Rob Greenlee compares podcast formats and explains why he chose solo hosting. He says co-hosted and interview setups can make hosts rely on others and lose confidence. After years with three co-hosts in radio, he's now focused on mastering solo shows.
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all sorts of different kinds of formats of shows, from having co-hosts to doing more recently solo shows, which I really hadn't done that much of in the past. So it's one of the reasons why you're seeing me today doing a show like the one I'm doing right now, which has a history as an interview show, and I will go back to that again. But what I wanted to do was really kind of drill in on this solo format and get good at that too. I think Oftentimes you can kind of get caught up with this interview format and you can get caught up with co-hosting, and it causes you maybe to be not as, I don't know, aggressive in the show or forward or being confident in the show. You're kind of relying on someone else to kind of back you up to some degree. And that certainly was the case when I started on the radio. I had 3 other co-hosts, so you could tell I was pretty insecure about my abilities to run a show on my own.