What Three Years of Podcast Producing Taught Me About Betting on Yourself

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Takeaways

• Abbey's podcast production business started as a free favor for a friend and grew into a full-time career within nine months.
• Every client on Abbey's current roster traces back to one original connection: her friend Liz, who she helped for free before either of them knew it would turn into a business.
• Betting on yourself, even in a small and uncertain way, can lead to opportunities you could never have planned for, from full-time income to speaking on international stages.

Recording from the lake with her dog Norman on her lap, Abbey takes a break from the usual show format to reflect on a milestone that's easy to miss in the day-to-day of running a business: the week she took on her first real, paying clients back in August 2023. She walks through the full origin story of Abbey Graves Productions, starting with The Small Town Tourist, the podcast she launched in January 2023 just to keep her interviewing and audio skills sharp after leaving her job as a radio DJ.

That show led her to help her friend Liz start a podcast for free, purely because she believed in it. Liz's podcast introduced Abbey to Amanda, and a single social media post about helping people with their shows brought in her cousin Megan, one of her first paying clients. What began as a side project while she worked a full 40 hour week at a government job snowballed into late nights editing, then into a full-time business within nine months.

Abbey gets candid about how far that journey has taken her since, from speaking on stage at PodFest in Orlando to producing shows for clients across the country and as far as Australia. She ties it all back to one central idea: take the bet on yourself, because you truly never know what it might turn into. She closes with a reminder about her Bet on Your Podcast course, currently available at a discount before the price goes up, with a larger community platform coming later this year.

Key Topics Covered:

• The origin story of Abbey Graves Productions, from The Small Town Tourist to a full client roster
• How helping one friend for free turned into a referral pipeline of paying clients
• Going from a full-time job to a full-time podcast production business in nine months
• Reflecting on business milestones and using them to plan for future goals
• The Bet on Your Podcast course and why now is a good time to start

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