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Why I started a podcast on losing weight

by Anna Farmery

At the beginning of the year, a fellow podcaster Heather Gorringe (Wiggly WIgglers Podcast) and I started a podcast about our journey to lose weight. We aimed to lose 84lbs. This podcast was not about growing an audience or anything like that,it was about making a our aim public and giving us the accountability to lose our weight. The podcast Middle Age Shed has been great - we have now lost 65lbs of our target and the key aspects are
- That it is out there - on the web, a public declaration that we cannot back down from!
- That this was a podcast I started with someone I didn’t know, didn’t live near, we just knew each other from our blogs and yet has developed into a friendship
- The community that has built around it is fantastic. The show is very honest, it is about our struggle - we are not natural dieters. The honesty, is the one thing that every listener comments upon.
- That our goal is in reach and we both feel that we don’t want to stop the show because it helps us to focus on our lifestyles.

Podcasting can be about selling, it can be about business but it can also be a very personal journey. For me that is what is great about the medium. This show illustrates that people love human frailty, they love connecting with the emotions, they love helping each other. Where before I enjoyed podcasting and using it in the business world - now from this show I realise that I need podcasting for my own development.

If you want to hear about our journey then we have just done an interview on Tom Marquette’s Blubrry Users show.

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Posted in General on May 20th, 2007

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