WEBVTT - Send show notes for life

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to send show notes for your life, give

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<v Speaker 1>people resources to follow up on interesting tidbits, and you

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<v Speaker 1>can extend the fun of gatherings well into the future.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip comes from a New York Times good list

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<v Speaker 1>by Melissa Kirsch. Just as show notes are often published

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<v Speaker 1>right after a podcast airs, she passes along her friend's

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<v Speaker 1>suggestion of sending show notes after social get togethers. As

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<v Speaker 1>she explains, the impulse is the same as with a podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>There are so many interesting things I want to follow

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<v Speaker 1>up on. After your monthly brunch with your college friends,

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<v Speaker 1>after a family gathering, after a happy hour with your

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<v Speaker 1>colleagues from your old job, after a particularly lively sideline

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<v Speaker 1>chat with other parents during your kid's softball game, send

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<v Speaker 1>an email or text with show notes from the time together.

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<v Speaker 1>Like show notes for a podcast, this would include annotated

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<v Speaker 1>links to the various topics that came up that you

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<v Speaker 1>promised to send each other, more information about the tented

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<v Speaker 1>moisturizer that you swear by, everyone's favorite crock pot meals

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<v Speaker 1>that you all mentioned when you are lamenting how sports

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<v Speaker 1>practices make dinner prep hard. A link to the poem

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<v Speaker 1>about the child learning to swim that your friend mentioned

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<v Speaker 1>in conversation, the novel your colleague recommended that was based

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<v Speaker 1>on the author's experience of growing up visiting her mom

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<v Speaker 1>in prison. You can compile all the show notes and

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<v Speaker 1>email or text them out. Or you can introduce the

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<v Speaker 1>idea of sending show notes with a playful tone and

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<v Speaker 1>offer a few entries for the show notes yourself and

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<v Speaker 1>invite everybody else to reply all and send THEIRS. This

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<v Speaker 1>is especially helpful when you may not be able to

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<v Speaker 1>find all the links yourself, like everyone's recipes. If you

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<v Speaker 1>send a link to the recipe you suggested, other people

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<v Speaker 1>can then send links to theirs. I see a few

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<v Speaker 1>benefits to sending show notes for your social gatherings. First,

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<v Speaker 1>you can follow through on each other's recommendations. When you

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<v Speaker 1>are planning meals for the next week. You don't aimlessly

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<v Speaker 1>hunt for the recipe your friend mentioned. Instead, you look

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<v Speaker 1>in the text chain. When you are placing library holds.

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<v Speaker 1>The show notes from your work happy hour remind you

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<v Speaker 1>that you want to read Harriet Clark's The Hill. Sending

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<v Speaker 1>show notes for gatherings also helps you extend the experience

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<v Speaker 1>of gathering. You can look back on specific moments from

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<v Speaker 1>your time together, which pushes some of the fun into

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<v Speaker 1>the future. If you send show notes to a group

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<v Speaker 1>of people a few times, it may become a routine.

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<v Speaker 1>Now to point out the obvious, it's not necessary to

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<v Speaker 1>do this. Sending show notes does not need to go

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<v Speaker 1>on your to do list, and it doesn't need to

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<v Speaker 1>hang over your head making you feel guilty until you

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<v Speaker 1>get it done. Not having time to send show notes

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<v Speaker 1>afterwards shouldn't stop you from gathering. Just gather. Even if

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<v Speaker 1>there aren't show notes, the gathering still happened. It was

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<v Speaker 1>probably meaningful for everyone. But if sending show notes would

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<v Speaker 1>be fun for you, and if you think receiving show

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<v Speaker 1>notes would be fun for everyone else, then send them.

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<v Speaker 1>Show Notes for life can be a great way of

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<v Speaker 1>extending the enjoyment of connection, and I think we would

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<v Speaker 1>all appreciate a little more connection in life. If you

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<v Speaker 1>try sending show notes after your next get together, let

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<v Speaker 1>me know how it goes. You can reach me at

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<v Speaker 1>Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's to making the

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<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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<v Speaker 1>me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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