Speaker 1: Something you should go. Something you should know is brought
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Speaker 1: Silver guide at genesisgoldr dot com. Excited to have Danielle
Speaker 1: Robey join us today. She's a TV host, a journalist,
Speaker 1: a podcaster. She's known as the Queen of Questions, and
Speaker 1: she has people on her show all the time where
Speaker 1: she gets to ask questions. Danielle, you get to be
Speaker 1: on my program today, I get to ask you questions.
Speaker 2: What is that like?
Speaker 3: It's super weird. It's actually harder to be a guest,
Speaker 3: don't you think.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, anytime I'm in the spotlight, I'm like, oh, now
Speaker 1: I know what they feel like because we're.
Speaker 3: Used to asking the question. So can I ask you one?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Ask me anything?
Speaker 3: Okay, what have you bookmarked this week?
Speaker 2: Sedley?
Speaker 1: I haven't bookmarked anything in a book in a long time,
Speaker 1: but I feel like my entire life I'm bookmarking things.
Speaker 1: I have all kinds of stuff, whether it's emails. I
Speaker 1: need to get back to things. I need to get
Speaker 1: back to projects. I need to get back.
Speaker 3: To you bookmark them on your phone. That's funny. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll send myself email reminders to do something. Then I'll
Speaker 1: look at it a week later and go, hey, I
Speaker 1: should have done that, like a week ago.
Speaker 3: I know. I always do that on my phone. I
Speaker 3: save everything on Instagram like I'm going to come back
Speaker 3: to it, and I don't think I've ever looked back.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Hey, let's talk about your podcast. This is really cool.
Speaker 1: How the world did this get started?
Speaker 3: Well, the beginning beginning was Reese's book Club. So years
Speaker 3: ago restarted her book club everybody knows it as RBC
Speaker 3: and each month she picks a book to highlight and
Speaker 3: it changes these authored lives like you know. It becomes
Speaker 3: an instant bestseller. And her goal initially was to give
Speaker 3: great writers the shine that they deserve and also put
Speaker 3: money in their pockets, which I always love that mission.
Speaker 3: And last year I got to launch Hello Sunshine's first podcast,
Speaker 3: and when they were launching the Reese's book Club podcast,
Speaker 3: which is now bookmarked, they came calling because they know
Speaker 3: that I am such an avid reader. I started as
Speaker 3: a fan read every Reese's book Club pick. I was
Speaker 3: scrolling over TikTok bee diving into fan theories. I really
Speaker 3: started as a fan.
Speaker 1: I think that was really smart because you live that life,
Speaker 1: you know it. It's not just some voice from somewhere.
Speaker 2: You live it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know what, I there's one hundred and
Speaker 3: one billion impressions for book Talk, and I just want
Speaker 3: to share another statistic to sort of drive that point home.
Speaker 3: Beyonce has about twenty billion, and we all know how
Speaker 3: many people love Beyonce. So book talk has just exploded,
Speaker 3: and I was on there scrolling, thinking there needs to
Speaker 3: be content for everybody who is so obsessed the way
Speaker 3: that I am.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you a little bit about
Speaker 2: Larry King.
Speaker 1: We're going to come back to that because I know
Speaker 1: he was a big influence in your life. And you
Speaker 1: can tell when I look at what you do. You're
Speaker 1: so good at asking questions. So I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you one what would a twelve year old version of
Speaker 1: you think of all the cool stuff you get to
Speaker 1: do if you had a chance to talk to that
Speaker 1: twelve year.
Speaker 3: Old Speaking of questions, that's such a nice one. Thank
Speaker 3: you for asking that. You know, I think she'd be
Speaker 3: really proud of me, mostly because I had to take
Speaker 3: a lot of big swings and risks to get here.
Speaker 3: There were many times where I didn't know how I
Speaker 3: was going to pay my rent the next month, or
Speaker 3: you know, crying on my kitchen floor because someone at
Speaker 3: work was mean to me, or you know, like I'm
Speaker 3: such a Midwest girl. I like everyone to be nice.
Speaker 3: So I think she would be proud. And you know,
Speaker 3: Larry actually was my mentor, so I hope he would
Speaker 3: be proud to I always use a microphone that he
Speaker 3: signed for me, and I hope that it's sort of
Speaker 3: like his blessing.
Speaker 1: You know, I recently had a chance to speak at
Speaker 1: a thing called disrupt HR and I actually brought Larry
Speaker 1: King up in that presentation because he was so good
Speaker 1: at asking questions. And he said, the two most important
Speaker 1: words are tell me, so tell me about this, tell
Speaker 1: me about that. He said, the three most important words
Speaker 1: are tell me more. And Danielle, you do such a
Speaker 1: good job from the Larry King school of broadcasting. You
Speaker 1: do such a good job of asking great questions. And
Speaker 1: I think Larry would be very proud of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for saying that. I learned from He really
Speaker 3: shaped how I ask questions because I used to strictly
Speaker 3: follow my curiosity, and now I do that. But Larry
Speaker 3: taught me to always personalize the question, and especially if
Speaker 3: you're talking to politicians, you can't let them get out
Speaker 3: of the question, and so there's like, you know, there's
Speaker 3: no wiggle room there. But thank you for acknowledging the
Speaker 3: tell me more. I always think I learned that in
Speaker 3: therapy because my therapist will say, say more about that.
Speaker 3: Do you have any tricks of the trade?
Speaker 2: Boy?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm the right guy to ask,
Speaker 1: but one of the things that I would say is
Speaker 1: stay inquisitive, you know, continue to be intrigued. And there
Speaker 1: are times that I don't do a ton of research
Speaker 1: on something because if I know too much about it,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask the right question. So I
Speaker 1: almost think it's better to not know everything about the
Speaker 1: person I'm going to talk to, because then I can
Speaker 1: ask them and I can learn at the same time
Speaker 1: that my listeners learn that, ooh, that's so good.
Speaker 3: Isn't it such a gift to be curious? I feel
Speaker 3: like Charmed are the curious because we get adventure.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I think curiosity is a huge, huge thing
Speaker 1: in our line of work, and if people are curious
Speaker 1: about what you do, how do they find the podcast?
Speaker 1: Where can they go to listen to Danielle do what
Speaker 1: she does?
Speaker 3: Thank you? It is streaming anywhere you get podcasts, and
Speaker 3: I'm at Danielle Robe Roba y and I always say
Speaker 3: that good books and good shoes take you places. They
Speaker 3: are like a portal. They take you on screen and
Speaker 3: across continents and into love stories. So if you want
Speaker 3: to time travel with me, head over to Bookmarks and
Speaker 3: come join the club.
Speaker 2: I love that. Danielle, thank you so much for the
Speaker 2: time today.
Speaker 3: Thank you. You're so wonderful at what you do. Thank
Speaker 3: you for having me.
Speaker 2: Oh shucks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw a lig to make it easy for
Speaker 1: you to find Danielle's podcast. I've got a link at
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com
Speaker 1: slash siou Falls News.
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