The Audacity to Podcast

The Audacity to Podcast is the long-running podcast and resource site from Daniel J. Lewis, a Cincinnati-based podcaster and consultant who's been publishing weekly since 2010. It was named the #1 technology podcast in the People's Choice Podcast Awards in 2012 and again in 2023.

Lewis covers podcasting tools and gear in depth, SEO for podcasters (he sells a dedicated SEO for Podcasters course), interview craft, podcast website improvements, podcast review-aggregation (he built My Podcast Reviews), and the general practicalities of building and improving a show. He also runs Podcasters' Society, a paid membership for podcasters who want structured ongoing support.

In 2026 Lewis attended Podfest Multimedia Expo in Orlando — describing it as his favorite podcasting conference — and released a January 2026 episode on PO boxes as a potential investment for podcasters. The site is most useful for solo and small-team creators looking for working-podcaster-level advice on the unglamorous-but-important parts of the medium — feed troubleshooting, plugins, transcription workflow, hosting comparisons.

Less useful for: pure storytelling craft (Transom is better) or enterprise-strategy questions (Sounds Profitable is better). The Audacity to Podcast also co-hosts Podcasters' Roundtable with Ray Ortega and Dave Jackson, so listeners often follow all three properties as a connected ecosystem of working-podcaster advice. The paid Podcasters' Society adds direct access to Lewis and a small community of members who can ask specific questions and get answered — useful if you're stuck on something the public articles don't cover.