Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to send show notes for your life, give
Speaker 1: people resources to follow up on interesting tidbits, and you
Speaker 1: can extend the fun of gatherings well into the future.
Speaker 1: Today's tip comes from a New York Times good list
Speaker 1: by Melissa Kirsch. Just as show notes are often published
Speaker 1: right after a podcast airs, she passes along her friend's
Speaker 1: suggestion of sending show notes after social get togethers. As
Speaker 1: she explains, the impulse is the same as with a podcast.
Speaker 1: There are so many interesting things I want to follow
Speaker 1: up on. After your monthly brunch with your college friends,
Speaker 1: after a family gathering, after a happy hour with your
Speaker 1: colleagues from your old job, after a particularly lively sideline
Speaker 1: chat with other parents during your kid's softball game, send
Speaker 1: an email or text with show notes from the time together.
Speaker 1: Like show notes for a podcast, this would include annotated
Speaker 1: links to the various topics that came up that you
Speaker 1: promised to send each other, more information about the tented
Speaker 1: moisturizer that you swear by, everyone's favorite crock pot meals
Speaker 1: that you all mentioned when you are lamenting how sports
Speaker 1: practices make dinner prep hard. A link to the poem
Speaker 1: about the child learning to swim that your friend mentioned
Speaker 1: in conversation, the novel your colleague recommended that was based
Speaker 1: on the author's experience of growing up visiting her mom
Speaker 1: in prison. You can compile all the show notes and
Speaker 1: email or text them out. Or you can introduce the
Speaker 1: idea of sending show notes with a playful tone and
Speaker 1: offer a few entries for the show notes yourself and
Speaker 1: invite everybody else to reply all and send THEIRS. This
Speaker 1: is especially helpful when you may not be able to
Speaker 1: find all the links yourself, like everyone's recipes. If you
Speaker 1: send a link to the recipe you suggested, other people
Speaker 1: can then send links to theirs. I see a few
Speaker 1: benefits to sending show notes for your social gatherings. First,
Speaker 1: you can follow through on each other's recommendations. When you
Speaker 1: are planning meals for the next week. You don't aimlessly
Speaker 1: hunt for the recipe your friend mentioned. Instead, you look
Speaker 1: in the text chain. When you are placing library holds.
Speaker 1: The show notes from your work happy hour remind you
Speaker 1: that you want to read Harriet Clark's The Hill. Sending
Speaker 1: show notes for gatherings also helps you extend the experience
Speaker 1: of gathering. You can look back on specific moments from
Speaker 1: your time together, which pushes some of the fun into
Speaker 1: the future. If you send show notes to a group
Speaker 1: of people a few times, it may become a routine.
Speaker 1: Now to point out the obvious, it's not necessary to
Speaker 1: do this. Sending show notes does not need to go
Speaker 1: on your to do list, and it doesn't need to
Speaker 1: hang over your head making you feel guilty until you
Speaker 1: get it done. Not having time to send show notes
Speaker 1: afterwards shouldn't stop you from gathering. Just gather. Even if
Speaker 1: there aren't show notes, the gathering still happened. It was
Speaker 1: probably meaningful for everyone. But if sending show notes would
Speaker 1: be fun for you, and if you think receiving show
Speaker 1: notes would be fun for everyone else, then send them.
Speaker 1: Show Notes for life can be a great way of
Speaker 1: extending the enjoyment of connection, and I think we would
Speaker 1: all appreciate a little more connection in life. If you
Speaker 1: try sending show notes after your next get together, let
Speaker 1: me know how it goes. You can reach me at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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