophile flex. It's how you catch problems while you can still do a second take — before...
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Cheap Room Fixes Before You Buy Another Mic (Blankets, Closets, and Distance)
The internet will sell you a new microphone for an echoey kitchen. A four-hundred-dollar condenser in a hard box of a room still sounds like a hard box of a room. A decent USB mic in a softer space, closer to your mouth, often sounds "expensive" for twenty minutes of furniture moving. This is The...
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MP3 Export Settings That Won’t Get You Rejected (Bitrate, Sample Rate, Mono vs Stereo)
Somewhere in a forum, someone will tell you your podcast failed because you exported at the wrong bitrate. Sometimes settings matter. Often the real failure was never hitting publish — or uploading a huge WAV to a host with a tiny free allowance. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack....
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Loudness for Beginners: LUFS, Peaks, and “Why Does My Episode Sound Quiet?”
You publish an episode. You play it in the car next to a big interview show. Suddenly yours sounds like it's whispering from another room. Cue the shopping spiral: hardware compressors, paid "AI mastering," a YouTube comment that says you need a thousand-dollar chain. Usually you need a level…
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Chapter Markers: How to Add Them, Why Listeners Love Them, Which Hosts Make It Easy
Chapters turn a seven-minute episode into a map. Listeners skip to the part they need. You look organized. And on many hosts, chapters are a built-in field — not a reason to buy another platform. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: chapter markers — why they matter, how to…
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Episode Titles, Descriptions, and Explicit Flags: Metadata That Helps Discovery
Your audio can be excellent and still get skipped because the title sounds like a mystery novel and the description is three vague sentences about "diving deep." Metadata is free leverage. No new subscription required. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: titles…
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Directory Submissions Beyond Apple & Spotify: What Actually Matters in Year One
There is a particular kind of productive-looking panic where you submit your brand-new podcast to forty directories before you've published episode three. It feels like growth. Mostly it's spreadsheet cosplay. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: which directories actually...
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How to Migrate Podcast Hosts Without Breaking Your Apple & Spotify Listings
Migrating podcast hosts feels like changing banks while payroll is mid-run. Do it wrong and subscribers stall, episodes 404, and you live in support inboxes for a week. Do it right and listeners barely notice — and you stop paying for two hosts the moment the bridge is stable. This is The Pod...
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RSS Feeds Explained: The Boring Superpower Every New Host Must Understand
Apple Podcasts does not host your show. Neither does Spotify — not in the way beginners mean when they say "host." They *read a feed*: a plain, boring, powerful file your podcast host publishes. If you understand that file, migrations get less scary, "where's my episode?" bugs get diagnosable…
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Your Hosting Objections, Answered (Free Forever, Too Basic, Video Day One)
"I'll stay on free forever." "Buzzsprout is too basic." "I need video on day one or I'm invisible." If any of those lines have lived rent-free in your head this week, this episode is for you. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Short, honest tool picks for people starting a…
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Tool Mistakes That Waste New Podcasters' Money (And What to Do Instead)
Most new podcasters don't fail because they bought nothing. They fail because they bought the wrong three things in the wrong order — then burned the budget and the motivation. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: the expensive mistakes I see most often, and what to do…
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My Current Pod Stack (Full Tour) — What's Staying, What's Getting Cut
Enough theory. Here's the stack I'm actually using right now for The Pod Stack and related shows — what earns a seat, what got demoted, and what I'm watching before I pay another monthly bill. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Full tour, honest cuts. Resources & tools mentioned:...
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Podcast Hosting Compared: Buzzsprout vs Captivate vs Transistor
Hosting is boring. Hosting is also the one tool you can't skip. You can record on your phone. You can edit in a free app. You can design cover art in a browser tab. But without a host, your episode is a file on a hard drive — not a show people can find on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. This is The…
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Email for Podcasters: Why You Want a List Before You Chase Ads
Ads feel like the grown-up monetization path. An email list feels like homework. But if a platform changes the algorithm — or you take a month off — the list is still yours. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: why a simple listener list beats chasing ads too early, and what...
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How to Publish Episode One: Checklist from Raw Audio to Apple & Spotify
You've got a finished file. Now comes the part that feels bureaucratic: titles, artwork, categories, RSS, Apple, Spotify, and the quiet fear that you missed a checkbox and nobody will ever find you. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: a clear publish checklist from raw audio...
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Cover Art, Show Notes, and Audiograms: A Minimal Design Stack
Cover art, show notes, and a simple audiogram are the packaging layer — not the show itself. You can overbuild this stack into a full design studio, or you can ship a clean square image, a readable notes block, and one shareable clip. This is The Pod Stack. I'm Jesse of The Pod Stack. Today: a...
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Mic and Interface Buying Guide for First-Time Hosts (USB vs XLR)
The internet will tell you your microphone is the problem. Sometimes it is. Usually it isn't. Usually it's the room — hard walls, a fan, you sitting too far from the mic — dressed up as a gear emergency. And a four-hundred-dollar condenser won't fix an echoey kitchen. This is The Pod Stack. I'm...
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Descript vs Traditional Editors: When Text-Based Editing Is Worth It
There are two ways to edit a podcast. One looks like a music studio: waveforms, a timeline, a playhead you scrub back and forth until your eyes blur. The other looks like a Google Doc: your episode is text. You delete a sentence — and the audio goes with it. Neither is morally superior. One of…
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How to Record Remote Guests Without Sounding Like a Phone Call
You booked a great guest. They show up on time. The conversation is gold. You hit stop — and when you listen back, it sounds like… a phone call. Thin. Compressed. One side drops for half a second when the Wi-Fi hiccups. And you realize you recorded the cloud mix, not separate clean tracks. That…
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The $0 → Paid Podcast Stack: What to Buy First (and What Can Wait)
You're starting a podcast. And if you've spent any time online this week, you've probably been told to buy twelve tools before you record a single word. A host. A remote studio. An AI editor. A design suite. A newsletter platform. Maybe a mixer. This episode cuts that list down to what to buy…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
You're starting a podcast — or you're five episodes in and drowning in tool advice. Every YouTube video says buy twelve apps. This show helps you buy three.
The Pod Stack is short, practical episodes about podcast tools for new hosts: hosting, remote recording, editing, cover art, show notes, and email. No hype. No coaching pitches. Hosted by Jesse of The Pod Stack.
Affiliate disclosure: Some links in show notes may be affiliate links.
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