SOUND VOLume low

In making (trying to make) my first two podcast in Garage Band my final file has low overall audio levels. I have to turn my speakers up to the max, almost, to hear it right.
Thinking about it, it would be nice to have something that Measures the final audio output...is there anything like that, so at least I could know the output was too low? And to get some consistency in audio output?
Or, even better, is there a way of boosting the whole audio output of the final file?
I have the shareware program Audio Hijack; can that be used in any way? Using an AU or VST? I can do that for mic input and it changes things but could it, or something else, be used for the volumn level of the audio output and maybe getting some consistency; measuring the decibels or something like that?

Thank you for your basic and solid replies.
I have the freebie Levelator but haven't tried it (D'uh!) because I thought I read something about it being for voice only.
I re-did all my first three podcast projects/my first three audio composition projects... and paid more attention to the volumn levels, although I allowed some clipping (red zone..) to slip in but the volumn came out a lot better. . Good enough, I suppose.
The overall sound quality, though, I think is: TERRIBLE. I think my USB mic (Parrott TalkPro Xpress) is high-quality enough -- It's hightly rated and works perfect for voice commands and even dictitation (with iListen). I think I'm just very inexperienced so I'm going to read up on it all and start from scratch.
I noticed this Apple Seminar, at: http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/podcast/apple/index.html?s=300 , so I'm gonna check that out.
I think I'm making a mistake going through Audio Hijack and using some AU units but I was wanting to get voice effects for this and other projects.
If anyone wants to listen to TERRIBLE audio (and maybe there's some obvious thing wrong that could be noticed), my three enhanced podcasts on iTunes are at:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=251665534
The first one's less than a minute; the second one under two minutes.
(Warning: If you think the wars in the Middle East are great, this definitely is not something you'd want to hear.)
Um...I found getting these first podcast successfully on iTunes so initially complicated that I'm just leaving them there because if I take 'em down I'd worry I'd have to go through all the trial and errors again. So...Terrible as the audio is, there they are.
Any feedback, other than telling me to cut out my tongue, is appreciated.

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