Nothing About This Is Safe

'Nothing About This Is Safe' is our unfiltered podcast where we tackle the hard truths of writing and publishing. No gurus, no sugar-coating, no recycled advice...just blunt conversations about what really works (and what doesn’t) in the trenches of indie storytelling. If you want safe, this isn’t it. If you want the truth...welcome inside. www.jaimebuckley.com

Nothing About This Is Safe is a education podcast hosted by Jaime Buckley 💎, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jaime Buckley 💎 hosts Nothing About This Is Safe, a education show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  🎙 EPISODE 13 – How Do Fiction Authors Get Discovered by AI Without Chasing Volume?

  Jul 7, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Every writer is scared AI is about to bury them, and the internet only offers two useless answers: crank out two hundred books a year, or burn it all down.</p><p>Jaime Buckley and author Alicia McCalla skip both and have the actual conversation.</p><p>This is the fork every author is standing on, whether they see it or not: build a volume brand (hundreds of books, discoverability rented from the retailer) or a depth brand (a story world readers want to live inside, and one AI can actually find because it is unmistakably yours). Alicia breaks...

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  Episode #12

  🎙 EPISODE 12 – You Can't Predict When Success Hits — But You Can Keep Showing Up

  May 5, 20261h 11mS0

  <p>Most writers want to know the secret formula. </p><p>Post at this time. Use these hashtags. Write this genre. Follow this strategy.</p><p>But what if the real secret is simpler—and harder—than that?</p><p>What if success isn’t about cracking a code, but about showing up for years without knowing when (or if) the breakthrough comes?</p><p>Eric Falden and I talk about the uncomfortable truth behind every writing career that lasts: you can’t predict when success hits, but you can keep showing up anyway.</p><p>Episode Overview</p><p>In this...

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  Nothing About This Is Safe

  🎙 EPISODE 11 – The Algorithm Doesn't Hate You — It's Just Honest

  Apr 14, 20261h 16mS0

  <p>Stop Blaming the Algorithm. It’s Not Sabotaging You.</p><p>Writers love to blame algorithms.</p><p>“The algorithm hates me.”“The algorithm buried my post.”“If only the algorithm would show my work...”</p><p>Here’s the uncomfortable truth: The algorithm doesn’t care about you at all.</p><p>It’s not out to get you. It’s not playing favorites. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do—sell attention to the highest bidder and keep users scrolling.</p><p>In this conversation with Simon K Jones—author of the long-running serial Tales from the Triverse and...

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  🎙 EPISODE 10 – Confessions of the Nearly-Done Author

  Mar 3, 20261h 22mS0

  <p>Host: Jaime Buckley 💎 Guest: Lisa Norman (Deleyna Marr)Topic: What actually keeps authors trapped in the nearly-done stage, and what truth are they avoiding about themselves?Music: “Feel Good” by raspberrymusic </p><p>Subscribe now</p><p>Finish The Book. Stop Worshipping “Almost.”</p><p>“Nearly done” feels like progress. It feels safe. It feels responsible.</p><p>It can also be a holding pattern that keeps your book out of readers’ hands for years. In this conversation with Lisa Norman (also writing as Deleyna Marr), we talk about why writers get addicted to endless polishing, why fear disguises itself as “craft...

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  Episode #9

  🎙 EPISODE 9 – Imposter Syndrome Isn’t The Problem — Who You Think You Are Is

  Feb 3, 20261h 14mS0

  <p>🎙 EPISODE 9 – What If “Imposter Syndrome” Isn’t the Problem…Identity Is?Visiting with Jon Howski.</p><p>Most writers don’t stall because they’re untalented. They stall because their identity turns every page into a verdict.</p><p>In this episode, Jaime Buckley sits down with Jon Howski (storyteller and software developer) to unpack what “imposter syndrome” is really made of: fear, comfort zones, old damage, and the pressure to earn the right to create.</p><p>What we cover:</p><p>• Why “I feel like a fraud” is usually fear in a costume</p><p>• “Writer” vs “Storyteller” (and why that shift ma...

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