Would love the group’s thoughts on this topic. For context, please take a listen to a portion of my recent episode on John Fogerty’s baseball anthem, Centerfield: https://www.heavyhittersports.com/ My son and I listened to the piece during a walk yesterday. In general, my son’s critique was kind (…

I’m terrible at this! I recently did a host-on-mic from a script for an episode. After it was edited, and I heard its deadly dullness in my voice, I scrapped it and did one off the top of my head. MUCH better! Lots more energy! I’d agree with bullet points being a help. That’s what I’ve always done …

Hi Mark, I enjoyed your Fogerty episode (Willie Mays was my childhood baseball hero too.) I also listened to Ms. Emerick’s episode to get a feel for the difference. I can’t articulate it, but parts of the Fogerty episode feel like a hurried walk to get to the next paragraph. If you wish to slow i…

@Hoagie Thank you for asking, and for your example of continually working to make your podcast even better, just like an athlete pursuing the Olympics. Sometimes when I listen to someone’s podcast after they’ve asked for suggestions, I have no idea what to say. But this time I do, and it’s because…

@Emeric @craigconstantine Emeric, thanks so much for your feedback. I think you’re dead on. I’ve been too conscious of shortening my episodes and tightening sentence breaks. Slowing down, altering my pacing and changing my voice inflection will definitely help. I really enjoyed listening to your t…

@JuleKucera @Emeric @craigconstantine Jule, really appreciate you taking the time to listen to the episode and sharing your thoughts. I am definitely going to make an effort to slow down. And yes, I clearly do enjoy the interviews more than going solo. I believe you’re asking the write question…wha…

@Hoagie Happy to help! Also thanks for listening to my podcast–I’ve gotten to the point where I am no longer falling off my chair at some of the guest answers to, “What’s the hard time you’ll be talking about today?” It’s a big world out there, a lot of hard stuff happens, and people are amazingly…

@JuleKucera Certainly. I love your show concept. It so beautifully leads to a compelling and interesting story arch. And your guests (aka heros) seem so eager to share their most poignant (and generally painful) moments in their lives. Very true re people’s resilience.

Always an interesting question for those of us playing with the idea of adding host-on-mic, dropping guest interviews, changing it up @Hoagie . Having read thru our Cohorts’ insightful comments following I now understand that you wish to keep going with host-on-mic; and are looking for a means to ma…

[image] JuleKucera: “What would make you enjoy recording the episode as much as you enjoy arranging and scripting the copy?” Great question, @JuleKucera !

@JuleKucera Good question. I think making an effort to view the recording as ‘theatrical fun’ rather than the final ‘task’ in the podcast process. And taking my time and not rushing the recording.

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Carole (@clevpt ) and I talked about this for part of our episode today, Circumspection - with Carole Blueweiss

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