We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful William Mount. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with William below.

Alright, William thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

In 2010 I started to think about being able to make a podcast. I had reached out to one of my favorite podcasters at the time and asked what they used to make a podcast. They told me a zoom h4n and GarageBand. I then bought those things and started playing around with recording audio and figuring out how to edit. Once I got over the “my voice sounds like. this” barrier, I got more comfortable with the actual audio being recorded. It took a while to figure out how to edit properly and make sure it sounded clean. It’s hard now to go back and hear the early episodes because of how much I’ve progressed since the beginning. But I learned by making mistakes with stuff. Listening to other podcasts and hearing what worked and what didn’t was also a huge help. The better I got at editing, the more I could catch other podcasts bad cuts and weird edits, which then helps me be more conscious about my edits and making sure I’m putting out the best product I can.

William, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m a guy who makes a bunch of podcasts. I started a podcast network “Loud Cat Podcasts” to house them all in. I got into it in the beginning of 2011 and once I figured out how to make one podcast, I realized I could make a bunch of podcasts. This has been a blessing and a curse. I’m constantly trying to silence my brain from coming up with podcast ideas and following through with them. I rope a lot of my friends into being in my shows because creating things with people you care about is a very great feeling.

I’ve had a great time making friends along the way as well. I used to be very introverted before making podcasts. It’s really helped me open up and be more comfortable talking to people, outside of recorded conversations. It’s given me an outlet to find new things I love and opportunities to work with some really great people.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

The only goal I’m hoping to achieve is to continue being happy with the end results. It’s been a very fulfilling journey with podcasting and as long as it continues to make me happy, I’ll keep doing it. The beautiful thing about it, is that you can turn any passion into a podcast, find an audience and connect with other like minded people. It’s great connecting with people and realizing you’re not alone with whatever your passion might be.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Making something that people connect with is extremely rewarding. I never make anything with the expectation of hearing back from anyone about it. It’s more of a “I’ve made this thing and put it out in the world, if you enjoy it great, if not, no worries.” type attitude. But the moment someone brings up that they listened to an episode, or laughed at a part, or dived deeper into something you discussed, it makes me so happy inside. There’s so much content in the world and so much stuff pulling for people’s attention, that when they tell you they took time out of their day to listen to something that you’ve been involved with, it’s one of the best feelings to have.

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• Website: https://linktr.ee/loudcatpodcasts
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