Sure. We don’t want anyone feeling uncomfortable about what we will be talking about during our youcast sessions. Here’s the thing though: We won’t be using all of the questions. This list is simply so that you know the breadth of topics we may visit during our chat. We will absolutely not be making this a question and answer session … Read More

Part of the joy of youcast is the spontaneous story-telling that occurs during a recording session. If the content is too rehearsed, it will sound staged and stilted which removes so much of the genuine story. But … we don’t want the conversation to be full of pauses, “ums” and “ahs”, and other distractions. To get around this, we’ll provide … Read More

We have been asked this before in other podcast-style conversations – can we edit the conversation after we have finished? Well, the answer to that questions is – yes, we CAN edit the conversations but we try really hard not to. We think that life stories are best captured as conversations and, whenever we start editing conversations, they start sounding … Read More

This will, of course, depend on what topics you choose and the level of granularity we will get to. Once you have scheduled a conversation, we will send through a set of questions that will indicate the directions the conversation will head towards. We certainly don’t want this to become a question and answer session – that’ll become pretty boring, … Read More

We absolutely understand your concern. Many similar audio conversations end up as podcast episodes and become publicly available via podcast stores – but that’s where youcast is different. We want you to tell your story without any inhibitions and recognise that, if it is likely to become public, we are going to get a very different, probably reserved, conversation. After … Read More

This is something we hear quite regularly when we invite guests onto one of our podcast series or radio programs. In this world of celebrity overload, it is easy to think that because you’re not famous, your story isn’t interesting. We absolutely disagree! There are some really important people in your life who would be fascinated by your story – … Read More

Define special … As a minimum, you need your mobile phone and some good mobile reception. In its most rudimentary form, we record youcast as though you were chatting on the phone. Thinking practically, though, the conversation will take up to an hour and therefore, you need to consider your comfort during our conversation. Using your phone on “speaker mode” … Read More

As a follow-on from our previous post, this is something that we have heard plenty of times and, just like the “weird voice” issue, this has stopped people from taking part in podcasts and other recorded interviews. youcast is produced by Podversations, a small business based in Geelong, Victoria. We specialise in creating conversational podcasts (that’s where our name comes … Read More

We’ve heard it many times before. A lot of our clients and guests ask us “Why does my voice sound weird when it is recorded?“. Worse still, we have had people choose not to be a guest on one of our podcasts just because they don’t like the sound of their voice when they hear it played back. Well, there … Read More

We are very excited to announce that we are ready to launch our new product, youcast. Let us sit down with Mum or Dad, Grandma or Grandpa and record their story as an interactive conversation. And we have heard the whole “but my voice sounds terrible when it is recorded” thing many times, so we are not going let that … Read More