Leticia Latino van Splunteren has produced over 250 episodes of her podcast by following one principle she’s carried since childhood: she connects people. She ignores download numbers and instead looks at the map — every continent reached. When guests are scarce, she discovered her audience actually wants to hear her think out loud. For Leticia,… more →

Karen Morgan performed an hour of stand-up into silence—no visible audience, no audio back—then lay on her kitchen floor for five hours. She loved making her podcast too. But the show went into the vacuum. Most advice says she lacked discipline or community. Her experience suggests something different: listeners aren’t just the output of your… more →

Moe Poplar killed a scripted fiction podcast he loved because he couldn’t answer one question: who is this for? He built something with a clear audience instead. The pragmatism probably saved him money. But applied rigorously, that filter is equally efficient at killing vanity projects and work that would have earned an audience given time—because… more →

Bryon Howard traces his podcasting persistence back to a small workshop community where shared struggles became shared momentum. The relationships formed there carried him through early uncertainty and imposter syndrome. What keeps him going is the unexpected power of audio itself — how sound creates intimacy that surprises even the creator. For Howard, podcasting’s value… more →

Suzi Nou asks every question twice. The mumbled version comes first—halting, imprecise, feeling its way toward the thing she actually wants to know. Her trainees watch the polished episodes and think she’s naturally articulate. They’re studying a magic trick without knowing there’s a trick. The gap between the unedited self and the edited self isn’t… more →

Julie Angel arrived at podcasting from documentary filmmaking, where constraints aren’t problems—they’re architecture. She points to a film where removing all restrictions nearly broke the filmmaker. But not every limitation is a gift in disguise. You can’t always tell in advance which constraints are doing the creative heavy lifting and which ones are genuinely in… more →

Mandell Conway sits down to write, produces something in twenty minutes, and feels spent. But he’s starting to wonder what exists on the other side of that first wave of depletion. The third or fourth piece—what might happen? The resistance that signals interesting work ahead feels identical to genuine exhaustion. Most podcasters never get to… more →

Pete Machalek makes a counterintuitive case for audio: it limits what the audience can judge you on, which can be a feature rather than a flaw. But he argues that practicing video presentation — facing the camera and its unforgiving visual feedback — builds a kind of presence that extends well beyond the screen. The… more →

Kira Higgs made a ten-episode podcast and stopped—not because she ran out of ideas, but because ten was the number she chose before recording the first one. The finite container enabled a depth that open-ended shows rarely sustain. She never became ‘a podcaster’ in the identity sense. She was someone who made a podcast. The… more →

Danny Bauer preferred longer episodes—going deep felt like generosity. Then analytics revealed most listeners were checking out at the forty-percent mark. The depth he was pursuing wasn’t reaching the people it was supposedly for. His adjustment required separating what felt like generosity from what actually functioned as generosity. How much of what we believe serves… more →