Hello, welcome back to another edition of Flash Briefing February. My name is Peter Stuart. And together with Susan Cooper, we are rocking the world with our flash briefings. We got several flash briefings out there. And it's kind of not surprising because our background is in radio, in audio presentation and production as well here in the United Kingdom. And as you can see, I'm in London. And Sue's is just outside London in the county of Kent. Sue's will make us on screen appearance in a few moments time, because most of today's episode is going to be with Susan now she's going to be in a bit of a bit of a sandwich if you like because I the size of suit, that is suits, there's going to be there's going to be me so I'm going to introduce her. And also I'll be back at the end to say what's going to be in tomorrow's episode which is going to be mainly presented by my good self. So what is Suze's talking about today? Well, we always say don't wait. We're talking about the skill set the mindset and the marketing of producing a better briefing so so this is going to be taking up one of those ideas and going with it over the next few minutes on today's edition of flash briefing February. And Souza, I guess a good way to kind of introduce you. But one tip I would have is the best way to start is to start.

Absolutely. And that is exactly what you said to me when I first met you. And I was there wondering how on earth I was ever going to get this flash briefing together. So yeah, thanks, Peter. So we're going to be speaking a little bit about your own personal skill set that you're going to need to put together your flash briefing. So as I kind of alluded to there, I had an idea for a flash briefing and I desperately wanted to put it together. And I kind of thought I had the right content. I have the broadcasting experience. So you would have thought that talking and recording myself into a microphone wasn't something that would would have been a problem for me, but it took me months and months. months to actually get something recorded and start the process with the developer account and the logo and everything else. And why was that? It was because I was putting my own hurdles in my way. Now. Absolutely. With a flash briefing, there are technical issues that might hold you back. There are content issues that might hold you back. But the biggest hurdle I think, sometimes is ourselves. Now get old imposter syndrome does love to come and tap us on the shoulder and kind of say, Well, why would anyone listen to your briefings? There's lots of people out there doing flash briefings, why would yours be any different and most certainly, it completely and utterly froze me it paralysed me and stopped me from moving forward and making the briefing. And it was only once I've met Peter, and we realised we obviously had this broadcasting background in common. And you know, he's a prolific flush briefer with like three flash briefings going on. And it was him saying exactly that to me, you know, that the best thing you can do to get this underway, is to start and he's totally Right. So how do we do that? How do we kind of quiet in that little voice inside? That's kind of telling us that our briefing is just going to be one of lots of others? Well, firstly, is it really one of lots and lots of others? There is still relatively few of us flash briefing producers out there, in terms of kind of other ways of getting information in terms of podcast. Certainly, you know, we have actually got quite a smooth small pool of flash briefing creators, a lot of us are quite active over on Twitter, you'll see that I'm at Big 10, social Peters Twitter, Stuart, and we do all chat with each other and kind of as a bit of a community around it. And that's because the kind of smart speaker skill producer and flash briefing producer pool is actually quite small at the moment. So it is actually quite a good time to be starting up your flash briefing and you're actually probably not quite such a small fish in a big pond. However, it is also making sure that you have got all the things That we have kind of run through during February to give you that confidence that you're going to be able to put together something that you're really proud of and that you want other people to listen to. So remember that your flash briefing is going to be unique. It doesn't matter if someone is doing something on the same topic as you, because they're not going to be saying it in the same way that you are. And to be honest, if you choose a topic that you're really passionate about, and that you really enjoy your enthusiasm creates such a connection with your listener, that it's you that they're going to want to hear from. So it really is just reminding yourself that no one can do it quite like you. It is completely your own little audio entity to play with and to, to do what you want with and to test with and at the moment in this space is a really great place to be and really quite a supportive community around the world actually. And we've asked without creators, now we put together flash briefing February because we really wanted to try and encourage other people to come along. And join in and get their flash briefing off the ground. We put all of this content together for you, there is an episode every single day. And it really has run through exactly what you're going to need in terms of all the tech stuff in terms of filling out your developer account, choosing a podcast host, all those kinds of things. And if you follow through what we've been doing, and then you will end up with your flash briefing, ready to hit that button and get certified by Amazon. But if you do need that little support, that little reminder that you can do this, then do by all means drop us a message. We are very approachable, very friendly, and totally up for supporting you and helping you where we can, whether it's with the developer dashboard, whether it's needing to know which microphone to buy. So do please go along, follow us on Twitter, and get in touch and let us know that you've been been watching this drop us a message. And we also put together a flash briefing newsletter every week that goes out on a Friday called the Friday flash briefing briefing. So if you want to sign up for that and stay in touch with us. You can do that over at voice works dot info. So Peter, what will we be learning about in the next episode tomorrow? Tell us tell us more about that.

Okay, so you took the floor, you took centre stage today, and tomorrow we'll swap roles. I'll be taking kind of centre stage as well. And you may be thinking after Sue's kind of inspirational talk there, you know what I, I want to do it. I know what microphone to get. I know my podcast host. I've taken a look at the developer accounts. I've but I still don't know what it is I'm going to be talking about because like, I don't actually have a business, but I want to be out there. I can see the opportunities, I can see the possibilities, but I still don't know what to talk about. Okay, so tomorrow, I'm going to be running through all sorts of different flash briefings that are out there and hopefully giving you a bit more inspiration as our 28 day Flash Briefing February course continues. You want to be inspired. You want some ideas, you want to Know what other people are talking about on their flash briefings. Join us tomorrow. Bye bye for now.

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