The Art Of The Interview

Should I do a pre-interview or not? What even is a pre-interview, and why can the help or hinder my interview?

In this episode, I talk about some of the objections to doing pre-interviews and why, in…

Documentary is my favorite type of interview. Getting the opportunity to sit across from someone and dig into their life or subject of choice is like drinking a cup of coffee in the early hours watch…

There are a lot of people who answer the question of how to start your interview, but fewer people ask how to end your interview with a bang.

In fact, ending of your interview well is equally as impo…

Are you starting up an interview series but frustrated that your voice doesn't sound like everybody else in the interviewing sphere?

Don't be. Actually there's many different styles, cadences, and vo…

You've scheduled your guest, and you're gnawing at your fingernails waiting for the day when you're going to do the interview.

What do you do while you wait?

In this episode, I talk about four things…

An interviewer is only as good as their interviewee. So much of what an interviewer does is empowering the interviewee to be the best interview subject that they can be. And that's why, as an intervi…

Should I go long or stay short? Long-form interviewing or short-form? Should I record long and edit short? What should the final duration of my podcast/video/media be?

In this episode, I talk intervi…

Have you ever wondered why you're not getting the kind of interviews that you know are possible? Me too. And recently I had an experience where I was listening back to one of my interviews as a liste…

Oh no! You've been asked or assigned to do an interview for your company, business, or for a friend. And let me guess, you don't even know where to start!

Well, you could start here. In this episode,…

Oh no! You've been asked or assigned to do an interview for your company, business, or for a friend. And let me guess, you don't even know where to start!

Well, you could start here. In this episode,…

Oh no! You've been asked or assigned to do an interview for your company, business, or for a friend. And let me guess, you don't even know where to start!

Well, you could start here. In this episode,…

In this episode, I migrate to my kitchen and answer one of the most common questions (according to Google!) about interviewing: How do I structure an interview?

In the episode, I make four points abo…

Sometimes you learn things from an interview by doing poorly, sometimes you're reaffirmed in your technique by killing it.

In this episode, I cover three ways I rocked a recent marketing interview. I…

In this episode, I get a little bit excited about some recent unexpected developments with the podcast...

Oh, and I also talk about three things not to do in your interviews. From my own painful expe…

When you're not the greatest at something in the world, why should someone listen to you? For instance, myself. Many people who might listen to this podcast have likely done more interviews than I ha…

What makes a good or a bad interview? This is a highly subjective question. However, as someone who listens to and does quite a few interviews, there are a few things I personally like and don't like…

What is the quickest way to increase your focus on the interview and drastically improve the quality of the material that you get?

Delegate your tech responsibilities to someone else.

A cameraperson.

Have you ever had a really boring interviewee? Someone who no matter what you tried was just stuck in fight-flight-freeze and wouldn't give you a good story or audio byte?

We've all been there. Howev…

Do you ever feel like there's an interview where you just knock it out of the park?

Well, just yesterday I did an interview where I felt like that. I did my research, set up the container well, took …