We just shipped a new Metrics API for Fireside. Pull your download stats programmatically — per episode, by month, with time-window breakdowns.

Build dashboards, sync to spreadsheets, whatever you need.

This is just the start. Docs: fireside.fm/docs/api

Back in the Studio: A Summer Break, Big Plans, and Momentum It’s been a minute, but we’re excited to share a brand new episode of Standing in the Fire. After a summer full of family time, construction dust, and launching the Momentum Entrepreneurship Hub here in South Bend, Kris and I finally sat down together in our new Fireside

We’re finally back in the studio: new space, new energy, and a whole lot to catch up on. Fireside year one wasn’t what we expected… but maybe that’s the point.

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Repurposing Podcast Content Across Multiple Platforms Your podcast can be more than just a podcast. You can repurpose some or all of it to share it on different social media platforms or on your website.

Back when podcasts were audio-only, distribution was simple. Now, with platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, your podcast should be everywhere.

Share short clips. Create transcripts. Repurpose older episodes.

Modern podcasting is about visibility and SEO.

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Hearing great things like this brightens our day.

Awesome! Love that you shared this.

Middle aged man in beard and glasses wears a black shirt featuring the logo for fireside.fm.

Repping our podcast host, @fireside.fm.

(Though I'm a bit sunburnt from the beach and hiding in A/C from the heat dome.)

Perfect shade of sunburn in our opinion. 😊 🔥

Thanks for the share!

That’s a great tip!

Remote Recording: Tools and Tips for Long-Distance Podcasting Learn how to overcome internet glitches, manage latency, and use podcasting tools to create professional-quality podcasts with participants across the globe.

Latency isn’t just annoying, it kills good podcast conversations.

You jump in with a “yep!”... 2 seconds too late.
Your guest talks over your best question.
Your edit turns into a surgery.

How to dodge remote recording problems:

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The SaaS Checkup — What You Should Audit Every Year (But Probably Don’t) Just like your body needs an annual physical, your SaaS product does too. In this episode of Standing in the Fire, Garrett, Kris and I chat about the dusty corners of running a SaaS business—from outdated onboarding emails and neglected feature rollouts to silent churn and pricing paralysis. What

🎙️ Episode #8: The SaaS Checkup — What You Should Audit Every Year (But Probably Don’t)

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Stop drowning in tasks, start buying back your time What if you could focus only on what truly moves the needle? Kris and I explore how founders can delegate smarter, systemize better, and scale faster.

🎙️ Stop drowning in tasks, start buying back your time.

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Better Audio, Smoother Edits: A Guide to Multi-Track Podcast Recording When recording a podcast, it's important to record each participant correctly, to provide the best sound quality, and to ensure efficient post-production and editing.

Want your podcast to sound crisp and pro-level? Multi-track recording is the secret.

🔊 Clearer audio – no more muffled voices
✂️ Smoother edits – cut out distractions with ease
🎧 Better experience – keep listeners hooked

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Standing in the Fire 6: The Art of Sharing Knowledge in Teams John, Kris, and Garrett dive into the challenge of capturing, organizing, and sharing company knowledge. From technical documentation to internal playbooks and video walkthroughs, they explore the best ways to ensure critical information doesn’t get lost.

🎙️ If knowledge isn’t written down, it doesn’t exist. Episode #6 breaks down:

✅ Biggest doc mistakes
✅ Text/screenshots/videos (what tools work?)
✅ How to make knowledge easy to find & USE
✅ How to avoid the only X knows this disaster

🎧 ↣ standinginthefire.fireside.fm/6

Choose the Best Format for Your Podcast: Solo, Interview, Narrative, and More Discover the different podcast formats—from co-hosted conversations to solo shows and narrative storytelling—and find the best fit for your podcasting style.

Solo, co-hosted, interviews, panels — so many ways to podcast! Not sure which format fits you best? We’ve got you covered.

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Microphones 101: Selecting the Right Mic for Your Podcast Choosing the right mic for a podcast can be complicated: there are a number of factors to consider when selecting your microphone.

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New post: "Microphones 101: Selecting the Right Mic for Your Podcast"

🎙️ Podcasting is all about speaking into a microphone, and you want your listeners to hear your audio as clearly as possible!

Tech Wins & Hiring Woes: How to Communicate, Celebrate, and Find the Right People Celebrating tech wins in a way that resonates with customers can be tricky—so how should SaaS companies do it? John, Kris, and Garrett break down how they ap...

Episode #5 is out: Tech Wins & Hiring Woes: How to Communicate, Celebrate, and Find the Right People.

Also we are now on youtube.

standinginthefire.fireside.fm/5
youtu.be/aOvjriTQtuA

Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear you are enjoying it. -John

Why Start a Podcast? The Power of Audio Content in 2025 Whether you are a business or an individual, if you want to get out your message or share your passion, podcasting is a great way to connect with others.

New Post: "Why Start a Podcast? The Power of Audio Content in 2025"

• Anyone can start a podcast
• A great way to connect with others
• A great way for a business to communicate

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AI Tools that Can Power Up Your Podcast Production From chatbots to transcriptions, AI tools can help you make better podcasts, and speed up your production.

New post: "AI tools that can power up your podcast production"

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Hope you find one of them helpful!

Slow, steady, and focused on what matters most—our customers. By listening to feedback and making continuous, incremental improvements, we’re driving down churn and building stronger, long-term relationships.

Our hi-tech version of keeping track of possible clips while editing. 😂

What do you do?

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
- Alain de Botton

▶️ Start that new podcast.

Mastering Prioritization in SaaS In this episode, John, Kris, and Garrett dive into the challenges of prioritization in SaaS entrepreneurship. They share their personal experiences managing multiple businesses, navigating technical u...

Episode #3: mastering prioritization in saas.

standinginthefire.fireside.fm/3

Good news! You can now link to your @bsky.app and mastodon profiles for your podcasts.

Head over to fireside.fm > Podcast Info > Social Profiles and fill in yours today.

Drinking Our Own Champagne In this debut episode of Standing in the Fire, hosts John Nunemaker, Garrett Dimon, and Kristopher Priemer introduce themselves and share their vision for Fireside.fm, a podcast hosting and analytics ...

Episode #1: "Drinking our own champagne" is out. Give it a listen and be sure to subscribe to follow along in the future.

standinginthefire.fireside.fm/1

🎙️ The Evolution of Podcasts:

1995: 🎧 Nonexistent (but we had radio drama classics!)

2000: 💡 Early experiments, a few dozen shows

2005: 🚀 Apple adds podcasts to iTunes (~5K shows)

2010: 🌱 Steady growth (~85K shows)

2015: 🔥 The boom (~200K shows)

2024: 🌍 5M+ pods, ~1M active

Finally did some performance work for @fireside.fm.

* added marginalia to track down some queries
* reduced the # of queries (zapped some n+1, etc.)
* removed use of lower function in queries so pg would use indexes

The results were great! Another drop off graph for my folder named "dexter". 📉😎

🎙️ Got a story to share? Your voice could be what someone’s waiting to hear.