This is an interview with coach and therapist, Pam Lawrence, about what she gets from listening to podcasts. She’s a fairly recent convert to the medium, who ran across her first pod almost by accident.

Over the last couple of years, Pam has developed a strong interest in something called ‘Emotional Freedom Technique’, or EFT. I wouldn’t presume to sum it up in a line or two here – I don’t know enough about it and wouldn’t do it justice. Suffice it to say that although it often meets with serious scepticism initially, it’s achieved significant results in the US, with Vietnam veterans, helping them to deal with the post-traumatic stress which plagued them when they returned from frontline service.
Pam started downloading audio when she was researching EFT – and now it’s part of her Continuous Professional Development – and her fitness regime!

Pam and I have known each other for about 5 years now, but I had no idea she was getting so much from listening until we had lunch a few months ago. Watching her talking animatedly about the experts she’d been listening to and the ideas they were giving her for her own business, I realised I just had to slot her into one of my shows! It isn’t covered in detail in the interview, but her listening is getting her thinking about completely new business opportunities. I can’t wait to see where she goes with it!

You can hear my conversation with Pam by visiting our website, logging in or registering for free, then dropping Get PodSavvy into the programme search. You can then either listen at your pc or download to a portable player.

Next week, I’ll tell you why ‘John Is Fresh From The Pod’.

I wasn’t trying to be clever – I think in pictures and that was the picture which kept coming to mind. (The fact that someone who works primarily with sound, and has a guide dog, thinks in pictures may seem a bit odd to you, but that’s another story!). Anyway, it rang a few bells with the audience on the night.

As time went on, others started asking me about putting some podcasts together to help people at different stages of business – start-up, expansion etc – and eventually the two ideas came together (or should that be “collided”?) shortly after 5:00am last Friday, 6th November 2009 and “The Savvy Business Mountain Guides” were born. I’d already written an ebook, on an aspect of law for non-lawyers but this time, I thought, I could do something a bit different and combine the book with some audio and audio-visual material so that contributors can, literally, speak for themselves. I’ve run it past several people and so far the response has been fantastic – what do you think? Constructive criticism is as good as enthusiasm – so let me know.

It’s a major project, which I must be mad to take on at this stage in my own business life – but then, as I said to a fellow business author last week (who is in the process of completing her second book) – “You don’t have to be bonkers to go into business – but it certainly helps! The trick is to find the method in your madness, so you can infect other people with it”.

I’m aiming to get the first book launched within the year. Over the coming months, I’ll keep you up to speed with how it’s going, who I’m talking to and, no doubt, what I’m learning from the exercise. If I can work out how to upload multimedia material here, I’ll do some of that by way of audio and perhaps even some video.

If you want to get involved, email me at sherie@savvybc.com.