About a year ago, we started to rerecord the podcast again with me and our brilliant podcast producer and digital course manager Nancy McGuigan.
We tried to reinvent something that we were proud of but not having a tonne of experience in podcasting just really followed the format of other people who do an interview with someone quite interesting and stick it out there with as little editing as you can manage because the editing bit is quite onerous.
In a rush, we called it ‘Nothing but the tooth’ (that is such a sh*t name) and out it went, and we got some lovely comments and lovely feedback about it, and I really enjoyed some of the people I spoke to.
Then, during my time off over Christmas and January, I found Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell.
This is the podcast of all podcasts, and I realised that I had all of my interviews stored on Dropbox and had scheduled a lot of people to meet who would give us some fascinating interviews to.
I realise that podcasts don't have to be about interviewing someone (dentally famous) but just something interesting that enhances other people's lives or actually introduces people to a concept that they don’t already know.
So, the last two episodes of last season were talking about principles and concepts, and then we went about reinventing the podcast and disregarding the previous season and renaming it, and starting again.
And so, today marks the publication of the first two episodes of season two, but of the newly named Success Story podcast.
Success Story is actually a podcast about themes and concepts and looking at things that people do that we admire (or don't admire) and ways that we can learn from people's triumphs and mistakes to make us better versions of ourselves.
I am so excited about this as a project, even more, excited than I have been about many of the other projects we've done before.
The first episode is an introduction to what's going on in the podcast through this season up until winter.
The second is the interview with Geordan Murphy, one of the most decorated Premiership rugby players of all time.
I really would love you to listen to it because it's an interview done in a way that you won’t have heard many times before and an introduction providing insight into some of the people previously and to come, who we will be talking to, and investigating this year.
We're going to be talking to really cool people who have things in common about being really good or doing good things and we're going to be exploring concepts like disagreeability and honesty and how that ties in with whether or not you're successful and what that might mean.
The final podcast in the series is titled ‘Call the Liar’, and I am so excited about it that I want to give you access to it right now, but I can't, Nancy says I have to wait.
So, I hope you like it.
I hope you'll send it to your friends, and I hope you'll comment about what you think of it both in the podcasting software or below, or by sending an email or a text or whatever you think.
Enjoy.
We've worked really hard on this and we'll never be paid anything and so it's a proper hobby and one that we love.
Blog Post Number - 3399
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