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Perspectives on how we use our voice to amplify ideas and things that matter. Also @dbpardes for direct messages

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:23

Session Six : THE SWELL INTERVIEW- Create Your Own!

Hey, this is Deborah, and I wanted to talk with you about the concept of Swell interviews and empower you to do them yourself. Since the beginning of Swell, I have interviewed a myriad of people with great enthusiasm and, quite frankly, a sense of agency to be able to start these conversations with people. If you look at the Voices Channel at Voices, you'll hear a bunch of interviews. I started with people who are absolutely leaders in their fields and also the Spotlight Channel

Swell is the perfect platform for you to interview those you admire, those you love - stretch into your community and beyond! Let’s explore how!

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:31

WHO? Choosing the person with whom you’ll speak

So the goal of choosing somebody has a lot to do with imagining them speaking, the things you've spoken with them before, or perhaps somebody you've never spoken with before. But you admire how they speak, and you know that what you'll pull out from them in the conversation is going to be helpful to others. Specifically, I think people are always looking out for mentors and for trusted advisors and for people who can tap into the possibilities that they've been flirting with on their own
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:55

JOINING SWELL! It’s easy to get someone to join the app to begin!

Okay. So let's say someone says, yeah, I'd love to be interviewed. Remember, it's really a flattering for someone to be asked to be interviewed. Right. And they're thrilled. And they're and no matter what station in life they're at. It's lovely to know that someone wants to speak with you. You. So there's a little mechanical thing going on here. We all know that we have to onboard them to Swell
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:09

CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEW : the slow conversation movement 🌱 @stephenfry

You know that when it comes it comes, I compare it to slow food, the slow food movement when the courses come out slowly and a meal is 5 hours. Sometimes I think about Swell as the slow conversation movement where you're just hanging out there. And there's a lot of space and time and thought. And it makes for a really interesting flow of conversation
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Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 0:20

@DBPardes

Wow, those tips are lifesaving. I mean, really, they could save a lot of time and also keep the person who is actually getting interviewed a little interested in all of this, but that just kind of, you know, makes me wonder, would I be able to interview Edward Snowden? I would love to actually
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:42

OPEN OR CLOSED? The joy of the Swell Panel feature.

Speaking of new voices, sometimes you can even ask the person you're speaking with to bring in somebody if they mention that person. Like, if someone says one of my best students was Joe, and he created this incredibly new way of doing things and you could say, wow, is Joe around? Can you bring Joe in? Let's get his username and then he'll pop into the conversation
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:29

SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT PANELS? 😜

I'm just laughing because when I talked about panel, we had someone come in in the middle of the conversation, which is a great example. I love Rumi's voice. It's wonderful. And this is a community experience. So I'm so happy you're here, Rumi, but if you didn't want that to happen, you you would toggle your conversation early on so that you'd open it later on. And someone like Roomy would come in later on when you are ready
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:32

NOT all good things must come to an end !!

And you never know when an interview you did two months ago is going to be picked up by somebody with a question, and then it comes back into the feed and everyone's like, all over it again. It's really fun. And the last one I'm going to talk about here is the power of sharing, sharing your Swell interviews
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:37

SHARE WITH THE WORLD https://s.swell.life/SSSmFW8ZPicnint

The cool thing about Swell conversations that live inside the app living on the Web is that anybody can listen to them. And after a while, they're invited to click in and become a Swell caster themselves and listen to your conversation. And of course, participate, which is really the gift that keeps on giving. So I'm going to link this conversation here so you can link out seed on the web and you can share it with people you love, who you say
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Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 0:45

@DBPardes - ✋🏼

I me in just raising my hand here. I don't know why, because it's an audio note. And for some reason, I'm just raising my hand that I'm just giving a heads up
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:32

@roomi - here are examples @voices @spotlight

Hey, Rumi, thanks for being a part of this. This class. It was an open class. I kept it open. So here we go. I know you have to get to the hospital and do your shift. I'm worried about people waiting for you. I'm going to post here a couple of channels that I our interview channels. And those are great things to share with people as an example of swell interviews. So that's a great sort of tool to use
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:16

HOW LONG SHOULD I SPEAK? Giving your speaker some hints / guides

I think also what's important is to set them up with the idea that they could always connect with you offline and say, Listen, I'm in the middle of this well, interview, I'm wondering if I'm doing okay because people want to check in and they want reinforcement and you're not there to give them that eye contact and that visual cue to say, yeah, right on. So they want to get a sense that you're enjoying what's going on
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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:19

@DBPardes Thank you

And let's say there is an author I want to interview on Swell. Should I interview them on Voices? Should I interview them on Books Spotlight or my own Swell cast, for that matter, being like, hey, I got this author of my Swell cast, so I'm going to do it, just throwing it out. There just a curiosity thing. And as far as panels, I still haven't played with panels either
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:04

@bookishpodcast looking forward to hearing you!

Hey, Shanas, great to hear your question and wonderful that you have some interview ideas here. I think that if you're interviewing somebody about a new book, I think it would be awesome to have that on the book channel because it's all about books and it's an open swell cast. So all you have to do is start the conversation and invite the person and you can keep it open or as a panel
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D Pardes
@GivingVoice · 1:24

@Blemish click on that user to check out how Swell can help book prep!

In terms of using Swell as an interview platform form, I'm creating a long tail conversation with lots of people about a book that I am writing about imperfection called Blemish, and it's been really fun to connect with people and explain what I'm doing and let them know that I need to interview them, but it has nothing to do with scheduling, and I don't need to lock them down and I send them a link to their individual conversation that I create for them and at their leisure they respond to it, and it could be tomorrow
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