Your Mic

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Picture a bright yellow Lamborghini, cruising by. There's no TV ad for it, yet it turns heads. Just like that, podcasting can reach its audience without big-budget promotions. It’s about knowing where your audience is and speaking directly to them. In this...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy Cruz goes solo with lessons from Dr. Angela Sturm, a facial plastic surgeon with hundreds of YouTube videos, a podcast (Beauty Unveiled), and a full aesthetic practice, who once cried at the thought of public speaking. This one is for every host hid...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy Cruz goes solo on this one, and he is coming for the excuse you have been hiding behind. Everybody blames podfade on burnout, but after multiple shows since 2020, over a thousand interviews, and 25 plus years behind a mic, Freddy knows the uglier tr...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy Cruz opens the vault on the origin story of Speke Podcasting, and it starts with 450 job applications and a wall of silence. Instead of waiting, he went hunting through his own contact list with a copy and paste message, and one of those messages la...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy takes a blowtorch to the “intentional mistake” trend that is quietly trashing good shows. You hear the story of a client’s phone ringing mid‑recording, why leaving it in was not a clever brand move, and how big creators are now telling you to keep t...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy uses the National Museum of Funeral History to prove what niche podcasting can really do. He tells the story of Genevieve walking into a role where the museum was treated like a quirky oddity, shoved next to the Beer Can Museum in visitor guides, an...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy rips apart the idea that your show has to be either bland or outrage‑bait to stand out. He uses cooking as the frame, introducing the “anti‑hero” as the salt of your podcast, the informed opinion your listener suspects is true but never hears anyone...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Seven minutes of ads. Then more ads. Then a 45 minute episode where maybe 30 of those minutes were actual content. Freddy Cruz watched it happen from inside the radio world and saw the same disease spread into podcasting. So instead of bloviating about it,...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans This is the episode you wanna play immediately after your first true podcast disaster. Freddy starts with a Malcolm Gladwell story about cold‑calling a billionaire, sitting down for the interview, and realizing there is no SD card in the recorder. From the...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans In this origin‑story solo, Freddy walks you through all the things that were never supposed to happen but did, including this podcast and the company behind it. You hear about the seventh‑grade Bo Jackson dream, a coach’s speech that quietly closed a door,...

Free podcast roadmap: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources George Washington's first run for office got 6.88 percent of the vote. Statistical humiliation. If that were a podcast launch today you would already be drafting your quitting post. He came back. Won the next one. Survived smallpox, a mutiny in his own ranks, a winter that killed men from exposure, and people who wanted to replace...

Free podcast roadmap: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Benjamin Franklin had no viral clips, no trending page, and no follower count. He had the right people's attention in the right room at the right time. He turned that into ships, guns, and loans that kept a revolution alive. Your small show is not a liability. It is a long game. And Franklin already proved it works. Key Takeaways...

Free resources: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Every time regular people got a new tool, the people in power called it the end of civilization. The printing press. The typewriter. The internet. YouTube. Podcasting. Same panic. Different century. This episode is a history lesson with a blueprint attached. Name your industry'...

Learn more about Elizabeth Coles: https://www.elizabethcoles.com/ Subscribe to The Mind Madame: https://youtube.com/@elizabethdcoles?si=Sc7kTTH0j_j_DOsk Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans There is a team running your creative life. You did not hire them. They are called soldiers. The contro...

Free podcast roadmap: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Podfade is real. Four shows since 2020. Over a thousand interviews recorded. And Freddy Cruz has wanted to quit more than once. Not because podcasting is hard. Because life is hard. And podcasting sits on top of life. This solo episode is short, direct, and built for the...

Learn more about Dr. Angela Sturm: http://drangelasturm.com/ Subscribe to Beauty Unveiled: https://youtube.com/@drangelasturmmd?si=6ZJH5VdusSaNI1I2 Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans You have been staring at the wrong version of your face your whole life. Dr. Angela Sturm, facial plastic su...

Free resources: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/ Never compare your first mile to somebody else’s 19th—especially in podcasting. In this episode of Your Mic, I share a story about my neighbor Marcel, a former 150‑pounds‑overweight runner turned marathon machine, and what his mile 19 struggle can teach you about sticking with your show whe...

Free resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Somewhere on the internet right now, a guy in a ring light is telling you that you must have a cold open. The guy next to him says cold opens are dead. The third one says if you are not on video your podcast is basically a voicemail. Freddy Cruz is not her...

Last year Freddy lost $7,500 on an event. He would do it again tomorrow. Britney Crosson, founder of Fun Love Media and host of Social Success, knows the feeling. So the two of them did the logical thing: teamed up, booked the Health Museum in Houston, and built something new together. It is called Illuminate. October 3rd, 2026. This episode is the origin story. You hear why two creators who have...

Last year Freddy lost $7,500 on an event. He would do it again tomorrow. Britney Crosson, founder of Fun Love Media and host of Social Success, knows the feeling. So the two of them did the logical thing: teamed up, booked the Health Museum in Houston, and built something new together. It is called Illuminate. October 3rd, 2026. This episode is the origin story. You hear why two creators who have...

Downloads lie. Or more precisely, they only tell you what happened. Not why. Niall Sullivan figured that out, scrapped his first build, and rebuilt Podcritic from scratch around one simple idea: your podcast needs an editorial layer, not just a dashboard. In this episode, Freddy sits down with Niall Sullivan, founder of Podcritic, the AI-powered editorial tool built for podcast networks, studios,...

Free resources: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy pulls apart a real pitch that hit his inbox and using it as a live autopsy of everything wrong with lazy podcast outreach. You hear how an AI sounding message tried to flatter, fake familiarity, and completely miss the point of what the show is actually about. He walks t...

Free resources: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Today Freddy takes a soda’s lithium era into the podcast studio and uses it as a brutal metaphor for desperate shows hiding behind gimmicks. You hear how dramatic cold opens, fake urgency, and overcaffeinated host personas are just modern lithium in the bottle, signaling that t...

Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/ Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1PQNHuqxIVhkLfjGYuWcxl VoxPro didn’t kill radio, it turned stressed‑out DJs into sharper storytellers—and AI is about to do the same thing for podcasters. In this solo episode of Your Mic, I take you back to 1996: wax pens, raz...

Free resources: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Here’s the episode featuring George Blitch that I mentioned: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Gcs7FcvHWq4HGkVqZyU1P?si=7eea3818e62a4c67 Today Freddy takes you to Puebla, 1862, and shoves a mirror in your face so you see your podcast as the underdog army staring down network gi...