Talking About Work
Thoughts on Recording 10 Podcast Conversations.
I have been reflecting on the design of the podcast, here in Substack.
As a reminder, in each episode, two people who don’t know each other or who they will dial in to speak to meet for a 35-40 minute conversation, always with the same structure.
Intro: What are you interested in?
Conversation prompts, from creative-surplus.com
Outro: What can we wish you?
Having published 5 of these and recorded double that, I am reconnecting to the power of prompts to allow for generous, mutual, but not transactional, communication. And how generous communication can bring in magic and profound openness when participants are embodied and grounded (/self-leading).
When that happens, we can reach an acute tipping point:
Talking about work without talking about work.
As a listener, by the end of each episode, you would have an idea of each person’s area of work, but with a key distinction: who they are, rather than what they sell—moving away from scripts, small talk, and a fixed self into a much more fluid and generative place.