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From the archives: Aaradhya Tiwari
“If it’s not the real me— If it’s not something I love to do, then it won’t be authentic enough to actually go forward with it.” ~ Aaradhya Tiwari more →
Publishing is not reaching
Pressing publish is the step most of us treat as the finish line. Mark Tweddle, who works with storytelling in coaching and team building, wanted to reach the people a season would make a difference to, and had no idea how. Publishing addresses everyone; reaching has a recipient. The finish line was never the publish… more →
From the archives: Abby Wambaugh
“I’m interested in the kind of laugh you do when you look at things in a new way. Like, you pierce through something, and it’s a new thought people connect to and identify with.” ~ Abby Wambaugh more →
What nobody is going to tell you
Jason Tieri, who edits podcasts for clients, does not play the finished copy after cutting an episode. A third pass, Tieri says, catches what a co-host will not mention and fans will not either, since they love you. But the faults that survive are not the ones anybody is protecting you from. They are the… more →
From the archives: Ken Kaus
Ken posts a question every day, and has for years — long enough that it stopped being a habit and became who he is. He and Craig talk about editing turning out to be the easy part, imposter syndrome as the hard part, publishing episodes that aren’t perfect, and how podcasting sharpened the way he… more →
What the title can’t hand over
Emeric McCleary, who hosts a podcast for widowed people, calls every guest a guest co-host to give them authority to argue. Many never use it. A title is words, and the imbalance is in the room: the host’s ease comes from every past spill, and the guest walks into something finished. What a host can… more →
From the archives: Paul Jones
Podcasting looks like a technical pursuit until you notice what it does to the people doing it. Paul Jones talks about imposter syndrome, boundaries, a lifelong pull toward making things, and why the connection a conversation makes is the real work — with a detour through Seth Godin’s “It’s Not About the Chocolate.” more →
The half you can learn
Kato McNickle, a playwright who teaches how stories are put together, splits what you love about a show into two halves. The structure, the engine, can be learned. The content is simply what draws you. But McNickle’s own advice on cutting what listeners have already heard is a decision about content, and it is learnable… more →
From the archives: Ryan Flahive
Ryan Flahive came from publishing, cares about climate change, and isn’t going to build a solar panel. So he asked what his own skills could do — and the answer turned out to be a podcast rather than a book. He and Craig talk about why audio suited the stories, how consistency builds momentum, getting… more →
Looking like listening
Jam Mayer trains people in conference rooms and on video calls, where one generation believes you owe the room your face and the digital natives listen with the camera off. The rule was never about manners. It is an inference: visible attention standing in as evidence of the real thing. The proxy can be faked… more →