“If you try to have the perfect podcast you go perfectly insane.” ~ Howard M more →

“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 more →

[…] 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!’… more →

“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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Karen Bailey noticed a pattern: the people who think in big pictures need pairing with the ones who actually build the thing — idea makers and idea takers, and neither works alone. She and Craig talk about why she moved from blogging about purpose to podcasting about it, what storytelling does that a statement of… more →

Nikki Lerner on the strange shift from addressing thousands to speaking to one imagined listener—how a minister and public speaker found that podcasting’s intimacy demands a different kind of authenticity, and how a coach’s nudge finally got her past perfectionism and into the work. more →