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Many of the top podcasts are created using state of the art studios with high-end microphones and mixers and top-notch editors. But what if you could have all that technology as well? As it turns out, you can.

Chris Holifield is the host of I Am Salt Lake, an interview podcast dedicated to the culture, businesses, and interesting characters in Salt Lake City Utah. What is interesting about his show is how the “niche” isn’t a specific topic like movies or video games, it’s the geography of his guests.

David Bain is the host of Digital Marketing Radio, an entrepreneur, and this weeks guest. David shares some of the most common mistakes new podcasters make and explains how you can avoid them, and if you have already made the mistake, how to fix it.

Joe Berman and Mathew Passy are the two behind the growing newsletter all about Podcasting, Pod To Pod. The newsletter comes out every Tuesday with curated content covering all aspects of Podcasting, and has original content on their website as well.

Corey Coates is the Founder of Podfly and cohost of The Podcast Producers. Corey talks about his background in radio and broadcasting that led to him diving into podcasting and creating his production company Podfly. We dive into what work goes into Podfly and the work he and his team does for his clients.

Rob Walch, VP of Podcast Relations at Libsyn, had a great talk at Podcast Movement about the myths of podcasting, and he goes in depth on some of those myths in this episode. Along with myths, we talk about what makes a good podcast, and the questions you should ask yourself when making a podcast.

Dave Jackson is the founder of School of Podcasting, host of Ask the Podcast Coach, and co-host of Podcasters’ Roundtable, and his knowledge and reputation in the podcast industry bears little to no introduction.

Jessica Rhodes is the creator and founder of Interview Connections, host of Rhodes to Success, and co-host of Podcast Producers. Jessica talks about her first podcast experience, her business, and the value of having guests on your podcasts.

Jeff talks with Joel Sharpton (Always Listening, What Makes Me Weird with Joel Sharpton) about how he makes money as a podcaster with audiobooks and other alternative ways (or faucets as Joel explains) for podcasters to earn some extra income.

Max Cutler is the Co-founder of Parcast, a new podcast network with some serious talent and production quality. Their first show, Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories, made it to #6 overall on iTunes when it debuted, and they have a new show out called Remarkable Lives. Tragic Deaths.

Kim Hansen is the CEO and co-founder of Signl.fm, a new service for podcasters to go live, take callers, and much much more. Kim and I met at Podcast Movement 2016. We talk about her experience there as a startup company, where Signl.fm is at in production, and the reason she became an entrepreneur.

Elsie Escobar is the Social Media Community Manager at Libsyn, Host and co-founder of She Podcasts podcast and Libsyn’s The Feed, and co-founder of Podcasting School For Women.

Pat Flynn, host of the Smart Passive Income podcast, sat down to talk with me at Podcast Movement 2016 about overcoming negativity, how to get the wheels turning when starting out podcasting, and his charity work.

This week on Podcast Fiend I talk about my top 5 takeaways from Podcast Movement, I share a story about meeting my idol, and what I plan on doing with this show from what I learned.

Juliette Miranda (Host of The Unwritable Rant) talks about how shoe prepares for talking with celebrity guests on her show, what she does for research, how she manages to do solo shows, and journaling.

Mike Rapin (creator and host of the I Read Comic Books podcast) and Jeff chat about why Mike created a Twitter account for his Podcast after a year in, what he does with the account, what he’s seen after using it, and the philosophy of engaging with your audience.

David is the producer of The Unwritable Rant podcast with his partner, and wife, Juliette Miranda as host. The show has had guests like Anthony Cumia, Bobby Slayton, Ari Shaffir, and Rain Pryor (Richard Pryor’s daughter), and in this episode David explains how he gets guests like this, what he does to pick when to ask these people to be on the show, and what he says when he pitches to them.

Andrew Allemann is the host of the Domain Name Wire podcast and the creator of Podcast Guests a service for podcasters to get guests on their shows through a weekly newsletter that comes out every Monday. The service, as Andrew explains in the episode, is a lot like a similar service called Help a Reporter Out where journalists seek out experts or people connected to various topics in order to get insight, quotes, and even interviews for their stories.

Todd Cochrane is the host of New Media Show, CEO of blubrry, and the Founder of The People’s Choice Podcast Awards and the Tech Podcast Network. In this episode Todd and I talked about the new statistics blubrry released showing where people are listening to their podcasts, The GoFundMe to rebuild the Podcast Awards’ website, and what he would change if he were to release a 2016 update to his book, Podcasting: Do-It-Yourself Guide.

Jeff talks with Ro Santos Jr. (World of Ro, The Pick and Ro Show) about his start with podcasting, getting guests, and Ro’s future with podcasting.