Podcasting for Pros

  

   Last Sunday I was looking forward to seeing my dear friend Zak. I had mentioned earlier that day we could make a podcast and he immediately took me up on it. When he arrived we spent several hours talking and catching up on each other’s lives. Then we decided to go on a walk where we spent another hour talking and enjoying each other’s company and the outdoors, both of us admitted it was the longest time we had been outside for a couple of weeks. After eating dinner it was finally time for the podcast. 

    Before embarking on the recording we had to set some ground rules. We decided to each write three questions with no particular subject in mind. Zak asked how deep the questions should be and I responded “deep”. It was settled we both wrote three “deep” questions and promptly started the recording. 

    It started off by me deciding we needed to agree on a name, at least a temporary one. Previously Zak had mentioned big Mak. A mix between Mason and Zak. I was not super keen on this idea (because of the reference to McDonald’s) but with no ideas of my own, I agreed. Quickly the recording became a very full and lively conversation. We discussed topics from vulnerability to the most integral life lessons we have learned so far. It was a blast. 

    Yesterday Zak and I invited another dear childhood friend over, Ben. We were thinking we could have new people on all the time as an excuse to get together with friends and talk about the deep stuff. We actually picked a topic this time around. College essays. We all had different ideas of what we might want to say about our essays so as opposed to having a set list of questions we just started talking and Zak took charge and asked questions based on what we had said. 

    Overall I am super excited about how it is going so far. Because the podcast is on Sunday (my usual audio journal time) I am seeing whether it will be able to take the place of my audio journal as a therapeutic outlet. So far so good.