“Misunderstanding”. They just wanted to speed

Lots of good tips in here already.

I would recommend checking out The Money Guys or Caleb Hammer on YouTube for some great tips with actionable goals.

Most people use a podhosting service like Podbean, iTunes, or Spotify. Sadly, that’s where you need to go for most normies to find you.

That said, there is an open source self-hosting option that ties in with the fediverse called castopod which is really easy to use and looks nice. Iirc they can also tie into other platforms (don’t quote me on that), but I never really needed to when I was hosting mine.