Jess and Margy are the co owners of Interview Connections, the first and leading podcast booking agency. This is the podcast where you will learn all about podcast guesting and how to leverage podcast interviews to grow your brand awareness.

On today’s episode of Rock the Podcast, Jess and Margy interview client Raquel Vasallo. Raquel is the #1 Best Selling Author of Spiritual Seductress, The High-Powered Women’s Guide to Devour the World through Spiritual Guidance.  She is the pre-eminent Spiritual Advisor to female visionaries and leaders. She is an International Speaker, Mystic Artist and Feminine Leadership Trendsetter. 

Raquel spoke on a client network call, and Jess and Margy knew right away that they needed to interview her for Rock the Podcast. Raquel’s story is nothing short of incredible. After a near death experience in 2008, she quit her successful career as a NYC architect and embarked on her work as an Elite Spiritual Advisor to changemakers and leaders.  

In this episode you’ll hear why alignment isn’t always comfortable (and why that’s actually a good thing), the power of vulnerability, and what you really need to be able to flow into the highest level of success. Raquel’s experience and method is unique, as she helps clients combine their business strategies with their spiritual gifts, creating dramatic right turns in their lives and work. 

You can connect with Raquel in her private facebook group for high-achieving changemakers and leaders here! https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesacredpowercircle/

Jess and Margy talk about all the ways to ensure that you’re a great podcast host! That’s right, this episode is pivoting from the normal formula a bit to educate podcast hosts on best practices to attract high-level guests! It’s so important to add credibility to your podcast by having excellent guest interviews!

One of the most important things for a podcast host to do is ensure that their show has great sound quality, and to always use headphones and a microphone. Other actionable strategies include, using a scheduling link, being a great communicator, double check pronunciation of names and businesses, and to always be professional. In this episode, you’ll learn more about those strategies, plus many more! 

Jess and Margy speak with Interview Connections client Brandi Bernoskie, a digital strategist, website developer, and founder of Alchemy+Aim and North Star Sites! Brandi helps entrepreneurs and business owners elevate their online presence and enhance their digital experience. She is an advocate for using technology in ways that humanize, connect and serve people as well as for asking deeper philosophical questions and teaching others to think more broadly about impact when they create, particularly in STEAM fields.

Brandi and her team have worked with thought leaders like Brené Brown, Laverne Cox, Martha Beck, Judy Smith, and Kate Northrup. Brandi is a natural connector and business matchmaker, who is always working to help others step into their genius work and leverage the expertise of those around them to achieve new levels of success and community along the way.

In this episode, you’ll hear Brandi’s advice for someone who is having trouble holding their bigger picture for their website together. Brandi also discusses the importance of knowing your business and establishing goals for your website! She loves helping thought leaders and change-makers amplify their message with a great website.

Jess and Margy dive deep into how they were able to grow their business to 7 figures. They discuss how they were able to leverage their network through online communities, mastermind groups, and of course by utilizing the podcast guesting strategy. Jess and Margy also talk about the impact of personal development and transformational work, financial discipline, as well as pricing & packaging.

Going further, Jess and Margy note the importance of investing in the right things for your business, having a secure system to bring order to your chaos, marketing & visibility, and of course remembering to have fun. Listen to the episode to here about all these strategies in detail, so you can learn what’s working for this 7 figure business.

Jess interviews client Stacy Bahrenfuss, Founder and CEO of Catalyst Group, and Creator of the Limitless Realtor Circle, a professional training program for Realtors. In a traditionally male led industry, Stacy has paved the way for other female leaders,  leveraging her intuition and over a decade of experience in meditation, personal development, and results coaching. Her success in the real estate world has given her a vehicle to share her mission, vision, and purpose. 

In this interview, Jess and Stacy discuss what a limitless mindset means, how to not only lead your team, but bring the best out of them, and how to grow your business through an uncertain time. Stacy discusses how she is able to help both brand new and seasoned real estate agents, and how mindset plays an incredibly important role in your business’s success. Plus, you’ll hear about how Stacy first became interested in mindset and personal development at a young age, in volleyball camp!

On today’s episode of Rock the Podcast, Jess and Margy discuss eight actionable ways to be a great podcast guest. Ensuring that you are a fantastic guest is how you’re going to see the best ROI, it’s how you’re going to fully leverage your relationship with the host, and how you’re going to guarantee that the audience will want to connect with you.

You’ll learn the importance of prompt scheduling, how to be a great communicator, the benefits of listening to an episode before your interview, Jess’ best microphone recommendation, the amazing results from a green room chat, delivering the most value you possible and best practices for staying in touch after your interview. Stay tuned until the end to hear a bonus tip about sharing your story! 

On today’s episode of Rock the Podcast, Jess interviews client Crista Grasso. Crista is the creator of the Lean Out Method, and is known as the “Business Optimizer.” Crista’s business is unique, because she doesn’t spend precious time and resources on something that doesn’t need attention. She’ll identify the most important things that need the most work and give them the most attention, so her clients can get the maximum profit. 

You’ll hear about why Crista went from successfully working with large corporations, and decided to focus on helping transform small businesses and entrepreneurs. Crista discusses her scaling secrets, including the necessity to get crystal clear on what the future looks like for you, for your business, and most importantly, for your customers. Crista also reveals her strategy for putting together the right team for your business, and how to create your own time pie!

Jess and Margy discuss how to write your interview questions. Before you write your interview questions and topics, there are four important questions you need to ask yourself first. 1.) What is my business model and how do I work with clients? 2.) Who is my ideal client? 3.) What are my client’s biggest challenges that I can help them overcome? 4.) What makes me different from my competitors?

Jess and Margy go through these questions and explain how answering them will help you identify the specific value you can bring to a podcast audience. You’ll hear how these questions can ensure that you guest on the right podcasts to reach your target audience, and queue you to tell stories that will offer unique value for your ideal client. Keep listening to hear a live coaching session with Anna DiGilio, where Jess helps Anna get clear on her goals for podcasting and collaborates with Anna to write her interview topics and questions!

On today’s episode of Rock the Podcast, Jess interviews client Chala Dincoy. Chala is the CEO and Founder of The Repositioning Expert, a division of Coachtactics, and a Marketing Strategist who helps professional service companies change their messaging to attract more decision makers. In this interview, Chala reveals the formula for a perfect 30 second elevator pitch: communicate  the most expensive problem that you help clients solve.

Chala describes the necessity to super-niche and the importance of tying the results you create for clients to your elevator pitch. She describes how you only have 7 seconds to make a first impression, and how you can make those 7 seconds really count. Stay tuned to hear Chala polish Jess’s pitch for Interview Connections!