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From the archives: Sean Mallary
“I joke with people that I still know in that industry and I’m like I did lighting for 20 years and now I’m calling myself a sound guy I don’t know what the heck is going on.” ~ Sean Mallary
Before you press stop
Podcasting, says Jey Jeyendran, has a low barrier to entry and a high barrier to continuation, because makers get no meaningful feedback. Craig Constantine, the host, answers with play, and the feedback he gets keeps pointing to parts where host and guest were having fun. Jeyendran takes the point: make the payoff a great episode,…
From the archives: Howard M
“If you try to have the perfect podcast you go perfectly insane.” ~ Howard M
Two ways to hide
Dafna Gold Melchior, who helps people clarify high-stakes messages, cannot stand obnoxious self-promotion. Craig Constantine, who hosts this show, works hard to step on his own attention-seeking. From opposite temperaments they reach the same silence about their own work. But silence costs the listener a search. The line was never between speaking and keeping quiet.…
From the archives: Tricia Rose Burt
“I made a very drastic leap. I quit my job, sold my car, divorced my husband, and moved over to Ireland because I thought I needed to completely remove myself to start over as this artist.” ~ Tricia Rose Burt
What sixty seconds asks for
A minute was offered to Diane Wyzga, a storyteller, as the easy version of a podcast. It asked more, not less. The more you compress, she says, the more you have to pay attention, and over time the minute became a bit of Diane. A minute has room for the point and for whoever is…
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…