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In today’s Q&A, we are helping Warren figure out if he should use a script or not while recording a podcast (and what will sound more natural)
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Resources Mentioned in this Episode
- Today’s expert is from Kate Erickson of entrepreneuronfire.com
- Today’s question is from Warren Cinco of breakingwork.com
- Kate’s Podcast
Let’s dive into this week’s question!
JOCELYN: Hey y’all! You’re listening to an Expert Q&A with S&J. Today’s expert is Kate Erickson of Kate’s Take: The Entrepreneur on Fire Audio Blog.
Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let’s get started.
SHANE: What’s going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, this is our Q&A with S&J and today we have another expert to come on and help answer our question for this episode. We want to welcome back to the show, Kate Erickson of Kate’s Take: The Entrepreneur on Fire Audio Blog and entrepreneuronfire.com. Kate, welcome back to the show.
KATE: S&J thanks for having me back.
SHANE: Awesome.
JOCELYN: Yeah, we are excited to have you. Today’s question is from Warren Cinco of breakingwork.com and Warren says, “Hi Shane and Jocelyn, love your site and podcast; been picking up valuable tips since I first heard about you guys and your stories are very inspiring. I have a question about doing a podcast. I want to start one of my own from my site, but my one hesitation is that I may not sound natural communicating. Do you follow a script or do you just talk normally? Which is better?”
SHANE: And this is a great question because we’ve got someone who’s been a part of like almost a thousand podcasts probably on entrepreneuronfire.com and her own podcast, Kate’s Take. So what do you think about this question, like how do you think is the best way to approach doing a podcast?
KATE: Well, I love where Warren’s train of thought is at because these are the exact questions you should be asking yourself if you are thinking about starting a podcast and Warren, you are certainly not alone. Feeling like you might sound awkward on the mic is definitely going to happen when you first start.
SHANE: That’s right.
KATE: Yeah, right, you guys know this as well.
JOCELYN: Absolutely.
KATE: But the key is to just start. The key is to just start recording because it’s going to be awkward in the beginning, but that’s the thing is that you are never going to find your voice and find what flow works for you until you get on the mic and start recording ‘cause it’s gonna be different for everybody. I know people who get on the mic with absolutely zero preparation and that’s what works best for them. I know other people who literally have entire outlines in front of them while they are recording every single one of their podcast episodes. So, if you just start recording, you are going to find out really, really quickly what’s going to work best for you.
JOCELYN: Yeah, I agree with that. For me, podcasting was a little bit difficult because I don’t like to hear myself and in fact, I always tell people that I never listen back to my shows until after they are aired because if I do, they would probably never be released. I’m very critical of myself especially so yeah, that’s definitely a hesitation that a lot of people have. Shane and I do follow a script when we record; it’s not a super – like every word we say is scripted but we do
SHANE: It’s more like an outline yeah, and I think we have to do that, we learnt – like I can just talk, I can do that. When I did my football podcast, I just turned it on and recorded for 45 minutes. I never had a plan, kinda knew what I was talking about and I would just kinda make notes as I went of what I wanted to say. But when me and Jocelyn tried to do this, for one thing, it took me forever to get her to be on video and audio because we’re pretty country. We got like an accent that’s kinda, you know, we don’t sound so smart some of the times; you know what I mean? But like – I had to really pull Jocelyn out, she’s like, ‘I don’t want people to hear me talk, I’m from the south and they’ll think we talk funny and they’ll make fun of us’ and all this. But we started recording and we were never on the same page and I was like, we have got to outline this ‘cause it’s harder with two people ‘cause you got to kinda bounce back and forth, you know? But I think there’s totally some value to what you said there; like some people can just roll with it and other people need that structure. Do you do – what do you do for Kate’s Take? Do you have an outline that you follow, or do you just kinda go with it, or do you read just straight from the blog itself? How do you do that podcast?
KATE: So when I first started out, I was exactly like Warren. I was like, ‘I better just read this word for word so I don’t mess up’ and much like you guys too, I was scared to get on the mic definitely and I didn’t want to hear myself either, Jocelyn. I am totally on the same page as you. But, you know, the more I did it, the more started using my blog posts not as a word for word script for myself but as an outline and now, often times I can just look at the title of my blogpost and just hit ‘Record’. I’m now almost on episode 80 of my podcast, so it took me a long time to get there. You know, I was evolving as a podcaster and as a speaker the entire time but the – again back to my initial point and my advice for Warren, just start, I would have never been able to get there if I wouldn’t have started recording that first episode. And I’ve learnt and evolved over time and I have started to discover what works best for me. A lot of that was based on audience feedback too; you know, I had a lot of people reach out to me that said, you know, ‘Kate, I love your content, I’m loving the podcast but stop reading. We just want to hear you talk about stuff’.
SHANE: You what’s funny is, I was listening to your podcast the other day, I remember, we were driving somewhere and I remembered when you first came out of the podcast I was like, ‘Oh, Kate’s got a podcast, I’m gonna listen to that’. And it is so different now how at the very beginning it did feel like – audio blog, it sounded like you were literally just reading the blog and now it is more loose and it is more free and it’s like they are just flowing through not a script but like the process without having to read it word for word.
KATE: Yeah, I definitely use it more as an outline now and now when I go back and listen to my very first episodes which I’m sure you guys can relate to, it’s like, ‘Oh man, I can’t believe I sounded like that’.
JOCELYN: Yeah, exactly. I go through that same thing too but the bottomline is, nobody knows what your perfect is supposed to be. So put yourself out there, people are going to like you because you are being you and if they don’t like you, then they are probably not in your target audience anyway. So that is all for Warren’s question today; we want to thank Kate again for bringing your expertise and your wisdom in, and we will see you all next time.
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Kate Erickson says
S&J, you guys are awesome! Thanks for having me BACK on the show to do another Q&A with you two. Always a pleasure to chat and answer some Q’s together! 🙂
Shane Sams says
Thanks Kate! You are amazing! So much VALUE!