Personally, I've kept my blog separate from my local, real life community. I find it hard to blog freely and opening if I'm worried about who might be reading and then turning around to gossip.
Now that my blog is moving further away from sharing specific experiences to sharing philosophy gained from personal experience, I'm playing around again with the idea of disclosing and becoming more active in my local community.
We do disclose. All podcasters that we know are extremely discrete. The people that gossip are the ones without blogs or podcasts.
As for making money on podcasting:
You are better off in a well-paying job, like flipping burgers. 🙂
Personally, I've kept my blog separate from my local, real life community. I find it hard to blog freely and opening if I'm worried about who might be reading and then turning around to gossip.
Now that my blog is moving further away from sharing specific experiences to sharing philosophy gained from personal experience, I'm playing around again with the idea of disclosing and becoming more active in my local community.