Ep 63 Let’s Rant about Absolutely Irrelevant Guest Pitches
Today is all about Pilar complaining about getting guest pitches from third parties, who haven’t even bothered checking out the show before suggesting their clients. First rant in 25 days of NaPodPoMo – not bad!
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Ep64 Will lighter edits help podcasters compete with AI voices?
Should we edit less to be more human, in podcasting?
Pilar thinks so, and it’s starting to edit out less bits from her recordings.
At 5.16mins, Check out the one with guest of 21st Century Work Life podcast, Valentina Turner, whose episode will come out on 7th December.
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Ep 65 Memoir-style vs How To when writing books
On the 27th day of NaPodPoMo, Pilar would like to share her thoughts about why she needs to refocus her writing.
She’s realised she’s not a persuader – she prefers to tell her story and share her thoughts, and let you decide what to do with the information.
That’s probably why The A to Z of Spanish Culture has been her most popular book – most of it is about her own experience, with other information of course.
In trying to do both a memoir and a how to book that people want to buy, she’s doing neither!
Except now she’s writing with chatGPT. And she can write a How To book with the bot, and a more memoir book on her own. (Of course, she does have a memoir out there already, Hi I’m Here for a Recording.)
Ep 66 Editing for emotion
In working on the book with chatGPT, Pilar has started to improve her editing skills, and she’s now transferring that awareness to editing the conversations in Management Café. Pauses and hesitations are all part of conveying emotion, so it’s good to leave them in at specific moments in a conversation.
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Science with Dr Karl
Ep 67 Are you sure you want to start a podcast?
Pilar heard the other day that 3,000 people are starting a podcast on Buzzsprout alone every week!
So, unless you know you’ll enjoy the process or you have a marketing team behind you, don’t do it!
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Episode 68 The last day of NaPodPoMo – and how it compares to NaNoWriMo
Pilar talks about how amazing it was just now to record with Tim for Management Café because it helped her discover other points of view, and realise her own strong views about the role of technology in our professional lives.
Today is the last day of NaPodPoMo!
Pilar talks about the difference between this challenge and NaNoWriMo, where you commit to writing 50,000 words in one month.