This week I'm talking all about your guests.

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Welcome to podcasting one on one with me your host

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Rachel. This podcast is for female business owners and

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solopreneurs that are looking to start a podcast that add to your

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own already awesome offering. I'll give you helpful advice

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that you can take away and use in your podcasting journey. I

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hope to answer those tricky questions that just keep you

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from starting once a month, I'll be joined by other female

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podcasters. They'll share their journey with you and offer tips

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and advice they discovered along the way. Let's get started.

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Hi, and welcome to the show. And this week, I have decided to

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start recording a video podcast. Obviously, for those of you who

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are just listening on audio, nothing will change here. But

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after doing the episode a few weeks ago about the benefits of

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doing a video podcast and speaking with my clients and

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friends, Hannah and Nicole from showing up solo, I attended

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their challenge a few weeks ago, at the end of October. And I did

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the it was called the full circle content challenge. And

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one of the challenges was to show up live and I don't show up

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live a lot or on video. So that was interesting for me. And I

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prefer just to show up on audio and then you know I can tweak it

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without any all the hums and ahhs and mistakes and things

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like that. But it was interesting, and I did quite

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enjoy it. And I think for you know, getting to know people

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better or people getting to know me better, like showing up a

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video is always great. So people can put a face to the name. So

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yeah, I decided to dive in and do a video podcast. I am

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recording this on Riverside studio riverside.fm I've decided

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to invest in a audio studio and they record a video as well as

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the audio. It's something I've been thinking about for a while.

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And I've got some advice from Roseman calendar, who's a fellow

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podcaster. And yeah, so I just thought I'd give it a try. So

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I'll let you know in a few episodes and how it's going give

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a little review of riverside.fm For those of you out there that

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are interested in trying a studio platform to record your

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podcast in. So actually, after that little introduction, let's

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get back to the episode. Today, I'd like to talk about being a

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guest, and not being a guest, I like to talk about looking for

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guests to be on your podcast. Let me just get my little notes

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up here. So when you're looking for guests to be on your

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podcast, I know when I started, I was a bit kind of like, well,

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where do I start? So let's just start with your audience. Start

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with who you're connected to. And keeping your ideal listener

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or ideal client in mind, like who in your network would be

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good or good fit for your podcast? And have a little look

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at their audience? What does their audience look like. So if

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you have similar audiences, or maybe they have an audience that

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you're trying to connect with, and it's great in, so you can

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both benefit each other's audiences. So have a little look

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at those people who you do know. And then you can start kind of

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like fanning out a little bit, and having a little look at who

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they know. So the second contacts, if you're on LinkedIn,

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and maybe look at, you know, if they have a podcast, or they've

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been on other podcasts, have a little look at those and see

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whether they fit in with what you're doing. That's really good

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research. And they all those type of podcasts would be kind

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of on a par with what you're doing rather than trying to

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attain to go on something like you know, some of those podcasts

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that are like lots and lots of viewers and listeners and things

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that are much harder with kind of celebrities or thought

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leaders and things that possibly harder to get on. So have a

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little look at those. This is what I did myself looking for

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guests. Just keep going back and keeping your ideal client or

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your ideal listener in mind when you're looking Get for these

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people, then bringing them on your show. So what is it that

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they're going to? Or what would you like them to talk about? How

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is it going to add value to your audience and talking about the

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subject that you want to talk about. So once you've kind of

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earmark these people, you really want to try make, you should be

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able to make a genuine connection with them. So you

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should obviously have some in common with them if they're if

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they talk about common subject to what you're talking about. So

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just reach out and start engaging with them have a little

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look through their content. Like I said, before, about podcasts,

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you know, listen to the podcasts they've been on, or listen to

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their podcast, you want to try and start as with anything when

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you're trying to grow your connections, as well, a genuine

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conversation, a genuine end, so you can start that relationship,

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drop them a DM to say, I really like what you're doing. I loved

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your blog on this or listen to your podcasts on this. I'd

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really love you to come in on my podcast and talk to my audience.

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Generally, a lot of people agreed to coming on the podcast.

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I know some of the podcast hosts that I've interviewed for this

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show have said they've never had a no. So that is always

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encouraging. And it's always just nice to have that genuine

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connection with them bang. So once they've agreed to be on one

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little thing that I wanted to talk about as well is like the

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guest process, if you will. So what have you got in place. So

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what steps have you got in place to that you can make your make

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your guests feel as welcome as possible. I when a few months

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ago, we spoke with Citadel stewards, and she has a really

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great kind of guests process, and they want to make their

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guests feel have the best experience with them. So it

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might be interesting to go back and listen to that episode,

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which I will link in the show notes. And you can hear citadels

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thoughts about that as well. And so, so I'll say a little bit

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about my guest process just so that it gives you an idea of

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what you could do. And this can also be automated. If you're

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into like no code stuff, use something like dubsado, or air

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table. If you have a lot of guests coming on, this would be

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quite a good idea to be able to automate some of these things

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and design templates, and then add in the personalizations

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afterwards. So once a person is agreed to come on my podcast, I

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like to send them an email with some information on about the

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questions I'm going to be asking them, and some little tips for

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recording. In my case, the people that are coming on my

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show are podcast hosts, so they probably wouldn't need those

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tips because they are aware of those kinds of things

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themselves. But if for you guys, if yours is not specifically

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about podcasting, it's a really great idea to include some tips

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about how maybe some settings if you're doing over zoom, or how

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they will get into the studio to record it or all those little

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things. So you can make it as smooth as possible on the day,

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make sure they get a calendar invite, make sure there's a link

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in there. And to to wherever you're recording, I then like to

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send a little reminder out before the interview is going to

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happen just to make sure they're okay with everything and to

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resend the link just so that it's easy and fresh in their

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minds to be able to find it. And then after the show, I like to

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send out a little thank you and let them know when their

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episodes going to air. Don't worry if you don't know that. At

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that point. I've already got my episodes planned out. So I knew

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I know exactly when the episodes are going to come out. So yeah,

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so do that. And then once I let them know that also, I'm going

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to send some social media assets out to them. So I like to design

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a story and an audiogram and send that out to them a week or

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two before that episode goes live so that they can share that

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with their audience. This part is really important, I think you

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need to make it as easy as possible for them to share the

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podcast with their with their audience. And you can also offer

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perhaps to do the graphics in their brand colours so that it

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fits in with more with their social media platform. And if

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you want some copy, you could also write some copy for them

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just so they can just copy and paste and then it's really

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really simple for them to do. It's just

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a nice thing to do to make them feel have that really nice

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experience with you. They don't You don't want them to feel like

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they're, you know, oh, I couldn't find the link. Nobody

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told me anything I didn't Have any questions and all of those

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kinds of things, that's not a really good impression to make.

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So I think that's a really nice kind of little process you can

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do there. Obviously, you tweak it to how you would like to have

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it and or improve upon it. I would love to hear if somebody

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has, what kind of guests process that you have yourself? Do you

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automate it? And what do you use to automate it? I'm really

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interested in doing the automation side of things. So

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that is something that I'd love to hear from you guys about. I

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hope this episode has been helpful to you. And for those of

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you watching on YouTube, I'd love to have a little comment or

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a little like on my YouTube page, and let me know what you

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think about doing a video podcast. And as ever, if you

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have any questions, please get in touch. And I do offer a 30

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minute free session for people to come and talk to me about a

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question you might have but your podcast or if you just want some

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practical advice that we can do within that 30 minutes. I'm also

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happy to do that as well. So I will leave a link in the show

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notes for you to book straight in my diary, and then we can can

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do that appointment. So thanks for listening, and I'll catch

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you next time. Bye. Thanks so much for listening. If you've

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enjoyed today's episode, please like share and subscribe. Your

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support means so much to me. If there's a question or topic

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you'd like covering then I'd love to hear from you. Find the

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