The Writing at the Red House Podcast

Kathi and Michele are back together at  The Red House  with social media expert,  Tonya Kubo .  This week Michele and Tonya discuss seven points on how to create a successful Facebook Live. Facebook live is the video mechanism to connect with your fans and followers.  Are you a reluctant video person like Michele?  Michele understands how the vulnerability of the medium creates very powerful conne...

Welcome back to Part 2 of The One Strategy That Will Completely Tame Your To Do List.  Kathi and Michele share more reasons why using your calendar as your to do list will change your life.  Find out more ways how your calendar will keep your head above water, while your to do list will drown you.   In today’s episode, you will know: How saying yes is like a bad drug How your calendar helps you se...

Do you use a calendar and a to do list? Does your to do list take up two pages like Michele?  The chronic feeling of failure and physical exhaustion when there is not enough time to complete your list can be overwhelming. Kathi and Michele share The One Strategy that will completely change how you organize your time. Are you like Kathi and Michele, who left to their own devices will say yes to all...

Kathi is joined by Roy Goble , author of Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled from the Junkyard . Roy’s dad was an unlikely leader raised in the dust bowl era turned successful businessman.  Raised in his dad’s wrecking (junk) yards,  Roy shares how hard work has translated to leadership skills anyone can put into practice in your everyday life. Join Kathi and Roy as they share what it looks like t...

Kathi is joined today by Lyneta Smith. Her new book, Curtain Call , is a memoir that will take the reader through the journey of how she learned to trust God with her story.  Kathi and Lyneta dive further into how to write a memoir in order to serve your audience. .  In today’s episode, you will know: How memoir is like a platypus.  How to know when you are ready to write a memoir. What it looks l...

Kathi and Michele are together at  The Red House  with Susy Flory.  In this second part, Kathi, Michele, and Susy continue the discussion about six more memoirs that have impacted their writings.   Explore how heroes and villains, mentors, and stunt memoirs can influence your experience as a writer.  In today’s episode, you will know: The power of letting the readers see what you admire about the...

Kathi and Michele are together at  The Red House  with Susy Flory.  Today in the first of two parts they share one memoir that has impacted their writing.  Kathi, Michele and Susy discuss  Educated by Tara Westover,  Lit    by Mary Karr, and  Wesley the Owl  by Stacey O’Brien. In today’s episode, you will know: How the hard story can impact you as a reader when the message is credible Why the open...

Welcome back! Kathi and Michele share the next three steps on how to meet a deadline that seems impossible.  Kathi shares about how setting up collaboration with a few  to help you with both the creative and practical side of life when you have a difficult deadline.  Have a deadline to meet? Want help with the practical side of getting it done?  Join Kathi and Michele as they help you to align the...

Kathi and Michele share 6 ways to meet a deadline.  Home remodel, DIY, and other commitments can make a deadline seem “extra” impossible. Today you will learn how to work to make any deadline possible. Kathi and Michele share their crazy home remodel antics while keeping book deadlines.  Check out Michele’s “mobile” office shown below.   In today’s episode, you will know: How short sprints of work...

Welcome back! Thank you for joining us in part 2 of “Finding Your Niche” with Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt. Last week you learned why it’s important to find your niche and today you’ll learn how to find it.  Kathi shares two very specific questions to help you with this. Even if you don’t know what your passion is and as Michele says, “When you can’t see the forest through the trees,” Kathi enco...

Kathi and Michele talk about something that is so important to all of us; finding your niche. It’s hard to narrow down our message from just wanting to help “everyone” to something very specific that we want to speak into the lives of others. Kathi says there is something about each of us that makes us memorable and we don’t want to spend the rest of our lives with a message inside of us that need...

Kathi and Michele sit down in today’s podcast to talk about Part 2 of their strategies for the New Year. They talk about the fun things that come with launching new things and the reality of needing to let go of other things.    In today’s episode, you will know: How to talk to yourself about whether or not your project is “worth it.” Why money is not always the answer when deciding whether or not...

Kathi and Michele sit down in today’s podcast to talk about strategies for the New Year. It can be really hard to decide what things we need to keep in and those we need to cut out when it comes to being intentional about our schedules, so that is why Kathi and Michele share what they have learned throughout the years about what 3 questions to ask as a communicator  before  the New Year starts.  I...

Kathi and Michele sit down in today’s podcast to talk about the last 4 steps in writing your hard story. If you tuned in to last week’s episode, you heard them talk about the first 3.  Michele talks about part of her experience in writing her latest book and the different ways she implemented self-care in her day-to-day life. In today’s episode, you will know: Why you need to invite outside people...

Kathi and Michele sit down in today’s podcast to talk about writing your hard story. Michele is actually holding a retreat this January at the Red House and this is the place to be if you want to learn how to write your hard story.  Michele talks about why it’s so important to sit down and write for yourself first before you write for anyone else. You will not want to miss today’s podcast if you f...

Join Kathi and Michele as they sit down for today’s podcast to talk about the 3 relationships we need as communicators. Michele goes in to detail about what these relationships are, who the ideal partner is for this type of relationship, and why we need them.  Michele says, “I’ll never be too old to receive coaching,” and her talk with Kathi today illuminates the necessity for these specific relat...

Kathi sits down with author Valerie Burton, who is known for helping people get unstuck in every area of their lives. They originally met for an interview on the Clutter Free Academy podcast but Kathi loved the interview so much that she wanted to bring it to you guys over here at Communicator Academy. They get together to talk about Valerie’s new book,  “The Successful Woman Planner.” Valerie say...

Join Kathi and author Shannon Popkin, as they sit down to talk about Shannon’s first book, “Control Girl” Lessons on Surrendering Your Burden of Control from Seven Women in the Bible,” as well as her new book,  “Influence: Building a Platform that Elevates Jesus (Not Me).”   In today’s episode, you will know how to: Keep the mindset that you need to serve your people. Why NOT to be fuzzy about you...

From an idea, to paper to published. Of course there are a few more steps to writing a book then that and the most experienced writers discover their own process as time goes on. But for the rest of us, Kathi interviewed world renowned writer Robin Jones Gunn (yes, that Robin Gunn!) about her process. She talks about her love for lined binders, prayer and people in her sphere of influence that hel...

Kathi and Michele sit down to talk about how to write anywhere and everywhere regardless of how “strange” the place might be. Join them today to talk about the 6 keys to know how to write in weird places. In today’s episode, you will know: Why it’s important to leave the excuses behind. How to write with or without internet. Why being a writer is being a problem-solver. For any of the items you he...

Kathi and Michele team up to talk about why having an editorial board is so important; especially as your platform gets bigger. Kathi says no two editorial boards are the same but all are equally important when organizing your content and streamlining your productivity. In today’s episode, you will know: What the definition of an editorial board is. How an editorial board helps you work backwards....

In today’s episode, Kathi and Michele talk about how common it is to have worked on your craft over, and over, and over again only to bring it in front of an audience and not receive the response you were looking for. Has that happened to you? Kathi says creating your message team is different than a feedback team and explains why sometimes it’s good for us to get out of feeling comfortable.   In...

Have you ever tried to challenge yourself to see how much you can get done in 15 minutes? Or tried to multitask while waiting for your coffee to heat up in the microwave? I bet you have! Last week Kathi and Michele talked about obstacles that interfere with productivity; ambition, inhibition, and confusion. Today, Michele is going to start the conversation with you about your homework. She challen...

In today’s episode, Kathi and Michele talk about the 3 major obstacles that interfere with productivity. Michele says we need to identify these big boulders and she gives you some homework to help you take your first, next step. In this episode, you will know: How to identify the big boulders that are getting in the way of you getting things done. What mental clutter is. How to reign in all of you...

Join Kathi and Michele in today’s podcast episode as they tell you how to create a mobile office. Who says you need to stop working en route to your next event? Get the most out of your day by using these creative pockets of time to work on the go. In this episode, you will know: Which products Kathi and Michele like to use when they’re on the go. Why it’s crucial to back up your writing with Drop...