Your Mic
Your Mic is the podcast about podcasting for new, stuck, and almost‑quit hosts. Hosted by Speke Podcasting founder and 25‑year broadcast vet Freddy Cruz, it blends hard‑earned lessons, failures, and irreverent stories with sharp tactics you can actually use. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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October 1, 2026 • 3 mins
Freddy Cruz explains why motivation is a lousy production plan. Learn how topic banks, batch recording, checklists, episode reserves, and a repeatable workflow can keep your show alive when life gets loud and your release date is staring you down.
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Key Takeaways
1. You do not rise to your be...
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September 29, 2026 • 3 mins
Freddy Cruz delivers a hard truth for creators hiding behind fear, excuses, or somebody else’s opinion. Your story may be exactly what another person needs. Stop waiting for permission, pull the mic out of the closet, and give your voice somewhere to go.
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1. Somebody else...
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September 24, 2026 • 23 mins
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Victoria Meyer turned a chemical-industry podcast into a six-figure media business. We talk niche authority, paid guest access, sponsor-ready media kits, and why your download count is not the whole damn story. Stop tr...
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September 22, 2026 • 6 mins
Chris Richardson joins Your Mic to unpack how The House of Theft became Speke Originals’ first true-crime podcast. A $3.8 million family fraud scheme is the backdrop, but the mission is bigger: spot the red flags, stop suffering in silence, and tell stories that can actually help somebody.
Key Takeaways
1. A personal story does not need to begin as a polished book proposal. Record the first version before perfection strangl...
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September 22, 2026 • 6 mins
Chris Richardson turned a $3.8 million family fraud story into The House of Theft. This is not true crime for gawking. It is about red flags, survival, and telling the truth before silence does more damage.
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Key Takeaways
1. A personal story becomes more powerful when it serves a purpose...
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September 17, 2026 • 5 mins
Freddy Cruz takes a grim look at Victorian rat pits and bare-knuckle spectacle to expose a modern creator problem: attention without value. Learn how to make provocative work without turning outrage, grief, humiliation, or someone else’s pain into your growth strategy.
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September 15, 2026 • 20 mins
Mavi Rodriguez grew Big Butts, No Lies past 300,000 downloads by serving a specific audience, answering real questions, and posting the damn video. Britney from Fun Love Media joins Freddy to talk confidence, community, visibility, and betting on yourself before the world catches up.
Join Mavi, Dr. Angela Sturm, and Freddy for a panel about The Beauty of Podcasting at Illuminate: The Content Creator Experience. Use the code MAVI at...
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September 10, 2026 • 7 mins
Freddy Cruz separates strategic patience from stubborn self-delusion. Using the signal, asymmetry, and identity tests, he shows creators how to decide whether to double down, change the format, sharpen positioning, get help, or finally stop wasting time.
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1. Persistence is not ...
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September 8, 2026 • 17 mins
Lolita Guarin helps nonfiction writers quit hiding behind fear, family judgment, and the lie that publishing a book must cost a fortune. Get the words out first. Clean them up later. Somebody needs the story you keep swallowing.
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September 6, 2026 • 4 mins
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Freddy Cruz explains why brute-force grinding is not always brave. Sometimes the hard thing is pausing a broken show, fixing bad data, replacing a stale format, confronting a weak co-host dynamic, or building seasons instead of pretending chaos is a strategy.
Key Takeaways
1. Pushing ha...
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August 20, 2026 • 2 mins
We’re taking a short reset to make the next run of episodes even stronger.
New episodes return the week after Labor Day. In the meantime, follow the show so the next episode hits your feed automatically—and send us your questions, guest suggestions, and topics you want us to tackle at freddy@spekepodcasting.com.
We’re taking a breath. Not backing down.
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August 18, 2026 • 18 mins
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Podcasters quit right before it starts working. This episode breaks down the real timeline behind three working shows, and why time, effort, and feedback (not luck) are what actually separate the ones who make it from the ones who don't.
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1. Compounding takes years, not months....
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August 13, 2026 • 6 mins
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Freddy Cruz breaks down what he learned from Dr. Eddie Patton, a neurologist who treats his podcast (Your Health, Your Wealth) less like content and more like a prescription pad. When Dr. Patton runs out of time in the exam room, ...
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August 11, 2026 • 28 mins
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How do you prepare for a milestone like hitting 100 podcast episodes?
It's a journey that takes persistence and learning through every step. George Blitch has navigated this path with his Son of a Blitch podcast.
Tod...
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August 6, 2026 • 41 mins
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Indie podcast expert Frank Racioppi joins me to unpack AMP’s new play metric, Spotify’s ad skip feature, broken CPMs, and why targeted listeners beat vanity downloads if you actually want a podcast that makes money.
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August 4, 2026 • 6 mins
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Picture a bright yellow Lamborghini, cruising by. There's no TV ad for it, yet it turns heads. Just like that, podcasting can reach its audience without big-budget promotions. It’s about knowing where your audience is and speaking directly to them.
In this episode of Your Mic, disco...
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July 30, 2026 • 7 mins
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Freddy Cruz goes solo with lessons from Dr. Angela Sturm, a facial plastic surgeon with hundreds of YouTube videos, a podcast (Beauty Unveiled), and a full aesthetic practice, who once cried at the thought of public speaking. This one is for every host hiding from video because of a nose, ...
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July 28, 2026 • 9 mins
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Freddy Cruz goes solo on this one, and he is coming for the excuse you have been hiding behind. Everybody blames podfade on burnout, but after multiple shows since 2020, over a thousand interviews, and 25 plus years behind a mic, Freddy knows the uglier truth. A lot of dead podcasts died be...
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July 23, 2026 • 9 mins
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Freddy Cruz opens the vault on the origin story of Speke Podcasting, and it starts with 450 job applications and a wall of silence. Instead of waiting, he went hunting through his own contact list with a copy and paste message, and one of those messages landed with Dorothy Gibbons, co-found...
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July 21, 2026 • 9 mins
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Freddy takes a blowtorch to the “intentional mistake” trend that is quietly trashing good shows.
You hear the story of a client’s phone ringing mid‑recording, why leaving it in was not a clever brand move, and how big creators are now telling you to keep typos and stumb...
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