Elevate Your Podcasting Game
Build Authority. Create Opportunity.
I’ve produced more than fifty of my own shows, published over 5,000 episodes, and helped tens of thousands of people launch podcasts over the past two decades.
Podcast Answer Man is where I explore what I’ve learned about using podcasting to build authority, deepen relationships, attract opportunities, and create meaningful work around your voice and expertise.
In each episode, I examine the decisions that make a podcast worth creating for the long haul. We’ll talk about positioning, audience, consistency, technology, and workflows when they matter, but also the bigger questions of why you’re creating, who you want to serve, and what you want your podcast to make possible.
If you want more than tactics and quick hacks, and you see podcasting as part of something bigger you’re building, you’re in the right place.
The Worklog
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Oct. 31, 2026
514 - How I'm Using AI for Podcasting and Content Creation
In this episode, I'm sharing some of the ways I'm currently using artificial intelligence in my content creation process. I've been watching several members of my Green Room Mastermind experiment with AI to automate much of their video production workflow. Seeing what they've been able to accomplish inspired me to explore what might be possible with audio. That led to an experiment where I took a 33-minute episode of The Cliff Ravenscraft Show and used AI to turn it into a 10-minute narrative
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Sept. 25, 2026
513 - What Does It Actually Mean To Be A Creator?
The phrase “creator economy” gets used everywhere these days. But what does it actually mean to be a creator? Is a creator someone who earns money directly from YouTube views, sponsorships, Patreon supporters, advertising, or brand deals? What about the entrepreneur who creates content for an audience of only a few hundred or a few thousand people, but uses that content to build relationships that lead to clients, customers, products, services, speaking opportunities, or other forms of busine
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Sept. 23, 2026
512 - Community, Belonging, and the Value of Smaller In-Person Podcast Events
Podcasting can be a surprisingly lonely activity. You can spend hours sitting alone behind a microphone, creating something that reaches hundreds or thousands of people, while having very few people in your everyday life who actually understand what you do. I remember what that felt like during the early years of podcasting. Before there were large industry conferences, some of my favorite experiences were the smaller PodCamp events happening in cities around the country. You could drive a few
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Sept. 20, 2026
511 - Why I’m Creating Fewer Podcasts and Writing More
At the beginning of 2026, I committed to publishing a new episode of Podcast Answer Man every Friday morning at 12:01 a.m. I kept that commitment for months. Recently, I decided to let it go. In this episode, I want to take you deeper into the thinking behind that decision because this has become about much more than how frequently I publish a podcast. I've been asking myself a larger question. What forms of creation deserve my life energy now? Audio podcasting has been one of the most imp
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Aug. 26, 2026
510 - FIftteen Years, 760+ Episodes, and a Business Transformed by Podcasting
In 2011, Gary Takacs joined my four-week Podcasting A to Z course with an idea for a podcast specifically designed to serve dentists. Gary was certainly not new to his profession at the time. He had started his own dental practice management consulting firm in 1989 after spending the 1980s learning his craft with two larger consulting organizations. His marketing model consisted primarily of writing articles for dental publications and speaking at conferences around the country. Then he discov
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Aug. 13, 2026
509 - Does Your Podcast Still Deserve Your Time?
For the past 32 weeks, I have been committed to publishing a new episode of The Cliff Ravenscraft Show every Monday and a new episode of Podcast Answer Man every Friday. I made that commitment because I believed strongly in the value of consistency, and because bringing Podcast Answer Man back was part of a larger strategy to restore visibility, reconnect with the podcasting industry, get back on stages, and create new relationships and business opportunities. That strategy has worked. Podcast
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