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Work Besties Who Podcast
Ready to Start Your Podcast? Your Work Besties Are Sharing Some Helpful Tips
“We Started a Podcast…and Lived to Tell the Tale”
Ever wondered what happens when two work besties dive headfirst into podcasting without a clue but with plenty of enthusiasm?
Jess and Claude spill the beans on the good, the bad, and the hilariously awkward behind-the-scenes moments of their first year. From editing meltdowns to friendship glow-ups, wild expectations vs. reality checks, and those cringe-worthy Wi-Fi fails—you’ll laugh, learn, and maybe even make a New Year’s resolution or two.
Tune in for real talk, big lessons, and a reminder that friendship makes everything better—yes, even podcasting chaos.
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Everyone, as we sit here recording our last episode of the year, we're thinking back to when we first started our podcast, which was really only 10 months ago, but it feels much longer. I think our bond as our work besties has only deepened, and what's really incredible is just how much we've learned over the last 10 months, not just about podcasting, but also about each other and really what it takes to work together on a side hustle or a business. So this episode today is all about those key takeaways and us sharing some of the things that we learned along the way, so that you all become more prepared in case you want to start a podcast of your own.
Claude:Hi, I'm Claude and I'm Jess. We are corporate employees by day, entrepreneurs by night and work besties for life.
Jess:Join us as we explore how work besties lift each other up, laugh through the chaos and thrive together in every industry Work besties. So welcome to Work Besties, your Podcast. We're going to start off with some questions that Claude and I have prepared to help all of those who are interested in learning about podcasting. So you're going to learn a little bit about behind the scenes and some of the fun tips and tricks that we've learned. I'm going to kick off first reflecting on our journey. Claude, what was the hardest part? Do you think about getting started with our podcast?
Claude:The hardest part was to really commit and all the operational of the podcast behind the social media, the editing all the podcasts and also to keep excited each time by this new adventure. What about you?
Jess:Yeah, I think. Well, obviously the editing, because hopefully the editing has gotten better as we've moved throughout the season. But editing was probably the biggest challenge in the beginning, especially with getting people's voices not to sound robotic or to all sound the same. So that was fun, Definitely a new adventure that I had not partaken in before. The other thing that was definitely a key learning is trying to get stuff planned weeks in advance so you're not scrambling.
Claude:Which we are still working on, which I'm still something that I'm still learning to do, and not sending you posts the day before. Okay, what do you think?
Jess:Yeah, I think the I mean there's always going to be a little bit of last minute nature, but especially when it comes to plotting out the guests and who we want and how to position them, I think we've learned a lot along the way on that, and that's one where the more you put into it ahead, the better the outcome will be. And I think that's a key learning we probably didn't know in the beginning.
Claude:Yeah, Okay, I have a question for you, sure. What do you think is the key to maintaining a strong friendship while working together on something so personal?
Jess:I think any partnership that you're working in, whether you're Bork Besties or not, there has to be an element of trust. Especially, you and I are people who have full-time jobs, full-time families, and this was all in addition to and this in and of itself is like a full-time job. So I do feel you have to establish trust with that individual and, if you guys assign roles or elements, that you keep to it and make it known that you're okay with maybe pushing outside the boundaries of what maybe you would have done, and you have to have that confidence that the person's going to fulfill what they're going to do.
Claude:And, I think, also is still remembering why we are doing it. Because at the end, let's face it we have fun together. We had such a good relationship and, of course like I think you were saying that yesterday's like sisters right where we bicker each other, but we know that at the end it is the relationship we love each other, we have fun to each other for with each other. So it's so important to still remember that why we came in this. You know, adventure and I think it was one of our podcasters like the two, adam and Chris, were doing some friendship date, you know, and not talking about business, but go back to what we were. You know what I mean.
Jess:That's perfect. I do feel you and I at least me, I was so we have to go, go, go, go. We would meet and I probably would wait 10, 15 minutes before I'd be like, oh wait, whatever happened to blah, blah, blah, blah, because I was like we got to answer these emails, we got to get to these people. My question is, what's the one thing you wish you knew before we started this podcast? So I do think to your point. For me, it's like reminding each other that you're there as the friendship first and making sure you connect on those levels. If it means having a friendship date or the first 15, 30 minutes of us meeting, it's just us versus work. It's definitely something I would reflect on as a key learning.
Jess:What about you, Clyde?
Claude:So yeah, two things. One, to jump on you going back to this friendship, is when we used to send each other memes all night long, right where before we did this great, beautiful adventure. Now it's almost we are sending memes as thinking, oh, that is something we could do. You know what I mean. So's again going back to the root of our friendship. And then I think the other thing is how much work it is. Holy cow, it is a lot of work.
Jess:Yeah.
Claude:Like you say. Also, you know we have a full-time job that is quite demanding. It's not the nine to five job. You have a younger child. I'm lucky he's older so he doesn't need me as much. But and then this you know, if you want to be committing, you need. It's a lot of work, which is great, but it's good to know that in advance.
Jess:Yeah, one more thing too. I think I've chatted about this with you. I, in our personality, I'm the one that's like go, go, go. Like I've come up with a plan, we just move forward. I'm the one that's like go, go, go, I've come up with a plan, we just moved forward. I'm like test and iterate, it's fine if we don't get it right the first time, keep going. So it's funny for me to be the one to say this.
Jess:However, I will put out there to anyone who wants to start a podcast, which is an amazing adventure and I highly recommend it. The one thing I would say is to think about taking time to understand your niche, what you're trying to accomplish within that niche and, at the same time, maybe reaching out to others in the industry who are already podcasting or some sort of element of the niche that you're focused on. So for us I really do there wasn't a lot of work. Besties out there there are some, and we've become great friends with them since. I wish we had taken the time before we even kicked off our very first podcast to just chat with them and get a sense of the podcasting world, because we've learned so much on our own and even through our guests. But if we had just taken that pause in the beginning, I do think we would have come out the gate a little stronger. So I do make that recommendation for anyone out there.
Claude:Yeah, and at the same time, I have to say, is that because we learned on our own. I mean especially you, right, but also the social media. Like I didn't know much about social media, learning about the difference between posts and reels and everything. We see how much we grew and everything. We see how much we grew and I think we still have a lot to grow. But I'm proud of us and I'm proud of you for pushing me, because if it wasn't for you, I would still be on my couch sending you memes.
Jess:Next question Did the reality of starting this podcast live up to your expectations? Or did you even have expectations, glad? I don't know. I think you and I both started that story in a very different way.
Claude:Yeah, I I don't think I had much expectation went with the flow and I think that, yeah, I didn't have much expectation because I didn't really know so much about this whole world and but I'm so glad and now you know, I'm saying again I'm so proud of us for what we did. You know, we might not have so much, so many listening, but it's the quality as well and, like you say, we met a lot of great people and that helped us also along the way.
Jess:Right.
Claude:What about you?
Jess:So for me, the expectation was to create a community or an environment for people to feel welcome and to share stories about the value of having a work bestie and to encourage others. We were proud of ourselves because we did it and I don't think when we started people understood that positioning wasn't necessarily about being just in a corporate or a CPG environment. Everyone assumed that was going to be our narrow niche and it's not, and we've really proven that right. We've had interviews with people across all different industries entrepreneurs. We've had interviews with people across all different industries entrepreneurs. We've had interviews with actors. We've had interviews with teachers, like those that are definitely not in the CPG world.
Jess:So, for those who don't know, that's consumer product goods, which is the environment that Claude and I are in. Claude and I are in. I am proud of us for helping to foster that support and community amongst all of these different groups and to encourage it to talk about it, to support each other and find ways to bring this attention to all industries. So I feel that expectation has been amazing to me. Obviously, there's more to come and there's definitely more positioning that we could do, but I do think from what we started to where we're at. We've met that expectation.
Claude:I agree, you know, I mean I did have that expectation to have this little community, which I didn't know how they would come together, which I didn't know how they would come together. But I think what is beautiful also to see, even in our work, is seeing the people that are surrounding each other, that from you know us being knowing each other and then being work besties and then doing a podcast, they do understand also, especially for the younger generation, how important it is to have a work bestie. Right, I even have someone that is on my team that told me she's like you know what, up to now I never had a work bestie because I didn't trust them. And now I know, I see, you know my team, they have, they are work besties. It's so nice to see that we kind of show the path to the younger generation.
Jess:So I'm going to ask this question slightly differently, because we kind of answered elements of it already. So if we were to give advice to people who are starting a work bestie podcast, what would be that piece of advice or things that we wish we already knew when we started that we would offer up?
Claude:so I would say, to be to go into this adventure with someone that you trust and that you like, slash love, because, again, it's a lot of work, a lot of different personality. So this is, for first, that unit has to be very strong, which I love, because you and I are already different. Again, I'm going to say this, I'm this. How do you say adzenium, whatever, but the ying and the yang, we are so like this. Stop, it's true, stop laughing. I have to say it right.
Jess:Yes, I have to say it at least once. Clip of every episode where Claude references the ying and the yang watch for our costume last Halloween.
Claude:But yeah, it's. It's so important because it make us only stronger, right, your strength is my weakness, my weakness is your. So that is so important, but also knowing that it's a lot of work, so make sure that some of your weekend are dedicated for that. And then all the operational behind the technique, which actually fell more on you than on me, you know.
Jess:Yeah, so going to the operational parts or even just the parts that you may not know before you start a podcast. I kind of referenced this already. But leverage the community. It feels daunting at first and maybe you're embarrassed or at least maybe I was. I was like I can learn this. This is so easy, and I did. But I feel if I had just taken the opportunity to reach out to a few people, ask questions, maybe even just watch and learn from them, I probably would have been a little bit faster, quicker and picked up things that I didn't have to learn the hard way.
Jess:And the community is so great. I just I can't say it enough how amazing the content community is. Everyone has welcomed us. We have had such amazing interviews, but also relationships develop from this Some people that I kind of feel I'm sad if I don't hear from them each week. So, yeah, a bit of advice is there is not. This is a. It seems like it's a huge community and there are a lot of podcasts out there, but there are not a lot that are continuing and I believe a big portion of that is because they're working harder versus smarter, and one of the easiest ways to work smarter is to learn from those that are already in the community. We're one of them. I believe we've even offered up and chatted with some people too to help them, as they've decided to start this path too. So leverage that it's fantastic, and everybody is so welcoming and we'll put it out there.
Claude:We're welcoming too, so if you've got questions, yeah, and so many emails we even got afterwards say, hey, I'm using this, I'm using that if you want. So it's really, really cool. It is Cool. One of the things that I love about that question what's been the funniest behind the scenes moment during season one? We have a lot.
Jess:We have a lot.
Claude:What's yours?
Jess:My favorite one about you is and it's so sad because this was before we started recording visually, we just recorded audio but when we were chatting with my beauty junkie friends, which shout out to them I love them. But one of my favorite episodes was that because not only do I love them, but you, I believe, were in four to five different locations throughout the episode People that we interviewed with were so kind they didn't even comment on it until the very end, I think, after we recorded, or close to the end, where they were like Claude, what's the deal? You were in the bathroom at one point, you're in a closet at another point, and it's so sad that we couldn't visually show people how comical that was.
Claude:I know, okay, there is a reason for this madness, because my home, let's say, mediterranean, right, there's Greek, there's French, there's half Italian, so we're very noisy and I wasn't by myself at home, so there was a lot of noise. So I was trying to find some spots that I could be away from them. So I went. One of them was my bathtub, but unfortunately the Wi-Fi wasn't working. There was like trying to find the best way to be in a quiet space. So there was some kind of you know why reason for that madness.
Jess:Well, it made for a very interesting episode, for sure, and I giggled the whole time because at one point you had like coats hanging on top of you. Yes, what about you? What experience do you think was the funniest from season one?
Claude:so one for me was you. We actually put it as a blooper on a reel where you started to, we started to record, but then we're like it's not working, the sound is not there. And then finally, just because there was one, the mute button was was on and then right after you had like the major lip gloss on your teeth. So that was, for me, was funny. I love also when this whole clothes planning, right when I say something and then you translate for me for people to understand better, or because you speak cloth, that's what I say to my team also you speak cloth, you know, because I have my own saying. Yeah, that was funny. And then there were like two of them Suddenly we were recording and you just disappeared. That was also one with Chris, one with Carrie Suddenly like you're not there anymore and meanwhile you're like the one that talk, you know, the most eloquent, and I'm like, oh God, it's all by myself now, but eloquent, and I'm like oh god, it's all by myself now, but thank god you were back.
Jess:Yeah, I guess that's another tip for people is.
Jess:I mean, we're even experiencing it today. Wi-fi is so critical. Make sure you have a strong wi-fi if you're gonna do the recording from a virtual location, for sure, yeah, there's been a couple and it's so funny because our recording system catches you up. So there was, I think, in one of those, and I think it was the Mike one, where I was gone. I think it was gone for like three or four minutes.
Jess:It was a while, and when I came back in it started me while you guys had said, oh, we just lost her, and my talking overlaid with yours and it makes no sense. So that goes back to the editing. You need to be good at editing so you can correct some of those things. Oh boy, it's been fun though. We've learned a lot, we've laughed a lot. I know you keep asking me to do my favorite blooper of you, which I still haven't done. Maybe over the holiday break, while we're off, I could do it, which I still haven't done. Maybe over the holiday break, while we're off, I could do it. But the fact that you say camaraderie so many different ways and in a few of them it's like stretched out so I'll have to. Finally, I did one like sneakily on my own personal TikTok.
Jess:I'll have to do one on our work, bestie TikTok, because then it's comical.
Claude:Oh, you know what? Actually, that's what happened it was. I remember one day it was in the middle of the night I had insomnia, I couldn't sleep. I woke up, I couldn't go back to sleep. So, of course, worst thing you can do is go on your phone and look at TikTok. And I was served me saying camaraderie, and I had no idea that you had posted. And I'm like what and what did I do?
Jess:I forwarded to you with an interrogation point we were like following each other on tiktok, and it was before we had our own personal brand, right. I don't think we even had work besties out there. That, no, we didn't. We didn't have work besties out there then?
Claude:no, we didn't have work. Bestie on tiktok no, we.
Jess:I mean we were doing the podcast, but we didn't have the tiktok, my only video on, my personal one too, so you made the top fyp do you think it has the most had, the most like than the one we have out there?
Jess:um, it didn't have the most likes, but it definitely has one of the highest views. It's not the highest, but close to oh my God. Maybe I'll finally get my act together and put that one out. On TikTok too, I got to do it quick, okay. So let's talk about New Year's resolutions. Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
Claude:For work-based teas. For me it's working way more in advance, being more like you know, yeah, working more in advance, and you know, so that we are not caught up at the last minute. For me, that's going to be the most important and follow through on my tasks.
Jess:You gave me because you're like, because somebody assigns me tasks who that is?
Claude:What about?
Jess:you New Year's Resolution 1 for me.
Claude:I do do things, though I want people to know.
Jess:I did not say you didn't. I think New Year's Resolution 1 for work besties is we have to get an intern, we need some support. Knowing when you need support is a critical thing, so we definitely need to prioritize that. So, for anyone who's interested in working with us, let us know. And then the other element of it, I believe I would like us to to find ways to be a little bit more in advance too, if we could try and get ourselves to the place where yeah we're more than a couple weeks in advance would be fantastic, at least when it comes to more of the podcast.
Claude:Yeah, yeah, and we're getting there, we're getting there, yeah, but but also on the, you know, instagram and everything. Also to have all those like ready to post and to have the, because otherwise you don't. I don't think that if you're at the last minute, you don't do the best content. Um, you know. You know, what I would love also is for people to start coming to us saying that they want to be on our podcast. So yeah, but that's where I would like you know, to be recognized and say, oh, my god, they are, they are fun and it's interesting and I want to be with them and then continuing to expand and see where everything goes what are your resolutions.
Jess:You've done a great job being our kind of social lead on the Instagram portion of it, but how do we continue to develop the platform we just only launched on YouTube? Was that August or September, really? So we really haven't been on YouTube. Was that August or September, really? So we've really haven't been on YouTube that long. So I would love for us that's a very different, unique platform and I'm loving it. We have to. I would love for us to, in our new year's resolution, find ways to really connect to that community in a more unique way, cause I think it's a very different platform and environment than than Instagram, but it's fun.
Jess:I feel like all of this stuff is like a fun, unique challenge that never would I have thought would have been in our realms, but it's been awesome. And then I think the last New Year's resolution that I have for us in the work besties is our kind of continuing to elevate and push past some of our business plan opportunities, which I'm excited for. All right so, but I do think, in addition to our new year's resolution, we should position or posture to our work besties community, cause we love you all so much to have a new year's resolution as well. We have ideas. Claude, do you want to share an idea you might have for the work besties?
Claude:I'm going to be corny to keep supporting each other, to stay, you know, keep helping each other and yeah, that's my advice for and if you don't have them, if you don't have any work, bestie, just like we heard so many times from the oil industry be authentic, be who you are and take the leap and learn to meet people you know.
Jess:My other recommendation, or New Year's resolution, in addition to supporting each other, is to reach out to one more person in your work community, especially somebody you see maybe that doesn't have a work bestie. You never know. To Claude's point, never judge a book by its cover. They could be a work bestie in waiting that you just never thought to connect with. But making that one simple connection can really help.
Claude:If you think about it, you and I did that where we had two person in our office that we kind of put under our wings right and they were saying that they stayed so long in our office that we kind of put under our wings right and they were saying that they stayed so long in their office thanks to not because of our friendship and us, you know, really having fun and helping each other, and that is something that I think is the best compliment.
Jess:Yeah, if you have the opportunity to see somebody struggling in your work environment, they're the best people to reach out to, because, even if it doesn't to your point cloud doesn't keep them at the company forever it at least will help their time there and they'll appreciate it so much more. And then they'll give back too, because even those individuals that you're referencing the support that they're providing not just back to us but to other people in their environments has improved tremendously yes definitely agree there all right, so let's quickly talk about what's next for work besties.
Jess:Um anything you want to share, claude, share what. What's next for the Work Besties?
Claude:So what's next for the Share Work Besties? So we are looking, of course, staying with Work Besties, but looking at another platform as well, still being authentic to who we are. So stay tuned on this. Do you want to say a little bit more?
Jess:No, I want them to come back for more. Season two is going to be really exciting. Claude's right, we're adapting and evolving to some kind of a little bit more in our platform, but still focused on work besties. But we're really excited for what's coming out and we look forward to telling you more about it in early 2025. So with that, I think that's a wrap for season one, wrap for 2024. I guess all we left to say is keep supporting each other and reach out and if you ever have any questions or concerns, yeah, chat soon. Bye, remember, whether you're swapping snacks in the break room, rescuing each other from endless meetings or just sending that perfectly timed meme. Having a work bestie is like having your own personal hype squad.
Claude:So keep lifting each other, laughing through the chaos and, of course, thriving. Until next time, stay positive, stay productive and don't forget to keep supporting each other. Work besties.
