About this podcast
Your Mic is the podcast about podcasting for new, stuck, and almost‑quit hosts. Hosted by Speke Podcasting founder and 25‑year broadcast vet Freddy Cruz, it blends hard‑earned lessons, failures, and irreverent stories with sharp tactics you can actually use. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 127 episodes
- A Broken Podcast Feed Forced Me to Rethink Success · 8 minMore than a thousand silent duplicate episodes turned Freddy Cruz’s podcast feed into a mess and wrecked months of analytics. No tidy comeback speech here. Just the damage, the…
- Your Podcast's Audience has Not Earned Every Version of You · 8 minBeing authentic does not mean handing strangers a transcript of your worst week. Freddy Cruz challenges the no-filter gospel and separates useful vulnerability from public…
- No, Podcast Repeats are NOT Lazy · 8 minYour archive is not a cemetery. Freddy Cruz brings 26 years of radio experience and real Speke client examples to the case for podcast reruns. Give useful episodes another shot…
- A Ridiculous Number of Guests and One Very Busy Microphone · 29 minMost podcasts book a guest. Freddy Cruz apparently took that as a lack of ambition. In this live episode of Your Mic, over twenty creators, entrepreneurs, and communications pros…
- Why Indie Podcasts Are Growing While Top Shows Stall · 30 minFrank Racioppi is the founder of the Ear Worthy newsletter and is a Forbes journalist who covers independent podcasts. He and Freddy break down why the big names barely move on…
- Post and Ghost: Protect Your Sanity While Growing Your Show · 26 minThis bonus episode from Illuminate is a little different. Freddy is not at the mic as a co-host. Britney and Dr. Trevor Boffone, a Houston educator turned content creator, run…
- Imposter Syndrome is THE Superpower Your Podcast is Missing · 20 minDr. Sturm, a plastic surgeon who has been making YouTube videos since 2012, and Mavi, host of Beauty Unveiled, take the Illuminate stage to talk about the part of podcasting…
- Building a Podcast That Outlives the Algorithm · 6 minFreddy Cruz uses Victorian post-mortem photography to make a case for deeper work. This episode is about creating podcast episodes that preserve voices, stories, and memories…
- A Bad Podcast Name Can Torpedo a Great Show · 10 minFreddy Cruz breaks down why your podcast name is not a cute afterthought. From vague titles to accidental double meanings, learn how to pressure-test a name before you buy the…
- Your Podcast Needs Systems, Not Motivation · 4 minFreddy Cruz explains why motivation is a lousy production plan. Learn how topic banks, batch recording, checklists, episode reserves, and a repeatable workflow can keep your show…
- The Podcast You Keep Delaying has a Listener · 3 minFreddy Cruz delivers a hard truth for creators hiding behind fear, excuses, or somebody else’s opinion. Your story may be exactly what another person needs. Stop waiting for…
- How to Monetize a Niche Podcast Before It Launches · 23 minWork with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/ Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-mic/id1777171203 Listen on Spotify…
- New True Crime Podcast: Why Chris Richardson is Hosting The House of Theft · 6 minChris Richardson joins Your Mic to unpack how The House of Theft became Speke Originals’ first true-crime podcast. A $3.8 million family fraud scheme is the backdrop, but the…
- Speke's first true crime podcast: The House of Theft · 7 minChris Richardson turned a $3.8 million family fraud story into The House of Theft. This is not true crime for gawking. It is about red flags, survival, and telling the truth…
- What rat pits teach creators about addictive content · 6 minFreddy Cruz takes a grim look at Victorian rat pits and bare-knuckle spectacle to expose a modern creator problem: attention without value. Learn how to make provocative work…
- Build the Podcast Community Your Audience Needs · 20 minMavi Rodriguez grew Big Butts, No Lies past 300,000 downloads by serving a specific audience, answering real questions, and posting the damn video. Britney from Fun Love Media…
- How to Know Your Podcast is Actually Compounding · 7 minFreddy Cruz separates strategic patience from stubborn self-delusion. Using the signal, asymmetry, and identity tests, he shows creators how to decide whether to double down…
- Your Podcast Needs a Book More Than Another Reel · 18 minLolita Guarin helps nonfiction writers quit hiding behind fear, family judgment, and the lie that publishing a book must cost a fortune. Get the words out first. Clean them up…
- Do the hard thing your podcast actually needs · 4 minFree resources from Speke Podcasting: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/freeresources Work with us: https://www.spekepodcasting.com/pricing-plans Freddy Cruz explains why…
- A Podcast Pause · 2 minWe’re taking a short reset to make the next run of episodes even stronger. New episodes return the week after Labor Day. In the meantime, follow the show so the next episode hits…
