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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June 18, 2026 • 16 mins
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Every time regular people got a new tool, the people in power called it the end of civilization. The printing press. The typewriter. The internet. YouTube. Podcasting. Same panic. Different century.
This episode is a history lesson with a blueprint attached. Name your industry's ivory tower. Map the moat. Pick a...
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June 16, 2026 • 23 mins
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There is a team running your creative life. You did not hire them. They are called soldiers. The controller. The fixer. The guardian. The ...
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June 11, 2026 • 3 mins
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Podfade is real. Four shows since 2020. Over a thousand interviews recorded. And Freddy Cruz has wanted to quit more than once.
Not because podcasting is hard. Because life is hard. And podcasting sits on top of life.
This solo episode is short, direct, and built for the host who is one rough week away fro...
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June 9, 2026 • 29 mins
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You have been staring at the wrong version of your face your whole life.
Dr. Angela Sturm, facial plastic surgeon and host of Beauty Unv...
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June 4, 2026 • 1 min
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Never compare your first mile to somebody else’s 19th—especially in podcasting. In this episode of Your Mic, I share a story about my neighbor Marcel, a former 150‑pounds‑overweight runner turned marathon machine, and what his mile 19 struggle can teach you about sticking with your show when you’re still ...
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June 2, 2026 • 8 mins
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Somewhere on the internet right now, a guy in a ring light is telling you that you must have a cold open. The guy next to him says cold opens are dead. The third one says if you are not on video your podcast is basically a voicemail.
Freddy Cruz is not here for any of it.
In this solo episo...
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May 29, 2026 • 30 mins
Last year Freddy lost $7,500 on an event. He would do it again tomorrow.
Britney Crosson, founder of Fun Love Media and host of Social Success, knows the feeling. So the two of them did the logical thing: teamed up, booked the Health Museum in Houston, and built something new together. It is called Illuminate. October 3rd, 2026.
This episode is the origin story. You hear why two creators who have both had their teeth kicked in ...
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May 28, 2026 • 30 mins
Last year Freddy lost $7,500 on an event. He would do it again tomorrow.
Britney Crosson, founder of Fun Love Media and host of Social Success, knows the feeling. So the two of them did the logical thing: teamed up, booked the Health Museum in Houston, and built something new together. It is called Illuminate. October 3rd, 2026.
This episode is the origin story. You hear why two creators who have both had their teeth kicked in by...
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May 26, 2026 • 17 mins
Downloads lie. Or more precisely, they only tell you what happened. Not why. Niall Sullivan figured that out, scrapped his first build, and rebuilt Podcritic from scratch around one simple idea: your podcast needs an editorial layer, not just a dashboard.
In this episode, Freddy sits down with Niall Sullivan, founder of Podcritic, the AI-powered editorial tool built for podcast networks, studios, and multi-show...
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May 25, 2026 • 6 mins
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Freddy pulls apart a real pitch that hit his inbox and using it as a live autopsy of everything wrong with lazy podcast outreach. You hear how an AI sounding message tried to flatter, fake familiarity, and completely miss the point of what the show is actually about. He walks through why “spray and pray&...
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May 25, 2026 • 6 mins
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Today Freddy takes a soda’s lithium era into the podcast studio and uses it as a brutal metaphor for desperate shows hiding behind gimmicks. You hear how dramatic cold opens, fake urgency, and overcaffeinated host personas are just modern lithium in the bottle, signaling that the creator does not trust t...
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May 25, 2026 • 11 mins
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VoxPro didn’t kill radio, it turned stressed‑out DJs into sharper storytellers—and AI is about to do the same thing for podcasters.
In this solo episode of Your Mic, I take you back to 1996: wax pens, razor blades, reel...
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May 25, 2026 • 11 mins
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Here’s the episode featuring George Blitch that I mentioned:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Gcs7FcvHWq4HGkVqZyU1P?si=7eea3818e62a4c67
Today Freddy takes you to Puebla, 1862, and shoves a mirror in your face so you see your podcast as the underdog army staring down network giants. He shows you how ce...
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May 14, 2026 • 11 mins
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In this episode Freddy drags your fear of rejection into the light with the story of how Linkin Park got rejected dozens of times before anyone got it. He uses Chester walking out on his own birthday party to take a maybe call as a gut punch reminder of what commitment actually looks like. You ...
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April 28, 2026 • 11 mins
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Somebody on LinkedIn said the quiet part out loud. They showed up to a small podcast and resented every second of it. Freddy had thoughts. On this episode of ...
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April 23, 2026 • 10 mins
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Steven Bartlett deletes twenty episodes a year. Flies the guest in. Spends weeks prepping. And if the conversation isn't good enough — gone. No apologies.
Freddy's been there. An author with a Netflix series attached to his last book. Real prep. Dog-eared pages. Genuine curiosity. And then they hit reco...
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April 21, 2026 • 29 mins
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Freddy Cruz chats Katie Read on Your Mic unpacking her Castle Guard AI framework from psych roots. She reveals four bu...
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April 16, 2026 • 24 mins
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April 16, 2026 • 10 mins
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Freddy Cruz drops a solo rant on Your Mic pulling from INXS rejecting a million bucks to rework Kick. He lays bare the trap of sanding edges ...
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April 14, 2026 • 24 mins
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