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About Social Pros Podcast:
Social Pros is one of the longest-running marketing podcasts in existence (10 YEARS and counting), and was recently recognized as the #1 Audio/Podcast Series by the Content Marketing Awards.
Our purpose? Making sure that we speak to real people doing real work in social media.
Listeners get inside stories and behind-the-scenes secrets about how teams at companies like Google, Reddit, Glossier, Zillow, Lyft, Marvel, and dozens more, staff, operate, and measure their social media programs. With 600+ episodes, the Social Pros Podcast brings the humanity of social media to the forefront, while providing incredibly useful marketing strategies that listeners can immediately implement.
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In the world of podcasting, the most important element is the story you’re trying to tell. You can have all the best equipment at hand, but it’s the story that makes it. We’re getting a little meta this week with a podcast episode about podcast episodes and storytelling with Elaine Appleton Grant, CEO of Podcast Allies and Host of the Sound Judgment podcast.
To Tell Great Stories, You Need Great Questions and Curiosity Is Secret
Now, we’re no strangers to sharing great stories on this podcast. But this episode is a little different. We peek behind the curtain and look at what it takes to unravel these stories in a podcast. And it all begins with the host.
The host of Sound Judgment and CEO of Podcast Allies, Elaine Appleton Grant, gives us a masterclass on how to tell a great story by asking great questions and being curious above all.
Elaine shares plenty of anecdotes from her career and the brilliant public speakers and podcasters she’s met along the way, including the former host of this very podcast, Jay Baer. In each of these stories, Elaine breaks down the key lessons she’s learned and teaches to others, including the importance of preparation, asking questions that really dig into the details, and how to be a good listener.
There’s so much to take away from this episode if you’re interested in starting a podcast or want to improve your hosting skills. But equally, there’s plenty of value if you’re in the business of telling stories on social media.
In This Episode:
- 2:25 – Why it’s so important to share and tell stories
- 4:00 – What Elaine learned from Jay Baer’s Standing Ovation podcast
- 5:50 – Elaine gives a breakdown of what her podcast is about
- 7:51 – Elaine’s background in storytelling
- 9:51 – How Elaine approaches getting into deeper stories on her podcast
- 16:34 – How framing questions the right way helps you mine for stories
- 22:54 – How to become a great listener
- 25:25 – Why curiosity is the key skill
- 26:29 – How looking for different perspectives can uncover multitudes of stories
- 33:08 – How do you start becoming an expert storyteller
- 37:11 – The final two questions
Quotes From This Episode:
“I think that there's a dance because you've got to have a destination. You've got to have a point to this conversation. You also don't want to miss when somebody says something really interesting.” Click To Tweet“This is about deliberately creating intimacy on a mic as opposed to assuming that just because you’re on a podcast that it’s intimate.”
“What do you bring to this creative thing that’s going to make it uniquely yours? Let’s look at your identity. Let’s look for your lived experience. Let’s look for expertise that you’ve built up over time. Let’s look at your interests. Let’s look at your skill set. Now take that and build your show or your social media channel or whatever.”
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