Climbing in Heels with Rachel Zoe - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Let me start by saying I love Rachel Zoe. I think she is brilliant and funny and a true woman’s woman. Her access to guests is insane and I am the target audience for the awesome women she books for interviews. These women have stories and knowledge to share, and I always want to hear what they have to say.

But the thing is—we never fully get to hear the wisdom they have to share because in her enthusiasm, Rachel is far too often cutting them off, cutting in, or generally “Right. Right. Yes. 100. Absolutely”-ing over them while they’re speaking, which makes it difficult to hear the guest, or too often steering the conversation back to herself (which on occasion is natural, but here often railroads a really important point the guest is trying to make). Most recently, I was compelled to write this review after Athena Calderone was pulled off her train of thought so many times, even while revealing really personal information, I was saying “let her speak!!” out loud in my car like a crazy person.

Interviewing is a skill that must be developed and it’s so very different from in-person casual conversations—I totally get it, I have done it professionally for many years and it’s not easy, even veterans will tell you that. Just one or two sessions with an interview coach would improve the listening experience profoundly. Rachel is certainly not the only person to start a pod without being a great interviewer, but given the fact that she has such great people with great stories to tell, if she put herself in her listening audience’s shoes and could allow the guests to tell their stories, this pod would be straight fire.

Love love love Rachel and love this new incarnation (although would be SO excited to see the Rachel Zoe Project come back!!) - would be a solid five stars except that the editing is inexplicably awful - the many commercials randomly cut in sometimes just after a question is asked but before it's answered and sometimes even just in the middle of someone talking... it's super annoying. With better editing this would be perfection.

Great, real interviews with amazing people. Fun podcast, but also so nice to learn about their guests. We usually have assumptions about them, but we get to go behind the scenes and get to know their real selves. And Rachel and Roger are so smart, talented and adorable!!!

One of my all time favorite podcast! Love Rachel’s genuineness and the guest she chooses to have each week. I really look forward to it weekly. It’s a positive step away from day to day into fashion etc;
Keep it up!

I listen to a lot of podcasts. And I really want to like your podcast but I can’t. You Don’t let your guests speak. You’re talking so much and answer the questions that you ask, that you learn nothing about the guest on your show. In 35 minutes 25 minutes is you speaking. Please slow down and let your guests speak.