Your phone knows you’re boring

Hey Reader,

Thanks for showing up… you’re rarer than a polite YouTube comment.

Here’s something you’ve probably never heard…

Your phone knows you’re boring.

Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat it: watching yourself back is like eating vegetables. Nobody wants to do it, but everyone who does it feels annoyingly smug about it later.

Here’s the thing, though. Right now, you might sound like you’re reading a Terms and Conditions agreement out loud. Or maybe you’re doing that thing where your voice goes up at the end of every sentence? Like everything’s a question? Even when it’s not?

The fix is simple. Painful, but simple. You need to become your own stalker.

Get so bored with your own face that you forget the camera exists.

Grab your phone and hit “Record”.

Talk for five minutes straight about literally anything.

Why you hate cilantro. Why your neighbor’s dog is plotting against you. Your thoughts on socks with sandals. Doesn’t matter.

Five whole minutes. Not three. Not “until I run out of things to say.”

Because running out of things to say is exactly the point.

That’s when the ‘real’ you shows up, complete with all the “ums” and “you knows” and those awkward pauses where you’re clearly searching your brain for words.

Here’s where it gets good.

Don’t watch it right away. Your brain needs distance, like when you send a risky text and immediately throw your phone across the room.

When you’re ready, flip your phone face down and just “Listen”.

No peeking.

You’ll hear all those “ums” and “you knows” that sneak out when you’re thinking. You’ll notice if you’re racing through words like you’re being chased, or if your voice has the emotional range of a dial tone.

Next, watch it with the sound OFF.

Are you moving around like you’re swatting invisible bees?

Or are you so still you could be a screensaver? Both are problems.

Finally, watch it for real. Sound and picture together. Take it all in. Every awkward pause, every weird hand gesture, every moment you realize you said “literally” seventeen times.

Do this daily and something wild happens…

You start catching yourself BEFORE you commit these crimes against communication. Your brain rewires itself.

Within a week, you’ll improve. Within a month, you’ll barely recognize the person you were. But your audience? They’ll recognize you AND remember you.

Speaking of sounding like someone people want to hear – if you’re a podcaster or event host who wants to speed up this whole process (and maybe get some expert eyes on what you’re actually doing), I’ve got fifteen minutes with your name on it.

(link below)

Stellar Marketing Quotes

“Everyone thinks they want to start a podcast. But what goes into my show is so much more than me just sitting down for an hour and banging out an audio clip.”

Alex Cooper

“A podcast is a conversation you invite your audience to overhear, creating a connection that feels personal and scalable.”

Seth Godin

I’ve had well over 200 guests on the air over my career. Mainly celebrities.

And man, do I have stories!

Bruce Springsteen showed up early and asked about MY life before I could ask about his. That’s the mark of someone who gets it. He understood that great conversations aren’t interrogations. They’re exchanges.

Sting? Well, let’s just say his “crystal deodorant” situation taught me that chemistry matters in an interview. And sometimes that chemistry is literal body chemistry, and sometimes you need actual deodorant, not rocks from a gift shop.

Some celebrities have weird “Rules”.

Like, no eye contact. No questions about their personal life.

The weirdest celebrity demand I ever saw…

“Dr. Laura” (Schlesinger) wanted NOTHING to do with Bananas!

When she came to broadcast from our studios, the entire Radio station got the memo:

“No bananas within a hundred yards of Dr. Laura Schlesinger.”

Not on your desk. Not in your drawer. Not even in the parking lot if the wind was blowing the wrong way.

We all spent the evening before her arrival doing banana sweeps of our offices. Checking under desks. Opening file cabinets. One guy actually found a black, mushy banana peel in his trash can from two weeks ago and sprinted it out to the dumpster like it was a live grenade.

Nobody knew why.

Maybe she had a traumatic banana split incident as a child.

Maybe she thought they were listening devices planted by Big Fruit.

We never asked. We just complied and silently judged.

But here’s what I DO know after 30+ years of interviewing people: everyone’s got their “thing”.

The best conversations happen when you know how to read the room and connect with whoever’s sitting across from you.

Whether they’re a rock legend or someone with an inexplicable fruit phobia.

Those skills aren’t magic. They’re learnable.

Diversions

Your Thoughts

Who’s someone (living or dead) that you would like to have a Podcast?

Reply below!

PS. If you know anyone who’d benefit from being a participant in this ‘journey’ into Marketing and Interviewing skills, hook ’em up!

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