I’ve been doing lots of interviews. Here are two I really liked.
When I was younger and using my job to escape from the scary parts of my life, I did interviews all the time. I was always on my phone. So smart and scintillating.
I don’t feel that now. I used to think it was my job to make everyone like me. So I’d be really chirpy. I was telling a friend that I think I lost that zing, and she reminded me that I’ve always been a pain in the butt to interview. Then she sent me this post.
So I guess I haven’t lost my zing after all! And now that my kids are at college, I feel like I have all the time in the world for interviews. Here are two I did recently.
Claudine Wolk’s podcast is Get Your Book Seen and Sold. Even though her specialty is book sales, we ended up talking a lot about parenting. It’s been a while since I was interviewed by anyone except my kids, so I don’t have my stories down pat. I think my specialty used to be mixing polished stories with well-timed rants. Right now I’ve only got the rants. But Claudine is a good sport. Here’s the interview.
Dajana Holst’s podcast is Exit Plan: Writer. It’s about getting her book finished. In case you’re looking for somewhere good to move, Dajana lives in Sweden and is using nine weeks of government paid leave to write her book. Dajana was part of my writing group, and after this podcast, she joined again. Here’s the interview.
Okay. But back to the zing. When I was putting a wedding photo album together, I thought this photo was hilarious. I don’t think that now. I think it foreshadows Nino leaving.
I know now that everything in life is give and take, because the only other way to do things is to make people around you invisible. I also know that about interviews — that there needs to be give and take. It doesn’t mean I’m good at showing interest in the other person. But in these two interviews, by some miracle, I tried. Which is why I’m showing them to you.
Fantastic to see you getting out there. I’ve got to figure out how to do the same in my field to help build my consulting business. I’m so much more comfortable doing the consulting work than I am with the business development side. Probably because I’ve never had to do business development before and so it’s not comfy like the work I do for clients.
BTW the link to the first interview opens Google Docs, which tells people they need permission to see it.
The link is bad? Ugh. Okay. Looking into it. Blah.
Managing all these details for me must be like business development for you — we can’t be good at everything.
Penelope
Okay. Updated the link for all our podcasting goodness…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/authors-be-honest-in-your-writing-and-your-life-like/id1619812976?i=1000717518983