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Welcome! Take the onboarding steps...
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✍🏽 Start of Course Assessment
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Course Platform Orientation
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Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls
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General Questions (if you don't know where else to ask)
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Module 1 -- Begin with Clarity Interviews
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Warm welcome to the Interview Mastery course!2:19
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Your favorite interviews: what are you learning about how they do it?2:16
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What does your ideal audience believe differently than others?5:33
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Context for the work you love to do with clients...2:33
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Initial work of bringing together your interview message...5:39
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What questions might an ideal host ask you?3:01
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What's a good offer to mention in an interview?4:32
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Clarity vs Promoted Interviews3:13
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How to do a Clarity Interview3:34
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Make it easy to schedule with you...3:40
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Should you post your Clarity interviews?0:48
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Module 2 -- First, interview others
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Introducing our Course Helper – Jessica Jennings1:57
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As a Guest, if you're unsure what target audience to speak to...6:51
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What if you have multiple audiences - who do you address in an interview?4:33
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Should we talk about our Framework or Pathway in our interviews?2:39
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Yes you can share multiple offers in an interview6:02
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Tech Prep – for both Host and Guests12:13
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Promoted Interviews: before being a guest, try being a Host first... the opportunity for growth is bigger than you might expect.3:41
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If you're surprised that I'm talking about "your podcast" or "your series" -- you don't have to start one...2:50
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Finding great guests to reach out to...4:41
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Vetting your potential guests5:48
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Focus on Quality connection instead of Numbers of guest's followers? 🤔7:46
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How topic-aligned to be in choosing Guests to interview?6:21
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Is it bad strategy to invite a competitor to be interviewed as a Guest?2:33
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When should payment be expected as a host or a guest?2:51
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How to outreach to your potential guest5:48
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Module 3 -- Being a great host
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This week's learnings?1:20
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Beware what you're learning from celebrity interviews...7:11
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Questions *not* to ask your Guests...6:37
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Should you ask challenging questions of the guest?2:38
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1st principle of being a great interviewer (let's learn from Oprah)3:21
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2nd principle: the more you can prepare, the more interesting questions you can ask.4:29
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Preparing your questions for the guest2:36
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How to help guests prepare? / What to send to your guests?4:30
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Disclaimer that show might not get published?3:20
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The bigger the influencer the less you should make them prepare...3:29
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Record the interview as video, or only audio?1:40
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Record interviews via Instagram Live?2:36
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As a Host: prepare to share your thoughts on the topic too…3:31
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Should the host read the guest's bio at the beginning?3:02
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Host – Day of. (Practice these things in your Clarity interview!)3:59
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Host – Day of. (Advanced tips)3:41
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Hosts: Switch btwn gallery & speaker view (keyboard shortcuts)11:42
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Host: if you disagree with what a guest says should you mention that?8:13
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Host: time management, especially if guest is longwinded4:32
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Another interesting purpose of Hosting interviews -- sales & referrals 😊2:23
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Module 4 -- Being a great guest
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Understanding your opportunity as a guest...5:03
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Finding hosts that are likely to say Yes to interviewing you12:16
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Optional: using LinkedIn to search for potential hosts10:55
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Researching / vetting your potential Hosts7:24
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Outreaching to hosts to invite you to their show...6:42
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Once a host says Yes, what should your response be?4:09
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Reaching a 2nd degree connection via a 1st degree...1:51
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Appropriate expectations for the "results" of your interview...12:46
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Module 5 -- More skills to practice as a Guest
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As a guest, imagine you’re doing a TED talk... additional prompts for your Interview Message.3:35
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An interview is public speaking -- don't bring a "conversation energy" (unless you're famous!)3:57
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Prepare answers to questions about client success stories...4:44
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Guests: learn from the Host's recent interviews...2:30
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Guests: prepare by understanding the audience...2:08
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When introducing yourself in an interview, make it an experience…
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Google the ideas you’d like the audience to look more into...6:58
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When speaking your offer at the end…2:01
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Advanced technique for Guests: Prepare in segments...4:03
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Guests: what to send to your Host1:26
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Day of prep: Guest2:39
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Reminder: It's less a conversation, more a presentation with Q&A by the Audience through the Host.4:34
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What if the Host insists that you answer the question?1:44
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Guests: help the host feel good about their interactions…2:43
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Example of researching the reach of a potential Host...7:44
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Module 6 -- After the Interview
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Follow-up right away ⚡️4:13
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Guests -- follow-up on possible additional collaboration3:43
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Host: Interview Post-Production7:43
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Hosts: sharing the interview1:57
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Keep your interviews on your existing YT channel or separate one?6:07
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Guests: sharing the interview3:29
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Should you post interviews of you (as a guest) on your own channel or podcast?1:02
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Suzanne's Q about increasing the listens1:49
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Best if you can upload the interview onto Youtube, even if audio only...2:14
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Interview Mastery Course -- Group Photo!
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Wildcard 😊
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Warm welcome to the Interview Mastery course!
A warm welcome to the interview mastery course.
I'm George Cowell, and I have done hundreds at this point of interviews as a host and as a guest over the past 14 years.
Interviews on podcasts, YouTube channels, Instagram lives, webinars, you know, and Zoom just simply private Zoom interviews with client groups of their other people's clients, etcetera.
So I've done a lot of interviews, and so I have noticed what seems to work well that gets the audience really excited to engage and more likely to share the interview.
And also, I've noticed many interviews have not done well for audience engagement.
And there are reasons why.
And so this course is where you'll get my my guidelines in an organized format and you'll also be doing quite a bit of work yourself to kinda piece together your optimal interview message as a guest, and also your interview method as a host.
And so part of the benefit of the courses that we're all learning together.
I am definitely not an, you know, perfect expert by no means about interviewing either as a host or a guest.
I'm getting better a little bit every year and this is the course where I'm for myself also bringing together all that I've learned about doing interviews, and I'm sure I'm going to be learning from a lot a lot from you as well, all of us here.
So As we go through the lessons in this course, please see this as a community learning experience.
I am merely a facilitator of our collective knowledge in a bit more organized fashion from lesson to lesson to lesson.
So I look forward to your chats and your comments below ChatGPT for those of you who are live here with me on Zoom and and the comments for those of you who many of you, most of you probably are watching this later.
And I look forward to seeing your comments underneath each lesson.
Please feel free to comment generously and also reply generously to others comments.
Because when you comment, when you reply to others comments, they feel good that, you know, their comment was seen and appreciated.
And so let's move on from here and let's learn together.
Welcome fellow interviewers/ees!
In this course you'll get my best guidance for how to be on the path of mastering your skills as a host and a guest.
However, there's an abundance of wisdom here -- your own observations as you watch interviews and as you take part in this.
I consider this course to be a community learning experience -- pooling together our observations about what makes for great interviewing (and what things to avoid.)
So I hope you'll comment generously on the lessons to share what you've seen works / doesn't work. Let's learn together 🤗
Last updated 12 Sep 2023.