Grow With Intention
Making Our Podcast Episode Great
Here are some of the ingredients that I find make a great interview episode:
Thoughtful questions
This is my job! In the week before our podcast episode, you’ll get a list of potential topics or questions. I always try to devour your latest content or well-known published works to find juicy and fun questions for you to answer.
Stories and examples
Think about interesting stories and examples you can talk about on the podcast beforehand. Share fresh stories and thoughts, especially if you've been on a lot of other podcasts before. We want to keep people interested!
Practical ideas
Our listeners love actionable advice they can use immediately, so if you have any helpful tools or ideas to share, please do.
No Jargon
Our audience are super intelligent, thoughtful people - but industry jargon can be hard for anyone to listen to and decipher.
Leave the promotion to me
Don’t promote your program / book / product with each answer if you can avoid it. I’ll include a promo within the podcast episode at a dedicated time, or ask you to promote your book at a dedicated time! Listeners tune out if they feel like a podcast is a long advertisement.
Natural conversation with a little structure
You will get questions ahead of time that will guide our conversation, but don't feel the need to script your responses. I may go off-script with different questions if we hit an interesting topic that feels like it would be fun to dive deeper into! If you aren’t comfy with a question, just let me know. If you're new to podcasting or want to ease podcast jitters, there are other ways I like to prepare without scripting below.
If You Get The Podcast Jitters
Not a big deal. Here are a few ways to move past podcast jitters.
Prep!
Read over your own work. If you’ve written a book or created long-form content, give it a little re-read or re-listen. It’s easy to forget how smart and full of valuable thoughts you really are.
Prep a few bullet points. Not a script! Just a few little notes to riff on on the key topics we’ll likely chat about.
Try riffing on those bullet points using an audio recorder to help you to form your thoughts ahead of time.
Practice with a partner or a friend.
Really empathise with the audience, their struggles, difficulties and burdens before you hop on the podcast episode - the less self-focused you are, the less the jitters will matter.
Right before we record…
You might go on a walk or do a workout video pre-podcast for a creativity boost. Walking boosts creative thinking by 60% (sounds fake but Stanford says otherwise)!
Keep in mind
It’s really not about you
It’s about the audience - resolving their challenges, burdens and difficulties.
How can you have more fun?
Keep a playful mindset - it always makes for better content.
We can take breaks if needed.
I can absolutely accommodate your podcast jitters. If at any moment you need a sec, just ask. Feel free to tell me you have the podcast jitters (I’ll cut your confession out, don’t worry!!) so that I can keep that in mind and not put you too on the spot - please know that I am not judging you in any way shape or form. I only care about my audience!