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Taking a Break (and Why That’s Fine)
We’re skipping next week. No episode. The feed will be quiet. This isn’t a big dramatic announcement. We just need a week to catch up on editing, outline a few future episodes, and do some maintenance on the site. The kind of stuff that piles up when you’re always focused on the next deadline. There’s Continue reading
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How We Pick Our Interview Guests
We get asked this a lot, so here’s the honest answer: we don’t have a system. We have a spreadsheet with about 200 names on it, most of which were added at 11pm after falling down a rabbit hole on someone’s blog or social feed. What we look for is pretty simple. The person has Continue reading
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Five Things Nobody Tells You Before Starting a Podcast
Everyone talks about microphones and hosting platforms. Nobody mentions the weird stuff. Like how you’ll spend more time editing silence than actual speech, or how your own voice will sound unbearable for the first ten episodes before you stop noticing. Here are a few things we wish someone had told us before we hit record Continue reading