306: How to Be a Great Podcast Guest Who Serves

Being a guest on a podcast is an excellent opportunity to have fun conversations, leverage other people’s audiences, and serve them. Betsy share’s her tips on how to become a guest, what to do once you are scheduled on a show, and what you should do after the episode is released. * Connect with Betsy on IG @betsypake TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy pake. I’m an author, a speaker, and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hello fellow adventurers. Hi, everybody. Thank you for being here. If you’re new here, hi, welcome. Welcome to our cool community. I feel like the people that listen to this show are the best people, I always say, you know, I have the alchemy Institute where I train coaches. And I’m always like, if there was one thing I could give you, it would be like the kind of clients that I get, or the kind of people that listen to my show, y’all are the best. So welcome to today’s show. So today, I’m going to talk about something a little bit different. And you might, you might see the title, and you might be like, I don’t know, but maybe I’m going to offer this because you don’t know when it might come in handy. And it may actually be something that helps to propel you forward in whatever it is that you’re doing. So I have some things to share. You know, I’ve had this podcast for like six years, close to six years, I think we’re coming right up on three, on six years over 300 episodes. Recently, I was featured in a conversation with someone that I had hired to coach me last year. It’s actually someone I had coached with several years ago. And then I coached with her again last year. She’s a speaking coach. And I was a star pupil. I was I would did really good. So she had me on in the Facebook group, right to like, talk and talk about kind of how we got started and what our journey was like, and all that good stuff. And it was really fun. I like having conversations like that, where it’s just like a back and forth sort of conversation instead of just someone asking questions, you know. And so in all of that, she was asking me how I got started speaking. And I actually started speaking before I had the podcast. But part of why I decided to do the podcast is because I wanted I had stuff to say, You know what I mean? Like I had more to say. So I want to tell you, I want to tell you how I started speaking and then I’m going to dive into this topic. But there’s a reason why I want to tell you, you know, sometimes we don’t recognize our stories as being anything interesting. Or I hate the word special, but special or unique or something that someone could learn from. But I believe that everybody has stories, and I’ve had Katie on Katie casada was on talking about stories just like four or five episodes ago. So absolutely. Like, I believe that our stories matter so much. And you know, when Jess was asking me in that interview about how I started speaking, really, I decided that I wanted to be a speaker, probably when I was really young. But I really started from like an active standpoint, like seven or eight years ago. And I started pitching myself to places and to speak and I had never spoken before. So of course nobody hired me. And I didn’t realize until I saw Jessica’s reaction, right, we don’t realize that our stories are kind of interesting until we see somebody else’s reaction. But I told her that I didn’t get booked. And so I called up Panera Bread,