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The 70 Percent You’d Cut
Picture the last real conversation you had. Maybe twenty minutes, maybe an hour. Now imagine someone hands you a recording of it and a stopwatch, and tells you that you …
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From the archives: Doug Thompson
From Storytelling with Doug Thompson… What strategies and experiences contribute to effective storytelling and meaningful conversation? Effective storytelling bridges gaps between technical concepts and emotiona…
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What the medium keeps returning you to
Tracy Bedford has two creative practices that feel different in opposite ways. There’s her acting class — a community, in a room, with people whose faces she can see — and …
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The architecture of not quitting
Adam Ashton co-hosts What You Will Learn, a book-a-week podcast now in its sixth year. He’s reflecting on why it’s still going. He doesn’t credit grit, or …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
From the archives: Vince Quinn
From Engagement with Vince Quinn… What does it really mean to be an effective podcast host? Good podcasts succeed by focusing on engagement, not biography. “[…] everybody loves podcasting and talks …
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From the archives: Cassandra Ellis
From Collaboration with Cassandra Ellis… How can the experience of working collaboratively in podcasting inform and enhance creative and personal growth? Supporting others’ podcasting journeys can provide surpri…
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When competence is the trap
Aaradhya Tiwari started a podcast about marketing. She’d studied business commerce. She’d read Seth Godin’s This Is Marketing. The topic fit her background, her training, her credentials — …
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From the archives: Mandell Conway
From 60 Seconds with Mandell Conway… What role does storytelling play in driving creativity and engagement in personal projects like podcasting and daily writing? Mandell Conway and Craig Constantine discuss the&…
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