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One way to get someone interested in your episode is to reference something that happened right before

things started up. Sometimes in improv, for example, an initiation that's the very top beginning of a

scene might reference something that just happened, even if it's not quite concrete yet what that thing

was. And this might be something like, wow, that kitty litter explosion could have been so much worse. Am I

right? Or I might start an episode with, I can barely read it.

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what I said last night, but your listener wasn't at that dinner, but they have some context and probably

want those details filled in. The audience of that improv scene feel like that event actually existed and

they know that it raises some stakes on whatever is happening right now in that scene. So if you're

delivering solo episodes, you don't have to start right at the beginning. You don't have to give the setup

that there was a kitty litter

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factory down the road that was established in 1983 or why the tabby cat owners took umbrage with fancy feet

the litter brand you can drop your listener right into the action right into the middle of the subject in

storytelling this is called in media res you don't need to build up or structure your episode from the start

your listener can catch up you can explain why or the details after that opening section like i might say

last week i said that dogs can host

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and I realized this week that I was full of crap. Maybe you never listened to me last week because you heard I

was going off on dog topics, but you know that I'll catch you up with what I missed in a beat or two. Your

listener is curious and they care and that's a good thing. So using that history can help build your show up.

You can create that body of work that you can reference. People can return and they can listen to other

episodes and it brings a sense of cohesion.

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to your overall series. So when you make a note about how you're going to start your episode, reference

something else that happened as the core idea that you're going to build on, and then let your listener join

you kind of midstream and catch up. I'm Jen DeHaan. This is a Credibility Minute. Find more episodes and get

in touch with me at stereoforest.com slash minute.