Core Conversations, Guest Questionnaire

Before we talk

I started Core Conversations because I got tired of hearing the polished version of everyone's story, the one with the lesson already extracted and the mess already cleaned up.

This isn't an audition and I'm not here to coach you through anything. I just want to get a real sense of you before we sit down together, so I've put together some questions. Not to test you, just to hear what you've actually lived through and what you might want to say out loud about it.

Answer what feels true. Skip what doesn't. There's no right length, and nothing here is being graded.

A little about you

Name

A short bio

Links

Availability

Have you been a podcast guest before?

Your story

1. Who are you right now, and what does your day to day actually look like?

Just the real picture, not the bio.

2. What's a season of your life you'd say genuinely changed you? One you're comfortable talking about out loud.

3. What was the lowest point in that season, and what did you actually do to get through it?

Not the tidy version, the real one, even if it wasn't pretty.

4. Is there one specific moment from that time that's stayed with you? What happened, and what did it teach you?

5. What's something you used to believe about yourself, or about your life, that you don't believe anymore?

6. Who or what helped you see it differently? A person, a practice, a moment that shifted things.

7. Is there a part of your story that feels a little exposed to talk about publicly? You don't have to go there if you're not ready, I'm just curious where that edge is for you.

This one's optional in every sense.

8. If someone only took one real thing away from talking to you, what would you want it to be?

9. Have you spoken publicly before, on a podcast, in coaching sessions, on a stage, in writing? What was that like for you?

10. What's your natural mode when you're talking about something real? Being asked questions, telling a story start to finish, or a conversation that just goes wherever it goes?

11. Is there anything you'd rather we steered around?

12. Anything else you want me to know before we talk?

This goes straight to Nicole. Nothing here is shared publicly without asking you first.