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From the archives: Julie Angel
[…] you got to get out of your own way. And for me the sign of a really great conversation, or recording, is at the end of it I’m like— I always ask myself: Was that really good, or like, ‘meh’. And if it was really good, then it’s just like, ‘it was really good!’…
What the schedule costs
When this conversation was recorded, songwriter Gabrielle Pitman had burned out on a podcast and stopped for about a year between seasons. By Pitman’s account, the audience stayed. Only the algorithm, Pitman says, tracks which day an episode came out. The schedule is not free: it is paid for in the emptiness ideas need. A…
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
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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.”
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…