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404 – Working with a Podcasting co-host

Released Saturday, 2nd May 2020
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404 – Working with a Podcasting co-host

404 – Working with a Podcasting co-host

404 – Working with a Podcasting co-host

404 – Working with a Podcasting co-host

Saturday, 2nd May 2020
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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:

  • Working With Your Co-Host — Playing to Your Strengths  (and it doesn’t matter if you come from different backgrounds as long as you can agree to respect each other and then both share the passion of podcasting);
  • Have an open channel of communication with your co-host. Discuss what guests might be the best fit given your mutual strengths, and give the lead to the person who feels most comfortable with the topic at hand.
  • Meet Up Before Hand (this may be difficult, but even a virtual meeting online could be good for pre-interview chat sessions or planning the discussion of what you will discuss in the episode.
  • No Hand-signs? No Problem!  (this is especially important if you are doing all your communication remotely. You and your co-host should have a pretty good sense of how the podcast episode should flow — and the pre-recording checklists that both you should follow will help tremendously.
  • Work Your Co-Host into the Conversation — just as respect for one’s opinion is key, asking your co-host questions about how that individual may feel about a certain topic or opinion may spark things up, especially when cases in point are described with sometimes multiple viewpoints that can help grow synergy in the audio
  • Do the Extra Work Together (with all aspects of the show’s episodes — including preparation, interviewing, research, outreach, question building and brainstorming; this will help to split up the workload for a long-form podcast format.
  • Respect Boundaries (especially if both of you may have day-jobs) because this is vital to any creative relationship.

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.

Copyright (C) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and Joseph Anderson and medium.com. All rights reserved.

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