It was my first experience with hosting a podcast, and the first question is, why somebody becomes really demotivated after a long period of good motivation on recording/making podcasts?

The answer is simple, the audience. But what do I mean about audience?

I’m not talking about the podcast statistics, likes, shares or downloads counts, or even if the podcast is a single-person podcast or not, I’m talking about the bad feedback I’ve received from some of the listeners, because I don’t reply all of their feedbacks, questions or messages.

Some of the listeners think the podcast is my job, not my hobby, so they want a quick reply of their emails, or if you don’t reply them, they start sending bad commentaries on Facebook and spread lies about you to the others, to your friends and even to your family.

I know, because the current situation of Brazil, many of them have rush to move to another country and sometimes they’re desperate too, but It doesn’t justify. At the beginning I was dealing good with replying all messages and emails because they were just some but after a couple of episodes the quantity of emails and messages grew a lot and I personally don’t have too much spare time to reply everyone.

Anyway, the main and the most important thing is, if I really do something to help the others, I’m doing more than 90% of the people do. We know the people usually do nothing to help the brazilian community or they ask for money to help.

If I really do something to help the others, I’m doing more than 90% of the people do.

Of course, it’s cool to reply when I have a free time, and even to know the audience and get suggestions and constructive reviews for the next episodes and to always improve your podcast, but I don’t have enough time to reply everyone because I got too many messages and I have family and social life to look after. After some bad messages, and people talking bad things only because I haven’t replied their messages/emails, It started to make me sad and demotivated. So I took a break from making the podcast.