Your Mic

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...

Get the FREE Speke Roadmap: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/givethemroadmap Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans In this episode Freddy drags your fear of rejection into the light with the story of how Linkin Park got rejected dozens of times before anyone got it. He uses Chester walking out on his own birthday party to take a maybe call as a gut punch reminder of what commi...

Get the FREE Speke Roadmap: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/givethemroadmap 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 Somebody on LinkedIn said the quiet part out loud. They showed up to a small podcast and resented every second of it. Freddy had...

Free resources: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Steven Bartlett deletes twenty episodes a year. Flies the guest in. Spends weeks prepping. And if the conversation isn't good enough — gone. No apologies. Freddy's been there. An author with a Netflix series attached to his last book. Real prep. Dog-eared pages. Genuine curiosi...

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 Learn more about Katie: https://katieread.com/ Learn more about the Castle Guard Framework: https://buyerpsych.com/ Freddy Cruz chats Katie Read on Your Mic unpacking her Castle Guard AI framework from ps...

Work with us: www.spekepodcasting.com/ (https://www.spekepodcasting.com/) Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203s://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203) Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1PQNHuqxIVhkLfjGYuWcxl Listen to Dr. Eddie Patton’s podcast Your Health, Y...

Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/ (https://www.spekepodcasting.com/) Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203) Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1PQNHuqxIVhkLfjGYuWcxl Freddy Cruz drops a solo rant on Your Mic pulling from INXS rejecting a million bucks to rework Kick. He la...

Work with us: www.spekepodcasting.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203s://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1PQNHuqxIVhkLfjGYuWcxl Listen to Dr. Eddie Patton’s podcast Your Health, Your Wealth (start with these): Understanding Teen Brains https://omny.fm/shows/yourhealthyourweal...