Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable Keeping controversial topics from becoming too intense is one the most challenging things for a podcasts host. Diana Krach the host of Your Highness Podcast is a master at keeping her show comfortable even while tackling uncomfortable topics. She joins Dan Humiston to explain how she uses laughter to help her dial down the intensity. She also talks about how her regular feature; "Fav Pot" and "Fav Not Pot" helps to put her guests at ease. Produced by PodConX Potcasters - https://podconx.com/podcasts/potcasters Dan Humiston - https://podconx.com/guests/dan-humiston Diana Krach - https://podconx.com/guests/diana-krach Your Highness Podcast - https://podconx.com/podcasts/your-highness
Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable
Keeping controversial topics from becoming too intense is one the most challenging things for a podcasts host. Diana Krach the host of Your Highness Podcast is a master at keeping her show comfortable even while tackling uncomfortable topics. She joins Dan Humiston to explain how she uses laughter to help her dial down the intensity. She also talks about how her regular feature; "Fav Pot" and "Fav Not Pot" helps to put her guests at ease.
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Your Highness Podcast - https://podconx.com/podcasts/your-highness
PC Your Highness
Dan Humiston: [00:00:00] All right, everyone. Thanks for joining us. And welcome back. We have another great show in store for Diana crashes here to talk about her podcast. your Highness podcasts, Diana, Welcome to the show.
Diana Krush: Thank you for having me. And thank you for saying my name correctly.
Dan Humiston: I took a chance, I took a chance. I'm so glad that you're here with us today, I, cause I'm I'm really excited about the way you do your show. One thing I love is when people know their audience And they stayed true to their audience, And
your podcast is about getting comfortable with the uncomfortable and having conversations that are not widely discussed.
And, Oh my gosh. Are you ever doing that? I mean, , I looked at some episodes that went from making anti prohibition education, accessible to children to normalize and conversation about Vaginal health of all things. You're fearless. You are fearless.
Diana Krush: you.
Dan Humiston: What inspired you to take your podcast in this direction?
Diana Krush: Well, okay, so, it's [00:01:00] funny that you say take it in this direction because it didn't start off that way.
It was more of an interview style type show in the beginning. But then I was realizing that it was turning into like a prolonged infomercial. And you touched on this in the last episode that I listened to of this podcast. When you were talking about how it can very easily turn into an infomercial.
If you don't kind of direct it in a certain way and. In my non podcasting life. I am a journalist, I'm a freelance writer. I'm a content creator. So I'm always trying to chase things that I want the answer to. And so if I can't, if I can't get an editor to let me write about it, I go, all right, well, let's see.
How can I talk about it on the podcast? Because. As we all know, podcasts are the the new wave of journalism. Now, this is how people are getting their stories, their news, everything. So, you have to be really inventive to keep people listening and. To put things out there, or at [00:02:00] least I want to put things out there that I want to listen to, and if I'm starting to space out halfway through the interview, that's not a good sign.
So I was like, you know what? We need to start looking at like what does this person feel comfortable talking about? And what is not being discussed. And, and that's pretty much where I started it and went from there.
Dan Humiston: You're curious too. And that's what I think is really important. in a good podcast or a C. If you're curious about things and the chances are somebody else's curious, about those same things and you clearly are. So that's why I think that I have an episode speaking of making people uncomfortable with Maggie Mae Wilson about fighting toxic positivity in the cannabis space.
Let me play a clip from this one, because If you want to feel uncomfortable. let me play this clip.
Diana Krush: If we're not real,[00:03:00]
Dan Humiston: Oh, man, that would hit home.
Diana Krush: Yeah.
Dan Humiston: Yeah.
For sure, , I mean, I felt really uncomfortable. I mean, I I felt like, man, I'm so ignorant. I didn't realize this was going on.
Diana Krush: it's, it's very prevalent in cannabis. I feel, especially in these women focused spaces because we want to support each other naturally and we want to build each other up, but there also has to be aligned, where, okay, wait. This person is taking advantage of the situation, or this is a highly one-sided, relationship here or whatever it may be.
We have to like, look at. In a different way and say, [00:04:00] if we're trying , to make it so that women can dominate this space or even have a strong foothold, then we have to be honest about our shortcomings. And we have to be accountable from steaks , and learn from them.
And yeah. I look for excuses. I mean, look, I am very guilty of that myself on a daily basis. I have to remind myself,
Dan Humiston: Yeah, we all are. We all
Diana Krush: It's like, you want to just say, oh, well it was because of this or because, and, and that's natural. And that may even be part of the process. It is for me, it takes me awhile to get to process it.
But. And I, and I think instead of just posting memes that say things like, oh, focus on the positive and not the negative. Like obviously they say sake more cleverly than that. But,
But it's just being honest about the situation as transparent as you possibly can without making yourself unsafe.
Dan Humiston: Yeah, I couldn't. agree with you more. and that's what I like about what you do with your show is , That's an uncomfortable topic, but it needs to be addressed. And I don't want to get the listeners. [00:05:00] the wrong idea. This is a super fun show. Like there is more lap, there's more laughter.
And in your show, like right now, there's a ton of laughter. in your show, you make everybody really relaxed. It's fun. It's Even though you're talking about uncomfortable topics, you guys are laughing the whole time.
Diana Krush: Yeah. I, I, I said that in an earlier episode, I don't even remember how I said it, but it was like, basically I will talk about really uncomfortable, raw things with.
A lot of humor, I mean, that's pretty much my vibe all the time. I will see things that people go, wait a minute. What, it's just like, well, I mean, this is just the truth. This is my life, it's, it's not something that we have to go on into a deep dive about, but sometimes it is yeah.
Dan Humiston: Oh man. It's it's fun. Well, I'll speak in a laughter, let's switch gears. for a second here and talk about you.
I heard a story. that You were once a banned from. the mall. What happened?
Diana Krush: Yeah. Well, I should be very clear. This was [00:06:00] before I had a tiny human so I was only responsible for myself. And this is, this is back when I worked in an office still.
And it was a holiday party we had. And so it was like one of those days you don't really work. You're just basically, going to the restaurant with your coworkers. So you don't really like that much. And then. Drinking as much free alcohol as possible. I don't really drink anymore also for the record, because this is when I use cannabis, more of their recreational sense.
And so I got to come home early and I ate like an entire rice crispy infused treat. And this was from the legacy market and Lord knows what the actual count was milligram wise, but it was pretty high. And I forgot that I had made a previous commitment with my friend to go Christmas shopping after work.
And so she was like already on her way before I realized that I had like already in the whole. And I had like three alcoholic cocktails before this, and I really didn't eat that much. So we get to the mall and I'm [00:07:00] talking to her and I'm telling her everything that I had during the day. And she's like, oh, you seem fine.
I'm like, oh yeah, I'm totally fine. And by the time we hit the actual entrance of the mall, I don't remember anything. From that point. I remember flashes, like I went to H and M and I bought a bunch of stuff that I had no use for. I found that out, like the next day, like I bought just a bunch of scarves and at one point the security guard came up to me.
I was in the food court. Like on the floor and he came up and was like, man, are you okay? I was like, yeah, I'm really tired. I was trying to take a nap on the floor of the food court and like, no shade to people in Florida, but this should just speak to how, like I was living in Florida at the time and that the security guard didn't.
Oh, this is really weird, it's was just like, you need some help getting up. And then I was running away from my friend at one point. I remember that because she was like trying to find me. And I don't know, I just know that I'm not allowed back in that, [00:08:00] that mall,
Dan Humiston: oh man.
Diana Krush: but it was, it was wild. That was the last time I really mixed alcohol and THC together.
Dan Humiston: Well, you'd certainly legit. you're legit You having to go through that. You certainly are legit. I like to finish every podcast. And give some advice for our aspiring podcasters. And today. I thought we'd talk about having a regular feature, and how that helps sort of build a connection with your audience. you open each of your episode with a really cool. feature that I just want to talk more about I think you call it the Fave pot and the fave, non pot. Can you tell our listeners tell, yeah. tell our listeners, tell our listeners what that is.
Diana Krush: Well, I used to in the very beginning, like four years ago, I used to start with the introduction, like the whole, this person is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then I noticed what was happening was people were getting like really quiet and nervous and in their heads because I'm building them up and I'm going on and on and on about how great they are.
And then we're supposed to go into this discussion [00:09:00] and it was just not really flowing. So was like, we need something to break the ice. And so that's pretty much how I came up with fake pot, fav not pot. And we talk about our favorite cannabis related and our favorite not cannabis related thing.
At the moment and you're so right. Having a regular segment, or recurring bit, it really does help you stay focused. And it also helps break the ice. It, because sometimes you're not always going to hit it off with a guest right away.
Dan Humiston: Yeah. I mean, I made a connection with you right away, but but you're right, a lot of times you kind of are trying to find that vibe and this is a great way.
to do it. I, I love that idea. Well, you can check out a new episode. of your Highness Podcast on all major podcast. sites. please check it out. It's A lot of fun , and the topics, are so much different than what you see in, know, your typical. cannabis podcast episodes.
So Diana, thanks for being on the show today.
Diana Krush: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.