In this episode, we reflect upon suggestions from Joseph Anderson in a recent article in medium.com titled “How to work with your podcast co-host.”
These ideas caught my attention because I have only been delivering episodes in a podcast called 2030podcast.com with a co-host, Matt Cox (a podcaster who has his own show, Brunch with the Brits). And I wanted to compare notes to see what best practices I could learn, as well as evaluate how we have been doing in the world of co-hosting podcast episodes from Joseph’s point of view.
So, in this article, Joseph relates his back-story of having discovered a co-host with whom there was chemistry and understanding. And he has these words of suggestions in his article:
For this podcaster, these suggestions are rather obvious if you are just contemplating a format with a co-host and if you have never had a co-host before in your podcasts.
I feel that the most important thing is very much like the military environment in which I spent several years of my life as an Airborne paratrooper and combat infantryman — “the mission is the most critical and highest priority; then your men in the mission; and then the equipment needed to accomplish the mission.” Although podcasting is not as serious as a military mission ready for combat, the same principles apply. And in order to accomplish your mission, the mutual respect, the sharing of responsibilities and the respect for others’ skills and talents by letting them be highlighted all should be proven points of strength in the relationship you would have with your co-host.
If you wish to see how a very casual and unrehearsed podcast episode recorded with a co-host would result, you may want to listen to 2030podcast.com. This show has no critical expertise or major advertising-dependent content — it is just a couple of guys discussing what would be today’s indicators that influence how our world could be by the year 2030. I would not focus on the content, but perhaps you can see how each co-host plays upon each other’s talents, strengths and contributions to make the episode seem interesting and deliver some value to the listeners.
And so I hope that your future or present co-host would be sharing all these wonderful traits, characteristics, strengths and talents to help make your show with you a success.
Thank you for your attention.
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