I’ve long believed that those who declare that they are experts, are not. This makes it all the more surprising that I proclaimed myself a “podcasting expert” on my website last week. I did so in response to a suggestion that while people can make their own judgements about me, Google needs to be told who I am and what I know. And when Google is told, it responds. It took only 12 hours for me to appear in the number five spot out of 14,600,000. I’m interested to see how quickly I fall off the chart now that I’ve removed the claim.

I feel confident and proud enough to say that I am good at what I do. And yet, even after editing, producing and/or hosting 446 448 podcast episodes of different varieties and styles, both personally and for clients, I have a lot to learn.

To me, an expert is someone who has exhausted all learning and has nowhere else to go in their field. I am not comfortable with that label and, quite frankly, I hope I never achieve it.