Werk It: The Podcast
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Werk It: The Podcast
The Werk It festival brings together women from around the world who host, produce, edit, sound design and love podcasts, for a few days of workshops, conversations and presentations. This podcast is the on-demand version of the live event. Think of it as the ICYMI, FOMO version for podcast geeks ev...
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Who Are You Making This For?
If we can agree that it’s imperative to identify a target audience before making a new podcast, why do things still get so fuzzy when we talk about re...
Using Your Podcast to Create Community IRL
Diosa Femme and Mala Muñoz have used their podcast Locatora Radio to create community in East LA. They explain how to take a podcast out of the studio...
You Can Grow Your Audience...Without Going Batsh*t Crazy
In the ever-expanding podcast universe, there are SO many tools that you can use to find and grow your audience. NPR’s Mathilde Piard shares insights...
How They Made It: Man in the Window
There are a lot of reasons why Man in the Window wasn’t an easy show to make. It is about a serial rapist and murderer in California. There were tons...
Abandon Your Plans
Avery Trufelman, producer of 99% Invisible and host of Articles of Interest and Nice Try! endeavors to answer the age old question: Where do you get y...
How They Made It: Death, Sex & Money
Death, Sex & Money is a podcast that delves into the things that people think about a lot, and need to talk about more. Host and managing editor Anna...
A Transparent Look at the Glow Up
Getting your foot in the door can be hard. For a person of color, it can be even harder. Producers Keisha “TK” Dutes and Gabrielle Horton explain how...
Podcasting for Disability Justice
One in four American adults is disabled. Bri M., host and executive producer of Power Not Pity, shares ideas on how we can make our podcasts accessibl...
Beyond Underwear and Mattresses: Scaling a Multimillion Podcasting Business
As the podcasting industry grows into a billion dollar ad business, the field is open for women and nonbinary professionals to lead innovation on the...
Top 10 Mistakes Freelancers Make (and How To Avoid Them!)
When you’re in the freelance game, taking yourself seriously when it comes to managing your business is crucial. Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, CEO of Lan...
The Present and Future of Podcasting
Werk It 2019 began with a summit of ten CEO/CCO-level women in podcasting talking candidly about the biggest challenges, opportunities, and trends the...
This Is How We Mobilize: Building a Coalition of Womxn and Nonbinary Podcasters
This wasn’t just any presentation — it was a strategy session for podcasters looking to use their podcasts to do greater good. Lynn Casper (Host, Homo...
Taking Up Your Space: Real Talk About Hosting
There’s great responsibility in taking the mic: To respect your guests and sources, to serve your listeners, and to present yourself well (as well as...
Failure Is The Pits: An Anti-TED Talk
Failing is super hot these days - just look at the inventory of TED Talks for proof. Everyone is trying to glean meaning from their flops and fails an...
Be Your Own Hype Woman!
For some of us, it can be really difficult to take credit for our work and sidestep imposter syndrome. Producer Julia Furlan is calling you to be your...
Found in Translation
Many of us became storytellers because we didn’t see ourselves in media, on television, or in podcasts. Rebecca Nagle, host of the This Land podcast f...
Lisa Hanawalt Makes New Worlds
Lisa Hanawalt is known for creating worlds populated by animal characters that reveal so much about the human condition. Her illustration and design w...
10 Things That Scare Me + Werk It
My sister being right about everything. That’s terrifying.
Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspo...
Looking for Gold? Dig.
Reporting great stories involves a lot of patience, persistence…and sifting through the paper trail. Marketplace’s Sitara Nieves, In the Dark’s Madele...
How to Write (and Get) That Grant
Grants can be a great way to find funding for your podcast. Juleyka Lantigua-Williams of Lantigua Williams & Co. explains how to figure out which ones...
Recentering the Story
Recentering conversations is more than shining a spotlight on voices that are often marginalized. It’s also letting those voices tell their own storie...
How to Market Your Show
There are tons of podcasts out there, so how do you make sure that yours gets the attention it deserves? A team of marketing experts breaks down how t...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Voice
Lauren Ober, former host of NPR’s The Big Listen, explains why women’s voices are so often criticized, why those critiques are so easily internalized,...
Designing for Purpose and Produce-ability
Independent podcast strategist Rekha Murthy explains why the design of your podcast can be just as important as the content.
Hosted by Tanzina V...
Womansplain It to Me
Four podcasters discuss the challenges of making shows in traditionally male-dominated genres, and how to explain and illuminate without condescending...
Who Tells the Story of Our Future?
Whose voices do we hear when it comes to stories of scientific breakthroughs and new technologies? Four podcasters of color talk about how to make sci...
Getting UnStuck in the Middle
Once you find a steady job in podcasting, how do you measure growth? Negotiate for a raise? Make sure you don’t get stuck in a rut? Snap Judgment prod...
Started from the Bottom: Podcast Tech for Beginners
Some podcasts start with an idea…and very little idea of how to record it, which mics to use, and how to edit it. Keisha “TK” Dutes, independent produ...
Don’t Kill the Vibe
Yolanda Sangweni and Charli Penn, two of the hosts of Yes, Girl!, talk about how they create that special vibe that ensures that both their guests and...
Beyond the Buzz
Radiolab’s Becca Bressler and Bethel Habte describe how their team thought and re-thought about how to create a new conversation about the widely cove...
How to Make Your Team Run with Less Bullshit
Tips, tactics, and solid advice about how to navigate group dynamics on any show. With Julia Furlan, Megan Detrie and Alex Laughlin, who were all part...
How to Make a Pitch Deck and a Budget
How do you talk about your podcast so that funders will want to get on-board? Allison Behringer, host of Bodies, explains what goes into your pitch de...
It’s Time to Choose New Sources of Inspiration
Kristen Meinzer, co-host of By the Book, explains why looking to new sources of inspiration can lead us to create new audio… and new audiences.
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Write Your Own Rules. Lead Like a Woman.
Three women in podcasting on taking the leap and launching their companies – and what it means to lead. With Juleyka Lantigua-Williams of Lantigua Wil...
Don’t Point
We want our listeners to learn and be moved and see the world differently -- but what’s the line between those experiences and merely gawking at peopl...
Ask The Ethicist
What’s fair use? Do you need to get approval from Richard Simmons to do a podcast about Richard Simmons? A journalist and a lawyer tackle all your pod...
How I Make It: There Goes The Neighborhood
The team behind There Goes the Neighborhood, a series that explores gentrification in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, talks about how they turned a complex...
Question Everything
There are hundreds of thousands of podcasts. And for each one, there are endless opinions on how they should be made. In this episode, a conversation...
The Future of Love, Lust and Listening
Esther Perel’s new podcast, “Where Should We Begin?” features recordings of real people in couple’s therapy. Here, the therapist explains how this ben...
This Is Not a Joke with Lena Waithe
A funny conversation about how the funny can illuminate the serious. With Master of None’s Lena Waithe, Terrible Thanks for Asking’s Nora McInerny and...