If you're new here, welcome! I'm Nate, designer of Plan Your Next. We're now up to 125 subscribers, and I'd like to welcome everyone new here. Last week’s experiment with the ‘podcast newsletter’ 🤷♂️ was our most popular letter, so how could I not resist doing another?
Hey Nate, I found your newsletter from Ness Labs! Really enjoyed this issue- the uncertainty of pandemic life has prompted me to home in on my "order of operations" and really focus on the priorities/projects that will be most impactful for my mental and physical health, and then be OK with not getting to everything else.
Sounding great Nate! And yeah, finding your voice is a real challenge, but you're most of the way there. A suggestion I've given a lot of clients is to make a "rule" to never say the word "podcast" nor to ever refer to the fact that you're doing a podcast while recording. Make it all about the subject at hand, and never make that subject "the podcast" or "podcasts" or "this medium". Another really helpful trick is to use a music bed. I find that non-broadcasters are quick to develop a steady cadence, if they're tracking with the music bed. And that can not only help with cadence and flow, it also gives you a natural sense of tone and dynamic - your voice will tend to stay in key, and won't spike with inflections. Keep up the great work, and thank you!
Love to see you teaming up with Reza!!
Enjoyed the audio version today
Hey Nate, I found your newsletter from Ness Labs! Really enjoyed this issue- the uncertainty of pandemic life has prompted me to home in on my "order of operations" and really focus on the priorities/projects that will be most impactful for my mental and physical health, and then be OK with not getting to everything else.
Sounding great Nate! And yeah, finding your voice is a real challenge, but you're most of the way there. A suggestion I've given a lot of clients is to make a "rule" to never say the word "podcast" nor to ever refer to the fact that you're doing a podcast while recording. Make it all about the subject at hand, and never make that subject "the podcast" or "podcasts" or "this medium". Another really helpful trick is to use a music bed. I find that non-broadcasters are quick to develop a steady cadence, if they're tracking with the music bed. And that can not only help with cadence and flow, it also gives you a natural sense of tone and dynamic - your voice will tend to stay in key, and won't spike with inflections. Keep up the great work, and thank you!