Compress audio file?

I need to make my podcast file much smaller. It's now 45MB, and it needs to be about 10MB.
I changed the output to Mono in the Preferences.
I haven't found anything else helpful in the Help Viewer/Help menu.
Am I missing something? Any ideas? (any 3rd party apps?)

How long is it (time)?

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