How to Be a Successful Podcast Host

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I often think that I'm quite a high variance person. But as a host of a podcast, you have to maybe like play a lower variance strategy and do things that will make anyone feel comfortable. It's tough when you have a different person on every time because you can try to banter with them and then they're just like giving you a sort of very serious response. Yeah. Maybe someone more skilled than me can make it work, but I think it would be a big challenge for me.

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Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?

Find more about Spencer through his website, spencergreenberg.com.

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