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Sometimes we just need a change in our podcast,
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either subtle or fundamental.
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But one thing remains the same.
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Us.
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What do we do when some aspects of our personality just
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aren't perfect for podcasting?
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Hello, and welcome to another Podcast Pontifications with me, Evo Terra.
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Before we get started, I am not a psychologist.
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So if you have a personality disorder, if you're in therapy, or you're working with
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a professional mental health provider, do what they say, not this moron.
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All right?
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Now, there's a lot that we can change about our podcasts.
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We can change the topics because, you know, we're people and we have lots
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of interest and lots of experiences.
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Or we can even learn new experiences and pass those along, that knowledge along in
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our podcast if that's what we wish to do.
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We can change the angle that we take because, again, we're persuasive
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people and we know that subtle shifts in how we talk about something
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might make that topic more palatable to the people on the other end.
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Might make our case better, if you will.
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We can change the format of our podcast because we know that millions of shows
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already exist and something like 20,000 new shows are added every single week.
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So we're constantly being exposed, if we're paying attention, to new people
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doing new things with their format.
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We can change the branding elements for a fresh look of our podcasts, or
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even the branding elements inside of our podcast episodes for a fresh sound.
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Going further, we can change our voice.
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We can use speech-language pathologists, or even vocal coaches.
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They give us more confidence that we are sounding the way
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that we really want to sound.
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And there are a myriad of other subtle changes and really big changes
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that we can make to our podcasts.
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But what about our personality?
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Now, I'm not qualified to answer the question definitively,
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"Can people change?"
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I'm not answering that question.
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Nor am I going down the path of whether or not you should or should
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not, or anybody should or should not change basically who they are.
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But I will say that there may be some aspects of your personality that are
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more effected habits, muscle memory in the brain to use a lay person's
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thinking metaphor around this.
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And I'm going to use me as an example for that.
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So I, if you know me, I'm pretty quick with the joke, which makes me, in my
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opinion, kind of a rotten interviewer.
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But on the same - I recognize that about me.
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That's why I don't do a lot of interview shows.
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However, weirdly enough, I'm actually paid to interview people.
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Not on this show, and not on anything related to the topics of podcasting
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or honestly things I'm very interested about, but I do, I am paid to do these
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short conversations with professionals and markedly unfunny topics.
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Why do I do this?
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Well, partly because I get paid to do that and that's important, but also because
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suppressing my own natural knee-jerk, let's-crack-a-joke-now-quickly-Evo,
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that's helping.
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I think it makes me a better, more rounded, better overall podcaster.
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Let's talk about my friend Don.
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I'm just going to call him Don because that's his name.
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Don is a long-time podcaster who has successfully monetized
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a long-running multi-host show.
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But Don also, in the decades almost he's been podcasting, realizes he's never
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done a solo show or a scripted show.
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So now, he's quietly experimenting on doing both of those on a semi-secret show.
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And it's very likely the show's not going to continue.
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In fact, he said straight up, it's not going to continue after the ten episodes.
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But I bet that he is going to take the lessons learned and then
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incorporate those new aspects of his own personality - not new aspects, but
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uncovered aspects and incorporate those for his multi-host podcasting efforts.
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Or take my other friend Terry.
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We'll call him Terry because, again, that's his name.
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Terry is taking a break from his podcast right now.
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It's changed names and changed focus and direction many times, but Terry
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right now is finding really good success in a short-form video platform.
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Which is interesting because Terry, I know, is prone to waxing poetically,
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which makes his episodes longer than they really need to be and has a tough
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time cutting out the extra stuff.
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But this new restrictive, shorter format stops him from doing that.
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He can't.
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And because of that, Terry's going to relaunch his podcast before too long and
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he's going to bring those lessons learned from that short format down, suppressing
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that ability, that innate need to talk forever, and just get to the point.
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I'm not sure that any of those, mine, Don's, or Terry's, qualify
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for really changed personalities.
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Probably not.
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But I think that all of them recognize a change in which parts
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of the personality we each choose to expose, which ones you are likely
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to see and/or hear on the podcast.
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We're de-emphasizing some parts and emphasizing other parts.
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Maybe recently discovered parts.
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And all of that's making for a better podcast, not just for them,
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but also for their audiences.
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Now, if you know someone who's letting maybe a part of their personality,
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maybe they recognize that parts of their personality just aren't conducive
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to doing great podcasting anymore.
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Maybe it's getting in the way of their podcasting efforts.
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Well, share this episode or article with them to show them some ideas of
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how they might be able to work through that by emphasizing certain parts and
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deemphasizing other parts of that.
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And, of course, if you love the idea and the content I bring to you every
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day on Podcast Pontifications please, I'd appreciate it if you would go
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to buymeacoffee.com/EvoTerra, and do that, buy me a virtual coffee.
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All right.
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That's it.
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I shall be back tomorrow with yet another Podcast Pontifications.
