WEBVTT 00:00:00.399 --> 00:00:04.160 Should you share your faith, politics, or morals in your podcast? 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:13.439 Thank you for joining me for The Audacity to Podcast. 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:14.400 I'm Daniel J. Lewis. 00:00:14.554 --> 00:00:18.234 You may have heard that certain topics are taboo to share in your 00:00:18.234 --> 00:00:20.315 podcast, but are they really? 00:00:20.475 --> 00:00:24.314 Or is it okay to share your controversial perspectives? 00:00:24.554 --> 00:00:27.595 I'm not going to tell you what you should do on this issue. 00:00:28.279 --> 00:00:32.840 Instead, I'll give you several things to consider so that you can 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:37.000 make the decision you believe is right for your podcast and your 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:37.640 audience. 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.664 If you'd like to follow along in the notes for this episode, they 00:00:40.664 --> 00:00:42.344 are a simple tap or swipe away. 00:00:42.344 --> 00:00:45.784 Check out the chapters made by podchapters.com, or go to the 00:00:45.784 --> 00:00:51.304 audacitytopodcast.com/worldview. And why that word world view? 00:00:51.384 --> 00:00:56.539 Well, because number 1, faith, politics, and morals are parts of 00:00:56.539 --> 00:01:02.780 your world view. A world view is simply how you view the world. 00:01:02.859 --> 00:01:06.685 So world view, how you view the world, And that's based on your 00:01:06.685 --> 00:01:07.564 belief system. 00:01:07.645 --> 00:01:11.005 Thus, your faith, your politics, your morals influence how you 00:01:11.005 --> 00:01:15.885 view the world, how you interpret facts, and what you prefer. 00:01:16.284 --> 00:01:19.790 Because of this, no person is truly neutral. 00:01:19.790 --> 00:01:22.990 Even if they might attempt to make their content neutral, they 00:01:22.990 --> 00:01:25.709 themselves are not neutral. 00:01:26.109 --> 00:01:30.030 Number 2, everyone leaks their worldview. 00:01:30.350 --> 00:01:34.515 What you believe and how it affects your view of the world will 00:01:34.515 --> 00:01:36.914 come out in various ways over time. 00:01:36.994 --> 00:01:40.515 Although you might not overtly share your faith, your politics, 00:01:40.515 --> 00:01:43.795 or your morals, it's usually easy to figure it out from the 00:01:43.795 --> 00:01:48.230 content you share or don't share, the labels you use, and the 00:01:48.230 --> 00:01:50.790 things that you prioritize in your podcast. 00:01:51.030 --> 00:01:54.630 I can think of several podcasts that claim to be neutral and 00:01:54.630 --> 00:01:59.909 apolitical, but it's quite obvious they and their hosts are on 00:01:59.909 --> 00:02:03.534 particular sides even if they're not talking directly about 00:02:03.534 --> 00:02:05.375 faith, politics, or morals. 00:02:05.534 --> 00:02:07.855 Just look at The Audacity to Podcast, for example. 00:02:07.855 --> 00:02:11.455 You probably know I'm a Christian and a conservative because of 00:02:11.455 --> 00:02:14.574 how much my own worldview leaks into my content. 00:02:15.010 --> 00:02:18.770 I'm not preaching or forcing anything on you, except maybe the 00:02:18.770 --> 00:02:23.490 definition of a podcast, but I do leak my worldview just like you 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:25.650 and other podcasters do too. 00:02:25.969 --> 00:02:29.645 Number 3, is it relevant to your podcast? 00:02:29.965 --> 00:02:33.965 If your worldview already leaks into your podcast, should you 00:02:33.965 --> 00:02:37.884 lean fully into it and overtly present your worldview through 00:02:37.884 --> 00:02:41.810 your content? You probably know the answer on this 1. It depends. 00:02:42.129 --> 00:02:45.569 I think relevance is what matters most in this case. 00:02:45.810 --> 00:02:50.450 If your podcast is about faith, politics, morality, and such, 00:02:50.530 --> 00:02:53.010 then you are already sharing your own positions. 00:02:53.010 --> 00:02:54.610 You're already stepping into this. 00:02:54.905 --> 00:02:59.384 But if your podcast isn't about such things and your audience 00:02:59.384 --> 00:03:02.664 isn't already expecting you to share those things in your 00:03:02.664 --> 00:03:06.584 podcast, then you might want to share them and address them 00:03:06.584 --> 00:03:10.240 rarely, if ever. But again, that's up to you. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.439 And consider The Audacity to Podcast as an example again. 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:17.840 I've never marketed this show as a podcast about podcasting only 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.199 for Christians or conservatives. 00:03:19.615 --> 00:03:22.814 When my faith, my politics, and my morals are more obvious in my 00:03:22.814 --> 00:03:27.615 podcast, it's coming through something that I believe is actually 00:03:27.615 --> 00:03:30.495 relevant to the podcasting topic I'm sharing. 00:03:30.655 --> 00:03:33.610 For example, I've quoted from the Bible multiple times throughout 00:03:33.610 --> 00:03:37.050 the years of The Audacity to Podcast because those particular 00:03:37.050 --> 00:03:41.209 scripture passages said something relevant to the topics in those 00:03:41.209 --> 00:03:44.250 episodes. I'll be doing it again later in this episode. 00:03:44.330 --> 00:03:47.825 I know you don't come to my podcast for Christian preaching, just 00:03:47.825 --> 00:03:51.504 like I don't go to my pastor for podcasting advice. 00:03:51.585 --> 00:03:55.905 But if your podcast is either about those things or you want to 00:03:55.905 --> 00:04:00.639 reach that specific audience or you want to approach things from 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.800 a particular religious, political, or moral perspective, then 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.280 fully embrace it and make it obvious that's your goal. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.560 Like, if The Audacity to Podcast was a podcast about podcasting 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:17.514 only for cake bakers, And everything I did was talking about how 00:04:17.514 --> 00:04:21.115 cake bakers can podcast and how do you podcast as a cake baker. 00:04:21.115 --> 00:04:23.115 And this is what you can do in your bakery while you're recording 00:04:23.115 --> 00:04:23.754 your podcast. 00:04:23.754 --> 00:04:28.134 If that silly approach was the actual approach of The Audacity to 00:04:28.134 --> 00:04:29.834 Podcast, then that should be in my description. 00:04:30.379 --> 00:04:32.699 It should be obvious from my episode titles. 00:04:32.779 --> 00:04:37.899 It could maybe be part of the title of my podcast, and it should 00:04:37.899 --> 00:04:40.860 also be in the podcast cover art and the visual branding of the 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:43.339 podcast so that it is very clear. 00:04:43.875 --> 00:04:46.035 This is who this podcast is for. 00:04:46.035 --> 00:04:48.915 This is what this podcast is about. Yes. 00:04:48.915 --> 00:04:52.995 That means it will turn away some people, but it will turn away 00:04:52.995 --> 00:04:55.715 people who wouldn't be the audience for it. 00:04:55.795 --> 00:04:59.395 But The Audacity to Podcast is not only for cake bakers. 00:04:59.610 --> 00:05:03.209 It's for anyone who wants to start a podcast, even for non 00:05:03.209 --> 00:05:05.050 Christians and liberals. 00:05:05.050 --> 00:05:10.089 Because I don't talk about specific political, moral, and 00:05:10.089 --> 00:05:14.485 religious things in the podcast as main topics. Yes. 00:05:14.485 --> 00:05:16.964 They do come out here and there. 00:05:16.964 --> 00:05:21.205 They do leak, but that's not what this podcast is about. 00:05:21.685 --> 00:05:25.605 So I'm not going to spend a whole episode talking about a 00:05:25.605 --> 00:05:28.939 scripture verse or preaching to you because that's not relevant 00:05:28.939 --> 00:05:30.379 to this podcast. 00:05:30.699 --> 00:05:33.740 It's been relevant to other podcasts I've done in the past. 00:05:33.740 --> 00:05:37.100 Like, the second podcast I ever hosted was called are you just 00:05:37.100 --> 00:05:40.060 watching? Now it's continuing on with my cohost. 00:05:40.060 --> 00:05:42.485 I passed it off her, and she's done a great job with it, e 00:05:42.485 --> 00:05:44.884 Franklin, over at areyoujustwatching.com. 00:05:44.964 --> 00:05:47.845 That podcast is a movie review podcast. 00:05:47.925 --> 00:05:51.125 And you might be thinking, movie review podcast? 00:05:51.205 --> 00:05:54.245 Mind equals blown. I've never thought of that. 00:05:54.245 --> 00:05:57.360 I've never heard of that before. Obviously, I jest. 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.560 But our approach was not just to review movies, not even just to 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.960 review movies from a Christian perspective. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.360 Our approach was to teach critical thinking skills for Christians 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:12.495 by using movies and TV shows to help teach those critical 00:06:12.495 --> 00:06:15.694 thinking skills and to help practice those critical thinking 00:06:15.694 --> 00:06:16.334 skills. 00:06:16.334 --> 00:06:21.134 So it was a very different approach to reviewing movies and 00:06:21.134 --> 00:06:25.620 media, and we made that obvious in the branding, in the 00:06:25.620 --> 00:06:28.980 marketing, in the messaging, in the titles, and more for that 00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:33.939 podcast because it was a particular perspective for a particular 00:06:33.939 --> 00:06:37.379 specific audience, and that was great for it. 00:06:37.774 --> 00:06:41.535 And there are other podcasts, all kinds of topics taking 00:06:41.535 --> 00:06:42.655 different approaches. 00:06:42.735 --> 00:06:46.654 And when they fully embrace it and make it obvious that that is 00:06:46.654 --> 00:06:49.455 their goal for the types of people they want to reach or the 00:06:49.455 --> 00:06:52.095 approach they want to take or the positions they want further, 00:06:52.389 --> 00:06:55.750 that is good when they make it clear so that they can set those 00:06:55.750 --> 00:06:58.710 expectations for their audience through their description. 00:06:58.710 --> 00:07:01.509 And so their audience knows this is what I can expect from this 00:07:01.509 --> 00:07:02.230 podcast. 00:07:02.230 --> 00:07:05.830 This is what I'm going to get from this podcast, and they do get 00:07:05.830 --> 00:07:07.955 that from the podcast. That's good. 00:07:07.955 --> 00:07:12.754 Do that if you want your podcast to be known for those particular 00:07:12.754 --> 00:07:17.395 things. Number 4, you will alienate some of your audience. 00:07:17.634 --> 00:07:21.589 I keep grouping faith, politics, and morals together because they 00:07:21.589 --> 00:07:25.589 can be the most divisive issues since these things are very black 00:07:25.589 --> 00:07:26.870 and white by their nature. 00:07:27.029 --> 00:07:30.310 So when you share your faith, politics, or morals in your podcast 00:07:30.310 --> 00:07:34.845 overtly or even just leaking them in your podcast, it will likely 00:07:34.845 --> 00:07:39.485 alienate and possibly even upset some of your audience because 00:07:39.644 --> 00:07:41.165 truth divides. 00:07:41.245 --> 00:07:44.365 And like I've heard teacher Mike Riddle say, when you reject the 00:07:44.365 --> 00:07:49.250 truth, you must accept any lie in its place, and so the truth is 00:07:49.250 --> 00:07:50.050 divisive. 00:07:50.209 --> 00:07:53.810 Imagine the world was divided by people who please bear with me 00:07:53.810 --> 00:07:57.649 on this silly example, but divided by people who like cake and 00:07:57.649 --> 00:07:59.009 people who like pie. 00:07:59.250 --> 00:08:02.754 Most of the pie people will probably be fine to hear the cake 00:08:02.754 --> 00:08:05.875 people talk about any other subject. 00:08:06.115 --> 00:08:10.355 But once the cake people start talking about cake, the pie people 00:08:10.355 --> 00:08:13.314 might get upset and vice versa. 00:08:13.660 --> 00:08:17.100 And sometimes you even see this where the pie people might love 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:19.579 the cake people, and they're friends. 00:08:19.579 --> 00:08:23.180 They've encouraged each other. They motivate each other. 00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:25.259 They love each other. All of this great stuff. 00:08:25.259 --> 00:08:27.339 They've got all of this past history and relationship. 00:08:27.339 --> 00:08:32.174 But as soon as those cake people dare to mention cake, then 00:08:32.174 --> 00:08:35.774 everything in the past completely destroyed, ripped apart, not 00:08:35.774 --> 00:08:41.615 worth it anymore, and they're cast away. I hope you understand. 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:45.879 I'm using a ridiculous example to also kind of illustrate how 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:50.919 ridiculous that can be that sometimes it's just 1 little thing. 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.279 It might not be little to some people, but it's 1 little thing in 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:59.715 the big scope of life that sometimes destroys relationships and 00:08:59.715 --> 00:09:04.434 opportunities simply because of a difference in perspective when 00:09:04.434 --> 00:09:08.434 all of these other ways that people can connect are still there. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:13.279 But just because you dared to talk about cake, you cake person, 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:18.000 therefore, my pie personality cannot be around you, you cake 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.720 personality. No. It's ridiculous. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:27.365 And from my research and observation, it seems it's usually 1 00:09:27.365 --> 00:09:31.764 side that gets more angry about and intolerant of the other side. 00:09:31.925 --> 00:09:35.845 So keep that in mind if you're on the side that gets targeted 00:09:35.845 --> 00:09:36.485 more. 00:09:36.565 --> 00:09:40.029 I'm not saying that should stop you, only that it's something to 00:09:40.029 --> 00:09:44.190 keep in mind as everything else in this episode, stuff to keep in 00:09:44.190 --> 00:09:47.549 mind so that you can make the decision that's right for you and 00:09:47.549 --> 00:09:48.590 your podcast. 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:54.045 Number 5, you might be the voice your audience needs to hear. 00:09:54.285 --> 00:09:57.565 Even though some of your audience might get upset when you share 00:09:57.565 --> 00:10:01.085 a particular worldview, it might be exactly what other people 00:10:01.085 --> 00:10:02.045 need to hear. 00:10:02.205 --> 00:10:05.950 Many people feel underrepresented in various forms of media, and 00:10:05.950 --> 00:10:10.669 survey data reflects that reality that the media landscape does 00:10:10.669 --> 00:10:15.950 not proportionately represent the audience consuming that same 00:10:15.950 --> 00:10:16.669 media. 00:10:16.750 --> 00:10:20.669 To use our silly cake versus pie illustration again, the 00:10:20.669 --> 00:10:24.534 population might be evenly split between cake people and pie 00:10:24.534 --> 00:10:25.095 people. 00:10:25.095 --> 00:10:29.254 But legacy and new media might be mostly on the cake side by a 00:10:29.254 --> 00:10:30.534 large margin. 00:10:30.695 --> 00:10:34.455 So when a pie person speaks out boldly and without apology, it 00:10:34.455 --> 00:10:38.610 gives the pie people their needed representation that they don't 00:10:38.610 --> 00:10:39.970 have very much of. 00:10:40.210 --> 00:10:45.330 If you feel it necessary to take a controversial stand, do so 00:10:45.330 --> 00:10:50.129 boldly and make it obvious that such is what you stand for and 00:10:50.129 --> 00:10:51.889 whom you want your podcast to serve. 00:10:52.295 --> 00:10:55.815 This was my big issue with a particular group I once supported. 00:10:55.894 --> 00:11:00.535 They claimed to represent everyone, but when it was pointed out 00:11:00.535 --> 00:11:04.375 that they were marginalizing and underrepresenting a massive 00:11:04.375 --> 00:11:07.600 group, they didn't care and maybe still don't. 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.600 Despite their, I would say, false claims of representing 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.360 everyone, they don't. 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:17.840 And they don't want to represent the others that are outside of 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:18.960 their particular group. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.894 And I would just rather they make it obvious of who they do want 00:11:22.894 --> 00:11:25.615 to represent and who they don't want to represent. 00:11:25.934 --> 00:11:30.335 Number 6, standing for what's right will have a cost. 00:11:30.414 --> 00:11:33.455 When you stand for what's right, people will attack you. 00:11:33.789 --> 00:11:36.910 They will slander you, threaten you, abuse you, give your podcast 00:11:36.910 --> 00:11:40.350 negative and false reviews, and more, and maybe even worse. 00:11:40.429 --> 00:11:41.629 That really stinks. 00:11:41.789 --> 00:11:45.629 I know because I've been through it too, multiple times actually, 00:11:45.789 --> 00:11:46.350 and it stinks. 00:11:46.715 --> 00:11:51.514 So you have to consider whether your podcast is the right context 00:11:51.595 --> 00:11:55.674 or now is the right time for you to take a particular stand. 00:11:55.835 --> 00:11:59.035 And if you go through with it, be prepared for what follows. 00:11:59.420 --> 00:12:02.779 You might even decide that because of how transparent you've been 00:12:02.779 --> 00:12:06.379 about your private life and whereabouts in the past, you might 00:12:06.379 --> 00:12:09.500 not want to risk the safety of yourself or the people you care 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:13.195 about to say something in your podcast now because people might 00:12:13.195 --> 00:12:15.754 know where you live or maybe that's really easy to figure out or 00:12:15.754 --> 00:12:18.634 they know where you work or anything like that or they know where 00:12:18.634 --> 00:12:21.595 your kids are or scary things like that. 00:12:21.754 --> 00:12:25.960 So you have to think about some of that safety for yourself and 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.399 especially for the people you care about and the potential risks 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.240 if you take a stand. 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:34.600 It doesn't mean you shouldn't take a stand, but do remember that 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.879 taking a stand for what's right does have a cost. 00:12:38.254 --> 00:12:41.855 I have a lot of beliefs people will call controversial, and I 00:12:41.855 --> 00:12:44.975 keep emphasizing that word controversial with air quotes on it 00:12:44.975 --> 00:12:49.774 because I'll get more into that word and some others in a moment. 00:12:49.855 --> 00:12:54.330 But I decided years ago that there would be 2 main things I would 00:12:54.330 --> 00:12:58.809 never compromise and would speak openly about without fear of the 00:12:58.809 --> 00:13:01.929 costs because I believe those things are right. 00:13:02.090 --> 00:13:08.014 Those are my hills I'm willing to die on, And 1 of them did truly 00:13:08.014 --> 00:13:11.455 almost kill me, but it was still worth it to take that stand. 00:13:11.774 --> 00:13:15.054 Number 7, don't let labels control you. 00:13:15.214 --> 00:13:18.320 When you share your faith, your politics, or your morals, the 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.080 haters will likely label you. 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.840 You might be called racist, Nazi, hateful, supremacist, 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:28.399 controversial, extremist, whatever phobic, abusive, and more. 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.720 But it really seems like people don't even know what such labels 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.665 mean anymore. It's like that line from The Princess Bride. 00:13:36.745 --> 00:13:38.345 You keep using that word. 00:13:38.585 --> 00:13:40.665 I don't think it means what you think it means. 00:13:40.665 --> 00:13:44.585 Indeed, many of the words that people use don't actually mean 00:13:44.665 --> 00:13:47.865 what they think they mean or how they're using them. 00:13:48.170 --> 00:13:52.170 Those labels could even mean completely different things to 00:13:52.170 --> 00:13:53.129 different people. 00:13:53.370 --> 00:13:56.330 Just look at how the word podcast now means different things to 00:13:56.330 --> 00:13:59.050 different people, and listen to episode 400 to learn more about 00:13:59.050 --> 00:14:00.889 what a podcast is anymore. 00:14:00.889 --> 00:14:02.889 I talked about that in-depth in that episode. 00:14:03.245 --> 00:14:07.565 Even just the word controversial seems to be slapped on people 00:14:07.565 --> 00:14:10.605 only when their opinions differ from someone else's. 00:14:10.684 --> 00:14:13.804 It's like cake people telling pie people they're being 00:14:13.804 --> 00:14:17.190 controversial when they talk about pie, but that cake people 00:14:17.190 --> 00:14:21.590 never see themselves as controversial when they talk about cake. 00:14:21.830 --> 00:14:25.589 It's like anything I disagree with is controversial, but not 00:14:25.589 --> 00:14:27.669 anything that I hold. No. 00:14:27.669 --> 00:14:31.784 It's controversial if there are controversies around it, and that 00:14:31.784 --> 00:14:33.384 can mean both sides. 00:14:33.464 --> 00:14:35.784 But that doesn't mean it's a taboo thing to talk about. 00:14:35.784 --> 00:14:39.465 It's just something you have to be careful with, understanding 00:14:39.625 --> 00:14:42.264 that there is controversy around that idea. 00:14:42.504 --> 00:14:44.184 So you have to keep these things in mind. 00:14:44.589 --> 00:14:48.509 And no matter how vile the label is that someone tries to slap on 00:14:48.509 --> 00:14:51.389 you, do not let it control you. 00:14:51.389 --> 00:14:54.269 You can simply say no and move on. 00:14:54.350 --> 00:14:57.629 You don't have to dignify false accusations with rebuttals. 00:14:57.875 --> 00:15:02.195 You can simply reject them and then ignore the trolls. 00:15:02.674 --> 00:15:05.875 And number 8, remember kindness. 00:15:06.355 --> 00:15:09.954 Before you decide to go getting militantly religious, political, 00:15:09.954 --> 00:15:13.394 or moral in your podcast, please remember kindness. 00:15:13.929 --> 00:15:18.009 A few years ago, I felt face smacked by a passage in scripture 00:15:18.009 --> 00:15:21.610 that challenged me then and continues to challenge me today. 00:15:21.610 --> 00:15:26.250 And despite how many times I fail, I keep exercising myself to 00:15:26.250 --> 00:15:30.965 come back to what I should do instead of what I feel like doing. 00:15:31.044 --> 00:15:35.605 That passage is second Timothy 2 22 through 26, and this is from 00:15:35.605 --> 00:15:37.365 the ESV translations. 00:15:37.445 --> 00:15:40.884 It says, so flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, 00:15:40.884 --> 00:15:44.360 faith, love, and peace along with those who call on the Lord from 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.279 a pure heart have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:49.559 controversies. 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:54.039 You know that they breed quarrels, and the Lord's servant must 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:59.134 not be quarrelsome, but kind to everyone, able to teach, 00:15:59.454 --> 00:16:03.134 patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with 00:16:03.134 --> 00:16:03.934 gentleness. 00:16:03.934 --> 00:16:06.975 God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of 00:16:06.975 --> 00:16:10.649 the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the 00:16:10.649 --> 00:16:14.009 snare of the devil after being captured by him to do his will. 00:16:14.089 --> 00:16:17.049 That's from second Timothy 2 22 through 26. 00:16:17.210 --> 00:16:20.970 The adjectives to avoid are challenging enough from that passage. 00:16:20.970 --> 00:16:23.904 Things like foolish, ignorant, quarrelsome. 00:16:23.904 --> 00:16:29.024 It doesn't say avoid controversies, but it did say avoid foolish, 00:16:29.105 --> 00:16:32.544 ignorant controversies and not to be quarrelsome. 00:16:32.784 --> 00:16:38.110 But there is also the admonishing 2 correct opponents, not with 00:16:38.110 --> 00:16:41.230 rage, but with gentleness. Yes. 00:16:41.230 --> 00:16:46.750 It is kind to speak the truth, and you must remember to do it 00:16:46.909 --> 00:16:51.235 with gentleness, whether that's in your podcast or in person or 00:16:51.235 --> 00:16:55.714 online, especially if you're in an anonymous environment, still 00:16:55.714 --> 00:16:57.394 do it with gentleness. 00:16:57.634 --> 00:17:00.754 It's like if your doctor tells you that you have a horrible 00:17:00.754 --> 00:17:03.554 disease and you must change your lifestyle because the things 00:17:03.554 --> 00:17:04.914 you're doing will kill you. 00:17:05.130 --> 00:17:09.690 He's not being a hater or anything phobic or controversial. 00:17:09.849 --> 00:17:14.650 Instead, he is being kind to share the truth and point to you in 00:17:14.650 --> 00:17:15.690 the right direction. 00:17:16.170 --> 00:17:18.650 And that's what I hope you do with your own podcast. 00:17:18.994 --> 00:17:23.075 If you believe you must share something controversial, you might 00:17:23.075 --> 00:17:28.195 not normally share, be kind and point your audience in the right 00:17:28.195 --> 00:17:28.914 direction. 00:17:29.234 --> 00:17:32.515 Special thanks to Claire Waite Brown who sent 500 Satoshis on my 00:17:32.515 --> 00:17:34.769 previous episode about podcast chapters. 00:17:34.769 --> 00:17:35.650 Go back and listen to it. 00:17:35.650 --> 00:17:37.809 It's turning out to be a quite a popular episode. 00:17:37.809 --> 00:17:41.490 And she said, I'm a big fan of chapters and chapter art. 00:17:41.490 --> 00:17:44.609 When I interview indie podcasters on the creators from True Fans 00:17:44.609 --> 00:17:49.105 podcast, I recommend podcasting 2 features that could be good for 00:17:49.105 --> 00:17:53.505 their particular show and chapters with pics and links is 1 I 00:17:53.505 --> 00:17:55.024 very often suggest. 00:17:55.105 --> 00:17:59.825 It's frustrating that some apps choose to not support 2 chapters, 00:17:59.984 --> 00:18:03.105 but great that PodChapters can make the chapters in all formats. 00:18:03.490 --> 00:18:07.569 Thanks for linking to Podcasting 2 in practice in the show notes. 00:18:07.569 --> 00:18:10.289 And that is her show, Podcasting 2 in practice. 00:18:10.289 --> 00:18:11.809 I got to be a guest on there. 00:18:11.809 --> 00:18:16.210 And in last week's episode, I linked to the episode I did with 00:18:16.210 --> 00:18:20.464 her where we talked about chapters in podcasting 2, both what 00:18:20.464 --> 00:18:22.384 they are and what they could be in the future. 00:18:22.464 --> 00:18:25.105 And that was long before PodChapters was actually a thing. 00:18:25.105 --> 00:18:28.144 And her mentioning of PodChapters there, I did not pay her to 00:18:28.144 --> 00:18:30.785 mention that. She's not being compensated by mentioning that. 00:18:30.785 --> 00:18:35.750 In fact, she is the 1 paying me to praise PodChapters in a 00:18:35.750 --> 00:18:37.830 message. So I really appreciate that. 00:18:37.830 --> 00:18:41.190 And if you want to chapter your podcast the fastest, smartest, 00:18:41.190 --> 00:18:45.029 and easiest way, then use PodChapters over at podchapters.com. 00:18:45.384 --> 00:18:49.065 And if you found The Audacity to Podcast helpful and valuable to 00:18:49.065 --> 00:18:52.984 you as a podcaster and inspirational to you, maybe I've motivated 00:18:52.984 --> 00:18:56.105 you, maybe I've equipped you in some way or inspired you, would 00:18:56.105 --> 00:18:58.789 you consider what that's worth to you and see if you're able to 00:18:58.789 --> 00:18:59.829 give some value back? 00:18:59.829 --> 00:19:03.109 You can do that really easily through a modern podcasting 2 app 00:19:03.109 --> 00:19:07.669 or go to the audacitytopodcast.com/giveback. 00:19:07.910 --> 00:19:10.630 Now that I've given you some of the guts and taught you some of 00:19:10.630 --> 00:19:13.945 the tools, it's time for you to go start and grow your own 00:19:13.945 --> 00:19:17.465 podcast for passion and profit. I'm Daniel J. 00:19:17.465 --> 00:19:21.065 Lewis from theaudacitytopodcast.com. Thanks for listening.