# What's your best answer?

**URL:** <https://forum.podcaster.community/t/whats-your-best-answer/4414>\
**Category:** Workbench\
**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/whats-your-best-answer/4414 "2025-01-08T15:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/whats-your-best-answer/4414/1 "2025-01-08T15:05:27Z")

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Introductions are not hard— …we’re just not prepared.

> Whenever I’m on a podcast, I dread one inevitable question: “I know who you are, but tell everyone listening who you are!”
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> This is a moment when I feel _painfully_ insecure, first-day-of-sixth-grade only-kid-with-braces level.
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> The things I like about myself don’t matter in this scenario; my task is to answer, essentially, “What is interesting, valuable, or remarkable about me _to strangers_?" ~ Mari Andrew, from [It doesn’t have to make sense](https://mariandrew.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-have-to-make-sense)

This is doubly related to people around here. Mari goes on to talk about @davidnebinski and it’s worth a read.

But also, just yesterday I was in a little [session presented](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andreawojnicki_5-ways-to-kickstart-your-personal-brand-in-activity-7282524119726702592-Uld8) by @Andrea-TalkAboutTalk where she gave (among much more) a tidy little framework for introducing yourself. She pointed out that her framework is _a place to begin._ Once you get comfy introducing yourself you can expand and modify and do what you like.

So, what’s your current self-introduction?

…then read Andrea’s ideas, and then what’s your new, better self-introduction?

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PS: Technically, it’s triply related since that’s a photo of some of @steveh’s alpacas 😉

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**Author:** ![davidnebinski](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/davidnebinski/32/270_2.png) [@davidnebinski](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/davidnebinski)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/whats-your-best-answer/4414/2 "2025-01-08T15:24:14Z")

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Thank you so much for sharing and highlighting me here, Craig!

This Podcast Mixer, episode, and her newsletter was SUCH A HIGHLIGHT for me!

Thanks for sparking this convo!

For me, it depends on who I am talking too 🙂

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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/whats-your-best-answer/4414/3 "2025-01-08T18:42:21Z")

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**Here’s my self-introduction…**

> Hello 👋 I’m Craig Constantine. I’m a podcast creator and a writer. I’m endlessly curious and passionate about creating better conversations. I want us to go from simply _having_ conversations, to actively creating better ones for ourselves and others.

If you read Andrea’s points, this doesn’t follow her form exactly. It does start with “present tense” and then goes to “future tense,” and it actively engages the person I’m introducing myself to. What I didn’t do (from Andrea’s structure) is also talk about “past tense/credentials”… `¯\_(ツ)_/¯ `

Thoughts on that? Can you _hear_ my actual voice when you read that? (I really want to know.)