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

🎙️ Interview Mastery - Module 1 -- Begin with Clarity Interviews

From now on, as you listen to / watch any interviews, especially from your favorite hosts or guests, ask yourself: What is the host doing well, that I can learn from? What is the guest doing that is effective? What are they not doing as effectively, that I can learn from? I welcome you to share your learnings below. Let's all become more effective hosts & guests, with our collective input!

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Sonja Carey

I tend to listen to the podcasts the my friends or teachers send me, like if I'm on their email list...I might click and watch while I do the dishes. So I'm watching someone who's messages and teaching style I already know be interviewed by someone else. Example: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

I like this interview, though it's obviously 'shiny.' Very 'Tonight Show'/'Late Show' vibes with the physical set and chairs. mmmmm...sometimes I get annoyed (in general) when a host talks about themselves/their own journey during an interview....even if it's on topic. I'm not sure why yet, or when it bothers me and when it doesn't.

When I was in George's ai tools (CHAT GPT or text), I watched interviews on ai tech and culture, etc. I wish I'd noted the ones I liked. This was out of my box. Some were too boring (interview style) to watch, others were good.

This was my fav: https://www.youtube.com/wa... I especially like the ending. The interviewer has an open, curious and positive view on ai furthering human creativity...and asks the right questions to bring specific examples out from his guest.

And I recently LOVE this muckraker:
https://rachaelkayalbers.co... I like how she is humorous and serious at the same time, and how she encourages her guests but doesn't 'battle' them.

And just because I can't help it. My husband doesn't get this, but it makes me laugh out loud. Maybe we can about mistakes by watching exaggerated ones (even if intentional for humorous purposes). https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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George Kao STAFF Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

Sep 10, 2023 11:33am in ABC 2023 🟢 Intention Setting & Follow-Through

Intentions: Week of Sept 11

Comment with your intention for this week. @mention your Helper so they know what you're up to 🙏🏼
For example: To practice a specific Joyful Productivity skill, or to complete a project.
Tip: What method will you use to remind yourself of this intention? Perhaps schedule time on your calendar 😊
You might set a reminder mid-week to check-in here, to help you keep on track with your intention 👏🏽
End of your week, reply to your comment with an update on how the intentio…

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Sonja Carey

Intentions:

1. Onboard and attend the Interview Course with a beginner's mind.

2. Create a new schedule for clients...changes in my son's 5th grade schedule and our evening activities affect my availability.

3. Create the simplest offering I can for right now (maybe just 60 minute session with me...) for my website. I'm ok with their being even just one option for now, as I navigate our new family schedule.

4. Get colors and paper out and brainstorm about how to deliver fun content and flow on Instagram (I'm new to the platform).

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George Kao STAFF Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

Sep 3, 2023 08:04am in ABC 2023 🟢 Intention Setting & Follow-Through

Intentions: Week of Sept 4

Comment with your intention for this week. @mention your Helper so they know what you're up to 🙏🏼
For example: To practice a specific Joyful Productivity skill, or to complete a project.
Tip: What method will you use to remind yourself of this intention? Perhaps schedule time on your calendar 😊
You might set a reminder mid-week to check-in here, to help you keep on track with your intention 👏🏽
End of your week, reply to your comment with an update on how the intentio…

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Susan Tutt

Ah, September at last!

I'm in tidy up mode, and have been working on the underpinnings of my biz, stuff that's felt vague is now clear (like my terms and conditions, and privacy policy....small things to be sure, and not too much time spent there, but enough to make sure everything is in order).

My goal this week has already been accomplished, thanks in part to the fire under my accountability buddy@Donna Becker 's butt that has her dragging me along for the ride. The week seems to be titled "Getter Done!"

And so dates are set for my newest launch (and crossed off my to-do after 17 weeks of gathering dust there, making me feel bad); Website Wednesdays and Follow-Up Fridays, and it's on my calendar, with a zoom link and a rough sketch of topics to be covered over 4 weeks.

So the real objective of this week: build the sales page, announce it widely, figure out pricing, decide if I'll run a FTA webinar or just dive in, and start putting together the materials.

The real progress here is actually something I've let go of in order to move forward.

For a long time now I've been wanting to run courses, but I was thinking of them needing to be pre-recorded, on Udemy (the platform my one completed course lives on). What I've finally figured out, though, is that that seems too big somehow, and too formal, and is blocking my progress (17 weeks on the to-do list, years in my head). I've realized that I want to teach live first, before recording anything. That way I can be more responsive to the actual needs of the students, and be a better teacher in the long run. Also, I like teaching live! I like the community that builds, and the way we co-create our learning.

Starting the week out with a hoorah!

@Shay Nichols

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Sonja Carey

@Susan Tutt Hi Susan. I like your idea of teaching live first. That way you can use some of the materials (like George does with ABC Q&A) but also edit out maybe the parts that don't get as much response. So many options these day, but when you mentioned live first, it felt fresh and exciting in my body. How does it feel for you?

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Rose Aslan

Mar 19, 2023 02:29pm in ABC 2023 ❓ Questions

Need super simple way to create supportive online community

Hi George and everyone else,

So I'm about to launch my Rahma (Compassion) Ramadan Collective in a few days. I initially thought I can make a private FB group like George does but some of the people in my group want to detox from social media during Ramadan so FB won't be a good option.

I tried playing around with Mighty Networks, but the learning curve seems too high for a month-long program that will occur only once a year. It also cost quite a bit of money for what it is, considering th…

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Sonja Amundson

I'm curious what others have found as I've looked at this recently too. My list is ...

Discord - nerdy, like Slack, learning curve (where I landed)

Mighty Networks - pretty, learning curve, I'm still mad at them for some stupid ui choices when they first started so I'm unreasonably biased against them.

Kajabi - I think has membership spaces? But seems like total overkill for me at the moment.

Simplero - eh, I'm not a forum-style person, though it's growing on me somewhat

... Like I just can't believe there aren't more group-style options out there, but nobody has quite nailed it like Facebook.

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Sonja Carey

@Rose Aslan I go in and out of using FB...and what has kept me on the app (besides family in other countries) is groups. I don't scroll FB feed, but check in to access groups...sometimes daily, sometimes less, depending on what courses/projects I'm engaged in. I feel like it might be a good choice for your purpose because a lot of people know how to use it or have accounts (even it they are bored/annoyed FB in general). AND You can post your cool ai images there!

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Sonja Carey

Mar 9, 2023 11:53am in ABC 2023 Misc.

Paying for prospective clients: Free Readings

Has anyone participated in a model of paying to give someone a free session? I have a former teacher with a large online gathering (20,000 +) who offers Free 30 Minute Sessions to the public, given by students/graduates of her program. The sessions consist of oracle card reading with possibility of energy work, channeled messages or even mediumship (we all have different skills). It's a bit like getting a free haircut from salon students. Those giving the sessions are allowed/encouraged to of…

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Sonja Amundson

Heya, @Sonja Carey !

Biddy Tarot had a program where people could be tarot readers on their site that I did for a while. The readings were free, and I'm trying to remember if you had to pay to be a reader, or if it was free, I can't remember.

Personally I don't think it matters much - only if you want to pay or not, really. I would imagine the people showing up are just excited for the free reading. But I will say that at least within the Biddy structure, it was decent amount of work and not really good lead generation tool. But Biddy's structure wasn't necessarily geared toward getting your own name out there, if I recall correctly.

It feels a little sticky to me, but for the students more than the audience. So to me, it would depend on how you feel about it, and if the cost is worth it.

... It may be a better use of the funds to run an ad (or ads, depending on how much the thing costs). Because the visibility when you pay for the list is still only one person per reading you do, whereas an ad is going to put you in front of hundreds of people. But also depending on your finances and/or the cost of the thing, it might be interesting to try it for a month and see?

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Sonja Carey

@Sonja Amundson Thanks, Sonja. I was just so curious if this were a type of model that's pretty common but I hadn't seen before. I will check Biddy out (for curiosity). I've had good lead generation with this teacher I'm speaking of, so maybe her marketing team caught on that these free readings were valuable to the grads and decided to try charging to see who would pay. Currently, it's a 'make an offer' system, so feels experimental. We choose to pay what we think is fair. It stumps me to have to come up with my own fee though. Some of us will probably pay for the 'volunteer' shift, because we believe in our work (some of us grades of this program). Others will probably see it as a business expense and opportunity. If I do go this route, I'll be sure to put any expen$e in my records :)

Thanks for the ads suggestion! I hadn't thought about bang for buck yet. I'm not personally at the place where I need to be seen by hundreds, but getting there.

I don't know how I would personally feel, signing up for a free reading, knowing that someone had paid for my name...BUT that is the same as with ads, so it's just so interesting to me. I remain curious.

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George Kao STAFF Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

Mar 9, 2023 07:35pm in ABC 2023 Staff Announcements

You can post NON-technical questions too :)

Somewhere you may have gotten the idea that only "technical" questions or business/marketing questions were allowed in ABC. Not true... post any questions in our Questions Forum that either you'd like for me to speak to (on a Q&A call) or for the group to respond to.

Not market research questions though... those should go into the Seeking Feedback forum 🙏🏼

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Sonja Carey

Thank you, George!

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