Christian Podcasting Secrets with Tammy Maltese Munson

The Cure for Comparision: The Real Reason Your Show Feels Small

June 27
15 mins

Episode Description

 

Almost every podcaster I've worked with knows this moment. You finish an episode you're genuinely proud of, you go look at somebody else's show, and within about ninety seconds the thing you were proud of starts to feel small. 

Nothing about it changed. Only what you measured it against.

Comparison is not a character flaw. It's a measurement error. And 'just stop comparing' is the most useless advice anyone ever handed you, because it's like telling you to stop noticing. 

In this episode I give you the actual cure: not to stop measuring, but to change what you measure against.

XO, 

Tammy

 

Key Takeaways

  • [0:00:04] When Your Favorite Episode Suddenly Feels Small

  • [0:01:30] The Three Big Lies of Comparison

  • [0:03:30] Why AI Can't Really Hear Your Podcast

  • [0:05:08] Data Without Discernment: The Hidden Risk of AI

  • [0:06:30] When No One Is Truly Listening To Your Show

  • [0:07:30] Sarah's Story: Smaller Audience, Bigger Impact

  • [0:10:08] Called To a Different Race Than She Is

  • [0:11:00] The Only Three Metrics That Actually Matter

  • [0:12:30] Your Week-Long Comparison Fast

  • [0:13:45] Reviews, Reach, and Running Your Own Race



★  THE CURE — THREE BETTER MEASURES

1. YOUR OWN LAST SEASON 

Are you better than you were six months ago? Clearer? More yourself? That's the only growth chart that matters, and the one comparison makes you ignore it.

2. YOUR ACTUAL LISTENER 

Not the audience you wish you had. The real woman who listens. Is she getting what she came for? Coming back? Telling someone?

3. YOUR OWN CALLING 

Are you doing the thing you were called to do, in the way you were made to do it? If yes, you're succeeding at your assignment, regardless of what anyone else's looks like.This week's assignment: a comparison fast. Not the kind where you try to stop looking. Every time you catch yourself measuring your show against someone else's, immediately replace it with one question — am I better than I was last season? Catch the comparison, swap the question, every time.

 

Episode Quotables

1."Comparison is not a character flaw. It's a measurement error."

2."Comparison makes you measure your honest backstage against her staged front-of-house. You lose a contest she doesn't even know she's in."

3 "AI gives you the metrics. It cannot give you the meaning."

4.Comparison is a quiet distrust of the specific calling you were given. She has her assignment. You have yours."

5."The only person whose progress you were ever meant to track is the one you were six months ago."

 

Scripture Referenced

  • Galatians 6:4  "Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else."

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