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Click the title to read this awesome blog post by Jayme Soulati as part of the Mentor Me PR Series. She uses a GREAT video, Faith Salie’s CBS News clip, to demonstrate the horrible, horrible speech pattern known as vocal fry. (The second video just seems like click bait.)

I want to get the word out about Vocal Fry because it is the most hideous assault on the ears since the jack hammer. It seems to be contagious as well because I’ve caught myself doing it when I’m around other people who do it. YIKES!

“This American Life,” and one or two reporters on “All Things Considered,” have vocal fry and I will turn off the radio/podcast the minute I hear it. You can sound serious and intelligent without vocal fry. Vocal fry makes people sound pretentious, add in a few likes and a slow eye-roll and you come across like an airhead. Yes, that is how I really feel about it.

Whatever it takes, eliminate vocal fry. It could very well cost you a job. In this blog post, Jayme gives great advice to listen to your own voice – particularly on the phone because that’s where a lot one-on-one contact will be done.

Do you know people who vocal fry?

I’d love to hear from you!

-Tina

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The podcast I’ve posted about podcasting was a really cool experience. Interviewing people is so cool to me! I’ve done film interviews and enjoyed that immensely. ->NERD ALERT<-

I was so nervous for the interviews on podcasting! Not only was I doing something I didn’t know squat about, I was interviewing people who I’d heard interview other people on the radio for years now. Actually, nervous was an understatement.

It helped that I had a plan. I knew my questions, and I had a good idea of the answers that would benefit people the most.

My interviewees were so kind and gracious, even giving me tips on using the technology. I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I learned what equipment I like using for audio interviews and why.

I’m pretty jazzed that I will have an opportunity to use this new experience soon. I’ve already set up a time with one of the other program hosts on WETSFM to see how we can make podcasting work there.

I once thought of podcasting as something for big shows like “This American Life,” or “To the Best of Our Knowledge.” I didn’t see how it could be beneficial for the short, informational shows by individuals. I have a whole new respect for the medium now.

Have you started podcasting? What podcasts do you like to listen to?

I’d love to hear from you!

-Tina

Podcasting Advice from the Experts

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Podcasting Advice from the Experts.

If you’ve ever considered podcasting, this is the interview to listen to.

Stewart Harris, host of Your Weekly Constitutional; Wayne Winkler, producer of YWC and station manager of WETSFM; Jim Blalock, program director for WETSFM bring insight, and advice on how to get started and be successful at podcasting.

Do you podcast? What has your experience been like?

I’d love to hear from you!

-Tina

Alfred Eisenstaedt / LIFE

This grumpy-looking old cuss is George Bernard Shaw. He said, “I dream things as they never were and ask, ‘Why not?'”

I’ve always believed this. Being the nerd-bird that I am, that was my senior quote in high school. I see opportunity everywhere – even in things that are said to be impossible. Impossible only means that something hasn’t been done yet.

WETSFM had always had RTVF interns, but never a PR intern. I’m a constant listener of the station, and I followed their social media. I could see that they needed a PR person desperately!!

I contacted the person who is the RTVF internship liaison for WETS and asked how we could do this. Some emails and a meeting later, I was the Fall 2013 PR intern for WETSFM. Woo hoo!

It totally boils down to creating your own opportunities. I had my passion for public radio, I was a consumer of WETSFM, I recognized the need I could fill and I went for it. I connected the dots.

That’s what everyone has to do in this life. You have to look for how your passion can fill a need for someone. You have to always be paying attention and follow your passion and you have to always put that passion to work for you.

This video is of Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement speech. He is talking about connecting the dots in life. It’s less than 15 minutes and totally worth listening to for inspiration.