"That's a GREAT question!" - 5 Steps to Awesome Podcast Interviews - Teacher: Juma Bannister

Hello, useful content creators, and welcome to this 49th episode of the useful content podcast. And you might be wondering, it's not a Thursday. Why is an episode being shipped? today. Well, there's a very good reason for that. You see, the 50th episode is a very special episode with a very special guest. And if you've been following me on Facebook and on LinkedIn, and you're a very eagle eyed person, you'll know exactly who that person is. And I didn't want to delay that episode any longer. And of course, in order to get to 50, you have to do 49 first. So I decided to drop two episodes this week in order to get to the 50th episode, that special episode, much faster. Now let's talk about today's show, which in itself It's a very special episode. So let's go back and do a little bit of history. If you count every guest I've interviewed, including the guests from the previous version of this show, when it wasn't really a podcast, it was called The Useful Content Creation Live Show, I would have interviewed 112 people. And so for this pre 50th episode, I found it fitting that we take a little bit of a look, a closer look at how I do these interviews and how I was able to become not in my words, but in the words of many of my guests, a great podcast host. But of course, you may be thinking, well, anyone can say that they are a great podcast host or they can say they're great at anything. But this is also coming on the heels of me discovering that I have the number one marketing podcast in Trinidad and Tobago, which was a surprise to me because I wasn't looking out for that. And also the feedback that I get from guests like this. That's a really good question. I love this question. Oh, excellent question, Juma yeah. Fascinating question, man. Yeah, that's a good question. I love that question. Well, that is a wonderful question. That's a really great question. Oh man, that's a great question. I've been like legitimately great question. No one has asked me that. Oh, that's a great question. Oh gosh, yeah, you caught me off guard with that one. that's a good point. Um, a good question. Great questions. You know, I love all the phenomenal questions that you're asking. I'm glad you asked that question. It's a good question. It's a good question. It's a really good question. That's a good one. That's a good question. Yeah, that's a good question. That's a great question and a great point. I love this question. You're hitting hard with the questions. That's a great question. That's a great question. Great. I love that question. Yeah, great question. That's another really good question. You're asking the hard questions here. Yeah. Great question. By the way, you're really good at this, man. This is a great podcast. Thanks. I appreciate. You know what you're doing. That was excellent, man. You did. You're a very, very good host, man. Yeah, man. Very, very good questions. So smooth with everything. I mean, it was great. And just even at the end, like when you're like coming in for landing, like, I don't know, little stuff like that, that matters. I think you're doing a fantastic job. Uh, thanks. I appreciate that Rich so much. So let's take a closer look at how I get responses like that, and let's make useful content. So there are five points I want to cover today, starting from the research phase of preparation, and I'm going to step through each stage of how I ask questions and engage with ~ ~my guest. So the first phase or the first thing to know is that I 100 percent research. So this is the single most important part of your preparation for an interview podcast. Usually by the time someone has been invited to my podcast, I've already consumed much of their content because generally the reason I Invite someone or I want them to come on is if I love their content and I find it to be very very valuable to me and so I extrap...