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🎙️ Interview Mastery
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
2:19
Warm welcome to the Interview Mastery course!
2:16
Your favorite interviews: what are you learning about how they do it?
5:33
What does your ideal audience believe differently than others?
2:33
Context for the work you love to do with clients...
5:39
Initial work of bringing together your interview message...
3:01
What questions might an ideal host ask you?
4:32
What's a good offer to mention in an interview?
3:13
Clarity vs Promoted Interviews
3:34
How to do a Clarity Interview
3:40
Make it easy to schedule with you...
0:48
Should you post your Clarity interviews?
Module 2 -- First, interview others
1:16:34
1:57
Introducing our Course Helper – Jessica Jennings
6:51
As a Guest, if you're unsure what target audience to speak to...
4:33
What if you have multiple audiences - who do you address in an interview?
2:39
Should we talk about our Framework or Pathway in our interviews?
6:02
Yes you can share multiple offers in an interview
12:13
Tech Prep – for both Host and Guests
3:41
Promoted Interviews: before being a guest, try being a Host first... the opportunity for growth is bigger than you might expect.
2:50
If you're surprised that I'm talking about "your podcast" or "your series" -- you don't have to start one...
4:41
Finding great guests to reach out to...
5:48
Vetting your potential guests
7:46
Focus on Quality connection instead of Numbers of guest's followers? 🤔
6:21
How topic-aligned to be in choosing Guests to interview?
2:33
Is it bad strategy to invite a competitor to be interviewed as a Guest?
2:51
When should payment be expected as a host or a guest?
5:48
How to outreach to your potential guest
Module 3 -- Being a great host
1:24:50
1:20
This week's learnings?
7:11
Beware what you're learning from celebrity interviews...
6:37
Questions *not* to ask your Guests...
2:38
Should you ask challenging questions of the guest?
3:21
1st principle of being a great interviewer (let's learn from Oprah)
4:29
2nd principle: the more you can prepare, the more interesting questions you can ask.
2:36
Preparing your questions for the guest
4:30
How to help guests prepare? / What to send to your guests?
3:20
Disclaimer that show might not get published?
3:29
The bigger the influencer the less you should make them prepare...
1:40
Record the interview as video, or only audio?
2:36
Record interviews via Instagram Live?
3:31
As a Host: prepare to share your thoughts on the topic too…
3:02
Should the host read the guest's bio at the beginning?
3:59
Host – Day of. (Practice these things in your Clarity interview!)
3:41
Host – Day of. (Advanced tips)
11:42
Hosts: Switch btwn gallery & speaker view (keyboard shortcuts)
8:13
Host: if you disagree with what a guest says should you mention that?
4:32
Host: time management, especially if guest is longwinded
2:23
Another interesting purpose of Hosting interviews -- sales & referrals 😊
Module 4 -- Being a great guest
1:01:06
5:03
Understanding your opportunity as a guest...
12:16
Finding hosts that are likely to say Yes to interviewing you
10:55
Optional: using LinkedIn to search for potential hosts
7:24
Researching / vetting your potential Hosts
6:42
Outreaching to hosts to invite you to their show...
4:09
Once a host says Yes, what should your response be?
1:51
Reaching a 2nd degree connection via a 1st degree...
12:46
Appropriate expectations for the "results" of your interview...
Module 5 -- More skills to practice as a Guest
50:46
3:35
As a guest, imagine you’re doing a TED talk... additional prompts for your Interview Message.
3:57
An interview is public speaking -- don't bring a "conversation energy" (unless you're famous!)
4:44
Prepare answers to questions about client success stories...
2:30
Guests: learn from the Host's recent interviews...
2:08
Guests: prepare by understanding the audience...
When introducing yourself in an interview, make it an experience…
6:58
Google the ideas you’d like the audience to look more into...
2:01
When speaking your offer at the end…
4:03
Advanced technique for Guests: Prepare in segments...
1:26
Guests: what to send to your Host
2:39
Day of prep: Guest
4:34
Reminder: It's less a conversation, more a presentation with Q&A by the Audience through the Host.
1:44
What if the Host insists that you answer the question?
2:43
Guests: help the host feel good about their interactions…
7:44
Example of researching the reach of a potential Host...
Module 6 -- After the Interview
32:17
4:13
Follow-up right away ⚡️
3:43
Guests -- follow-up on possible additional collaboration
7:43
Host: Interview Post-Production
1:57
Hosts: sharing the interview
6:07
Keep your interviews on your existing YT channel or separate one?
3:29
Guests: sharing the interview
1:02
Should you post interviews of you (as a guest) on your own channel or podcast?
1:49
Suzanne's Q about increasing the listens
2:14
Best if you can upload the interview onto Youtube, even if audio only...
Interview Mastery Course -- Group Photo!
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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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The intro to an interview is a little tricky because the host has probably heard many bad interviews, which basically at the beginning, you know, the host reads this typically too long bio of the guest. Sometimes the bio sounds really impressive. But oftentimes, the bio is just really boring to me.
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