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The Podcaster's Guide to a Visible Voice
by Mary Chan, Organized Sound Productions, Made in Canada
How do you, as a podcaster, make an emotional connection with your listeners to create a place where they feel like they belong?This podcast about how to podcast for underrepresented podcasters doing good in the world, who want to build a community of belonging. You'll discover what it takes to be a powerful podcaster and support your listeners to feel like they belong. Go on your podcasting journey to reclaim and redefine what a successful podcast means to you, by thriving on your own terms, with Mary Chan as your host.As a Voice-Over Artist and former radio producer for almost 20 years, she'll share with you what she's learned from creating, recording, and editing, hundreds of thousands of voices; from newbie clients who had to read their very first script to seasoned professionals voicing the very same commercials you hear on the radio and TV. They all have one thing in common with you – they made an emotional connection to a listener, not by the words they use, but by how they us
Episodes
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When Do I Stop? Existential Questions for the Hobby Podcaster - EP 118
How do I figure out if my show is still working for me? Summer is a great time to take a break and reflect on your podcast so far. When that reflection leads to questioning whether it's time to stop producing your show or go on hiatus, a lot of tough queries and existential dread can surface. In...
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How Your Podcast Can Help Dismantle the "Minority" Narrative with Jerry Won - EP 117
Why is it so important for Asian Americans to keep loudly sharing their stories? Jerry Won launched Dear Asian Americans, an interview-style podcast, in 2020. He used this growing permissions-free platform to highlight the often overlooked and "unmarketable" stories of Americans from a vast range...
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Filler Words: Authentically Human or Unprofessional? - EP 116
How do you decide which um's and er's to keep and which to cut? You probably grew up hearing that too many "um"s and "like"s when you speak means you aren't educated or eloquent enough. The truth is, these filler words have an important job to do in our speech and conversation: they contribute to...
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What Publishing 2000+ Episodes Will Teach You with Dave Campbell - EP 115
What keeps you podcasting in the margins of your days? For Dave Campbell, the answer to this question is, "having nine regular shows, including one that puts out daily episodes." As a podcaster, you probably have other responsibilities—a full-time job, kids, the continuous task list of being an...
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Headphones are Non-Negotiable in Podcasting - EP 114
How important is it, really, to wear headphones when you record your show? These days, people immediately associate a person with a mic and headphones with podcasting. And yet, some hosts still push back against the idea—after all, their laptop speakers work just fine for video chats, right? If...
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Stop Broadening Your Podcast: How Super-Niche Podcasts Win with Susan Thompson - EP 113
What happens when your podcast topic gets super specific? The temptation to broaden your podcast subject matter, to capture a wide range of both guests and listeners, is understandable. But often, something magical happens when you narrow down your focus to the super-specific sub-sub-topic you're...
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Why Video is More Challenging for Podcasts - EP 112
As a woman, should you consider adding video to your show? Video podcasting is on the rise. The trend is being driven by huge celebrity players and, most recently, Apple Podcasts, who released HLS video support in late March 2026. And while there are benefits to this evolution, there's also a lot...
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Priority Production Tasks for the Solo Podcaster with Emma Krebs - EP 111
How many different hats do you wear as host and producer of your own podcast? If you actually wrote out everything you do for your podcast besides speaking into the microphone, the list would be extensive. Podcasters often get asked what it means to be a podcast producer. As Emma Krebs explains,...
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Start Strong with a Purposeful Intro - EP 110
How do you draw in your listener, right from the very beginning? Don't lose your listener before you even have them. An overly lengthy, unintentional, or boring introduction at the top of an episode is a great way to do just that. Much like in radio and newspaper, the lede is your opportunity to...
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How to Create Transcripts That Benefit Accessibility and SEO with Jess Schmidt - EP 109
How are you creating impactful transcripts for your show? You've probably seen a bad podcast transcript. Maybe the creator was lazy in their transcription, maybe the AI was flummoxed by the proper nouns, punctuation, or audio labels—whatever the reason, such sub-par writing begs the question: is...
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Pause, Plan, Publish: A Podcaster's Blueprint for Slowing Down - EP 108
How do you make your podcasting hours really count? You know the feeling—you plan to sit down and record your episode, and before you know it, that day has completely gotten away from you. There's a plan to make, research to conduct, and stretch breaks to squeeze in. It usually takes longer than...
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Reduce Impostor Syndrome By Listening Back to Your Voice - EP 107
When's the last time you replayed your old episodes and really listened? It's the end of another year of podcasting, and that means looking back on how far you've come and planning the next steps. Whether you're taking some time off for the holiday or plugging away between the eggnog and the…
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Accessibility and Ethics in Podcasting with Meg Wilcox - EP 106
What assumptions are holding you back from creating a more accessible show? If you knew more about your listener's accessibility needs, how would that change your show? Podcasting borrows so much of its policy and practice from more traditional forms of media, and while that's given us a great...
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Simplify Your Podcast Production with a Show Map - EP 105
How can a solid structure make your podcast process easier? Your podcast starts with a great idea—a topic that fires you up, that you can passionately go on about at length. That's a great place to begin a show, but without some structure, producing episode after episode can become tedious and...
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The Perks of Being (or Having) a Co-Host with Darren Dukes and Jamie Weiss - EP 104
How do you find the perfect podcast host to share airtime with? If a podcast is your passion project but you don't have a technical background, an audio-savvy partner could help make your dream a reality. That's what Darren Dukes, a Vancouver Island physiotherapist and running enthusiast,...
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How to Handle Listener Feedback - EP 103
What's the worst piece of feedback you've received about your podcast? We all have one—that cringe-inducing review or comment that fires up our impostor syndrome. The one that makes us question our hosting skills, our topic selection, and our whole show. And yet, feedback, even the negative kind,...
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How to Keep Fear From Overpowering Your Voice with Kat Stewart and Kevin Ribble - EP 102
What are you afraid of when you're recording your podcast? Training your voice doesn't start with what comes out of your mouth—it starts with what's going on in your head. Mary learned this 25 years ago from her radio school instructors, Kat Stewart and Kevin Ribble. In this episode, her former...
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Voice Prep for a Personality-Driven Podcast That Pops - EP 101
How do you make your personality shine through as soon as you hit record? The podcast world is always evolving—that's what happens when a baby industry grows up! For better or worse, audio-first media is changing constantly, and the latest shift involves Amazon's decision to shut down the Wondery...
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Finding Joy in the Serious Work of Podcasting - EP 100
How can reflecting on your podcast journey spark delight in your success? The process of podcasting is serious business. You have to be laser-focused on all the pieces of the spiral—from brainstorming topics to marketing the published episode to starting the next one—and sometimes the subject...
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Canadian Identity in the Indie Podcasting Ecosystem with Kattie Laur - EP 99
What differentiates Canadian podcasters from their American counterparts, eh? If you think about the first podcast that comes to mind, there's a pretty good chance it's American. That's because podcasting tends to feel—and in many ways actually is—pretty U.S.-centric. But that certainly doesn't...
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Improve Your Interviews With Open-Ended Questions - EP 98
What kinds of questions do you ask your podcast guests? The most engaging podcast episodes—the ones that make for the best conversations and the best listening—are the ones that contain great stories. As the host, you're always aiming to draw all those details and deep disclosures from your…
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Embrace Curiosity to Grow a Vibrant Podcast Community with Chidinma Azubuike - EP 97
How can curiosity and commitment to your listener drive your show's growth? From guest selection to generating advertising revenue, the process of running your own podcast is always challenging and fascinating, and it often calls on you to take big chances. That's exactly what Chidinma Azubuike...
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Podcast on Pause? How To Restart or Reimagine Your Show - EP 96
What does coming back strong from a podcast hiatus look like? In the day-to-day chaos of our lives—balancing work, family, personal time, household upkeep, etc, etc—it's perfectly understandable if it feels like a bit much to plan, record, publish, and market a podcast on top of that. If you're...
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Generative AI: Understanding the Future of Podcasting with Amanda Cupido - EP 95
How are you using or avoiding artificial intelligence in your podcast? AI is a shiny new offering with loads of possibilities, but a lot of people are also understandably threatened by its wide-reaching and ever-growing abilities. On today's episode, Mary connects with Amanda Cupido, an adjunct...
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Be More Choosy About Your Podcast Guests - EP 94
How can you take your guest episodes beyond a basic Q&A? When you think of a podcast, what comes to mind? If "a mic and two people talking" is your first thought, you're in good company, but in this episode, Mary encourages you to expand that definition. Your show is about so much more than the...
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Get Serious About Being a Podcast Guest with Julie Fry - EP 93
What's the right way to go about being a guest on other podcasts? When's the last time you went on another show as a guest? As a podcast host, it's easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day requirements of running a podcast. After all, you're expected to find guests, record episodes, edit…
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Add Video To Your Podcast with Intention - EP 92
Video has taken podcasting by storm, but how do you know if it's right for your show? As a podcaster, how are you interacting with and utilizing video? More and more, we're hearing about creators tacking on this visual element, and platforms like YouTube and Spotify are eagerly showcasing all the...
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Podcast Marketing Without Social Media with Amanda Laird - EP 91
How do you know if social media is really worth it? Social media inundates almost every aspect of our lives these days, from communicating with friends to deciding what to listen to, watch, or buy—all the way down the line to actually listening to, watching, and buying it. So, of course, many...
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Your Podcast As Your Own Media Platform - EP 90
What shifts in podcasting have you noticed in the last few months? In the first episode of 2025, Mary dives right into the changes we've seen in podcasting just since last fall. More and more hosts are leaning into partisan politics and using their shows to share their thoughts and concerns with…
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Your Podcasting Questions Answered and a Year End Break - EP 89
How are your values guiding your voice, schedule, and future plans for your show? The holiday season is upon us, and that makes this the final 2024 episode of The Podcaster's Guide to the Visible Voice! Throughout the year, Mary fields tons of questions about all things recording, speaking, and...
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Accessibility in Podcasting for Hard-of-Hearing Listeners with Kellina Powell - EP 88
How can you make your podcast more accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing? It goes without saying that we don't know what we don't know. When it comes to how people with auditory differences—such as those who are deaf and hard of hearing—interact with our podcasts, the only way to...
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Find Podcast Success While Doing Less - EP 87
What could doing less look like for your podcast? Life is chaos these days. The hours often seem to fill up instantly with all the things on your plate, so don't feel bad if publishing podcast episodes start to slide to the bottom of your to-do list. Stumbling on the podcasting flow is totally...
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Warm Up to a Healthier, More Confident Voice with Nic Redman - EP 86
What can you do to keep your voice in tip-top shape? As podcasters, we use our voices a lot. Chances are, that essential instrument of yours has temporarily abandoned you in the past. Whether the symptom stems from getting sick or from overuse, waking up to croaks, rasps, or silence is an awful...
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Voice Health: Treat Your Podcasting Instrument With Care - EP 85
How much do you prioritize your vocal health? Most of us, even if we work in the voice acting, podcasting, or broadcast industries, don't think too much about our voices. But remember: if you don't have a voice, you don't have a podcast! In this episode, Mary breaks down what we can all do to…
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Simplify Your Workflow to Keep Your Podcasting Passion Alive with Craig Constantine - EP 84
How do conversation skills make your podcast process more enjoyable? Even if we're lucky enough to "do what we love," work tends to have tedious aspects we don't like. Craig Constantine is a passion podcaster who, through the creation of thousands of episodes and rigorous reflection, has built a...
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Podcast Manners Matter: Setting Guest Expectations - EP 83
How do you create clear and open communication with your podcast guest? Every podcast—and every episode, for that matter—has a lot of moving parts. As podcast hosts, we know that in order to stay organized, we need systems in place. But those systems should extend to more than your recording and...
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How to Audit Your Podcast Effectively - EP 82
How do you make sure your show evolves along with your listener? As an independent podcast creator, chances are you wear a lot of hats. You're the host, of course, as well as the producer, the audio editor, the marketer, the designer… When you're so focused on doing all the things for your show…
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Start a Ripple Effect of Continuous Learning with Beth Cougler Blom - EP 81
How can activating your beginner's mind help you facilitate an authentic podcast experience? For many podcast hosts, the draw of creating a show is two-fold: we are eager to engage with and educate our listeners on topics we're passionate about, and we look forward to the personal learning and...
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Level Up Your Listening Skills to Improve Your Podcast - EP 80
How has being a podcaster changed how you listen? There are plenty of ways AI can make podcasters' lives easier, but there's one human ability Mary firmly believes AI will never be able to replicate (or at least not for a very long time): true listening. We humans have the incredible potential to...
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Making Accessibility Possible in Podcasting with Joel McKinnon - EP 79
How can we make sure your podcast is accessible to everyone? Everyone in the podcasting world is talking about accessibility these days, as more and more platforms release improved transcription services aimed at making the process easier for creators and meeting growing expectations around...
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Podcast Transcripts and the Future of Accessible Audio - EP 78
How can transcripts positively impact your podcast? Podcasts have always had an audio-first following, but as-is, audio isn't accessible for everyone. In the wake of Apple Podcasts' announcement to begin including transcripts with their latest update, it seems likely other platforms will begin to...
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Why We Need To Highlight Our Humanity In Podcasting with Erin Moon – Episode 77
How do you bring your humanity to your podcast? Sharing your voice isn't always easy. Factor in the painstaking writing of your script or copy, all those edits and revisions, and some nerves about speaking into the mic, and even the most heartfelt story can wind up either flat and unemotional or...
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Audiobook Inspiration to Master Your Microphone - EP 76
What's the connection between audiobooks and podcasts? You already know the right tone and voice is essential for building a connection with your listeners. It just makes sense, then, that you can turn to different kinds of audio media for inspiration when looking to further hone your skills…
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Writing For Your Podcast with Shannon Kirk - EP 75
How do you create the written content for your podcast? You've probably heard actors say that they can't bring themselves to watch their own films. As a podcast host, maybe you relate to the cringe factor that comes from listening to your episodes after you've recorded them, but if you've decided...
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Better Writing For Podcasting: Takeaways From Radio School - EP 74
How do you write for your podcast when you're "not a writer"? A lot of podcast hosts are drawn to the audio medium because they have always felt they can express themselves better and more easily through speaking than through writing. In this episode, Mary shares how a lackluster introduction to...
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Crafting a Consistent Brand Story with Brigitte Bojkowszky - EP 73
How does branding tie into your podcast? As a podcast host, figuring out how to communicate why your episodes are worth listening to is one of your most important tasks. Downloads are nice and all, but it's the strength of your brand—and really nailing down how you want your listener to feel—that...
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Speak With Spirit: Stop Editing Out Your Authentic Voice - EP 72
The 2024 podcasting season is gearing up to be an exciting one, with lots of changes on the horizon. New ventures like YouTube integration have raised this huge existential question—what is a podcast? And while this fresh take brings up questions of video components, RSS feeds, and more—at the…
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Celebrating with Values to Nourish Your Podcast - Year End Break - EP 71
What values are at the heart of your podcast? As 2023 draws to a close, most of us are preparing for some kind of annual review, whether it's for our business or our personal lives. When you're looking back on your professional or family values and how they showed up this year, don't forget your...
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How to Use Research and Reports to Guide Your Podcast with Megan Dougherty - EP 70
How does a report full of podcast stats make you feel? Chances are, you either pore over every page or close the tab, afraid those nasty numbers will tell you things you don't want to know! Lucky for all of us podcasters out there, Megan Dougherty—a brilliant digital marketing strategist, podcast...
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Intangible Values of a Podcast: What It Means For Stats, Metrics, and Monetization - EP 69
What metrics are you using to measure your podcast's success? Podcasting is a fantastic business marketing option. It's a uniquely transparent and personal way to showcase your thought leadership, your services, and your authentic self—all without having to style your hair. Like any marketing...
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How do you, as a podcaster, make an emotional connection with your listeners to create a place where they feel like they belong?This podcast about how to podcast for underrepresented podcasters doing good in the world, who want to build a community of belonging. You'll discover what it takes to be a powerful podcaster and support your listeners to feel like they belong. Go on your podcasting journey to reclaim and redefine what a successful podcast means to you, by thriving on your own terms, with Mary Chan as your host.As a Voice-Over Artist and former radio producer for almost 20 years, she'll share with you what she's learned from creating, recording, and editing, hundreds of thousands of voices; from newbie clients who had to read their very first script to seasoned professionals voicing the very same commercials you hear on the radio and TV. They all have one thing in common with you – they made an emotional connection to a listener, not by the words they use, but by how they us
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Mary Chan, Organized Sound Productions, Made in Canada
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