Welcome Back to part two on how to be the best podcast guest you can be!  

Join Kathi today with guest, Cheri Gregory, as they continue their discussion on how to be a great podcast guest.Looking to become a better speaker on stage or on a podcast?  Don’t miss out on Leverage Conference.  Register today!  Learn more about mastering podcasts as a guest and a host at Leverage. 

Today, Kathi and Cheri will cover the next 5 ways to prepare a podcast as a guest.  If you missed last week, go back and review the first five ways here.  

How can you get to that great conversation?  What does hurt, hope, and heeling and manuscript development teams have to do with learning to be a great guest?   These are important strategies and tips Kathi and Cheri share from their experiences in building their own podcasts as well as being guests. 

• What you want is to have a great conversation not a memorized fact review. 
• The importance of manuscript development teams
• How hurt, hope, and heeling will help you in your guest podcast

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Be the best podcast guest you can be!  

Join Kathi today with guest, Cheri Gregory, as they discuss how to be a great guest. 

Today they will discuss the first five ways to make sure you walk away having a great interview that you want to have and serve the host.   

Podcasts are a great way for speakers and writers to expand their opportunities to share their ministry.   Kathi shares how an excellent podcaster is not setting you up for a quiz.  They are setting you up for a conversation. 

Part one of this series will help both podcasters and those seeking to be a podcast guest.   This two-part series will prepare you for the interview you want to have!

• How to prepare for the interview you *want* to have
• What are questions about the book that are not about the book
• How to be prepared, not practiced, plastic, or promotional
• When to define the problem and be solution-focused

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Join us for next week’s episode (Part 2) when we talk more on how to be a great podcast guest. You won’t want to miss it!

Ready to pursue writing a book proposal?

Join Kathi and her guests (everyone at the actual writing retreat) as they discuss all they learned about the important aspects of proposals.

From building chapter titles, to writing your story to marketing, hear from all The Red House guests on their important takeaways about book proposals!

• marketing is not to convince an editor to publish you, but to confirm to yourself that you're ready to publish
• to focus in on things that require a higher barrier entry
• we’re better together
• your proposal is actually a business plan
• if we just serve our tribe, God will take care of everything else
• you're not building a book, you're building a ministry
• your chapter titles should tell a story
• writing a book is mostly about falling in love with your reader

You can learn more about our guests, their books and work in the links below!

Kathleen Kerr 

Susy Flory

Billie Jauss  Making Room, Doing Less

Jenn Hand    Coming Alive at the Cross

Jenn Bryant     Practical Family

Kendra Burrows

Cheri Gregory

Wendy Doyle

Melinda Patrick

Find out more about Writing at the Red House here!

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What helps turn your book into a ministry?  Kathi and Michele talk today about a book that can go for the long haul and be turned into a ministry.   Some may have the ministry first, some may have a book that is just for a season, how can you recognize the opportunity? 

Kathi poses 3 questions for you: 

1. Is this a subject you can be excited for over the long haul? 
2. Can you speak from a place of authority? 
3. Is there a need for the topic over the long term? 

Pay attention to your audience. What are they asking? 

Kathi’s books: 

The Husband Project Happy Habits for Every Couple Praying God’s Word for Your Husband Clutter Free *Also the Clutter Free Bible Study – What Jesus Has to Say About Your Stuff

Michele’s books: I Am Undone Relentless 

• When is it time to turn a book into a ministry? 
• Can your audience talk about your topic forever? 
• Where is the area I have earned the right to speak into people’s lives? 

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Welcome back!

We continue as Kathi and Michele share  more on the eight habits, attitudes, and behaviors that can kill a ministry.

Today we continue with the next six in the list of ministry killers.  From victimization to the comparison trap,  Michele and Kathi dive in to the importance of recognizing in your heart and self where you are in these next six attitudes. 

In order to succeed, we must treat our ministry in a professional way. When you start seeing people as the steps for where you need to go there is a red-flag for attitude. 

Unprofessionalism will kill your ministry fast.  Addressing these next six behaviors, attitudes, and habits will help you to get back on track. 

• How desperation repels, confidence attracts
• What comparison can create in you
• Attitude can carry you much farther than you think

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