Podcast Bestie, the Podcast

Courtney Kocak

Booking Overview

This practical interview podcast focuses on building, growing, and monetizing independent podcasts, featuring external guests who have achieved specific milestones such as audience expansion, YouTube monetization, major network deals, celebrity bookings, or podcast-to-book adaptations. Agencies could credibly pitch independent podcasters, podcast entrepreneurs, journalists, producers, and creators with demonstrable growth or monetization results; booking difficulty is low because guests are typically accessible professionals rather than celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 22

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

podcastbestie@substack.com

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Host

Courtney Kocak - Founder of Podcast Bestie, podcaster, writer, and memoir author.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Independent podcasters, journalists, producers, or creator-entrepreneurs with a demonstrable podcasting achievement, such as significant audience growth, monetization, a network deal, high-profile guest bookings, or a successful adaptation into another medium.

Required Achievements:

Podcast audience growth, YouTube audience growth or monetization, Podcast network deals, High-profile guest bookings, Podcast-to-book adaptations

Recent Guest Discussions

Mala Muñoz - Building A Podcast From An Indie Passion Project, Community Building, Network Deals, Production Resources, Exclusivity, Intellectual Property, And Contract Negotiation.

Diosa Femme - Building A Podcast From An Indie Passion Project, Community Building, Network Deals, Production Resources, Exclusivity, Intellectual Property, And Contract Negotiation.

Ashley Hamer Pritchard - Growing A Podcast Audience On Youtube, Low-lift Video Production, Titles And Thumbnails, Analytics, Long-form Video, And Youtube Monetization.

Carole Zimmer - Booking Prominent Podcast Guests, Outreach Strategy, Publisher Relationships, Pitch Emails, Rejection, Interview Philosophy, And Research.

Cara McGoogan - Adapting A Podcast Into A Book, Narrative Structure, Research, Fact-checking, And Intellectual Property Considerations.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Monetization, Audience Growth

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Podcast Bestie, the Podcast

So You Want to Sign With a Podcast Network? with Locatora Radio

September 18, 2026

Hey Besties! For episode three of season two, I’m joined by Diosa Femme and Mala Muñoz, the co-hosts and co-founders of Locatora Radio, a podcast they started as an indie passion project in 2016 and eventually grew into a full-fledged production company and a deal with iHeartRadio’s My Cultura Podcast Network. And this one is a juicy peek behind the scenes because, while signing with a major network helped Diosa and Mala turn podcasting into their full-time careers (hell yes!), they also lear...

Ashley Hamer Pritchard's Low-Lift Strategy for 10x-ing Her Podcast Audience on YouTube

August 21, 2026

Hey Besties! For episode two of season two, I’m joined by Taboo Science host Ashley Hamer Pritchard, an indie podcaster who went from basically ignoring YouTube to building a burgeoning monetized channel with over 15K subscribers. And the best part? She started without a fancy studio, a ton of gear, or a complicated video production workload.In this episode, Ashley breaks down exactly how she made the leap from audio to video—and how her first low-lift experiment helped 10x her audience from ...

How Carole Zimmer Books A-List Celebrity Guests Like Jane Fonda & Ethan Hawke

July 17, 2026

Hey Besties! For the first episode of season two, I’m joined by veteran journalist and Now What? host Carole Zimmer, whose guest list includes Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Ethan Hawke, Joe and Jill Biden, Gabriel Byrne, Norman Lear, and dozens of other fascinating, world-famous people. In this episode, Carole pulls back the curtain on how she consistently lands high-profile guests as an indie podcaster. We get into her outreach strategy, how she leverages publisher relationships, what she puts...

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