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Welcome! Take the onboarding steps...

✍🏽 Start of Course Assessment

Course Platform Orientation

Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls

🎁 2 Months Access to Work Retreats

General Questions (if you don't know where else to ask)

Module 1 -- Begin with Clarity Interviews

37:08

1 Warm welcome to the Interview Mastery course

Warm welcome to the Interview Mastery course!

2 learning from interviews

Your favorite interviews: what are you learning about how they do it?

3 What does your ideal audience believe differently

What does your ideal audience believe differently than others?

4 Context for the work you love to do with clients

Context for the work you love to do with clients...

5 Initial work of bringing together your interview message

Initial work of bringing together your interview message...

6 What questions might an ideal host ask you

What questions might an ideal host ask you?

7 What's a good offer to mention in an interview

What's a good offer to mention in an interview?

8 Clarity vs Promoted Interviews

Clarity vs Promoted Interviews

9 How to do a Clarity Interview

How to do a Clarity Interview

11 Make it easy to schedule with you

Make it easy to schedule with you...

Should you post your Clarity interviews?

Should you post your Clarity interviews?

Module 2 -- First, interview others

1:16:34

intro to Jessica Jennings course helper

Introducing our Course Helper – Jessica Jennings

Who is your audience when speaking on an interview?

As a Guest, if you're unsure what target audience to speak to...

What if you have multiple audiences - who do you address in an interview?

What if you have multiple audiences - who do you address in an interview?

Should we talk about our Framework or Pathway in our interviews?

Should we talk about our Framework or Pathway in our interviews?

can you talk about multiple offers in an interview?

Yes you can share multiple offers in an interview

Tech of doing interviews

Tech Prep – for both Host and Guests

The opportunity of being a Host vs a Guest

Promoted Interviews: before being a guest, try being a Host first... the opportunity for growth is bigger than you might expect.

If you're surprised that I'm talking about "your podcast" or "your series" -- you don't have to start one..

If you're surprised that I'm talking about "your podcast" or "your series" -- you don't have to start one...

How to find great guests?

Finding great guests to reach out to...

vetting guests

Vetting your potential guests

Focus on Quality conversations instead of the Numbers of followers? 🤔

Focus on Quality connection instead of Numbers of guest's followers? 🤔

How topic-aligned to be in choosing Guests to interview?

How topic-aligned to be in choosing Guests to interview?

Is it bad strategy to invite a competitor to be interviewed as a Guest?

Is it bad strategy to invite a competitor to be interviewed as a Guest?

When should payment be expected as a host or a guest?

When should payment be expected as a host or a guest?

How to outreach to your potential guest

How to outreach to your potential guest

Module 3 -- Being a great host

1:24:50

1 What are you learning from interviews?

This week's learnings?

2 Beware learning from celebrity interviews

Beware what you're learning from celebrity interviews...

3 Questions that hosts should not be asking

Questions not to ask your Guests...

5 Should you ask challenging questions of the guest?

Should you ask challenging questions of the guest?

4 First principle of being a host - Oprah

1st principle of being a great interviewer (let's learn from Oprah)

6 Principle the more you can prepare the better

2nd principle: the more you can prepare, the more interesting questions you can ask.

7 Questions to ask the guest

Preparing your questions for the guest

8 Template of what to send to guests to prepare

How to help guests prepare? / What to send to your guests?

2 Preshow agreement that episode publishing might not be guaranteed?

Disclaimer that show might not get published?

9 The bigger the influencer the less you should make them prepare

The bigger the influencer the less you should make them prepare...

0 Record the interview video or only audio is fine?

Record the interview as video, or only audio?

9 Record interviews on Instagram Live?

Record interviews via Instagram Live?

10 Hosts - get ready to share your thoughts on the topic

As a Host: prepare to share your thoughts on the topic too…

Interviews - should the host read the guest's bio?

Should the host read the guest's bio at the beginning?

11 Hosts - day of prep tips

Host – Day of. (Practice these things in your Clarity interview!)

12 Hosts - advanced tips

Host – Day of. (Advanced tips)

Interview - switch btwn gallery & speaker view

Hosts: Switch btwn gallery & speaker view (keyboard shortcuts)

Interview - if you disagree with what a guest says should you mention that?

Host: if you disagree with what a guest says should you mention that?

Interview - how to manage time as a host?

Host: time management, especially if guest is longwinded

13 Hosting helps you meet potential clients

Another interesting purpose of Hosting interviews -- sales & referrals 😊

Module 4 -- Being a great guest

1:01:06

Your opportunity as a Guest

Understanding your opportunity as a guest...

find potential hosts

Finding hosts that are likely to say Yes to interviewing you

linkedin to find potential hosts

Optional: using LinkedIn to search for potential hosts

research & vetting potential hosts

Researching / vetting your potential Hosts

writing your outreach message to potential hosts

Outreaching to hosts to invite you to their show...

0 If a host says Yes what shoudl your response be?

Once a host says Yes, what should your response be?

1 What to say to middle person about connecting us?

Reaching a 2nd degree connection via a 1st degree...

Appropriate expectations for the process of doing interviews

Appropriate expectations for the "results" of your interview...

Module 5 -- More skills to practice as a Guest

50:46

3 imagine you’re doing a TED talk

As a guest, imagine you’re doing a TED talk... additional prompts for your Interview Message.

1 Performance not convo

An interview is public speaking -- don't bring a "conversation energy" (unless you're famous!)

2 Tell us your client success stories

Prepare answers to questions about client success stories...

5 learn from the Host's recent interviews

Guests: learn from the Host's recent interviews...

6 prepare by understanding the audience

Guests: prepare by understanding the audience...

When introducing yourself in an interview, make it an experience…

7 Ideas you’d like the audience to look more into

Google the ideas you’d like the audience to look more into...

8 When speaking your offer at the end

When speaking your offer at the end…

4 Prepare in segments

Advanced technique for Guests: Prepare in segments...

9 what to send to the Host

Guests: what to send to your Host

10 Day of prep Guest

Day of prep: Guest

11 It's less a conversation more a presentation with Q&A by the Audience through the Host

Reminder: It's less a conversation, more a presentation with Q&A by the Audience through the Host.

0 What if Host insists that you answer the question?

What if the Host insists that you answer the question?

12 Guests help the host feel good about their interactions

Guests: help the host feel good about their interactions…

13 Example of researching the reach of a potential Host

Example of researching the reach of a potential Host...

Module 6 -- After the Interview

32:17

3 Follow up right away

Follow-up right away ⚡️

4 Collabs afterwards

Guests -- follow-up on possible additional collaboration

5 Post production

Host: Interview Post-Production

6 Hosts - sharing the interview

Hosts: sharing the interview

Keep your interviews on your existing YT channel or separate one?

Keep your interviews on your existing YT channel or separate one?

7 Guests - sharing the interview

Guests: sharing the interview

Should you post interviews of you (as a guest) on your own channel or podcast?

Should you post interviews of you (as a guest) on your own channel or podcast?

8 How to increase the number of listens?

Suzanne's Q about increasing the listens

0 Best if you can upload the interview onto Youtube even if audio only

Best if you can upload the interview onto Youtube, even if audio only...

Interview Mastery Course -- Group Photo!

Thank you!

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🎙️ Interview Mastery › Module 3 -- Being a great host

Should the host read the guest's bio at the beginning?

Updated Sep 22, 2023

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