By Brendan O’Meara
After taking Alexandra DiPalma’s great podcasting course on Creative Live and having her on CNF, one of her fundamental questions for any novice podcaster is: How will you define success?
Is it downloads?
Is it listeners?
Is it reach?
Is it money? (A bad one, admittedly, but that’s a metric for some people).
Point being if we define our success in realistic terms, approachable terms, then maybe some of the bitterness and resentment won’t glom on. Maybe you’ll have fun again.
But if you have some nebulous idea of what success is, or an atomically unrealistic metric, then you will grow bitter and angry.
Define what it would mean to feel successful and fulfilled. And go after it. If you hit that mark. Celebrate, then recalibrate, reengage, and get after it again.
