Top interviewing tips for podcasters and broadcasters. You'll learn the first and final question that should be asked in every interview, as well as simple tips for crafting your interview that will save you time in recording and editing.

When producing an interview, I recommend that you consider serving listeners a 'slice of pie,' a specific angle of a topic, rather than serving an entire pie in a single episode. Breaking content into more bite-size pieces gives you more material to explore on future episodes, and keeps the interview a reasonable length.  Prepping or pre-planning an interview in advance can help you sound and feel more organized, keep on topic point and save time in post-production.

BONUS TIP: One tip I did not mention in this podcast episode is to never provide questions to your interview subject in advance. It's fine to share a brief list of talking points you plan to cover - so the interview subject knows what will be covered - and this can be in outline form. Similar to questions, just not the exact questions.  When you provide questions in advance, you run the risk of your guest sounding too canned. I've heard interview guests actually reading their pre-written answers on the air when they received questions in advance and it just does not sound natural. 

Also in this episode, I give kudos to the recent Podcast Movement conference in Nashville, where I was a presenter on "How to Turn your Passion or Profession into a Podcast." And, to Libsyn, my podcast host. I had the good fortune of being the grand prize winner at Libsyn's #PM21 booth, I won an iPad Pro!! Thank you, Libsyn and Podcast Movement!!