Give Me Three Hours - November 05, 2026

What makes you stop listening to a podcast you used to love? I have three questions for people who listen to podcasts but don’t make them. Your answers will help me put together Your 2027 Podcast Plan, a free private podcast coming Thanksgiving week.

And a quick invitation: My Kaigi is November 14. Give me three hours to look back at your year and make room for what you want next. NAPODPOMO gets you 50% off, just for those of you here with the podcast.

Also, I managed to do the very thing every podcaster dreads: I didn’t record. 🙈

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Guess what just happened? Guess what just happened?

Because this is, like, the thing. This is the thing that most podcasters—it’s like people’s worst nightmare, for those of us who record, not for a living necessarily, but as part of our life in some way, shape, or form.

Can you hear me? Can you hear me screaming internally?

I forgot to press record. Or I pressed record and it didn’t press, or it didn’t tap through. You know, I think we have all been there.

I just did that. I just did that. Oh my gosh.

I’m just glad that these little episodes are short-ish, and so I don’t have to worry too much about going to figure it out and continuing talking and losing my mind.

Here we go.

Guess what, y’all? We only have nine more days until my planning experience, My Kaigi, and I would adore for you to attend. And because you are a consumer of this podcast, you get a 50% off coupon code that’s in the show notes.

The code itself is NAPODPOMO. Okay? It is NAPODPOMO, and that gets you 50% off. And it’s only available for those of you who are consuming this content, by the way.

And I get it, y’all. Listen, you are spending three hours with me. Okay? Three hours with me. And I know that that’s a long time. I totally get it.

But I promise you, grabbing three hours for you to finish the year in a way that feels good for you, and knowing that you can begin 2027 from a place of, “This is good. I’m in a good space.”

Not necessarily because everything is good and everything is perfect, but because you’ve spent time diving into your stuff, looking at all the things.

And this is open for everybody. So this isn’t, like, for podcasters or for creators. This is for all the people, whatever it is. People who have job jobs. People who don’t have job jobs. People who happen to be staying at home with their kiddies—or kiddies as in, like, actual humans.

Or this is for people who are just starting out and, you know, getting a job for the very first time and living alone for the very first time, as in, like, a young adult or something like that.

So it’s like, this is a great time for you to kind of sit back and look at what’s going on with you. And I promise you, it’ll be great.

And the reason I started all of this is because every year I felt that life was getting away from me. I always ended up with a sense of unfinishedness. Unfinished—is that even a word?

Where I had plans in my head. Nothing ever happened. It was just a dream inside of my head, because then life got in the way. Things got in the way. I couldn’t actually do them.

And then the new year started, and before I knew it, I blinked and it was March.

And I don’t wanna live in that world. I don’t wanna live in a world where I don’t have an opportunity to look back at my life and see that I’m alive, and that I have done things, and that I have impact, and that I have the agency to be able to steer myself in the direction that I want.

That is what My Kaigi is all about.

So if you have—give me three. Give me three hours. November 14. Give me three hours. Let’s spend some time together, and let’s do it. I mean, come. That’ll be so great. Do that. That would be awesome.

Anyway, all links are in the show notes. And the code, NAPODPOMO, 50% off just for you all who are here.

I’m also in the process of getting another project together. Maybe, maybe you don’t wanna do that—although I am telling you that I really want you to attend—but I’m working on another project, and it’s called Your 2027 Podcast Plan.

Now, yes, this is for people who have a podcast, so that is a little bit more specific. And my goal is to be able to have information in that podcast that is both helpful to people who are just starting a podcast and also for people who have been podcasting for a while.

Because, again, I feel that whenever, you know, the podcasting thing starts to happen, you get onto some momentum, you get into your production, you keep doing things, and you lose track of what your goals were in the first place.

You don’t know if what you’re doing is enough. You think that there’s maybe another solution to the problem that you have, or maybe that you are the only one that’s going through the problem that you’re putting out there.

And I’ve broken it down into five different episodes in there, where I hope to get some really great, insightful things that you can work through on your own at the end of the year.

And what’s really great is that these podcast episodes are meant to go live on the week of Thanksgiving. And they’re not something that you’re gonna have to be showing up for. They’re something you have in your ears and that you’re able to listen to wherever you are.

And it’s in that sort of asynchronous processing of this that I’m hoping that you’ll get a lot of benefit from it.

So even if it’s by just—I don’t even know if this is the right word—by osmosis, I guess? Just by hanging out with the words that are being spoken to you in your ears, you’d get a lot of benefit.

And again, the links for that will be in the show notes. That is free, by the way.

But I am looking for feedback. I am looking for feedback from people who are podcast consumers but aren’t podcasters. So they are not producing their own stuff. I want people who listen to podcasts only.

Maybe there’s one of you who is consuming this piece of content right now, where you’re literally just listening to my voice and you’re not a podcaster. Which, hey, I’m just thinking through this, but I do have a few questions for you, and I’m gonna share them with you in case you are here listening.

So these are the questions that I’d love for you to answer, either one of them or all three:

1. What made you stop listening to a show you used to enjoy?
2. When a show changes its host, format, or release schedule, what helps you stick around?
3. What do you wish podcast creators understood about why you listen or why you consume their content?

And it is so easy. You can write me an email, literally, at hello@elsieescobar.com, or you can head over to SpeakPipe, and you can leave me up to 90 seconds of your voice telling me—answering one of these questions, or more of them if you want to record all three. But you probably have to do one at a time.

I would love that.

And if I want to feature your voice in one of the podcast episodes, I will, of course, ask for consent. And, of course, you’re able to say, like, “Oh, no, thank you.”

My hope is to be able to share the insights just anonymously overall. You know, “podcast listeners,” that kind of a thing, right?

So that—because this podcast that I’m sharing, the private podcast that I’m creating, is aimed at podcasters—this is sort of like a way for us to get some information from the audience over to podcasters.

Because a lot of the time, that is probably one of the biggest pain points that a lot of us that create content online, especially podcasts, sometimes don’t get, is feedback. Direct feedback on what we’re doing.

Because it’s so asynchronous. It’s such an embedded part of somebody’s life, and a lot of the time the audience is living their life and not sitting in front of a computer sending emails and things, right?

So it would be really great if, for whatever reason, you decided to.

All links are gonna be in the show notes as well. So thank you so much, and I would love to hear from you.

And I’m headed back to putting my head down and thinking through more things.

Chat with you tomorrow.

Links mentioned

• My Kaigi — November 14, 2026: three-hour planning experience, open to everyone. NAPODPOMO gets you 50% off, just for this podcast’s audience.
• Your 2027 Podcast Plan: free private podcast; five episodes planned for Thanksgiving week.
• Leave Elsie a voice message on SpeakPipe: answer one or more of the three listener questions above.
• Email Elsie: hello@elsieescobar.com

Recording notes

The first recording attempt didn’t capture: I either forgot to press record or the tap didn’t register. Recorded using the iPhone 13 internal microphone and Just Press Record; processed through Auphonic.