053 - Your Podcast Success Strategies: From Launch to Loyal Listeners

If you're thinking about starting a podcast, don't miss this episode. I started my first podcast (Smarter Career and Business Moves) 4+ years ago, and I picked up a few ideas.

Shannon Russell, Career Transition Coach / Podcaster, Second Act Success Career Coaching, joined me to share some techniques to build podcast audience of loyal listeners.   

Topics included

🔹Getting started with a podcast (finding your niche, choosing a name, and more)

🔹What to avoid. Hint: Focusing only on interview episodes is a big one)

🔹Promoting your podcast to increase audience engagement

And so much more

   
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Transcript

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Well, good morning, good afternoon,

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good evening,

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wherever you are joining us from.

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I'm Annette Richman.

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This is Content Marketing School.

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And I'm so excited to have

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Shannon here with me today as my guest.

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Now, I have to say,

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I don't remember exactly how we met.

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I do remember...

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I don't know, maybe you do,

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but I don't remember.

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But I know that I had you on

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my previous show,

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the Smarter Career and

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Business Moves live show

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and podcast talking about, you know,

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career change,

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because that's a little bit

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you can talk about what you do.

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And I'm so excited that you

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came back today to talk

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about this topic because

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you've got a really,

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really good podcast going there.

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So before we jump in,

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please tell us a little bit

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about who you are and what you do.

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Yes.

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Thank you so much, Annette.

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It's so great to be here again with you.

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And you are on my podcast

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that will be out hopefully

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in the next month or so.

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So we just keep having these

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really great conversations.

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I love it.

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And yeah,

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so I am a career transition coach

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and I host the Second Act

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Success Career Podcast.

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And I'm all about helping

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mainly women transition

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from one career to another

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and find fulfillment in

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maybe midlife in a

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different part of their

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life where they can kind of

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check the box on their

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first career and transition

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into a new one.

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You know,

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I love that you do that because

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so many people think that,

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I think women in particular,

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and I worked in the

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specifically career field

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for many years with executives,

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male and female, but more,

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and some on both sides,

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but mostly the women felt once they were,

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I've had women,

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good friends of mine at 40 feel like,

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oh my goodness,

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I feel like things are over for me.

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And so, and I'm talking about like stage,

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stunning, you know, smart,

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great experience women.

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And so I love that those are

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some of the people that

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you're helping because they need it.

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They need it.

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Yep.

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And you and I have both been

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there with career changes too.

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We've talked about that, you know,

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and I came from television,

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started a family and

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realized that those hours

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didn't work and I shifted

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into entrepreneurship and

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now career coaching.

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So it's kind of exciting to

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always find that next thing

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that you want to do and

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find a way to transition

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into it smoothly and really

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feel fulfilled by it, I think.

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And you've done the same thing.

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Yeah, no, I have.

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I have.

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And, you know,

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so and part of this might be

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starting a podcast for some people.

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And so, you know,

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you have a great podcast.

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This is my second podcast.

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I'm just sort of, you know,

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getting going now with the second one.

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But.

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Why did you start your podcast?

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And if you can tell us a

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little bit about how you

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came up with the slant, the topic,

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et cetera, for your podcast,

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because I'm sure people

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will be able to learn from that.

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Yeah.

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So it really came about super organically.

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I, as I mentioned,

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I left television and I

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started a franchise

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business and a lot of my

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customers would say,

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how did you go from that to this?

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Because it was such an extreme change.

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And I started thinking about

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career changes.

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And I started having friends

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and even some customers of

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mine ask me if I could help

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them transition careers.

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Because where I am in New Jersey,

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it's about a 90-minute commute.

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And a lot of people don't

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want to do that long

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commute once they have

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children into Manhattan.

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And so I started thinking about it.

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I was coaching friends on the side,

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just helping them figure

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out what else they could do.

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And I said, you know what?

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I am obsessed with podcasts.

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I listened to a lot of Amy Porterfield,

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Marie Forleo,

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all the big women entrepreneurs.

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And I decided I'm going to launch my own.

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I'm going to take that

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television producer

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background and start a podcast.

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And it's going to be about

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career transitions because

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this is what I get asked about a lot.

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And.

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That's how I started it.

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I actually started the

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podcast before I began coaching,

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like officially coaching.

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So I started it.

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I just came up with the name

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Second Act Success kind of

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playing on TV and made a

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logo myself and later hired

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a branding company to help me tweak it.

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But yeah,

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I just started interviewing people.

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I interviewed friends who

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had made a career

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transition and started

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reaching out further along in my network.

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And I wanted to inspire

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people by hearing other

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people's stories on how

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they made the change.

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And then eventually, as I started coaching,

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I started doing solo

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episodes and moving on from there.

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Yeah, you know,

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we do learn so much from

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listening to others,

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listening to other stories.

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And while, you know, I am, I would say,

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a fairly private person,

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I do like to talk about

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things like going through college,

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getting my degree,

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was a single woman working

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full-time days and going to

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school at night.

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And I do that, you know,

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partly because it's one of

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the proudest things that I've ever done,

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you know.

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Uh, but also because I think people get so,

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um, overwhelmed there, they think like,

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here I am.

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And it's such a, uh, a, um, a challenge to,

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you know,

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maybe it's going to take me five

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years or 10 years or whatever to do that.

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So, so when you, are there any, um,

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areas in your,

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in your podcast that you look for?

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I mean, uh,

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are there certain types of guests that you,

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that you look for?

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Is it, is it mainly women?

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I've listened to a few episodes.

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It's been primarily women.

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Do you also do interview men?

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I have had some men on that

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have extremely interesting stories.

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I also have interviewed some

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men on different topics

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like franchising or more specific topics.

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He's a friend of mine locally,

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and he talks about going

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from being homeless to now

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becoming a photographer and

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you know,

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photographing his beautiful

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community where he once

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lived on the streets.

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And now he photographs the

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beauty in the area.

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And I just found that to be

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such an inspiring story.

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And so I had him on the show.

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But then I started really

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focusing on women to have,

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just to give that example

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of the real juxtaposition of going from,

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you know, fashion into

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lactation consultant is one

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example of someone.

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Just a really big difference

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to give people,

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to give listeners that

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inspiration to know if that

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person can do it, she's just like me,

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I can do it too.

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And so that's really kind of

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how I find the guests.

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Sometimes people come to me

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and pitch me friends of theirs.

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And I really just want to

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find stories that inspire and that seem

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like they are doable right

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like that okay well I think

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I could do that and it's

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been just hearing the

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feedback has been

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incredible yeah I I'm sure

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I I'm absolutely sure now you know

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Starting the podcast,

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I started my podcast during

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the pandemic because I had no business.

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And, you know,

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I just started doing solo episodes,

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my other podcast.

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But, you know, and since then, you know,

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when I started this podcast,

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I learned different, you know,

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different things.

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Like you mentioned doing

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solo episodes and things like that.

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Can you share a few of the...

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You know, I'll say mistakes,

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but I really like to refer

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to them as my friend Brenda

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Meller does as learning

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experiences that may help

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people from from your podcasting journey.

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Yes, I think, you know,

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really in the beginning,

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I was just wanting to make that content.

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And I started just doing the

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interview style episodes.

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And then a good friend,

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Adam Shively from

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Podcasting Business School,

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he started saying how you

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need to do solo episodes.

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and get on there and speak

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to show more of what you do

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as a coach and to show your

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expert authority.

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And so he teaches that.

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And I started realizing that

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really I can talk for hours

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if it's a topic that I'm interested in.

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So peppering those in really

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was a great way.

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I felt like I got more

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clients from doing that.

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And it just was an easy way

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if I didn't have a guest

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for a week or so,

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to throw in, you know,

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I could talk for 15 minutes

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on a topic and put that up.

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So that was something great

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that I started.

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And also the fact that

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you want to be consistent and every week,

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even if you're having a hard week,

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put something up,

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even if it is that 10 or 15

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minute you solo episode.

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And batch recording is

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something that I learned pretty early on.

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And so what I'll do is I'll interview,

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you know, four or five guests in one day.

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I'll have those interviews

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and then I edit those and those are,

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you know, out for the next month or two.

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So that really saves you time.

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So you're not scrambling to

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find your next guest.

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Because I do tape ahead.

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I don't have a live podcast.

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So I'm able to do that.

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Yeah, you know,

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that is an interesting

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point that I'm curious to ask you about.

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And, you know, Adam,

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I listen to his podcast too.

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His podcast is Podcasting

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Business School and he

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gives great information.

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It's how I learned also to start, you know,

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doing the solo episodes.

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And I had first heard about that.

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I was actually listening to

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Cher Jones talking about

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this and she was saying how interesting

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You know, when you are a host,

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you become the entertainment host.

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And yet, you know,

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so you're not the expert.

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And like, you know, like we all do,

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like you do, I do when we have guests,

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we want to focus on our guests.

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It's all about the guests.

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People are tuning in to hear

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what they have to say, the topic.

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And so, you know,

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I've learned a lot of things from him.

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So

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Can you give me some ideas as to why?

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Because, you know, my podcast is a mix,

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but it's my live show and

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it's pretty much my live

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show as it is up to the podcast.

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So what would you say is the

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advantage of maybe

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recording in advance or is there any,

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is it just a matter of

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whatever you want to do?

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You know what?

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You and I have talked about

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it because I always say

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that I wish I was doing a

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live and you love live.

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But for me,

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I think because I have the

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producer background and I

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used to interview

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celebrities and everything

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had to be perfect from my first act,

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that I still have a little

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bit of that perfectionism.

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And I know, you know,

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done is better than perfect.

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But for me, I'd rather...

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bulk and do the work up

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ahead and then be able to

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not stress as we get closer.

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So for me, I just find it nice as of now,

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as summer's starting,

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I am booked with my guests.

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I have all my episodes up

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until the end of September.

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So for me, that feels really great.

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And I have a VA that does

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some of the editing for me.

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And of course,

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I have to go over it again to make it

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Sound the best, but I, yeah, for me,

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that just feels better.

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But I also really admire the

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live aspect too,

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because now you're doing it

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and you're done.

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Well, yeah, that is the truth.

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But also,

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I'm wondering if your guests

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might be more comfortable,

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if that might be a factor with doing it,

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recording.

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And I would say that it

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makes me think because your

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guests are often sharing

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more personal stories.

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that they might not feel

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comfortable just talking live.

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I mean,

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we're broadcasting right now to

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LinkedIn and YouTube,

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and we have a couple of people, hello,

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on Instagram watching our

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live show today.

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And I have found myself that

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some people ask me about

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being on my podcast, but they're like,

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I don't know,

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I don't want to be live

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because people are so concerned.

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So do you think that that's

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a factor that helps you get

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guests on your show?

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I never really thought about it,

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but I think, yes,

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because there are

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definitely times where someone will,

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you know,

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get emotional and talk about

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their journey of change and

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how difficult it was.

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And they'll get emotional

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and will need to take a break.

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I just interviewed someone

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yesterday who was absolutely fabulous.

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Sarah Bacon Conklin.

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She is the frugal frozen

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pennies is her blog and she's amazing.

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So she talked about saving

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money before changing careers.

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but she had never done a

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podcast and she was very, very nervous.

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And so, you know, we went a little slow.

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I got to reassure her as I

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do other guests that we can stop,

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we can pick up again.

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So I think that does make

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them feel a little bit more comfortable.

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Yeah.

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Well, well, you know, Shannon,

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you've been on my podcast.

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I've been on your podcast.

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You're so easy to talk to.

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I mean, you're so engaging.

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So we're getting towards the

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midway point and you've

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shared a couple of things

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that you learned

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Can you give us maybe three

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tips for people who are

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listening now or later on the podcast,

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on my podcast, where I get,

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I think actually more listeners,

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some tips on, you know,

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if they're thinking, I don't know,

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that sounds kind of interesting,

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but where do I start and what do I do?

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And, you know, Shannon, can you help me?

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Yes,

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it's so much fun and it really is so

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easy.

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It takes really getting a host,

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like Buzzsprout is what I use.

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I love Buzzsprout.

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And you get a host like that,

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you sign up for it,

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they give you your RSS feed

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and you're off to the races.

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And there's so many easy

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platforms to record if you

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don't want to record live.

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I mean, StreamYard is amazing for live.

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I record actually just through Zoom.

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I tried another platform that didn't work.

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Now I record through Zoom

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and I edit in Descript.

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Descript is very easy to

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edit because it's like a

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Word document and you just

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can cut and paste.

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It's very easy.

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So, you know, yes,

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I come from a producing background,

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editing background, but even without that,

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these tools are very, very simple.

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So it really is just coming

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up with you once you set up your tools,

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just the ideas of what you

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want to talk about, guests or no guests,

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and really just mix it up

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and try to think about what

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your audience wants from you.

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And how you're going to

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differentiate yourself from others.

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And once you do that, you're good to go.

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And you just put it out

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there and you keep up with

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that consistency every single week.

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Yeah, I love that good to go.

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I love that phrase.

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I learned that years ago

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when I was working at a

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nonprofit and when they were hiring me,

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they set me up and they were like, okay,

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you're good to go.

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And I'm like, oh, what does that mean?

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I never heard that before,

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but I don't know.

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Maybe it was a New York thing.

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And I'm curious also,

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because I have done this

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back and forth with guests on my show.

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Do you send your guests

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questions in advance or not?

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I don't think you sent them to me.

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I think you may have asked

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if I wanted them though.

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What I do is I have kind of

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at the end of most of my interviews,

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I will ask the same five questions.

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I call them my five fast cues.

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And if we get to them, we get to them.

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If we don't, we don't.

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But I usually send those ahead.

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I've actually stopped doing

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that because I think it

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might have been another

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conversation you and I had

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about just the general like

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conversation of it all, right?

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It doesn't have to be super prepared.

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And it's more fun to just

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kind of get in there.

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And I just say,

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where did your career begin?

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And we just kind of go

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through that timeline and

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it's just like two friends talking.

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And I think that's what a

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listener wants to hear is the journey.

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Yeah, no.

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No, no, that's true.

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And I think I may have

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mentioned to you that, you know,

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I went back and forth.

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I did not share questions.

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And then I was listening to

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a LinkedIn live guru who said, oh,

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you should send the questions.

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And so I said, okay, well,

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let me try that.

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And I started sending them.

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And I had sometimes, you know,

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my guests who I knew, knew their stuff,

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like reading, like, well,

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and I think that this and

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And it was so obvious and

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people don't realize that, you know,

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you can see them reading

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when they're looking off to the side.

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They think it's not obvious, but it is.

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And so what about what about engagement?

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Because I know you have said

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that the feedback from your podcast,

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you know, has been great.

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And so how do you get that engagement?

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And can you tell us a little bit about,

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you know, what?

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what you do to get the

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engagement and to share it.

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And, and then I have one more,

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I have a question about

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Buzzsprout for you.

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Oh yeah.

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So yeah,

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I promote on pretty much all of

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the social medias.

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Usually I'll make like one

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or two posts per episode, maybe three.

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And I post it on Instagram, Facebook,

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TikTok, LinkedIn,

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Pinterest sometimes as well.

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I'll put it on there.

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And I just put it out there.

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And I've learned that the

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first 72 hours are really

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great for engagement.

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So you want to really post

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during that time.

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And what's also, I almost forgot,

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is I also do a blog.

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So I have a blog on my

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website that has the transcript.

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It has the embeddable transcripts.

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player in there.

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And if it's a topic that can

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be expanded upon,

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like I'll do a separate

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blog that week as well,

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that just dives into it more.

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And then really the good

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thing about having a guest

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is that guests will share.

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You hope,

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you hope that guests will also

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share it and promote it.

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So really it's those ways.

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And then my newsletter, I once a week,

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I send a newsletter at least once a week.

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And one of those is always

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about the podcast as well.

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And also podcasts that I've

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guested on that week as well.

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So it's just constantly just saying, hey,

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this might be of interest to you.

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Click here and listen.

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You know,

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I love that idea of having the

00:18:37.682 --> 00:18:39.703
blog posts with the podcast

00:18:39.785 --> 00:18:40.925
embedded in it.

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I've been doing that too,

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because I learned that from Adam,

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the idea of the first 72 hours,

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you got to get that podcast out there.

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And so I try to publish twice a week,

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one solo and one interview.

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And I've been trying to, you know,

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push them out in my newsletter as well.

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But I'm also curious because I have heard,

00:19:03.087 --> 00:19:04.069
and perhaps you can shed

00:19:04.109 --> 00:19:05.050
some light on this,

00:19:05.111 --> 00:19:06.953
that if someone hears

00:19:07.013 --> 00:19:10.638
you're talking about your podcast,

00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:12.882
that they're more likely to

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just go to the

00:19:15.542 --> 00:19:15.923
you know,

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to the platform that they listen

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on and look for your

00:19:19.425 --> 00:19:23.710
podcast rather than click on the link.

00:19:24.170 --> 00:19:25.671
But it makes it kind of hard to try to,

00:19:26.111 --> 00:19:27.992
you know, see the downloads, I think.

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It is.

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And I know,

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so I know exactly what you mean.

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So when I tell people to go,

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I usually say

00:19:33.938 --> 00:19:37.019
secondactsuccess.co forward slash 147,

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whatever the episode number is.

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And that will bring you to the blog page.

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But sometimes I will just say, go to...

00:19:44.425 --> 00:19:46.828
the website slash podcast.

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And on my podcast page of my website,

00:19:49.333 --> 00:19:51.655
I have every player, most of the players.

00:19:52.176 --> 00:19:53.959
So then hopefully if someone gets there,

00:19:53.979 --> 00:19:56.241
they can not only see some embedded,

00:19:56.563 --> 00:19:57.805
but they can click on Apple

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Podcasts or click on Spotify and bring up

00:20:01.345 --> 00:20:01.565
you know,

00:20:01.605 --> 00:20:02.905
bring it up on their player of

00:20:02.986 --> 00:20:04.106
choice because you're right.

00:20:04.186 --> 00:20:05.728
It's, it's hard.

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And it's also hard when

00:20:06.709 --> 00:20:09.171
you're driving or cleaning

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or doing something and you

00:20:10.152 --> 00:20:11.133
don't have access to click

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on that link when you're

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listening to something, it, you know,

00:20:14.035 --> 00:20:14.714
leaves your head.

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But I think as long as you

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can have it as your website slash podcast,

00:20:19.239 --> 00:20:19.959
or you always have it in

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your link in bio and, you know,

00:20:21.580 --> 00:20:22.741
in all of the socials,

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that's kind of the best you can do.

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Or just say,

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search this title name in your

00:20:28.465 --> 00:20:29.646
podcast player that you love.

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Yeah,

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and I also like that you mentioned

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that you number your podcasts.

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And I never did that with my

00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:37.480
other podcasts.

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And I think that I first

00:20:39.842 --> 00:20:41.923
heard Amy Porterfield,

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I think she was the first

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one I heard say that,

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or I was listening to her

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podcast and she was talking about,

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listen to episode number or

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whatever it is,

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2050 or something probably

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on her podcast.

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And so I was able to,

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because I was early on,

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I went back and started numbering them

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And that way, and I'm just remembering now,

00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:02.701
I forgot to include the

00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:04.021
number in my newsletter today,

00:21:04.321 --> 00:21:05.762
but I will put that in there.

00:21:05.843 --> 00:21:07.203
If I'm talking about the podcast,

00:21:07.223 --> 00:21:08.384
I will say this is episode

00:21:08.464 --> 00:21:09.685
number whatever,

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and that allows people to

00:21:12.909 --> 00:21:14.369
go to it and look for it.

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And the thing I want to ask

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about Buzzsprout, because I use them too.

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I've been...

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a client of theirs since like 2020,

00:21:22.096 --> 00:21:25.079
when I first started my other podcast.

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And, you know,

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I think they're very

00:21:27.041 --> 00:21:30.326
reasonable and what you get for it with,

00:21:30.685 --> 00:21:33.067
you know, the intro outro, you know,

00:21:33.107 --> 00:21:34.470
dynamic content you could do.

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But one of the things that I

00:21:35.871 --> 00:21:37.732
think also that I love about it,

00:21:37.873 --> 00:21:39.174
and I'm guessing you do too,

00:21:39.815 --> 00:21:40.756
is the fact they make it

00:21:40.855 --> 00:21:43.118
really easy to be on, um,

00:21:44.141 --> 00:21:46.821
kind of every podcast platform.

00:21:47.201 --> 00:21:47.342
Now,

00:21:47.382 --> 00:21:49.521
I know I have friends who are on like

00:21:49.561 --> 00:21:50.682
a free platform,

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but they're on maybe

00:21:52.643 --> 00:21:54.644
Spotify and Apple and like

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maybe three platforms.

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And for the relatively inexpensive price,

00:22:00.664 --> 00:22:03.026
I think it's much better to be out there.

00:22:03.425 --> 00:22:04.326
The idea that you have the

00:22:04.365 --> 00:22:06.487
same content going further

00:22:06.926 --> 00:22:08.106
for a minimal amount.

00:22:08.575 --> 00:22:09.796
But the question I want to

00:22:09.955 --> 00:22:11.738
ask you is they recently

00:22:11.938 --> 00:22:15.321
added the ability to have

00:22:15.342 --> 00:22:17.262
people text you from the podcast.

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And so I wanted I'd like to know,

00:22:20.886 --> 00:22:22.067
have you started using that?

00:22:22.167 --> 00:22:24.871
And if so, because, you know,

00:22:25.111 --> 00:22:26.451
what what has been your experience?

00:22:26.471 --> 00:22:26.873
Yeah.

00:22:27.309 --> 00:22:27.529
OK,

00:22:27.569 --> 00:22:28.931
that's so funny that you bring that up

00:22:28.951 --> 00:22:29.770
because I've been wanting

00:22:29.790 --> 00:22:31.311
to talk to someone about that because,

00:22:31.551 --> 00:22:32.913
yes, I added that in.

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And then as I would go and

00:22:35.554 --> 00:22:37.994
look back at my page,

00:22:38.154 --> 00:22:39.296
I thought it looked weird.

00:22:39.935 --> 00:22:40.635
So I don't know.

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And I wasn't seeing it on

00:22:42.237 --> 00:22:44.458
other people's podcasts.

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So I took it off just this

00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:47.700
week or last week, actually.

00:22:48.180 --> 00:22:48.900
but I don't know.

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What is your experience?

00:22:50.520 --> 00:22:51.842
Have you tried it?

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I just added it myself.

00:22:53.461 --> 00:22:54.282
And for people that are

00:22:54.323 --> 00:22:55.782
wondering what we're talking about,

00:22:55.863 --> 00:22:57.784
if you're looking at a podcast,

00:22:58.924 --> 00:23:00.204
you may see something,

00:23:00.305 --> 00:23:01.905
and I've seen it on other podcasts.

00:23:01.986 --> 00:23:03.645
I just added it to mine,

00:23:04.086 --> 00:23:06.047
that at the top of the show notes,

00:23:06.107 --> 00:23:08.788
you will see a little line,

00:23:08.808 --> 00:23:10.209
because I think a lot of people,

00:23:10.229 --> 00:23:11.630
I think Buzzsprout is one of the

00:23:12.250 --> 00:23:15.452
most popular platforms for podcasts,

00:23:15.814 --> 00:23:18.537
it will say, text us,

00:23:18.656 --> 00:23:19.637
click here to text or

00:23:19.678 --> 00:23:20.337
something like that.

00:23:20.357 --> 00:23:21.599
And you can see it's a clickable,

00:23:21.940 --> 00:23:22.721
it's a hyperlink.

00:23:22.760 --> 00:23:23.862
And when you click on that,

00:23:24.722 --> 00:23:27.305
you can send a message to the podcast.

00:23:27.365 --> 00:23:28.846
So I just put it up there

00:23:28.866 --> 00:23:29.807
and I don't think I get the...

00:23:35.053 --> 00:23:37.315
one-on-one engagement that, that you do.

00:23:37.355 --> 00:23:39.876
I think your, you know, podcast is kind of,

00:23:40.156 --> 00:23:42.077
kind of bigger and, you know,

00:23:42.117 --> 00:23:44.039
broader and more engagement than mine,

00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:45.000
at least at this point.

00:23:45.020 --> 00:23:46.501
I know it is, I know it is, but I'm,

00:23:46.582 --> 00:23:47.261
you know, I'm new with,

00:23:47.622 --> 00:23:48.923
I'm new with this content

00:23:48.942 --> 00:23:49.463
marketing school.

00:23:50.003 --> 00:23:53.407
So I didn't have anyone text

00:23:53.448 --> 00:23:54.390
and I was just wondering if

00:23:54.450 --> 00:23:55.330
it looked odd.

00:23:55.730 --> 00:23:56.932
So maybe I'll put it back up again.

00:23:56.952 --> 00:23:57.492
Who knows?

00:23:57.512 --> 00:23:58.674
Because you want to have an

00:23:58.795 --> 00:24:01.698
easy way to hear from your listeners and,

00:24:02.239 --> 00:24:02.459
you know,

00:24:02.499 --> 00:24:04.342
having them go leave a review is nice,

00:24:04.402 --> 00:24:05.682
but it's not always the

00:24:05.722 --> 00:24:07.404
feedback exactly that you need.

00:24:07.464 --> 00:24:08.326
So that, you know,

00:24:08.606 --> 00:24:09.327
maybe I'll try it again.

00:24:10.483 --> 00:24:14.404
So we have chatted a lot and

00:24:14.484 --> 00:24:15.904
the time has flown by.

00:24:15.924 --> 00:24:19.085
We are getting near to the end.

00:24:19.105 --> 00:24:23.046
And I want to go over to

00:24:23.266 --> 00:24:24.986
your LinkedIn profile.

00:24:25.207 --> 00:24:26.606
And I'm just pulling that up now.

00:24:26.626 --> 00:24:27.727
I'm going to share my screen

00:24:27.767 --> 00:24:28.707
and share your profile.

00:24:29.227 --> 00:24:31.788
But I'd like to, I always ask my guests,

00:24:31.827 --> 00:24:32.847
I only have one question.

00:24:33.887 --> 00:24:34.928
We've talked about a lot,

00:24:35.288 --> 00:24:36.928
but what are your sort of,

00:24:36.949 --> 00:24:38.189
do you have some final thoughts,

00:24:38.229 --> 00:24:39.669
something you'd like to share, whatever?

00:24:40.028 --> 00:24:42.112
you think would be relevant and helpful,

00:24:43.673 --> 00:24:45.476
just go for that.

00:24:45.536 --> 00:24:46.636
And I'm going to just share

00:24:46.676 --> 00:24:48.539
your profile while you're chatting.

00:24:49.655 --> 00:24:50.056
Yeah, you know,

00:24:50.155 --> 00:24:50.876
one thing I did want to

00:24:50.916 --> 00:24:52.717
bring up is something that I do,

00:24:52.777 --> 00:24:55.577
which is live coaching

00:24:55.698 --> 00:24:57.239
sessions on the podcast.

00:24:57.298 --> 00:24:58.519
And I had heard that from,

00:24:58.539 --> 00:25:00.059
I think it was our friend Adam again,

00:25:00.579 --> 00:25:01.240
about doing that.

00:25:01.280 --> 00:25:02.381
And I've done a couple on

00:25:02.421 --> 00:25:03.561
the podcast where someone

00:25:03.602 --> 00:25:04.801
comes on and we do live

00:25:04.842 --> 00:25:07.583
interactive coaching absolutely for free.

00:25:07.942 --> 00:25:08.824
And they get that free

00:25:08.844 --> 00:25:09.903
coaching and other people

00:25:09.943 --> 00:25:11.144
at home get to hear really

00:25:11.265 --> 00:25:12.885
what you do for your clients.

00:25:13.405 --> 00:25:14.486
And I suggest that for

00:25:14.566 --> 00:25:15.446
anyone who's thinking of

00:25:15.487 --> 00:25:16.846
starting a podcast as well,

00:25:16.906 --> 00:25:18.028
because to be able to give

00:25:18.067 --> 00:25:18.847
your listeners a

00:25:19.473 --> 00:25:20.974
just yet another type of

00:25:21.036 --> 00:25:23.116
content from your show.

00:25:23.317 --> 00:25:24.137
It's just exciting.

00:25:24.178 --> 00:25:25.559
And they get to maybe learn

00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:28.021
from how you're coaching someone else.

00:25:28.261 --> 00:25:31.565
Or if you do marketing or

00:25:31.625 --> 00:25:34.248
you do interior design,

00:25:34.288 --> 00:25:35.209
whatever it might be,

00:25:35.328 --> 00:25:36.329
and you're coaching someone

00:25:36.390 --> 00:25:37.289
else on your show and

00:25:37.309 --> 00:25:38.290
you're giving those tips,

00:25:38.652 --> 00:25:39.653
it's just added value.

00:25:39.673 --> 00:25:41.594
So that's just another fun

00:25:41.673 --> 00:25:43.135
idea for a podcast episode.

00:25:43.976 --> 00:25:44.395
No, no.

00:25:44.816 --> 00:25:45.376
I love that.

00:25:45.436 --> 00:25:46.136
I love that too.

00:25:46.196 --> 00:25:48.337
So I'm, I'm, I'm actually, we're on your,

00:25:48.498 --> 00:25:49.199
you know, as you can see,

00:25:49.259 --> 00:25:50.919
we're on your LinkedIn profile right now.

00:25:51.380 --> 00:25:54.141
And I know that you do share information.

00:25:54.161 --> 00:25:55.321
Oh, here, here you are.

00:25:55.342 --> 00:25:56.721
You're going to be on my podcast today.

00:25:57.323 --> 00:25:57.962
You do share,

00:25:58.063 --> 00:25:59.943
you do share a lot of information.

00:25:59.963 --> 00:26:02.184
How do people, would they,

00:26:02.305 --> 00:26:03.164
would they go to your

00:26:03.204 --> 00:26:05.366
website if they're interested in, I mean,

00:26:05.487 --> 00:26:07.548
obviously your podcast is

00:26:08.688 --> 00:26:10.169
second act success.

00:26:10.702 --> 00:26:13.065
yes and that's on everywhere

00:26:13.365 --> 00:26:14.506
all the all the podcast

00:26:14.526 --> 00:26:16.288
platforms and if someone is

00:26:16.387 --> 00:26:18.789
interested in um in sort of

00:26:19.671 --> 00:26:21.051
being part of one of those

00:26:21.071 --> 00:26:23.614
um you know online coaching

00:26:24.564 --> 00:26:26.246
how would they, how would they find that?

00:26:26.787 --> 00:26:26.967
Yep.

00:26:27.027 --> 00:26:30.250
They can DM me on LinkedIn or actually,

00:26:30.269 --> 00:26:31.431
if you go to second act

00:26:31.451 --> 00:26:34.233
success.co forward slash podcast,

00:26:34.574 --> 00:26:35.515
you'll see a little button

00:26:35.535 --> 00:26:36.455
where you can apply.

00:26:37.477 --> 00:26:38.637
And then we just set up a

00:26:38.678 --> 00:26:40.619
time and we have a quick 30

00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:43.001
minute coaching session live on the show.

00:26:44.423 --> 00:26:44.824
Not live.

00:26:44.864 --> 00:26:45.223
I'm sorry.

00:26:45.263 --> 00:26:46.345
Recorded on the show.

00:26:47.506 --> 00:26:48.146
I'm in the live.

00:26:48.595 --> 00:26:49.414
frame of mind with you.

00:26:49.434 --> 00:26:52.317
Yeah, it's really fun and it's great.

00:26:52.396 --> 00:26:53.116
And if you do,

00:26:53.497 --> 00:26:54.978
sometimes I get clients or

00:26:56.038 --> 00:26:57.239
guests that want to keep

00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:59.859
that anonymity and we can do, you know,

00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:02.000
just an audio, use a different name if,

00:27:02.161 --> 00:27:03.020
because you're working

00:27:03.080 --> 00:27:03.882
somewhere and you don't

00:27:03.902 --> 00:27:04.882
want them to know that

00:27:04.902 --> 00:27:06.502
you're looking for another opportunity,

00:27:06.863 --> 00:27:07.682
we can do that too.

00:27:08.002 --> 00:27:09.463
So do you have that sort of, you know,

00:27:09.544 --> 00:27:14.086
voice garbling behind the screen?

00:27:14.625 --> 00:27:15.446
Right, exactly.

00:27:15.467 --> 00:27:15.547
Yeah.

00:27:17.094 --> 00:27:18.715
See, you know, I love that.

00:27:18.836 --> 00:27:21.218
And I think, you know,

00:27:21.557 --> 00:27:23.640
with the topic of your show,

00:27:24.201 --> 00:27:25.682
and I think that it really

00:27:25.781 --> 00:27:29.665
can be helpful to people to, you know,

00:27:29.705 --> 00:27:31.728
to have it not be live.

00:27:31.867 --> 00:27:32.347
I know that

00:27:33.128 --> 00:27:34.670
you know, I've had people, as I said,

00:27:34.789 --> 00:27:35.651
contact me.

00:27:37.011 --> 00:27:38.413
Like, I'm sure you get this also,

00:27:38.452 --> 00:27:42.135
you get podcast booking

00:27:42.256 --> 00:27:43.636
companies contact you, you know,

00:27:43.676 --> 00:27:43.978
here's my,

00:27:44.238 --> 00:27:45.598
the last most recent one I got

00:27:45.638 --> 00:27:46.980
was some guy and I hear I'm

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:48.020
content marketing school.

00:27:48.080 --> 00:27:49.481
And the guy is like a CFO is

00:27:49.501 --> 00:27:51.363
going to talk about financial services.

00:27:51.403 --> 00:27:53.265
And I'm like, no, I don't think so.

00:27:53.325 --> 00:27:54.066
I don't think so.

00:27:54.086 --> 00:27:58.148
Try looking first, but, but all the time.

00:27:59.509 --> 00:27:59.630
So,

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When it comes to what do you think,

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because, you know,

00:28:04.791 --> 00:28:06.313
your podcast is quite successful.

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So what do you think makes it, you know,

00:28:10.615 --> 00:28:16.759
is like the one thing that has helped you,

00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:18.560
you know, get to that point?

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Because, I mean, you are very...

00:28:22.425 --> 00:28:24.606
engaging, easy to chat with.

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You know,

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when I was talking about my career story,

00:28:27.807 --> 00:28:28.647
even though I was talking

00:28:28.667 --> 00:28:30.008
about some things I don't

00:28:30.067 --> 00:28:31.088
normally talk about,

00:28:31.148 --> 00:28:32.009
it was very comfortable

00:28:32.068 --> 00:28:32.848
chatting with you.

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But what do you think is

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something that other people

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can take away to maybe think,

00:28:39.411 --> 00:28:40.510
maybe I'll try to do that

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with my podcast when I start it?

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I think that I'm very real.

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Like I am me.

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I talk about my transition

00:28:48.057 --> 00:28:49.397
story and I think maybe

00:28:49.458 --> 00:28:51.298
it's that I'm relatable to

00:28:51.398 --> 00:28:52.999
other people that, you know,

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and I always talk about how

00:28:54.339 --> 00:28:55.921
I had a dream career that I

00:28:55.961 --> 00:28:57.781
just chose to leave because

00:28:57.821 --> 00:28:59.201
it didn't fit my life any longer.

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And then I was able to

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figure out what else I

00:29:01.982 --> 00:29:03.443
wanted to do for the second act.

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And I think a lot of people

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can find themselves in that situation of,

00:29:08.046 --> 00:29:11.327
okay, now I'm in my forties, fifties,

00:29:11.528 --> 00:29:11.728
and I'm,

00:29:12.188 --> 00:29:13.529
you know, this doesn't fit anymore.

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What can I do next?

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And so I think just the fact

00:29:16.231 --> 00:29:17.394
that I was able to do it,

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I talk a lot about my kids,

00:29:19.816 --> 00:29:21.817
me loving television production,

00:29:22.258 --> 00:29:23.579
but just needing something different.

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So I'm very honest with my

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stories and maybe that's where,

00:29:26.962 --> 00:29:28.285
why people want to listen and,

00:29:28.724 --> 00:29:30.166
and know that they're kind of, that we're,

00:29:30.366 --> 00:29:30.846
we're like.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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And I think that that is the

00:29:36.087 --> 00:29:38.009
perfect place to end today.

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I want to say thank you so

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much for the people that have joined us.

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I can see some reactions on LinkedIn.

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And of course,

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I see people over on Instagram,

00:29:47.393 --> 00:29:48.134
which is growing.

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So I'm excited about that.

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And again,

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thanks so much for being here today.

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Have a great rest of your day.

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And I will see you next week.