PODCAST HOST TRAINING · SYDNEY & AUSTRALIA-WIDE
Host better conversations.
Podcast Edge is Chris Urquhart’s tailored 2½-hour, one-on-one workshop for podcast hosts—and people preparing to become one.
Define what your podcast is for, sharpen your interview technique and spend meaningful time behind the microphone rehearsing with direct, practical feedback.
A practical private workshop built around your podcast. We begin with your audience, objectives and message, then work through preparation, interviewing, voice, episode structure, recording technique and promotion. The session is tailored to your experience and what you want to create.
WHO IT IS FOR
For hosts—and future hosts—who want to sound confident, curious and natural.
Podcast Edge suits people developing a new podcast as well as established hosts who want sharper interviews, stronger structure or a more engaging on-air presence.
Launching a podcast
Clarify your audience, purpose, message and point of difference before you press record.
Developing your technique
Analyse your current approach and strengthen preparation, questioning, listening and delivery.
Building confidence
Rehearse behind the microphone, manage nerves and learn how to recover from awkward or unexpected moments.
LEARN BY DOING
Spend time behind the microphone.
Podcast Edge is highly practical. Throughout the workshop, you rehearse realistic openings, questions, follow-ups, transitions and complete interview segments—not simply talk about them.
RECORD · REVIEW · IMPROVE
Hear what the audience hears. Direct feedback reveals your pace, tone, energy, listening habits and the moments when a stronger follow-up could unlock a better answer.
THE WORKSHOP
Eight focused content modules.
The precise emphasis is tailored to you, your podcast and your experience.
01 / INTRODUCTION
Start with where you are
Discuss your podcast or idea, what already works, confidence and imposter syndrome—then complete an initial on-air rehearsal.
02 / PURPOSE
Understand the “why”
Define your objective, audience, message and the difference that will give people a reason to listen.
03 / PREPARATION
Prepare without killing spontaneity
Examine your role as host, pre-interviewing, guest comfort and the balance between scripting and improvisation.
04 / INTERVIEWING
Deliver a better conversation
Practise active listening, engaging questions, knowing when to talk and handling awkward moments.
05 / VOICE
Use your voice with intention
Work on tone, pause, volume, variety, vocal modulation, warm-ups and confidence.
06 / STRUCTURE
Shape the recording
Develop a strong opener and tease, clear closing thoughts, a distinctive structure and effective calls to action.
ALSO COVERED
The details that shape the listening experience.
Two final modules address the practical environment around your interview and how the podcast finds its audience.
07 / PRODUCTION
Microphone and recording technique
Practise microphone positioning and consider your recording environment, appearance, video podcasts and remote recordings.
08 / PROMOTION
Get the word out
Consider social promotion, building a listener community and practical ways to grow your audience.
THROUGHOUT / PRACTICE
Repeated on-air rehearsal
Apply the ideas immediately, receive feedback and rehearse again so improvements become usable habits.
LED BY CHRIS URQUHART
Learn interviewing from an interviewer.
Chris brings nearly 15 years of television and radio journalism, thousands of interviews and extensive experience coaching people to communicate naturally under pressure. Podcast Edge turns that experience into practical, individual guidance for your voice and format.
Broadcast interviewer. Presenter. Practical coach.
Chris understands how to create the conditions for an honest, useful conversation—and how to help a host become more confident without sounding over-rehearsed.
TAILORED TO YOU
Your podcast sets the agenda.
The workshop follows a proven framework, but the examples, rehearsals and feedback are shaped around your goals.
Your concept
Audience, objective, message, differentiation, format and the reasons someone will return.
Your hosting
Questioning, listening, guest comfort, vocal delivery, confidence and handling the unexpected.
Your recording
Openings, closings, microphone practice, environment, video considerations and promotion.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
One focused session. Two delivery options.
Podcast Edge is typically delivered as a private 2½-hour workshop, with plenty of time reserved for practical rehearsal.
2½ hours
A focused one-on-one session with Chris, tailored to your podcast, experience and goals.
Alexandria podcast studio
Train at URQ’s offices in Alexandria using the podcast studio and professional recording setup.
Your office, Australia-wide
Chris can bring a portable podcast recording kit to your workplace anywhere in Australia.
Built around your needs
Before the session, we identify your priorities so the workshop time is spent where it will make the greatest difference.
Frequently asked questions
Podcast training, clearly explained.
What is Podcast Edge?
Who is the workshop for?
Is the workshop practical?
Can Chris review my existing podcast?
Do I need a fully developed podcast idea?
Does it cover video podcasts?
Where is Podcast Edge delivered?
Can the content be tailored?
Podcast host training in Sydney and across Australia
Podcast Edge is a practical 2½-hour, one-on-one workshop for current and prospective podcast hosts. It covers podcast purpose and audience, interview preparation, active listening, engaging questions, vocal delivery, episode structure, microphone technique, recording environments, video podcast considerations and promotion.
READY TO SOUND MORE LIKE YOURSELF?
Make your next conversation one worth hearing.
Tell Chris about your podcast, your experience and what you want to improve. Your Podcast Edge session will be tailored from there.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY
TALK TO CHRIS ABOUT PODCAST EDGE.
Tell us whether you are preparing hosts, guests or a branded podcast team—and what you want the conversations to achieve.
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