Leadership Confidential
Leadership Confidential is a podcast created by leadership and engineering coach Lena Reinhard.
Lena and her anonymous guests have honest, real talk on hard things in technology, finding community, and becoming the engineering leader you can be.
Sly’s role in the podcast includes production assistance, guest support, and social media support.
Starting with Episode 7, Sly joins the podcast as the “bonus host” and assists with introducing the podcast episode and guest, then discussing takeaways and questions at the end of the episode. Because the podcast is created and released with only a team of 3 people, Sly’s involvement in this aspect of the recording improved production times and led to a more consistent episode release schedule.
Sly has their hands in all aspects of podcast production.
Guest Communication
Sly vets guest inquiries, schedule recordings, and handle most aspects of guest communication and coordination. They also send guest bios and final audio to guests for review.
Contractor Coordination
They handle audio review and communication with the podcast editor to troubleshoot problems that arise during editing and to ensure the best episodes are released first.
Pre-Release Prep
Sly completes all the miscellaneous tasks needed to create a thoughtful, value-packed episode. This includes: cleaning up the transcript to fix errors, writing the guest personas for the anonymous guests, writing the episode summary, creating a blog posts from the transcript, and uploading the final audio and episode summary into Spotify.
Social Media Support
When new episodes are released, Sly writes and schedules a corresponding post for LinkedIn. They also spearhead calls-for-guests via LinkedIn for in-person live recordings at conferences, like LeadDev and LeadingEng.