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Welcome to Help Me Podcast, a show designed to help you

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launch and grow your podcast. I am your host, Gino, and twice

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a week I will release a new episode with different tips and tricks

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for launching and growing your podcast. From audio engineering to planning

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intentionally to growth tactics, each episode will be a bite sized

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tip to help you podcast.

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Welcome back to Help me, Podcast. This is episode 66. Thank

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you for being here. And in today's episode, we're going to talk about

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something that I heard about that is kind of an interesting concept

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and it's reverse interviewing a podcast

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host. And I can't quite remember where I heard this

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before, but the basic idea is

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that you could reach out to other podcasters

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out there, people that already have an existing podcast and

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maybe they host an interview show or maybe it's a solo show.

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Don't think it quite matters. But the idea is that you will be

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approaching a host and say like, hey, let me

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interview you for an episode of your podcast

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coming up. So basically you're doing the opposite of what they would

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normally do. Normally they would be interviewing somebody else, but in

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this case you set up the interview and instead

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of the actual host doing the interview, you're actually

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conducting the interview on the host. So

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it's basically the opposite of what would normally happen, hence

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the reversed interview. And I think this idea is interesting for a couple of different

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reasons. First thing is that I bet you there's probably

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most of the hosts out there have never had that question asked to them.

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And it may be just enough of a

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catching off guard sort of thing where you may get people

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to say like, yeah, sure, I never really thought of that, never done that

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before. That's a new piece of content or a new thing that

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I could do. So I could see how that could be helpful.

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So I think that's why it could be appealing for podcast

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hosts. Sure, they're probably going to want to know who you are and if you've

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done this before and if you have some sort of credibility, but they

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might not even want to know that. And maybe you can get some smaller podcast

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to get that under your belt. Maybe you have some sort of interview or

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news station or some sort of credibility that

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you can use. But at the end of the day, the worst case scenario is

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they don't have to publish that episode. So it's kind of a risk free thing

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other than maybe a 30 minutes or hour of their time

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to do the interview. But I think people always like to talk about

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themselves and to like to talk about their stories. And I

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think that if you're doing your own podcast, maybe you don't always

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think about that. Or maybe you only did your first episode ever about

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your story and you never really go into or

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tell your full story because you're always focusing on your guest

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and other people. I like it for that reason. And then the other reason that

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I like it too is it's also a cool thing for a

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new podcast to do or maybe even somebody who doesn't have a podcast.

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I think it's kind of in the same vein as going on a podcast

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tour without a podcast, trying to get on a bunch of other people's

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podcast without having a podcast. So you can kind of

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get some of the benefits of having your own podcast with

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90% less of the work. You only have to show up for the interview and

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this is kind of just a different spin on that. It's like

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you're not going to be the one editing it or publishing it or producing it

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or anything like that. You're basically just going to be doing the interview and

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it kind of gives you a feel of what is it like to be a

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host or what is it like to have your own

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podcast so that's why it could be beneficial for you.

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And then also just as far as growing your

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network and getting to know people, I think that's one of the things that Podcasting

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is really great for and maybe a secondary sort of benefit that

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a lot of people don't talk about is when you do have a conversation with

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somebody. If you have an interview style podcast and you're having a conversation with somebody

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maybe you don't know very well, or maybe you know them really well, but you

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never really sat down with them and talked to them for 30 minutes, for

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60 minutes, just about them, and asked them questions and put

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your full attention and energy into highlighting

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them. It's a different experience and you kind of connect with the person

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on a different level. And I could say for my interview style podcast,

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working towards a purpose, each guest that I have, I have now a

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closer connection. We have a shared experience and

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I think we're much more willing to support each other after that. So I think

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it can be a great way to kind of also get this

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sense of connection from people is if you do this

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interview and they agree to it and everything now, you're going to have a closer

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bond and a closer connection to where? Maybe if you do need help

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with something starting your podcast in the future, maybe they'll be there

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willing to help with you because you kind of did something for them. I guess

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what I'm trying to say is, like all of my podcast guests, I

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go a little bit further to try to support them in the things that they

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do now because I want to see them win and because we've had that moment

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in the past, it just makes me more willing to support the things that they

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do in the future. So I haven't actually done this myself, I've never

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actually heard a podcast of this done itself. I just heard it somewhere and I

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thought that it was kind of an interesting idea because it seems to be one

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of those things that's kind of a win win. I think if somebody approached me

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with my other podcast and said, like, hey, let me interview you.

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Maybe not right now because I'm still getting started and I'm under 20 episodes,

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but if I was, like, 50 episodes in and it's been a couple of years

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and stuff, I would probably take them up on that and be like, yeah, sure,

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let's do it and see what happens. It almost makes my job

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easier because it's like you're planning that one episode so I don't have to go

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find a guest now, which could be a time consuming part of

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an interview style podcast. So it seems like a win win all around and

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just wanted to share this idea here and if any of

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you have ever done that or maybe it's something that also interests you and

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you go ahead and do it, let me know how it goes and always send

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me an email. My email is in the show notes. I'd love to hear how

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it worked for you and your experience through it and I will catch

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you all on the next episode. Thank you for tuning in.

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