Every other week inside of our mind, check society Facebook group, I actually go live with our members. And in these little chats and Facebook Lives, we do a variety of things. A couple of times, we have just given updates. Other times we have highlighted things going on in the podcasting industry. And every once in a while, we will drop a mini training. So our goal in these Facebook Lives is to do a 10 Minutes or Less episode, all about something that is weighing on our members and notable in the podcasting industry. So this episode is actually going to be a repurposed version of one of those mini trainings that we did, and it is on five tips for podcast interviews. Now, we decided to highlight five tips that we see very commonly at Gaffin creative in the guest interviews that we're editing. Not only that, we took some concepts from podcasts that we see out in the industry that we listened to as well. But these were five tips that I think every podcaster whether you are a podcast host interviewing guests, or you're someone who is trying to become a guest on podcast, and there are five tips that you need to take away. So let's dive in. Hey, y'all, welcome to the clocking in Podcast, the podcast for podcasters entrepreneurs and professionals making their way in the working world while building their own personal brand in the podcasting industry. I'm your host Haylee Gaffin, owner of Gaffin creative a podcast production company for creative entrepreneurs. If you're a podcaster, or even just dreaming about launching your own podcast someday, this show was built to help you merge your love of conversation, education and business. You can find resources, show notes and more for the clocking in podcast at Gaffin creative.com. Today's episode is brought to you by MIC CHECK society, a community that was built for podcasters who are looking to take their podcast from good to great, scale your podcasts, improve your processes and connect with your listeners through our educational trainings, our private members only community and our monthly calls. If you're ready to join us, you can head over to Mic check society.com and enroll today. And you can get $10 off per month with the code podcast. Now let's clock in and get to work. So if you do interviews on your podcast, or you are a an interviewee on another podcast, there are a few things that you should consider when you do that. So today we're going to talk about five tips that I have for interviews on podcasts. Now, the number one thing goes for both people, the interviewee and the interviewer, do your research, if you are not taking the time to learn about your guest, which I don't see any of y'all doing that, to be completely honest. But a lot of times I have seen where a guest will come on a show and not really know what the show's audience is, who they're talking to what they're talking about, which can be really confusing for the audience, and make for a really rough interview. So if you are someone who is doing either one going on podcast or interviewing others for your podcast, do your research for both sides of the experience. The second tip that I want to highlight is use your microphone correctly. There are so many times I see so many podcasters, who invest in gear, invest in creating a really cool podcast, and then they're not using their microphones correctly, whether they're holding it too far away from them, or they're actually speaking into it backwards, which happens quite a bit is really confusing. Like if you don't do the research on the microphone, you can very easily record into it the wrong way. So make sure you look into your microphone what you have and make sure you're actually recording into it correctly. The third tip that I have is, and this is one that I I really want you to hear. If you take nothing else away, this is one I want you to hear it is to stop stepping on people's lines. And what this means is whether you are verbally agreeing with someone while they're going on a whole spiel about something and you continue to say yes, yes. That is stepping on their lines. It's distracting for the listener, it's distracting for the person you're talking to. And it can also cause some issues in your audio. Not necessarily all the time if you're using specific recording gear. It doesn't cause a ton of issue but it does create A very large distraction. And I personally will edit these out all of my clients that this happens to whether it's them or it's their guests, our team takes it out. But it does hinder the conversation a little bit too, because it is very distracting for the other person who is talking. The other thing with stepping on lines is trying to finish what someone else is saying. Because sometimes, it could have been a really great audio gram or video gram, but you cut them off and kept them from finishing their thought. And so it no longer works for what we're trying to get out of the promotion of the episode. So instead of trying to cut someone off, or like finish what they're saying, let them be at their own speed. And we can correct it in post and like if they're struggling to find the correct words, just let them get there on their own. So the third tip was stop stepping on people's lines. Now the fourth one is to stop agreeing to things that you don't actually agree with. And I see this happen quite a bit where a podcaster will say, yeah, no, yeah, I totally, I agree, and then turn around two seconds later, and say the opposite of what was just said. And it makes it really hard for me to understand like, Okay, how do you want this to be perceived? Do you want to agree with them, then also times where it's like, you're teaching something in your business that goes against what that person has highlighted. And you can disagree with them. So in addition to this fourth tip, I want to give like a bonus tip within the fourth tip of stopping, stop agreeing with others when you don't agree, and to be respectful when disagreeing, because there's nothing more uncomfortable than listening to a podcast episode. And I don't feel like very many podcasts that I listened to this happens on. But listening to big podcasts were like two is usually like a celebrity will disagree with the host. And it's really awkward. When they're very kind of disrespectful, and they're disagreeing, you can disagree. Just be respectful about it. So I wanted to highlight that as well as just not agreeing with things that you don't actually agree with. Now, the fifth and final tip is to know how you want to end a podcast and wrap it up. If you are the host. This could mean asking them where people can find them. This could mean what CTA you want to give to your listener? Or it could simply mean did you take notes? And can you summarize this whole episode, and wrap it up in a bundle? and be done with the episode like and give your audience a great listening experience at the end? As a guest, this could mean do you have a freebie that you want to drive people to that they could benefit from that also was relevant to this conversation? Because sometimes, a host will not ask you for that. You have to go out of your way to say it. So just making sure like when you do get the question of you know, where can our audience find you, you say? Well, first things first, if they want to hear more, or learn more about everything we talked about, I actually offer this freebie that they can find on my website at this is the link. I'll give it to your team to link in the show notes. And then you can also connect with me over on Instagram, you've given them the URL they know. And then Instagram but you actually have given give another bonus tip. You don't have to say every single social media platform that you're on in the podcast, they are not paying attention to that it is likely one that they will listen to and it should be the one that you connect on. If you're on all of them. That's fine. Give those to the hosts. But make sure that the one you enjoy being on is the one you're promoting. Not all of them, they will not listen, they will not go to follow you on every platform. So those are the five tips. Do your research.