How Do I Podcast?

90% of the podcasts on Apple have under 10 episodes, and I'm on a mission to change that. Welcome to How Do I Podcast Hosted by Alycia Chapman , ex-corporate strategist turned founder of TBC Studios. Each Wednesday you'll hear conversations from the best podcasters and industry experts across the world to find out what actually goes into creating something with meaning and impact. We'll cover everything from how to land your dream guests and grow an audience who can't wait to hit play through to podcast marketing, monetisation and the metrics that actually matter.  Hit follow or subscribe wherever you're listening, and we'll see you next week to learn 'How Do I Podcast' See all of the behind the scenes and get in touch over at www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_  Watch the podcast on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

  1. 6d ago

    How Much Should You Charge Brands? The Creator Pricing Rules No One Tells You - Mikhailla Fitzgerald

    Your follower count doesn’t matter. That’s what leading talent manager (and creator herself) Mikhailla Fitzgerald says. She is head of Huume Management and looks after creators like Steph Pase, Tash Invests and Cass Advantures and today we’re talking about what you should charge and how to win over brands EVEN if you have a tiny audience. As well as what the best creators are offering right now to stand out. You’ll learn 🎙️How a creator with fewer than 25,000 followers secured $8,000 for one reel 🎙️Why follower count shouldn’t determine how much you charge 🎙️The reason you should never send a brand your rate card 🎙️How to pitch brands before you have a manager or talent agency 🎙️The contract clauses that could cost you future brand deals 🎙️When to stop accepting gifted collaborations and ask to be paid 🎙️What to do when a brand ghosts you after asking for your rates We Talk About: 00:00 – Why so many creators have no idea what to charge 02:25 – How a creator with under 25,000 followers secured an $8,000 deal 03:27 – Why small, highly targeted audiences can attract major partnerships 04:31 – The first brands you should approach 05:20 – How to capture a brand’s attention before sending a pitch 06:39 – Why your content should become the pitch 07:20 – What to do when a brand asks for your rates 10:26 – How podcasts with tiny audiences secure five and six-figure deals 12:18 – What to include in a customised pitch deck 17:38 – How to price reels, stories, emails and podcast placements separately 20:14 – The difference between a media kit and a pitch deck 21:16 – The best negotiation tactics 22:43 – How to increase your rate without adding more deliverables 24:26 – Why monetising your podcast too early can damage its growth 26:15 – The clauses that should protect you as your audience grows 28:10 – The reputation clause every creator should know about 29:52 – How brands can own and use your content forever 33:34 – What talent agencies look for before signing a creator 35:30 – When to stop accepting gifted collaborations 37:00 – How to turn past content into a case study brands will pay for 38:46 – What to do when a brand ghosts you after seeing your rates 39:43 – The biggest myth in the creator industry 42:07 – Why Instagram links can hurt your story views Connect with Mikhailla over at  https://www.instagram.com/mikhailla and Huume at https://www.instagram.com/huume.mgmt/?hl=en  Have a guest you want to hear from? Question you want answered? Send me a DM over at  www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_ or https://www.instagram.com/howdoipodcast  Watch the podcast on Youtube  - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

    How Much Should You Charge Brands? The Creator Pricing Rules No One Tells You - Mikhailla Fitzgerald
  2. Jul 14

    The $600M Content Secret Nobody Talks About - Simon Beard

    The first time Simon Beard tried to sell something or run an ad … nothing. But he founded Culture Kings, worked with Drake, Snoop Dogg and ASAP Rocky and ended up exiting for $600 million dollars.  When he first started he was selling at the markets. One day he had sold nothing and changed one part of his process. Not the product, not the price … it was how he presented it … And that’s exactly what I’m talking to him about today. Because as content creators we are constantly packaging episodes, hoping to find a new audience and that someone will subscribe or follow. There is more content than ever before and the wave of AI generated content is just beginning. If you want to become the go-to podcast for your niche stay until the end of this episode. You’ll Learn:  🎙️The reason most creators fail right now  🎙️Should organic content creators and podcasters run ads?  🎙️The psychology of building trust and rapport with your audience in under 3 seconds  🎙️How to overcome your fear of building a personal brand  🎙️How to build a content flywheel  We Talk About:  00:00 - What Simon changed to go from $0 in sales to $1,000 in 30 minutes   01:30 - The routine every creator needs to do before they start making content 03:33 - How to build demand  05:01 - The metrics to pay attention to if you want to grow  06:56 - The Trust Matrix   10:10 - Should you niche?  13:52 - Lo-Fi vs. Green Screen: What Content Actually Converts?  19:30 - Why businesses that create content don’t build loyalty 25:36 - The best performing content right now  29:38 - The $250 Million Hat that No One could try one 33:24 - How to get people wanting more 38:40 - The one AI tool every creator should use See the man behind DOAC Trailers Anthony Smith here  @anthonyr.smith - https://www.instagram.com/anthonyr.smith/?hl=en Connect with Simon @simonbeard - https://www.instagram.com/simonbeard/?hl=en Check out Creator Army - https://www.creatorarmy.com/marketing/landing/creators If you love todays episode check out Part One of this episode with Grace Miller from Diary of A CEO - https://youtu.be/v32vjCgywMw Have a guest you want to hear from? Question you want answered? Send me a DM over at  www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_ or https://www.instagram.com/howdoipodcast  Watch the podcast on Youtube  - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

    The $600M Content Secret Nobody Talks About - Simon Beard
  3. Jul 7

    How To Host An Event People Actually Talk About with Amy Dickinson

    Everyone is saying IRL is the place to double down on in 2026 … but how do you do it?  Amy Dickinson is a TikTok creator with over 175,000 followers, co-founder of The Social Summit (Australia's only conference for creators, marketers, and brands) and host of 1800 Chatline, a comedy podcast about dating and life in your 30s that hit 50,000 downloads in under six months. Amy built all of it without an agency, without a big budget, and without ever making a single person feel like just a ticket sale. In this episode, Amy breaks down exactly how and why making people feel important is the only community strategy that actually scales. Whether you're building a podcast, planning your first event, or trying to turn followers into a real community, this one is the playbook. We chat about:  🎙️Why your first event should never try to make money (and what it should do instead) 🎙️The speaker dinner strategy that built hype before a single ticket was sold 🎙️How spotting a new CEO announcement turned into a 3-event brand partnership 🎙️Why the merch flooded feeds for weeks… and what made it a collector's item You’ll hear:  0:00 - 175,000 TikTok followers, the difference between short form and long form 7:08 - How to get your first speaker to say yes, when nobody knows who you are 9:45 - Why speaker dinner before your even changes everything 10:17 - How one personal touch turns a stranger into a loyal community member 11:56 - Why your first event should never try to make money 12:42 - What MMFI means and why it’s the only community framework you need 13:44: This is the Partnership strategy that got a 3 event deal 15:35 - The tote bag that has become an iconic all on it’s own 16:42 - How to build a content first conference that creates its own marketing  30:53 - Why 50,000 followers feels like nothing until you stand in a stadium Instagram & TikTok: @amzdicko The Social Summit: @thesocialsummit | thesocialsummit.au 1800 Chatline: @1800chatline Have a guest you want to hear from? Question you want answered? Send me a DM over at  www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_ or https://www.instagram.com/howdoipodcast  Watch the podcast on Youtube  - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

    How To Host An Event People Actually Talk About with Amy Dickinson
  4. Jun 23

    She Built a Brand World Around Her Podcast AND Hit 20K Subscribers Doing It with By Kayleigh

    If your podcast isn't growing, the problem probably isn't your content. Kayleigh built 20,000 YouTube subscribers by fixing something most creators never think to look at…their brand world. Kayleigh started as a makeup artist who couldn't get booked during COVID. She launched a podcast to fill the time and 200 episodes later, she's built a YouTube channel with over 20,000 subscribers, a membership community, and a personal branding framework pulled directly from studying celebrities. In this episode, Kayleigh breaks down why the strategy most podcasters use to grow is actually working against them and what the biggest names in pop culture do instead. We chat about:  🎙️ The real reason why copying what's already working is the fastest way to stay invisible 🎙️ What a "brand world" is and how to start building one today 🎙️ The YouTube data that shows exactly what your audience wants to hear… and doesn’t 🎙️ Why your visual is your in-real-life hook and how a mullet booked more jobs 🎙️ What your brand's magic only appears when you stop being who you think you should be You’ll hear:  3:35 - What do you talk about for 200 episodes  and how do you know when it's time to change direction 5:07 - How do you find your identity on a platform where everyone already seems to have it figured out 6:40 - Why your data is the key to unlocking what your audience actually wants to hear 7:37 - The two things that decide whether someone ever watches your video  13:37 - What actually makes a video go viral. And how much of it is really in your control 16:58 - How do you grow two completely different audiences without one destroying the other 24:16 - What is a brand world and how do you know if you're already inside one 35:15 - How do you become the celebrity of your niche without being famous 38:35 - What is an in-real-life hook  and how does a mullet explain everything about personal branding 47:40 - Why having an opinion is the one thing most podcasters are scared to do To see exactly how Kayleigh has built her brand world, you can find her on  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@by.kayleigh Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bykayleighpodcast/) And listening her on By Kayleigh Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3Aylj79yaYpG7aOnMUDz0V?si=098cbc7d3c604f92) or Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-podcast-by-kayleigh/id1676257018) Grace Miller Part 1 episode on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VFciIdwvHbMYVJLxa2pg2?si=DwwCvmRLTKaP47LZaHDlgg), Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bts-of-diary-of-a-ceo-billions-of-views/id1840086977?i=1000764562578) or Youtube (https://youtu.be/v32vjCgywMw) Grace Miller Part 2 episode on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/17x2NmcLijtu3RUg8HWexR?si=ssja5DggRx-j81PyVmfSaw), Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/every-podcast-needs-these-3-things-to-grow-with-grace/id1840086977?i=1000766302898) or Youtube (https://youtu.be/aSoWhoST2dA) Tom Noske episode on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6INN0ctde2hED5ASTIc8kw?si=536jpS0iSxO8-ow8naRJzg), Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/why-most-huge-podcasts-make-no-money-with-tom-noske/id1840086977?i=1000771911372) or Youtube (https://youtu.be/sH7hEyVE-Ww) Have a guest you want to hear from? Question you want answered? Send me a DM over at  www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_ or https://www.instagram.com/howdoipodcast  Watch the podcast on Youtube  - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

    She Built a Brand World Around Her Podcast AND Hit 20K Subscribers Doing It with By Kayleigh
  5. Jun 16

    Why You Sound Different on Mic Than in Real Life with Voice Coach Sally Prosser

    Why are there some podcasts you could listen to for hours and others you don’t absorb a single word they say?  Today I'm talking to voice coach, former TV journalist, and author Sally Prosser about the hidden vocal habits that quietly undermine even the most knowledgeable podcasters and content creators. Sally has worked with spokespeople, executives, and creators to help them find and own their unique voiceprint. Not a polished, scripted version of someone else, but a refined, confident version of themselves. We chat about: 🎙️ Why your voice changes the moment the mic goes on (and what to do about it) 🎙️The belief, body, breath framework that shapes your sound before you even speak 🎙️How rising inflection and vocal fry are undermining your credibility without you realising 🎙️The voice warmup every podcaster should be doing before they hit record 🎙️What your voiceprint actually is and how to find yours You’ll hear:  0:00 - Why people lose their voice the moment the mic goes up 9:03 - The voice warmup every podcaster should do before recording 12:10 - The belief, body, breath framework, you need to know 15:54 - What rising inflection is doing to your credibility  34:59 - Why you should never wait until your voice is perfect to start your podcast 38:16 - What vocal fry is and how to stop it 51:57 - The tease and land technique that will improve your interviewing 56:45 - What a voiceprint actually is and the four elements 1:00:00 - The one daily habit you can start today to build your voice Follow Sally over at @sallyprosservoice on Instagram and Sally Prosser on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-prosser/). Have a guest you want to hear from? Question you want answered? Send me a DM over at  www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_ or https://www.instagram.com/howdoipodcast  Watch the podcast on Youtube  - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

    Why You Sound Different on Mic Than in Real Life with Voice Coach Sally Prosser

About

90% of the podcasts on Apple have under 10 episodes, and I'm on a mission to change that. Welcome to How Do I Podcast Hosted by Alycia Chapman , ex-corporate strategist turned founder of TBC Studios. Each Wednesday you'll hear conversations from the best podcasters and industry experts across the world to find out what actually goes into creating something with meaning and impact. We'll cover everything from how to land your dream guests and grow an audience who can't wait to hit play through to podcast marketing, monetisation and the metrics that actually matter.  Hit follow or subscribe wherever you're listening, and we'll see you next week to learn 'How Do I Podcast' See all of the behind the scenes and get in touch over at www.instagram.com/alyciachapman_  Watch the podcast on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HowDoIPodcast

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