🎉 What a year! 🫶
Sounds Like Impact: A newsletter for audio and action
Welcome to Sounds Like Impact!
Next week I’m releasing the Best of Impactful Podcasts 2024! I put together a list last year and wanted to do it again to highlight important shows. While I’m busy putting that together, this edition will share some other recaps and some updates.
ICYMI: Last edition I interviewed Emily R. Williams, host of Beyond Voting.
#SLI Community
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard U.S. v. Skrmetti, which could decide the future of gender-affirming care for youth, and have likely implications for trans adults as well. Amy Gastelum produced a two-part series for Making Contact earlier this year and encourages everyone to listen and take action with the resources provided in the guide they’ve developed. If you are a podcaster who would like to drop this series into your feed, please head to this guide.
Andreea Coscai, podcast marketer extraordinare from Tink Media launched a new newsletter on Substack called Eurowaves. Make sure to check it out if you want to keep up with podcasting in Europe!
Speaking of Tink, I’m thrilled to have contributed to Tink Media’s Audio Delicacies 2024, a list of the best podcasts and episodes from 2024 as contributed by over 70 audio creators and industry professionals! You can get the details and audio playlists here.
Speaking of recommendations from other podcasters, I asked a few folks what they were listening to and wanted to share these recommendations from June Neely, host of Story for Good, who interviewed me on her show this year!
"Diversity Work [is] a fictional podcast about a diverse television writers room trying to tick all the diversity boxes at once." I highly recommend this podcast because it explores what it means to truly create a diverse workspace and the systems we have to fight against.
Also, if you are looking for something on the non-social impact side, June says to check out this fiction podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern. The show description reads,
“Arnie Niekamp fell through a dimensional portal behind a Burger King into the fantastical land of Foon. He's still getting a slight wifi signal, so he uploads a weekly podcast from the tavern the Vermilion Minotaur where he interviews wizards, monsters and adventurers. It's a major discovery!”
🎉 2024: Another year of Sounds Like Impact!
There is so much I could say, but really I just want to thank all of the 19 guest curators and 18 interviewees that participated in the newsletter this year. This newsletter would not exist without your support!
If you are a relatively new reader, or haven’t caught up on all that was released this year, consider this your guide and call-to-action!
Interviewees
Vanessa Maria Quirk, EP of Urban Roots
Avril Speaks, Host of Distribution Advocates
Kevin Blackistone & Robert Greene II, Hosts of Our New South
Renee Bracey Sherman & Regina Mahone, Hosts of The A-Files: A Secret History of Abortion
Rachel Karp, Sarah Gabrielli & Jen McGinity, Team behind Cruising: a queer documentary podcast
June Neely, Host of Story for Good
Sarah Christie, Host of Earth Care
Daniel Alvarenga, Host of Humo: Murder and Silence in El Salvador
Nate Hegyi, Host of Outside/In
Corryn Freemen, Host of Future Coalition
Darren Calhoun, Host of Second Sunday
Laurel Morales, Host of 2 LIVES
Melissa Giraud & Andrew Grant-Thomas, Hosts of The Embrace Race Podcast
Emily Reeves, Host of Violence Week
Eric Marcus, Host of Making Gay History
David Sirota, Host of Master Plan
Maren Machles, Host of Bad Watchdog
Emily Williams, Host of Beyond Voting
Guest Curators
Elizabeth Doerr, Host of Cramming for the Apocalypse
Tosin Sulaiman, Creator of Made for Us
Camille Laurente, CEO & Co-Founder of Hueman Group Media
Bill Burke, Host of Blue Sky
Brenda Darden Wilkerson, Host of B the Way Forward
Mallory Carra, Producer of Electric Futures
Payne Lindsey, Host of Up and Vanished
Erica Halverson, Host of Arts Educators Save the World
Mila Atmos, Host of Future Hindsight
Jordan Gonsalves, Host of But We Loved
Jason Moon, Host of The Youth Development Center
Kamila Rakhimova & Suchi Srinivasan, Hosts of In Her Ellement
Sara Sadhwani & J.D. Ramirez, Hosts of Nationly
LAZOU, Host of Nuances: Our Asian Stories
Sabrina Merage Naim, Host of A Fine Mess
Adesuwa Agbonile, Host of Backlash
Lisa Phillips, Host of From Now On
Dr. Parth Nandi & Kali Nandi, Hosts of Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain
Eric Bond, Host of Beyond+
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Congratulations on such a full year, Ayo!! So grateful for your work for the industry!