Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

Advice for podcasters on how to craft guest interviews from Landon Campbell

10 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, two speakers share practical insights for podcasters. Speaker A recounts how listening to a Gimlet Media series that documented the internal process of building a startup reshaped their perception of podcasting, revealing its potential as a deep journalistic medium. Speaker B outlines a systematic interview preparation method, emphasizing the importance of doing due diligence—such as reviewing a guest’s LinkedIn profile—to gain a functional understanding of their background. They also describe the host’s role as a moderator or “proctor of information,” responsible for guiding the conversation and ensuring the interview remains informative and focused.

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I felt like podcasting felt very one-dimensional to me until I found shows. One of my friends, Adam Faiz, recommended that I listen to Gimlet Media's podcast where they did this incredible journalistic experience of what it was like to build a startup from the inside. Yes. And it was just like totally ripped my understanding of what a podcast could be from a journalistic perspective.
Yeah, so I've kind of found like the perfect equation, at least like the types of questions that I ask, because sometimes like before you have anyone on, like you wanna do your due diligence, you know, you don't have to like know everything about the person and you don't have to know like where they're from and their Social Security, but at least like, you know, have a general understanding about, you know, just looking at their LinkedIn, you know, like these are the careers they've done, you know, because as a host, you're also serving as, you know, a proctor of information. You're a moderator. You got, you kind of have to understand how the Interviews.