Courtney Reimer podcast notes:
Stop trying to be like everyone else is an underlying theme in my Delicious conversation with journalist and podcast expert Courtney Rhymer, who previously worked with Meghan Markle on her Spotify podcast Archetypes. She now helps aspiring podcasters with her business Sounds Great. And did you know MTV had radio? If not, don't feel bad. Even people in the building didn't know. But Courtney worked for them converging words and audio back in the day.
In our talk, which is a master class in podcasting, the idea of "Let Your Freak Flag Fly" when getting on the microphone is not going to be found in your everyday homogenized advice. (And just to join in the mind think, I kept our blooper style moment in the beginning.)
Don't follow trends. We are all getting exhausted as consumers of content, especially with podcasts, when influencers are telling us how to accomplish the perfect metric "like them." If you are not your authentic self, truly why bother? Someone is always going to have more numbers of followers and listeners but you get to be you on the microphone. It's your space.
When I told Courtney I worried about hogging the microphone with guests, she reminded me people tune in because they are my audience. I get to hold as much space as I want to.
She offers real high-level advice for newbie podcasters (or even people like me who have already had a podcast and are on their second one) such as Use Your Existing Skills and don't feel like everything is an exhausting learning curve. If you have a story to tell, stop "shoulding" all over yourself how to do it. If you don't want to do video, then don't.
Also, if you agree to be on a podcast, help promote it! Don't be lame and not share the good with your people because you just dropped your own webinar.
Courtney's Delicious Takeaway:
She is doing "morning pages" with "scalding hot" black coffee. Morning pages, inspired by Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, allow you to "get the gunk out of your head in whatever form it comes through the pen" without worrying about sentence structure.
Courtney Rhymer's upcoming podcast is tentatively titled Talk the Talk. (and we need to hold her to it!)
Learn more about her work here - https://www.soundsgreatstrategy.com/about-courtney-reimer
And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized.
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