Finding Your Focus as a Podcaster: How to Amp Up Your Productivity in a Peaceful Way

June 12, 2020 Sarah Mikutel

Are you having a hard time focussing on your podcast?

Maybe you’re a daydreamer. Maybe something is going on with your family. Maybe you’re devastated at the state of the world. Maybe you’re happy and hopeful about the future and keep jumping around from thing to thing because you’re so excited. Maybe you have ADHD like my podcast guest Emily Prokop.

Emily is a podcast editor, host of The Story Behind, and co-host of the Hate to Weight podcast.

She and I have a lot in common, including being recovering research-obsessed perfectionists. That doesn’t mean we’re natural planners. We definitely fall in the daydreamer category.

That doesn’t mean we don’t have big goals we want to accomplish.

One very important thing that I learned this year is that there are several different personality types — you can go back and listen to my Myers Briggs episode to hear more about that — and our brains work in very different ways. We’re motivated by different things.

Some podcasters are natural organizers and they love talking about spreadsheets and achievements and they thrive on praise (I’m looking at you, Enneagram 3s).

Others are procrastinators, not out of laziness, but out of analysis paralysis and overwhelm, which is the primary reason I started Podcast Launch Academy — to give people the roadmap they need to move out of that.

Lack of focus doesn’t mean lack of ambition or lack of interest.

Listen to the Find Your Focus episode of Podcasting Step by Step, where Emily and I share our favorite routines and resources to make you a more productive podcaster. You’ll find links to what we discuss below.