1. How to start a podcast for free?

You can host a podcast using different hosting platforms:

Anchor.fm, BuzzSprout, Lisbyn, etc

For hosting purposes: Anchor.fm is free and easy to set up, helps to automatically distribute to Spotify, and other platforms

There are also paid options/platforms but depends on your commitment, interest.

I have been hosting my podcast on Anchor.fm and the experience has been pretty good.

  1. Where and how to start podcast?

You can start podcasting using Anchor or any other hosting platform which fits your budget, comfort

If you are planning/considering to start a podcast here are a couple of points below:

  1. Format/Approach: Interview Based, Solo, or Co-Host(choose the one which you are comfortable with, etc) -> Guest/Interview Based sourcing quality guests is a pain point, I have used the below platforms for sourcing most of my guests:

https://podbooker.com

https://podcastguests.com

https://matchmaker.fm

LinkedIn, DM, Cold Emailing and much more