Podcasting to create an audience for your skills
3 June 2018 By Victoria Tomlinson
The big issue for people in unretirement is that they have all these skills built up over a successful career – and then, what? Surely you can help someone with your insights and expertise?
Two ways to do this, that cost no money but just a bit of time and effort, are blogging and podcasting.
If you want to set up a podcast, you need to think of a theme and really think what do people want to listen to? It’s worth asking around to test out ideas.
This blog on how to podcast might give you a few more ideas – it isn’t difficult, just do it! https://www.next-up.com/blog/9-steps-for-successful-podcasting/
Written by Victoria Tomlinson
Victoria Tomlinson is chief executive and founder of Next-Up. Next-Up supports employers with a range of services for directors, partners and employees to help them understand the impact of retirement on mental health and create a plan to use their skills and experience in new ways to ensure wellbeing. A key part of our role is to inspire people with ideas and contacts, beyond traditional expectations. A former director of EY, she is an international speaker on unretirement, personal branding and using LinkedIn strategically as well as on leadership and women on boards. She mentors chief executives and directors, start-up businesses and ex-offenders. Victoria is Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University and chaired an advisory board for University of Leeds.
