Hello and welcome to equine voices podcast. This is a short addition for today, I just wanted to talk about why I do live interviews, which I then make into podcasts. The reason I do live interviews because I am comfortable doing those rather than a prerecorded one and the reason for that is I've tried doing recordings of myself and you're forever pressing the stop button because she made a mistake or you flustered or something. When you press the live button, once you've pressed live. That's it. You have to go and if you've got a guest with you, you can't say, oh God, I've said the wrong thing. I want to change my mind now because you can't. So you have to just push through it. Which is it good learning curve and also if your recording, you lose the spontaneity sometimes of what your thinking and what you're saying and I like that side of it too. And if something works, then stick with it and also with my guest I don't do a lot of studying with who I'm going to interview. So for me, it's very much about the same as my work, it's intuitive. If I see somebody on Facebook or something comes up on the internet and I think they seem like a good candidate. I'll have a little look at their bio, first of all to see what they are interested in, sometimes there's videos with people or you'll see something on YouTube. And I'll message them and if you say yes that's great. So I don't write questions, I don't write a list of questions down. I think I started to do that beginning but you spend the time looking down and then you're not actually listening to your guests and you lose your thread ofwhere you are. So when you're doing an interview anyway, you are listening, but you're listening with a different ear. You're listening but you're also looking at what's going on screen and if anybody's coming on to join for comments and things, When I edit them for a podcast, I listened to them again and then once they've done the podcast editing, I will listen as a listener. And each time there's something different I get from it and I love it. I really love it but I do like the spontaneity of the live interviews and for me making that into a podcast, you still have that essence of that. Whereas if I was prerecording it, you know, if you mess up, you can start again, but you might lose something in there that you had in the first one. So for me, it's really important to do it that way and that's the way it naturally progressed. So like I said if it works then you know, stick at it. Yeah, I don't ask questions. I don't have a list of questions. I have a few ideas but The questions tend to come up as the interview goes along. Sometimes it's nice just to sit back and let the person talk, let the guests talk because again, You don't want interrupt them because if they're in a flow, that's what you're wanting as a listener that's what I want to hear. I want to hear about their journey, their story and why is they do what they do and what experiences they've had to bring them to that place and I find that fascinating and intriguing. So I thought I'd just share that with you because somebody said, why do you do live interviews? This is because I find it works for me and I really enjoy it. There's always that anticipation before of, I hope the internet works, I hope the guests arrive, I hope they okay and if the guests talking you have to know what to say or to bring the conversation into a flow again, but that's not happened very often. So I hope you enjoy the interviews, podcast as much as I do make them because I really do enjoy them. And I hope that comes across and like I said I don't always know everything about the guest. In fact I prefer not to know too much. I'm going by my gut and if they've crossed my path and it feels like I need to connect with them, it's because they're the right sort of person, we're on the same page or a similar page and I'm trusting that I don't need to look into the whole background. Which also applies to when I'm doing my work. So I hope that gives you a little explanation and thank you for listening, keep on listening and if you have any guests that you'd like to hear, please drop me a line and if they resonate then yeah. I'll get in touch and who knows where that might take us? Take care and bye for now.