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The benefits of creating a podcast

Wang Yip
4 min readApr 24, 2020

Back in the day, my friend Shawn Kanungo and I ran two podcasts, one after the other. The first was called The Dip, and featured interviews with a number of business leaders and thinkers on the disruption that was happening in the different industries (think podcasts disrupting radio, digital media disrupting physical books, taxis and cars being disrupted by Uber and other ride sharing technologies, etc.) and how they felt about the change, and more importantly, how they were going to handle the change. At the time, we thought we had something to offer because we were tackling global challenges, but at a local level since we were interviewing the people within our immediate network.

The podcast got a bit of traction, but unfortunately, it was a lot more work than both of us had anticipated with getting guests, doing the interviews, talking about the interviews ourselves, then editing and splicing together both our talk and the interview.

After a short break, we decided to get back at it again with another podcast, this time, it was called The Remix and it us listening to other podcasts and taking the best ‘nuggets’ and takeaways from those podcasts and talking about what we thought and how we apply or have applied it to our lives. This podcast was a shorter one, often averaging about 15 minutes or less each episode and significantly less work because we did…

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Wang Yip
Wang Yip

Written by Wang Yip

Author of Essential Habits. I write about personal development, work and managing your career. Connect with me at www.wangyip.ca

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