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Sounds Like Impact: A newsletter for audio and action
Welcome to Sounds Like Impact and Happy Spring! 🌸
In this edition I share a round-up of all the incredible women that have been featured in Sounds Like Impact since the newsletter’s inception. Get to know them! But first…
ICYMI: Last week we had a guest curation on finding optimism by Bill Burke from The Blue Sky podcast. I also did part one of my shoutout to women in podcasting!
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Opportunity: Speaking of incredible women in podcasting—more to come—my friend and former colleague, Gabby Bulgarelli is teaching a FREE workshop on “Unpacking Complex Histories.” TOMORROW, Thursday March 21 at 3pm PT / 6pm ET.
Reads: And speaking of complex histories—what is this, a Russian nesting doll announcement series!?—I’ve been thinking a lot about documentary and memoir. As I’ve said multiple times, I love watching and listening to documentaries. While I get my own thoughts together, I enjoyed these two posts from more women I respect in the podcasting community:
Elaine Appleton Grant, host of Sound Judgment, on memoir
Samantha Hodder, writer of
, on the podcast that has a lot of us thinking—Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative.
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🎧 Special Curation
A #SoundsLikeImpact Women’s History Month Round-up
I hope you enjoyed my The Devil Wear’s Prada reference in the subject line. However, unlike Miranda Priestly, I don’t actually mean to be dismissive. Since entering this industry, I have been immersed in the talents of incredible women*, so much so that I don’t think it’s surprising at all to encounter women making amazing work.
There is a stereotype of the “podcast bro”, but I don’t think that is—nor should it be—the face of podcasting. There are so many women and nonbinary creators that make up this industry. Now, this is not to disregard intersectional issues that are pervasive— particularly when it comes to funding—around race, disability, and other facets of identity. I simply want to affirm that women have done a lot of work to build this industry, and I hope we continue to acknowledge their contributions. I know I will.
*Women is inclusive of trans women when I use the term, as it should be.
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Interviews
Rekha also did a guest curation, which you can find here.
*Adell also writes
, which has a great “Feature Friday“ series.
*Please note that producer Ann Marie Awad uses their name or the pronouns they/them.
Jaime also did a guest curation, which you can find here.
*I also want to give a shoutout to Steph Colbourn, the CEO editaudio (a podcast production company with a mission to hire more women, nb and trans people in media that was recently certified a LGBT Business Enterprise!) for making this interview happen. 🙏🏾
Jenna also did a guest curation, which you can find here.
Guest Curators
Carolyn Kiel, Beyond 6 Seconds
Sammy Kanter & Maddie Medved, Girl and The Gov
Alexandra Cohl, Founder of Podcasting by the Moon
Kattie Laur & Erin Hayes, Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast – Also, congrats to Kattie for recently announcing her new podcast, Canardian.
Elizabeth Doerr,
Tosin Sulaiman, Made For Us
Camille Laurente, CEO and Co-Founder of Hueman Group Media
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Thank you for including me Ayo!! Counting yourself in this incredible lineup, thanks for your wonderful work!
Thanks for the shoutout 📢
And truly, Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative is good food for thought for all!