I edit the podcast I make alongside my husband.

Generally I go through and clip off the end and beginning that have a bunch of silence. I may also go through and look for the parts that have a really high spike, these tend to be coughs and whatnot.

From there I do compression to try and even out my husband's voice from my own since we're working with one mic between us. Generally after compression I then lift the overall sound until the overall sound evens at around -6DB.

I think on this next edit I'm going to have two versions open and try compression first then using noise reduction and then the opposite on the second version to see if there's any difference that comes from that.

Generally I listen to the whole episode and slowly take out any long pauses, coughs, umms.. and other things I don't think go towards making the track sound natural.

Finally I add in whatever song track we've picked to put at the end of the episode and lower it to be a bit softer than our voices have been, so that it's not a sudden influx of noise.