Silence is still a response. Criticism is proof someone noticed. The podcaster who keeps publishing anyway is the one actually in the arena.

Freddy Cruz drags podcasting out of the comfy “content” bucket and drops it straight into Teddy Roosevelt’s arena, where you show up under the lights, swing, miss, and bleed in public. Episodes flop, guests ghost you on promotion, social feeds pretend your show does not exist, and sometimes the only comment you get is someone dunking on your download count or your voice.

Instead of spiraling, he pushes three survival rules. First, set clear, time-limited goals so you are not promising yourself “forever” but committing to a real run of episodes before you reevaluate. Second, ruthlessly limit whose opinions you let in, because not everyone has earned the right to critique your work. Third, score yourself on courage, not just metrics, and treat each release as another round you chose to fight, not a verdict on your talent.

Reviewing your approach after a rough stretch becomes part of the job, not a death sentence. You learn in public, you build in front of a small crowd, you feel the sting and hit publish again anyway, and that act alone proves you are one of the few actually in the arena instead of heckling from the cheap seats. Freddy closes by pointing podcasters who want structure toward the Speak Podcasting Roadmap so they are not white-knuckling it alone.

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