I'm 15 and I just launched my own podcast

Congrats mate! Amazing that you set yourself up to do this at 15!

Really. REALLY!

Keep that in mind, and keep going.

My two cents:

You do a podcast, you’re exposing yourself, you’re putting yourself out there. One thing is certain, people are going to chime in with negative comments, people are going to put you down. It’s going to be hard, you’re going to doubt yourself.

Now, don’t take the negative comments too harshly. Don’t let them affect your mood (as much as you can stop that of course). Try to see if there is some value that you can extract from them, is there some useful information beneath the hurtful part?

If there isn’t don’t give a crap about it, if there is, take that into account with a pinch of salt.

Keep going, keep going!

Congratulations,

David from The Other WorkSpace

Nice work, Josh. It's great that you're starting young! Now, a couple of pieces of advice from somebody else who started young as a web developer. A bit of background: I started web development at 10. By 13, I was answering questions on Stack Overflow. I'm 23 now, and I've written nearly 600 answers. They launched my career in web development, which I still do to this day to bankroll my indie hacking.

1. It's a great feeling to be the youngest person in the room, but you can't rely on that as your trump card. Yes, it's awesome that you're getting started young and it shows that you're smart and a hustler, but it also reveals that you are inexperienced. You need another edge – you should always be obsessing about developing that edge, sharpening yourself like a sword. When you get older and you're no longer the youngest person in the room (like me, right here and right now), what is your edge? DON'T RELAX BECAUSE YOU'RE THE YOUNGEST PERSON IN THE ROOM.

2. Make sure you listen – REALLY listen – to what other people have to say. It's easy to dismiss a lot of advice as not relevant to you, because you're so young or whatever, but usually the people who are telling you things know things you don't know. The advice is probably relevant. ASSUME THE PERSON YOU'RE LISTENING TO KNOWS MORE THAN YOU DO.

3. Have a long-term goal. If I'd known what I now know, back when I was your age, I could be a LOT further along. Actions consistently taken over time towards one specific goal compound fast, and you have more time than I do – 8 more years of it. Where would you like to be 5 years from now? 10? Imagine that in great detail. HAVE A LONG-TERM GOAL.

4. Do not get attached to that long-term goal. I did, and it cost me years that I wasted because I wasn't flexible enough to realize that the goal I set for myself wasn't ideal. For a long time I wanted to become a millionaire as fast as possible so I could retire at 25 and never work again. It took me a long time to realize that a better goal is to find the freedom to live life as I want and work on things that matter to me. Money is worthless if you don't have freedom to spend it. Instead, be flexible with your goals and re-evaluate them constantly as you learn new things. DON'T GET TOO ATTACHED TO ONE PARTICULAR GOAL.

5. You don't know what you don't know. Find some mentors and pick their brains all the time. CONSTANTLY ASK OTHERS FOR ADVICE.

6. If you want to learn something, interview other people who have done that thing really successfully and post the interviews as a video or podcast (with their permission, of course). You learn more, they get more exposure, and you build an audience by providing them with valuable content. Everybody wins!

7. If you're constantly stimulating your mind with passive entertainment, you deprive it of the ability to act on its own and produce content for others. Limit entertainment intake, whether that be fiction, videogames, movies, TV, whatever. YOU EITHER CONSUME OR YOU CREATE – PICK ONE.

Finally, some reading which changed my life: Four Hour Work-Week, by Tim Ferriss, and 12 Rules For Life, by Jordan Peterson. The advice above is drawn from my own experiences and what I've learned from those two books.

P.S. Did I mention that the person you're listening to probably knows more than you do? There is so much to life, and you're just getting started. Enjoy the ride, don't work too hard, and take care of your health. There's so much more, but these are things I wish I knew when I was your age.

you should talk to @gczh he just launched Young Makers, a newsletter. You can interview each other.

This is great, Josh! Congrats on the launch and best wishes.

Comment below "Yes" if you are interested in coming on my podcast (not physically due to covid-19)

Great initiative and wish you good luck with it!
As I read this and taking into concern that you are 15, I had another idea. As a father, I don't want to become an old clueless grandpa as my kids grow but nowadays everything moves at very fast speed. I think parents and grandparents would be keen on knowing the latest trends of kids and teenagers nowadays.

As an example, I didn't know kids are not using Facebook as much as other stuff. It seems like it was just yesterday that Facebook was launched.

If you ever decide to get to this podcast idea, give me a shout!

Can't wait to know what to not waste my time on in web development so I can be more productive. 👍

Leave a comment below saying what you're looking forward to learning from my podcast.

Good job mate! You remined me to me when I was 9 I started to hack my computer and then 2-3 years later I introduced myself to programming, thats the way to become succesful in life, do what you like at your own, pursue your dreams.

Remember, education is not about having a degree, education is about learning, and for me, self education is the best approach always, it's superior in any way, but not for everyone, it can become dark and hard, but you just have to keep struggling and go forward!

The fact what you are 15 and launched it makes some kudos for you, but have nothing to do with explaining what I can get from your podcast and why I should spend time on this specific one, when there are dozens of others which launched every other day.

Your description is too vague, web development, starting online business and staying productive is so much different things, what you can launch 5 podcasts on each of them. It sounds more like you dont know what to do now. Especially you being young, so you can not put much of your own experience, you need to show how you are going to put value to your podcast. Like having great guests (not 'planning' but achieved) etc.

After you get some credibility and can display it, that would look way better.

So far I dont buy it. Harsh as it is.

My advice: since you have a goal to get every indiehacker listen it, you should work on how to present it.

Congrats on launching! It is the most difficult to go from 0 to 1 in everything imo. Once you get started, it's just about keeping the momentum going!

Yup Josh knows his stuff. Good content, I had the pleasure of going through some of his episodes listening to what its all about.

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Great work Josh! Your thoughts are well-organized.

What's the process like? Do you have a script/outline? Do you record in one shot or multiple takes?

Hey, congrats on starting at such a young age!
I listened to both episodes, I think the first one was a lot better - the second one felt like you were only reading from the script. Maybe write down some topics you want to cover, but try to improvise a bit?
Overall good job, keep it up!

Amazing dude. Just listened to episode one. All the best of luck