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Getting great interviews.

It's not about the questions.

If you're not mindfully listening to your guest,

you might be missing some amazing opportunities for a wonderful conversation.

You can prep all you want, but if you're not listening, if you're not

really listening, you might miss that chance to really dive deep or go in a whole new direction

that makes your podcast and your interview the best. When I started my podcast eight years ago,

I had an agenda. I always had the questions lined ago, I had an agenda.

I always had the questions lined up.

I knew the direction I wanted the interview to go.

So I predicted the flow before we ever got started.

And I conducted my interviews like this for a really long time, I'm embarrassed to say.

But as I began to listen back to those

interviews, when I began to re-evaluate how my podcast was doing, how I was doing, I realized that

I was doing it, I was creating this structure because I wanted to be in control. But that control led to missed opportunities

for conversations to go in amazing directions because I was so focused on what's next,

what's next without paying attention to what the guests were telling me and where their story was

going. In particular, there was an

episode where I was talking with another clinician, another therapist about their business,

which combined hypnosis, but also trauma work around perinatal mood disorders and

trauma in deliveries and miscarriages and things like that.

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